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B L A I R F O L T S
Blair Folts has been painting, printmaking and sculpting since the early 1980's. She was originally known for her landscape paintings of the White Mountains and was recently included in Dartmouth professor, Robert McGrath's book, "Gods in Granite." She studied painting and art history at the University of Kent, England; earned a BA in Art and English from the University of Maine at Orono and competed a fifth-year degree at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She has been awarded several residencies and visiting artist positions. She has exhibited internationally and locally in both group and solo shows and her work can be seen locally at the Currier Gallery in Manchester, New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Historical Society in Concord, New Hampshire and the new Carroll County Court House in Ossipee, New Hampshire. Folts is also a member of the Peregrine Press, a cooperative of printmakers in Portland, Maine. Recently she had the opportunity to travel to China with the Boston Printmakers Association. There the artists participate in printmaking demonstrations and a group show in Huangzhou Art Academy. I was incredibly excited to work with other landscape artists in China and to learn more about their very abstract sense of perspective. It helped me to understand my own quest to capture very close space--right at the bottom of your canvas--to then extend out to distant mountains. I grew up with Chinese scrolls in my home and now understand that a lot of my own depiction of space both in landscape and my current abstraction directly comes from Chinese paintings. An ardent conservationist, Folts is founder and executive director of the Green Mountain Conservation Group, a six-town conservation group located in the Ossipee Watershed. She is a hiker, kayaker and rock climber. Her experiences in nature are directly related to her paintings. She is intensely involved in the relationships between art and nature. |
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