Art Shows

July and August 2008

"Life in the Ocean", at the Seacoast Science Center in Rye, NH

participation with 'Suspended Starfish' at the "Golden Show" of the Kittery Art Association, located at Coleman Avenue, off Route 103, Hours: Thu 2-6, Sat 12-6, Sun 12-5

My show "Organic Remnants"  takes place at the Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, 136 State Street in Portsmouth, NH

I share the East Room with NH artist Kate Higley.

Open wed. - Sat. 10 am - 5 pm, sun noon - 4 pm

Participation with "Sea Bass" at the Annual Currier Exhibition, which due to construction work at the Currier Museum this year takes place at the New Hampshire Institute of Art.

Oct. 19 - 21, 2007

for this art show I sculpted a relief of a sturgeon, which is an ancient looking fish with rows of bone plates and a general shape similar to a shark. It can grow very large, however - it is a harmless fish. In eastern Europe, the eggs of the sturgeon are traded as kaviar. Sturgeons live in saltwater and freshwater. They once were very common in many parts of Europe, Asia and North America, but unfortunately have now become very rare or extinct in many parts of their natural habitat. In the Great Bay of southern New Hampshire, the last sturgeon has been caught many years ago by a person who illegally set up a net. From what I heard it was a female weighing approximately 500 lbs. an ready to lay eggs. A small sturgeon was caught somewhere in Maine recently - it might have been in 2006, and brought to an aquarium.

These reports show how rare these fish actually are, but names like Sturgeon Creek and Sturgeon Cove indicate their once common distribution in the Great Bay area. My sculpture is named "The Last Sturgeon" and shows a fishing scene as it might have occurred 100 years ago when this fish species was still very abundant.

 Kittery Art Association: "Water"

I participated with a granite water basin in the shape of a clam shell. The inspiration for this piece came from a visit this summer at Cynthia Hosmer's most wonderful garden on the Ocean. There I admired a giant clam shell positioned in a shady corner against a stone wall, and filled with water to serve as a bird bath. It looked magical to me. I remember similar items, carved in marble, from fountains in European palaces. 

"Sacred Places" at the Kittery Art Association

January 2006

Sacred Places

 January 12 to 29

Gallery hours:

Thursdays, 3 - 6 pm

Saturdays, 12 - 6 pm

Sundays, 12 - 5 pm

Directions to the Gallery:

In Kittery, ME, take Route 103 north, heading out of town along the coast. After crossing over the Spruce Creek bridge you will pass by Fort McClary State Park on the right. Shortly after the park and a pronounced left curve take the first street left, where there is a sign out when the gallery is open. The building is on the right.

see pictures from this show

Thomas Berger, a landscape designer, horticulturist, sculptor and owner of Green Art, a nursery and landscape design center on Route-1-Bypass, Kittery, settled with his family 11 years ago in Portsmouth after a career as an agriculturist in Europe and Africa.

Among the works Berger will be showing are miniature landscapes compounded of found and carved stones. These are in the tradition of Japanese 'Suiseki' and oriental meditative gardens. In his work, Berger seeks to express the sacredness of the world, especially the natural world. 

He also explores dreams and memories some of which are born from the castle topped cliffs of his native Moselle valley in Germany.

Also shown will be works by Polly and Peter Moak that are in the spirit of the same theme. Polly Moak is a mixed media artist who is active in a number of local art associations. Peter Moak is a former professor of art history at the Univeristy of New Hampshire. He is about to publish a book about Picasso, by whom his work is inspired. Both their works show scenes from the Mediterranean, where they traveled and painted extensively.

Sculpting with

Stone

Painting with

Flowers

Other

 Artwork

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