On View in Bellows Falls

Nancy Fitz-Rapalje

October 17th through December 14th

Join us on 3rd Friday October 17th and November 24th from 5-7pm for opening receptions and to meet the artists

Nancy Fitz-Rapalje, based in Bellows Falls, Vermont, shows a large collection of oil paintings done in observation of some of her favorite subjects, such as lilacs, peaches, books, postcards of admired artists, radishes, asparagus and the agricultural and rural landscape. Fitz-Rapalje, referring to her painting as sketches, describes her practice of painting quickly from observation “a quick drilling of the eye and a short alla prima battle”. For the artist, the finished painting then becomes a reminder of that day when she really ‘looked’, and thus to be reinvigorated to do it again.

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Edward Kingsbury III

October 17th through December 14th

Join us on 3rd Friday October 17th and November 24th from 5-7pm for opening receptions and to meet the artists

Edward Kingsbury III, based in Keene, New Hampshire, shares new large format abstract acrylic paintings. A self taught artist, Kingsbury has worked extensively in drawing and digital mediums, and most recently with painting. For Kingsbury, the work is a spiritual expression of the artist's practice of prayer while he works, the resulting painting being an abstract representation of God. Kingsburry’s paintings show an intricate pattern of lines layered with many textures of both opaque and translucent color, creating a luminous woven surface, undulating and changing before the eye.

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Jeanne McMahan

October 17th through December 14th

Join us on 3rd Friday October 17th and November 24th from 5-7pm for opening receptions and to meet the artists

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Jeanne McMahan

Artist’s Statement on “Tidal Series”

This groups of works, selected from a larger body, began a year or so ago. They draw from the

views from a place in Maine where I grew up and spent time walking the shore. The impetus

comes from the tidal changes, the flats, pools, and subtle colors revealed when the tide is at

ebb as it pauses before turning. The paintings are not drawn from life but from memory and

imagination.

I find these quotes pertinent.

I Go Down to the Shore

I go down to the shore in the morning

and depending on the hour the waves

are rolling in or moving out,

and I say, oh, I am miserable,

What shall I do—

what should I do? And the sea says

In its lovely voice:

Excuse me, I have work to do.

-Mary Oliver

Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary.

The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land,

now to the sea. On the ebb tide it knows the harsh extremes of the land world, being exposed

to heat and cold, to wind, to rain and drying sun. On the flood tide it is a water world, returning

briefly to the relative stability of the open sea.

The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been

this place of the meeting of land and water. Yet it is a world that keeps alive the sense of

continuing creation and of the relentless drive of life.

-excerpted from Rachel Carson, The Edge of the Sea, 1955

Kathleen Kathan

September 19th through November 15th

Join us on 3rd Friday September 19th and October 17 from 5-7pm for opening receptions and to meet the artists

Canal Street Art Gallery presents: the Kathleen Kathan solo show, open September 19th through November 15th. Join the gallery on September 19th from 5-7pm for Free Self Expression on Bellows Falls 3rd Fridays and an opening reception for the artist. All gallery events are free and open to the public, for wheelchair accessibility call 802-289-0104.

Kathleen Kathan, based in Acworth, New Hampshire, uses oil paint and realism to express the importance to the artist of rural backyard agriculture and wildlife. Kathan’s paintings of agricultural life such as “Three Jerseys Grazing” and “Heifers On Summer Pasture” show a colorful and celebratory view of the landscape and how domesticated animals live on it.

“I see things I'm not sure I will see again and so I paint it to remember, not knowing how long or short it may be before it is changed or gone. I hope to bring awareness to my viewers of the disappearing rural agricultural life and wildness hiding behind it.” -Kathleen Kathan

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Andrew and Aspen Fersch

September 19th through November 15th

Join us on 3rd Friday September 19th and October 17 from 5-7pm for opening receptions and to meet the artists

Canal Street Art Gallery presents: the Andrew and Aspen Fersch solo show, open September 19th through November 15th. Join the gallery on September 19th from 5-7pm for Free Self Expression on Bellows Falls 3rd Fridays and an opening reception for the artist. All gallery events are free and open to the public, for wheelchair accessibility call 802-289-0104.

Andrew and Aspen Fersch, a father daughter team, share color prints along with painted dolls, featuring photographs taken of a particular “Barbie” doll posing in and amongst the kitchen. With descriptive titles such as “Cole Slaw Hot Tub”, “Bucatini Head” and “Meat Belt”, the artists offer the following explanation: “After 66 years of being told who to be and what to wear, our icon is more than ready to make her own statements. She posed in front of a ramshackle and rundown Android phone, with color filtering being the only modification. The resulting images are disarming and liberatory - an emotive plastique/plastic figure among visuals that makes the mind flit from the aesthetic, to the political, to the ageless power of play (and power plays).” -Andrew and Aspen Fersch.

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