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Carolyn Quirk
Summer Morning
Inspired by: Lionel Reinford, Winter in New England
oil and acrylic, crushed glass beads, and medium gloss on gesso watercolor paper
9″ x 12″
2020 – 2021
My Response is to Mr. Lionel Reinford, Winter in New England. I met Mr. Reinford several years ago, my Aunt and Uncle had purchased several of his paintings and I admired his work. Mr. Reinford had an exhibit at the Fitchburg Art Museum featured in the Main Gallery, I also was in an exhibit in the community gallery that ran along side of the main gallery, I went to see Mr. Reinford’s exhibit and in his show there was a smaller exhibit and it was a portrait that he had been commissioned to do of my Uncle Bernie surrounded by other paintings that were meaningful to him, my uncle had passed and Mr. Reinford had remembered him in his show and I thought how cool is that. So my response is to the detailed work of Winter in New England with a abstract of a Summer Morning in July.
Carolyn Quirk
Plenty
Inspired by: David Seltzer, Sea Salt/Lemon Sage
ink, acrylic, and glass
6″ x 8″
2023
The title of this abstracted piece is Plenty, it’s an abstract version of an abundance of fresh oranges, blueberries and lemons using light. I looked at Sea Salt / Lemon Sage and it brought back a lot of good memories and inspired me to make this piece entitled Plenty.