| ART ON THE WALLS AT OUR RESTAURANT |
While chocolate is the trademark of L.A. Burdick, the celebration of quality cuisine does not stop there. The Restaurant at L.A. Burdick Chocolate has a French style menu, emphasizing organic, wild caught, and locally grown provisions. We maintain a focus on bringing out the flavors of these special ingredients and seasonal offerings. We are open for lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch.
We appreciate the spirit and life of the places we call home. We are pleased to support high-level regional artists by exhibing their work on the walls of our restaurant - providing our local talents exposure to a broad community of appreciative patrons!
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Are you a local artist interested in exhibiting in our restaurant? Click here for more information.
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| 2010 EXHIBIT SCHEDULE |
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 January 6 - February 1
PETER ROOS
Photographer
Most of the images in the exhibit come from a trip recently taken to Iceland. Peter received his BFA and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Painting and Drawing. He has been teaching those subjects in the Art Department at Keene State College for the past 20 years. Peter grew up taking pictures and developing film from an early age. With a full darkroom in the basement of the house he grew up in on Long Island, NY, his father taught him traditional photographic processing. In recent years he has studied with digital photographer, Katrin Eiseman and Stephen Johnson, learning digital processing and landscape photography.
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 February 2 - March 2
BRIAN PUTNAM
Brian was raised quite comfortably in a very small, New England town where the influence of religion, disciplined work, local pride, and driving around left a strong impact on him. For the last few years, he lived in various cities, thinking, getting educated, and making artwork. He currently lives in Edinburgh.
Brian graduated with a BA from the School of the Museum of Fine Art with Tufts University in Boston, and received a Masters of Fine Art from Byam Shaw School of Art at Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design in London.
Visit his website: www.brianputnam.net
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March 2 - March 30
MICHAEL REILLY
Michael Reilly, of Chesham, New Hampshire, paints jazz - a passionate mix of colors and shapes from which emanates motion and music. His new series of musical portraits of jazz musicians and their instruments is gaining widespread recognition. Michael works with casein paint and ink on watercolor paper. His drawings, paintings and collages will last many lifetimes. Please feel free to contact Michael with special requests or questions. He loves to talk about jazz and art!
Visit the website: www.portraitofjazz.com
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 March 30 - April 27
SCOTT J. MORGAN
Oils on Canvas
For the past 30 years, Scott J. Morgan has been combining his skills as artist and designer on canvas and in the landscape. His experiences as a professional musician are evident in the rhythm and movement in his paintings. The structural and sculptural qualities seen in his work are informed by his extensive career as a landscape architect.
Patrons of Scott’s work often comment on the lyrical, narrative quality of the pieces. His work is crafted in the tradition of short stories, passages of improvisational music and poetry. These ‘stories’ or ‘songs’ unfold as an abstract translation of Scott’s inspiration and perspective. He invites us, the audience, to participate in the dialogue through our individual and unique interpretation.
Scott enjoys serving as both instructor and mentor to a growing number of beginning and experienced painters at his studio. An anthology of his work was recently exhibited at the Bennington Museum in Bennington, VT. Scott currently teaches and exhibits in Vermont where he lives with his wife and daughter.
For more information, visit www.scottjmorganart.com
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April 28 - May 31
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May 31 - June 29
KATE BEETLE
Kate’s childhood home abutted the Great Swamp National wildlife refuge in then-rural New Jersey, and she spent many happy hours amid cattails and migrating waterfowl. She moved to the seacoast, studied Geology and Environmental Science at Richard Stockton College, and received a Bachelor of Science degree. Located on the Atlantic flyway in the unique ecosystem of the Pine Barrens, it was another rich environmental training ground.
 Kate moved to New Hampshire upon graduation and found sympathetic territory in the Connecticut River Valley. She has pursued her creativity in many forms. She was a juried member of the League of NH Craftsmen as a calligrapher, and has for many years produced licensed designs for an array of products. She received two international awards for her greeting card designs and her biography appeared in the 2001 edition of Who’s Who of American Women.
She has increasingly connected her love of painting and the environment. She studied pastels under Albert Handell and is self-taught in oils and watercolors. Kate is particularly attracted by mists, atmospheres, and reflections--a bit of the mysterious. Every season has a unique light and it is a fascinating challenge to express this in paint. She’s found several nearby locales which are proving rich sources for “series” paintings. Flowers, fruit and vegetables from her own garden and local farms also find their way into still life paintings. She has been juried into several recent national shows and is a juried member of the Sharon Arts Center.
Kate lives with three cats and bakes about 70 dozen Christmas cookies every year. For more info, send her an email.
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June 28 - July 26
KRIS GALLI / EDWARD ACKER
 Oil on Canvas
Kris Galli is an artist originally from western Massachusetts whose paintings are featured in collections throughout the United States and abroad. She is self-taught, and has been painting for about twenty
years. She showed her work for many years in Lenox, MA, and currently lives in Keene with her husband, the photographer Edward Acker, and
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 Photography
Edward Acker was born and raised in New York and now makes his home in the Berkshires and in New Hampshire. Known primarily for his soulful and stunning black & white photographs of families and children, he is also well known for his unique, docu-style wedding photography. He has also made a name for himself photographing such luminaries as James Taylor, Madonna, professional golfers like Arnold Palmer and Tiger Woods, and in 2000, he was the only photographer invited to photograph the birthday party of President Bill Clinton on Martha's Vineyard.
Edward lives with his wife, Kris, who is a painter, and their very pampered cat, Thomas. He is available for weddings, portraits, family portraits and corporate events. |
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July 26 - August 23
JANE EDMONDS
Jane Edmonds began creating her driftwood art after vacationing with friends on the island of Nantucket. What started out as a special gift for a friend turned into a passion for creating art from driftwood collected along the shores of New England. The overwhelming response to her creations is what inspired Jane to establish "Coastal Driftwood Designs". Now much of her time is spent searching for and collecting particular pieces of driftwood for her creations. All of this wood remains exactly as it was found making each piece of art truly one of a kind.
For more information visit website at:
www.coastaldriftwooddesigns.com |
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August 23 - September 27
JEANETTE STALEY
An ancient cultural struggle of women’s roles in society is expressed through these allegorical paintings. The freedom and independence we enjoy in modern society are juxtaposed with boxes in which we still find ourselves. Reverence for and vilification of women worldwide continue to shape contemporary political discourse. And yet the pedestals on which women are placed are built on shifting sand, eternally remaining an unattainable goal.
Scraps of torn papers, impasto textures and thin dripping acrylic paint build the backdrop for these collages reminiscent of sky or great ocean depths. Vastness and openness, is juxtaposed with small windows or doors of orchard fruits, painted in a moment of ripeness, fullness and sensuousness- on the brink of decay and eggs, representing rebirth and hope.
This body of work was developed with the support of 2005 Vermont Arts Council Creation grant.
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September 27 - November 1
JEFFREY NEWCOMER
Photography
 For over 20 years, Jeffrey Newcomer has served as a member, webmaster and photographer for the Chesterfield, NH Conservation Commission. The commission has been the leading force for the preservation of the towns open and wild spaces. Exhibited during the month of October are a selection of images, primarily from the monadnock region and southern Vermont, captured during years of exploration and trail work.
Visit www.partridgebrookreflections.com
for more examples of his work.
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November 1 - November 29
JAN DOLAN
Portraiture
Jan Dolan was born in Peterborough, NH and has lived there for the better part of her life. She studied at the University of New Hampshire and was mentored in the tradition of the French Academy and American Impressionists in the studio of Boston and New Hampshire painter, Sidney Willis, himself a student ofRobert D. Hunter, who was in turn a student of RHI Gammel and William Paxton.
She has received full fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and Schloss Wiepersdorf, Germany. She was an elected member of the Copley Society, Boston, MA and an associate member of Allied Artists of America. Her work has been the subject of a cover and article in The Artists’ Magazine.
Jan has had a goodly number of one- two- and three-person shows in New York City, Boston, Fisher’s Island, Oqunquit, New Orleans; at the Bristol Art Museum; throughout the New Hampshire region and in Mexico.
Her paintings hang in private collections, nationally and internationally.
For more information and gallery photos, please visit jandolanportraits.com.
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 November 29 - December 27
ANNE DIBBLE
For over 30 years Vermont artist Anna Dibble has been drawing and painting the other animals, and has exhibited extensively in solo and group shows at New England galleries. Her work is in private collections throughout the United States.
Dibble has worked in the animation studios of Disney, Marvel, Hanna Barbera, and was a freelance writer, concept designer and composer for Sesame Street. She’s been artistic director and set designer for operas and plays, published illustrations in magazines and books, and created amalgamated animal characters for licensing programs.
Anna Dibble’s evolving bestiary is inspired by her love of comics, natural history and mythology. Her current subject – Canines and Primates – reflects her view of modern life: Dogs, dog people and humor as a metaphor for our rather nonsensical condition.
Visit www.annadibble.com
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