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Photo courtesy/June Jordan Virginia artist Viviane de Kosinsky exhibits her traditional line etchings in a November show entitled "Small Pleasures" at the Packing Shed Gallery in Little Washington. An opening reception celebrating these miniature works illustrating small delights is set for Nov. 1 from 3 to 6 p.m.
By June Jordan
Special to the Rappahannock Newa
Viviane de Kosinsky, a Virginia artist and printmaker with an international background, returns to the. Packing Shed Gallery in Little Washington during November with a second series of traditional line etchings in the exhibition “Small Pleasures.”
All are invited to the opening reception on Saturday, Nov. 1 from 3 to 6 p.m.
With humor and a quiet eye for detail rendered in fineline drawing and often enhanced in glowing watercolor, these miniature works illustrate the small delights of which so many can be found in Rappahannock County at this time of year: a glass of wine, a star over a barn door, the long vista to Old Rag from Route 231 in the F.T. Valley, rosy apples, curious cats, a small dog, or a pair of sunglasses for that small dog.
The link between other landscapes, farms and vineyards and the Blue Ridge is probed, and the similarity is underlined between the small pleasures visitors seek both here and abroad in fine dining, memorable walks and architectural details.
Rarely larger than a postcard, these small works have their roots in Persia, India, the Orient and Rome. Medieval monks adorned their manuscripts with miniatures, which took the name from the “minimum”— the red lead pigment used in their creation.
In the 1830s, when Daguerreotypes and photography replaced the demand for miniaturists to render faces, subject matter became landscape and still life more than the portrait, and interest in all these tiny treasures began to mount.
The etching process on zinc and copper plates has its own labor-intensive ritual of timed control when submerged in a nitric acid bath, and the hand coloring of selected proofs beyond the limited edition consumes hours in the studio.
The artist graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and the printmaking graduate programs at the Villa Schifanoia in Florence, Italy and the International Graphics Institute in Venice.
A prize-winning member of numerous miniature societies, she has just been awarded this year’s second prize in the Annual North American Miniature Art Exhibition and received critical praise for her work.
Her studio is located at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Old Town, Alexandria, and her weekend cabin is in Sperryville.
Packing Shed Gallery is located in Washington on the corner of Gay and Porter Streets. Gallery hours are from 12:30 to 7 p.m., Thursday through Monday.
For additional information, call (540) 675-3410 or gallery director, June Jordan at 987-8098.
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