Annual Art 2018

When is a painting of a landscape not a landscape? Perhaps when the painting is really a memory of your childhood. And when is a painting of a boat not just an accurate depiction of the vessel, but also a testament to your place as…

Over the course of a career in painting spanning more than 40 years, Deborah Quinn-Munson says she continues to enjoy pursuing the “spirited execution of a painting that conveys the serenity and peacefulness of the scene.” Her statement encapsulates entirely her personal…

From the initial scene she chooses to paint, to the actual act of painting, to the experience she hopes the viewer will have, artist Ruth Odile does everything within her power to elicit an emotional, rather than an intellectual, response. “I’m trying to get to…

Every morning, Jane Lincoln wakes up and completes her “color calendar”—a project of her own invention where each day she selects the arrangement of colors from three hues of Sherwin-Williams paint sample cards and creates a collage of inspiration. She hasn’t missed …

There’s a lot going on at Grainger Pottery in Sandwich. Simply walking through the door is an experience. Every inch of wall space is decorated, and it might take the eye a minute to adjust to the vibrant colors and shapes and realize what they…

When Amy tells Sheldon that their friends Leonard and Penny’s relationship is complicated in “The Big Bang Theory” episode “The Decoupling Fluctuation,” the quirky physicist rebuffs the notion, matter-of-factly replying, “String theory is complicated.” Yes, str…

The desire to paint was always there, even during his career as an engineer in high-tech plastics molding. After work, Larry Folding would come home and paint. He even remembers the exact day he decided to dedicate real time and energy to his art. He…

It’s a busy time in Ramon Alcolea’s studio. Already a high-energy person who works on several projects at once, he now has one more significant undertaking added to his schedule. He is preparing for an open studio of his work in September, in collaboration with…

It seems that for most of his life, Paul Baldassini has lived in two worlds—the modern world, where he founded and ran a successful boutique design firm in Boston’s Back Bay, and the 15th and 16th centuries, hobnobbing with master painters such as Rubens, Titian…

“I like people to be able to see a story in my art,” says sculptor Neil Grant. “I’m happy to tell someone what inspired me to make a piece, but I don’t want to tell them how to see it.” Grant left the corporate world…

As if floating in another dimension of time and space, Ronalee Crocker’s still life paintings seem to have the power to paradoxically ground the space in which they are displayed. Her simple and familiar objects are subtly placed in a way that suggests an aura…