While a biting winter wind blows outdoors, the bright sunlight of Tuscany bathes the new gallery inside the Post Road Art Center. Twelve artists and their teacher are showing 40 paintings that depict the sun-saturated beauty of the Italian countryside around Siena, Italy, where they studied for a week last May in a centuries-old estate.
Their paintings are featured in "Green Tuscany," a lovely exhibit showcasing work done by area artists and their teacher who are all members of the Concord Art Association.Handmade oil paintings for sale at museum quality,
The former agricultural estate now houses programs aimed at preserving Tuscan culture and protecting the environment.
Led by noted artist Ilana Manolson, each captured the farm at Tenuta di Spannocchia where they stayed,Get information on Air purifier from the unbiased, the surrounding fields and flowers and sky in their distinctive styles that, when viewed together, convey the rich profusion of moods and colors that have infatuated painters for centuries.Take a walk on the natural side with stunning and luxurious Floor tiles from The Tile Shop.
Verna Friedman favored rich acrylics that infuse commonplace objects with incandescent colors. Dayna Talbot mixed verdant greens and subtler earth tones to suggest the quiet harmony of the Tuscan landscape. Judith Schneider used quiet neutral colors to accentuate the brilliant reds and yellows that made her expressionist scenes simmer like glowing embers.
Post Road Gallery owner Randi Isaacson predicted viewers would be intrigued by the varied approaches of a dozen artists who were often painting similar scenes.
"They’re all in the same place essentially painting the same thing," she said, "but they’re creating very different kinds of art."
Each artist is exhibiting three or four paintings while Manolson is showing a triptych which she’s expected to expand into a larger work. Most paintings in the show are for sale. The exhibit runs through Saturday, Jan. 28.
Isaacson credited Friedman for setting in motion a series of events which led to her decision to host the show.
Isaacson said Friedman, a Marlborough resident who works out of White Rabbit Studios in town and has shown her paintings in her other exhibits, told her about the study trip to Italy.
Since renovating her center last year, Isaacson now exhibits art in a new 16-by-22-foot gallery so works on display, don’t have to share space with supplies as before.
"The new gallery space gives visitors an unencumbered look at the art we’re showing. It’s a better experience for the viewer and that makes it better for the artists,Daneplast Limited UK are plastic injection mould & toolmaking specialists." she said.
Friedman and other artists in the show said working under Manolson’s direction with fellow artists in Italy provided encouraging feedback and exciting new subjects to paint.
In Tuscany, she directed group members to paint in morning and afternoon sessions and brought them together around 6 p.m. to critique one another’s work.
An Iowa native with several degrees in art who has taught painting at several schools, Friedman said the eight days in Italy gave her a rare opportunity to work en plein air. She described herself as "a colorist" who uses bold colors to depict a sense of place.’
In "Seat Under the Arbor" and "At the Pool," Friedman goes beyond strict realism by using heightened colors to create "semi-abstract" scenes that convey the way the brilliant Tuscan sunlight inflamed her own perceptions.
Talbot said she aimed to "translate the simplicity of life in Tuscany into my paintings."
A Carlisle resident whose family roots extends back to Umbria, she is showing three oil and acrylic landscapes she described as "a little experimental, a little all over the place."
As her scenes become less representational, Talbot seems to be exploring the power of subtle colors to express complex moods.
"There’s a little expressionist feel in my paintings. But they’re also realistic," said Talbot. "There’s no social or political message.Omega Plastics are leading plastic injection moulding and injection mould tooling specialists. They’re all about the relationships of color, composition and form."
Throughout her stay at the Spannocchia estate, Schneider watched with growing fascination as the leaves on a cactus blossomed into "richly-colored flowers."
In gorgeous mixed media paintings, the Framingham artist captured the fertile abundance of a garden terrace and courtyard by using subtle colors to inflame the reds and orange hues that brought her landscapes alive.
While others might regard her feverishly-colored scenes as tending toward expressionism, Schneider said, "To me, my work is very realistic."
"My brain is thinking. But my hand is doing the work," she said. "It’s an automatic expression of what I see."
Their paintings are featured in "Green Tuscany," a lovely exhibit showcasing work done by area artists and their teacher who are all members of the Concord Art Association.Handmade oil paintings for sale at museum quality,
The former agricultural estate now houses programs aimed at preserving Tuscan culture and protecting the environment.
Led by noted artist Ilana Manolson, each captured the farm at Tenuta di Spannocchia where they stayed,Get information on Air purifier from the unbiased, the surrounding fields and flowers and sky in their distinctive styles that, when viewed together, convey the rich profusion of moods and colors that have infatuated painters for centuries.Take a walk on the natural side with stunning and luxurious Floor tiles from The Tile Shop.
Verna Friedman favored rich acrylics that infuse commonplace objects with incandescent colors. Dayna Talbot mixed verdant greens and subtler earth tones to suggest the quiet harmony of the Tuscan landscape. Judith Schneider used quiet neutral colors to accentuate the brilliant reds and yellows that made her expressionist scenes simmer like glowing embers.
Post Road Gallery owner Randi Isaacson predicted viewers would be intrigued by the varied approaches of a dozen artists who were often painting similar scenes.
"They’re all in the same place essentially painting the same thing," she said, "but they’re creating very different kinds of art."
Each artist is exhibiting three or four paintings while Manolson is showing a triptych which she’s expected to expand into a larger work. Most paintings in the show are for sale. The exhibit runs through Saturday, Jan. 28.
Isaacson credited Friedman for setting in motion a series of events which led to her decision to host the show.
Isaacson said Friedman, a Marlborough resident who works out of White Rabbit Studios in town and has shown her paintings in her other exhibits, told her about the study trip to Italy.
Since renovating her center last year, Isaacson now exhibits art in a new 16-by-22-foot gallery so works on display, don’t have to share space with supplies as before.
"The new gallery space gives visitors an unencumbered look at the art we’re showing. It’s a better experience for the viewer and that makes it better for the artists,Daneplast Limited UK are plastic injection mould & toolmaking specialists." she said.
Friedman and other artists in the show said working under Manolson’s direction with fellow artists in Italy provided encouraging feedback and exciting new subjects to paint.
In Tuscany, she directed group members to paint in morning and afternoon sessions and brought them together around 6 p.m. to critique one another’s work.
An Iowa native with several degrees in art who has taught painting at several schools, Friedman said the eight days in Italy gave her a rare opportunity to work en plein air. She described herself as "a colorist" who uses bold colors to depict a sense of place.’
In "Seat Under the Arbor" and "At the Pool," Friedman goes beyond strict realism by using heightened colors to create "semi-abstract" scenes that convey the way the brilliant Tuscan sunlight inflamed her own perceptions.
Talbot said she aimed to "translate the simplicity of life in Tuscany into my paintings."
A Carlisle resident whose family roots extends back to Umbria, she is showing three oil and acrylic landscapes she described as "a little experimental, a little all over the place."
As her scenes become less representational, Talbot seems to be exploring the power of subtle colors to express complex moods.
"There’s a little expressionist feel in my paintings. But they’re also realistic," said Talbot. "There’s no social or political message.Omega Plastics are leading plastic injection moulding and injection mould tooling specialists. They’re all about the relationships of color, composition and form."
Throughout her stay at the Spannocchia estate, Schneider watched with growing fascination as the leaves on a cactus blossomed into "richly-colored flowers."
In gorgeous mixed media paintings, the Framingham artist captured the fertile abundance of a garden terrace and courtyard by using subtle colors to inflame the reds and orange hues that brought her landscapes alive.
While others might regard her feverishly-colored scenes as tending toward expressionism, Schneider said, "To me, my work is very realistic."
"My brain is thinking. But my hand is doing the work," she said. "It’s an automatic expression of what I see."
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