January 3-28
BARBARA COBURN
Watercolors & Oils

Barbara is an artist from Spofford, NH, who works with watercolors and oils, creating unique still lives, landscapes and architectural scenes from rural New England. Her watercolor paintings are highly realistic putting the viewer there in the subject matter. The oils Barbara paints are much looser concentrating on the essence of the subject.

Graduating from Anna Maria College located in Paxton, MA in 1975, she received her degree in art and advertising. She started her career as a graphic designer, winning numerous awards for advertising designs and concepts. Her first love, however, has always been painting and she incorporates much of her professional design and color knowledge into her art.

January 28 - February 25
SUSAN RILEY
Watercolors & Oils

Susan grew up in Vermont and graduated from Dartmouth in 1977. After many years in New York she recently moved back to Vermont and says, "It's good to be back and painting in New England. This is the physical and social geography of home."

Whether using oils or watercolor, fidelity to the natural world is a constant in all Susan's art. Most of her work is in landscapes, flowers, birds, and still life. Her membership in the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators reflects this orientation to the natural world, but it does not exclusively represent the range of her painting interests.

Susan's botanical watercolors are done strictly from life. The transience of her subjects means that she is pressed to work with as few interruptions as possible until the painting is finished. These paintings are done in the tradition of botanical art that goes back many centuries and recalls a time before photography when precise observation and artful representation of plants merged to create an exquisite art form that is enjoying a renaissance today.

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April 28 - June 2
GILL TRUSLOW
Pastels - Landscapes