“Close to Home,” an exhibit of sketchbook pages by Randolph Center artist Paul Calter, is on display through June 29, 2016, in the Gifford Medical Center Art Gallery.
The 39 landscapes were created in locations within ten miles of Randolph during a period spanning nearly 50 years. Each scene is numbered and keyed to a map of the area hung near the exhibit.
“There’s no need to travel to an exotic location to find something to please the eye,” Calter writes in his artist’s note. “Sometimes I would set up an easel, but more often I’d just find a rock to sit on, with my pad in my lap, or sketch standing with a small pad in one hand and a brush in the other.”
In 1968 Calter left an engineering job in New York City to teach mathematics in Vermont, where he also began to draw, paint, and sculpt. He earned a Masters of Fine Arts Degree in sculpture from the Vermont College of Norwich University (now the Vermont College of Fine Arts) in 1993.
Calter’s paintings and sculptures have been commissioned and exhibited around the region. He has permanent pieces featured at Vermont Technical College, Castleton State College, and Gifford. His pieces at the hospital include a fountain in the Courtyard Garden (donated in 2009) and a marble carving of a nurse located near the inpatient unit, (donated 2012).
This exhibit is free and open to the public, and will be displayed through June 29, 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.