NEWFANE — “Land, Water and Sky,” an exhibition of oil paintings by Greg Moschetti, will be on display through Oct. 29 at the Crowell Gallery at Moore Free Library, 23 West St.
The gallery will host a reception outside on Saturday, Oct. 3, from noon to 2 p.m.
Moschetti, who lives and paints in Dummerston, came to painting relatively late in life and says he finds significant joy in the creative process and its outcomes. He feels that painting is a spiritual endeavor and that the role of the artist is to elicit a sense of spirit in the viewer as was felt by the artist in creating a work.
“While some of my paintings are of places that exist in real life, most are imagined landscapes with atmospheric portent,” he said in his artist statement. “These often involve sunrises or sunsets in open landscapes with reflective water. They have a sense of familiarity about them and, when successful, draw the viewer into a feeling of peaceful solitude.”
Moschetti said that, more recently, he turned “to simpler paintings of land masses at sea, some quite colorful and others using a primarily gray palette. For me, these paintings still have the feel of solitude and spiritual portent although they are visually quite different.”
“This series started in the studio, but was later inspired by trips to Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, and Newfoundland, where the stark contrasts of stone, water, and sky captured my imagination,” he said.
Moschetti, primarily self-taught, has studied with tonalist painter Dennis Sheehan and with Jason Alden at the River Gallery School and the Drawing Studio in Brattleboro. He has exhibited at various venues in the region and is a member of Brattleboro-West Arts.