The Rambling of the a Nomadic Designer

Painting

I have been painting for a number of years, yet had never been in an Art show until December of 2010. In the spring of 2010, I was starting to get overwhelmed by the growing pile of paintings that I was amassing, and had begun to run out of wall space in both houses. The time had come to try to learn how to get into shows, but how to do it? After a lengthy online search, I found the Fairfield county Artists Association (FCAA) {http://fairfieldcountyarts.com/} and started to get involved.

I've enjoyed the fellowship and creative feedback.

My first show was the Members holiday show in December 2010 – I exhibited 3 pieces and was nervous like never before. My parents, my daughter, grandson & many friends and colleges attended, although I did not sell anything, I was hooked. Since then I have been in several more shows and had a few sales.

Then came a stumbling block……. The show I was to be in at the Stamford library wanted a  BIO! What was I to say about myself??? This is what I finally came up with:

 BIO

David Messner

d.r.messnerinteriors@gmail.com

A Connecticut native, David divides his week between the Stamford Condo he shares with his partner Rob and his Family home in Beacon Falls that he shares with his Parents, his Daughter and his grandson. Although he has been painting for many years, he only started showing in the past year, since his involvement with the Fairfield County Artists Association, where he holds the position of treasurer.  A graduate of Paier College of Art, David works as a free-lance Interior Designer.

“My style has been referred to as Historic Landscapes, and I have been told that I paint in happy colors. I find that I have started to paint events, weddings, harvest celebrations etc. I am drawn to paint buildings that in some way speak to me, to allow me to tell their story. “

In his free time David enjoys gardening, photography, reading and can often be found on Facebook-where he does maintain several galleries of his work.

Not bad I guess.

My paintings have been divided into 3 collections; The Village, Fairfield County, and Provincetown. Those of you that want to see all the pieces –Email me & I’ll send you the link to my Facebook page. 

The Village: 

These paintings in this series depict the fictional village of Wooding’s Landing and are my more primitive pieces- for the most part these pieces tend to be somewhat rougher and have no people depicted. 

The piece below is titled; Wooding's landing- upper green

Fairfield County; 

This series I started in conjunction with the show that I chaired last summer at the Lockwood-Matthews mansion. The theme of this show was “Summer in Fairfield county” while researching and working on this series, I started to learn to paint people in my pieces. This has now become favorite part of the paintings. I have been doing a lot of research to find new figures for my pieces- I’ll talk more about my research in a future blog 

The piece below is titled: Ridgefield Victorian

My current series revolves around Provincetown Massachusetts. Rob and I traveled to Ptown over Halloween weekend in 2011 for an  event with the Northeast Ursamen (the best bear group),

 called SpookyBear. We enjoyed a wonderful romantic weekend and I took hundreds of pictures with my digital camera. I’ve done 10 pieces of both buildings done from my pictures and a collection of vintage photos I’ve found on line. I am hoping to do more in person research when I return to the cape this summer

Here is one of my Ptown pieces- 

The title of this piece is: Captain's House 

I will continue to show at art shows, Perhaps do a few art fairs this summer, But an exciting thing for me is that I now have a store! This week I opened my Etsy store to sell pieces on-line – check it out!

The link is:  http://www.etsy.com/shop/DRMessnerInteriors

Gotta run- will post new thoughts soon,

Hugs

David