The watercolors of Dorothy Spears evoke the natural delights of the northwest corner of Connecticut, sometimes explicitly, as in Warren Town Beach, Autumn (shown above) but always with fine restraint. This painting consists of a suggestion of two Adirondack chairs facing a hint of shoreline in muted fall color. The rest, including land, water, and sky, is only blank white watercolor paper, but the effect is eloquently seasonal and lake-like.

Spears says about her work, “For me, as a writer and an artist, it’s what remains unsaid or unseen—in my watercolors, for example, the white of the page—that gives shape to everything else.”

She writes regularly about art for the New York Times and many other magazines and newspapers. She studied art at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Parsons School of Design in Paris.

Plein Air, Works on Paper by Dorothy Spears
March 1–April 12 at the Cornwall Library, 30 Pine Street, Cornwall CT
Artist’s Reception on Saturday, March 1, 5–7 PM
Registration requested for reception: https://cornwalllibrary.org/events/

The Cornwall Library
30 Pine Street
Cornwall, CT

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