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Santa Monica Mountains Art Show

Victoria Pellouchoud — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 20:47:59 +0000

Hi everyone! I am so excited to be a part of the King Gillette art exhibit and sale once again. I first heard of this group of artists and their mission when I moved to the San Fernando valley. Visiting my neighbor one day I was struck by many gorgeous paintings hanging on his walls. He was a collector of many paintings from Allied Artists! So I knew I had to paint with them and have been doing so regularly for many years.

This will be my second time and I’ll be showing a lot of new landscapes all dolled up in frames and priced to sell! Most paintings are of the surrounding Santa Monica Mountains recreation area. Hills trees and pathways all through my eyes, I’m proud to unveil many new paintings.

The ranch is a gorgeous place and you can easily spend a lot of your day visiting the visitors center and strolling through the grounds. So I hope you’ll also stop by and see some beautiful art from all the artists I’ll be showing alongside.

Stop by and say hello!

Warmly,

Vickie

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Dreamer wins first place at California Art League’s “Artist’s Choice” show

Victoria Pellouchoud — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 01:10:30 +0000

My painting Dreamer won best of show at the latest California Art League show “Artists Choice”Juried by esteemed artist Beverly Lazor so I couldn’t be more proud as I greatly admire her work!

The show was held at the Thousand Oaks Community Art Gallery and was a grand opening night. Many thanks to the whole team behind the scenes that made the night so special.

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New Commission completed

Victoria Pellouchoud — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 21:46:29 +0000

This is a painting I created for a client who wanted this as a gift for his wife. It was a surprise for her and I so enjoyed painting it. I love still life and painting fruit, flowers and such, but the beautiful yellow color of the lemons along with the depiction of the fresh lemon slices was really exhilarating and I wanted to go all out and create the most idealized lemons ever. Witnessing the gift being presented was a real treat and makes this work so meaningful.

Let me know if you would like a commission and I’d be happy to discuss with you. Hope you enjoy getting a glimpse of “Lemon Splendor”.

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“Treasure”

Victoria Pellouchoud — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 17:17:38 +0000

During the pandemic my daughter and I made sure to get out each weekend to soothe our souls. One of our favorite places to visit is an old grapefruit orchard on a beautiful ranch, our hidden treasure. My painting had become sporadic and I was feeling very uninspired but this day I had in mind to capture my daughter, my muse, in an otherworldly beauty, something magical and mystical. And so we worked on capturing that together. Later on in thinking about what it should be called I realized it was definitely about a time a place and mostly this person who I treasure so much.

The online show will be up until June 31st, click here if you’d like to check out the show. I am quite honored to be included!

“What is done in love is done well” – Vincent Van Gogh

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New painting on view in a new show at the Santa Paula Art Museum

Victoria Pellouchoud — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 18:26:41 +0000

En Plein Air: An Exploration of Malibu and Ventura County

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Listening to the trees

Victoria Pellouchoud — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 19:56:44 +0000

Listening to the trees – I smell them –It’s the best smell and I don’t know why I’ve never been here before – the tree above me even spoke to me – it dropped a leaf on my blanket as if to say hello. Ok I’ll come back. No matter what the limitation – we show what we are within it and what we do though bound by it. There is always something to be found even in the tiniest, tightest little dark corner – in fact it may illuminate our true nature!

The above image is an excerpt from one of my sketchbooks. Working in North Hollywood I would take my lunch breaks at a small park nearby. I needed to feel grass and be in nature for at least a small time each day. This is when I started to paint during my lunch breaks and it grew to be a pretty significant way to grow in my art while I had very little time because of my full-time day job. It also helped my soul and my heart to grow a little bit lighter.

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Going Bigger!

Victoria Pellouchoud — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 22:24:09 +0000

I’ve been working on a larger format painting for the last 2 months. actually, longer! It’s been something I’ve been wanting to do more of for a while now, go big! Suffice it to say it is really challenging. The work is already challenging to get to with everything else on my plate and now, a big one! So much work to do on it. So, small chunks get done little by little and I find it very hard to start something else while it stares at me- undone. I also feel the pressure of having not posted a thing since Plein-airpril which is a yearly challenge I try to do. Check out the group Warrior Painters to find out more by the way.

Selection of my smaller oil studies for PleinAirpril 2021

Painting every day in April was exhilarating, and fast and exhausting but I loved it. Very quick, grab an idea run with it, execute it, paint like mad. Post on Instagram, talk to the world, hey this is what I thought about today! What a rush to transmit your thoughts and feelings about the world because God knows words just don’t do justice. And symbolism within each picture can do so much more! But now we have a LARGE work, and it all slowwwwsss waaaay dooown. It’s nice changing from fast fast fast!!! To now a slower more meditative pace. But even getting to it is slower and more intentional, I’m not reacting I’m planning, not rushing to it but scheduling time to work on it. Telling my daughter “Hey – mom’s painting this weekend so don’t even tempt me to go to the beach!” Even the painting looks like I’ve slowed down, part of the challenge here to keep that movement and life even though we’re going at a much slower pace. Bouguereau visits and says let’s put every mark we can on there to describe that hand, that hair and that neckline. Let’s fall in love with every curve and every nuance of shape line texture. No no no!!! I love you but I don’t want to be you Bouguereau!!! Leave …NOW. Let’s bring in Sargent, come to visit Sorolla and yes Van Gogh you too!!! Yes let’s paint with authority and vigor!!! Let’s remember to have every stroke be beautiful!! We are going for an impression and abstraction of form while being able to recognize that this is a magical being in a magical environment because the nature of human beings and the world they live in does have magic and I want to show you how I see it.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau – The Bather or Baigneuse (1879)

John Singer Sargent
Rosina, 1878, depicting Rosina Ferrar

Joaquin Sorolla – My Wife and Daughters in the Garden

And so it goes I’ve been working on another larger painting and it has been CHALLENGING!!! Why have I included hands! And arms for God’s sake… Well I am learning and what on earth are we doing here if we are not learning and growing. So, in case you wanted to know what the heck I am doing this is it.

“Treasure” 20×20 Oil on canvas

We were on a visit to one of our favorite nature haunts and on a mission to create something ethereal and beautiful, and what better model than my daughter. She knows just how to look deeper and she is not self conscious when we are talking artful things and expressions and what I am trying to capture! I can’t help it I love painting her, she is my muse.

Happy you are here! Keep on painting!

Vickie

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Moments of Joy

Victoria Pellouchoud — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 21:16:28 +0000

This painting truly was a moment of joy to create. The theme for this show fit perfectly as it was created on a particularly sunny and warm day and was the first allied artists paint out meeting in person since the pandemic started. So double the joy for me.

I had been to this lake many times to hike and hang out with my family. But this was the first time I really dove into the beauty of the lake in my painting. Usually, I ponder the beauty of the lake but this day I really looked – it was an unreal blue that captivated my imagination. As soon as I saw the green reflections of tall trees in the blue ripples, I knew what this painting was about. I like to include a small “hook”. Something that really grabs me. Sometimes it’s very apparent and sometimes much more subtle. For this painting it was subtle. I hope you enjoy looking at this as much as I do and that you can take away some peace and serenity almost feeling the chatter of families and artists as they spent their day looking upon this beautiful scene nature provided us with.

Please take a moment to view the show when it opens! Thanks so much! Exhibition dates for this show, “Moments of Joy” are Monday, June 21-Wednesday, September 1, 2021

I’ll virtually see you there!

Vickie

“Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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Three Portraits, Three Generations

Victoria Pellouchoud — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 06:15:47 +0000

I am thrilled to have 3 of my paintings in this upcoming show at the San Fernando Valley Arts and Cultural Center (SFVACC). Exciting to be exhibiting some portrait work in a nice grouping of three! Three generations all depicted at different stages of our lives. Come and enjoy the opening of “The art of creative Aging” at the San Fernando valley arts and cultural center.

August 6-31, 2019
Reception Saturday, August 10th, 2019
5:00 – 7:00 pm

Amazing Art from 50 amazing artists is showcased in the SFVACC’s “Art of Creative Aging IV” exhibit where age knows no boundaries.

Public is welcome and exhibit is free.

18312 Oxnard Street, Tarzana, CA 91356

www.sfvacc.org

Please park in the lot beyond the alley.

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New Painting at the Santa Paula Museum

Victoria Pellouchoud — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 00:32:37 +0000

My painting “Sun Bathers” will be included in the Allied Artists Show “On location in the Santa Monica Mountains” at the Santa Paula Art Museum which is located at 117 N 10th St, Santa Paula, CA 93060.

Please mark your calendar and get ready to enjoy some beautiful landscape paintings of our beautiful Golden State! This is a juried selection of original representational art of locations within the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. Each selected painting will be identified with the location it depicts and noted on a large map of the recreation area. There are many larger works but a wide variety.

Hope to see you there!

Vickie

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