LeVele Gallery and Restaurant
22-26 May 2024 Opening Exhibit
Smooth Sailing Art Collaborative Exhibit . Opening event is a special venue of the 9 artist producing a wall of different schooners from Caym30″x40″ canvas. This about the width of a room door from top of door to the door handle. It is an amazing process to see the group working on the art.
this year 2024 a new selection of paintings of cayman schooners will be added to the collection of the exhibition. Be sure to check out the new paintings.
About Monte Thornton.
As An Artist
Born in Fort Worth, Texas he grew up drawing and photographing artistic perspectives of wildlife, landscapes and people. At the age of nine he learned the hobby of taxidermy of many birds and deer that he hunted and mounted for friends.this provided insight into the mussels and anatomy.
In 1974 he took his first art class and the teacher set him aside to peruse his artistic talents. The art teacher had a background of working with George O’Keeffe as an assistant and provided guidance in building frames, gesso of sheets, techniques in use of LiquidTex Heavy Body texture Acrylic paint and development of exploring creative perspectives of painting. There were a series of paintings that we completed in that last year of high school. This reflected the times and life durning that period. The painting of Stairway to heaven 1974 which was his first abstracted painting; A full size bed sheet was used to create the tiger; A poster board gessoed was used for the fishing reel, were several notable works that were presented in art exhibit in Summer of 1975 at Texas Commerce Bank.
1976 College and Joined the Army since draft was first on list.
After returning from Army service in Hawaii in 1979, his painting resumed more full time in creating memories of scuba diving with Humpback Whales, Sharks and the rainforest mountains of the north shore coast of Oahu and other locations amount Hawaii.
Continue to the about Monte Thornton to see the complete timeline of art path.
The 8 foot by 4 foot painting of Kina Point was the largest in 1983 in the series. image needs to be added
this was the first time of using full sheets of water color paper and creating three panel view of Sharks Cove on North Shore Waimaia, Oahu Hawaii.
Living in Padre Island from 1982, impacted the presentation of ocean, sand and ocean paintings. He took one memorable adventure of driving the Texas Mexico Gulf of Mexico coast to Cancun early development photographing the newly uncovered ruins of Plyanic, Tulum and traveled into the new country of elite that ahead just obtained independence from Britain in 1981. He went to remote villages of Sartaniha where an Icehouse had just been built by Red lobster to assist in shipment of lobster tails. This allowed a single light to be strung in each thatched hut. This was the first seeing inland seniotes and Mayian artifacts. Tulum provided fresh view of the rich color of paint used on the inside of the ruins.
In fall of 1982 to 1986 he lived in his childhood house and took the second floor as a bedroom and art studio.
Painting studies
Move to Houston for opportunity was an act of listening to Godard getting back involved with scuba diving. He managed a dive store that lead back to travels to Cayman, Belize and Honduras.
Series of reef fish of Queen Angle and French Angle were his first series to be printed and were placed in Pure Art in 1989.
Stop of painting in 1994.
2011 Cayman Brac resume of painting after retirement.
2019 SmoothSailing-exhibit.com starts in November.
2021 exhibit
2022
2023
2023 Christmas series of schooners cards.
2024 New directions of Sacramento and art paintings.
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