"Still Life," a series of recent watercolors by Alice Freeman, is now on exhibit at the Putney Public Library through March 2.
"For me painting is all about color and the joy it produces: in the doing of it and in the looking at it," Freeman said in a news release. "Watercolor is my preferred medium because of its unexpected quality and the knowledge that I never have complete control over it. Much of the magic happens on the paper after the brush has been lifted. I am attracted to brightness and intensity, while at the same time enjoying delicacy and detail. Watercolor has it all."
Alice Freeman grew up in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and moved to East Putney in 1972. She started painting in watercolor almost immediately. She has studied painting with Naoto Nakagawa, David Rohn and, most recently, with Lynn Zimmerman.
Freeman has exhibited at the Stratton Arts Festival, the West Village Meetinghouse, the AVA Gallery in Lebanon, New Hampshire, and at Art on the Mountain in Wilmington. Her work is in several private collections. In 1982, she was accepted as a participant in the Vermont Artists' Week at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson.
In the 1990s, Freeman took a lengthy detour into furniture painting and teaching at the Vermont Craft Center at Frog Hollow in Manchester, and she spent the first 15 years of the 21st century designing and making quilts, an art she still enjoys. Several years before the pandemic, Alice's love of painting in watercolors returned. The paintings in this exhibition are a sampling of her watercolors since then.
Freeman and her husband, author Castle Freeman Jr., have lived in Newfane since 1975, together with many long-haired Dachshunds.
Putney Public Library is located at 55 Main St. This art show, like all library programs, is free. The library is open Monday through Friday, 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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