Landscape Painter Margo Cascella shares a range of her work including landscapes, historic buildings, and farm houses.

“I find inspiration wherever I am.  I paint almost every day and with every painting my style and love of painting grows.  Viewers have told me my paintings give them a sense of exhilaration and hope.  I am drawn to color, shape and movement.  When I experience this in nature my paintings reflect these feelings of optimism and promise.” -Margo Cascella

Margo Cascella, Landscape Painter
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Jess Barnett returns for her second exhibition at Wellness at Villageworks. In her work, Jess Barnett explores the duality of personality within her imagery. Themes include longing, distance in relationships, loss, and remembrance. She often uses painted or drawn words within paintings to emphasize these themes. In her latest pieces, she incorporates hand stitching with colored thread, representing rebirth and redemption. More at jessbarnett.com.

“The work I’ve included in this exhibition is a selection of pieces I’ve made over the last four months that we’ve all been in isolation to some extent. The paintings feel very related to the state of the world, while the drawings are deeply personal. Making these “Isolation Drawings” was a way to reflect and record parts of my experience and feelings during a unique and alien time. Sharing them is a way of communicating the complexities of these experiences as directly and clearly as I can during this globally shared experience.”

-Lauren G. Levine

Lauren G. Levine (b.1973) is an American artist living and working in the Boston area. Visit her website at www.laurenglevineart.com Follow her on Instagram @laurenglevineart

Nature photographs by Terri Ackerman featuring birds, mammals and other wildlife from New England, South America and Africa.

Image: "Lilac-Breasted Roller", from South Africa

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Acton Boxborough Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

Lavanya Selvaraj is a self-taught Mandala artist who lives with her husband and two kids in North Acton. Selvaraj describes the process of making mandalas as “therapeutic, meditative and addicting.” She states, “the repetitive process involved in making Mandala is truly magical and I am always mesmerized with the result.” 

Mandalas always start at a center point and from there radially emerge with various shapes, lines and swirls. Selvaraj takes inspiration from nature and everyday things and visualizes the Mandala design in her mind before transferring it on to the canvas. All her works are created by hand with lots of passion and love.

Lavanya Selvaraj
Mandala Artist | Acton, Massachusetts
lavanya.hemanth@gmail.com

Jess Barnett explores the duality of personality within her imagery.  Themes include longing, distance in relationships, loss, and remembrance. She often uses painted or drawn words within paintings to emphasize these themes. In her latest pieces, she incorporates hand stitching with colored thread, representing rebirth and redemption. More at jessbarnett.com.

Oil painter Margo Casella’s vibrant landscapes show the artist’s love of nature and seasons, “I am drawn to color, shape and movement.  When I experience these in nature my paintings reflect feelings of optimism and promise.” 

Margo Casella
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Tim William Owen is a photographer who has resided in the Acton-Boxborough area for nearly 25 years. Tim’s passion for photography was fueled as a college student, where he used his beloved Nikon FM and a darkroom to capture and share … a ‘spirited’ campus life. Since that time, Tim has fully embraced digital photography and imaging … the result of being immersed in the high technology industry and the start-up world for decades.

Tim’s artistic style is to use natural light as the foundation of a great photograph. He believes “light is Mother Nature’s paintbrush”. His photo expeditions often include rising at 3:30am to ensure he is in the right place as a new day awakens and unveils its glory.

“These paintings express my love for all living things, past and present, and finding peace in a world where your imagination knows no bounds.  I appreciate all things in nature, humbled by the design. I also admire Chinese brush painting, and the skill and artistry involved in that. My goal is to combine these two together in my own style.” — Artist Rick Lowe

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A minimalist combination of fine art film photographs and paintings that explore the relationships between light, texture, and tonality.

The Natural World on Washi: The natural world as seen through a digital lens, printed on Japanese paper.

Inspired by the simple yet equally complex beauty found in plants, fruit, and landscape, Jeri Kim wanted to combine images captured on her phone or digital camera, with elements of something handmade. This exhibit shows works that have been printed on bamboo coated paper made in Japan, designed specifically for digital and alternative photography.

Jeri Kim
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401.935.0903
Blog: haikucamera.wordpress.com
Instagram: @haikucamera

"Sometimes, we have no idea of where we’re going but we take the first step anyway, we throw caution to the wind, and we trust in the journey. The prints and paintings in this exhibit were created with the intention of not knowing what their final images would be, of taking chances, of creating tension and resolution by breaking down and using the materials in their purest forms. And to remind us of the organic nature of the world and that we all have a place in it."

Rozsi Adean Moser

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Local artist and art teacher Sue Funk's exhibit showcases her pen and ink drawings (with a few colorful pieces mixed in...)

"In my art I create the kind of world I wish to witness.
I create a world of order, peace & sanity as I revisit old memories & create calmer scenarios.
My ability to realistically capture an image has always been
a form of cleansing therapy.....
If a viewer gains insight & a moment of peace
& can feel that they have escaped our shared image of this world,
then my creation is that much more complete."

Sue Funk

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Kathryn Costello is a portrait artist specializing in head shots, magazine-style portraiture and dance photography. This exhibit of her night photography—stars and dancers (most of whom were photographed outside after dark) uses time to illustrate what cannot be seen with the naked eye.  Whether it is freezing motion at 1/5000 of a second or a three-hour exposure to burn onto film the motion of the night sky, Kathryn captures the fleeting and the eternal.

http://kathryncostello.com/afterdark/

Land and Sea: Capturing Extraordinary Views of Farms and Coastline

Local photographer Annelie Connolly loves to capture simple and “ordinary” images that evoke warm and pleasant memories or emotions, like sheep grazing on a foggy quiet morning, or late afternoon sun hitting a wooden boat tied up by the dock.  Her “Land and Sea” exhibit displays a sampling of her passion for countryside charm and coastal beauty. Annelie hopes that these “ordinary” images will call to mind “extraordinary” evening walks along the harbor or family rides to the country.  
 
Born and raised in Sweden, Annelie has long had a passion for capturing nature’s beauty in photographs. Now a US citizen and resident of Stow, and a married, mother of two boys and a Boston Terrier, she has found a passion in capturing the beauty around New England.

See more of her work at:
annelieconnolly.com

Gwen Murphy works out of ArtScape in Maynard. Her works ranges from surrealistic paintings, to hand painted paper dolls, to sculptures using vintage shoes and bathroom scales. See more of her work at gwenmurphy.blogspot.com or on Facebook.

Willy Garver has studied art all over the world, from her native Netherlands to Australia to the United States.  In this exhibit she displays her series of oil paintings of the Buddha. Proceeds from her Buddha paintings go to the Open Meadow Zen Center in Lexington MA.  See more of her work at http://www.willygarver.com.

The photography of Tara Johnson. Learn more at Tara Johnson's website.