BRATTLEBORO — A new body of paintings by visionary artist Gil Perry is on exhibit at Gallery in the Woods throughout the month of September with an opening reception on Friday, Sept. 1, from 5 to 8 p.m., during Gallery Walk.
Perry is an artist-painter currently living and working in Springfield, Vermont. Exhibit organizers say his drawings and paintings have "a remarkably delicate and detailed touch that allows one image to unfold in surprising ways over time."
"Through my drawings and paintings, I hope to awaken the imagination, an emotion, or sense of wonder in the viewer," Perry wrote in a news release.
From the early 1970s until the late 1980s, his main focus was on drawings that he describes as dreamlike images in graphite. These were collected by John D. Merriam, whose acquisitions of fantasy and visionary drawings are now a part of the Boston Public Library collection.
After working in black and white for many years, Perry wanted to investigate color, and studied with Fran Weston Hoyt. From her, he learned a premixed prismatic palette technique used to capture the effects of light in nature, which had been developed by her teacher, the American impressionist Frank Vincent DuMond.
A native of Connecticut, Perry studied art at the New England School of Art, the Rhode Island School of Design, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Colby Sawyer College. He is a longtime exhibitor at Gallery in the Woods.
For more information, visit galleryinthewoods.com or call 802-257-4777.
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