Louise Arnold Landscape Oil Paintings Exhibit at the AOR Gallery
As a child growing up in Vermont Louise spent countless hours outdoors exploring the world that encompassed her. She has a masters degree in landscape architecture, and continues to spend many hours engaged in the exploration of her environment, so it is natural to her that she would choose the landscape as a subject and a point of departure for her artwork.
Louise works in oil on large canvases. Her brilliant compositions and designs are evident in her work. Her paintings have a wonderful use of color and have an abstract quality to them. They are breath-taking to look at. She has captured on canvas the shapes and light of the everyday landscape and has transformed them into the extraordinary.
She told me that she hasn't won any awards yet but has been accepted into many juried shows. It is only a matter of time that she will be an award winner.
Come see Louise's exhibit of her beautiful paintings at Clark's Cafe in Clinton all of November. A reception for the artist will be on November 10 th from 11-2 pm. Paintings are available to purchase.
November 18, 2007
Cheryl Wareck at the gallery at Clark's for November
Cheryl Wareck is a fine art photographer exhibiting at the Art On rotation Gallery in November 2007. Her work can be viewed at the gallery at Clark's Cafe in Clinton.
Personal Statement
I used to hold a rather mechanical view of photography-that as the shutter snapped, it was important for me to capture the particular image inside a space. At the time, this goal felt shallow, and now I realize that being present in the space, and my response to this experience, is what is most important. It is the “being” in a particular space instead of the space itself that is more important. Because for anyone, it is our response to a particular place, our experiences, histories and memories in it, that really create the space.
I am consistently drawn to the earth, water and air. The suggestive spaces these elements create as they mix and melt, as they are transformed by differences in weather and light, is what compels me.
Historically I am influenced by the 19th Century Romantic Tradition and the sense of awe I find in the ordinary, being careful to avoid sentimentality.
I find great inspiration from the painter Mark Rothko and contemporary artist James Turell. Turell’s Quaker Heritage promotes ways to live simply and in balance with nature and especially to be aware of an inner light, to look within for answers. Quaker meetings begin with what is called a “gathering” a silent, simple group of people, reflecting, and bound together for the purpose of the accumulation of light. I create photographs, poetic spaces, that represent my personal “gathering” – quiet, simple groups, a witness of an inner place revealed by the accumulation of light and time.
Cheryl Wareck lives with four dogs and two birds on a Christmas Tree Farm on Ballard Hill in Lancaster, MA. She is currently employed in the Marlborough Public Schools as an art teacher and is working on a MFA degree where she expects to graduate in June. Most of her images are taken close to the place she calls home.