BELLOWS FALLS-Canal Street Art Gallery, 23 Canal St., presents new artwork from Nancy Fitz-Rapalje, Kim Grall, and Edward Kingsbury III through Oct. 11.
Fitz-Rapalje, based in Bellows Falls, presents paintings from some of her familiar subjects such as fruit and floral still lifes. Portrayed in her calculated, geometric style of brushstrokes, her well-known top-down perspective flattens the background and focuses on placed objects.
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.” She says the finished painting then becomes a reminder of that day when she really looked, and thus is reinvigorated to do it again.
Grall, based in Westminster Station, creates two- and three-dimensional artworks she says express her connection with nature through the use of natural materials she grows, forages, and makes herself, such as beeswax, earth pigments, plant-based handmade papers, raw fleece, leaves, feathers, and grasses.
Recently Grall has been making marbled handmade papers. She also uses techniques such as pyrography, painting, and collage to represent scenes from the world focused on birds, bugs, amphibians, and native plants where the wetland meets the forest.
Kingsbury, based out of Keene, New Hampshire, shows new abstract acrylic paintings, studies in color and pattern, and the practice of making art as prayer. The resulting paintings are Kingsbury’s abstract representation of God. The artist’s paintings are intricate line-made structures layered with opaque and translucent color and applications creating luminous woven surfaces.
Canal Street Art Gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sundays 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and the third Friday of every month until 7 p.m. For more information, go to canalstreetartgallery.com, call Mike Noyes at 802-289-0104, or email artinfo@canalstreetartgallery.com.
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