ART CLOSING-Pine Tree Daydream Meet artist Lindsey Redgate Saturday, November 4th 5-7pm
November 4, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Yipee, an art closing, an art closing. Complimentary food & drink, Good Company & an opportunity to meet artist Lindsey Redgate. It is great to have insight to artists and how they created their works. Lindsey will discuss the possibilities of commissions for loved pieces that have already sold.
PINE TREE DAYDREAM: A Collaborative Walk Through Nature Saturday, November 4 5-7pm
Pine Tree Daydream explores the symbiosis between the flow of the waters and indomitable spirit of the trees here in the Northeast.
Lindsey Redgate I grew up in Bryant Pond, a small town in Western Maine, where creativity and art became a necessary part of everyday life. Lindsey is a product of the rural area, which required her to immerse herself in nature. The solitude propelled her to tap into her imagination on a deeper level. Lindsey took art lessons from Arla Patch, a local artist, during elementary school when she learned to play and explore with many different mediums. Lindsey’s favorite mediums to work with as a child were paint, pastels, and clay. Lindsey continued her art in more physical forms in her later years by doing dance, music, and theater throughout college. She completed costume design classes where she curated, researched, and created renderings for characters to be played out on stage. In these classes, Lindsey learned about Gouache paints- an acrylic based watercolor that is used in combination with colored pencil shading to create dimension and texture on gray scale paper. She particularly loved the way the watercolors moved and meshed with the pencils. Watching the renderings come to life from paper to stage was always satisfying.
During the pandemic, Lindsey stumbled upon online videos of Acrylic Pouring. This sparked her interest, reminded her of college years. Soon she started to explore the medium. She became self-taught in Acrylic Pouring, also known as “Fluid Art”, and fell in love with the process of mixing floetrol (a paint additive), water, and silicone oil together with acrylic paint to create rich and full-bodied pigments. Lindsey quickly learned that no matter how hard you try to control the medium, it has a mind of its own. She gravitated towards the lessons the paint taught her and embodied the process of letting go of the idea of a final product—instead, she lets the paint be. The paints dance with movement from tilting the canvas or using air to mix and move the liquid with such fluidity on the canvas. Lindsey founded Fluid In The Pines in 2020. The name is a nod to her childhood home and growing up in the woods, her background in theater and dance (fluidity/movement), and her love for the outdoors and being surrounded by nature.
Christopher Duca I live with my two boys–Owen and Wyatt–in Western Maine in a cabin on 5-acres, across the road from my favorite climbing area, Shagg Crag. I have been working as a high school special educator for nearly two decades, and twice as long creating art in some capacity or another. I received my undergraduate degree from the University of Oregon, and my masters’ degree from Johnson State College in Northern Vermont. Though art has been a passion of mine for as long as I could walk, I never attended nor involved myself in formal art education or tutelage.
Since my late teens, rock climbing has been permeating more and more of my life, as has trail running, snowboarding, skateboarding, skate skiing, and mountain biking. It’s without much debate that these activities have heavily facilitated the art I make.
I work primarily in the style of pointillism (fine dot work) and frenetic lines, so the bulk of my catalog up until now has been mostly in blackwork and shading. This technique helps me capture the soul of living/non-living objects through their subtle contours, spaces, and geometries, and how each relates to their surrounding natural worlds. This very essence is what continually drives my creativity forward.
My art public has been featured in several galleries, on beer cans, tattoos, and as music band cover art. I also participate on a regular basis in art pop-ups and festivals around the Northeast. I am easily reached by email (christopherduca@gmail.com) and on Instagram (@chris.duca.art) for commission work.
Thank you, Hannaford Supermarket & National Distributor for your in-kind support.
Yipee, an art closing, an art closing. Complimentary food & drink, Good Company & an opportunity to meet artist Lindsey Redgate. It is great to have insight to artists and how they created their works. Lindsey will discuss the possibilities of commissions for loved pieces that have already sold.
PINE TREE DAYDREAM: A Collaborative Walk Through Nature Saturday, November 4 5-7pm
Pine Tree Daydream explores the symbiosis between the flow of the waters and indomitable spirit of the trees here in the Northeast.
Lindsey Redgate I grew up in Bryant Pond, a small town in Western Maine, where creativity and art became a necessary part of everyday life. Lindsey is a product of the rural area, which required her to immerse herself in nature. The solitude propelled her to tap into her imagination on a deeper level. Lindsey took art lessons from Arla Patch, a local artist, during elementary school when she learned to play and explore with many different mediums. Lindsey’s favorite mediums to work with as a child were paint, pastels, and clay. Lindsey continued her art in more physical forms in her later years by doing dance, music, and theater throughout college. She completed costume design classes where she curated, researched, and created renderings for characters to be played out on stage. In these classes, Lindsey learned about Gouache paints- an acrylic based watercolor that is used in combination with colored pencil shading to create dimension and texture on gray scale paper. She particularly loved the way the watercolors moved and meshed with the pencils. Watching the renderings come to life from paper to stage was always satisfying.
During the pandemic, Lindsey stumbled upon online videos of Acrylic Pouring. This sparked her interest, reminded her of college years. Soon she started to explore the medium. She became self-taught in Acrylic Pouring, also known as “Fluid Art”, and fell in love with the process of mixing floetrol (a paint additive), water, and silicone oil together with acrylic paint to create rich and full-bodied pigments. Lindsey quickly learned that no matter how hard you try to control the medium, it has a mind of its own. She gravitated towards the lessons the paint taught her and embodied the process of letting go of the idea of a final product—instead, she lets the paint be. The paints dance with movement from tilting the canvas or using air to mix and move the liquid with such fluidity on the canvas. Lindsey founded Fluid In The Pines in 2020. The name is a nod to her childhood home and growing up in the woods, her background in theater and dance (fluidity/movement), and her love for the outdoors and being surrounded by nature.
Christopher Duca I live with my two boys–Owen and Wyatt–in Western Maine in a cabin on 5-acres, across the road from my favorite climbing area, Shagg Crag. I have been working as a high school special educator for nearly two decades, and twice as long creating art in some capacity or another. I received my undergraduate degree from the University of Oregon, and my masters’ degree from Johnson State College in Northern Vermont. Though art has been a passion of mine for as long as I could walk, I never attended nor involved myself in formal art education or tutelage.
Since my late teens, rock climbing has been permeating more and more of my life, as has trail running, snowboarding, skateboarding, skate skiing, and mountain biking. It’s without much debate that these activities have heavily facilitated the art I make.
I work primarily in the style of pointillism (fine dot work) and frenetic lines, so the bulk of my catalog up until now has been mostly in blackwork and shading. This technique helps me capture the soul of living/non-living objects through their subtle contours, spaces, and geometries, and how each relates to their surrounding natural worlds. This very essence is what continually drives my creativity forward.
My art public has been featured in several galleries, on beer cans, tattoos, and as music band cover art. I also participate on a regular basis in art pop-ups and festivals around the Northeast. I am easily reached by email (christopherduca@gmail.com) and on Instagram (@chris.duca.art) for commission work.
Thank you, Hannaford Supermarket & National Distributor for your in-kind support.
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