Landscapes and Coastal Views
August 14 - October 10, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, August 14th, 6-8 p.m.
Join us for refreshments and meet the artists.
Images will continue to be added up to the opening day of the show. Please check back frequently to see new works.
Show continues through October 10th, 2009
Gallery Summer hours are: Wednesday to Friday, 11 -5, Saturday 12-6, Sunday 12-3, and anytime by appointment.
Landscapes and Coastal Views by Ira Barkoff, Sandy Garvin, Caleb Stone, Carolyn Walton, and George Van Hook celebrate nature and capture the light and atmosphere specific to Connecticut’s seaside and marshes, Maine’s magnificent coastal views, and New England's harbors and towns. Stone, Walton and Van Hook primarily paint on location while Barkoff and Garvin paint lyrical, atmospheric landscapes based more on memory and imagination.
While the majority of the artists paint on location, Ira Barkoff’s sleight of hand brings fascination into his landscapes, engaging the viewer’s eyes, imagination and sense of delight. Barkoff plays a fine line between the natural world and abstraction and his gorgeous technique allows many colors to occupy one space; his successive layers of glazes and under-painting lend a glorious richness of hue and iridescence while scumbled surfaces convey Nature’s textures.
Sandy Garvin’s evocative landscapes with their luminous light effects and cloud filled skies reflect the unspoiled beauty of the environment while her charming still lifes with their vivid color and fluid brushwork are painted from life.
Carolyn Walton’s paintings focus on the light in the landscape. Her realistic landscapes convey a sense of energy and spontaneity with their painterly brushwork and an atmospheric use of light and shadow. We feel her affection for the scenery she observes and for the act of painting itself.
Internationally known George Van Hook delights in the freshness and immediacy of painting “en plein air.” His style, following in the tradition of the impressionists, conveys passion and rigor through his thick application of paint and organic brush strokes. A noted figurative artist, Van Hook’s figures in interiors and landscapes hark back to the works of William Merritt Chase.
Caleb Stone, a member of the New England Plein Air Painters, paints landscapes and seaside paintings that bring out the color and luminosity of the natural world. Being exposed to plein air painting at a young age from his father, Don Stone, Caleb has grown up painting from reality. His paintings are about capturing light at a specific moment in time, and have a wonderful color harmony.
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