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09January2024

Grant Keller

Grant is a local resident who works out of his home workshop in Darien to create wood-art and furniture in his spare time. Originally from Cape Town, South Africa, Grant has always loved working with wood. A fascination with precision detail and the way in which line and light work in concert to create shape from shadow, led Grant towards his latest series of geometric creations. Grant’s work is a bridge between the freedom of creative thought and the simplicity of engineering accuracy. His creative process begins with the original, intangible idea and spans the drawing board, the lumber choice,…

09January2024

Glen Hacker

Glen Hacker is an artist with a passion for painting and sculpting. He graduated from Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut with a minor in fine art, and received the award for the most outstanding senior in studio art. Hacker has concentrated his creative efforts painting seascapes. His paintings express his love of the surf, ocean, beaches, and ponds and the life associated with them. As an avid fisherman, he has traveled extensively in pursuit of saltwater’s most thrilling and elusive game fish, and has often been commissioned to paint fishermen and women with their trophy catches. “My portraits convey the…

04December2023

Jane Cooper

Artist and designer, Jane Cooper, graduated from Denison University with a BA in Theatre. Post working professionally on Broadway, she focused on design and fine art. In describing her art, Cooper states, “Painting is like theatre. In my life, the two are inexorably linked. They are worlds I move between. Process, character and light. Color, form and performance. For me, it is blue. I cannot leave it aside. It is the color pervading all memory. The blue of Delft, the murky indigo of the creek by our house, the lakes of Michigan, sapphire seas around New Zealand, the blue of…

23October2023

Matthew Broad

Matthew Broad grew up in Darien, CT and now resides in New Canaan, CT. Over the years he has pursed many different creative endeavors that include making tie-dye clothing and hand drums. Matthew has settled on painting mandalas on the many different surfaces some of which are glass, rocks, canvas, and tiles of different sizes. Titles are his preferred medium. He uses a water based acrylic paint and paints the pieces “freehand,” which makes each piece unique. Each painting is made from the “creative flow of the universe” and he is truly “in the moment” when he is creating the…

02October2023

Martha Wakeman

Martha Wakeman studied at Tyler School of Art in Rome and holds a B.S. in Art Education from Skidmore College and an M.A. and M.F.A. from Villa Schifanoia-Rosary College Graduate School of Fine Art (Dominican University) in Florence, Italy. According to Wakeman, “Journey, the memories, the dreams and the reflections along the road one travels, has been a constant theme in my painting. I sometimes see reality as a series of dreams, of encounters, of momentary, fleeting fragile yet often beautiful experiences. Italy, where I spent ten years and where we still return yearly, has been and continues to be…

08September2023

Carolyn Childs

Painter Carolyn Childs is a Connecticut native, certified art teacher, and Darien mom. She is inspired by the New England coast and pulls from its beauty for her paintings. The shoreline has always been integral in her life. The shoreline has always been an integral part of her life. The paintings in this exhibit draw from a view of calm and mindful presence. The paintings are all encaustic, an ancient painting method in which wax and pigment are fused onto a surface with heat. . Childs uses a small travel-size iron as her main tool. The iron is used as her…

04August2023

TomÁsio

Thomas Glen Hacker, aka TomÁsio, started painting after an inspiring trip to Boulder, Colorado in his mid-20s. Once back home, he got busy on the canvas and realized he had a passion for the abstract. Growing up watching his father, mother, and sister paint impressionistic, abstract, and realistic works, he was surrounded by influences and subconscious stimuli. He worked with different and challenging approaches and the more he learned and experimented, he eventually came to realize that in painting he had discovered his own philosophy. As a process, it’s one whereby he’s able to channel sensory information, leading to internalization,…

01May2023

Eden Compton

American painter Eden Compton was born in Texas and raised in Ridgefield, CT. She owns and operates a fine art gallery and teaching studio in the Arts District of Saratoga Springs New York. Eden and her husband, Richard, sailed professionally for many years before settling in upstate New York several years ago. They ran private sailboats and charter boats in the Caribbean, The Bahamas, and the East Coast of the US. “While my extensive travel has sparked an interest in different types of subject matter ranging from rural landscapes to rainy cityscapes to market scenes, my work is an attempt…

03April2023

Concetta Volpe

Concetta E. Volpe is known for the illustrious colors on her palette. Her paintings are commissioned by private collectors and are displayed in homes and offices throughout the United States. Her portrait artwork has also been published on t-shirts, sold in music stores and worn by Chris Robinson, lead singer of “The Black Crowes” rock band. As a young artist Concetta won prizes for her art and drawings as early as elementary school. Growing up in New England, she has spent many summers at the beach and has traveled throughout the United States, Nova Scotia and British Columbia, Canada. She…

02March2023

Laurie Alberts

“In Laurie Alberts’s landscape paintings, color saturation penetrates the viewer like an elemental experience of love. Often paradoxically wavering between clarity and mood, they’re suffused as much with sensations as they are depictions of light, shadow, reflection, time, and space. While they might be “about” trees, rivers, clouds, and grasses, they are equally about seeing emotion in images free of the burden of narrative.” — Alice Fogel, former Poet Laureate of New Hampshire and author of Nothing But, considerations on abstract expressionism From a very early age, Laurie Alberts found solace and adventure in the woods and fields of northern…

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