Flanders Exhibit Mixes Nature and Art

Flanders Artists’ Day Exhibit, featuring art inspired by scenes at Flanders Nature Center and Land Trust, will be on exhibit at the Woodbury Public Library, 269 Main St. South, from Saturday, Oct. 8 to Friday, Oct. 28.

The public is invited to a wine and cheese reception to meet the artists from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8.

At the reception, Woodbury winemaker Jim Frey will offer tastings of his Walker Road Vineyards wine.

The artwork in the exhibit resulted from Flanders 5th Artists’ Day on September 10.

Artists were invited to draw inspiration, sketch or create work en plein air on the grounds of Flanders Nature Center in Woodbury.

These works and works inspired by Flanders that were done anytime before or after Artists’ Day, will be on view and many are for sale. Part of the proceeds of the sold work will benefit Flanders Nature Center and Land Trust.

Judging and Prizes

Artist Peter Seltzer will judge the artwork and cash prizes will be given, including the Natalie Van Vleck Best in Show award.

Other cash awards will be for best work in the following categories:

• Farm, including animals, agricultural crops and machinery
• Nature, including landscapes and natural habitats
• Structures, including barns and houses on the property.

Artists’ Day follows in the tradition of the founder of the center, Natalie Van Vleck, an early Modernist artist whose paintings and drawings were original and ahead of her time.

Van Vleck was an accomplished gardener and livestock farmer who raised prizewinning sheep and turkeys.

The subjects of the exhibited art will encompass Flanders’ woodlands, meadows, ponds, vegetable gardens, barns, a barnyard of animals including chickens, cows, goats, sheep, horses, and pigs, an historic main house that belonged to the parents of nature center founder and the studio which Van Vleck built and in which she worked.

Additional information is available by calling Flanders Nature Center at 203-263-3711, ext. 10.