Landing Gallery, 409 Main St in Rockland, is pleased to announce the opening of “TREE and CLOUD”, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Sarah Faragher, June 1 – July 1. Sarah will be present at the Artist’s Opening Reception if you would like to meet and talk with her. The artist’s opening reception will be held on Friday, June 1st, from 5-8 PM during Arts In Rockland’s first Friday art walk.
Sarah Faragher is a 1990 graduate of Colby College, Magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Her work was included in ART OF ACADIA by David Little and Carl Little, published in 2016 by Down East Books. Sarah was an Artist-in-residence at Acadia National Park and the Weir Farm National Historic Site in Wilton, Connecticut and has been invited to participate, numerous times, in Art Week on Great Spruce Head Island.
“One of my great loves as a landscape painter is the open space between the treeline and the beginning of the sky – a realm of significant aesthetic excitement. The treeline has mass; it exists as one big shape; it can form the varied silhouette of an entire island or far hillside. When I approach that island or hill, however, the seeming whole becomes a forest of individuals, full of air and light. I paint portraits of them as themselves and also sometimes as stand-ins for people, since trees share so many traits with us. And I wonder, while painting them, What are all these trees reaching for? Light? Sky? Something more than what we know? The edges of the seen and the known, and then, beyond that?”
“Whenever I spend time looking up, the big mystery of everything feels so evident. Painting the heavens as our planet moves through space feels like taking wordless notes about this very thing. I love painting clean, clear skies, the sun and moon, stars, and cloudscapes that continue for miles off the edges of a small canvas. As with trees, clouds live en masse and also as individuals, as big as continents or small as short-lived wisps. They offer boundless opportunity for painterly study. Finding their un-colors on my palette is a joyful difficulty, as is the problem of representing something with shape and heft that still must be made of air. Painting inside clouds, when they come down to earth, is a particular delight. In a snowstorm, or in a fog bank engulfing the trees and ledges and me too, I am wrapped in it. And rapt in it, in the paradox
of finding within the ephemeral something real as real can be.”
“Painting these themes as I experience them in nature helps me reconcile what is happening in the world – the endless permutations of light and darkness, the lasting and the transitory – and recognize the
interconnectedness of everything in a direct way.”
Hours: Wed-Sat 11-5, Sun 12-5 & closed on Mon & Tues. For more
information, please call 207 239-1223 or e-mail
landinggallery@gmail.com
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