“Paintings and Poetry” at Art du Jour Gallery

Transmutation, by Georganna Happel

Ten artists have melded the arts of painting and poetry for an exhibit running from March 28-May 29 at Art du Jour Gallery, 213 E. Main St., Medford.   Each artist wrote a poem to pair with a piece of their artwork.  These paired works are by Pat Blair, Millie Clarke, Linda Evans, Ruth Heath, Dixie Kinser, Susie Lee, Ginny Matheson, Penny Simmons, and Deanna St. Martin.  Guest artist Georganna Happel’s award winning painting “Transmutation” and poem will be featured in the exhibit “Paintings and Poetry”.

The Awakening, by Millie Clarke

Millie Clarke chose her poem “The Awakening” as it represents memories of the three years that she lived in Helsinki, Finland.  “The winter days were long and dark with ice encasing the streets and walkways.  Lakes were so frozen that trucks could use them as roads,” she stated.  “Living only a short way from the shores of the Baltic, we knew that spring was coming when the ice began to break up into floes.”  She has caught the feeling of that in both her poem and in the abstract painting that she painted to accompany it.

Winter Aspens, by Pat Blair

Ginny Matheson will be exhibiting a mixed media work with a Japanese influence called “Floating Gateway” and Pat Blair, in her lovely pastel works “Winter Aspens” and “Up on the Green Springs”, shows her affinity for painting plein air.