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Harbor Gallery January 2023
Aloha from Harbor Gallery! “A Touch of Winter” is delivered to Elli and Gunner Mensh, owners of Harbor Gallery in Kawaihae, Hawai’i Island. Stop in when you’re visiting the west side of the island and take your time finding an array of beautiful local art and treasures displayed on walls and in nooks and crannies.
November 2022
Jane Chao is the artist whose obake anthuriums painting graces the cover of the 2022 Nov/Dec issue of Hawai’i Island’s Ke Ola Magazine. Jane was my teacher of the traditional Chinese art of gongbi painting on silk. I remember clearly my first class with her at their Hilo house. At the time I was regaining physical and mental strength after a year of chemotherapy. Jane’s beautiful art and her way of teaching added a new direction in my life. I will always be grateful. I feel honored that in this magazine issue, my own painting of white poinsettias “A Touch of Winter” is the table of contents page. Thank you, Ke Ola Magazine, Barbara G Garcia and Tanya Yamanaka!
Banyan Gallery
Hoku and I made a delivery on a beautiful day in October 2022. It’s always a pleasure to see Jelena Clay at her wonderful Banyan Gallery in Hilo on Banyan Drive.The gallery sits between the Hilo Hawaiian Hotel and the beautiful Liliuokalani Gardens. Don’t miss all the lovely local art including Jelena’s unique gourd creations.
March 2022
In fall 2020 we shopped for plants for our stay-home garden project at Home Depot. They had little potted orchid plants displayed plainly in a partially shaded spot. We wouldn’t know how to care for them so we weren’t interested in buying them, but there was a single dendrobium orchid plant that was lit by the sun and it looked so lovely. I remember how it turned my face-masked day of worry and anxiety into a cheery and hopeful one. It made me smile and I snapped a quick photo. I began a painting of it soon after but put it aside until last night and today. The word “jaunty” came to mind as I signed it. I looked up its definition (adjective. having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air) and it fit perfectly.
“Jaunty Dendrobium” will be at the Harbor Gallery, Kawaihae, HI.
The Gallery of Great Things
June 2019
New watercolor paintings were delivered to Maria at The Gallery of Great Things. This particular painting we’re holding in the photo is “Monstera in the Morning Light”.
Ke Ola Magazine
I’m immensely honored that “Winter Guest” was selected as the 2018 Nov/Dec cover photo by the well respected and popular Ke Ola Magazine that highlights Hawai’i Island’s people and events. Be sure to pick up a copy or view it online at
KeOlaMagazine.com.
January 2018
The Wishard Gallery held an opening party for its new location in Hawi. It was also a time for book signing of ‘Aloha Expressionism’. Harry Wishard (artist and gallery owner) and Maria hosted a wonderful evening with music, dance, wine and pupu, friends and collectors!
Wishard Gallery
These original watercolor paintings have been delivered to the Wishard Gallery in Hawi on the Big Island of Hawaii. I love this gallery! Harry Wishard’s paintings are a favorite of almost everyone I know and it’s a delight to stop in and see his beautiful oil landscapes. It’s a pleasure to have my work there, most of which are watercolors on Arches, but also watercolors on silk. Do visit!
"Market Day"
“Market Day” was inspired at an open market in Waimea one Saturday morning. It is an oil on canvas painting (24×18) that I started in 2009. It is now 2017 and finished, at last. It just needed a few bold strokes of highlights!
The Gallery of Great Things
It’s a pleasure to visit Maria and her Gallery of Great Things in Waimea on the Big Island of Hawaii. This day I delivered some of my neo-gongbi original watercolor paintings and matted prints. Stop by and check them out. You’ll enjoy everyone and everything in there, and won’t want to leave.
Etegami
Thanks to Debbie Davidson of Hokkaido, Japan, I enjoy the art of etegami with friends around the world.
“In recent years, the popular Japanese art form known as etegami (e= image; tegami= letter) has captured the interest and imagination of artists all over the world. The simplest English definition of etegami may well be ‘Japanese postcard art.’ But that phrase hardly does justice to the ‘the way’ of etegami, and I’m happy to have this opportunity to give a fuller account of an art form I’ve been trying to promote through my blog to art lovers outside of Japan for almost twenty years.” (Dosankodebbie)
Learn more here:
An Introduction to the Art of Etegami.
Hokulani
Hokulani has the heart of everyone in the family. She’s included here because she inspires us to love and appreciate all things we’re blessed with, her especially. She has even done joint paintings with me.
A New Season
The Waimea cherry blossoms are a beautiful welcoming of spring. They inspire me to get to my table and make some art, and to look with joyful anticipation to a brand new season of hope for the yet to come.
“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope (Romans 15:13)”.
Artful Friends
Many of my art students have become friends. We no longer meet for classes, but that doesn’t keep us from getting together to share fun happy times. I especially love the shares of personal art endeavors and the various other ways art and art appreciation take place in our separate lives.
WDFI Wiliwili Festival Art Show
February 2017
The Waikoloa Dry Forest Initiative supports our natural island environment and its native wildlife, focusing efforts in and around our local community. I’m honored to be a small part of it. Here is my little space at the pop-up gallery to benefit the WDFI, featuring artwork of our native plants and animals.
Inspired by the Wind
Ric and I often stop alongside roads and take our cameras out to capture whatever it was that caught our attention. This day in January, it was the lofty winds that made the eucalyptus treetops quiver. The photos may find their way somehow into a future painting.
2017 Rooster
Happy New Year! May you be blessed with all things wonderful in 2017!
Asian culture celebrates 2017 as the Year of the Rooster/Chicken. This rooster was painted with a rooster feather brush in spontaneous style on mulberry paper using sumi and Chinese watercolors.
My Studio
In August 2016, Henry and Victoria Li made a short overnight trip to see us. We enjoyed a wonderful visit with them to beaches and parks and our home in Waikoloa to see my little studio. Here is an impromptu video tour of the studio that Henry put together. It makes me smile for various reasons. I hope you enjoy it. A Private Studio Tour YouTube.
FineArtAmerica
Aloha! I’ve very recently opened an account at FineArtAmerica.com. Reproductions of a few of my paintings are currently available. I was pleasantly surprised to learn the many options to select from, including metal prints. If only for fun, check it out here.
Fineartamerica.com.
P.S. As of 2023 I have placed my FAA membership on hold.
Waikoloa Sunset
Sunsets in Waikoloa are amazing especially in late summer and early fall. They are definitely the work of the Lord.
Wishard Gallery
“Moonlight Dance 9” is displayed at Wishard Gallery in the Parker Ranch Center, Waimea, Big Island Hawaii.
Viewpoints Gallery Maui Celebration 2016
I’m super happy to be invited to this wonderful event, along with four silk paintings.
Aloha Expressionism
copyright 2015
By Tiffany DeEtte Shafto and Lynda McDaniel
I feel blessed to be one of 50 Hawaii artists to be featured in this beautiful edition.
Artist's Statement Seal
“It is not possible to capture at once all the beauty that surrounds us.”
Custom-carved by Henry Xiaohui Li.
