{"id":12548,"date":"2021-06-21T13:31:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T13:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/?p=12548"},"modified":"2021-06-21T13:31:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T13:31:46","slug":"willamette-valley-hotel-my-art-a-beautiful-art-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/?p=12548","title":{"rendered":"Willamette Valley Hotel + My Art = A Beautiful Art Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last month, I wrote about my art being in a boutique hotel, along the bank of the Willamette River, The Independence<\/span><\/a>, and just a 15 minute drive from Salem. When I wrote that blog post<\/span><\/a>, I had three pieces of art on display at the hotel. As of writing this post, I now have an additional ten pieces there, and I haven’t even seen them yet! We plan to pay another visit (and another overnight) later this summer after their restaurant reopens in July.<\/p>\n

I am writing now about another hotel in the Trace Hotel family, where I also have art, The Dundee<\/span><\/a>. This hotel is located in Dundee, Oregon, in the heart of Oregon’s famous Willamette Valley wine country, and about a 40 minute drive from Salem. My art was installed the end of 2019, and then 2020 arrived, bringing Covid with it, and everything shut down. As things reopened in 2021, we decided to visit The Dundee. We were invited to come stay at the hotel, so earlier this month we went to The Dundee for three nights. Oh my. The Dundee has a stylish vibe and touches of luxury<\/em>. Photos tell it best.<\/p>\n

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When we walked into our suite, Howard disappeared down a long hallway……<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Luxurious bathroom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A kitchenette with a full refrigerator.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Okay, that’s a BIG bed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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My green! In chairs!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Marfa is more than a day trip.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once we were settled in, we started exploring, looking for my nine pieces of art; it was a bit like a scavenger hunt. Three of the paintings were right outside the door of our room on the second floor of the first building.<\/p>\n

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This painting, “Singed by Fire and Light,” hung in Howard’s office for several years. He has missed it, and was thrilled to discover it was hanging right outside our room.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Jumping for joy in front of “An Unaccountable Exhilaration,” 44×66 inches, plaster, oil, and cold wax, by Dayna Collins.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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“Fleeting Amazement,” 24×36 inches, acrylic on canvas, by Dayna Collins.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We continued our search. Right around the corner from our room, was the conference room, or Boardroom,<\/em> and inside were three of my acrylic pieces.<\/p>\n

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Howard ponders this grouping of three acrylic paintings in the Boardroom at The Dundee.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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When we were in the hallway, Jim, the hotel’s maintenance person, found out I had painted several of the paintings in the hotel and asked if I had by chance painted the pieces in the Boardroom. When I replied that I had, he said, “Come with me. I’ve studied those paintings, and I have questions for you.” In we went.<\/p>\n

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Jim offers insight about what he sees in these three paintings at The Dundee Hotel in the Boardroom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Jim points out the “animals” he sees in these paintings.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jim’s question was if I had intentionally placed animals in my paintings. I told him I hadn’t, but he insisted he saw a bee, a bird, a cat, and a COW!<\/p>\n

We set out again on our mission to find my paintings, leaving the first building, passing a great courtyard between the two buildings, and then entering the second building.<\/p>\n

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Courtyard of The Dundee Hotel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Building Two of The Dundee Hotel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We spied the first painting on the landing between the first and second floors.<\/p>\n

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“Morning Clouds Giving Way to Sunshine,” is in the stairwell between the first and second floor at the Dundee Hotel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Howard enjoys analyzing what he sees in a painting. This one, “Morning Clouds Giving Way to Sunshine,” 30×60 inches, plaster, oil and cold wax, by Dayna Collins, is in the private collection of The Dundee Hotel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Detail of “Morning Clouds Giving Way to Sunshine,” plaster, oil, and cold wax, by Dayna Collins.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Detail of “Morning Clouds Giving Way to Sunshine,” plaster, oil, and cold wax, by Dayna Collins.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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“The Emporium of Small Delights,” 36×48 inches, plaster, oil, and cold wax, is located at the end of a hallway on the second floor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Visiting “A Stirring of Possibility,” 22×32 inches, framed acrylic on canvas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We had a beautiful three nights in the heart of the Willamette Valley (surrounded by wineries if you are a lover of wine) and we are already looking forward to our next visit.<\/p>\n

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Bonus: Painting what would eventually become “Without Thought or Emotion,” in 2019, and is now hanging in The Boardroom at The Dundee.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last month, I wrote about my art being in a boutique hotel, along the bank of the Willamette River, The Independence, and just a 15 minute drive from Salem. When I wrote that blog post, I had three pieces of art on display at the hotel. As of writing this post, I now have an … Continue reading Willamette Valley Hotel + My Art = A Beautiful Art Gallery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[547,548,13,48,139,246,19,577,6,15,315,507,508,562,403,549,559,558,569,297,592,247,38,289,465,576,141,228,509,604,1,561,594],"tags":[252,567,406,517,153,556,555,602,564,606,17,505,578,605,566],"class_list":["post-12548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstract-art","category-abstract-artist","category-abstract-landscapes","category-abstract-painting","category-abstracted-play","category-acrylic-painting","category-alley-art-studio","category-art-collectors","category-art-work","category-carnival-of-landscapes","category-cold-wax-medium","category-color-field-art","category-color-field-artist","category-colorful-art","category-contemporary-art","category-contemporary-artist","category-dayna-collins","category-dayna-collins-art","category-dayna-collins-artist","category-dayna-j-collins","category-hotel-art","category-mark-making","category-oil-and-cold-wax-2","category-oil-and-cold-wax-painting","category-oregon-artist","category-original-art","category-plaster","category-r-and-f-pigment-sticks","category-surface-design","category-the-dundee","category-uncategorized","category-wild-color","category-women-who-paint","tag-acrylic-painting","tag-colorful-art","tag-contemporary-art","tag-contemporary-artist","tag-dayna-collins","tag-dayna-collins-art","tag-dayna-collins-artist","tag-home-decor","tag-interior-design","tag-interior-designers","tag-oil-and-cold-wax","tag-oil-and-cold-wax-medium","tag-original-art","tag-the-dundee","tag-wild-color"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12548"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12568,"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12548\/revisions\/12568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}