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Artist combines watercolors, collage in colorful creations |
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Megan Mangano |
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Apr 4, 2005 |
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| “Pick Me-Up (Fuscia" by Claire Wilson |
Watercolor collage works by local artist Claire Wilson are featured at the Catharine S. Eberly Center for Women, Tucker Hall Room 168. The exhibit is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. and runs through May 7.
Wilson’s pieces combine watercolor works with other elements of mixed media cut into strips and overlaid to create a unique visual effect.
“Some works are simple, employing a variety of strips of limited color with a lighter motif running through and forming an incidental accent to the work,” Wilson said. “Others used an actual watercolor painting that was cut down into strips, which were then worked with the various sub-media such as hole punches, doilies, lace and strips in various directions.”
She might then arrange the strips into a preset order, depending on her idea behind the work.
“I have always been fascinated with abstract art, the most difficult of the visual art styles,” Wilson said. “Hopefully, the result is one that keeps the viewer coming back again and again to enjoy it.”
She shows her works in regional and national venues and is represented by the American Gallery, Kismet Art Gallery and Collector’s Corner at the Toledo Museum of Art. Her painting, “Jove’s Nectar,” was one of only 25 watercolors shown in the Northwestern Ohio Watercolor Society’s 30th Anniversary Exhibition in 1999.
For more information on the free, public exhibition, contact the Catharine S. Eberly Center for Women at 419.530.8570.
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