We are happy to be hosting yet another Arts Walk cover artist & photographer, Duncan Green. Duncan is the first photographer to be chosen for the event’s cover art. This show represents both color and black and white images, and while Green is experienced in both film and digital photography, all but three in this grouping are traditional darkroom prints.
Marie Hassett‘s embroidery and mixed media birds are delicate and sweet upon first glance, but part of this series has a serious message for it’s viewer. Several of the birds represented are now extinct. Once you take this into consideration, you realize that you see her birds in their environment, one that has passed, an empty nest and finally, images that appear to be in the pages of a book.
It is no surprise that Carla Louise Paine was educated in traditional oil painting in Florence. Paine’s paintings in this exhibition are beautifully executed, with great detail in her classical, figurative and still life work, yet much softer brushwork in the landscapes focusing on local water ways.
After several years, we are happy to have work back in the gallery from painter, Xiaogang Zhu. Having mastered the gouache medium, Zhu’s landscapes are luminous and his ability to capture light is outstanding. Zhu is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society and his work is widely recognized and published.
Form and function come together in ceramics displayed by potter, Don Sprague. Tableware including bowls, teapots as well as large scale vases and a wall piece are available in earthy, wood fired glazes.
You may recall the name Kristen Etmund and remember her stunning, woodblock fox print from the cover of last Fall’s Arts Walk poster. You will surely be delighted when you discover her absolutely adorable felted wool birds. To quote another local artists admiring them, “They’re cute as a bug’s ear!”
We will also be hosting a trunk show featuring fun, artistic handbags with designer, P.J. Sheehy from 6 – 9 Friday night.
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