DANNIELLE GENOVESE – OH, LOOK! SOMETHING SHINY!
Sugar Shack by Dannielle
Genovese
Hampstead artist, Dannielle Genovese enjoys exploring all forms of artistic expression and has studied with many nationally known artists from Maine to Florida. Her work has been published in Paranassus, the Inter-Arts magazine of Northern Essex Community College and on the cover of the of NH Living magazine. She has been awarded prizes from the New Hampshire Art Association, the Newburyport Art Association and the Seacoast Artist Association, where she currently holds membership. Since retiring from teaching, she has traveled extensively, become an EMT, and served in many civic and church groups
Gentle Night by Dannielle
Genovese
“This show is an eclectic combination of images that represent the beauty of our New England Environment.,” she tells us. “There are many scenes and subjects that excite me. If it speaks to me, I’ll paint it. If I really listen and study it, it will inform me and maybe even share some deeply spiritual teaching previously hidden. I’ve been painting pretty steadily since 2001 and I’ve dabbled in many media. I’ve created monoprints, watercolors, acrylics and even a few oils but I mostly create watercolors or mix media pieces. You see, I like all of them. The endless variety of scenes to paint gives me joy. Looking for new subject matter and even noticing a small part of the most ordinary and turning that little part into a statement and maybe a little surprise no one else noticed before is fun.”
BARBARA LONDON – WATER and WINTER
Water in Winter by Barbara London
“Art in any form for me is self-expression. I like the process of rendering what I imagine,” Barbara London tells us about her Body of Work show “Water and Winter.” “As with a jazz solo, I take an improvisatory approach. I like to see where a particular motif will take me. After a preliminary sketch, a painting begins to lead me as it evolves.
“Water, both liquid and crystalline, has been a recurring theme in my work. I have lived near a lake or the Atlantic most of my life. Having grown up in northern Maine, my childhood memories are filled with swimming underwater in summer and being enveloped in swirling white in winter. My exploration of lakes, ponds, oceans, aquatic fauna and flora, horizon lines, and snow has ranged from representational to increasing abstraction. In a recent series, ‘Power of Water’, I reflect on the reality that along with its beauty and awe-inspiring essence, water can also harm in an instant.”
Power of Water 2 by Barbara London
Barbara is a musician, composer, artist, writer, and educator. Her long career in the arts has involved composing for and leading her own jazz groups, exhibiting her watercolor paintings, producing recordings for her wild aster label, and becoming the first female Chair at Berklee College of Music. She left the College in 2005 to focus on her painting and composing.
Writing about first prize winner Sydney Thomas’s oil painting, ‘At the Mirror II,’ Chris says, “Though I was initially taken with the unusual, deftly executed composition of the figure and her surroundings, it was the subtle touch of where the figure’s attention is anchored that charmed me the most. For although beauty is the central motif, it’s the beauty of the flowers the figure is admiring, rather than her own image, which adds a gentle lyrical twist and suggests a larger narrative outside the frame.”
Second prize winner, oil and cold wax painting “Purple Mountain” by Lynn Krumholz, “smolders with ominous intensity that activates the whole work,” he wrote. “The near monochrome stark contrasts and subtle gradations of dark and light have a direct, elemental quality that pulls the viewer further and further into contemplation.”
Kevin Talbot’s photograph on canvas ‘Mount Washington Observatory’ which won third prize “jumped off the wall at me because of its stark darkness, unusual color modulations and striking drama. The overall strangeness of the image rather than being off-putting, slowly reveals the unfamiliar character that our world assumes at its extremes.”
Honorable Mention winner oil painting “The Sheep” by Adele Buchwald “reflects the artist’s sensitive and intuitive ability to translate the life of animals into art,” says Chris. “These three amigos have an abundance of character that never becomes excessive, reminding us that the remarkable awaits under the surface of the everyday. Lovely rendering and tonalities in the rustic setting as well.”
All the leaves in the other Honorable Mention winner acrylic and watercolor monoprint, ‘Letting Go’ by Heather Crowley, are hand painted with acrylic directly on the actual leaf and then printed onto the watercolor paper. Chris says, “I felt a strong sense of spirituality in this mandala-like composition. The addition of fiery braids adds intriguing intensity to a subtle vision of the Tree of Life.”
