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TARTAGLIA FINE ART

The Gallery at Frame Craft
26106 Oak Ridge Drive
The Woodlands Texas 77380

www.TartagliaGallery.com
805-844-0908


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BREATH OF FEBRUARY
 28x22” oil on canvas

​Tartaglia Fine Art started in 2011 in Ojai California when Danna Tartaglia rescued a gallery that was closing.

A second rendition opened on Canyon Road in Santa Fe in 2014 and then her gallery opened
on Bainbridge Island Washington just before the pandemic hit its peak. 

Danna retired and moved back home to Texas and family in 2021 and realized the need for a fine art gallery in The Woodlands area.
The opportunity came in June of 2023 with an available space and Danna is selecting the best local artists for her new gallery.

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CAT’S TABLE 
20X20” oil on canvas, framed


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Awash in April  
​12 x 12” oil on canvas, framed 
Early Spring sun washing over a garden of 
Nasturtiums

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Capricious
 30 x 36” oil on canvas, black wood frame $2800

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Irrepressible  
20 x 30” oil on canvas, black wood frame  $2200
Bright colors and mane flowing - the vivacious energy of the horse running with pure joy


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Zeus and Wilbur 
 24 x 12” oil on canvas, black wood frame $1800

A conversation between friends

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 The Pale Horse
   24 x 12” oil on canvas, deep gallery wrap 1.5”  $2200

I came into the world with crayon in hand. Creativity is my default mode. 

My painting is instinctive, of my own education, formed from years of observation, from doing the work of painting and allowing my inner artist to lead the way.

Figuring out the next painting puts me in the happy zone. 
No two paintings are the same, its all about what the subject seems to ask me to do, and evolves as paint is applied to canvas.

Art classes in high school were the spark that catapulted me into a lifetime of painting - through many subjects and painting on everything I could put a mark on.

The natural world has been a constant thread - with animals a favorite subject.
Recent years found my attention captured again and again by horses. 
I want to paint many things and I sometimes stray from the horses and the animals to paint a floral, a still life or a landscape, but always coming back to what takes my breath away, the animals. 

The horses. Motion and Emotion. 

We of the two legged have an affinity for horses. 
We don't usually analyze this attraction, we simply love them. 
There's certainly a lot to love about these beautiful beasts. 
They are indeed beautiful to the eye and to the touch. 
They touch our soul when we connect to a particular horse, and they reciprocate that feeling.

There is scientific evidence that horses have a healing affect for us. It's a "Biodirectional healing that happens when we are near horses". 
"Our respiration and heartbeat entrain with the slower rates of the horse”. *

I sense this when being near horses. I believe our intuition knows all of this already, the studies simply confirm and put it into scientific fact.
The feelings of being near horses, even when viewing photos of horses - that's what keeps me coming back again and again to capture their many emotions in my paint. 

*This reference is from the website: RidingBeyond.org and studies by the Institute of HeartMath.

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Wilting Tulips 
 24 x 24” oil on canvas, black wood floater frame $2800 
Beauty is found even in the wilting petals of tulips


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The Edge of August 
 16 x 20” oil on canvas, sage green deep floater frame $2200

Jewel tones on a late summer day and a horse’s no-hurry amble with the promise of Autumn in a late summer breeze

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Ruby Tangles
 12 x 12” oil on deep wood cradle board $850
Happy bunch of radishes at the Farmers Market


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Sails at Rest, Poulsbo WA 
 20 x 10” oil on wood cradle board $1200
Autumn view of a sailboat at rest with seagull flying low at the marina, Poulsbo Washington


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Cannon Beach Seagull 
 14 x 11” oil on canvas, black wood frame $875
A haughty seagull followed us to breakfast and perched on the wooden gate post

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Far and Away 
 18 x 24” oil on canvas, black wood frame $1800
The long stare of a stallion overlooking his domain


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Dogwood Blossoms
 20 x 30” oil on canvas, black wood floater frame $2400

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Spring Azaleas
 24 x 20” oil on canvas, black wood floater frame $2900

The first azaleas of spring, crisp and white but the early light brings out a prism of colors

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Slippery Knot
 30 x 30” oil on canvas, black wood textured frame $3500
Swirling knot of Koi in a feeding frenzy

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 Moon Shadows
 30 x 30” oil on canvas, deep gallery wrap1.5” 
​$2800

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Dust Up 
 18 x 24” oil on canvas, black wood flat floater frame $1800
Exuberant stallions vying for dominance
Second place award in professional division, Lone Star Art Guild 2023
Southwest Art Magazine February 2023  Featured Artist 

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Honolua Rooster
 24 x 12” black wood floater frame $1800
Cocky Rooster on Maui at a favorite snorkeling cove

 Tartaglia
​Fine Art


https://tartagliagallery.com
[email protected]
805 844 0908
26106 Oak Ridge Drive
The Woodlands
​TX, 77380


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