On a day in June we drove the six hours over to Scottsdale, Arizona with a van full of art. A couple we’d met indicated interest in a few of my paintings, so I took those. I also loaded a number of others to provide options. As it happened, they loved almost all of them, like 28! (Only three returned in the van.) For us, it was the sale of the year, or rather, the career. For them, it was a trove of art, which they now love, enhancing their beautiful home. Check them out. (For some I’ve included links for larger views of the paintings.)
They’d recently purchased the house, furnished, but without anything on the walls. That’s what was missing. A beautiful home needs beautiful art to complete it.
The moment of our arrival, the van, with all the back seats down, being the perfect vehicle for transporting art, and keeping all cool in the desert heat. The outside temperature that day was 120!
On arrival, after a bit of conversation and a glass of wine, we began placing art around the house. Here Anne helps Melissa find just the right setting for Senoritas Simpaticas.
I brought a number of pieces on unstretched canvas, rolled up, like this one, temporarily taped to a guest room wall for visualization. They are now having it stretched and framed. They’d seen a version of this on my website and said they liked it, so I made this new one, much larger. (The original, Yellowscape 2, is still available.)
While the large work was still on my studio wall I set up a flower arrangement to paint. The colors of the larger work found their way into background colors for the new one. Gave it an extra pizazz.
It seemed appropriate to make the small floral a gift for the lady of the house. And it seemed appropriate for her to set it over this desk in the same room where the large landscape would go. (For interest, I now have a whole website page on dedicated to florals.)
They found and liked a few pieces on my website that had already sold. So I made new versions, like “Blue Cowboy” being placed here. (BTW, a print on canvas of this piece is available on the Western page of my website.)
It was the same with “Blue Bull,” a new and larger version of an earlier work. Shows what can be done.
Daughter Kendall found Backyard Indigo to be the perfect piece for her bathroom, the colors working wonderfully well.
Rapture 2 found just the right place over a credenza, which should look really great once stretched and framed.
Rapture 1 (left) hung here temporarily until finding another perfect place in the house.
Once again, “Golden Hills” was a duplicate version of one they found on my website. Though inspired by California (and my imagination) it works great in Arizona, too.
I painted Fiesta Interlude (left) many years ago, from a photo I took at the Orange County fair.
Sharon in Studio 2, (right), was another favorite of mine, painted originally from life. I’m glad for where she’s arrived.
Warm Shoulder, long hanging in our own living room, now fits beautifully at the end of this Arizona hall.
Roses on the Way is another painting that also hung in our house. People sometimes ask if it’s hard to part with a painting. I say, “No, to place them in loving homes is part of doing it.” Then again, there is a certain nostalgia when I see them again, like for a number of these here.
Warm Shoulder 3 had just been returned to me from a gallery that couldn’t find a buyer. Turned out to be a good thing as this one surprised us all, here fitting stunningly in the master bedroom.
The abstract, Love Flows, worked perfectly over the marble counter in the kitchen area. (The title also works well with the whole household.)
River’s Reflections is an abstract interpretation of a photo I took in Idaho earlier this year.
Their Majesty is a painting they saw early on my website and knew immediately where it would fit in their wide entry. It’s now framed with an enhancement light over it.
I made the horseman from Spain, “Andalusian,” to face “Their Majesty” (previous picture) across the entry. Works great.
I put Majesty of Pear in the van on a whim; turns out to work great, now framed, in the entry hallway.
Taking a Break worked more than beautifully in this guest bathroom with blue patina walls.
The matching painting with the one above, Gown Girl, worked beautifully in the living room.
Morning Meditations is actually a painting of Anne, though with hair color of an earlier time. I asked her then if she minded letting it go and she was fine with it. It so works in their reading room, the hearth filled with an amazing trove of old books. (Funny, Anne is reading on an i-pad.)
“Beauty and Shoe” works great in the master guest bath. Actually this is the second version I painted of this. The first, on a panel of bamboo, is still available: Beauty and Shoe on Wood.
Blue Elegance found a place on the landing between the ground and second floor. Can’t wait to see it mounted and framed.
Actually, Point of Reference found another wall for better showing. The photo shows a trial placement.
One more, Wayne hanging Seeing the Future in his man cave.
There were others, but this shows the bulk of them, and it also shows the benefit of my having a wide array of painting styles and subject matter. I’ve often wondered if that’s a problem, marketing-wise; but it served well here. This family now has a house-full of art, almost all by one artist, but still with wide variety. I’m grateful. And that they are, too.
3:00 pm
Honestly!!! What great gifts the Lord has given you! I’ve never cared for abstract art….until I’ve seen yours! Thanks for sharing…..and having been in the Scottsdale area for so many years, that beautiful home is such a great reminder of the beauty there. (Ed always was intrigued with your “Western” paintings…….He would have loved to indulge in some of your art.)
3:22 pm
You have a marvelous and diverse talent, thank you so much for sharing your inspiring work. I have a great deal of respect for those that have a talent and have practiced it and turned it to perfection!
Ann Nelson
3:34 pm
How wonderful to be a part of the actual placement (home) of your creations! I am so happy for you and the new owners. I would say the setting is perfect! My parents lived in Scottsdale years ago….daddy was a pastor there. So the desert feel is so appropriate. The colors and faces of real humans make that mansion come alive.
Blessings my friends,
Cindy Smith
4:00 pm
Wow! Hyatt, the sale of a career. Can’t think of a better artist than you to have made this sale. (I don’t know that many artists, so that tempers the praise a bit.)
I’m delighted that in these past twenty-five years or so you have developed into such a great artist. I remember sitting with you having coffee in Langley when you were sketching one of your first 100 face sketches.
Blessings on both you and Anne.
Jack
4:36 pm
Wow!! Each painting fit so beautifully in each chosen spot!
Such colors and full of life in each piece!! Every piece unique
and precious.
4:57 pm
Absolutely inspiring.
5:03 pm
Fabulous!! And congrats!! …A fine place for your fine art…
5:58 pm
Congrats, Hyatt. That’s the dream of every artist, isn’t it? How great that our good Lord had blessed you with this gift, and them, your art. So wonderful!! So, a burning question, how many rooms are there in this humongous mansion?
6:29 pm
Your artwork looks incredible in your his beautiful home!! Congratulations to you, and to her!
A big win for both of you!
6:25 am
Stunning collection for the lucky buyers. Congrats on your sale!
9:10 am
Your art is just so human and personal, Hyatt. I love it! I want to buy your next 28 (just need a bigger house!)
9:46 am
That home and Scottsdale are the perfect setting for your work, congratulations!!
11:22 am
WOW! Congratulations are in order to the buyers as well as the artist! After watching (from afar) you hold up and honor the incredible art made by your talented wife, I was ever so pleased to see this post. It was so nice to see the variety of your work appreciated and placed ever so pleasing in such beautiful spaces. I remember seeing many of the paintings in other posts as I followed you. Well done! I’m really happy for you!
12:24 pm
Hyatt,
Congratulations on such a wonderful sale! (Jeremy sent me the email.) I hope that Gabrielle will soon re-start painting in her repaired studio. Our lives have changed in so many ways, and we need to get back to some old, productive habits.
I hope that the oil will not reach your shores.
Warm and good wishes to you, Anne and your family,
Jeff
1:07 pm
Wow!
This is amazing!
An amazing house!
An amazing sale of your paintings!
How special to know that many of your works are loved and treasured in that home, by that family, and by the surely many people who will see them there when they visit!
What an honor!
So deserved!
Blessings to both you, Hyatt, and Anne.
7:33 pm
Hyatt, that is amazing and wonderful! I guess the moral of the story is: always take the whole store with you!
cheers. Judy
8:23 am
Overwhelmed! You and Anne have been such diligent stewards of the gifts God has given you, and He continues to richly bless you and others with the products of your perseverance. I am so very thankful for you both and for the rich reflections of our Lord in every piece of your work. I wish that my vocabulary were on par with your talent, so I could praise you properly. And I praise Him for His gifts to us!
10:07 am
Simply breath taking Hyatt! It’s as if the house was built around your art. So many beautiful paintings all of which are full of life and inspiration …which is truly needed in this world now. Congratulations to you and Anne! xoxoxo
Denise & Paul
8:45 pm
Hyatt and Anne this home is so lucky to have your art within!
Surrounded by your art is amazing.
Thanks for sharing.
Mary Ann
5:44 am
This kept me smiling! I loved seeing your amazing art splattered all over their gorgeous home.
10:37 am
Wow. What a lovely home and what beautiful art now in it! Just WOW…
9:44 am
Congratulations Hyatt!
How wonderful to have such a vast collection of your works all in one place.
The paintings are beautiful and compliment the style of the home
so well.
Sharon