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
Not only is the Anne Lane Gallery one of the largest new contemporary art galleries on world famous Royal St in New Orleans La, It also serves as a safe haven for neglected , homeless and rehomed parrots of all species. We take great pride in producing sensational works of art in addition to providing the best possible living arrangements for parrots in need of a place to permanently perch. Stop into the gallery located at 1000 Royal St, in the heart of the french and meet our flock of fabulous feathered friends. Parrots & Painting, they both love to be seen.
The Anne Lane Gallery flock includes Kiwi the African lovebird, Ms.Trudy the Greater Solomon Islands Eclectus, Ms.Magnolia the Jenday Conure and Chi-Cha the Turquoise green cheek Conure .
Not pictured, Gumbo the Blue Quaker Parrot and Esme the Sun Coure. * They both refused to sit for the artist. Go Figure. lol.
Birds of a feather is currently on view at the Anne Lane Gallery, located at 1000 Royal Street in the heart of the French Quarter.
Please directly message us or call/text 504 908 6262 for additional details about this work of art.
Digital / Private viewings of this work or of additional inventory is available 24/7.
It feels like it’s somehow been both a day and several lifetimes ago that I packed up my van with two frenchies and a career’s worth of art with my mind set on New Orleans.
In reality, it’s been a year. Twelve months that have swept by with the type of whimsical fury unique to this wonderfully weird little town. Three hundred and sixty some-odd days of French Quarter strolling, Royal Street shopping. Of music wafting from the streets like fog upon the river. Calliopes and trombones and bucket drums— yes even the bucket drums.
It’s a little odd, and maybe quite mad to fall so ridiculously in love with such a ridiculous little city in such a small amount of time. But fall I have, and fall I will continue to do.
Perhaps, then, it’s natural that my painting style has evolved alongside my heart. Blooming like great, fragrant magnolia, I have become enamored with capturing the intoxicating essence of Louisiana.
I recently spent a weekend at Bonne Terre, a beautiful farm in Poché Bridge, Louisiana. It was a tranquil, breathtaking place— exceeding the expectations its name lends— Good Earth, indeed.
Most of my days on the farm were spent photographing the surrounding scenery and touring the Atchafalaya Swamp— dotted with egrets, herons, wood storks and the occasional alligator. There were abandoned tug boats and pirogues, tiny shacks jutting impossibly out of this river of grass. In the same way I love New Orleans for its chaotic, restless culture so too do I love the wildness of Louisiana’s great bayous. They defy the very notion of “tame.” Unwieldy and vast and filled with terrifying beauty.
I’m now back home, sitting on my balcony above the gallery, watching the red sun set slowly on Royal Street and all of its people. To the left of me are 15 blank canvasses— pictures attached to each from my time at Bonne Terre. I’m summoning all the energy this wonderful place has to offer in hopes that I can magick these memories— these untamable brambles— to life on canvas.
Stay tuned, friends. Onward we march.
We are happy to announce that Anne Lane Gallery will have two beautiful works of art available for auction at The Ogden Museum of Southern Arts “O What a Night Gala 2020”. This year there will be a live and silent auction taking place on Givery.us. The live auction will be held Saturday, October 17, 8-9 PM,
and the silent auction will be held Monday, October 12, 12 A.M. - Sunday, October 18, 5 P.M.
Our featured artwork for the auction is “Catfish NO 4” and “Day Trout” `
“O What A Night” supports The Ogden Museums educational mission to share the art and culture of the American South with the New Orleans community and beyond. It’s truly amazing to be apart of this amazing fundraiser and continue to inspire our community with Southern Art.
For more information on “O What a Night” please visit www.OgdenMuseum.org
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Wishing on a Crane, 2020
acrylic on canvas, 62 x 50 in., framed
In Japan, the crane is a symbol of good fortune and longevity. Fold 1,000 paper cranes and your wishes will come true.
I’ve spent the last two months at home in the French Quarter, painting my way through the pandemic and creating works that reflect the resilience of our natural world. View this collection in person at my gallery on Royal Street or online at annelanegallery.com
On January fourth, I opened my French Quarter gallery with a brave banner of hope and a loyal band of well-wishers cheering me on. In the best economy of my life time , in my favorite city I have ever lived in, with a gallery full of brand new work inspired in and by my adopted new home, what could go wrong?
Well no reason to answer that question as the whole wide world knows it. On March 18th the mandate came from the Mayor’s office to shut all non-essential businesses. So only two months in, I am closed for an indefinite future. The first week I went from panic to panic unable to focus or plan beyond walking my dogs - Frenchies, Picachu and Pucca - through the deserted streets of the French Quarter. This once happy routine became, like all other small pleasures of my pretty and artsy life, surreal, grim and scary. Ok. Time to get it together and shake off the weirdness. My solution and salvation in times of distress has always been to try and paint something, anything. I set up my easel in my Royal Street courtyard and started. What I painted astonished even me.
On two large canvases I painted two big, black bears. I never ever painted a bear before. I wasn’t at all sure where this was going or why. Then a sort of idea hit me. Even though the world of human commerce had stopped and, with it, the world as we have experienced it , nature had not. Over the next three months I maniacally filled the canvases with wildflowers, bees, birds, trees, ants, rabbits, possums, turtles and butterflies.
I am often asked, "how do you know when a painting is finished?" The answer can be quite complex, but not in this case. There was just no more room for one more creature. I call these painting my Corona Bears. To me the bears symbolize a big, black presence moving through our world, like the Coronavirus. We have all heard the stories of how nature is experiencing a rebirth and a holiday of sorts. I find this truth very consoling. The power of nature to continue and push through all adversity inspires me to do the same.
From Anne Lane Gallery to all the world, we are pulling for you! Be well.
