Davis County Clipper - BDAC show full of beauty

Davis County Clipper - BDAC show full of beauty

Check out this article, it gives a beautiful description of my pottery piece: "Gatsby In The Moonlight".

BDAC show full of beauty

by Jenniffer Wardell Davis County Clipper

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Lucia Heffernan’s “Lunch”

BOUNTIFUL — With all this colorful, lively, wonderful art squeezed into one place, your only wish will be that there had been a few more square feet they could have thrown open.

The Bountiful/Davis Art Center had a record number of entries at this year’s Statewide Art Competition, which assured that only the best, brightest, and most appealing made it into the companion exhibit running now through April 1 at the art center.

Every corner of the building, from the spaces behind desks to the children’s room off the north gallery, is full of lively, interesting art that will make you want to explore every inch.

Classic flower paintings have never looked better, richly delicate or bursting with color. Cliff Bergera’s collection of blossoms are like miniature slices of the rainbow, glowing with an internal light, while James Forbush’s “Blossoms” is a fragile tangle of green and coral that makes you want to run your fingers through it.

Sherrie Southwick added a gentle touch of the abstract with her “Amaryllis Waltz,” using what looks like weaving to break down the petals into individual blocks of bold, rich red in sunshine yellow.

For those with more traditional tastes there are also several lovely takes on the classic landscape, including Alana Winegar’s corridor of trees that she calls simply “Light.” Elsewhere in the exhibit, Winegar celebrates the beauty of an open, clear sky in her “Haight Creek Trail.”

Fans of three-dimensional work will have plenty to cheer about as well. Eru “Ed” Napia contributed some of his well-known pots, graceful and subtly textured, and Marv Poulson finds the waves inside chunks of stone.

Janelle Call Davis’s “Gatsby in the Moonlight” embraces the color of some of the two dimensional works, though you don’t need to know a thing about the book to imagine a thousand stories for the woman standing in the beautiful garden.

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Exhibiting at Bountiful Davis Art Center

Statewide Competition
One of the longest-running juried visual arts exhibitions in Utah.
February 25 – April 1
Opening reception: Friday, February 25, 7-9 pm
www.bdac.org

Address: Bountiful/Davis Art Center 745 South Main Street Bountiful. UT 84010 Phone: (801) 292-0367

Gatsby In the Moonlight

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Here's an era of time that I think I would have enjoyed. Too often Tim and I comment that we are old souls, meant for another time.

Ophelia Revisited

I find myself playing with reality quite often, particularly when I feel anxious. I survived my school years using this technique. Rather than being surrounded by a crowd of junior high school students, I was surrounded by tall yellow grass. Rather than feeling the cold beads of anxiety on my body, I would submerse myself in the peaceful currents of a quiet lake. I spent a lot of time in this imagery, mostly because it was my coping strategy, but also because I found it beautiful. As a grown woman, I still climb into these beautiful dreams from time to time. I'm sure it sounds silly- but don't we all need a beautiful escape? John Lennon sang, "You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one..." I'm not the only one... Shakespeare and Lord Tennyson both created amazing imagery of beautiful women surrounded by water. I relate to these dreams... I spend my days engaged with children who playfully turn reality into worlds of imaginations. I might not relate to their youthful dreams, but I relate to their desire to step away from the reality they are given. I love that children and poets so easily can share these dreams, it encourages me to keep dreaming and creating and sharing.

Playing on Canvas

Living in a house with many walls has forced me to leave my clay and venture into experimenting with canvas. This first canvas is orchids surrounded by the "golden ratio". Living with a physicist has had an influence... At one point I would have called them " beautiful swirls", but now they have a name and a mathematical meaning. This second canvas is a Masai woman standing against the sun. When I was in Kenya a beautiful Masai woman came up to me and touched my ear and then smiled at me. This was a surreal moment for me... I had dreamed of walking through the grasses of Africa since I was little and once my feet stepped onto that deep red soil of the Mara, I felt as if I was dreaming. This Masai woman seemed to have sensed my lucid state and touched me as if to wake me into the reality of Africa. I continually have her image in my mind. Feeling playful with this painting, I took liberty to try some of Jackson Pollock's paint tricks.

Poppies in the Sunlight

New Art Pieces

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