Crowds Come Out for “Cool” Art

From left, Rebecca Skelton and her husband Joe Walles share a booth as a husband-and-wife team. Skelton specializes in sculptures with metal or beads, while Walles is an experienced photojournalist. Skelton is holding one of her pieces called “Taste.” It’s “a copper and bead piece that is sort of a goblet of water except the water is splashing up like a tongue,” she said. “So, you taste water but water might be tasting you as well.”  Walles is holding one of his matted black and white photo prints of a mural in New York City that became visible years ago when a neighboring building was torn down. “The mural looks like a Seurat painting of people at a picnic,” he said. According to the Art Story website, Georges-Pierre Seurat “is chiefly remembered as the pioneer of the neo-impressionist technique commonly known as Pointillism. The picnic work is considered one of Seurat’s most famous works and is entitled, “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte,” an island in the Seine River. True to his profession, Walles documented the moment. Both artists exhibit and sell their art year-round at Art Lofts Studios and Gallery in St. Petersburg.