Created By: South Coast Artists
#12 on the Brochure
Artists showing at: 64-A Swamp Rd, Little Compton, RI 02837
Peter Aldrich
AUGUST 17 & 18 Only
OIL/CHARCOAL/ACRYLIC: Landscapes, portraits, still life and baseball scenes
Perhaps more accurately, I paint what I think I see, or saw. I paint what I see.
After an absence of over forty years, I came back to painting. My first lessons in drawing and oil painting really became lessons in seeing. I slowly realized that my businessman’s eyes had to become the eyes of a painter. Looking at the world through my new eyes is refreshing, and to me, surprising. Color, for instance, now presents to me a richer array of nuance and meaning. Shapes, planes, shadows, all have euclidean vibrancy to which I had previously been blind.
I attempt in my painting to capture a moment in time, of my own vision, of the world as I see and feel it. If I am fortunate in a painting, I also manage to evoke for the viewer some feelings in turn. I strive for visual clarity that hopefully incorporates some subtle ambiguity of tone and mood. (I rarely achieve this.)
I paint for myself. I have no message, nor mission. I love the endeavor, and the activity of painting. For me, it is a selfish endeavor. Time either stops, or whizzes by when I paint; I have yet to figure which. Suffice it to say that I loose the perception of time. The pleasure captures me completely. Only fatigue, frustration, or an obligation can bring me back to “real time”. I am pleased if others find pleasure in something I have rendered, but that is just a frosting pleasure.
I paint quickly.
A very long tree-lined driveway (quarter mile) brings you to the Aldrich "Barn" (big doors). PLEASE park in the field just behind the barn/studio. Thank you
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Karen Melanson
AUGUST 17 & 18 Only
PASTEL: Colorful paintings of waves, seashore, marshes, flowers and sunsets
Karen loves to paint bright, vibrant, colorful pastels of the Southcoast. Living in Westport, she loves to capture the beauty and magic of the coastline, beaches, waves, marshes, sunsets and flowers in her paintings. She loves to paint Plein air and considers the outdoors her studio.
This point of interest is part of the tour: 2024 Little Compton Artists
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