"A Passing Storm", Neck Rd. Lancaster Acrylic on canvas by Lori MacDonald
Lori MacDonald
Collins Artworks is please to have Lori MacDonald's landscape paintings on exhibit from November through December 2009 at the Thayer Memorial Library Art On Rotation Gallery 717 Main St. Lancaster, MA.. Lori MacDonald is an award winning artist from Gardner, MA.
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Welcome to my “Eclectic” landscape exhibit. While I’ve been painting with acrylics for almost 38 years, I’ve used 2009 as a time for exploiting my familiar painting medium. The works displayed here are the result of my year-long venture to expand my proficiency with acrylics - from glazing techniques to heavy impasto applications (with even a bit of gold metal leaf). This exercise has perhaps fashioned or freed me, for better or worse, to an eclectic style with a refreshing array of creative options.
The subjects of my paintings in this exhibit are inspired by the landscapes of Central Massachusetts. The beauty of this region could occupy an artist for a lifetime. With the change of seasons, dramatic skies, cows, mist in the valleys on a summer’s eve, the trees, the stonewalls, the ponds, the mountains, the dappled light, vineyards, meadows, hiking trails, and more cows, the color of green after the rain, winter shadows, and so much more – I’m not bored.
I like to think of favorite Bible verses while I paint. Lately, I’ve enjoyed making use of impasto techniques to construct visual descriptions of those truths. For example, painting #1, “Deeply Rooted”, is more than a wind-blown tree managing to stay standing. I watched as this tree stood in the wind at the Quabbin Reservoir Park and this verse from Isaiah 26:3 came to mind, “You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.” The patch of calm in the painting, speaks of the God-given peace.
I also like to capture the effect that light has on unassuming subjects. Something as plain and ordinary as my neighbor’s cement garage becomes lovely in the right light (see #11) – and lovely is what I like my paintings to be.
Thank you for viewing the exhibit. Please sign my guestbook which you’ll find on the lectern in the rear of the room. I welcome your comments.
Lori MacDonald is a member of the Greater Gardner Artists’ Association, the Gardner Area League of Artists, The Leominster Art Association, and the Cultural Arts Alliance of Hopkinton. She is an exhibiting artist at the Collins Artworks Art Center (home of the Art on Rotation Gallery) in Clinton, The Boulder Art Gallery in Fitchburg, and the Jaffrey Civic Center, Jaffrey, NH. Her work has received awards in many of the local art associations’ exhibitions. Lori and her husband, Bob, live in Gardner, MA.