Artists:

Martha B. Hebb, Lee Ferrara, Susan P. Vetrosos, Winchester Artists' Network, Louis J. Yanucci, Annie Chong, Pamela Tanner Boll, Peter G. Engeldrum, School's In! (Winchester Public Schools), Shanshan Cui, John McConnell.

January 2003. Martha B. Hebb.

Patron viewing two paintings by Martha B. Hebb.

February 2003. Lee Ferrara. Memories and Visions.

The exhibit included watercolors, collages, and giclees which are high quality reproductions using both digital technology and centuries-old printmaking techniques.The paintings' subjects included heritage sites and natural formations. The artist, who calls herself a Romantic Impressionist.

pictured: the painting "Anemones"

March 2003. Susan P. Vrotsos, Tuscany and Beyond.

The painting is titled "Tramonto".

Beginning in the 1980s Susan Vrotsos led tours to France and Italy for small groups of artists and art lovers. From the towering stack of sketchbooks she accumulated over the years Susan draws inspiration for all her paintings. The oil painting pictured below and titled Tramonto ("sunset" in Italian) uses brilliant colors and intense shadows to recreate the sense of dying light. The library exhibit also includes "Chianti," a series of ten watercolor/silkscreen paintings which portray the vineyard at different times of the day, as the light falls differently on it.

The artist writes: "In my work I depend on sketches from nature, travels, theatre and ballet which I then transform in my studio. My work is large, colorful, abstract or, as some have said, abstract expressionist. In every piece I try to transmit the feeling I had at the first intense or relaxed moment when the sketch was made, the initial joy or memory put in visual terms."
E-mail: Susan P. Vrotsos.

April 2003. The Winchester Artists Network, In Harmony.

Tranquility - The Tuileries, Paris

In Harmony with Comfort Food

The creations in this exhibit include an exciting variety of paintings, prints, photography, calligraphy and handcrafted jewelry emphasize the theme In Harmony. The Winchester Artists' Network (WAN) was founded in 1999 to establish a working forum for local artists in our community. With the support of the Winchester Friends of Art, WAN promotes the increased presence of art in our community through exhibitions, education and excellence in the visual arts. Connecting -- to other artists, educators businesses and community services -- is our main goal.

May 2003. Louis J. Yanucci, The Mystery of Morocco.

This exhibit of photo-graphs reveals the artist's personal vision of the people and culture of Morocco. Much of the work being show has appeared in the pages of Popular Photography over the past few years.

Funding for this exhibit is provided by The Winchester Local Cultural Council, through a grant from The Massacusetts Cultural Council.

June 2003. Annie Chong. Chinese Brush Painting Exhibition.

Annie Chong was born in Taiwan. Since her childhood she has been highly interested in art. She studied painting with a number of Master painters in Taiwan and Malaysia. Annie is now a resident of Winchester and teaches Chinese language and painting at the Lexington Chinese School. Annie's works combine Chinese brush painting skills with Western art color schemes to represent birds, flowers, and animals with vitality and joy. Annie's paintings have been exhibited in Taiwan, Malaysia, and the US. She has also been invited to participate in various international art exhibitions.

As a resident of Winchester, Annie would like to share her expertise with the community. On Saturday, June 14 from 2-5 p.m. in the Library Meeting Room, Annie demonstrated basic Chinese painting skills and she discussed the tools and materials that she uses when painting. Madam Kai Chun Liu, also a resident of Winchester, assisted with the demonstration.

July 2003. Pamela Tanner Boll. Paintings from 2000 to 2003.

The artist wrote about Making Paintings: "For me, painting is the act of pausing in the midst of life's demands, to really see. It is meditative -- a quieting of both inner and external activities so that the beauty of the world emerges. Painting is also the process of finding and then making what I dream, what I desire, what I reject, visible. The constant challenge is to bring forth images that evoke a response that is deeply felt, a 'yes, that is what it is to be alive.'"

Pamela Boll ends her statement by saying, "My paintings are about the celebration of the everyday, the stunning quality of sunlight, the solitude that wraps around each of us. I attempt to honor being on this earth today". Mrs. Boll is a widely exhibited artist who has received numerous awards. Her works are primarily in oils on canvas. She is a Winchester resident.

August 2003. Peter G. Engeldrum. Photographs, "Down East."

Racing Home, the photograph on the right, is one of Mr. Engeldrum's interpretations of the coastal elements on and around North Haven Island in Penobscot Bay, Maine. He writes, "My photographic goal is to capture images of 'common' objects, but photographed from a different viewpoint so they don't look familiar. The "unfamiliar, familiar."

Mr. Engeldrum uses conventional color negative film, which he scans and manipulates digitally to achieve the desired results. Printing of the digital files is then done on chromogenic photographic paper designed for digital printers.

Peter G. Engeldrum is a Winchester resident and a member of the Winchester Artists' Network. He is a technical consultant to companies in the imaging field and helps them with product development issues. For further information contact him at: D-log-E photography. e-mail: pge@imcotek.com, website: www.imcotek.com/photo

September 2003. School's In! Paintings, Drawings & Prints by Winchester Students, Grades K-12.

Winchester Friends of Art thanks Frame Haven and Winchester Art & Frame for frames that they generously provided for this exhibit.

October 2003. School's In! Paintings, Drawings & Prints by Winchester Students, Grades K-12.

Winchester Friends of Art thanks Frame Haven and Winchester Art & Frame for frames that they generously provided for this exhibit.

November 2003. Shanshan Cui, Paintings, mixed media.

The artist writes: The paintings in this exhibition are mainly works that I have completed in 1990s. They are pages in my diary, registering my emotions and thoughts. Imageries of fish, birds, and trees are constantly present in my paintings. Yet in my world fish may fly, birds may swim, and trees may come alive. It is my way to depict the transient nature of our surroundings and the intimate relationship between human being and the nature.I am also a practicing graphic designer

You are invited to preview my art works at my website: www.studio323.com/show

December 2003. John McConnell, Seasons.

Mount Monadnock Winter

This exhibition features paintings of familiar forest, river and salt marsh landscapes at various times of the year and under a variety of light conditions.

John McConnell's art is influenced by his love of late nineteenth-century romantic American “Brown School,” Luminist and Tonalist landscape painters, such as George Inness, Sanford Gifford and AlexanderWyant.

You can view more of John McConnell's paintings at the Winchester Artists' Network website in the Gallery in the Painting section.