Trapped at home by the pandemic, Karen Kulyk missed her beloved Italy so much that she decided to travel there through paint. Physically, she was at her easel in her Dartmouth home; imaginatively, she was in Italy where she had spent close to 10 years hiking in the country’s northern and central areas in both spring and fall. Painting “brought me back to a kind of peace,” says the cheerful, […]
Standing in front of Janice Leonard’s landscapes and Mary Reardon’s still life paintings, on view at Secord Gallery to Nov. 22, I feel my shoulders drop and my breath regulate. In these turbulent, worrisome times, their exhibit, A Sense of Time, is a wonderfully relaxing show. These two artists, who are friends, have very different styles and genres but both create contemplative art about memory and time. The two give […]
Artist websites: marybarnardfitzgeraldart.com Shown in reView, clockwise from top left, Along Mill Road, Christiane Poulin; The Universe Within, acrylic on canvas, Monika Wright; Glimpse of Aqua/Teal Stairs Between Paintings, oil and acrylic on board, Mary Barnard Fitzgerald; Jawbone, bone, plaster, dyes, Genny Killin; Waves, wool on linen, Carla Middelburg. Colour, pattern and content weave in and out with startling connectivity in reView, a five-woman exhibit at the Chase Gallery, Nova […]
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