![\"Portland](\"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/12me0182.jpg\" "\\"Portland")
<\/a>Portland Head Light | \u00a92012 David Allio<\/p><\/div>\n
Most of the guest artists are family, friends, or acquaintances. There are chemographs by the late Peyton Russo, a color landscape by Alex Russo – most famous for his painting of ships commissioned by the U.S. Navy and now hanging in the Smithsonian Institution, paintings and sketches by Janis Browning, a watercolor by Suzanne Greene, framed artworks by Tim Galleghy, John Byrum, Heidi Rush, our daughter M. Linsay Allio, ink pointillisms by Pablo Solomon, and a canvas by the late Bill Rase – a California musician and radio\/tv personality. It was the colorful canvas from Bill Rase, a total stranger, of a painting he had done of one of my published landscape photographs that prompted me to begin the display of my own photography.<\/p>\n
An 18×27 canvas of Maine’s Portland Head Light, shown above, is set to hang next to a scene from Pololu Valley on the Big Island of Hawaii. The selection of each photograph for my personal coast-to-coast gallery is not exclusively based upon the quality of the image, but the stories and memories it prompts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Up until a few years ago most of the photography and artwork selected for display in my home and office was by other artists and photographers. Now, a selection of my collectable canvases and artist proofs have been added to the walls. Most of the guest artists are family, friends, or acquaintances. There are chemographs …<\/p>\n
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