The Widlund Gallery at Tannery Pond Center presents: Watercolor: Masters & Students
Tuesday, November 25 - Saturday, January 3
Reception: Friday, December 12 | 4-6 PM
Gallery Hours: Tues – Fri, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM | Sat, 12:00 - 4:00 PM | additional hours by appointment
Local Watercolor Instructors - Jan Palmer, Kate Hartley, Diane Swanson and Sarah Yeoman - will exhibit alongside their adult students’ paintings, at Tannery Pond Community Center’s Widlund Gallery. Over 50 local artists will be represented. Viewers will have a chance to experience watercolor techniques and styles, from beginners to masters. Many of the works will be for sale.
Kate Hartley
Kate Hartley moved to North Creek area in the Adirondacks over twenty years ago, from her long-time home of Burlington, Vermont. For over thirty-five years she has painted, exhibited and taught art, with watercolors as her specialty. Her own artwork often centers on still life, though she enjoys all aspects of realistic depiction, especially capturing the beauty of nature… the gesture of a leaf, a recumbent hill, or a misty morning at the forest’s edge. Light (and pears!) fill her paintings, which have won many awards over the years. She enjoys painting each ‘double entendre’ – a still life, which can be enjoyed as a simple painting, or as a commentary on human interactions.
Kate loves to travel, and after studying both art and education in college, she chose watercolors as a medium that can be taken along more easily - even on a bike or backpack. She also has a love of teaching, and leads visual art classes and workshops for all ages near her home in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. In Burlington, Kate ran a small arts school for all ages, and now shares her love of art through classes and camps at the Queensbury Senior Center, Johnsburg Youth Committee, LARAC, Ti Arts, Friends of the Johnsburg Parks, and at H’ART Studio & Gallery.
Fifteen years ago, she added mosaics to her list of endeavors, as a vehicle for combining art and teaching. Over 2000 people have joined her in adding elements to a huge community mural: the North Creek Mosaic Project (look for it on Facebook, or www.visitnorthcreek.com).
In 2021, Kate started a gallery representing over 50 Adirondack artists at 276 Main St., North Creek, NY. Come visit H’ART Studio & Gallery (find us on Facebook, or www.visitnorthcreek.com).
Artist’s Statement: “As an artist, I have always found inspiration in close observation of the natural world, and in the ever-changing play of light and shadow over organic forms. My recent paintings are a continuing series of “pear portraits” in which the pears seem to be having conversations and interacting. Through my art, I seek to convey a sense of visual poetry.”
Contact the artist: email katehartleyvt@gmail.com
Sarah Yeoman
Sarah Yeoman is an internationally recognized watercolor artist and instructor, and a signature member of the American Watercolor Society, with only 400 members throughout the world. Originally from Lawrenceville, NJ, she winters in northern Delaware but has spent the last 65 years summering on Indian Lake in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate NY. Her Great-Grand Uncle Buster Lewis built the family cabin in 1917 and also brought the famous Princeton Tiger bar to Farrells Tavern (Indian Lake Restaurant) in the 1930’s.
She has been featured in Watercolor Artist Magazine, The Art of Watercolor, Pratique Des Arts,The Artist Magazine and the Ellie Saab Haute Couture Paris Runway Catalog. She has served as a juror for The Western Federation of Watercolor Societies, The Northeast Watercolor Society and The Exhibition of American Watercolors in Old Forge, NY.
From her Crow and Raven series and Brandywine Valley landscapes to her 45 years of painting, paddling and exploring the Adirondacks in watercolor she is most at home in the woods and on the water following in the artistic steps of her painting hero, Winslow Homer.
Sarah has been teaching painting for 40 years and has been an instructor at Abanakee Studios in Indian Lake, Timberlock and for the Lake Placid Center for the Arts. She has also taught workshop across the US, Canada and Europe.Her work can be found at Abanakee Studios in Indian Lake,Gallery 46 in Lake Placid and Har’t Gallery in North Creek. You can also see more of Sarahs work and see her teaching schedule on her website.
www.sarahyeoman.com