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August 25, 2010
Landscapes: Big and Small
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: LANDSCAPES; BIG AND SMALL AT PATRICIA LADD CAREGA GALLERY
CENTER SANDWICH: When work began arriving the gallery this spring, I was surprised that many of my artists had turned to painting small squares. A sign of the times? Small squares are certainly cheaper than larger pieces and they fit nicely into anyone’s space. One day Chris Thompson (a gallery artist) walked in with the largest canvases I have seen in years. The other extreme had arrived at my door. The exhibit “Landscapes; Big and Small” was born that day. Two new artists, Ann Carlisle Beyer from Wolfeboro and California and Gail Robertson from California join gallery artists in this show. The opening reception will be on Saturday, September 4th from 5 to 7 pm. The exhibit will continue through mid September. Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery is located at 69 Maple Street (route 113) in Center Sandwich.
Ann Carlisle Beyer has always been interested in painting and drawing but it was not until her children were grown that she began a daily regime in her studio. “. I have summered in New Hampshire at a family compound all my life. I have looked since childhood at huge white pines just across the lawn from our house. The current Grandfather Pines series is based upon this. Now I have my own studio nearby where I can continue painting these wonderful colors and light.
My muses lie mostly in the beauty and complexities of nature. The strength and underpinning of trees, the elegance of flowers, and the amazing power of animals fascinate me. These subjects enter my dreams, too, which I paint from time to time.”
Gail Robertson lives and works in Mill Valley, California. She has travelled extensively and lived in many different countries. Her work is quiet and mystical. It speaks to the moody climate of the Bay Area. Her paintings “reflect the depth and influences that life in different cultures can stimulate.” Robertson describes her process: “What I like about being a painter is the process of seeing/becoming empty, and without thinking painting from that place. Have you ever noticed that no one asks a writer to paint about her writing?”
Among the gallery artists participating in this exhibit are Barbara Brady, Katherine Field, Anne Garland, Herb Hollingsworth, Jay Rancourt, and Chris Thompson,
For more information please visit our website at http://www.patricialaddcarega.com or call 284 7728.
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August 10, 2010
The French Connection
Four artists connected by their love for France will exhibit their work at Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery. Amazingly enough each of these artists has ties to the Lakes Region and visit regularly. Saira Austin and Lissa Hunter who both were working in France last year join Anna Jeretic and Donna McLeod Balsan who both live in France. Opening August 18th, the exhibit will be on view until mid September at Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery, 69 Mapble Street (Route 113) in Center Sandwich. Like the White Mountains, the south of France and Paris have attracted artists for centuries.
Last winter while talking to Lissa Hunter in her studio, I discovered that she had been working in Vallaurois during the Fall of 2009. Vallaurois is a medieval town located between Cannes and Antibes. It has been a ceramics town since then. Picasso discovered it in the 1940s and made all of his ceramics there until his death in the 1970s. During our conversation I asked Lissa to describe what was special about working in France and why she had chosen to go there.
Her reply: “My interests were in speaking French as much as possible, to have the uninterrupted time and concentration to develop some ideas that I had stored up, and to draw. The drawing was the big revelation. I drew as I never had before. I had always drawn some, but mostly as note-taking and engineering, not as a means of expression. And usually I worked small. Now, as a result of my time in France, I am doing large drawings in various media and loving it. The stay there has changed my art-making practice in wonderful ways.
I have had a love affair with France for about 12 years or so beginning with my studying the language. I have no idea why I chose France, and not Italy or Finland or Chile or...
But I'm sure that it has to do with the food, the landscape, the sound of the language, the prizing of intellectual life, the wine, the history, the architecture, and did I mention the food? I like who I am when I'm there. But the irony is that I feel totally American, not French, and that's ok”.
When I left Lissa’s studio, the idea of a French exhibit was born. Saira Austin had also been in France on a residency during the summers of 2009 and 2010. She describes her experience: “Last year I was able to stay nine weeks in Saint-Remy de Provence. I rented a two-bedroom 18th century Mas on the property of a Chateau that was built adjacent to the 16th century home of Nostradamus’ brother (still standing), which was built on a former Roman site. The roman pool still functions.
I returned to the same Mas this year for three weeks, and afterwards rented an apartment in Paris (Ile Saint-Louis) for nearly three weeks.
I think the art I've made in Provence reflects the gentleness and joie de vivre spirit I encountered in Saint-Remy, the generosity of the people, the ancient art of the caves, the old towns, the sculpted landscape, the sheep, and the wild winds. An intensity of history and a profound inner happiness.
In Paris, my paintings remember history and respond to place.”
Anna Jeretic is a painter and print maker who lives in a small town outside of Paris. An American by birth, France is her home. Fluent in French and accostomed to life there, it is curious as to wether or not the culture effects her work. A long time member of the stable at Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery, Jeretic will exhibit her etchings and monotypes. Her animals are soft and friendly even though they live in the jungle. They were observed by Jeretic on safari in Africa. The secoond series of etchings involves a copper oxicdation process. The work is reminds of vines, leaves and is nature based. It is more contemporary in feel and is reminiscent of Japanese of Japanese prints. One of Jeretic;s most popular images is “Avenue de L’Observatoire. Birds fly fly down the “allee” lined with trees and remind anyone of their last trip to France’s capitol.
Like Anna Jeretic, Donna Balsan is an American artist living in Paris. Her window views, flowers and fruits are painted in vivid color. Balsan paints in oil on kraft paper or canvas paper. Her work feels like a painterly excursion into the essense of French Life. Balsan has studied trompe l’oeil, faux marbre and faux bois. She exhibits in France and her commissionos have included Renaissance Cruise Lines, The Hilton Hotel in Munich and a number of private homes in the USA and abroad.
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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.”
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June 21, 2010
News From the Gallery
NEWS
The first opening of the summer was a huge tribute to artists CC White and Ashley Bullard. The work of both artists was enthusiastically received by a large crowd. CC White's Life Calendar Project is a wonderful installation that captures the curiosity and imagination of all who view it. Ashley Bullards bold colors on mylar have also enjoyed an amazing success. As a colorist, Bullard is at her best with this new series of paintings. The mylar is an added curiosity as it seems to make the work shimmer. Though the installation will come down this week, it will be back to enjoy in book form throughout the summer. Ashley Bullard's work will also be here. If you missed the exhibit, it is not too late to enjoy the work.
WORKSHOPS
Shandra McLane is a new artist to the gallery this summer. Her creations in kiln forming glass are exquisite. She will be giving a workshop at her studio on July 24th and July 25th. Students will learn the fundamentals necessary to pursue fused glass, one of the most common forms of kiln-glass. For further information contact her at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or contact this gallery.
Sallie Wolf will be giving a workshop at the gallery in August. Sallie is a water color artist known for her wonderful panoramas of Squam Lake. On exhibit will be the original art from her new book "The Robin Makes a Laughing Sound". The workshop is entitled "Discovering your creativity, Keeping a Journal/Sketchbook. Participants will learn to bind a 16 page journal and explore different ways to work in it. The workshop is designed for adults, teenagers and school age children if accompanied by an adult.
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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.
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May 31, 2010
Summer 2010
THE GALLERY IS OPEN FOR THE 2010 SEASON. The first exhibit will be "New Work" by Ashley Bullard and "Life Calendar Project", an installation by CC White. The press release follows:
PRESS RELEASE: TWO SANDWICH ARTISTS OPEN THE SEASON AT PATRICIA LADD CAREGA GALLERY
CENTER SANDWICH: Two Talents from Center Sandwich, Ashley Bullard, “New Work” and CC White, “Life Calendar Project will open the summer season at Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery. Join us at reception to meet the artists on Saturday, June 12th from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
White’s “Life Calendar Project” is an installation of daily calendars that she has been making since 1996. The calendars began as a way to keep track of daily events, weather, and temperature. The project has grown into a work of art to be seen for the first time hanging as one. Like the time these calendars mark, this engaging installation takes time to view.
White describes her calendar project:
“At first, I drew stick figures, or used cards and photos; now I make my own images specifically for each month, sometimes painting directly on the page, other times making a collage or cropping something from an earlier work. Occasionally David shows intedrest in adding his own touch, and I love having his images included.
Eventually, what began as an informal way to keep track of events has become an integral part of our daily lives. The first thing one of us does in the morning is to check the temperature and write it on the calendar for that day. At the end of the day, we record the day’s “events”, so that the lower half of the calendar is every bit as important as the images: we focus especially on our interaction and intimacy with Nature, (for example, the notations are about such things as seeing a mother bear and her cub in our clearing on April 24 of this year, what day the shad first bloomed, when the black flies arrive, what day we harvest our garlic, and when the V’s of geese fly over on their way South in the fall). The act of recording honors the importance of these small daily occurrences that make up such a large part of our lives.
Some of the art on these pages seems embarrassingly awful to me. However it ALL reflects exactly where I was, physically, emotionally and spiritually while I was painting it, (quite literally in the case of December 2006, when my right arm was broken and in a cast….). So for this installation I’ve included everything, “warts and all”. This calendar is NOT about perfection, but about process and progress, about continuity and daily practice. It is about conscious living and observation, awareness and choice. It is my own personal form of pure record keeping, a journal in which I combine words and images to evoke memory.”
White has also produced a yearless calendar to record birthdays and dates to remember that don’t change. The calendar includes some of her best images. It will be on sale at the gallery.
For those who follow Ashley Bullards work her new exhibit will not disappoint. The work is fresh and colorful, resourceful and innovative. Painting on mylar, Bullard has returned to landscapses. She calls this series “deconstructed landscapes” meaning that the viewer knows what he or she is looking at but the focus of the work is on color and shape.
Bullard’s work has almost come full circle. Her first exhibit at Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery was a very successful landscape show. As time went on Bullard’s work continued to emphasize color and energy but her subject matter became emotional as she endeavored to deal with the news and events recent years. The work was strong and compelling.
The new paintings are not emotional as they lack the intensity of subject. They are expressive of seasonsonal color and the changing climate that New England offers. A passionate colorist, Bullard is at her best. Fat layers of paint adhere to the mylar. The effect seems to be an invitation to touch.
Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery is located at 69 Maple Street (Rte.113 N) in Center Sandwich. Gallery hours are from 10 to 5 Monday – Saturday and from 12 to 5 on Sunday. For more information please visit our website at http://www.patricialaddcarega.com or call 284 7728.
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February 12, 2010
SKY HOYT: Cyber Show
We will be introducing web based shows during the winter months. Our first show features the new work of Sky Hoyt. Click here to see show
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February 02, 2010
Great News about our Gallery
Though we have lived through hard economic times I am happy to say that the gallery has remained “level” for the last two years. The markets are not back to where they were in 2007 but the continued interest and enthusiasm of visitors to the gallery has been heartening.
As we begin our seventh year in business in Sandwich and 17th year in the gallery business in general, it seems art market indicators are optimistic. Friends in the auction business also seem to be encouraged. As the snow flies, it is hard to think that plants will bloom, we will all swim in the lake and the barn will host many visitors to our area.