Veronica Hautesz
Art Exhibit
Exhibit Month:
August, 2023
Color Photography
My name is Veronica Hauresz, and I always liked photography. I enjoy looking at them, taking them, and making art pieces out of them. There is something on each image that captivates me, it can be the object, the composition, the color, the shapes, the light, anything
I started with film cameras until digital got good enough for my eyes to not notice the difference in a printed original. I have memories from my trips, my family, and the world that surrounded me at different stages of my life. My photographs are my treasure.
This Exhibit is intended to enhance the beauty of “Colors”. Sometimes we do not appreciate having the gift of being able to see such a variety of colors around us. And it is not just the visual aspect that makes them interesting, but the feelings they generate within us make them mysterious. Can you guess what color this feather is?
Cindy Wagner
Art Exhibit
Exhibit Month:
May, 2023
Exhibit Ends:
Exhibit Ends in June
Artist's Statement
Biography: I was born and raised in Brooklyn New York. I moved to CT in 1980 and have lived and worked in CT for the past 38 years. My affection for painting began at fourteen when I worked alongside my father at Variety Scenic Studios and Empire Stages in NYC. He was an inventive artist, and my first teacher and mentor. While building and painting sets, I had the opportunity to meet and learn from some of the most creative artists in New York. Artists as varied as Mark Chagall, Spike Lee and Jim Henson were at the studio at one time or another. I gained traditional old master skills and nontraditional techniques from the generous scenic artists.
My first love is representational painting, but I am willing and able to use a variety of unconventional techniques when needed to achieve my vision. My paintings tell a story. They are inspired by life’s moments and real people. From a young age my mother encouraged me to enjoy every day. My father pointed out the beauty that surrounds me. I hope my paintings make you smile, feel joy and see beauty.
I graduated SUNY at Buffalo. I continued to create and study art taking classes at Silvermine Art School. I attended advanced workshops and studied with independent master artist in their studios. I am a member and Past Chairman of The Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists.I am a Juried Artist Member of The Salmagundi Club NYC, Oil Painters of America, International Guild of Realism and American Impressionist Society, The Westport Artist Collective, Connecticut Women Artist Org, and Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Arts Club.
I currently teach painting and drawing at the Weston Senior Center and Painting and Drawing Atelier style in my studio. My work has been displayed at several New York and Connecticut museums, universities and galleries. My paintings are included in the collections including business, medical offices and private clients.
Pat Jenkins
Art Exhibit
Exhibit Month:
March, 2023
Exhibit Ends:
Exhibit Ends in April
Artist's Statement
I discovered art when I retired. I attended Norwalk Community College where I attended art history and other classes. It was there that I found a plein aire group. It’s been a journey! I see so much more with an artistic eye. For me, nature is the most inspiring place to paint. I love the fresh air, sun and natural subjects. My work is mostly landscapes in watercolor but when I’m working in-doors, I use acrylics.
Agata Tria
Art Exhibit
Exhibit Month:
January, 2023
Exhibit Ends:
February
Artist Statement
Agata is an accomplished and award-winning artist, exhibiting her soft pastels in the United States as well as Europe. Her style is mostly minimalistic nature portraits emphasizing color and composition. She loves to create in all kinds of mediums from acrylic/oils and pastels to glass, resins and wood. She has been interested in art since childhood and loved to make toys: stuffed animals, dolls, toy cars, blocks, and mechanical figurines. Ultimately she earned her Master’s degree from the European Academy of Arts in Warsaw, Poland
Agata arrived in the US in 2000 from Warsaw looking for the American Dream. She didn’t know the English language but because of her creative talent, she was able to land a job as an artist, eventually becoming a Senior Graphic Designer, all the while taking English classes at night. Photography is another love of Agata’s and she’s won awards at photography exhibitions. One of her big dreams is to learn the art of glassblowing sometime in the future. Agata has a very active life as a wife/mother/artist residing in Weston with her family and assorted pets (she’s also an animal lover!).
Kathy Dunn
Art Exhibit
Exhibit Month:
November, 2022
Exhibit Ends:
December 30
Collection
Kathleen Dunn was born in 1950. Her parents encouraged creativity from the earliest age, preferring pot lids and boxes to actual toys, to foster imagination, and one of her earliest memories was of a homemade doll, cut out of a plank on a ban saw by her father and features and clothes painted by her mother. Her mother, a talented painter, would not allow coloring books, because she believed presenting an already-drawn image decreased incentive to draw the picture by oneself. Kathy loved paper dolls, and would draw, color, and cut out clothes for them.
Kathy and her sister Nancy always sketched, people for Kathy and horses for Nancy. Kathy did well in high school art classes and entertained the prospect of becoming a graphic artist. Life intervened, and studies and a career in art related fields simply didn’t happen. Kathy worked 40 years as a Registered Nurse, often working a second job as well as her full time job. During her career as a nurse, she no longer painted, but periodically would engage in crafts. She helped finance nursing school by designing and crafting leather goods. Over the years she crocheted, sewed clothes and draperies, did woodworking and wood carving, macrame, made stained glass, and eventually took up beading and silversmithing. For a number of years, she designed and crafted jewelry, running a
After retirement six years ago, she took up drawing, print making, and watercolors through classes in various senior centers, learning from Sabine Bonnar, Chris Goldbach, Wendy Pieper, Missy Savard, Linda McKie McClellan, and Dick Rauh, plus from all her friends who painted together at the Bigelow Center, Westport Senior Center, Trumbull Senior Center, and Weston Senior Center. She’s discovered a passion for painting and has done it for about five years now, from still life in classes, a little en Plein Air Painting, Zoom classes, and from her own photographs, painting scenes from Lordship and from her travels to other countries.
Karen Kallins
Art Exhibit
Exhibit Month:
September, 2022
Exhibit Ends:
October 30th
Collection
I have loved photographs from a very young age. I started taking pictures in 2nd grade when I made my first photo album, and I have never stopped. My grandfather was a very talented photographer and my mother is an accomplished artist in many media including photography. Photography is definitely in my genes!
In college, when I learned how to develop photographs in a dark room, I fell in love with photography as a craft and not just as a way to document my life. While living and working in NYC, getting married, traveling, having a family, I dabbled with my camera whenever I could. It wasn’t until recently (2018) when our local library in Weston, CT started a photography club, that I realized I really wanted to ‘focus’ (get it?) more on my photography.
My photo style can be quirky. I like people to look twice and sometimes to wonder what they are looking at. Many times, the viewer has to use his or her imagination because I have made the real subject unidentifiable by zooming in or using unusual angles. I like to play with colors too. In my “Splash of Color” series, everything is black and white with one element in color.
Feel free to follow my imagination and see where this photography adventure takes me via my Instagram page @karenkallinsphotography. You can contact me at kallins@icloud.com.
John Warriner
Art Exhibit
Exhibit Month:
November, 2021
Exhibit Ends:
January, 2022
Ambler Farm
John Warriner works in a realistic tradition, inspired by American artists and illustrators of the early and mid 20th Century. Warriner’s drawing and painting depict people and places important to him. Daily activities, such as walking the dog, cooking maple syrup, or catching a fish are moments in time preserved in his paintings. The ordinary activities of life are celebrated and captured in his work. A classically trained artist, Warriner uses traditional painting and drawing techniques that would be familiar to artists from the last two centuries. In addition to his fine arts career, Warriner worked in New York City as an advertising art director and illustrator for 25 years, and is a retired Connecticut certified art teacher.
Carman Navarra
Art Exhibit
Exhibit Month:
June, 2020
Exhibit Ends:
June 30, 2020
Carmen's Creations
Carmen Navarra, who is essentially self-taught, began to paint watercolors seriously after retirement in July 2019. In addition to the love of color, her travels, landscapes, nature, people, appreciation of photography, all become a significant source of inspiration.
Carmen has been fortunate to have studied under 94-year-old Bela Szabo at Norwalk Community College’s Lifetime Learners, Karen Siegel and Wendy Pieper at Senior Centers in Norwalk and Weston. Of course, the never-ending support and encouragement from her Painting Buddies in New York, her loyal friends, and the newly found artistic seniors have contributed to her inspirations.
Aurora Campanella
Art Exhibit
Exhibit Month:
January, 2020
Exhibit Ends:
Through February 28th
Realism and Abstract
Freedom to be meditative, to subtly layer color, shape and texture into art pieces that go beyond the strict boundaries of true realism is what defines the current work of Aurora Campanella. In each of her pieces -- be it a painterly marsh at twilight, a penciled portrait of an African herdsman or a bejeweled and beaded breastplate – she combines the luminescent weaving of color for which she is known.
Initially, Ms. Campanella intended to pursue a fine arts career, receiving a bachelor of Fine Arts from University of Bridgeport and going on to study painting and drawing in Paris with the late Jennette Lam. She later freelanced as a graphic designer and illustrator, eventually becoming art director for a nationwide retail packaging firm. Today, that career is behind her and she is able to indulge in the soul-satisfying process of pure creativity. Acrylic, oil, graphite and color pencil are her media along with the semiprecious jewels, stones, beads and shells she weaves into impressive wearable art pieces.
Fruma Markowitz
Art Exhibit
Exhibit Month:
November, 2019
Exhibit Ends:
December 30
Artist's Statement
Both humankind and the animal kingdom depend on water for life, to remain healthy and hydrated, to keep clean and disease-free, to restore and maintain spiritual balance and well-being. It is a constant and common need around the world, although not all peoples and populations own access to a viable water supply. Like scientists before me, in travels near home in CT, and as far away as India, I have purposefully gathered a multitude of photographic water “samples” that vary widely in color, texture, pattern, brightness, clarity and mood.
For in the wake of a constant onslaught of news featuring the safety of drinking water in U.S. cities, or reporting its scarcity or toxicity in so many parts of the world - faced with lack of resources or in the throes of natural disasters - what other stories of social and environmental import can these images of water tell? Stand by...this work-in-progress is still flowing forward.
Bill Lesher
Art Exhibit
Exhibit Month:
September, 2019
Exhibit Ends:
October 31, 2019
Bill Lesher
Bill Lesher grew up in Redding Connecticut where he attended St. Mary’s grammar school and Joel Barlow high school. He begin college in Connecticut and eventually transferred to UC Irvine in California where he obtained a bachelor of science degree.
He then in enrolled in a six-month training course at Computer Learning Center in Los Angeles and worked for 30-some years as a computer programmer, analyst and eventually becoming a network engineer. After retiring from the computer field he eventually moved back to Connecticut where he resumed his childhood interest in art. He currently works in oil, pastel and acrylic.
Olson, Normand, Jenkins
Art Exhibit
Exhibit Month:
May, 2019
Exhibit Ends:
June 30
Three Artists
Pat Jenkins: Art has opened my eyes to a new world. Since my retirement I was able to focus on my interests and have attended many art courses. The most informative was art history; studying the masters opened a new world for me.
Noreen Normand: My interest in the arts developed at Bay Path College. While I have been interested in crafts and the arts for some time, it wasn’t until I retired that I was able to devote time and energy to the art of watercolor. I started by studying with Bela Szabo and took drawing classes with Frank Post at Norwalk Community College. I then studied under Barbara Lawless and Eddie Nino at the Westport Center for Senior Activities and Richard Rauh as well as continued to develop my skills under several local artists. My love of gardening and flower arranging led me to painting botanicals and floras before expanding to landscapes and seascapes.
Joyce Olson: I have been painting and drawing my whole life. I like using watercolor and pencils to draw flowers, scenes and botanicals. I have taken classes with George Sutherland, Barbara Lawless, Eddie Nino, Dick Rauh and other local artists.
Jane Wolf
Art Exhibit
Exhibit Month:
February, 2019
Exhibit Ends:
February 28, 2o19
Glacier Bay, Alaska and the Marquesas Islands
This exhibition was inspired by the land; from the ice of Glacier Bay, Alaska, to the volcanic Marquesas islands of the French Polynesia. Seeing the interplay of light and how it magnifies already magnificent forms in nature, was a visual gift.
I invite you to enjoy my artistic journey, 2018 in pastel and oil.
Judith Lambertson
Art Exhibit
Exhibit Month:
September, 2018
Exhibit Ends:
October
Watercolors
Judith learned to paint using watercolors at the National Academy in 1973. Her first oil class was at the Silvermine Guild when they first settled in to Norwalk. Having lived in NYC, she told everyone we have moved to the country! The show will feature oil paintings, a retrospective of the last decade!
Solo shows: Art Place CT, Prince Street NYC, Washington Art Association CT Collections: Cape Ann Museum, Stamford Hospital, Hudson Valley Hospital Publications: Crucial Point, The Fairfield Magazine, Cape Cod Life Currently represented by Bowery Gallery NYC
Sheila Mancini
Art Exhibit
Exhibit Month:
July, 2018
Exhibit Ends:
August 2018
Textured Mixed Media
Sheila Mancini has been a resident of Westport for more than 60 years with a passion for art through the discovery of new media & the exploration of new artistic techniques. Although, mostly self-taught, she has studied with some very accomplished artists & art teachers. She has learned through the years to free herself in order to experience new and creative forms of art.
Her art education began at Endicott Jr. College in fashion illustration & later classes at The Silvermine School of Art in figure & portrait painting; portrait classes with artist, Frank Covino; Bridgeport University, two years of courses in color & design & drawing & painting classes with artists Gus Moran & Eddie Nino.
Exhibits include: Civic Center, Lansing, MI, Independence Hall, Fairfield, CT, Barn Hill Studio in Milford, CT, Wilton Library, Wilton, CT, Harborview Spring Art Show at Saugatuck, Westport, CT, Easton Library in Easton, CT, Kershner Gallery in Fairfield, CT, Firehouse Gallery, Milford, CT, Art About Town, Westport, CT, Frame Makers Gallery, Fairfield, CT, Pound Ridge Library, Pound Ridge, NY, watercolor florals at the Center for Senior Activities, Westport, CT.
Janice Pavlides
Photography Exhibit
Exhibit Month:
May, 2018
Exhibit Ends:
June 2018
Nature
Janice is a photographer, designer, and the founder of Angel Eyes Studio. She was a Weston resident for 24 years. Since a young age, she has had a love of nature, exploration, and photography.
Angel Eyes was launched in 2007 and since then her work has been featured in The Williamsburg Contemporary Arts Center in Williamsburg, VA, at Well Spring in Greensboro, NC, at the Milford Art Council in Milford, CT, Stratford Library and Open Door Tea in Stratford, just to name a few.
Janice has loved working with her team to create custom photography products that capture the hearts and visions of her clients.
Above all else, Janice's artistry centers around photography that is bursting with color and clarity.
Julie Leff
Art Exhibit
Exhibit Month:
March, 2018
Exhibit Ends:
April 30th
Florals
A graduate of Yale University, Julie Leff began painting professionally in 2001. Since then, her work has appeared in numerous solo group shows in New York and Connecticut. Her artwork is held in many private collections in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
Her medium is oil paint on canvas and subjects are primarily florals, still lifes, abstracts, and portraits. To view her work, go to www.julieleff.com.
Artist Reception March 7th at 11:30am
Suzanne Keany
Art Exhibit
Exhibit Month:
September, 2017
Exhibit Ends:
October
Suzanne Keany
Susanne Andover Keany has been living and working in Weston for the past 20 years and her current work reflects her interest in the natural world.
The paintings in this exhibition are from an earlier period when she lived in New York. This work explores the interior landscape of the still life. “In both my landscapes and still lives, painting for me is about perception and a desire to impart something of the intensity of seeing to the viewer. Scale is important to me. I like to enlarge objects so that you can really see them, enter into them. This exhibition tries to convey the mystery of the familiar and the joy of recognition.”
Keany graduated with honors from the School of Visual Arts at SUNY Purchase and has a B.A. from Barnard College. She was also invited to participate in the Studio Semester Program in NYC. She is a member Of Art/Place, the oldest art cooperative in Connecticut. More of her work can be seen at artplacegallery.org. She has exhibited in New England, New York and Florida. Her work is included in both private and corporate collections.
Inwood
Art Exhibit
Exhibit Month:
July, 2017
Exhibit Ends:
August
About the Artist
The Inwood Artists group was formed out of a collective desire to continue painting. Working with other artists under the eye of a master instructor, they critique each other’s work continually.
In addition, their instructor, Gus Moran, has this to say on the subject of artistic inspiration: “For the most part my paintings stem from the imagination. The compositions are formed by the experiences and emotions I have had in my life. I always begin working with something from nature…” and so it is appropriate that his class is exhibiting in Weston!
The “Hub” exhibition space on School Road follows in the footsteps of the likes of other formal galleries - Bridgeport exhibition space at both the Jewish Community Center as well as the main branch downtown in its Burroughs Public Library, and the renovated Easton Library and other locations.
“TheTen” artists are: Barbara Agostisi, Marianne Castaldo, Kathy Davidson, Charlotte DiSesa, Kyra Dwyer, Harry Green, Elizabeth Katz, Cathy Morrison, Glenda O’Connell and Angelia Whiting
Linda Gans
Art Exhibit
Exhibit Month:
May, 2017
Exhibit Ends:
June 2017
Artist Statement
Linda Gans uses her garden as a source of inspiration for her photography. After raising her family and enjoying a successful career in luxury item sales, Linda retreated to her own backyard sanctuary! As an avid gardener for many years, she took on the hard labor of planting, pruning and watering as her almost daily workout. For Linda, "The Garden" is a place to be peaceful, relieve stress and be close to nature. After creating, expanding and recreating this space it was time to document the results.
Splurging on a Nikon, it became a challenge to capture the delicate butterflies and richly colored flowers at the right moment. With a copious amount of patience, the amazing telephoto lens allowed for her to encapsulate incredible detail in the finished product. Because Linda has designed and nurtured the garden areas herself, it gives her the double pleasure to capture the wonderful beauty of nature from her own labor of love in her extraordinary photographs.
A collection of "Wall Flowers", "Blooms", and "Butterflies" are available along with special notecards for all occasions.
Joel Sobelson
Art Exhibit
Exhibit Month:
March, 2017
Exhibit Ends:
April, 2017
About the Artist
March and April at the Weston Senior Center gets us into the swing of Spring! And Spring has always been a “pastel” season. In these months, a pastel artist, Joel Sobelson, will be exhibiting his work.
Mr. Sobelson went to college to become a dentist, but he reports that he failed organic chemistry. This did not stand in his way! He ended up going to Pratt Institute, specifically the renowned advertising school.. When after graduation he created a portfolio of ads, he was immediately hired into the profession. His distinguished advertising career spanned 35 years.
Mr. Sobelson has compared dentistry with advertising and now sees similarities: One career can cause pain and the other “messes with peoples’ heads.” When he retired, boredom led Joel to enroll at the Silvermine Art Center. His work is recognized as that of an emerging new talent.
Mr. Sobelson’s work been selected for many prestigious shows in New York, Boston and throughout Connecticut and has received several awards. Joel lives and creates his pastel art in Weston. "The approach to my work is to find a good story and tell it...with all the emotional authenticity, style and heart I can bring to the easel."
Judy Albin and Carol Dampf
Art Exhibit
Exhibit Month:
January, 2017
Exhibit Ends:
February, 2017
About the Artists
JUDY ALBIN - Judy Albin has lived in Weston for over 35 years. While her three children were attending school, she was employed by the Weston school system as a classroom aide. After 14 years, she left the school system to pursue a career as a graphic artist in advertising, then as a technical illustrator for a defense contractor. After that, she went back to being a kindergarten aide and served as a member of the Caring Committee and Faculty manager for student activity funds. In her spare time, she enjoys doing art projects, crossword puzzles, using the computer and internet, reading and spending time with family and friends.
CAROL DAMPF - The oil paintings that are hung in the Weston Senior Center have hung in Carol Dampfs home in both Queens and Hewlett, Long Island. Carol has always enjoyed art from an young age; she was trained in the School of Industrial Art and has continued with many medias. Years ago, Carol drew figures for fashion magazines and advertisements. Carol is new to Weston and we are so pleased to have her showing her paintings at our Senior Center.
Julie O Connor
Art Exhibit
Exhibit Month:
September, 2016
Exhibit Ends:
October, 2016
About the Artist
Julie O'Connor is a fine art photographer and photojournalist who has traveled the world in search of powerful and poetic images for more than 30 years. After her experiences in Tibet, she created the “Doors of Tibet” art poster, as well as a series of fine art images, note cards and post cards of Tibet, which are now on sale in museum stores and Asian arts stores across stores and Asian arts stores across America and through her website: www.JulieOConnor.com.
Inspired and informed by her work on the Doors of Tibet, Julie went on to publish Doors of Weston, a book based on her photographs of doors in her hometown of Weston, CT. Doors of Weston was published in partnership with the Weston Historical Society (WHS). The book, which is available at www.DoorsOfWeston.com, has raised over $20,000 for the WHS. for the WHS. All proceeds from the sale of this collectible book go to the Weston Historical Society’s Archive Building project.
Julie O’Connor’s work has been exhibited and is now in the permanent collection of The Chicago Art Institute, as well as in a variety of private collections. Her 1980’s exhibition, “Far From Home,” at Manhattan's pioneering Chinatown gallery, the Basement Workshop, detailed the drama of the Asian refugee resettlement experience in the U.S.
Her photojournalism has appeared in Time, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Travel & Leisure, People, The Christian Science Monitor, UNICEF calendars, and many other distinguished publications. Julie has curated a number of corporate art collections and local shows of art and photography in Connecticut. She studied photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, with master photographer Kenneth Josephson, and at the New School for Social Research in New York with the legendary Lisette Model.
Sarah Duncan
Art Exhibit
Exhibit Month:
July, 2016
Exhibit Ends:
August 31
Artist's Statement
From a young age I was always inspired to create art by playing video games with my father. Once at college age, I went to Paier College of Art to pursue my dreams. I spent my time there learning how to make my dreams real on paper and canvas. Participating in the school art shows and even having a small show in the Library in my home town of Monroe, I am showing my creations in the pursuit of my dream.
Diane Kane
Art Exhibit
Exhibit Month:
July, 2016
Exhibit Ends:
August 31
About the Artist
A graphic artist all of her professional life, Diane Kane has worked in watercolor since her retirement, painting scenes from the beaches and harbors around her Southport, Connecticut, and Naples, Florida neighborhoods.
A graduate of Syracuse University, she was partner and creative director for Publisher’s Graphics, a firm specializing in trade and textbook design, production and illustration for major publishers throughout the United States. In addition, Diane was an adjunct professor at Fairfield University for several years and has provided freelance design and production services for many magazine and book publishers in and around Fairfield County.
Since concentrating on her painting, she has attended and taught classes and workshops in both Connecticut and Florida and has displayed and sold paintings at Southport’s Pequot Library, Fairfield Library’s Kershner Gallery, Burr Homestead, Fairfield’s Dogwood Festival, Westport Senior Center, The Fairfield Women’s Exchange, and several charity events in both Connecticut and Florida.
Marjorie & Wilson Poe
Art Exhibit
Exhibit Month:
May, 2016
Exhibit Ends:
June 30, 2016
About the Artists
The family Poe – Marjorie and Wilson – are the artists in the gallery at “The Hub” and share their unique vision of nature. Marjorie Poe had a long and successful career in the fashion industry, while Wilson Poe, a project engineer, traveled the globe constructing electric power generation facilities and waste to energy conversion plants. Together they have traveled to over 20 countries for business and pleasure enabling them to experience the variety and expansive beauty of nature and the love of different cultures, always making friend along the way.
With retirement, they transformed their life experience into art to share with all. They are true ambassadors of East meets West. The Solo Show includes works ranging from traditional Chinese ink wash paintings to western influenced paintings using several mediums including acrylic and oil paints, oil pastel, textile designs and photography from travels.
Marjorie Poe comes from a career in fashion and fabric design. Already an accomplished Chinese ink wash painter, her oil, acrylic and pastel works evoke the mixing of techniques as well as cultures.
Wilson Poe’s approaches are from the precision of an engineer. But one who has employed photography in combination with the experiences of an international career – working in China, Saudi Arabia and Taiwan. Silvermine School of Art had freed him in retirement to express his visual memories in the freedom of his art studio!
Sharon Bell
Art Exhibit
Exhibit Month:
April, 2016
About the Artist
Sharon Bell has studied watercolor painting with Mary Ann Barr and George Sutherland and has taught art at the elementary school level in New Jersey. A native of Chicago, Bell has lived in numerous states along the west and east coasts of the U.S. and in Puerto Rico. Perhaps as a result of her travels, she prefers landscapes as her subject matter when crafting her watercolors. Her work has appeared locally in shows at the Pequot Library in Southport, Weston Library, Earthplace in Westport, and at the Norfield Grange in Weston.
Roy Marsh
Photography Exhibit
Exhibit Month:
February, 2016
Exhibit Ends:
March 31, 2016
Artist's Statement
After 30 years of not taking pictures, my trip to Africa inspired my re-newed love of photography. I love to capture all of nature's beauty. The absolutely stunning wildlife I was fortunate enough to see, had me mesmerized once again.
I hope you will enjoy some of my photography from our trip to Africa last summer.
Jane Wolf
Art Exhibit
Exhibit Month:
January, 2016
Artist's Statement
I have always painted. Oil, watercolor and pastel are my current mediums. A love of exploring the landscape still keeps me looking and catching the opportunity to interpret what I see on paper or canvas. In this exhibition space, there are sites from Weston, as well as those seen in Antarctica, painted from the back of the ship and later refined at my home studio. Costa Rica presented gorgeous flora...begging for an abstract interpretation in color and format. New Mexico engages every sense; a joy to interpret with pastel. And...yes...there is the distorted image seen through the car windshield created by rivulets of rainwater during a traffic jam; "Noreaster Rain in Maine".
Being an artist is a gift. It makes my life richer; totally engaging my attention and skill. I am so grateful to the three New York city artists who encouraged me at an early age and were instrumental to my artistic development: Greta Matson (Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences/Chrysler Museum at age 11), Philip Pearlstein and Lennart Anderson (Brooklyn College), and finally the paintings by artists being restored at the Brooklyn Museum Conservation Laboratory where I worked part time while in art school. It was a visual tutorial... invaluable... and inspiring!
I have participated in National Juried Exhibitions through the National Arts Club, NYC, as well as Allied Artist of America, Inc. and Audubon Artists of America at the Salmagundi Club, NYC. In 2015, I was honored to be elected to membership in the Salmagundi Club, NYC; the oldest and most prestigious art club in the country.