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By TONI WHITE
Rappahannock New* Contributing Writer
Some of our most profoundly moving experiences of beauty are so fleeting — bright flashes of illumination that fill us and then disappear. How often have you walked at sunrise or sunset and been filled with awe by the changing, moving spectrums of light in the. sky and trees and wished you could keep that beautiful scene alive in yourself?
In her watercolor paintings, showing at the Middle Street Galley through Nov. 30, Lynnette Nicholas has performed a miracle and captured such moments for us on paper. She has accomplished the impossible, taken split-second flashes of changing light and painted it for us to take home, put on our walls, to look at whenever we desire, and for as long as we desire.
As I look at Lynnette’s paintings, I am drawn into them. I am standing in the woods, by the pasture, a creek, stopped in my tracks by the beauty of trees, sky, leaves, grasses. Suddenly it is a world of light, and my heart is filled with joy.
Lynnette’s “Watercolor Transitions” (as her show is called) are almost light itself. Many of the paintings are autumn woodland scenes, so the colors move from the reds, oranges, and yellows to deep greens, violets and blacks.
Lynnette’s paintings have a texture (a surprising effect in watercolors). They are beautifully framed and reasonably priced. There are offset prints of her “Full Moon” series, so her work is accessible to most anyone who has some money to spend for the holidays.
“Watercolor Transitions” ends Nov. 30, so yoa must stop by the Middle Street Gallery in Washington this weekend ,if you don’t want to miss it.
And if you stop in the Gallery, don’t forget to venture into the middle and back rooms. The middle room is filled with the paintings of Gary Genther. Using watercolor and egg temper*, Gary has captured the charm of ssenes from the Virginia countryside in a style reminiscent of Wyeth. A jlose look at his work reveals an amazing use of many colors to create images. Widely shown in Virginia, Gary’s work illustrates an accomplished technique of dynamic use of light and color.
The hack room show of select works of other members of the Middle Street Gallery artists’ cooperative is not limited to paintings. There are baskets, hangings, sculptures, pots and a mask. Although this room does not have a stated theme, it clearly shows how local artists are inspired by the earth.
One of the great things about this back room collection is the opportunity it affords to see the breadth and explorative creativity of Janet Rerig’s work with natural fibers. Her pieces include traditional basket designs made of grapevine and honeysuckle; then, there is a basket looking like it is still growing in many directions, colored with natural dyes the shades of plum and pale
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