Fertile Ground is the Mezzanine Gallery’s annual spring exhibition showcasing the wide variety of art that local artists have been creating during the winter and also to celebrate the arrival of spring.

Please enjoy!

Bob Burchess
Children of the forest…fruit of the fertile ground
Ink and Graphite
10.5″ x 13″
NFS

Bob Burchess
Resurrection
Oil
40″ x 34″
NFS

paula cloudpainter
i wandered lonely as a cloud
digital painting: limited edition giclee
6.8″ x 9.1″ unframed
$80 unframed

paula cloudpainter
cloudscape over field
digital painting: limited edition giclee
6.8″ x 9.1″ unframed
$80 unframed

Frances Chevalier
The Ammonoosuc River on a Crisp Day
Photograph
11″ x 8″
NFS

Frances Chevalier
Jewels on the Jonte River on a Hot Day
Photograph
12″ x 16″
NFS

Frances Chevalier
Black Cat in Montmarte
Photograph
8″ x 10″
NFS

Frances Chevalier
In a French Garden
Photograph
8″ x 10″
NFS

Becky Cook
A Mentor of My Art
Watercolor
15″ x 11″
NFS

Becky Cook
Early Spring Connecticut River
Watercolor
11″ x 15″
$100

Becky Cook
Onion River Sparkles
Oil
20″ x 16″
$300

Becky Cook
Alumni Tents
Oil
16″ x 20″
$300

Helen Curtis
Up Close
Photograph
NFS

Helen Curtis
Butterfly in Waiting
Photograph
NFS

Helen Curtis
Monarch
Photograph
NFS

Helen Curtis
Welcome Spring
Photograph
NFS

Jen Danly
Garden Song
Inspired by an old folk song, this art quilt incorporates hand-dyed and hand printed fabric, using cut vegetables as stamps. Machine embroidery includes the verse “Inch by inch, row by row, gonna make this garden grow, all I need is a rake and a hoe and a piece of fertile ground”

Jen Danly
Garden Song
Art Quilt
41″ x 15″
NFS

Jenny Dembinski
Ovenbird
Block print with Watercolor
6″ x 4″
$50

Jenny Dembinski
Mid Summer Bouquet
Acrylic on canvas
20″ x 16″
$200

Lora Gerard
Beneath the Dirt: Frontlit
Glass on glass mosaic (glass and pottery, grout)
7.5″ x 9.5″
NFS

Lora Gerard
Beneath the Dirt: Backlit

Gisèle Mac Harg
Three Boys on a Beached Dory (after Winslow Homer)
Hooked Rug
12″ x 24″
$550

Gisèle Mac Harg
Sara and Her Dog (after Mary Cassatt)
Hooked Rug
13″ x 10″
$450

Gisèle Mac Harg
The Jewess (after Modigliani)
Hooked Rug
15″ x 12″
$550

Gisèle Mac Harg
Portrait of Maude (after Modigliani)
Hooked Rug
12″ x 12″
$550

Susan Kerns
Sunflower Passion
Oil painting
40″ x 30″
$2,800

Susan Kerns
Sunflower Universe
Oil painting
30″ x 40″
$2,800

Susan Kerns
Peony Love
Oil painting
30″ x 40″
$2,200

Susan Kerns
Peony Fascination
Oil painting
24″ x 36″
$2,200

Linda Knisley
Nature’s First Green is Gold
Pastel
6.5″ x 9.5″  (11″ x 14″ framed)
$100

Linda Knisley
The Seed Whisperer
Mono print with collage
9.5″ x 7.5″  (17″ x 14″ framed)
$75

Linda Knisley
Huddle
Mixed Media
12″ x 12″
$75

Linda Knisley
Start Again
Collage Color Reproduction
7″ x 5″ (10″ x 8″ framed)
$35

Kate Reeves
Emergence
Watercolor
27″ x 18″
$800

Sonja Olson
Barns on the Stage Road
Solar Plate Etching no. 6/10
4″ x 9.75″
$135

Sonja Olson
Stark Light
Solar Plate Etching  no. 14/20
5.5″ x 9.75″
$125

Sonja Olson
Hillside Barn, Woodstock
Solar Plate Etching with Viscosity Tint no. 7/10
5.5″ x 9.75″
$135

Sonja Olson
Huddled in the Snow
Solar Plate Etching with Chine Collé
3″ x 7.5″
NFS

Gaal Shepherd
Violet Shadows
Oil on canvas
24″ x 30″  unframed
$925

Gaal Shepherd
Cork Hillside
Oil on canvas
11″ x 14″  unframed
$300

Gaal Shepherd
Mushroom Heaven
Oil on canvas
12″ x 12″  framed
$420

Gaal Shepherd
Black Valley Stream
Pastel on paper
13.5″ x 10″  framed
$370