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June 21, 2010
Flora and Fauna: Its All About Plants
CENTER SANDWICH: Squam Artists Kay Ives and Margaret Barnaby join Deborah Falls and Sui Witherell in an exhibt focusing on plants and flowers to open June 26th at Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery. Meet the artists at reception from 5 –7 p.m. The gallery is located at 69 Maple Street in Center Sandwich.
Since she was a small child, Margaret Barnaby has spent her summers on Squam Lake. Her winter residence is in Volcano, Hawaii. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Barnaby is an accomplished jeweler, painter, sculptor and printer. On view this summer are her woodblock prints. In size and color Barnaby has mastered the printing process to perfection. Both large and colorful her work is inspired by culture, color and the unique life that surround both her Island homes.
Kay Ives also has spent summers on Squam lake since childhood. She is a resident of Boston and like Barnaby summers by the lake. The natural enviroment especially found here influences her work. A graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Ives paintgs and drawings of plants and flowers are intriquing. A free and loose stroke, combines watercolor, pencil and charcoal into an exploration of lotus, roses and other flora. Her pieces created in diptch form give them the feeling of studies. The work combines the figurative and the abstract adding to the notion of two pieces in one.
Deborah Falls lives and works in Vermont. Upon returning to New England after a sojourn in Sourthern California where she prefectted her printing and artistic talents, Falls planted a vegetable garden. She became intrigued by her plants and the intricacies of their design. The abstract artist and fabric designer combined her disciplines to develop her own technique of painting on silk. In Falls’ words: “I focus on the individual flower or plant, trying to discover its essence through the simplicity of line, form and color. I’m interested in the light and intimate space within which we perceive these plants and enjoy the timeless sense of antique botanicals in a contemporary translation.”
Sui Witherell lives and works in Maine though she has deep roots in New Hampshire. For twenty years she and her husband operated a greenhouse business in the White Mountains and for this reason she knows and loves plants and flowers intimately. Witherell’s monoprints exhibited here explore water lillies in a variety of backgrounds.
Color, marks and lines are trademarks of her compositions. Her works are a response to the nature that surrounds her.
Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery is located at 69 Maple Street (Rooute 113) in Center Sandwich. Gallery hours are from 10 –5 Monday through Saturday and from 12 –5 on Sundays. Please visit our websiter at http://www.patricialaddcarega.com or call 284-7728 for more information.