The Central Connecticut Woodturners will be holding a free Pen Turning Event on Saturday February 24th, 2023, from 10-2:00 at Knowlton Memorial Hall/Babcock Library, 25 Pompey Hollow Road, Ashford, CT. Mark your Calendars and bring a friend : The club supplies all materials, and will guide you in turning your own pen, which will be yours to keep! There will be a sign-up sheet when you come in. You do not need to be an Arts Council member to participate. A wood carver will also be present to enjoy. Local members of the CCW club Joanne Mann and Dan Merlo of Eastford CT will be leading this event. Kindly offered to us by Dan Merlo, an Arts Council Member.
John is a potter who creates usable art inspired by nature. He is continually delving into new color schemes and design styles that borrow from the past while expanding creative boundaries. Find his work on Facebook or text 860-798-5692.
Jane Rackliffe is a fused glass artist from Ashford, Connecticut and North Port, Florida. She is currently teaching fused glass in Florida and enjoys her studios in both locations year round. Her work can be view on her website, and is currently on display at the Moon and the Monocle in Willington, CT.
Dan has been an active potter since 2014. He teaches hand building techniques and working on the potters wheel in a retirement community in Florida during the winter and works out of his studio In Ashford from May through September.
Into the Lake
Watercolor on Arches 140# cold press
8 1/2” x 11 1/2”. 2022Island on Matagamon
Watercolor on Arches 140# cold press
8 1/2” x 11 1/2”. 2022Zulick’s Pond, February Thaw
Graphite, Colored Pencil
12” x 10”. 2022
SOLD-TOM AND CINDY BORGMAN
Steve Gerling has been doing relief woodcarving since the mid-1970’s. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from UConn, with a major in sculpture. After school, he was drawn to the additional challenges of relief carving. Not only did an object have to be sculpted but it had to be skillfully distorted in scale, perspective, and space to create an image convincing to the viewer. Traditionally, most relief work was intended as decoration or embellishment to works of architecture or fine cabinetry. Steve chooses to make the carving the primary object. While much of the work were objects of fine woodworking, using them as a utilitarian frame, the main focus of attention has always been the carving.
After retiring from a Mechanical Engineering career in 2009, I began my art journey with drawing and painting classes with a number of local instructors. I dabbled in pastel, oil, and colored pencil, but my preferred medium is watercolor, and my works are usually in the traditional realistic style. I belong to a number of art groups and am grateful for the many friends and acquaintances that art has brought my way. Sometimes I do commissions, everything from fighter jets to homesteads to puppy portraits and anything in between. Currently I teach watercolor at the Windsor Locks Senior Center.
“The Vermonter,” traveling northbound over the Warehouse Point railroad bridge. Medium: Watercolor Size: 20 x 26
“Wave Watchers,” a scene on a Florida beach. Medium: Watercolor Size: 23 x 19 Price: $250
“Somethin’ Fishy,” a work boat returning with the day’s catch. Medium: Watercolor Size: 26 x 21 Price: $300
“The Art Show” Medium: Watercolor Size: 14 x 18, framed Price: $270
“Old Dogs,” buddies on Crane Beach in Ipswich MA. Medium: Colored Pencil & Watercolor Size: 14 x 17 Price: $500
“The Ocean Calls,” Medium: Watercolor Size: 16 x 20, framed Price: $300
“Glory Days,” a Lockheed Super Constellation in Lufthansa markings. Medium: Watercolor Size: 39 x 14 Price: $400
To purchase originals or prints, please contact Joe directly. Click on a pic above to see slideshow.
The Central Connecticut Woodturners will be holding a free Pen Turning Event on Saturday February 4th, 2023, from 10-2:00 at Knowlton Memorial Hall/Babcock Library, 25 Pompey Hollow Road, Ashford, CT. Mark your Calendars and bring a friend : The club supplies all materials, and will guide you in turning your own pen, which will be yours to keep!
There will be a sign-up sheet when you come in.
You do not need to be an Arts Council member to participate. A wood carver will also be present to enjoy.
Local members of the CCW club Joanne Mann and Dan Merlo of Eastford CT will be leading this event. Kindly offered to us by Dan Merlo, an Arts Council Member.
Tony Paticchio, Ashford’s Poet Laureate, will be hosting a Winter 2023 Poetry Reading and Writing Workshop via Zoom on the following six Wednesday evenings from 6:30-8:30 PM:
January 25th
February 8th
February 22nd
March 8th
March 22nd
April 5th
The workshop is open to both writing and non-writing participants.
Sessions will begin with close readings and discussions of several selected poems, and readings and discussion of poems and short prose pieces composed by workshop participants. There will generally be a theme for each session’s readings, Writing participants may choose to follow the session theme, but are free to submit one to two. No prior experience reading or writing poetry is required. PLEASE EMAIL Tony Paticcihi IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE WORKSHOP AND IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE, SPECIFYING WHETHER YOU WISH TO PARTICIPATE AS A WRITER AND READER, OR SOLELY AS A READER.
Fiber Artist Joan Blade Johnson of JBJ is a Hampton, CT-based fiber artist who exhibits nationally and internationally.
Joan’s journey took her from a traditional quilter to a contemporary fiber artist who employs several surface designs in her art quilting. She enjoys the creative process involved in composing fiber art pieces using non-traditional methods and materials to achieve her artistic vision, most often inspired by nature and her original nature photography.
The surface design materials that she regularly works with on fabric include paint, foraged natural plant dye, rust, fiber reactive dye, and photos printed onto fabric.
Christine Acebo received a Certificate of Merit for her photograph “Golden Years,” exhibitedat the Salmagundi Club’s Figuratively Speaking Juried Exhibition in New York City (Feb 2 – Feb. 19, 2021).
She received the Council’s Award for her coffee-toned cyanotype print “Last Tram Out of Alfama” exhibited at the Connecticut Women Artists Members’ Juried Show (April 17 – May 14, 2021).
