May 2024 Show Artists Reception: Vanishing Landscapes

May’s Show at North End Gallery features the theme Vanishing Landscapes. Long standing familiar views can change and alter forever. Artists capture the moment: a pristine shoreline, an old tobacco barn, a field with cows grazing, a farmer plowing a field, an historic house or building, or a beautiful tree on a lonely two-lane road.

What we see in passing, the artist fixes in time and preserves, so when times change, the images of the past are still with us. This is a beautiful show with some nostalgic and beautiful windows into the past and present. Come find a memory, come find something worth holding on to.

This month, North End's featured artists are:

Bea Poulin

Bea Poulin is a freelance art photographer who focuses her eye on man-made structures and their interaction with the forces of nature. She explores the simple abstract components found in broad landscape views and the surprisingly complex textural details of objects like boat hulls laden with barnacles and layers of paint. Poulin presents her work in both large format canvas prints and small intimate inkjet prints uniquely framed - all reflective of her interest in abstract expressionism.

Mimi Little

I have painted all my life but the passion to make paintings that relate to my life, where I live, what I am doing and what is socially important to me began in the mid 1990’s.

Working in acrylics, collage, cold wax/oil I have produced series of paintings that have been influenced by every aspect of my life. A project to help restore a tobacco barn in Southern Maryland introduced me to the abstract shapes that light seen from the inside of the barn produce. I approach each new series without expectation or formula. This allows me to move around the idea, to change the mood and sometimes even subject matter of the painting as I progress into the series.

My paintings are abstract in nature. Although the majority of my work is painted in the studio, I enjoy painting en plein air (from nature). It challenges me to find a composition in a world of infinite possibilities.

The show opens on Tuesday, April 30th, with the reception and opportunity to meet the gallery's artists on Friday, May 3rd, from 5 pm to 8pm.  The show ends Sunday, June 2nd. Join us!