Fall Favorites 2023 Week 4

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Welcome to Fall Favorites – Week Four

Alex Dunwoodie, Karen Bruson, and

Guest Artist Heather Fountain

 

We are featuring two or three artists in a weekly campaign. Any purchases of the weekly featured pieces are eligible for free shipping within the contiguous US or free local delivery when purchased by the end of the week. Join our email list to learn about the artists as they are announced! It’s on the bottom right of our home page. FMI call 207-967-2803 or [email protected].

Remember,  from October 1 to November 20, we are hanging all the Fall Favorites as a show in the Show Gallery at 5 Chase Hill Road in Kennebunk.

 

Alex Dunwoodie

Tumbled Stones 12×12
Sailboat West Island 12×12
Buoy 2 Camden Inlet 11×14

UPDATE 10/26/23 – Alex has brought us three more paintings! Details below

Oil painting by Alex Dunwoodie of a narrow boulder filled stream, the blue sky is reflected in the water
Blue Sky Above 12×4
West Island Stones 10×10
Oil painting by Alex Dunwoodie of the South Congregational Church looking from Kennebunk, in late winter, with blue sky.
South Congregational Church from Kennebunk 12×4

 

I’m painting what I love, what grabs my attention and makes me pause. Mornings and evenings are particularly inspirational because colors can be intensified, and light can make the ordinary interesting.

Karen Bruson

Breezy Day 12×12
Packe UP 10×20
I am inspired by the way light falls upon a subject, casting rich dark shadows, and I aspire to simplify the nuances within those darks. Starting with a luminous, warm ground, I seek to create a vibration of color by using compliments and deliberately leaving some areas untouched.

Guest Artist Heather Fountain

Glass Vessel 1
Glass Vessel 2
Glass Vessel 3
Glass Vessel 4

The glass woven vessels are constructed from individual pulled strands of glass that are laid down one at a time in five layers to create the woven appearance. Each vessel is constructed from 1000+ individual strands of glass. Colors are chosen, overlapped, and interlaced to create varied interests of color. The heat from a kiln is used at a specific temperature to allow the piece to become solid yet maintain the texture of the fabric, including a raw salvaged edge, which you find on raw cloth. Some pieces even contain an element that looks like a pulled thread. It took the artist five years to develop this technique, allowing her to create the essence of flowing cloth in the breeze out of a solid, sharp material.

Heather Fountain

 

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