Expanding our Horizons

Pete and I just returned from a short trip to Wyoming visiting our friends at the Carbon County Museum in Rawlins, where we will be showing art next spring. How nice to step out of our "normal" views and see some new places. Wyoming has expansive views and traveling during the week made us feel as if we had the whole place to ourselves.

The photos we took will most likely become some of Pete's newest paintings, and I picked up some Wyoming rocks for the stoneflies that I will create for the Carbon County Museum.

We would like to encourage everyone to step off the normal route and expand your horizons.

ARTFest in Brighton

We are excited to have Pete's work selected to be in the ARTFest in Brighton Colorado - an SCFD funded event on June 6, 2009 during Brighton's Culturefest.

If you are in Brighton on Saturday, do stop by! Also check out the website at

http://www.brightonco.gov/egov/docs/1207429503933.htm

The Art of Nature - The Nature of Art

"The Art of Nature - The Nature of Art" explores Colorado's Nature through acrylic paintings on wood panel and canvas. The artist, Pete Radliff, respects nature’s beauty, power and fragility and endeavors to incorporate these qualities into the fabric of the canvas. The art provides a release of expression as we interpret the natural world. His goal is to create a place of common ground with the viewer as we all seek to strike an accord with nature and absorb her lessons.

The "Create Denver Expo" was a hit!

Thanks to our new friends at Rocky Mountain Recording, Pete is now the owner of this awsome Fender Squire Affinity Strat! This guitar is described as a contoured solid alder body that is the same world-renowned style that fueled the fires of Hendrix, Clapton, SRV, and thousands more. Pure vintage tone comes pounding out of 3 biting single-coil pickups, taking on flavor from a classic rocking tremolo and 5-way switching. Genuine die-cast tuners provide unprecedented tuning stability in this price range. The headstock is the classic '70s "big" style. The maple neck plays fast and feels great. Please visit the Rocky Mountain Recorders' website at www.RockyRecorders.com tell them Pete sent you.

We would also like to thank the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs for putting on such a great seminar last Saturday. The information that we received from all the lectures and vendors will not go to waste. Let's all work together to make Denver one of the best creative and cultural centers in the nation!

…And down the river's dim expanse Like some bold seer in a trance, Seeing all his own mischance -- With a glassy countenance Did she look to Camelot. And at the closing of the day She loosed the chain, and down she lay; The broad stream bore her far away, The Lady of Shalott. (excerpt from Tennyson's "Lady of Shalott") Join Pete Radliff as he explores the minds of the Masters, including Waterhouse’s Lady of Shalott, in his latest series “Interpreting the Masters in Acrylic

Artist's Reception Friday March 20th and Friday April 3rd

Interpreting the Masters in Acrylic

Join Pete Radliff as he explores the minds of the Masters, including Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, in his latest series “Interpreting the Masters in Acrylic."

Artists' Reception Friday, March 20th from 6pm to 8pm.

Interpreting the Masters in Acrylic - Pete Radliff at Soft Pinecone

What do Van Gogh and Pete Radliff have in common?
Absolutely nothing except the "Art Thing". Pete's newest body of work is interpreting the masters through acrylics. Pete explains, "I am visiting the masters and having a dialogue with them about their techniques as I paint them." Pete is visiting the ghosts of Rembrandt, Turner, Leonardo and others in this fascinating exploration into the minds of the Masters.

Join us for an Artist's Reception Friday, March 6th, 2009 from 6pm to 9pm
Soft Pinecone Studio & Gallery
771 Santa Fe Drive #202
Denver, CO 80204
720-937-1397
http://www.softpinecone.com

Pete Radliff named Featured Artist of the Month

Soft Pinecone Studio & Gallery is proud to announce that gallery owner and artist Pete Radliff has been named "Featured Artist of the Month" on the http://www.denverartists.com website. Pete is honored by this designation and thanks the site administrators for picking him out of hundreds of Denver Artists who use the site.

Congratulations Pete!

Rich Busch - Photography at Soft Pinecone

"As a trained archaeologist and geologist, I’ve approached the natural world looking at small characteristics often piecing them together to interpret the bigger picture. It wasn’t until a work colleague of mine pointed out that I “seem to like shapes and light” that I realized this to be true for my photography as well. While my pictures are not close-ups, they are parts of a whole, larger object or system. As we look at that smaller part of the whole we see how light and color play in
that small space and more often than not, it makes for an interesting photograph.

Some of my work people would consider “Landscapes”. I do not consider myself a landscape photographer; those are better left to Ansell Adams and John Fielder. Again, I wait until the light brings out something that is abnormal in the landscape, some color, some action, something not seldom witnessed."