The Widlund Gallery at Tannery Pond Center presents: Water, Mystery, Memory by Susan Bouton
Tuesday, February 17 - Saturday, March 28
Reception: Friday, February 27 | 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: There is a rhythm in Nature, a vibration which, despite the noise and disruption of our daily lives, continues to pulsate with a quiet beat in our story. When we disconnect from this rhythm, the loss of its energy depletes the deepest part of us. But then, if we quiet, we can sense it in our longing for something we can’t quite identify. We feel its presence in the passing of a storm, the roar of a spring stream, the call of a loon, the view from the top of a mountain. And, if we listen carefully for her poetry and her song, perhaps we can remember Nature’s heartbeat and hear her message. We depict her in art in order to remember.
Susan Bouton
Susan Bouton is a fine art photographer and owner of Oak Pointe Photography in Niskayuna, New York. She holds a B.A. from the University of Rochester in Art History and is a graduate of Albany Law School. After many years of practicing law, she began three years of part time study at the International Center of Photography in New York City and completed classes in digital photography, processing and printing as well as numerous specialty areas including Street Photography, Portraiture and most significantly, a Long Term Project culminating in the publication of a photobook on the Adirondacks, The Sound of White.
In addition to coursework at ICP, she has participated in intensive workshops at international locations including Morocco, Istanbul and Scotland with National Geographic photographers Joe McNally and Ira Block and a session in Marseille, France with ICP instructor Stephanie de Rouge.
The images presented at Tannery Pond were all captured in the Adirondacks and focus on winter, spring, and the transition between the two when Earth, after a season of hibernation, comes alive again.
