Photo Show of a Natural Phenomenon You've Never Seen!

Westporter Nancy Breakstone opens her largest one-woman photography show “Impressions in the Sand,” this Saturday, November 10, at Brendan’s 101 in Rowayton with a public reception from 6 to 8 p.m.

Shot in Costa Rica, “Impressions in the Sand” features 34 photographs capturing the intimate relationship between the ocean and the beach.

Breakstone explains: “My photographs show the natural art created by the receding tide of the Pacific Ocean on a volcanic beach. The ocean is the artist. The sand is its canvas. The receding tide cuts these images in the sand, and I shoot them. The patterns are shown exactly as I saw them, although sometimes in black and white or with a splash of color added.”

“These photographs show a common natural phenomenon that few people have ever seen before,” Breakstone adds. “They are both realistic and abstract, but people are nearly always amazed to discover they are all photographs of sand.”

A one-minute video at https://NancyBreakstonePhotography.com/blog/ shows one pattern being created.

A self-professed water woman, Breakstone has spent more than 50 years on the water after a childhood in Greenwich, including nine years teaching Stand Up Paddleboarding (SUP). In the last year, she has been in 28 mostly juried shows, two years running at the Pequot Library in Southport, and winning two Second Place awards in photography.

Her shows include the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists’ Coalition; Carriage Barn Arts Center in New Canaan, Barrett Art Center in Poughkeepsie, NY; Limner Gallery in Hudson, NY; Stamford Art Association; and the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts. She is a member of the Silvermine Guild of Artists and an exhibiting artist at the Rowayton Arts Center.

Her work was published in the April 2018 issue of The Woven Tale Press. Breakstone’s images are featured in private collections across the U.S. from Martha’s Vineyard to Maui, from New York to San Francisco, and internationally in Rome and Sydney, Australia.

Last summer, she was the “Meet Your Neighbor” front-page feature in the Westport News https://www.westport-news.com/news/article/Meet-your-Neighbor-Waterwoman-and-13144957.php

The public opening reception for “Impressions in the Sand” will be at 101 Rowayton Avenue, Brendan’s 101, 6 – 8 p.m. this Saturday, November 10. The exhibit runs from November 8 through December 4.

To see more of her work, visit http://NancyBreakstonePhotography.com or email info@NancyBreakstonePhotography.com