Enjoy Great Food, Wine and Art—For Free—at KAW Gallery

The KAW Gallery’s end-of-season celebration in Naples’ Hibiscus Center is from 6–9 p.m. Saturday. Guest Chef and artist Monika Bokelmann, formerly of Old Heidelberg in Naples, will prepare succulent international dishes to whet your appetite—Hawaiian tuna tartar on sesame crisps with wasabi aioli, Caesar salad spring roll, truffled goat cheese pizzettes and mini chocolate hazelnut tortes—matched with a selection of wines to stimulate your palate.

Visitors enjoy food and artwork at a KAW Gallery event.

See the works of local photographers Gerard Closset, Damaris Gonzalez, Dennis Goodman and Carol Rubin. There will also be surrealistic pieces by Vincent Plzak and Corkscrew Sanctuary palette knife paintings by internationally renowned artist Joseph Swenarton. Stimulate all of your senses, all at no charge!

Tamsen Fox is an eclectic multimedia fine artist, born in Hawaii, Fox has enjoyed a life-long passion for artistic expression. While attending the University of Arizona she studied with the noted photographer Ansel Adams at the Spectrum Gallery in Tucson. She went on to receive her BFA from California College of the Arts in Oakland, CA graduating with honors Class ‘79.

Fox has progressively expanded her range of interests with varied applications. She is a multi-media artist whose current work includes gourd art, watercolor, silk painting, metal art, feather art, and acrylics. Animals, Hawaiian designs, Amerindian imagery, musical instruments, spirit masks, and mystical archetypes are just a few of the subjects Fox recreates in her art. She has also published one Limited Edition lithograph print (from a silk original) called “Ring of Fire” that depicts elders, sitting around a mesa fire, passing on tribal lore to younger warriors. This painting was featured in Southwest Art Magazine and can be seen on the “paintings” page on this website.

Much of Fox’s gourd work is infused with the ancient Native American traditions of applying pine needles, shells, leather, feathers, bone, semi-precious stones, crystals, beads, sand, and a great variety of other natural products as embellishments. Special techniques used in her gourd art are pyro-engraving, painting, dying, engraving, inlay work, and etching.

Fox’s work can be found in a variety of publications, galleries, and private collections. Her paintings have been publicized in national and regional magazines (such as Southwest Art and Surface Design Magazine) as well as on the web. Her art is represented in numerous galleries in California, Hawaii, Sedona, AZ, Florida, and New Mexico.

Fox has been gratified by the acquisition of her work by many collectors such as Robert Redford (in his private collection as well as the Sundance Catalogue), native American artist the late R. C. Gorman, and Queen Elizabeth II to name a few.

She has been retained by a number of corporate clients. As an example, Nordstrom Department Store carried her original hand-
painted “wearable art.” This high-end silk clothing line was exclusive to Nordstrom stores in northern California.

One of the highlights has been her standing invitation to participate in the ongoing renowned Indian Canyon Storytelling Festival in California (1995-2004) in recognition of her outstanding artistic contribution to Native American culture. This is an outgrowth of her commitment to commemorate and preserve significant traditions intrinsic to Native American visual arts. Fox has also been an honored guest artist for the International Whole Earth Expo in San Francisco.

“I am constantly amazed not only by the joy derived from this creative art process, but also witnessing the spiritual journey from perception to creation. My work is a very personal rite,” she explains. “My work is an intimate, heartfelt expression of my feelings based on my own life experiences and my own story. My intent is to create an experience which impacts the collector with a sense of tranquility, beauty and balance. My job is to give the spirit behind my creation the magic to carry it through to its recipient.”

Browse through our gallery of fine art reproductions from the Lanai Gallery Collection at www.patiopizzaz.com, where you can “customize” your artful selection to meet your decorating needs.  Visit our FAQ page to find out how.  This is something you won’t find at other online stores where contemporary outdoor furniture and accessories are offered.  Be sure to check back frequently as we are always adding something new!

There are several reasons why you’ll find shopping for outdoor furniture with us to be beneficial. Besides the fact that we carry only the finest selection of contemporary outdoor furniture at the most competitive prices, when you buy from us, a percentage of our sales go to charity.   Patio Pizzaz is part of True Joy, Inc., a company dedicated to helping those less fortunate.  For more information, visit www.swenartongallery.com.  There you will find a list of those community and national organizations to which we contribute and in which we are involved.  So your purchase with us will not only help you to furnish your patio, deck, lanai, or any outdoor space, it will ultimately be helping someone less fortunate.  That’s what we call a “win, win” situation!

Also, our great selection of contemporary outdoor furniture and accessories provides many options.  You can choose from our large selection of Anderson Teak  patio furniture if you like.  Teak is known for it’s beauty and long lasting durability.   We also carry other products from Anderson Collections including all weather Rattan and several cast aluminum pieces. We also offer design tips and are happy to answer any questions you may have regarding your decorating needs.  Not only is our selection of outdoor furniture vast, but our pricing is excellent as well.  We feel our customers deserve the best possible quality for the money so you will find our pricing to be quite competitive.   So, relax and tour our store.  We want you to enjoy your shopping experience with us and hope you will return again!   In fact, we are always shopping ourselves for more ways to improve our selection of outdoor furniture, accessories, and services.  We are committed to making our customers our Number One priority.  That said, buy your selections of outdoor furniture and enjoy the shopping!

Carol Rubin is new to Naples, but not new to the art world.

Her deep interest in photography and other art forms has been a life long venture.  Carol’s love of nature is a theme that weaves itself around the images she captures and also the jewelry she makes. 

 

In the last several years, Carol and her partner Manuel have spent extended periods of time in Maine and the Azores shooting together the wildlife, terrain and the people in their culture.   They have traveled to China where they captured the essence of the educational community and the many faces of the people.  This winter will be the first time they will be here together to explore the beauty of the gulf coast.

Carol’s recent jewelry work with agates and different stones help promote supreme nurturing and awareness.  This is a compliment to her private Therapeutic Recreation and Yoga practices of healing.

 

Manny and Carol’s website to view images, video’s and more are at www.marcar2.com.

They can be reached at  www.mar.car2@yahoo.com or 

by phone at 317-696-2122.

 

” I paint to please myself more than to impress others. I have always enjoyed the feeling of getting lost in the creation of a piece of art, when the thought of all time constraints and limitations are not factors.”

Born in France, Gerard spent his childhood in France and several countries in South America. He started taking pictures at an early age, motivated by the desire to capture the feel and look of those exotic places. In his early twenties he came to the U.S. and fell in love with the diversity and richness of its landscapes and habitats and the many opportunities to take pictures of nature and wildlife. He also became a scuba diver and quickly extended his passion for photography to the underwater world, capturing underwater scenes around Caribbean and Pacific islands.

With his wife Nicki, a videographer, Gerard has enjoyed exploring destinations off the beaten path that offer the opportunity to see and photograph nature and wildlife in their natural habitat: The Florida Everglades, Alaska and New England in the United States and regions in Africa and the islands of the Caribbean and Pacific. Gerard is particularly fond of SW Florida’s landscapes and animal life and enjoys picturing its diversity and unique natural beauty. He has carried his photos equipment on many long hikes and boat rides to photograph the birdlife and marine life of the Everglades and the Mangrove islands of the Gulf.

Gerard and Nicki share their time between Marco Island in South West Florida and Block Island, Rhode Island. Gerard is a member of NANPA, the North American Nature Photography Association and many conservation organizations including the Nature Conservancy and the Conservancy of SW Florida. To see more of Gerard’ work go to www.exoticwildlifephotos.com

Specialty cabinets are designed for a specific use or appliances such as the grilling island shown above, featuring a 27” trash/recycle pullout a 30” Solaire grill and a Sumit 24” three drawer refrigerator. Other types of specialty cabinet designs: gas grill cabinets, gas burner cabinets, corner/transition cabinets and serving/seating cabinets are available. Specialty cabinets will be designed to fit the manufacturer’s unit that has been specified. Cabinets are available with leg levelers.

Chadwick Outdoor Kitchens, Inc. now offers our standard base for the outdoors. Specialty cabinets are designed for a specific use or appliances such as the grill and burner cabinet shown above. Other types of specialty cabinets are, bar tender cabinets, Lazy Susan cabinets and serving/seating cabinets.

Dr. Amy Brecka hand chooses the leather combinations, cow hides, and vibrant interior fabrics from all over the world. She has an expert artistic eye for style, while incorporating her chiropractic background for function and structure. As an artist, she loves the conflicting duality of the soft smooth supple leathers versus the tactile sensation of the rough coarse hair hides, combined with the added texture of the hand sewn stitching dividing the two materials. Texture is imperative, along with the eye grabbing color of the fabrics chosen for the tattoo designs and interiors. These items are wearable pieces of art for the style conscience individual. Chic, sassy, unique, just like you.