These three pieces have been accepted into the 31st Regional Juried Piedmont Art Show.
Sunscreen
Breakwater, Morning
Three Women etching
Piedmont Hall
604 Main Street
Somers, CT 06071
Hours (Thursday - Sunday):
Sept 19 - 21 12pm - 4pm
Sept 21 - 22 10am - 2pm
Sept 26 - 27 12pm - 4pm
Sept 28 - 29 10am - 2pm
OPENING RECEPTION September 15th 1-3pm
Awards at 1:30 pm
I got to visit with my brother-in-law in Pennsylvania recently, and reconnected with these three little watercolors I had given him over the years, all depicting scenes around his house and farm.
I'm very happy and proud to be sharing the Burnett Gallery with these excellent artists!
Ego et Endo, Where I Stand, and brand new etching Three Women will be on display.
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Light blue flyer with thumbnail images of artwork in grid array.
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2024-2025 ARTISTS
BURNETT GALLERY
GROUP SHOW
AUGUST - OCTOBER 2024
We’re excited to have a rotating selection of pieces from our 2024-2025 Virtual Show artists on display in our gallery this fall.
View our virtual show at JonesLibrary.org/BurnettGallery
NANCY CARROLL
ANN CLOUTIER
STEVE EAGLE
MICHAEL GILBERT
STEPHEN GINGOLD
TATIANA HARSHBARGER
MAUREEN MANNING
MATTHEW MATTINGLY
REBECCA REID
LEE SPROULL
ROBERTA WARSHAW
Burnett Gallery
The Jones Library
43 Amity Street
Amherst, MA 010023
Library Hours
Sun 1-5:15 (closed in Aug) Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat 9-5:15 Tues, Thurs 9-8:15
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Paul Rahilly, artist, teacher and good friend to many aspiring artists in the Boston area, died yesterday, July 15, 2024. He was one the few keeping the flame of figurative art alive during the late 20th century, and taught several generations of students the figure drawing and painting skills to build their own styles and approaches. I first encountered him at a life drawing class at Mass Art night school in the early 80's, and immediately realized that he was offering the knowledge and attitude to art that I had been seeking. It could be summarized as a method for identifying the intuitive, gestural sense of a pose and relating it to an armature, a "system of lines," that made it possible to record the essentials with verve and accuracy without wasting energy on aimless scribbling or getting bogged down in compulsive recording of detail. I went on to take his classes repeatedly, and with a few fellow recidivists established a painting group (the "Rahilloids") to continue to develop our skills with this knowledge. He became a good friend to all of us, and his influence is present with me to this day, as are the close friendships I found in his classes.
etching
8 5/8" x 10"
Loosely based on my painting of the same name.
I fixed a few things that bothered me, mostly places where the the lines were either etched too deep or had run together to create blotches. The grandmother's right eye is probably the most noticeable example.
The way I made the corrections is something I hit on myself. They were too deep to scrape and burnish in the traditional manner, so I carefully applied epoxy to the offending lines, let it harden, and then sanded it down and burnished the area. Seems to work pretty well. I don't know if other etchers do something like this.
"Backyard Snow" in situ at the Academic Artist Association 74th Annual Exhibition of Traditional Realism. There's a lot of great artwork on view by excellent artists with whom I am honored to be sharing a wall. Well worth a visit if you're in the area.
June 16 – July 14, 2024
Thursday - Sunday, 1 to 5 PM
Arts Center East
709 Hartford Turnpike, Vernon, CT ~ 860-871-8222
On our last morning at the Cape I found this recently deceased horseshoe crab on the beach. It was studded with little white shells.
Pen, ink wash, white ink on toned paper
4" x 6"
