Crystal and Painting Installation

 

In 2018 I did my first painting installation, called Alpenglow with Crystals and Ice installation with another female artist from Maine, Aurora Winkler. The installation is made of canning jars, colored water, crystals paintings and other New England antiques. My latest’s large paintings are of Kezar Lake in Maine. These paintings are explorations of evolving a more high keyed color palette to represent New England. By using the Alpenglow of the mountains I have developed this warm and cool color combinations influenced by the famous colorist, Hans Hoffman. Art 21 has been such a big support for me in expanding my ideas about painting.

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When I was eight, our school went to a field trip to Strawbery Banke. I fell in love with it then, the gardens, the crowded turn of the century houses. It was such a beautiful escape. Now I live close by and I paint such an amazing part of Portsmouth.Strawbery Banke is the oldest neighborhood in New Hampshire to be settled by Europeans, and the earliest neighborhood remaining in the present-day city of Portsmouth. It features more than 37 restored buildings built between the 17th and 19th centuries in the Colonial, Georgian and Federal style architectures. The darkest colored house is the oldest house in the group. I have a group of historical areas that I am painting, or known as historical paintings. Look out for more!

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