| 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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| 2008 EXHIBIT SCHEDULE |
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 January 3-28
BARBARA COBURN
Watercolors & Oils
 Barbara is an artist from Spofford, NH, who works with watercolors and oils, creating unique still lives, landscapes and architectural scenes from rural New England. Her watercolor paintings are highly realistic putting the viewer there in the subject matter. The oils Barbara paints are much looser concentrating on the essence of the subject.
Graduating from Anna Maria College located in Paxton, MA in 1975, she received her degree in art and advertising. She started her career as a graphic designer, winning numerous awards for advertising designs and concepts. Her first love, however, has always been painting and she incorporates much of her professional design and color knowledge into her art.
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January 28 - February 25
SUSAN RILEY
Watercolors & Oils
Susan grew up in Vermont and graduated from Dartmouth in 1977. After many years in New York she recently moved back to Vermont and says, "It's good to be back and painting in New England. This is the physical and social geography of home."
Whether using oils or watercolor, fidelity to the natural world is a constant in all Susan's art. Most of her work is in landscapes, flowers, birds, and still life. Her membership in the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators reflects this orientation to the natural world, but it does not exclusively represent the range of her painting interests.
Susan's botanical watercolors are done strictly from life. The transience of her subjects means that she is pressed to work with as few interruptions as possible until the painting is finished. These paintings are done in the tradition of botanical art that goes back many centuries and recalls a time before photography when precise observation and artful representation of plants merged to create an exquisite art form that is enjoying a renaissance today. |
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February 25 - March 30
ROSE MAHANOR
Prints
Rose Mahanor resides in Fryeburg, Maine and has a Masters of Fine Arts from Wayne State University. She has had her work exhibited all over the country spanning an almost 20-year career as an artist. She has won many awards, including Best in Show at the Springfield, VT Art Walk Festival in 2004. |
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April 1 - 28
MEDORA HEBERT
Photography
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April 28 - June 2
GILL TRUSLOW
Pastels - Landscapes
 The visual and performing arts have been an important part of Gill's life since she was a child, when creating art, dancing all brought her joy, and still do, although her work now focuses on the visual arts. Gill has taught Art in Massachusetts and local New Hampshire schools for the past 34 years. A weaver and craftsperson prior to raising her family, Gill has experimented with a variety of media throughout her teaching career. Although her primary painting medium has been watercolors, she has recently developed a passion for pastel painting after studying briefly with Robert Collier, and taking more in-depth workshops with Robert Carsten. She enjoys the richness of the pastels, and their buttery, tactile quality -- and the ability to build up layers of color to create vibrant, atmospheric paintings.
Being outdoors and working in the garden is an integral part of Gill's life, so she is naturally drawn to landscape painting, appreciating the play of light on the land, reflections on water, and the beautiful changes in cloud formations. My desire is to hold on to the beauty of a particular time and place by immersing herself in it again through the process of painting.
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June 2 - 30
SUSAN KINGSBURY
Susan spent her childhood in Minnesota and has lived in the Monadnock Region since 1989. She has a BA from Smith College and a BFA in illustration from the Art Center College of Design, Pasedena, CA. She worked in NYC for the architect Marcel Breuer, and in Los Angeles for Charles and Ray Eames and as a graphic designer at the Gemological Institute of America. Susan has been employed in design and production for the past eighteen years, most recently with Kennedy Information, BYTE magazine and MARKEM Corporation.
Susan took up painting in 1998, first studying ‘plein air’ landscape with Eric Aho and The Great River Arts Institute in Walpole, NH. Between 2000 and 2005 she traveled three times to Italy and once to France with groups of artists who painted outside “all day every day.” She has recently experimented in still life and abstract painting.
Susan is an exhibiting member of the Redmond Bennett Gallery in Dublin, NH. Her workspace in Harrisville has been on the annual Monadnock Art / Friends of the Dublin Art Colony studio tour for several years. She is currently secretary of the board of directors of The Great River Arts Institute in Bellows Falls, VT.
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June 30 - 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 - Sept 2
PRISM PAINTERS
New Works in Watermedia
 Exuberant use of color, strong mark making, and visually arresting compositions typify the work of the Prism Painters. They are known for their use of subjective color and shapes that capture the essence of their subjects rather than just a realistic description. Spunk permeates the work.
The Prism Painters originally met three years ago in a watermedia class taught by well-known NH artist Frankie Brackley Tolman. Their strong connection to expressive painting and Frankie's mentoring continued beyond the class schedule. After three years of monthly painting sessions in Frankie's studio, these artists formed the group called Prism Painters. The word prism was chosen as it is known as "a medium that distorts, slants, or colors whatever is viewed through it" and is descriptive of "highly colored"
The Prism Painters utilize the watermedia matrix. They paint with watercolor, acrylic, gouache, casein and gesso. Caran d'ache and collage are occasionally combined with the paint. Each medium is explored beyond traditional techniques. Breaking the rules or painting outside-the-box is an inherent intent in this group's work. The work is uniquely personal and creative, as each artist has a strong "voice" in expressing her vision of a world.
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September 2 - 29
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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September 29 - November 3
JEFFREY NEWCOMER
Photography
 For over 20 years, Jeffrey Newcomer has served as a member, webmaster and photographer for the Chesterfield, NH Conservation Commission. The commission has been the leading force for the preservation of the towns open and wild spaces. Exhibited during the month of October are a selection of images, primarily from the monadnock region and southern Vermont, captured during years of exploration and trail work.
Visit www.partridgebrookreflections.com
for more examples of his work.
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November 3 - December 1
CAITLYN BAUCOM
Custom Wreaths
Caitlyn Baucom was raised in Walpole, NH. She attended both Fall Mountain Regional High School and the Putney School. In 2003, she moved to Washington State to attend Evergreen, where she received her BA with a focus in contemporary art, practice and critical theory: installation art. After graduating, Caitly returned to Walpole and has been working with Jason Munn and Jayson Munn Design.
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December 1 - 29
MARCIE MAYNARD
Oils & Pastels - Landscapes
 Marcie Maynard has always lived and loved art. She majored in Art at UMASS Amherst and studied drawing, painting, printmaking, and sculpture, to name a few. Marcie moved on to work in New York City as a graphic designer before returning to New England to continue as the director of graphics for Stillgate Publishers. In 2000, she opened the Three Rivers Gallery as part of the downtown revitalization of Bellows Falls, VT. Marcie now has her own studio where she approaches the landscapes used for her work from both representational and abstract treatments.
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