Starry Night Market 2 was a success. We were sponsored by Arts downtown GTX. Benji and DelMar performed with special musical guests including our own Kai Derrick. We had some amazing returning vendors ,Tere Perry, the Texas Surf Museum, Lisa Marie Designs and Wild Crane Photography. We also had some incredible new vendors and friends were made. We had a no AI Art theme screen printing live with Costal Dreams.
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The Starry Night market was a way to spotlight local artists with a art market. Due to the extreme heat we decided to have it inside. 15 vendors, Hendley wine, Naked iguana brewery and Noodle Illi-Gal provided refreshments and Tyson Webbs Outlaw Boogie played live.
It was a wonderful success great music, great food, and great art. Like any show there are a few hiccups. 30 minutes into the show and the neighbor called the police because we were “too loud”. With a quick adjustment the night finished up without a hitch. Go art…..
Stepping into the Anne Lane Gallery feels like an unapologetic Art wonderland, where creativity knows no bounds. Disco balls gleam, paper parasols sway from the ceiling and a watchful french bulldog holds court, setting the tone for an immersive, playfull experience.
The walls burst with madly whimsical paintings.-cowboys, gators, flora and fauna, angels and enigmatic women- all providing that bold, over-the-top beauty is alive and thriving in this one of a kind space.
An internationally collected artist, Lane arrived in Galveston in fall 2022, drawn to the gulfs beauty and grand texas narrative of big skies and bold stories. A prolific painter, her works grace private collections and public spaces across the globe.
Catching Up with a Featured Arist’s Carnival
By Ruth Ann Ruiz
Anne at her Year 1 Anniversary Celebration and Chamber of Commerce Ribbon Cutting (6/5/2025)
The Post Newspaper Features Editor
Anne is most often seen in her denim overalls with a white blouse tucked underneath and paint splatters on the fabric announcing her profession as an artist However, for a couple hours, the artist who has painted her way across the world and into the hearts of Galvestonians donned a lively sundress to celebrate the one-year anniversary of her gallery being located at 2111 Post Office St. in Galveston.
When Anne settled into Galveston on Avenue S in the fall of 2022, her gallery was next to an auto body shop, and with all the grit and positive spirit she could muster, she began a quest to bring her art to the region. She was aware that the first location was not ideal for a retail gallery, yet her spirit flourished, and lovers of art found her.
When I highlighted Anne in The Post Newspaper as one of our featured artists in 2023, I wrote about her earliest art show in Galveston.
In that show, she exhibited a collection of cowboy-and-cowgirl paintings she had painted upon arriving in Texas. But she quickly learned the clientele in the Galveston region wasn’t looking for art depicting cowboys and cowgirls as much as its members sought other subjects.
So she switched gears and began painting what she saw and experienced living on the island. She filled her gallery with paintings of mermaids, egrets, ships, blossoming trees, vases filled with blossoming flowers and scenes of women on the beach.
The Galveston Regional Chamber of Commerce selected one of her women-on-the-beach scenes for the cover of its most recent annual membership guide.
Anne has painted with deep mournful shades of many colors and has works demonstrating her skill at conveying complicated emotions through color and cubism. But she is now also using colors and techniques that convey a sense of mature cheerfulness. Her recent work reflects a feeling that life is good, but life is not perfect.
In addition to moving to Post Office Street and evolving her art style, she has added new merchandise to her gallery. There, you can now purchase throw pillows, coffee mugs, spiral notebooks and other items sporting prints of some of her most beloved paintings. Also, for sale are frameable prints of her work.
Painting is not Anne’s sole joy. She also enhances her life with music, and her collection of musical friends has expanded since she moved to Galveston. On Sundays, she hosts open jam sessions from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Inside the gallery sits an upright piano upon which guests to the gallery add joy to her spirit as they demonstrate their talent for making music with as their fingers dance across the keys.
The gallery hosts work that now spans her 40 years of painting, or as she says, “Anne’s art romp through life,”
What does Anne have to say about her artistic evolution on Galveston Island?
“Art is never an easy gig, so any forward motion is a miracle of its own,” Lane said. “Paintings can sit for 30 years and then find their home. Or it still might be wet and get scooped up. All creativity is a huge gamble but one well worth the ride.”
While her gallery hosts her newest style, you can also gaze upon her work that she created years ago along with some of her cowboy themed pieces which are all for sale.
The Anne Lane Gallery is in the heart of ARTS Downtown GTX, Galveston’s bustling Cultural Arts District. The gallery is open from 12 to 7 PM every day except Tuesday. It also is open additional hours on the second Saturday of each month as part of Galveston’s ArtWalk, which takes place from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Anne describes her world as being “A carnival of Music, Art and a venue for the creative soul 24/7.”
Anne Lane Gallery - Sunday Sessions with Kai. Every Sunday from 2 pm - 6 pm.
Ruth Ann Ruiz
Ruth Ann Ruiz, our feature’s editor, came to The Post Newspaper with 25+ years of journalism experience. She has written for The Tucson Citizen, The Arizona Daily Star, The Aztec Press, Tucson Lifestyles Magazine, Galveston County Daily News and Guidry News where she advanced her skills as a photojournalist. Her writing and photography have been filling our front page for two years. Her background also includes two published books, Coping with the Death of a Brother or Sister and Self Esteem, Team Mental Health. She also brings her broadcast journalism experiences from Southern Arizona to the Texas Gulf Coast. Most of her work is generated through her own initiative. Ruth has a sense of what makes the county special. We love the way she has taken on the task of not only reporting, writing, and photography but also finding so much of the best of Galveston County!!!
Kim, Anne & Cheryl proudly show off the Gallery’s new shop
The new gallery shop offers a variety of pillows featuring artwork by Anne Lane
Smaller original paintings by Anne are also available
It’s a Frenchie World
Pick up your copy today!
Join us every Sunday - 2111 Post Office Street, Galveston, TX 77550
The Anne Lane Gallery presents our January show of new paintings. Please join us January 25th from 6-9pm. We will be raising funds for The Artist Boat a local Galveston non- profit. Join us for music, champagne and paintings celebrating our beautiful Island.
In 2020, I experienced along with the whole wide world, the soul crushing reset of our daily reality. The consensus we can all accept, is that the world has changed and with it the way life tastes. We and I, as an artist, in the dwindling days of 2023 are still dealing with the fallout.
In 2020, I painted my Corona Bears and wrote a reflection called The Bear In The Room. It’s one of my former posts on this tiny platform. Well, the bear is back and he’s got somethings to say.
He showed up last week, like all the best guest invasions, beautiful and nocturnal. I am a chronic Hieronymus Bosch nightmare person. To experience a visit to the Arctic under a silvery moon instead- and in pristine detail-, oh yes we are painting that. There was my bear of 2020 swimming and crying , a tiny bit, in this magical setting. I painted him as I saw him.
Soooo. Tell me, ,my Jungian soul, what might this mean?
THIS
Year 2023
A painful and bereft year for so many of the people I love and interact with. The world has not recovered from 2020, nor reset. We are going through the motions of contented activity but without the savor and sweetness of life before. Loneliness and the absence of elan, that rousing march, is everwhere.
My Polar Bear came to me and says by his very existence:
The world is Big
The World is wild
Strange
and so Beautiful.
Swim on
head above water
Dump the garbage feels.
Cling on dear people.
Let’s close out this bit of a year. It is over. We are not.
November 16 2023- Anne
Well its been over 100 degrees down here every day for quite a mind melting spell. I am wanting to make something happen. All Art is being offered at a 50% discount. You see it, you want it ,take half off and come git it. WE ALSO SHIP. This is for the month of August only.
Once Upon A Time In Texas Show
Available at the Gallery
Many Thanks to all the cowboys, art lovers, neighbors, friends fans and general riffraff that braved the heat and showed up. When ever I have an opening there is always that fear I will be drinking all the Prosecco by myself! Special thanks to Beautiful Benji (Benji Ramsell) who not only provided the music but also graced the cover of my invite. I arrived in Galveston with my truck of paintings last August so I guess this makes one trip around the moon for me in Texas. After the opening I jumped in the Gulf and made a painting of that amazing night swim. I have never had a bigger response to a single painting. I am so glad it is staying right here on the island with a beautiful new collector. OK keep cool inside and out! See ya on the other side of Art or just stop by the gallery. Cheers
Anne Lane of Texas
our opening is July !4th 6-9 pm
And the Saga continues…
Queue the Spaghetti Western Music. The writing was on the wall in New Orleans, time to get the hell out of Dodge with what we could carry. The cast of characters in this art melodrama were, me, at the helm, always questionable , my fiercely loyal sidekick Steve Erchien, and Crazy A also known as Aubrey Ankrum for muscle power. Riding shotgun, my two wiley coyote french bulldogs- Madame Pucca AKA That Bitch and General Picachu AKA Three Piece, on account of him being three legged. Well we hit the trail in a 22 foot truck crammed with paintings and hope. We were going to Galveston in the great state of Texas. Fast forward six months we have a new little gallery two blocks from the seawall and a whole lot of new chapters in our big new Texas story. So, if you like stories and tall tales and tales told in Texas… stop by, I am mostly here with some or all of the crew. Come, meet the dogs and enjoy the new paintings. We are at 3818 Ave S right here in the beautiful city of Galveston. Open most afternoons and I live round back. Hope to see ya’ll soon! Anne ps. make sure to get your boots on and come to our first Made in Texas Art Show. see you July 14th 6-9 at the Gallery here on S street
