The Widlund Gallery at Tannery Pond Center presents: Expressionistic Paintings in Black Ink, a One-Woman Show by Sally Webb
Tuesday, September 30 - Thursday, November 20
Reception: Friday, October 3 | 5-7 PM
Gallery Hours: Tues – Fri, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM | Sat, 12:00 - 4:00 PM | additional hours by appointment
Artist Statement: I find inspiration in nature as the source of life and beauty. When I paint, I look for this beauty in what surrounds me—the mountains, the birds and my love of wildflowers. I chose to work in black ink because it is a type of expressionistic painting that is done quickly that catches my inspiration from what is in my mind and what I see.
Black ink painting is an ancient way of painting using brush, paper and black ink. This type of painting combines both drawing and painting techniques using different tones of ink and different brush strokes that bring life to a painting. My paintings represent how I see the beauty of nature that surrounds us that captures the energy of expression.
Sally Webb
Sally has been artistically expressing herself from an early age. She graduated from Penn State University with a degree in graphic design. From there she went on to study at Pratt Institute where she received a Masters in Fine Arts (MFA) degree. As part of the degree, she mounted her first one-woman show using plastics to create Avant Garde sculptures. Continuing with her design experience, Sally completed an interior design degree from the New York School of Interior Design.
For 20 plus years, Sally ran her interior design studio, Sally Webb Interiors, in Brooklyn Heights, designing residential and commercial interiors.
Broadening her professional design career, Ms. Webb completed a Certificate in Horticulture through the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and formed Sally’s Gardens, a garden design studio.
Sally was introduced to Chinese brush painting by a well-known teacher and artist at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Kwok Kat Choey. She studied Chinese brush painting with him for over ten years
Her paintings are aesthetically inspired by the shapes, contours and beauty of nature and draw on the simplicity and spontaneity of Chinese brush painting.
Sally self-published four editions of her book Wildflowers of Craneview where she found and photographed close to 200 wildflowers in and around her family home-- all part of capturing the surrounding beauty.
Sally Webb is an artist living in Johnsburg, New York and continues to create in her studio.
