“My Winter World,” an exhibit of 14 watercolor paintings by Vermont artist Kate Reeve, is currently on display in the Gifford Medical Center Art Gallery.
An avid outdoors enthusiast, Reeves spent many years as a professional Nordic ski instructor and says winter is perhaps her favorite season in Vermont. She now shares her love of winter landscapes through her art, creating techniques to mimic falling or blowing snow.
Reeves will use gouache and oil crayon to depict snow-laden branches, or the frost on tree trunks and rocks. In the painting “Skaters Lingering on the Pond” she uses a razor blade to show the marks of skates scraping the ice. A spatter of gouache, blown thru a small screen, creates an image of falling snow—a technique she calls her ‘snow treatment’.
“I like the movement this spatter of snow creates. It gives the work more life,” she says. “Snow brings out the detail and textures of the barren woods and the bright colors of jackets on children ice skating on a pond.”
Reeves began studying watercolors 12 years ago with Annette Compton in Woodstock, VT. She is a signature member of the Vermont Watercolor Society, and has displayed her work in hospitals, libraries, and inns around the Upper Valley. She is one of a small group of artists who own STUIO 33, a shared workspace and gallery in Woodstock, and also paints in her home in Barnard, Vt.
This exhibit is free and open to the public, and will be displayed through April 20, 2016. The gallery is located just inside the hospital’s main entrance at 44 S, Main St. (Route 12) in Randolph. Call Gifford at (802) 728-7000 for more information.
