An exhibit of works by the Main Street Painters will be on display in the Daniels Room at the Hancock Town Library beginning Saturday, Aug. 27.
Susie Choate, Diana Conrad, Heather Dahlberg, Dolores Gosselin, and Gay Hartman have been painting together for several years, receiving instruction in water-soluble oils from artist Betty Glass.
Originally from Virginia, Betty Glass of Wilton has taught art for more than 30 years and has won numerous awards. Her style has been described as “impressionistic realism.” Her work features New England landscapes and coastal scenes, as well as house portraits, still life, and florals.
Hancock resident Susie Choate has had a lifelong passion for art in all forms. She has studied and become proficient in Pysanky — Ukranian egg decorating, colored pencil, and oil and acrylic painting, with instruction from the Sharon Arts School as well as from artists Gary Ruska, Nicole Caulfield, and currently Betty Glass. Her work has been featured in New Hampshire magazine and other local news media.
Diana Conrad has many ties to the arts community. A lifelong devotee of music, she is an accomplished violinist and teacher. About six years ago she signed up for an art class. She is now a student of Glass, where she meets with her colleagues for conversation, conviviality, art discovery and appreciation, tidbits of information, and life lessons.
Heather Dahlberg has been an oil painter for most of her adult life, focusing on still life, genre scenes, and landscape painting. She has studied with local artists and traveled to Europe and the Caribbean for classes as well. For many years she belonged to the Westport (Massachuetts) Art Group, the Wellesley Society of Artists, and the Boston Copley Society of Art, and was an art docent at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College.
Dolores Gosselin, a New Hampshire native who holds a Bachelor of Arts from UNH, studied art and photography at the Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences and watercolor painting with Sylvia Brofos at the Kimball-Jenkins School of Art. Her oil painting technique, which she calls “painterly realism,” has been refined through the guidance of Glass. The paintings she has included in this show reflect her love of the New England landscape and her fascination with its ruggedly beautiful shoreline.
Gay Hartman majored in art history at Mount Holyoke College and has been painting for many years in various media. While living in Connecticut, she was public relations manager and acting director at the Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington. Since moving to Peterborough in 2010, she has taken courses with Betty Glass and Mary Iselin, and has begun creating “series paintings” featuring seasonal landscapes, snow scenes, gardens, florals, and water reflections. Her preferred medium now is water-based oils, which she sometimes combines with acrylic as an under painting.
An artists’ reception will be held on Sunday, Sept. 11, from 2 to 4 p.m.
The show, which will be on display through Oct. 6, can be viewed during regular library hours — Monday and Wednesday, 2 to 6 p.m.; Tuesday and Thursday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
For more information, call 525-4411.