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.