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July 26, 2010
Sallie Wolf: Original Paintings for the Illustrations of “The Robin Makes a Laughing Sound”
Center Sandwich: Sallie Wolf’s newest book, “The Robin Makes a laughing Sound: The Birder’s Journal” was released earlier this year in February. The original watercolors used for the iluustrations will be exhibited for the first time at Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery. Charming paintings of Towhees, Flickers, and Cardinals will be on view. Michelle Taft of Bayswater Books will also be here with fresh copies of the book for sale. Join us a t a reception to meet Sallie Wolf on August 4th from 5 to 7 p.m. at 69 Maple Street (route 113), in Center Sandwich.
Sallie Wolf lives in Oakland Park, Illinois and has spent her summers in Center Sandwich since you was a child. Her Panoramas and paintings of Squam Lake have gained her notoriety as an artist in our community. Last summer Hoag Island was the subject of a new series of work. Those panoramas will also be on view with a percentage of sales benefitting the Squam Lakes Concervation Society.
On Saturday, July 7th at 10 a.m. Sallie Wolf will host a workshop entitled “Discovering Your Creativity : Keeping a Journal/Sketchbook”. Wolf’s art and writing begin with her journals. Her large paintings start as tiny notations in watercolor on a small page . Her books begin in the same way. Participants in the workshop will bind together a sixteen page journal and then explore different ways to work in it. The workshop is free of charge but places are limited so please call the gallery at 284 7728 to reserve a spot.
“The Robin Makes a Laughing Sound: The Birders Journal” will be available at Bayswater Books in Center Harbor after the opening reception. Copies will also be available at the gallery.
For more information visit our website at http://www.patricialaddcarega.com or call 284 7728.
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July 09, 2010
Family Ties - The Art Connection
FAMILY TIES – THE ART CONNECTION explores the differences and similarities found in the work of artists who live together or have lived together. Partners, couples, Mothers and daughters, nephews and Aunts exhibit together in this delightful show. Join us on Sandwich. Wednesday, July 21st from 5-7 p.m. to meet the Family! Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery is located at 69 Maple Street (route 113) in Center Sandwich.
Participating artists include Michael Doyle and Laura Marconi have summered in Tamworth for years. Stronger than ever, Doyle’s loose impressionistic style lends itself to the lakes and mountains in our area. Marconi’s jewel like palate reminds of 19th century Italian art. Not surprising as she is from Rome. Stoney Coneley and Mary Armstrong, both Boston artists whose subject matter stretches from the Maine Coast to Venice, Italy. Conley’s peaceful landscapes are challenged by Armstrongs paintings that are influenced by ancient maps. Frances Hamilton and Peter Thibeault are also both from Boston. Hamilton is a painter best known here for her paintings of the camps on Squam Lake. Thibeault is a sculptor whose work is both precise and whimsical. CC White and Tyler Pope: White is from Sandwich while her nephew. Tyler Pope lives in Maine. White’s “interior landscapes” explore life through color and line while Pope crafts masks and bracelets from copper. Breton Morse is a long time gallery artist. His humorous and painterly work has delighted viewers for years. His daughter Alice Morse lives in Spain. Her work has an ancestral quality that is expressed in her highly tactile painting. Blair Folts from Effingham is showing encaustics and monotypes based on her last trip to Mongolia. Her Mother, Eshther B. Folts, an artist from Connecticut works in charcoal on paper. Marian Purviance and her Mother, Virginia Purviance have been visiting relatives on Squam for years. Marian Purviance creates landscapes and flowers in pastel and charcoal. Her Mother, Virginia Puriance’s, creations are made from found objects, printed matter and encaustic. The work is clever and amusing. Finally Sam Falls, a photographer living in New York, joins his mother Deborah falls in this exhibit. Deborah Falls has mastered beautifully the technique of painting on silk with dye. Her botanical pieces are precise and delicate.
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July 03, 2010
Micael Rich and Shandra McLane Opening July 7
CENTER SANDWICH; Michael Rich’s “Intimate Landscapes” in mixed media are beautifully complimented by Shandra McLane’s “Fire and Ice” in glass. Both artists explore light, color and form as they work in two different media. Their exhibits will open on July 7th at Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery, 69 Maple Street in Center Sandwich,
Rhode Island artist, Michael Rich has exhibited at Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery for the past seven years. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and Savannah College of Art & Design, his work continues to fascinate and intrigue. An abstract artist, Rich has always been interested in painting land and sea. A practitioner of yoga, his work invites us to join him in meditations on color and form.
“My paintings and drawings of the past decade have explored through the language of abstraction the notion of place. Places once visited, invented or discovered, vaguely take shape in the colors of space and light.
The gray skies of Providence, the expanses of sky and sea surrounding Nantucket Island, the warm of New England Fall, are subjects now mined in my work. In an effort to understand my own place among these fleeting images, I seek a language that draws on personal history as well as the history of painting while forging a new path between abstraction and the realization of the image of place.”
Michael Rich is exhibited in galleries across the country. His work is contained in museum, corporate and private collections.
Local artist Shandra McLane is new to Patricia Ladd Carega gallery. Her exquisite glass pieces are strong, sleek, playful and contemplative in their elegance. A native of California, McLane, now lives and teaches at her home in New Hampshire. She has studied glass technique both at Pilchuck School of Glass in Stanwood, Washington and at the Rhode Island School of Design. She has taught at Plymouth State University and also completed graduate studies there. McLane’s multiple and complex process results in work of stunning simplicity.
“Luminous, strong – clear, direct – delicate, yet bold. These complementary opposites in glass work are evident, both in the material itself and in the design and process I employ in my studio. Light, color, form and texture are combined at its essential core.
I come to glass by way of an interest in Scandinavian and Modernist design cultivated in my twenties. For me, the pleasure of the design, fabrication and finished piece, are the framework of a life filled with beautiful objects which make our lives richer and more meaningful. In this Scandinavian tradition, one finds an understated refinement, which is stylishly unobtrusive and accessible by all.”
….”I strive to create work that embodies elements of joy, integrity, practicality and , of course, aesthetics. “It is my hope that you and your family enjoy these pieces as much as I enjoyed creating them.”