Artist Reception: Jason Pritchard on ‘Westport Skies’ and Christine Timmons on ‘Journeys in Collage’
Join us on Thursday, January 9 , for an artist reception for Jason Pritchard's Westport Skies (South Gallery) and Christine Timmons' Journeys in Collage (Jesup Gallery). Both exhibits will be on display in from December 14, 2024, through February 4, 2025. The reception will run from 6 to 7 pm, followed by a conversation between Pritchard and Timmons with Miggs Burroughs from 7 to 8 pm.
About Jason Pritchard
Pritchard uses the medium of oil to capture atmospheric coastal scenes with the intention of illustrating a sense of space and connection to the New England region that he loves. Utilizing the practice of en plein air painting (painting outdoors to capture the subject in its natural setting) for smaller pieces, Pritchard then uses these pieces as preparatory studies for larger paintings, combining them with photographs that he takes while visiting the areas depicted in his work. He then completes the final piece in his studio.
"It’s important for me to visit the location to access the feeling of what it’s about to help replicate my sense of reaction back onto the canvas," Pritchard said. "Few things make me happier than taking a nice long walk along a beach, hearing the sound of the tide crashing nearby as I explore both physically, then later in my mind’s eye, the thoughts of my experience back into my painting. I embrace the process of unpacking those memories and calibrating the colors, the shifting light and the changing weather elements back in my studio. These variables prompt the type of brush movement, hues and tones I enlist which are often wrapped under an impressionistic skyline, intending to heighten the mood of my paintings further."
About Christine Timmons
Timmons’ work with collage issues from a lifelong interest and involvement with art, craft, textiles, design, and working with her hands.
"I love getting past the
initial uncertainty of beginning a new piece and gradually
discovering a path through the labyrinth of building a collage," Timmons said.
"While working on a piece, I'm always looking for a visual tension (and harmony)
among the elements ― many of them pieces torn from my trove of old monoprints and often papers that I've painted. Most of my collages nowadays are abstract, and I work principally with paper but often combine it with fabric and occasionally with paint and other media and objects."
Before the pandemic, Timmons began learning to work with encaustics (pigmented hot wax), which contain a "mysterious quality" that both intrigues her and informs her art. Unfortunately, Covid shut down the school where she had been studying, putting a pause to her encaustics efforts for quite a while. Recently she has begun taking encaustics workshops
again, excited by the prospect of exploring more about combining encaustics with collage.
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