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"After Dove Costa Rica" by Michael Patterson
After Dove Costa Rica, a 13" x 17," water color by Roxbury, Connecticut artist Michael Patterson. Michael has been painting for over thirty five years, and his work has gone in and out of several styles and series of subjects. He is drawn to many of the same things visually that he was drawn to years ago .... rainy city streets, sun on sparkling waters, faces, hands, clouds, sky, dappled sunlight, people at the beach, people playing music and expressing feelings. His grandfather, Howard Ashman Patterson, inspired him, and Michael's work is in over 1,500 private collections. Michael Patterson is one of only nine American painters in the past 100 years chosen to represent the United States in the prestigious Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts exhibit at the Louvre in Paris.
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"Pyramid" by Elizabeth MacDonald
Organic meets geometric. Elizabeth MacDonald creates her art by pressing clay slab into powdered
pigment, tearing them into squares, firing them, and assembling them into compelling
mosaic images. She describes, "to bring a work to life, I use only the pieces before me, as if I
had opened a jigsaw puzzle box and spread the shapes all around, recognizing how
organically the imagery evolves. The challenge lies in trusting that a dynamic will emerge
- one that is stronger than any I could preconceive."
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| 9009 |
"New England Landscape" by Anda J. Styler
Acrylic painting 16"x20" of a typical New England landscape with barns and rolling hills. Anda J. Styler lives in Sherman, Conn. and began painting when she was sixteen in acrylics, which is still her favorite medium. She is especially drawn to the magic of the Litchfield Hills for her subject matter, and loves to paint the landscape where there are old barns with fields full of wild flowers and grasses. Using shadow, light, vibrant color, mood and sky she captures the beauty of the Connecticut hills she finds inspirational and unique.
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"Short Shrift" by Louise King
Louise King has always been in love with horses, but when she took a sculpture class in 1978 at the Washington Art Association and encountered clay in its infinite variety, she discovered her passion for creating ceramic horses of all types. She says, "My approach to clay is like the optimistic child in the stupid
joke: 'There must be a horse in there somewhere....'." Short Shrift is a small, portly, vivid horse made from clay, 10" x 10" x 5."
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| 9013 |
"Flanders Stream" by Robert Lenz
Flanders Stream is an oil on board painting, 14" x 18" by South Kent, Connecticut artist Robert Lenz. Robert Lenz painted and exhibited in the late 1950's and early 1960's throughout the Chicago area while attending the University of Illinois as a painting and Fine Arts major. Upon graduation, he migrated to New York
and began a successful and award-winning
career as a Creative Director in advertising. 35 years later, in 1998, he returned
to his first love, painting. Lenz admits he has always been intrigued by compositions that
are within the woods, that have no obvious horizon line and have water,
either ponds or streams, that reflect the light.
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"Small Pond" by Robert Lenz
Small Pond is an oil on board, "11 x 14," by our Signature Artist Robert Lenz. Since returning to painting in 1998, Robert has studied at the Silvermine
School
of Art in New Canaan, Conn., the
Washington
Art Association in Washington Conn.,
the National
Academy of Design and the Art
Students’
League in New York City. He has resumed a vital and prolific career as a
painter and print maker. His work has recently been exhibited at the
Silvermine Guild Gallery, the Paris-New York-Kent Gallery and the
Morrison Gallery in Kent, Conn. In addition to exhibiting, Bob is
also teaching at the Washington Art Association. Of his work, he says, “My paintings
are not profound, they do not protest, they
do not satirize... they are mere expressions
of pure joy. That is the way I feel while
painting them, and that is the way I want
people to feel while viewing them.
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| 9016 |
"Veronica Standing 6.30.09" by Marc Chabot
This 16" x 20" red crayon drawing is a nude study from life of one of the artist's favorite models, a dancer named Veronica, who is standing, her right hand resting on an unseen table. It is matted in rag and framed in natural ash wood.
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| 9017 |
"Small Pond-Spring" by Marija P. McCarthy
Oil on linen painting 18" x 24" of the small pond at Flanders by Marija P. McCarthy in April. Spring is especially splendid at Flanders and provided the inspiration for this painting: the pond full of winter's thaw, its water alive with new life, mirroring bursts of color below the bright blue sky and tufts of white clouds. Marija is a life long painter and educator, trained in her native country of Serbia, and at George Washington University in D.C. Having over thirty solo exhibits on five continents, her paintings are in collections of U.S. Congress, the national Museums of Belgrade and the New Britain Museum of American Art.
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| 9020 |
"Land's End" by Patty Keville Fogle
Oil on linen painting, 11" x 14." Patty Keville Fogle describes her work, "I'm a landscape artist residing in rural Connecticut, yet my work depicts a rougher, more barren, storm-battered topography found in remote locations. These undisturbed places seem to dissolve time where nature's force is unfiltered and takes me in. Memory and mood combine through fast application of paint - always surprising me by the new life it takes on. Details disappear from the original site, but the emotional intensity first experienced keeps pushing the paint."
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| 9022 |
"In the Pink" by Melody Asbury
12"x 16" oil by artist Melody Asbury who states, "I was attracted to the combination of pink and green in the field which was just high enough that the sheep's legs blended into it. It is a soft tranquil scene which brings a sense of peace to me and hopefully, the viewer." As a former courtroom sketch artist, Melody Asbury has transformed into an animal artist and is a signature member of the International
Society of Animal Artists whose mission is to promote awareness of the
creatures who share our world. She strives to capture the essence of the animals she paints. Her paintings are in private collections throughout the United States and abroad.
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