Artists: H
Mary Harold
About
Mary has loved being behind the lens since the age of 9 when she got her first Kodak Brownie camera. Her focus in fine art photography is to capture the absurd, obvious, decay, and beauty that others do not see. B/W, color, HDR, light, dark – there is always something to be captured.
Mary’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout the region. Awards have been received from The Flinn Gallery in Greenwich and the Rowayton Arts Center. Her work as also been shown at The Katonah Museum, The New Britain Museum of American Art, The Fairfield Museum and History Center, The Bendheim Gallery, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Westport Arts Center, Carriage Barn, Soho Photo Gallery, Ferguson Library, Wilton Library, Ridgefield Library and many private collections. Her work has also been published in many newspapers and magazines. Presently, she is the Co-President of the Ridgefield Guild of Artists and is a member of the Westport Arts Center, Westport Arts Collective, Rowayton Arts Center, Greenwich Arts Society, and the Carriage Barn.
Artist Statement
I express my artistic vision through photography and view the world as a visual treat with its colors, textures, patterns and abstractions. Behind the lens is the base negative that transforms and metamorphosizes into the song of what my heart sees. The computer has transformed photography into a revolutionary art form with all of its complexities.
Photograph on metal 20 x 30 inches $595
Photograph on metal 16 x 24 inches $495
Photograph on metal paper 20x 30 $395
18 x 24 $395
16 x 20 $295
18 x 24 $495
Holly Hawthorn
About
Holly Hawthorn is a sculptor, printer and ceramic artist working in Connecticut. She studied art in the United States as well as Italy and Greece. Her porcelain sculptures reflect her love of the ocean and beaches. Her monoprints evoke the serenity of calm water scenes. They have been shown in international art competitions. For many years she instructed students in drawing, ceramics and sculpture. She fostered their creative spirit and helped them along their personal journey of creative exploration. In the tradition of the pursuit of artistic venues Hawthorn has journals of watercolors and writings from her extensive travels. These were featured in a solo show in Redding, CT. Hawthorn maintains a studio at the American Fabrics Building in Bridgeport, CT. Her work is show is galleries in the Northeast and at her studio.
Artist Statement
The seashell is a timeless symbol that for me evokes playfulness of time spent on the beach. The illustrative works I create are titled to amuse the viewer. I especially enjoy using 'play on words' to title them. They are 'little celebrations' of art. My walks on the beach and forest on soft grey days provide me with inspiration to create monoprint images showing the subtle colors and fleeting moment that only become visible in the misty atmosphere. They are like the images created by the waves on the water edge, similar but infinitely different.
Porcelain/mixed media 7 x 7 inches
Porcelain/mixed media 9 X 9 inches $375
Porcelain/mixed media 9 x 9 inches $375
Porcelain/mixed media 7 x 7 inches $175
Monoprint, 12 x 12 $375
Porcelain/mixed media 9 x 9 inches $375
Mary Ellen Hendricks
About
Since graduating from Pratt Institute over 30 years ago, Maryellen has been exploring various photographic processes. Her passion is late 19th and early 20th Century large format photography. She has been experimenting with printing her landscapes, botanicals and portraits using alternative methods combining historic and modern technologies. Her latest body of work is the Thin Places Project. An exploration in photographs and words documenting places of comfort and peace in everyday lives. MaryEllen has exhibited her work in numerous one woman and group exhibits over the years. Her work can be seen at www.maryellenhendricks.com and www.thinplacesproject.com.
Artist Statement
Finding the magical in the everyday has always interested me. Trying to produce images that convey that magic is a lifelong pursuit.
Mindy Horn
About
Mindy Horn works as a ceramic artist and as a paper conservator in Connecticut and New York.These occupations inform one another. Clay and paper are two materials that are malleable, responsive to touch and vividly record all of the things that happen to them. Mindy Horn currently exhibits her work at the Dedee Shattuck Gallery and the Diana Felber Gallery. Her porcelain sculpture was recently featured at the Mattatuck Museum in Line and Volume: The Ceramics of Mindy Horn and Ann Mallory. She is a member of the Silvermine Artist’s Guild.
For more information, please look at her website, www.mindyhorn.com.
Artist Statement
My ceramic sculpture takes the form of wall pieces and vessels in porcelain.
My recent series of works, Becoming Imperfect, are about what it means to grow. It seems to me that works of art and living things are both born with the perfection of an untested plan. As they grow, they are nurtured and challenged by natural forces and ideas beyond their initial capacity. The struggle to accommodate challenges compels development and change. In departing from the blueprint, art and living things become richer in history and visual complexity. The perfect is transformed to a more significant imperfect. Ideas about growth and transformation affect the way that I physically manipulate the clay and point toward the meaning of my work
