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Updated Jan. 8, 2010

New: portrait drawings Fran Goffinett and Tom Sawyer; small Indian River Lagoon painting, Eau Gallie Causeway Afternoon.

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Updated April 12, 2009

Spence is in current Studio Visit, a juried artist catalog published Spring 2009,
by The Open Studios Press, Boston MA.

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2009 Schedule for Liquid Muse Traveling Exhibition
Florida's American Heritage River: The Art of the St. Johns Region
Exhibition of 45 Florida artists, includes Spence Guerin's Tootoosahatchee

Feb. 15-Mar.31
Alexander Brest Museum, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville FL

Apr. 15-May 30
Tallahassee Museum of History and Natural Science, Tallahassee FL

Aug. 3-Sept. 9
Florida School of the Arts, St. Johns River Community College, Palatka FL

Sept. 15-Nov. 23
Museum of Florida Art (formerly Deland Museum of Art), Deland FL

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Updated Nov. 9, 2008

New Funky drawing, Reading the Paper.

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Spence is in current Southern Edition of New American Paintings “Juried Exhibition in Print” Vol. 76, published June 2008, by The Open Studios Press, Boston MA.

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Liquid Muse
Florida's American Heritage River: The Art of the St. Johns Region
Exhibition and Public Forum

Aug. 30-Oct. 19
Liquid Muse Opening Exhibition
Florida's American Heritage River: The Art of the St. Johns Region
Exhibition of 45 Florida artists, includes Spence Guerin's Tootoosahatchee
Co-curated by Mallory O'Connor and Gary Monroe
Thomas Center Gallery, Gainesville FL
The exhibition will travel around FL in 2009.

Fri. Oct. 3, 2008 - 8:30am-7:30pm
PUBLIC FORUM
Preserving the Past - Sustaining the Future in the St. Johns River Region
Day long program of presentations and panel discussionsby authors, artists, state officials, including
Santa Fe Community College, Gainesville FL

9:30-11:30am SESSION 1
SECRET LIFE OF WATER: HYDROLOGY OF ST. JOHNS WATERSHED AND IMPORTANCE OF WATER RESOURCES
Chair: Bill Belleville, author of Losing It All to Sprawl and River of Lakes:A Journey on Florida's St. Johns River
Panelists included: Cynthia Barnett, author of award-winning Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.; Neil Armingeon, St. Johns Riverkeeper; and others.

1-3pm SESSION 2
LIQUID MUSE: ART INSPIRED BY THE ST. JOHNS WATERSHED REGION
Chair: Mallory O'Connor, Professor Emeritus of Art History
Panelists included artists Sydney McKenn, Margaret Ross Tolbert and Spence Guerin
Discussion of their work, the St. Johns River, and public water resources.

- On Portraits page: Billy & Ricky, completed in December. Also a few older portrait paintings and drawings added to the page.
- Final photos for three Alaska landscape paintings, see final update, photos and story.
- Yes, various landscape paintings and other works are available. For availability and pricing, please contact us.

Lots of work added, some new, some old...
- New portrait drawing of Kaori and an old drawing recently reworked: Patricia
- New red rose drawings and one small painting, see Still Life
- Figure drawings, new and old
- Self portrait drawings from the past
- Landscape paintings, some old and some not-so-old
- Watercolor paintings, finally added detail views of Homer Spit in Alaska, plus other watercolors
- Funky stuff, new and not-so-old

STILL LIFE PAINTINGS
Three new small oil paintings in Candle Series.

WATERCOLOR PAINTINGS
Two 1991 watercolors painted in Sudan, Texas and Cairo, Illinois on the Ohio River, published in Aramco World magazine in 1994 but never exhibited, see watercolor page.

ALASKA LANDSCAPE PAINTING PROJECT
Two of three landscape paintings now complete*, see Landscape Paintings.
*Later decided they were not finished and work continued on both of them.