Created By: South Coast Artists
#45 on the Brochure
Artists showing at: 2 Fox Ln, Westport, MA 02790
Donna St Amant
BOTH TOURS
PHOTOGRAPHY: Vibrant and detailed images created on a flat bed scanner
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Donna’s love of capturing images began back in the early ‘80s with black and white film and her own darkroom where she marveled at the development process. When the digital era began replacing film and supplies became more difficult to find, she stepped away as the extensive time on the computer required in that new format was too close to how she spent most of her workday as an engineer. She sought out more tangible ways to express herself and found working with metal, flame, and hammer as a metalsmith gave her the perfect balance and at times a way to relieve the stresses of day.
Now in retirement, she’s rekindled her love of photography. She capture the close up detail and beauty of flowers, worn beached objects, and elements of nature that cross her path on a large flatbed scanner in a process often called “Scanography”. Once used to digitize her photographic negatives, the high-resolution scanner is now her ‘studio camera’ and the fine detail it captures never ceases to amaze her. Whether a single bloom or a ‘medley’ of treasures, the objects are placed directly on the scanner glass with the cover left open. She builds depth and layers from foreground to background on the glass surface. Using a preview feature, she can see the image as it will be recorded and can rearrange elements until it’s just what she had imagined.
To Donna, this process feels somewhat like organizing a group portrait. She place the individuals near one another in a pleasing and cohesive composition, intertwines outreaching elements to project a feeling of connection, and then captures the moment.
Overall, she says “It’s all about passion, the joy of creating … and the continuous quest to learn and grow.”
Yellow house on a dirt lane off of Drift Road.
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Stan Frankenthaler
BOTH TOURS
WATERCOLOR/ENCAUSTIC: Abstract paintings, bricolage and monoprints inspired by nature
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Will provide ongoing demonstrations throughout the Tour weekend.
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Stan Frankenthaler is a working abstract artist; and chef. Living on the south coast of Massachusetts he finds great joy and inspiration all around him.
“I love to be absorbed in my surroundings. I seek to find the beauty in all places. As simple as a walk in the woods, or along the beach; I take joy from the spirit of place and try to share something of those experiences through my artwork (and cooking).”
Frankenthaler grew up in a family rich in tradition, and steeped in pursuing the American dream of “follow your path, work hard, make your own way”. Primarily growing up in the south, Stan spent time with both branches of his family - from New York City to rural Alabama. This breadth of cultural exposure greatly influenced Frankenthaler – from a young age he was taken to Broadway shows, museums, and white-tablecloth restaurants; as well as taught to cook, fish, shell peas, and rewire a lamp!
After starting watercolor classes in 2007. Frankenthaler continued working in various mediums; finding plenty of inspiration living in a coastal, farming town; and Colorado. ”As a teen and younger adult, I found expression in writing, cooking, and photography …. Which I still enjoy, yet when I first experienced working in encaustic it just felt such a natural fit that I have focused building my skills and exploring my voice with wax more than any other medium.”
Using gathered and pressed botanicals along with other found materials, Frankenthaler creates encaustic bricolage; building subject and story through layering and fusing these with beeswax, pigments and other materials. His mono-prints are painted directly on his griddle, and lifted on various papers.
“I’m pulled to the physicality, heat and fire of the encaustic process. And through this find the narrative I hope to share.”
Stan will demonstrate his techniques for making his encaustic monoprints. He paints directly on his hot griddle with pigmented beeswax and then using various tools and his hands works the image to a point where he is then ready to catch it on paper. Frankenthaler may further work the image once the paper has been laid onto the griddle before he lifts it hot off the griddle.
This point of interest is part of the tour: 2024 August Artists
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