Rowayton Arts Center announced watercolor exhibit award winners
Lois Brooks, the widow of Walter Brooks, and her son Christopher congratulated award winners during the opening of the 24th annual Walter Brooks Memorial Watercolor Exhibit at the Rowayton Arts Center. Pictured from left are Ann Kromer, honorable mention; Sue Spivak, second place; Christoper and Lois Brooks; Dick Rauh, first place; and Marianne Rothballer, the exhibit co-chair. Ellen Gordon was not present. The exhibit runs through Sunday, June 26. Award winners have been announced for the 24th annual Walter Brooks Memorial Watercolor Exhibition at the Rowayton Arts Center, 145 Rowayton Avenue, through Sunday, June 26. They are first place – Dick Rauh of Westport; second place – Susan Spivak of Westport; third place – Ellen Gordon of Stamford; honorable mention – Ann Kromer of Ridgefield. The RAC gallery is open from 12:00-5:00 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and from 1:00-4:00 p.m. on Sundays. Admission is free. All 48 works in this exhibit are by Rowayton Arts Center members. In addition to the award winners, participating artists include: Bridgeport -- Kaz Oda; Darien – Vicki French Smith, Lisa Thoren and Diane Weeks; Fairfield – Janine Brown; New Canaan -- Marianne Rothballer and Antoinette Vardamis; Norwalk – Pat Atkins, Kathy Draper, Merion Frolich, Jessica Huse, Scott Kuykendall, Stan Pastore, Barbara Seith and Bela Szabo; Ridgefield – Melissa Orme and Richard Koleszar; Rowayton – Hanneke Goedkoop, Dana Laird, Lynn Stephens Massey and Lilly Langotsky; Weston – Barbara Bernstein; Westport – Sandra Aldrich, JoAnn Davidson, Pam Davis, Judith Orseck Katz, Wendy MacCordy and Mary Maynard; Wilton – Clark Robinson, Betty Schneier and Jen Shelley. Faxon says, “I particularly loved the diversity of approaches to watercolor exhibited here from botanical to abstraction. It was very difficult to narrow the field to just four. Dick Rauh’s technique is superb but what stands out more is the design, the space division, values in an almost monochromatic color scheme – very dramatic. Each of the two figures by Sue Spivak and Ellen Gordon, juxtaposed against each other, is exciting in its own way -- one delicate, lovely, opaque vs. transparency; the other angular, fractured, full of color, shapes and contrasts. The striking simplicity and immediacy of “On the Road Again” by Ann Kromer creates a constant motion. One is there in the middle of the painting – on the road again.Technique In Watercolour - News
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