| ART ON THE WALLS AT OUR RESTAURANT |
While chocolate is the trademark of L.A. Burdick, the celebration of quality cuisine does not stop there. The Restaurant at L.A. Burdick Chocolate has a French style menu, emphasizing organic, wild caught, and locally grown provisions. We maintain a focus on bringing out the flavors of these special ingredients and seasonal offerings. We are open for lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch.
We appreciate the spirit and life of the places we call home. We are pleased to support high-level regional artists by exhibing their work on the walls of our restaurant - providing our local talents exposure to a broad community of appreciative patrons!
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Are you a local artist interested in exhibiting in our restaurant? Click here for more information.
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| 2009 EXHIBIT SCHEDULE |
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 December 29 - February 2
CHRIS MADIGAN
Photographer
 Born and raised on Long Island, New York Chris Madigan fled the city during the “Back to the Land” movement of the late nineteen sixties and arrived in the Monadnock region of southern New Hampshire where he has lived since 1970 except for the year or so he spent working at the Common Ground Restaurant while living in Brattleboro and Marlboro,VT in 1976.
He worked in the universities’ darkroom and studied Theatre and English at Hofstra University and Nassau Community College.
He has worked as a designer and builder of timber frames for over thirty years and is co-owner of The Timber Frame Workshop, Inc. As time and money have allowed he has pursued a life long interest photographing buildings and landscapes, family and friends both here and abroad.
Though he has little formal training in photography he is not entirely “self taught” either. Many people have shared their knowledge and insights including Christine Triebert, John Willis, Alen Mac Weeney, Keith Carter, Al Karevy and the many members of the Vermont Center for Photography and the Monadnock Photographers Guild.
Email Chris Madigan
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February 2 - March 2
ROBIN WILLIAMS
Fine Art Photography
 “Never sentimental, never imprecise – yet, photgrapher Robin Williams does not shy away from beauty. She plumbs its depths when she photographs the veins in a perfect baby’s head, one single eye of a lustful man, and the window of an abandoned mill. Her images are beyond political. They are spiritual and strongly emotional, and therefore totally modern. Robin uses digital technology to spray these painterly images onto watercolor paper for you to see concentrated anger and passion, or another emotion just as beautiful” – Lise Johnson
Robin Williams has been a Fine Art Photographer for 30 years, Her focus has been intimate portraiture. She attended photography school in South Woodstock, VT where she studied under noted photographer John Doscher. She also studied under Masters Joyce Tenneson and Mary Ellen Mark.
Robin has exhibited her work in many venues, including AVA Gallery and the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center. Her photographs have been published in articles and advertisements in NY Times Magazine, Yankee Magazine, Fine Woodworking and many others She has won several awards including the ASMP Big Picture Awards.
She divides her time between New Hampshire and Newfoundland and Labrador. She is currently working on an upcoming book project of the life and and landscape of the people of Newfoundland and Labrador and intimate portraits of people at the end of their lives and their families. She hopes to raise the awareness that compassionate care can bring peace and beauty in our final days.
Robin can be contacted at robinelizabethwilliams@gmail.com
Website coming soon.
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March 2 - March 30
Chocolate for Water
A World Water Day Reception featuring the photography of Ariane Kirtley
In the Azawak Valley of Niger, West Africa inhabitants struggle to meet the most basic human need - water. One out of every two children dies before the age of five - 25% of them from dehydration.
Gobal climate change has shortened the rainy season to less than 3 months a year in this West African region. Children travel up to 35 miles a day in search of water for their families.
Clean water does exist there, but is too deep to reach without expensive mechanical equipment. Amman Imman drills sustainable wells that provide clean , pure water for up to 25,000 people and animals.
Listen to the story of this forgotten people and be inspired to help reverse their plight.
For more information, visit www.waterishope.org
Photography sales - all proceeds support Amman Imman
For project information, contact Julie@ammanimman.org
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 March 30 - April 27
DAVID FRANCIS THOMSON
1870-1948
Canadian artist/illustrator. As a member of the Toronto Art Students League, he and other professional artists would meet on a regular basis to draw and paint. Group excursions for the purpose of sketching were frequent. Some other notable members of the League at the time were C.W. Jefferys, W.W. Alexander, R.W. Crouch, his brother Will J. Thomson, and R. Holmes.
Circa 1908, David worked his way to France aboard a cattle boat He studied with other impressionists at the Julian Academy in Paris. His work includes numerous etchings, sketches, watercolors and oils.
Before moving to Boston where he married Martha Billard in 1911, he worked for the New York Press. For the remainder of his career he worked for the Forbes Lithograph Co. in Chelsea, MA. As an illustrator, he most notably designed the logo for Dutch Boy Paints as well as the trademark for Fisk Tires (for U.S. Rubber) in 1945.
He is the grandfather of David Thomson Howard of Walpole, NH. Art work is on exhibit only – not for sale.
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April 28 - May 31
DOUG TRUMP
Artist's Statement
Painting is a pure transformation. It calls us to our deepest selves. We are fortunate to have it, as we are to be in this life. As an artist, I am looking for the image to breathe and then expand through the imagination and emotion, so that the canvas is but one intersection, one slice, one point of an uncontained whole.
For more information, visit www.dougtrump.com
OF COURSE - 2008
Oil, pencil and ink on canvas
60 x 60 inches
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May 31 - June 29
PERRIN HENDRICK
 Born in New Hampshire, Perrin Hendrick spent his youth exploring the woods and farmlands of New England. This time outdoors cultivated a deep love and connection to the natural world. Perrin now spends his time exploring the spaces where the purity of the wilderness meets the edge of the human spirit.
His paintings have become known for their ability to conjure up an unromantic nostalgia while at the same time creating a compelling dissonance. Pushing this duality further, his painting often reveals the line between reverence and fear; between the desire to surrender to the natural world and the compulsive need to control it.
This human struggle is often manifested in the rich texture of paint through which the artist physically wrestles in an attempt to describe the landscapes of New England which have become sacred to him. The result becomes vibrant, richly textured landscapes that are at once ambiguous and deeply personal points of view.
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June 29 - July 31
KRIS GALLI
Oil on Canvas
Kris Galli is an artist originally from western Massachusetts whose paintings are featured in collections throughout the United States and abroad. She is self-taught, and has been painting for about twenty
years. She showed her work for many years in Lenox, MA, and currently lives in Keene with her husband, the photographer Edward Acker, and
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July 31 - August 31
ED ACKER
Photography
 Edward Acker was born and raised in New York and now makes his home in the Berkshires and in New Hampshire. Known primarily for his soulful and stunning black & white photographs of families and children, he is also well known for his unique, docu-style wedding photography. He has also made a name for himself photographing such luminaries as James Taylor, Madonna, professional golfers like Arnold Palmer and Tiger Woods, and in 2000, he was the only photographer invited to photograph the birthday party of President Bill Clinton on Martha's Vineyard.
Edward lives with his wife, Kris, who is a painter, and their very pampered cat, Thomas. He is available for weddings, portraits, family portraits and corporate events.
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August 31 - September 28
JOE BEER
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September 28 - November 2
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| November 2 - November 30 |
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November 30 - December 30
RICHARD SCHMID
 Richard Schmid was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1934. His earliest artistic influence came from his maternal grandfather, Julian Oates, an architectural sculptor. Richard’s initial studies in landscape painting, figure drawing, and anatomy began at the age of twelve and continued into classical techniques under William H. Mosby at the American Academy of Art in Chicago.
Mosby, a graduate of the Belgian Royal Academy in Brussels and the Superior Institute in Antwerp, was a technical expert on European and American realism. Studies with him involved working exclusively from life, at first using the conceptual and technical methods of the Flemish, Dutch, and Spanish masters, and eventually all of the late 19th century European and American painters. The emphasis in each period was on Alla Prima, or Direct Painting systems of the various periods. However, Richard’s individual style and the content of his work developed along personal lines.
In 2005, Richard Schmid was presented with the Gold Medal award from the Portrait Society of America during their annual portrait conference held in Washington DC. Richard is also the recipient of an honorary doctorate degree from the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts in Old Lyme, CT.
For extended biographical information and samples of his work, please visit RichardSchmid.Com
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