First Fridays!

Featuring Richard Gombar, 

" I am an American painter of my environment. Where once art needed nature to survive, we now need art to help nature survive. While not politically motivated, in a sense-- because I paint nature, my work is a political statement. I paint to capture beauty, to hold forever a passing moment, to memorialize that which may be fleeting, or in the case of barns and industrial sites, falling. If my paintings, pastels and drawings help more people become aware of what may be potentially lost, can invoke a sense of wonder as in childhood, and can be emotionally moving and provoking, then a statement with a profound impact may be the result. It is a search for the truth without sentimentality. My work is of nature, but just as important, it is about painting, color, structure. The images are about Romanticism, transcendentalism and pure emotion. I try to make the immense intimate". 

Scott Snyder's beautiful photographs

The light and poetry of image and word

In this show Scott explores the meeting place that emerges when images are paired with word, poetry, and text allowing the inspiration and music of word and the color and light of place to merge, mingle and relate. 

Scott Snyder is a dedicated fine art landscape photographer specializing in Atlantic seascapes, the New England landscape, and essential abstracts. He has been a photographer for over 30 years, beginning with a stint in the Art Institute of Atlanta’s Photography program in the 80s. Over the years he has worked as a wedding photographer, a real estate and architectural photographer, and as a portrait photographer. He is the father of three beautiful children and a hiker, surfer, meditator, and wanderer. 

Loren Howard artist

Barbara Hunting, artist

 To my way of thinking, Art need not be a mysterious entity. Art should make the viewer happy, aware, contemplative….

When I paint, I escape into the recesses of my mind. I find joy, laughter, and happiness. 

It’s not rocket science, people.!

TBD.

Featuring Alan Zola Shulman

Exhibit Opening SUNDAY May 7th

Shulman was brought up by his parents to have a deep love for fine art.  After touring art galleries and being exposed to the masters he fell in love with ....." Those latter artists excited me. I fell in love with Van Gogh’s swirls of land and sky, Picasso’s “misplaced” eyes, De Chirico’s enigmatic city squares, Dali’s dreamscapes, Matisse’s unpredictable palette, Magritte’s avant-guard humor, and Kandinsky’s energetic splashes of solids and lin