Our September Show is a gathering of 4 artists hailing from the North and South Shore. Each using a different medium; assemblages, wood cuts, gouache, acrylic, watercolor and oil paint. This variety of art dovetails together to create “Synchronicity"
THE ARTISTS
Michael Weymouth - Featured Artist
Sternman on Oil Panel
- From the Artist - I grew up in Maine and attended art school in Boston. After art school, I was faced with the decision to become a full-time painter or a graphic designer. I chose the latter route, believing I would find time to paint along the way, a goal that became ever more elusive as the years went by, and especially after I started Weymouth Design, a firm that eventually grew to a 30-plus staff and with an office in San Francisco.
Early on I began shooting my own photos for the projects we designed and over time Weymouth Design became one of the leading annual report design firms in the country. Photography played a critical role in our success, and when I retired I published my first book, How Photography Can Make You a Better Painter, with the goal of helping painters use their digital cameras to create better painting resource photos.
I followed the first book with Maine (Island Time), a book of paintings, photos and poetry by Belfast, Maine poet Elizabeth Garber.
In the 90s, I built a wilderness camp in the Maine woods, where I shot many photos documenting my experience there, along with poetry that further expressed my connection to the natural world. This body of work was published in my third book, The Gentle Whisper of Living Things.
I am now fully retired and pursuing my long-awaited career as a painter.
Sally Dean
- About the Artist - Sally Dean is a south shore artist who mostly works out of her back yard studio. Sally is a member of North River Arts Society, and is a gallery artist at South Shore Art Center in Cohasset. She is a graduate of The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and has a BFA from Tufts University. As well as painting Sally works in mixed media, printmaking murals and mosaics. She has been the Education Coordinator at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, MA, since 2002. Sally was the artist in residence in 2023 at South Shore Art Center working with school children teaching animal art.
Mary Langner
- From the Artist - I have always had the desire to create beautiful things. Fine crafts, such as Nantucket baskets, and food that was both delicious and beautiful were my signature creations while I committed to a career in mental health and raising two fine sons. Once I had the time to devote to my long-held desire to create with oil paint, I found a skill and enjoyment beyond what I had imagined.
Studying with numerous fine artists has helped me further develop skills of observation and technical mastery. Always awed by the beauty of nature, I am compelled to capture the intricate details, colors, light, shadows and textures that make each landscape or seascape unique.
I am blessed to live in Duxbury, Massachusetts where there is so much natural beauty to serve as inspiration for my art.
Ann Marie O’Dowd
- About the Artist - Ann Marie O’Dowd is an experienced artist living in the Greater Boston community who specializes in bright acrylic depictions of people, animals, and still lives on canvas. After graduating from Mass Art with a degree in photography, Ann Marie took a hiatus from her artistic career in order to raise her three daughters. After returning to art, Ann Marie shifted her focus from black and white manual photography to acrylic painting. Working from a large supply of black and white photographs from her past, Ann Marie began creating her own colors and patterns to fill these vintage photographs with new life. Over 25 years have passed since Ann Marie began painting, and she is now a well-established artist with exhibits and clients both local and abroad. From billy goats to chihuahua’s, children to adults. Ann Marie describes how the physical qualities of both paint, and painting, make the experience and outcome of her work so gratifying. When asked how she came to create her recognizable style Ann Marie states her motto: “it’s only paint!”. A saying which serves as a daily reminder that it is OK to be daring, try new things, and make mistakes with paint.
Ann Marie is a member of the Copley Society of Art, Rockport Art Association, Newton Art Association as well as the North River Art Society She enjoys her participation in these communities as it has created close friendships with local artists whom she paints with on a weekly basis out of her home. In addition to exhibitions and private sales Ann Marie also has a store site on redbubble "AMOpainting" Ann Marie has been commissioned for corporate projects and events such as her work for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center , Mass General hospital and the television program This Old House.
Most importantly, Ann Marie paints because she loves the physical process of painting, and the gratification of embodying personalities through paint. No matter what the subject, she strives to give every painting the vital elements of color, character, pattern and line.