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Galletly Gallery Welcomes Bristol Artist Bessie Symington
The Galletly Gallery will feature works by Bessie Symington from January 6 through February 6, 2010.
The public is cordially invited to an opening reception with this Bristol, New Hampshire, native on Thursday, January 14, from 5:30 to 7:00 pm. The reception will feature "Art in Bloom" by the New Hampton Garden Club.
Bessie Symington: Paintings & Drawings is a comprehensive sampling of this artist’s life work. The work selected for this exhibit illustrates key points in the artist’s development. Her earliest work of large canvases of figures rendered in oil with large, loose brush strokes is balanced in the gallery by masterful charcoal drawings and realistic oil paintings rendered in a Renaissance style.
Symington’s formal art training started at New Hampton School, and includes a full scholarship to a four-year program in painting and sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, as well as undergraduate and graduate degrees from Plymouth State University.
Her training was further defined by a Greenshield’s Grant to study classical realist art. Through this grant, she had the opportunity to study drawing and painting in the National Gallery and British Museum in London. In addition, Bessie studied fresco painting under Ben Long in the mountains of North Carolina as part of the Blue Ridge Fresco Experience and continued painting during an apprenticeship with this same artist the following year in Florence, Italy.
Bessie currently balances her life with painting and teaching. She accepts commission work.
The Galletly Gallery is located on the second floor of New Hampton School’s Moore Center. The gallery is open to the public Monday through Friday from 8 am to 4 pm and on Saturdays from 9 am to noon. For directions and more information, please call 603-677-3513 or visit www.newhampton.org.
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Bessie Symington: Paintings & Drawings is a comprehensive sampling of this artist’s life work. The work selected for this exhibit illustrates key points in the artist’s development. Her earliest work of large canvases of figures rendered in oil with large, loose brush strokes is balanced in the gallery by masterful charcoal drawings and realistic oil paintings rendered in a Renaissance style.
Symington’s formal art training started at New Hampton School, and includes a full scholarship to a four-year program in painting and sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, as well as undergraduate and graduate degrees from Plymouth State University.
Her training was further defined by a Greenshield’s Grant to study classical realist art. Through this grant, she had the opportunity to study drawing and painting in the National Gallery and British Museum in London. In addition, Bessie studied fresco painting under Ben Long in the mountains of North Carolina as part of the Blue Ridge Fresco Experience and continued painting during an apprenticeship with this same artist the following year in Florence, Italy.
Bessie currently balances her life with painting and teaching. She accepts commission work.
The Galletly Gallery is located on the second floor of New Hampton School’s Moore Center. The gallery is open to the public Monday through Friday from 8 am to 4 pm and on Saturdays from 9 am to noon. For directions and more information, please call 603-677-3513 or visit www.newhampton.org.
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