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Hot Ticket: Wildlife and Western visions

By LENNIE BENNETT
Published April 14, 2005

	[Grant Hacking]
	Grant Hacking, Tree Demon, oil painting
	Best of shows Mainsail, St. Petersburg's waterfront art festival, invites winners from the past 30 years to this weekend's show. Scenes from the swamp Wilderness photographer Jeff Ripple goes on location to bring hidden Florida to life in all its colors. Hot Ticket: Wildlife and Western visions After you have enjoyed the Mainsail Arts Festival on the downtown St. Petersburg waterfront, head west to the Raymond James Financial Center, 880 Carillon Parkway, St. Petersburg, for the sixth annual Wildlife and Western Visions Art Show.

After you have enjoyed the Mainsail Arts Festival on the downtown St. Petersburg waterfront, head west to the Raymond James Financial Center, 880 Carillon Parkway, St. Petersburg, for the sixth annual Wildlife and Western Visions Art Show. Organized by the Plainsmen Gallery, it features work by many of the pre-eminent practitioners of a broad category. Artists include John Coleman and Oreland Joe, members of the prestigious Cowboy Artists of America Association, Al Agnew, Greg Beecham, Robert Deurloo, Frank DiVita, Matthew Hillier, Jan Martin McGuire, Vic Payne, Julia Rogers, Tom Saubert, John Seerey-Lester, Suzie Seerey-Lester, Ernest C. Simmons, Geoffrey Smith, Trevor Swanson and Grant Hacking, whose oil painting, Tree Demon, is shown above. The show and sale offers a wide range of subjects and prices for original paintings, large sculptures, miniatures and prints.

Tours of the Tom and Mary James/Raymond James Financial Art Collection and the new sculpture garden on the grounds will be available. Parking and admission are free. Hours are 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. 727 726-5100 or www.wildlifeartshow.com

- LENNIE BENNETT, Times art critic

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