Featured Artists
Laurie Simko
Exhibition 9/9/2020-11/9/2020
Laurie Simko’s artwork is inspired by the natural world of the flora and fauna in the brooks, bogs and woods around her.
The emergence of COVID changed her focus last spring. Her daughter, a nurse, sent her a selfie with her newly acquired face shield, and struck with the image, she painted her portrait. She created a series of 19 more of her hero coworkers to honor and show them gratitude, and to chronicle this challenging time.
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Jason Cheeseman-Meyer
Exhibition : 09/15/2018 - 11/15/2018
Award-winning artist Jason Cheeseman-Meyer blends the tactile and illusionistic natures of paint to capture motion and depict human bonds and aspirations.
“To draw or paint classically requires an altered state of consciousness. The everyday visual processing that our brain uses to allow us to safely cross the street edits, simplifies, and abstracts the overwhelming visual world into an efficient system of useful data. To draw or paint “realistically” the mind must take away these pre-conscious informational overlays and perceive more of what the eye actually sees and less of what the brain sorts and interprets.
My paintings seek to pick and choose from different stages in the brain’s visual processing pathways, and act as maps that invite the viewer to enter that altered state of consciousness. They invite the viewer as well as the artist to alter their mental state until the brain is no longer tuned to be an efficient survival machine, but an encompassing experiential tool, openly engaged with the world around and the worlds within.”
Jason is available for commissions, portraits, a beer while discussing art and/or neuroscience, a game of Scrabble which he usually loses, and arguing for the continued use of the Oxford comma.
Kristin Conant
I have been exploring art creation since I enrolled in the fine arts program at New Mexico State University when I was 18. I’m also a graduate of the Butera School of Art in Boston. I have been employed as both a sign painter and commercial artist, but my real love has been painting for myself. The subjects that have interested me have been many and varied and have included nature, fantasy, animals and people. Recently I’ve changed from using acrylic, gouche or inks to oil paints.
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Liza Curtis
Liza Curtis received her BS in Art Education from Skidmore College and is an artist, certified Holistic Health Coach, and Reiki practitioner living in Natick, MA with her family. She has lived in many different places around the United States and traveled quite extensively in Europe and the Middle East. Liza has over 20 year experience as a professional artist and teacher with a passion for spirituality, nutrition and wellness. In 2012 she co-founded and co-owned Palettes paint and wine studio in downtown Natick, which was sold to the new owners in June of this year. Currently Liza is working as the membership coordinator at the Natick Community Organic Farm.
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Sandrine Colson
Paris Stories
Bio
Sandrine Colson is born in Provence, France, she is a world traveler and has visited many countries in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe. She lived in France, various parts of the US, and now resides in Boston. Her work has been exhibited in many galleries, museums and other venues throughout New England, the US as well as Europe: France and Spain. Her studio is based in Charlestown, MA. She is presently focusing on mastering her art as a painter, mixed media and jewelry artist.
Sandrine is a versatile artist working in acrylic and mixed media abstract compositions, referencing natural forms and movement, filled with bright paint swirls, playful paper cut-outs, and three-dimensional objects, resulting in richly textured abstract canvases with intricate layering. Her work is a continuing experimentation with form, color, and medium. It is a snap-shot representation of stories that unveil under her brush, or through various mixed-media, letting innovation and creativity materialize on the canvas, leaving the viewer to his or her imagination to finish the story she started, making imagination, visible.
Her mission as an artist is to value the uniqueness in each of us by telling stories of who we are or is important to us.
About Paris Stories
"I have always imagined myself as a teller of “stories” except that images, landscapes, colors, flowers, mixed media, sculptures, paintings, and other ways of expressing myself as an artist using colors, materials and textures, are my ways of telling stories. I am a painter of stories. All my pieces have a story to tell. Some for the viewer to find on their own, some more guided through my brush or the theme of the piece."
Paris Stories describes a series of unique and original pieces of mixed media work where each story - each piece - represents an unique series of events, memories, words, and accounts of imaginary or real people, past events or emotional journeys related to Paris. Each invites the viewer to let his or her imagination decides where the story goes, somewhat guided by the composition I created based upon my own journey in Paris. This journey is just beginning...