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.

Sheila Tintera Art Show October 2010

In 1969 Sheila began her art studies at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, followed by several years at Silvermine School of Art in Norwalk. She has studied at NY Botanical Gardens, Southern Ct State University, Washington Art Assoc, and Wooster Center for the Arts. Her work has been included in group exhibitions from The Downstairs Gallery at The Firehouse in New Milford, The Firenze Gallery, and Cooley Gallery to The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA to her most recent, at Studio 889, Bronx NY. In 2007 Sheila received Honorable Mention, in the Exhibition A Sense of Place here at Hunt Hill Farm, The Silo Gallery. She is both oil painter and printmaker. In June she will begin The Henderson Cultural Center’s Artist In Residency program and is presently in the prestigious Critique held by Yale School of Art Professor, Barbara Grossman. This show will feature her works in oil of several still lifes and the surrounding New England landscape

July Art Show at Burnham EDWARD LITTLE

Edward Little has spent over twenty years fulfilling commissions in the advertising and publishing world - his paintings have appeared on the covers of books published by Avon, Dell, Harper Collins, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster, in periodicals such as Golf and Tennis Magazines, Golf Digest, Omni and Reader’s Digest. His product and typographic designs have appeared nationally in television and retail advertising.

He is an accomplished and award winning portrait artist achieving distinction through a range of prestigious commissions that include Chairmen of Fortune 500 Companies, portrait collections for the Postal Commemorative Society and numerous private portrait commissions.

He has also designed and produced murals and trompe l’oeil effects for clients in the United States and Europe. Edward graduated summa cum laude from Ravensbourne College of Art in London, England, with an BA Double First Class Honors Degree in Editorial and Information design. In 1983 he immigrated to the United States of America where he began a successful freelance illustration and design business. In the mid 1990’s he focussed on creating portraits, murals and trompe l’oeil effects and more recently original paintings for gallery shows and giclee reproduction.

In addition to painting Edward has, since 2003, taught as adjunct Professor of Art History, Studio Drawing and Illustration at Western Connecticut State University.

His work is on permanent public display at the Museum of Philatelic Art, Cheyenne, Wyoming, has been exhibited in New York at the Society of Illustrators and the Kips Bay Designer Showhouse, New York.

http://edlittleart.com/

Art Work by Karin Rannestad

The Burnham Libray of Bridgewater will feature the art work of Karin Rannestad, a Southbury resident, the month of May. Karin is a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology and Albertus Magus College. She worked for many years designing patterns for various textile companies. Later in her career she became a therapeutic recreational director in a life care facility. Karin feels the "arts" are such wonderful healers and has used her art to help people feel connected to life.

Karin's art work is considered "eclectic" for she enjoys creating not only representative painting but paints in decorative and abstract styles as well. Often, she is asked if all the paintings are hers, because she paints in so many styles and medias. Her paintings will often include people, decorative themes, shapes and "lots of color." She particularly enjoyed creating a series of "Art Deco Ladies" which are fun and lively. "Everything that surrounds me ultimately affects my inner love to paint. I'm always searching for ways to express my art and hope my paintings bring color and joy into people's homes."

Karin is a member of the Washington Art Associations, the Watertown Art League, and the Kent Art Association. She exhibits her work in area art shops. Many of her paintings have been acquired by various collectors. She is currently is illustrating a children's book.

Candlewood Camera Club

The Art Show at Burnham Library for the month of April is by the
Candlewood Camera Club.

The Candlewood Camera Club exists as a non-profit organization for the good of the community and all photographers, to foster photography as an art, a hobby, or a vocation, by instruction and by sharing of knowledge and experience.

We meet every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month at 7:30 p.m. at the Danbury Park & Rec Banquet Hall; 7 Hayestown Rd., Danbury. Come visit us on one of our Competition or Program nights.

For more information check out http://www.candlewoodcamera.blogspot.com/ or http://www.candlewoodcamera.com/tiki-index.php

Candlewood Camera Club