Featured Exhibit September - October 2024
MARGARET LLOYD: Wings of the Wind
On view September 4 – October 28, 2024, opening reception Saturday, September 7 from 2-4pm.
Painter and poet Margaret Lloyd’s oil paintings are largely inspired by her Welsh heritage and the landscapes of Western Massachusetts, where she currently resides. In Lloyd’s most recent series, Wings of the Wind, she is, in the artist’s own words, “searching for and forging the places that finally emerge—the wild expanse of sea, of sky and wind, of land—the ancient world, loved places, internal landscapes.”
Margaret Lloyd attended the University of Rochester as an undergraduate and received her Ph.D. at the University of Leeds, England, working under the supervision of the poet Geoffrey Hill. A poet and painter, she lives in Florence, Massachusetts, and is Professor Emeritus of English at Springfield College.
Her poetry has appeared widely in journals and anthologies and she has received several awards, fellowships, and residencies. As a visual artist, Lloyd began as watercolor painter, then moved into working with slate, and is now immersed in painting with oil. She has held several exhibitions, as well as published paintings and painting/poem pairs in journals, nationally and internationally.
MADGE EVERS: The New Herbarium
On view September 4 – October 28, 2024, Opening Reception Saturday, September 7 from 2-4pm featuring live music by Loren Feinstein.
Madge Evers uses foraged materials to explore decomposition and regeneration and has adapted the mushroom spore print form to make works on paper. Referencing photosynthesis and the ancient collaboration in mycorrhiza, her practice sometimes includes photography, the cyanotype process, and paint. In the artist’s own words, The New Herbarium series “explores our entangled dependence on an ever-changing environment and the increasingly chaotic results of our desire to shape the natural world” by reimagining the centuries-old process of collecting and preserving plants for science and art.
Her work has been published in Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture and acquired by private and institutional collectors. Artist residencies in New England, Virginia, and Ireland have allowed Evers to interact with landscapes and their histories. Madge lives and works in western Massachusetts where she was a public school teacher for 25 years. She now facilitates cyanotype workshops for people of all ages.