I’m in this Zahn Gallery Show at the Middlesex Hospital
The Zahn Gallery at the Middlesex Hospital here in Connecticut has mounted a beautiful pastel show and I am proud that my painting Starlit Lagoon is included in it.
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Spring is Coming (New Abstract Conceptualist Painting in Pastel)
Things are beginning to sprout, the air is milder, the light more diffused, the birds with their feathers and song are returning, and soon there will be peepers. How to capture all this joy and hope and relief and refreshment and rebirth?
A Few Spaces Left in My Pastel Adventures in Abstraction Workshop
I’m teaching a two day workshop for the Connecticut Pastel Society titled Adventures in Abstraction in Southington, Connecticut on April 13th and 14th.
Conundrum (New Abstract Conceptualist Painting in Pastel)
We’ve all experienced this. We are buzzing along just fine, and then just before a fork in the road, we get all confused and flummoxed about which way to go, and nothing seems clear, and we’ve got to decide, but there so much conflicting stuff going on, and… That’s what I painted in this new abstract conceptualist piece called Conundrum.
I’m in this Connecticut Pastel Society Show
I helped hang this beautiful Connecticut Pastel Society Show last week, and unfortunately missed the opening on Saturday due to it being snowed out. Fortunately, however, I got these photos while we hung the show!
I’m in this “Blue” Show in the Guilford Library
My painting July, shown above, is in a show “Blue,” put on by the Guilford Arts League, at the Guilford library, on the Guilford green in Connecticut.
Overcoming White Supremacy (New Abstract Painting in Pastel)
Since “people of color” is a preferred reference, I opted for a range of color, from muted to more intense, to represent diversity instead of choosing to merely depict a range of skin tone.
Field of Dreams (New Abstract Landscape in Pastel)
On a really frigid day last week I felt compelled to paint spring. This is the resulting abstract landscape, which I aptly titled Field of Dreams.
Sinew (New Abstract Painting in Pastel)
This painting is another in my newer series of unseen bodily mysteries objectified.
Testosterone (New Abstract Painting in Pastel)
The idea here is that I needed an example of more provocative abstract work in my powerpoint on abstraction.
Live in the Present (New Abstract in Pastel by Polly Castor)
I have been working on obtaining more textural elements with pastel and in this painting I have hit on the very pulsating, granular texture I was after.
Featured Artist: Tara Will
I am a total fan of Tara Will’s abstract landscapes! There is lots of overlap in how we approach our plein air work, although she does more of it more formally
Two New Abstract Expressionist Paintings
I do think you can get from these abstract expressionistic works my general mental state, and see how I was feeling, so expressionism is not without a subtle content of its own.
Renaissance National Pastel Show 2018
Every year the Connecticut Pastel Society hosts a national show titled Renaissance in Pastel. It is a juried show, and is tough to get in.
Surmounting (New Abstract Conceptualism Painting in Pastel)
Sometimes the way is steep and daunting. Often here are big obstacles in the way. This painting is about surmounting. We can find ways around, and even if our course if zig zagged, we can overcome, get above and beyond and see a better view.
Two New Autumn Landscapes in Pastel that are in my Show
Here are two new autumnal landscapes in pastel that were completed just before my show.
Two New Abstract Paintings in Pastel that are in my Show
Here are two examples of classic abstraction– abstractions (instead of impressions) of representational things that are in my current one woman show in Southington.