The Old Lyme - Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library welcomes the holiday season with its 3rd annual Art Yule Love exhibition of local artists. An opening reception will take place in the Ludington Gallery on Thursday November 14 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. The public is invited to attend. The featured artists are Pam Carlson of Essex, Katherine Axilrod of Lyme and Julianna Cameron of Colchester.
Pam Carlson was born and raised in Darien, Connecticut where, even at a young age, she loved art and participated in local school art shows. While attending college she spent each summer in New York working in commercial art for the advertising world. Teaching won her heart over after graduation and she taught for several years before becoming a fulltime mother. The call of art came again when she built a studio in her home and exhibited in “town green” art and craft shows up and down the east coast for over twenty years.
Currently, Pam is concentrating on oil paintings and exhibiting in gallery shows. Her landscape and barnyard subjects come from the farms and back yards of Montana and Connecticut. Her landscapes and sunsets are inspired by scenic areas from Buzzards Bay, Cape Cod to the Rocky Mountains.
Katherine Axilrod began her professional life as an economist having received both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Chicago. Some six years after receiving her master’s and shortly after the birth of the second of three children, she went on to art school, received her M.F.A. from American University and became a painter. She served as Adjunct Professor of Art at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland for 17 years, teaching painting, drawing, color theory and art history while continuing to paint daily. For the past 26 years she has lived and worked in New York City and Lyme, Connecticut with studios in both locales.
Katherine is known for painting in all genres with an expressive brushstroke. The OLPGN Library will share her pen and ink drawings and graphite sketches which display the same lively movement and emotional response to her subjects seen in her colorful paintings.
Julianna Cameron graduated from the Hartford Art School in 1981 with a degree in Fine Arts. She worked professionally as a graphic designer and Art Director for fifteen years. While raising her family on a Connecticut farm she turned her attention to painting. She has exhibited her paintings in galleries and outdoor juried exhibits throughout the region since 1997.
Julianna has learned to trust the creative process whether it is working in pastels, oils on canvas or reclaimed wood materials she calls reLook. These pieces are found wood objects that are painted and repurposed into both practical and whimsical art forms.
The exhibition and reception is free and open to the public. Wine and cheese reception provided by the Library. The Library is located at 2 Library Lane, off Lyme Street, Old Lyme. Fall hours are Monday and Wednesday, 10am to 7pm; Tuesday and Thursday, 10am to 6pm; Friday, 10am to 5pm and Saturday, 10am to 4pm. For more information, call 860-434-1684 or visit www.oldlyme.lioninc.org.
