Sep 13 - Oct 10, 2020
Open to Exhibiting Members Only
Theme: Marine and Coastal works of art
ONLINE GALLERY
Best in Show: Kris Toohey, “Skyscape” (Painting)
1st Place: Kirsti Holtan, “Keeled Over” (Photography)
2nd Place: Yasemin Tomakan, “Wharf Cottages Nantucket” (Painting)
3rd Place: Sean Murtha, “Booth Bay Morning ” (Painting)
Honorable Mention: Emily Kelting, “Sand Shapes” (Photography), Rick Pank, “Pemaquid Light, Maine” (Photography), Susan Leggitt, “Touch of Fall” (Painting), Karen Kent, “Otis” (Painting), Holly Hawthorn, “Blue Oyster Cult” (Ceramics)
Chair: Dana Laird Co-chair: Gregg Welz
Judge: Brechin Morgan ***READ JUROR’S STATEMENT HERE
Brechin Morgan is a native of Connecticut. His wanderlust began early when at sixteen he left high school to work and hang out in the bohemian atmosphere of Greenwich Village of the early sixties. He hitched across the country and through Mexico riding over 1,000 miles in railroad boxcars through the southwest. Returning he worked summers at the Windward Sailing School in Rowayton while attending Silvermine College of Art. A family and reality came next and for over twenty years he ran Morgan Sign Company in Sono and painted many of the large outdoor murals in Norwalk. Changing course in 1998, he spent four and a half years sailing solo around the world in his 27 foot cutter “Otter” earning the Joshua Slocum Society Golden Circle Award.
Upon returning home to Connecticut he set up a studio in Bridgeport where he continues to paint from his sailing and marine experiences, keeping it fresh cruising the New England coast in summers, and sampling lobster rolls with his wife Sandy in every port. Brec is a Signature Member of the American Society of Marine Artists. He has had many solo and group shows and is represented by numerous galleries in New England.