Home for the Holidays

An exhibit of winter artwork by fifteen artists. This show presents forty paintings
interpreting a season of autumn color giving way to snow dusted landscapes.
Artists include Ann Harriet Carew, Jan Lewyn, Jean Jusko, Jenna Conant, Karen Cashman,Kathy Barlow, Kit Sagendorf and Ruth Jaffe.

Join us for an Artist's Reception, Saturday, November 7th from 3-6 at the Burnham Library 62 Main Street South, in Bridgewater, Connecticut. Questions Call 860 354 6937.

For a preview watch our slideshow.

Marc Isolda Photography

August Art Show at the Library

Marc Isolda was born in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. and grew up in Westport, Ct. He served in Viet Nam and was awarded the Purple Heart. When he returned to the states he completed his studies at college.

Marc's love of photography began when he was a child. His neighbor, who was editor on the city desk for UPI handed him an Exakta SLR, and taught him the basics of photography and photo developing. From 1980 through 1985 he photographed various jobs for the firms of motorcycle manufacturers: BMW, Moto Guzzi, La Verda, and Ducati. He also photographed the quarterlies and annual reports for Remington and Colt, and did work for Revlon and Max Factor.

His love for photography and his extensive education in engineering and physics blossomed into a full time business of camera, microscope, and computer repair. His photographic skills have found a home through the formation of an artist's consortium with Alisyn Hamilton, Walter Von Egidy, and Cynthia O'Connor. This resulted in the company A THOUSAND WORDS.

Marc currently resides in Bridgewater, where he is active as an EMT. He also sits on the Zoning Board of Appeals.

http://www.thousandwords.us/

Joanne Conant July 2009

Joanne Conant is an artist residing in Newtown, Connecticut. Enameling, oil painting, and jewelry design and fabrication are among her talents. Her enameling techniques include Cloisonné, Plique-a-jour, Champleve, Grisaille, Limoges and Fauré.

Her education includes a Commercial Arts Degree from the Minneapolis Technical Institute and an apprenticeship with enamellist Margaret Seeler during a span of twenty-one years, from 1975 until 1996. Joanne is currently Secretary of the Washington Art Association where she is studying oil painting with Ira Barkoff.

Joanne has shared her knowledge with many artists for more than thirty years, teaching classes at the Tucson Museum of Art School, Connecticut State College, Brookfield Craft Center (where she is currently the enameling studio manager) while also helping many private students.

Joanne's pieces appear in Glass on Metal magazine (Vol 24, no. 5), Enamel Medium for Fine Art by Margaret Seeler, Enamels, Enameling, Enamelists by Glenice Lesley Matthews, The Artist's Illustrated Encyclopedia by Phil Metzger, Enameling on Metal Clay by Pam East, and Five Hundred Enameled Objects by Lark Books.

Her work has received awards in many national and international shows.


http://www.joanneconant.com/About%20Joanne.htm

Join the Little's in a Celebration of Art

The Burnham Library on Main Street in Bridgewater is exhibiting art by a father and daughter, Edward and Sara Little, through May.

The show is the culmination of Sara's senior project at Shepaug Valley High School in Washington.

Up until this year, Sara had been a self-taught artist who focused mainly on drawing stylized characters. For her senior project she learned to draw and paint realistically with help from her father and artist/illustrator Charles Gehm.

Earlier this year she focused on the skills and techniques required to render a 3D image on a 2D surface using graphite and pastel pencils and later applied those skills to oil painting.

Currently she has incorporated the theme of Venetian masks and the study of the human figure into her art.

Art by Tina Underwood

Tina Underwood is a versatile artist who has been creating works of art for over twenty five years. Raised in Roxbury, Connecticut, Tina expresses her love of the New England countryside in her watercolor and oil paintings of old barns, landmarks and natural settings. She also enjoys painting floral and still life compositions, as well as commissioned house portraits.

She has brought her fine art skills to the world of decorative painting, having embellished marble tiles and painted furniture with intricate renderings of flowers and Celtic themes. On a larger scale, she has completed several room size murals in area homes and businesses, creating scenes that transport the viewer to a Jamaican beach or the hills of Tuscany.

She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art from Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, Connecticut, and studied painting, sculpture and photography in Lacoste, France under the direction of Sarah Lawrence College.

"My paintings capture moments that I observe in the world around me: ice melting on a pond, sunlit flowers in the garden, or just picked fruit on a fall day. As I develop a painting, I am concerned with how light reveals form, how color creates harmony, how detail discloses texture. My work evokes a quiet, peaceful sense of place and things."

Tina is a member of Kent Art Association, Washington Art Association and the Society for the Creative Arts of Newtown. She has participated in juried and group shows, and has held several solo shows. Many of her paintings are in private collections throughout the United States, and her murals can be seen in area businesses. She maintains her painting studio in her home in Bridgewater, Connecticut.


T.M. Underwood • 57 Clapboard Road • Bridgewater, CT 06752 • 860-354-6545
Check out Tina Underwood's Art Gallery at:
www.underwoodarts.com

Landscapes and Still Life in Pastel and Oil.

Local artist Michael Piccirillo works in pastels as well as traditional oils and seeks to capture on canvas the varied and rich landscapes of the Connecticut countryside. His paintings bring to the view the subtle and ever present diversity and richness of the western part of the state. While some of his paintings represent other parts of the country, his primary attention and focus has been in the local area.Although primarily self-taught, he has studied at the Creative Workshop in New Have, the Washington Art Association, as well as the Society for Creative Arts in Newtown

Weaving By Vivian Wainwright

Enjoy the artistry and skill of Vivian Wainwright of Bridgewater.

A demonstration of weaving will be presented
at the Burnham Library

February 21st from 10 to 12.

View slideshow

Candlewood Camera Club January 2009

The Candlewood Camera Club is a group of photo enthusiasts from the greater Danbury area whose club is devoted to fostering photography as a hobby, art or vocation, and by freely sharing our knowledge and experience. The Club meets twice a month at the VFW Hall in Danbury, 5 Byron St., between Rte. 6 (Newtown Rd.) and Triangle St., just over 1 mile west of WalMart and the Holiday Inn in Danbury. The first meeting of each month, on the 2nd Tuesday, is set aside for a competition between members' color slides and prints, including digital, color, or black and white. The second meeting, on the 4th Tuesday of the month, varies greatly each month, ranging from instructional sessions, to field trips, to group workshops. The Candlewood Camera Club was founded in 1948 and is a member of the New England Camera Club Council and the Connecticut Association of Photographers, and actively participates in programs and competitions in these organizations.