FEATURING TALENTED LOCAL ARTISTS
Art Exploration: Mary Belliveau
Artist Mary Belliveau has spent the last few decades globe-trotting to destinations around the world. She arrived behind her easel for a professional career as an artist later in life, after raising her children and enjoying a career in healthcare. “I’ve always been curious. My father was a traveler,” said artist Mary Belliveau.
Her work will be on display from December 10, 2022, through January 8, 2023, at Art Gallery 71 In Rhinebeck, NY – the artist-owned and operated cooperative that is host to 23 area […]
Alden “Trevor” McWilliams
Alden “Trevor” McWilliams grew up as a faculty child on the Millbrook School campus in Millbrook, NY. His artistic expression was influenced by his grandfather, a professional illustrator, as well as his father who taught photography, drawing, and printmaking. Trevor’s love for the visual arts was solidified on trips to New York City’s museums, viewing atmospheric Hudson River School masterpieces, and studying drawing and painting under Millbrook’s longtime art director, painter, and mentor, Bill Hardy, from 1997-2001.
After studying English and Art at Colby College, in […]
Frances Palmer
Reading Frances Palmer’s brilliant Life in the Studio, published in 2020, was for me three parts exhilaration, one part exhaustion. The good kind. It may look like a modestly sized, more-of-same coffee table book, but it emphatically is not. It is a treatise creativity and inspiration as the subtitle announces, a manual on technique, a workplace journal, a studiously considered collection of still-life color photography, and a comprehensive narrative about throwing, glazing, arranging, documenting, parenting, cooking, and laughing. Here you will discover the eager Barnard […]
An Artist’s Legacy
In honor of our “history” themed issue that you are currently reading, we opted to give a nod to an artist who not only resided in our area and worked here, but who has since passed – a first for us in this artist profile feature. CB had his selection of talented artists to choose from with so many artists having called our area home throughout the centuries. His choice was Daniel Chester French whose work we have (probably) all seen.
The name may not be […]
