Stonington Galleries

Join Stonington Galleries, a consortium of 10 art businesses and studios, for a spirited First Friday of art and refreshments on Friday, September 3 from 4   to 7 p.m.  Follow bright orange banners along a ten-mile trail, a pleasant drive down country roads and in Stonington Harbor.

 Brochures available at area businesses and on-line at www.stoningtongalleries.com highlight each gallery and offer a map to guide you along the way.

 In the spotlight at 5:30 p.m. will be Geoffrey Warner who will demonstrate how to assemble one of his popular owl stools.  Visitors will tour his studio on N Main Street (#3) and view other examples of his innovative furniture designs.

 Enjoy an opportunity to visit artists in their studios: potter Hannah Gossard on the Oceanville Road (#1), book artist and photographer Anne-Claude Cotty on N Main Street (#2), oil painter Lorraine Lans on Sea Breeze Avenue (#4),  painter and designer of Tibetan rugs Katy Allgeyer on Weed Field Road (#9) and wood engraver and painter Siri Beckman on the Airport Road (#10).  Plein air painter Jill Hoy runs her gallery at the corner of Main Street (#5).

 Facing the harbor on Main Street are two fine art galleries:  gWatson Gallery (#6) representing various artists, and Isalos Fine Art (#7) where new paintings by Rebecca Daugherty, Eric Hopkins and Gina Sawin will be featured.

.Stonington Galleries First Fridays run through October. For more information, please visit the web site or call 367-2699 or 367-2700.



Anne-Claude Cotty invites you to view recent silver gelatin photographs and digital "constructions" at her studio gallery on Rt. 15, just before entering Stonington Harbor.  

The gallery, located at 65 N Main Street, is open most days from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.  Visit anneclaudecotty.com or call 367-2699.





Two opening receptions will take place on Main Street Stonington on Friday July 23rd. John Woolsey: Fernald's Neck - New Pastels will open at Isalos Fine Art from 4 to 7, while the reception for Robin Reynolds & Jay Wu will take place at gWatson from 5 to 7.

Robin Reynolds, Inkling of Orange, 2009, Oil on board, 30”x30”

Both Reynolds and Wu have been students of the Stonington painter Jon Imber and each has painted on Deer Isle for the past ten summers.
 A graduate of Colby College, Robin Reynolds also has a BFA degree from the Massachusetts College of Art and a MFA degree from Savannah College of Art and Design.  She has exhibited her paintings in galleries throughout the East Coast.  Reynolds creates luminous paintings that are personal, yet parallel to the light, rhythms and feel of nature.  Working outdoors, she has created a world passionately devoted to her discoveries of nature and at the same time, passionately committed to inventing a realm of her own.

Jay Wu holds BA and MS degrees from Boston College and an MFA in painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His small, exquisite paintings at the gWatson Gallery include Stonington landscapes and still-life paintings from the past four years.

John Woolsey: Fernald's Neck #6, pastel, 22.5" x 30"

The pastels in John Woolsey's show were inspired by Fernald’s Neck, on Lake Megunticook in Camden. Woolsey focuses on small spaces in the dense woodland, referring to them as “interiors” because, like rooms, they are enclosed on all sides by dense woods. In these spaces, Woolsey finds dynamic compositions among the tangled branches, pine needles and boulders. Fernald’s Neck, a preserve managed by the Coastal Mountains Land Trust, encompasses 328 acres and about four miles of shoreline.

John Woolsey earned his MFA at the University of Pennsylvania in 1973, studying with Neil Welliver and others; his work now hangs in numerous public and corporate collections He divides his time between Philadelphia and Maine.