Four of My Prize-winning Paintings Are Featured in Today's VALLEY COURIER!

"The Quiet Place" (Messerschmidt's, Westbrook, CT) is a 10 x 20" acrylic on canvas by Joan Cole.

"Moraine" is a 24 x 12" acrylic on gallerywrap canvas

 

by Joan Cole.

The Quiet Place and Moraine were accepted into the Connecticut Women Artists Exhibit at the Slater Memorial Museum in Norwich during Sept.  The former is a scene familiar to many area residents:  the upper pond at Messerschmidt's on the Westbrook-Deep River line.   The latter may also be familiar to folks who enjoy swimming, fishing, or hiking at Chatfield Hollow State Park in Killingworth.

"Day's End" is a 24 x 12" acrylic on canvas by Joan Cole.

Day's End received an award from the Essex Art Association in their June exhibition Fluidity.

 

Crescent Lake Sunrise will be  on display in the New Britain Museum of American Art's 43rd Annual Juried Member's exhibit , Oct. 13- Oct. 28.

"Crescent Lake Sunrise" is an 8 x 16" acrylic on canvas by Joan Cole.

From October 18 - 21, my paintings of down east Maine, Acadia and the Schoodic Peninsula will be included in The Maine Attraction Art Exhibit   at the Essex Art Association Gallery, 10 North Main Street in Essex, CT, along with works by artists Jan Blencowe and Claudia Post and photographs by Lou Zucchi.   

I invite you to come for all of the activities that are planned.

"Day's End" is an award winner!

"Day's End," 24 x 12" acrylic on canvas, copyright Joan Cole

I am pleased to announce that last evening at the Essex Art Association's opening, I was awarded a $200 prize for "Day's End."  I am really honored by this award, especially considering the fact that my painting was one of nearly 200 paintings in this exhibition.  To be chosen one of the fourteen artists who were recipients of various awards and prizes has been a very humbling experience for me.


The theme of "Fluidity" had been described in the show prospectus as "....flowing easily, changeable, airiness, facility, elasticity, suppleness.  Picture a flowing river: melting snow: moving clouds: windy sky: the moon in its phases: nature in all its forms, ever changing with the seasons."  The juror was Julia M. Pavone, co-founder and curator/director of Alexey von Schilippe Gallery of Art, UConn Avery Point Campus; Teacher; Painter.  Ms. Pavone's statement, printed in the show brochure, is "This was a tough job as there was good work to choose from; I loved the variation of styles and mediums on a wonderful theme.  Congratulations to all the artists."  Thank you, Ms. Pavone, for this honor.