Saturday Nov 1, 2008
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Saturday Nov 29, 2008
Painting by Frances Wells
Hudson River paintings by Piermont artist Frances Wells will be on display in the gallery from November 1st until November 29th. Wells has lived on the West bank of the Hudson, in Nyack and now in Piermont, for the past twenty years and says that the river continues to be her primary subject. Like the Hudson River School painters, she is captivated by the luminosity of the Hudson and its valley, and strives to capture its many moments. For more information and to view some of the paintings, see www.franceswells.com.
About the Artist:
Painting by Frances Wells
Frances Wells was born in St. Louis, Missouri and graduated from Bennington College. There she studied painting, drawing and print making with an art faculty which included Pat Adams, Vincent Longo, Peter Stroud and Jules Olitsky among others. For the last twenty years she has lived on and painted the Hudson River and its surroundings. Her work has been shown in Manhattan, Rockland and Westchester counties and is in over 500 collections throughout the United States and Canada.
The Artist Talks about her Work:
I have been painting landscapes since childhood. My first teacher was my grandmother, Eloise Long Wells, who was a Missouri and Mississippi River painter. Together we explored and painted these rivers, their levees, the surrounding hills, bluffs, and bottom lands. She taught me to be attentive to the light and haze in that humid country side which we both loved, especially at transitional times of day. As a young woman she had five children, but she always had a studio to work in. Even if it was in the basement, it was called "The Pilot House," the highest place on the steamboat where the captain navigated the ever changing and often treacherous river.
Please visit the Frances Wells website to view more paintings and learn about the artist.
