Works by Joan Murray Anthony at the Woodbury Public Library

Works in watercolor, acrylic, and mixed media focusing on botanical art and landscapes will be shown by Joan Murray Anthony in September at the Woodbury Public Library.

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An artist for over 30 years, Joan’s current work was inspired at the start of Covid when she spent time at Hollister House Garden in Washington painting in the garden. When many places were closed down, the garden offered a welcome refuge and offered new subjects. Working in plein air, she lightly sketches flower subjects, then freely applies watercolor. As the painting progresses, she adds more detail, lines, and complementary colors.

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Additionally, the exhibit will include work of closely observed botanical drawings collaged over an acrylic background which is painted to suggest a landscape. The natural elements appear to float and suggest the connectedness of all life. She has incorporated leaf printing in several of the works.

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Joan has been inspired by landscapes at the Van Vleck Sanctuary at Flanders Nature Center & Land Trust and started its Artist Day in 2003. She will also exhibit several landscapes of Maine and Connecticut, some of which are in handmade, peaked, shadow box frames which suggest viewing the work through a window.

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Her work has been exhibited at P.H. Miller Gallery, Westover School, Washington Art Association, the Six-Pack Art Collective, Flanders Artist Day Exhibits, and Arts Alliance of Woodbury shows.

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