Past Show • April 4 to April 27, 2019

NANCY MEAGHER
WIND TREES WATER

MARGARET JEAN TAYLOR
FORM SHADOWS LIGHT

OPENING / Amherst Arts Night Plus: First Thursday, April 4, 5-8 pm
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ART FORUM/ Artists in Community: Fourth Thursday, April 25, 7:30 pm
The artists exhibiting will talk about their work and invite questions and comments from the audience.
Also come to the forum for the raffle of two paintings by the exhibitors. ​
Free and open to the public.

The Forum, Artists In Community, is supported in part by a grant from the Amherst Cultural Council, 
a local agency, supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

Puffer’s Pond, Nancy Meagher

Armed with tubes of richly pigmented oil paints, sharp palette knives, and poetry, Amherst artist Nancy Meagher confronts a season of grief through her exploration of the internal and external environment of two local ponds. Her paintings loom large, some spanning 48” x 36” on canvases scaled “large enough to step into," as the artist says.
 
Meagher’s paintings aim to envelop the viewer in a setting offering emotional osmosis between the internal and the external landscape. At Puffer’s Pond, she recalls, a thunderous crack in the sky above brought down a tree limb the size of a truck. To her right, she found further inspiration in a small stream that poured itself under the road bridge to reemerge as a frothy, larger, luminous green river.
 
At Leverett Pond, Meagher noted cream-colored reeds standing knee deep in cold water, as if awaiting adventure, with leafless Sumacs lined up behind them. “I tucked myself amongst the thorny brambles and waited, too,” she explains. “It was a picture perfect day for grief – cold, desolate, the first snow, and with a wind determined to attract attention.” 

_        Leverett Pond with Snow, Nancy Meagher

           Shoal Creek, Margaret Jean Taylor

Amherst artist Margaret Jean Taylor will exhibit drawings, prints, and paintings focusing on images of tree forms defined by light and shadow, selected from her work over six decades.

Summer Shadows, Margaret Jean Taylor

February Hour, Margaret Jean Taylor