HG Art & Framing Consultants Presents the Art of L.A. Artist Terri Burris & Florida Artist Jackie Holland Berkley

Orlando, FL, December 21, 2006 --(PR.com)-- HG Art & Framing Consultants is pleased to announce “Impressions of Romance,” its first collaborative show, with the Gallery at Avalon Island, and Jeff Shonkwiler, creator of the Florida Artists Registry website.

This show will bring together our East and West coasts with local artist, Jackie Holland Berkley & L.A. artist, Terri Burris. The show will feature a mix of their styles from contemporary abstract to realism, all touching upon romantic themes.

The opening reception will be held January 18th from 6-10pm during downtown Orlando’s Third Thursday Art Walk at the Gallery at Avalon Island, 39 S Magnolia Ave.

Our friends at Schakolad will be providing a chocolate fountain and beverages will be provided by City Beverages. Music by Pressurewave DJ. 

Terri Burris was born in Los Angeles, California. She developed her interest in art at an early age. After studying art and painting in college, Terri went on to work as a graphic designer professionally for fifteen years. Bolstered in an extensive career in textile, graphic and ceramic design, and feeling the need for more spontaneous control of her artwork, she returned to her first and greatest love, painting - a vocation that she pursues avidly. 

Intertwining her love of nature, abstraction and design in each of her atmospheric pieces, Terri “paints from focused perspectives of the natural world, filtered and infused with memory and nostalgia.” Her palettes emerge directly from her intimate observations of life's minute details. 

Terri's intuitive use of color creates subtle layers of imagery that are unique to each subject. The textured, moody and poetic pieces incorporate crystallized collage fragments to provoke each individual's own thoughts, feelings, memories and imagination. She describes her own work as "Moody, graphic - simple, yet complex." She strives to make all of her work have an impact on the human spirit.

Her style mimics the weather, an unpredictable and natural progression that cannot be planned nor foreseen with accuracy. "I don't plan anything before I start a piece, not even color. I walk to the paper or canvas and just dive in. I work intuitively at first, and as the piece evolves I work more from my head." 

Terri is a recipient of the Image-Ination Award and a selected artist of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Rental and Sales Gallery. She has exhibited at SKGallery in Venice, CA; Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, CA; Long Beach Arts in Long Beach, CA; Fred Segal in Santa Monica, CA; and Finegood Gallery in West Hills, CA. She studied at El Camino College and Palomar College in Southern California. She continues to create living memories with her husband and little boy in her native Los Angeles.

Florida artist, Jackie Berkley was born in Mississippi, attended the University of Southern Mississippi and graduated with a degree in Art Education and Drawing and Painting. She taught art in Florida Public Schools and then began a long career of Juried Shows, receiving numerous awards and purchases for several Museum collections. Private collectors include Disney, Exxon and Fed-Ex. After living in Miami and Atlanta, Berkley now resides in Central Florida. 

Berkley’s body of work ranges in styles from contemporary abstract to realism. She likes to paint with oils on canvas with subjects varying from abstract metropolitan themes to soft landscapes or romantic still-life pieces incorporating items such as chandeliers, fruits, birds and nests. As an artist, Berkley is constantly shifting and evolving in striking new directions with each painting that she produces.

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