118 Elliot Presents

Sensing Landscape:

An exhibit by 

Mary Wright and Ellen Maddrey

September Through October 2024

 Opening Gallery Walk – Friday September 6  

 

For Immediate Release: Contact: 118Elliot@gmail.com 

Website: https://118elliot.com/

118 Elliot Street, Brattleboro,Vermont 05301 

Brattleboro VT, 31 August 2024: An Exhibition of paintings by Mary Wright and Ellen Maddrey, Sensing Landscape will open on Gallery Walk September 6th. Mary and Ellen share a studio in Wilmington, Vermont where they each approach painting as a process of discovery. Through a dialogue with the natural world, there is an understanding that painting goes beyond the visual; we “see” with more than our eyes, sensing with our whole being, as we open ourselves to the influence of place and memory. The painter and the viewer are invited to discover, to wonder, to get close or stand back, to explore through color, texture, shape, space, feeling, and consciousness. In other words, to allow your edges to blur and see what happens.

These artists share a process of allowing the paint to guide them. Instead of starting with a specific image in mind, they allow their hands to start moving paint on the canvas or paper, and follow their senses of color, proportion, and feeling. Their paintings emerge from an effort to deepen the personal connection with our elemental home – plants, rocks, water, mountains, animals. Both artists have their own language of marks, yet they learn from each other and feel privileged to share creative space.

Wright lives in Jacksonville, Vermont, and draws from her relationship with the trails and water of Lake Whitingham. She is a life-long artist and her artwork and community-based projects have been shown throughout the United States since 1989. She has a keen interest in materiality,whether painting, printmaking or metalsmithing.

Maddrey’s artistic inspiration is deeply embedded in the mountains and waters of Seattle, her childhood home, and the natural world of Vermont, where she has a second home. She finds a deep satisfaction with expression through oil paints and pastels and has been painting for about ten years.

II8 Elliot is a collaborative environment for the creative arts and education including film showings, gallery exhibitions, musical performances, workshops of all kinds, conferences as well as physical culture classes. It is also home to the National Endowment for the Humanities-supported Brattleboro Words Project’s Brattleboro Words Trail murals and community-produced audio stories.

Gallery is open by appointment for private viewing throughout September and October (118Elliot@gmail.com). 

Stay tuned for details about Saturday, October 5, Art Party.

 

Mary Wright

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ellen Maddrey