Please join me to celebrate the SECOND ANNIVERSARY...

...of Maple and Main Gallery of Fine Art at One Maple Street in Chester, Connecticut, tomorrow from 5 to 8 PM.  Come meet more than thirty other artists who have work in this new show.  These five paintings of mine will be on exhibition:

"When Lilacs...Bloomed," 10 x 20" acrylic on stretched canvas

"Quiet Cove," 10 x 8" oil on linen panel

"New Dawn," 24 x 18" acrylic on stretched canvas

Zion National Park," 9 x 12" oil on linen panel

"Chatham Harbor," 10 x 30" acrylic on three canvas panels

 

 

"New Dawn" at last!

"New Dawn," 24 x 18" original acrylic on canvas, copyright Joan Cole

I've just finished "New Dawn," a painting I've been working on throughout our bush's blooming season.   These roses have been climbing along our deck since my husband planted the bush twenty years ago.  Although they bloom in quiet profusion every year, this year, they have been even more abundant.  It has been my joy to spend days with them, watching them bud, plump up, and unfurl their modest beauty while I tried to capture just some of their  glory in pigment on canvas.  Of the hundreds of pale pink blossoms that have come and gone, only a few remain.  I'm so glad I have "New Dawn" to remind me of their delicate and fleeting beauty.