Maryclare Heffernan

Tangled Together 

We are all tangled together. The blackberry brambles, miles of wildflowers, grasshoppers, crows, field mice, us. Not a single one of us will survive alone. 

This exhibit is my attempt to capture tendrils of grass around a bird’s nest, a baby lamb waiting for mother’s lunch, the lake harboring fish, frogs, snakes, waterlilies, teeming with life. The evergreen and apple trees, the briny ocean full of creatures. Such simple magnificence in our lives.

I paint what I love to look at, working in oils, watercolors, pencil and ink. I see the world around us filled with untold mystery in the sprays of sea salt, on fat ripe pears with their silver leaves attached, miniature bird nests and delicate lavender violets in the grass.

I arrived late to the creation of art. My learning has been inspired by working with master artists, my two brilliant artist sisters, and by myself.

 My art has been juried into numerous exhibits and displayed in galleries in Portsmouth, and Exeter NH, Ogunquit, Maine and Newburyport, Massachusetts and found in private collections throughout the United States and abroad.  

Kevin Talbot

Life in the ‘Shire

Kevin Daniel Talbot is a local nature photographer and avid hiker who uses his photography to share his love of nature. The photos in this show are the creatures that share this beautiful State of New Hampshire with us.  Over the past thirteen years Kevin  has taken photographs every day and posts on Facebook and his website. He has made eight-day long trips to volunteer at the summit of Mt. Washington (in all seasons) as a cook and housekeeper for the weather station crew.

“Many facets of nature are too small to see clearly. Through the camera lens I can zoom in and stop time to reveal the minute details that would otherwise be missed by the casual observer” states Kevin.  Through his photos he hopes one person might say, “I need to care more about the lesser creatures and the preservation of our world.”

Photographs of the New England hikes he took with his wife and dogs and his Mt. Washington photos can be found at: Ghostflowers.com