The Art Guide's Featured July 2008 Gallery :: The sylvan Gallery

121 West Main Street,
Clinton, CT.
Exit 62 off I-95, one mile east of Hammonasset State Park on Rt. 1
860.669.7278
www.sylvangallery.com

Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm, Sunday, noon to 4pm and by
appointment

Sylvan Gallery is proud to represent some of the finest contemporary realist artists on the Connecticut shoreline as well as select realist artists from the surrounding New England states and from other areas of the country. Many of the artists working in oil, watercolor, print media, and sculpture have been exhibiting for over 25 years and have won significant national awards. The gallery also features the work of talented emerging artists. The common thread among all the artists is their high degree of technical skill and craftsmanship, and their passion to create their own unique visions of the natural beauty that surrounds us.

Gallery directors Ann and Rick Scanlan opened the doors to Sylvan Gallery in July of 2001. Prior to that they lived for almost 20 years in New York City. Ann’s own studies in art began at Miami University in Oxford, OH, where she earned a BFA degree. When she moved to New York City, she enrolled at the Art Students League and spent eight formative years drawing and painting the figure. The class spent the month of June in Stowe, VT, for plein air landscape painting. Rick worked as a commercial photographer in New York, specializing in architectural photography. They moved to Clinton, CT, in 2000 and realized a dream of theirs when they opened Sylvan Gallery. Set in a late nineteenth-century Victorian house, it became the perfect setting for showcasing realistic works of art. In the gallery’s first review it was described as an "oasis of art."

Presenting Showing:

“Lasting Impressions”
July 11 - August 17, 2008
Opening Reception: July 11, 6-8:30 pm

Sylvan Gallery is proud to present “Lasting Impressions” featuring new paintings by Angelo Franco, Jennifer Li, Paul Lipp and Laura Winslow from July 11th - August 17th 2008. The opening reception will be on Friday, July
11th from 6:00pm to 8:00pm. These four talented artists bring their individual interpretations to a variety of subject matter including landscape and local shoreline views, the portrait and figure, still life and studies of birds. Call Ann or Rick Scanlan at 860-669-7278 for more information or visit the website at www.sylvangallery.com.

Other artists that we represent are: Crista Pisano, Karen Winslow (also studied with Frank Mason), Al Barker,Victor Mays, Peter Arguimbau, Jen Harmon Allen, Stan Moeller, and Nancy Tips to name a few.

Sylvan Gallery is pleased to offer intensive painting workshops in oils, watercolors, or pastels with instructor, Karen Winslow. The workshops are appropriate for painters of all levels of skill. People new to oil painting are especially welcome. Please contact the gallery if you have any questions.

Shown Here:
The Red Knots by Laura Winslow, watercolor, 9 1/2 x 14 inches
Calling in the Chickens by Jennifer Li, oil, 12 x 9 inches
The Best of Autumn by Paul Lipp, oil, 8 x 10 inches