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Noodles Showcase

ART

Each month Noodles will showcase  artist's creations throughout the restaurant from SWEET ART GALLERY .

Dede Sweet's contemporary art source for collectors, designers and patrons of the arts. Located in the industrial design district of Naples, Sweet Art exhibits original paintings, sculpture, mixed media and bronze works from acclaimed international artists from South Florida. Call 239-597-2110 or visit http://www.thesweetartgallery.com/.

The following Art Works are currently displayed at Noodles

                                                     About the Artist:   Pippi Johnson

"Salute! Oil"  by  Pippi Johnson

Pippi Johnson was born in England during Second World War to a Canadian solider and a British war bride. She came to Canada as a young child and was raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. After art studies at the University of Manitoba and Forum Art Institute, she moved to Kenora, Ontario with her new husband. There, she raised a family and taught art for over thirty tears, influencing the lives and careers of many young people. Continuing to study, she obtained a Masters in Art Education at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Berkley, California in 1983. Pippi has continued to take master painting classes with instructors including Skip Lawrence, Robert Genn, Don Getz, Mike Svob, Marilyn Crawford, Geni Kell and Joanne Lizio.

Pippi has spent all of the summers of her adult life on Treaty Island on Lake of the Woods. There she learned to drive a boat, swim and live in a wilderness situation with two children. Over the years she has been profoundly influenced by the changing colors of sky, forests, flowers and the wide expanses of water. Now, retired from teaching and children grown, she spends six months of the year traveling and living in Naples Florida where she sees new beauty and themes. Each work is a study in layers, counterbalanced with paint applied in vigorous brushstrokes. Pippi works outdoors year- around, with no ceiling and no walls.

This energy and vitality has resulted in unique and joyful paintings...

      About the Artist:  Lynn Leon Loscutoff

Lynn is a colorist with an attitude.   Lynn works in all media especially water based.  "I love to travel and paint, and have been fortunate to have traveled most of the world with my brushes.   My style is pushing color and line.  My work could be considered impressionistic, however it is my unique interpretation.  I have also written three books about that experience which I loved. "

Book Titles:

Art To Go: A Traveler's Guide to Painting in Oils

Art To Go: A Traveler's Guide to Painting in Watercolors

Painters Wild Workshop: 12 Master Artists Help Expand Your Creativity

"Releasing your artistic self gives rise to a life of pleasure and struggle--as you use art to create your own reality. Painters are philosophers, psychologists, mathematicians, chemists, scientists, and poets." ~ Lynn Leon Loscutoff

    "Vital" by Lynn Loscutoff 

About the Artist:  Enfant Salop

Born in upstate, New York, Salop has lived most of his life in Europe. Salop attended the French Luminasitier of Aix en Provence, and Nice. While there he became influenced by Matisse, Derain, Ulaminck, Dufy, etc - the Fauvist School of Painting. He believes they left a legacy on which we must build, and continue in their tradition. While in Italy he also was instructed in Italian stone sculpture.

Showings of his work in Saratoga, Chatham, Santa Barbara, etc. have led to many collections, including screen writer of "The Ten Commandments", "Samson and Delilah", etc., who is the son of Paramount Picture founder and lives in Beverly Hills and London.

"Girl with Copper Hair" by Enfant Salop

 About the Artist:  Nancy Seibert

Seibert began her art studies in Washington in 1956. She lived in Japan from 1961 to 1963. There she taught art and gained valuable experience in Japanese calligraphy. It was during this learning experience that she began to sense a feeling for space and mark-making in her artwork.

Seibert's philosophy of art has evolved synergistically though both paint and the energy created through her brush marks  reflect a certain rhythm in nature. Nature is her source of inspiration and all images created by her stem from Ohio's woodlands, lakes and meadows, and Florida's sea, sky and inland lakes.

She works in oils, pastels and acrylics, on paper, canvas and wood.

 "Blues Blues"  by Nancy Seibert

About the Artist:  Sue Boydston

"Swampfire" Dance by Sue Boydston  

Sue Boydston's academic and professional work has taken her throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. An honor graduate of Old Dominion University, she has done postgraduate work at George Washington University and the University of Hawaii. Sue has been a visual arts teacher in the Norfolk, Washington D. C., Chicago, Honolulu, and the Metro Nashville public school systems.

The artist's studio work includes watercolors, gouaches, acrylics and oils on paper and canvas, monoprints, collages and papier mache masks. Her large abstract pieces are developed from collages, drawings, and small paintings made in a stream of consciousness fashion inspired by a specific place or event. An idea may be dormant in sketch form, slowly translating itself into appropriate size and medium. Hard edges invade amorphous space to become symbols for environmental elements, both natural and synthetic. Movement within each design becomes the vehicle for emotional content. Her strong use of color can be attributed to nine years as a working artist in Hawaii, where light, shadows and color are supremely intense.

An award winning artist, Sue Boydston has been selected for inclusion in numerous regional juried exhibitions. Principal among these were the Virginia Museum of Art Athenaeum Biennial, judged by Robert Hughes of Time Magazine, and Artists of Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Art, judged by James T. Demetrion, curator of the Hirschorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Her awards include several Best in Show and Grumbacher medals and the prestigious Jean Charlot Foundation Award. Sue has shown her work in numerous one person and group shows in Washington D.C., Honolulu HI, Chicago IL, Nashville TN, Norfolk VA and Trenton NJ. Her paintings appear in private and corporate collections nationwide.

Recently, Sue traveled the Intracoastal Waterway as first mate on a trawler observing the weather, water, tides, sky and shoreline from the Chesapeake Bay to Southwest Florida. In her studio in Naples she is using the small watercolors and drawings she created while underway as the inceptions for larger canvas paintings in the acrylic and oil mediums.

About the Artist:  Alberto Cruz

"Guitar Woman" by Roberto Cruz 

"I have a passion for art, I paint for a living and I live for painting. I like to experiment with lights, colors, volumes and textures. I am what could be called, a "non conformist". I always see plenty of room for exploration and improvement."

I" truly don't know if there is a part of me in each painting, or if each painting is becoming part of me. I'm now experiencing a joyful renaissance! A noticeable change in style sublimation, and I love it! My best art is still to be unveiled. Making art is a life long process, it's an exciting journey.  It is done in a serial fashion.  That is, every new piece is built upon the experience of previous ones. So while I describe my art philosophy, there are many conceptual layers built in it."

"I try to express in my work, what I believe to be the basic principles of art: composition, contrast, color, light, movement, texture and lots of creativity. My work draws from the beauty, subtleties and good emotions of life, not from controversy and calamity. I like to be positive, rather than expressing the "fashionable negativism" to please the taste of some so called "cutting edge" art connoisseurs. I don't politicize my art. I simply share it and teach it."

"To me, light is a must, color is emotion; texture and movement are exceptional languages; and creativity is my signature. I like to create my pieces with a strong presence of creativity and unique personality. I exercise the right to select, add, omit, exaggerate and distort as I see fit, so I can sincerely call the work: different, memorable, "mine"."

About the Artist:  Mary Ann Flynn-Fouse

"Follow the Sun II"  by Mary Ann Flynn-Fouse 

The splashy gestural coloramas of Mary Ann Flynn-Fouse are in a painterly style often referred to as abstract expressionism. "Follow the Sun II"  by Mary Ann Flynn-Fouse  Whatever the moniker given these moving paint, shape, textural dramas they are immediate and self contained, limiting their dynamic appeal to their reality as paintings and minimalizing any reference to natural phenomena seen or recalled from somewhere beyond the limits of the paintings. There is a powerful visual excitement in each individual painting (diptychs or triptychs) that depends for its hypnotic appeal on the gestures of the brush strokes, the hue, value, intensity of the colors, the broad range of textures, the sizes, positions, proportions and "movements" of the shapes.

These brilliant works are based on feeling (emotion) rather than idea (concept).

Undoubtedly some viewers will try to "read into" these works some sort of personal experiential meaning as in Rorschach blots, but it is certain that that was not the motivation of the creating artist, Mary Ann Flynn-Fouse.

For more information on any of the artists or their artwork,  please contact Dede Sweet @ Sweet Art Gallery 239-597-2110,  http://www.thesweetartgallery.com/.