Burnham 8 Art Show

A group of artists have gotten together as the Bridgewater 8. They will have a showing of their art February and March at Burnham Library. Come and enjoy the show. February "Bridgewater 8 - Part 1: Painting from the Inside Out" featuring art by Barbara Cover, Jean Jusko, Mary Malone and Cheryl Nelson. Opening reception on Saturday, Febraury 2nd from 3 - 5 pm. Open to all. March "Bridgewater 8 - Part 2: More Painting from Within" featuring art by Charlotte Cilley, Pamela Hochstetter, Marta Maresco and Susan Schefflein. Opening recpetion on Saturday, Marcy 2nd from 3-5 pm. Open to all.

August Artist Karen Cashman

Karen exhibits at the Blue Hill Bay Gallery in Maine and is an Elected Artist member of Lyme Art Association and Kent Art Association. She is also an artist member of Salmagundi Club, Connecticut Plein Air Painters Society, Housatonic Art League, Deer Isle Artists Association, Madison Art Society, Washington Art Association, and the Society of Creative Arts of Newtown. Karen Cashman lives and paints in Connecticut, where she grew up in a family of oil painters. She has traveled and painted landscapes throughout New England, in Italy, Canada and the American West. She works mostly on location, showing the effects of light and atmosphere on farms, street scenes and harbors. She studied at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts with Jerry Weiss and also in plein air workshops with Mike Graves, David Lussier, Chris Magadini and others. Check out Karen's website: http://www.kcashmanpaintings.com

Lorraine Ryan's Arcylic Paintings

The April and May Art Show at Burnham Library will feature Lorraine Ryan

Lorraine, formerly of both New York and Connecticut, now resides full time in Connecticut. She graduated with honors from the Parsons School Of Design, and later attended The Art Students League Of New York. She is a member of the Graphic Artist Guild, and she has exhibited at, and been a member of, The Society Of Illustrators. Earlier, in New York, Lorraine had a successful career as a designer of decorative home products, creating ideas for fabrics, dinnerware, wall-coverings, and much more.

Over the years, as a fine artist, Lorraine has had a number of one woman shows at galleries in New York and Connecticut, and has received awards in juried exhibitions, the most recent being at the Westport Art Association and the Greenwich Art Society. Her work has been collected in the U.S. and the U.K., and reproduced as posters, greeting cards, and Iris giclee limited edition prints. All of her original work is executed in watercolors.

Stop by and Enjoy!!

Oil Paintings of Angelo Peronne

Our February and March Artist is Angelo Peronne




Angelo Perrone has been painting in mixed media for the last 50 years. His recent studies called “Impressions of Nature” celebrate his love of natural beauty. Angelo is especially involved with the changes of seasons in our New England area. Elements seen in his paintings are leaves, grass, and natural elements instead of the usual brush in the Plein Aire manner. Painting in this manner, rather than from photographs, gives the artwork a quality of being truthful to nature and conveys an atmosphere and feeling of a place that is not achievable by any other means. When viewing a Plein Aire painting, you can almost imagine yourself in the scene. Angelo’s brush strokes used in various paintings of his are oriental in flavor; stemming from his much acclaimed ability as a calligraphist.

Angelo’s paintings serve as a visual vehicle to transport you to another time and place, striking a pleasant memory, or to spark a fictious and imaginary experience.

Mr. Perrone was educated at the prestigious Cooper Union Art School in New York City. He received a BFA in Fine Arts. Furthermore, Angelo won a scholarship to study painting at Oxford University in Oxford, England. After his studies, Angelo pursued a career as a book designer and Art Director for Select Editions at the Reader’s Digest for many years.

Angelo has had countless exhibits throughout his years. He first had two one man exhibits for the Wilton Arts Council in 2001 and had another in 2004. Angelo then had a combined show with his son at the White Silo Barn Gallery in Sherman, CT for the spring of ‘07. In summer 2007, he exhibited in a combined show at the Mahopac Library in New York, and exhibited at the Haight-Brown Gallery and Winery in Litchfield, CT during the winter in 2008. Over 50 of Angelo’s paintings are currently on exhibit in the new Professional building at 100 Oxford Road in the quaint town of Oxford, Connecticut. Continuing with his exhibits, Angelo had had a one man show at the Matterhorn Inn West Dover Vermont in summer 2008, which was followed by a joint show in fall 2008 with a return to the White Silo Winery in Sherman, CT. Beyond Angelo’s exhbits, his nature and landscape paintings are part of many private collections in the United States and abroad.

In the past few years, Angelo has been expermenting with new styles of art. He had a show again at the White Silo Winery & Gallery again with his son, John Basil Perrone, who is also an experienced, multi-talented artist, and also introduced a new member to the show, his granddaughter Kimberly Palmer, who is a talented photographer. The show took place in May of 2010. The following year in May 2011, the trio returned to the White Silo exhibiting their art and photography.

Angelo is always planning new exhibits as well as shows. Future dates are posted under the “Events” tab on his website. Also, if you are interested in any of his paintings which are regularly posted to this site and would like to speak with Angelo personally for business or media inquires, or to simply purchase a painting, please check the “contact” tab.http://angeloart.wordpress.com/

December and January Artist, Jean Jusko

Jean Jusko of Bridgewater with “Elemental Surrender” which features tempera on paper paintings with poetry connections. Opening reception will be held on Sunday, December 3rd from 4:00 – 6:00 pm. Open to all.



Ms. Jusko earned a BFA in Illustration from The Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA. in 1967. She started her professional career as the Art Director for the Hagerstown Public Library in Maryland. She then moved into the private domain as an Illustrator for a Washington D.C. Advertising Agency.

Upon moving to Bridgewater in 1971, she established an Interior Design business focusing on country residential and NYC apartments specializing in 18th and 19th century Americana.

She has been a lifelong Artist and over the last six years has been engaged in the Process Art method with Pamela Hochstetter of Inner Art.

May at Burnham Leila Orienter of Oxford

After obtaining her BFA in 2000 Leila started working as a picture framer/ art supply sales clerk. This is where she developed a love for using lots of materials in her work. Now she is busy wrangling my busy two year old and scraping some time together to keep creative with not only her own work, but projects from the artist collective she belongs to.

The focus in the drawings are the relationships conveyed through the body language of the subjects to either each other or their surroundings. Leila enjoys working on a small scale because of the intimacy one can get from being able to hold art in the hand. It also feeds into her obsessive nature.

View her work at http://www.etsy.com/people/thepatternedpiemaker

Feel free to leave a comment here for the artist!!

March 2011 Art Show--Kimberly Day Proctor

Kimberly Day Proctor of Southbury (i think it is southbury)

Kimberly Day Proctor is carrying on a family tradition of art and design. Her great grandfather, Sumner Kinsley, was a well-known painter and illustrator, her grandfather, Rex Beisel, an innovative designer of aircraft, and two aunts, painters of note. There never was a time or a doubt in Ms. Proctor's mind that she would become an artist herself, and in 1978, she received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and Printmaking.

Following an intensive workshop with artist Randall Enos, she spent time exploring the medium of block print collage, a process which involves printing numerous colored editions of an image on various types and colors of paper, then disassembling and reassembling individual parts to bring them back to a finished whole.

An innovator herself, Ms. Proctor has experimented in various other media from pastels to oils to pen and ink. But the thematic content of her work has been consistent - interpretations of the threatened, ever-changing natural landscape and it's flora. In addition to rendering native plants, shrubs and trees, many years of illustration the Oliver Nurseries catalog, gave her an opportunity for great intimacy with ornamental plants and sharpened her skill ot render them with great sensitivity and botanical accuracy.

Her pen and ink illustrations have appeared most recently in Gardening for a Lifetime by Sydney Eddison (Timber Press 2010) and in Eddison's earlier book, Gardens to Go (Bullfinch Press, 2005) and in numberous catalogs, newsletters and advertisements for Oliver Nurseries of Fairfield, CT and Twombly Nursery of Monroe, CT.

Her work has been shown in galleries throughout the Northeast, recently earning a first place award for pastel from Richter Association for the The Arts in Danbury, CT.