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Friday, November 22, 2013, from 5:30-8:00, is the Preview Reception for the Matchbox Plus IX Show at Cedar Street Galleries in Honolulu. The artwork, both 2D and 3D, are all originals and are all miniature size from a multitude of artists. For this exhibit, I submitted two of my coconut fiber works, “Eastside Palms Diptych” and “Ali’i Beach Palms”. Both of these works are painted in acrylic on actual coconut tree fiber which has been prepared and mounted on cradled wooden panels.
Eastside Palms Diptych – Pati O’Neal
2 pieces 5″x7″ each
Ali’i Beach Palms – Pati O’Neal
6″ x 6″
The show runs November 22, 2013 to January 5, 2014. It is on the second floor of the gallery. This is always a fantastic show with a concentration of creativity. Here is the invitation with all the info:
When I got back to my little country shack in ole Hale’iwa, I received some good news. I had previously entered five pieces into Art America Awards online and found out that I received awards for three of my paintings, one first place and two second place. Here is the first write-up…
PATI O’NEAL, MEAGAN WU, CARL GETHMANN, HYAE JIN SOH, EUGENE RODRIGUEZ, BARBARA STRAND, DEAN LOUCKS AND M. CLARK WIN FLORAL REALISM – Thom Bierdz, President Of American Art Awards, Reports To Highlight Hollywood
September 16, 2013
Highlight Hollywood reveals the winners of the 2013 American Art Awards FLORAL – REALISM CATEGORY. American Art Awards president Thom Bierdz, recognized globally for playing Phillip Chancellor III on The Young & The Restless since 1986 and himself a painter in many genres, reported to us today the highest scored floral artisans. 25 prestigious American galleries vote on all work submitted to www.AmericanArtAwards.com, the contest. This year there were winning artist from 18 countries. First Place of Floral goes to Hawaiian native Pati O’Neal.
1ST PLACE PATI O’NEAL “Spiral Costus”
2ND PLACE MEAGAN WU “Floral Pattern”
3RD PLACE CARL GETHMANN “An Arrangement”
4TH PLACE HYAE JIN SOH “Hope & Love”
4TH PLACE EUGENE RODRIGUEZ “Welcome To The 21st Century”
5TH PLACE BARBARA STRAND “Hawaiian Flowers 1″
5TH PLACE DEAN LOUCKS “Copper Flowers”
6TH PLACE M. CLARK “Quick Sketch In Fiji”
For my second place award in the “Realism Landscape” category, I have to say that I am still pretty stoked since I found out that the first place image is done with digital photography and graphics programs and mine is done with old-fashioned oil on canvas. Here is the write up from the Highlight Hollywood site:
Carl Gethmann, Pati O’Neal, Lorna Allan, Dean Loucks, Seshadri Sreenivasan And A. S. Helwig Score Big In Realism Art – Thom Bierdz Reports To Highlight Hollywood News
September 25, 2013
Thom Bierdz, president of the online art competition judged by 25 of the best American galleries, www.AmericanArtAwards.com, today announced to Highlight Hollywood the international winners of the 2013 American Art Awards category of Realism/Landscape. These artisans take top prizes:
1ST PLACE CARL GETHMANN “Dreaming Of Winter”
2ND PLACE PATI O’NEAL “Kailua Beach Park Morning”
3RD PLACE LORNA ALLAN ”This Eternal Land”
4TH PLACE DEAN LOUCKS “Philly Red Door”
5TH PLACE SESHADRI SREENIVASAN “In The Woods”
5TH PLACE A S HELWIG “Sun Charged At Nose Hill”
6TH PLACE LORNA ALLAN “Sublime Solitude”
6TH PLACE LORNA ALLAN “Homage To The Hinterland”
And now for my other second place award in the “Self Portrait” category…….
Soojee Baek, Pati O’Neal, Ji Woo Park, Katarzyna Jablonska, Ting Na Wang And Youxin Yang Win Best Self-Portraits, 2013 – Thom Bierdz, President Of American Art Awards, Reports To Highlight Hollywood
September 28, 2013
Dozens of the most established American galleries have voted six artists winners in the 2013 American Art Awards category of Self-Portrait. Thom Bierdz, AAA president since 2008, shares exclusively to Highlight Hollywood, “American galleries voted on all work submitted to www.AmericanArtAwards.com, but the contest is open to artists in all countries. We had winners from 18 countries in 52 categories. 1ST PLACE in Self-Portrait goes to Soojee Baek for her 42×70″ acrylic, “Captivity”.”
1 ST PLACE SOOJEE BAEK “Captivity”
2ND PLACE PATI O’NEAL “Contemplation”
3RD PLACE JI WOO PARK “Who Am I?”
4TH PLACE KATARZYNA JABLONSKA “The Morning”
5TH PLACE TING NA WANG “Self Portrait (You Are What You See)”
6TH PLACE YOUXIN YANG “Self-Portrait Thinking”
At the beginning of September, I went on a wonderful trip to Indonesia. I spent some time relaxing, beach-combing and gathering more material for my artwork. I actually took over 5000 photos! It took a while to cull it done to a more reasonable number and here a some of the images below…..
Balangan Sunset
Bali Rice Fields
Bali Temple Pond
Morning in Downtown Kuta on Lombok
Market on Lombok
When I got back to Hawaii, I had some wonderful news. I was featured as a cover story in a local newspaper while I was gone. Here is the article below:
Central // Central Oahu Coverstory
Haleiwa Artist In National Exhibit
Posted on July 31, 2013 by MidWeek Staff | Email the author
Central • Central Oahu Coverstory | 256 Total Views
Central • Central Oahu Coverstory | 256 Total Views
Who says it’s hard to get noticed in Hawaii?
Pati O’Neal, a Haleiwa resident, is one of 27 artists from around the world to have their work selected for the American Society of Aviation Artist 2013 International Aerospace Art Exhibition at the Baltimore-Washington International Airport Terminal Gallery.
The juried exhibition opened last month and runs through Sept. 23. O’Neal said the exhibit is an important step in publicizing her art outside of Hawaii.
“It’s really great exposure for aviation art,” said the sculptor and ceramics artist who began painting just six years ago. “Hawaii is so far removed from aviation art. About the only way for me to get exposure for my aviation art is to be involved with a national group like that and have a national exhibit. Getting exposure with this group as opposed to a smaller group is that some of the biggest names in aviation art are part of the association.”
O’Neal was recognized for her painting, “Coconut Clipper,” which won the Four Feathers Plaque du Beaque award and the was the first-place award winner in the Aviation Week & Space Technology Commercial Aviation category. The painting stands out because of its use of coconut fibers, which add texture to the piece.
“Using that as a surface adds texture, and it created a nostalgic feel of the Pan Am clippers,” said O’Neal describing the piece.
The other painting, “Gone West,” depicts a Red Tail P-51C Tuskegee airmen sitting on the ramp facing west into the setting sun in tribute to all those who have gone west – a past euphemism for death when wounded or dead Allied soldiers were often sent west on their way home.
“I was very happy with these (being chosen). The coconut fiber one because it captured that old-time feel, and in the other painting I wanted to capture the light. So I was really happy with these two.”
In July, I traveled to Wisconsin and dropped off a small commission painting at the EAA AirVenture show in Oshkosh. The painting was “Tropical Clipper”, done on actual coconut tree fiber (guinit).
Tropical Clipper – Pati O’Neal
Acrylic on mounted coconut tree fiber
During the air show, I did a live interview on EAA Radio which was simultaneously shown on Jumbotron screens set up on the grounds. Talk about nerve-racking….
I also met up with a couple of other Women Aviation Artists and here is the blog I wrote on the WAA website to finsh this post:
WAA members at EAA AirVenture 2013 Oshkosh
Posted in Uncategorized with tags airplane, airplanes, AirVenture, Art, artist, artists, avenger, Aviation, EAA, Ford, Kristin Hill, Michelle Rouch, Oshkosh, painting, Pati O’Neal, TBM, Texas Flying Legends Museum, women aviation artists on August 13, 2013 by womenavart
July 29 – August 4, 2013 were the dates for this year’s EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, also known as “The World’s Greatest Aviation Celebration”. In attendance among the more than 500,000 attendees this year were WAA members Kristin Hill, Michelle Rouch and Pati O’Neal. The three artists were involved in very different ways.
For Kristin Hill, it was her 36th year of exhibiting at the show. She had a booth in Exhibit Hangar A, where she displayed examples of her work in the form of originals and reproductions as well as digital displays of some of her other works. Also at her booth this year as a guest was SR-71 pilot and author Terry Pappas.
Kristin Hill and her works on display at her booth at EAA AirVenture 2013
Michelle Rouch was hosted this year by Ford to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Henry Ford’s birth. She and her works were on display at the Lincoln Lounge area of Ford’s exhibition tent. While on-site in the exhibit area, visitors were able to watch her work on one of her oil paintings.
Michelle Rouch at her exhibit in the Ford/Lincoln Exhibition Tent. On the far right is the painting that she worked on as visitors watched.
Pati O’Neal has been attending EAA’s convention since 1994 and has volunteered in different capacities. Part of her time this year was spent assisting the Texas Flying Legends Museum honor WWII veterans. She also had prints of her “Tuskegee Tales” for sale at the CAF’s RedTail Project exhibit.
Yes, it’s been a while again since I blogged, but I am getting better about it……and while I am still on the subject of my aviation art, I will try to recap.
This year’s ASAA’s International Aerospace Art Exhibition was held at BWI – Thurgood Marshall International Airport in Baltimore, Maryland. I was unable to attend the ASAA Forum and Banquet this year and am sure I missed out on a lot of information and good times. The juried works were exhibited from June 23, 2013 – September 22, 2013. I was once again fortunate enough to have both of my entries accepted into the show, with one of my paintings winning two awards! “Gone West” is an 18″ x 24″ oil on canvas, and the other is “Coconut Clipper”, also an 18″ x 24″ painting.
Here is the press release:
Pati O'Neal's Blog 