July 15th-August 14th
Opening Reception on July 15th 6-9 p.m.
At the YSAC Community Gallery
111 Corry St., Yellow Springs, Ohio
Flowers, Gardens
and Landscapes, the warmth of the sun in hot, drenched yellows, deep, cool
shadows under bridges, abandoned buildings burrowed in nature, and meditative
views from the lake
Come Revel in Summer
Scenes.
Two Women Artists with
very different views of Landscapes.
Michele BonDurant works in oil, gouache and collage. She
looks for “a certain amount of isolation in the landscape. Small, abandoned
buildings which once had a purpose are particularly intriguing.”
MICHELE BONDURANT
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Ann Gayek, is a watercolor artist, Her style ranges from
recognizable images of flowers or landscapes to abstractions. She is also a horticulturist, she designs and
maintains residential gardens. She refers to gardening as three-dimensional
ever changing art. Ann's flower paintings are intuitive and impressionistic and
grounded in her familiarity with flowers and gardens. She likes to start a
painting with contour drawing using charcoal or pen. Her small watercolor
and pen pieces are painted from life, sitting on a bucket in her garden.
Both women paint often outdoors, on site.
Michele's paintings are from direct observation. Her primary
concern is the interplay of color, shape and light. In the studio, she rarely goes back into her
plein air paintings. She chooses some of them to create collages. “Creating
collages from the paintings allows me to simplify forms, intensify or mute
color, and add texture with cut paper, artist tape, yupo, etc...”
In addition to watercolor, Ann works in pastel and oil. Her
pastel flower paintings and her oil landscapes are process paintings, starting with expressive
line and intuitively adding color in paint and pastel.
“I am fascinated and inspired by the
incredible variety of flowers, their personalities, and their habits.” Ann says that her goal in her flower
paintings is to capture the spirit of flowers, their beautiful shapes and
colors, their wonderful energies.