Trish Karter & Paul Nager Landscape Show

Keyes Gallery February 3 - 27, 2023

Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library 146 Thimble Islands Road Stony Creek, CT 06437 203.488.8702 Special thanks to the Friends of WWML for generously making this space available to local artists!

The following matted, Oil on Gesso Paper -small works by Trish Karter are also for sale and can be viewed in the Gallery or on line, and purchased on Line.

21-03-15 Hilltop Last Blast Behind the Old Schoolhouse Oil on Gesso Papper 12x14.jpg

2021 Nightfall on Weiss Reserve Oil on Paper Mat 14x18 Pen 6.25x11 Stony Creek, CT.jpg

2021 Shell Beach Sunset Series Oil on Paper Mat 14x18 Pen 6.25x11 Guilford, CT.jpg

2021 Weiss Reserve Sunset Oil on Paper Mat 14x18 Pen 6.25x11 Stony Creek, CT.jpg

2021-02 Shell Beach Stom Sky Oil on Paper Mat 14x18 Pen 6.25x11 Guilford, CT.jpg

2021-10 NigtFall from Flying Point Oil on Paper Mat 14x18 Pen 6.25x11 Stony Creek, CT.jpg

2022-01 Down the Grass Path to Winter Sunset Oil on Gesso Paper 12x14 inch mat Window cut to 5x7 inches Guilford, CT.jpg

2022-02 Down the Grass Path-Winter Storm Oil on Gesso Paper 12x14 inch mat Window cut to 5x7 inches Guilford, CT.jpg

2022-02-1 February Snowstorm Sunset Down Grass Path Mat 14x18 Pen 6.25x11 Guilford, CT.jpg

2022-02-21 Trolley Trail Storm Clearing Oil on Paper Mat 14x18 Pen 6.25x11 Stony Creek, CT.jpg

2022-05 Joshua Point Sunset Oil on Gesso Paper 12x14 inch mat Window cut to 5x7 inches Guilford, CT .jpg

2022-06 Flying Point Sunset Oil on Gesso Paper 12x14 inch mat Window cut to 5x7 inches Stony Creek, CT .jpg

2022-06 Thimbles Sunset Abstraction Oil on Gesso Paper 12x14 inch mat Window cut to 5x7 inches Stoney Creek, CT .jpg

2022-06 Trolly Trail High Summer Open Oil on Gesso Paper 12x14 inch mat Window cut to 5x7 inches Stoney Creek, CT .jpg

2022-07 Stony Creek Trees-Soupy Sunset Oil on Gesso Paper 12x14 inch mat Window cut to 5x7 inches Stony Creek, CT .jpg

2022-11 Storm Clearing Great Marsh Oil on Paper Mat 14x18 Pen 6.25x11 Stony Creek, CT.jpg

The following [BEAUTIFUL!] monotype Prints by Paul Nager can be viewed at the exhibit and purchased directly from Paul at pfitz-nager@gmail.com 860-304-9916 Much of his work can also be viewed on Instagram at fitzpatricknager

PLEASE SEE BELOW FOR Paul’s Artist Bio

Artist Statement - Paul Fitzpatrick Nager - Printmaker

This past June my wife and I spent the month in a little stone cottage in Connemara, on the west coast of Ireland. It is a wild landscape of ancient rock and ocean and forever changing sky. It "was" a gift to plant ourselves in a place such as this. To watch the recurring lifespan of the tides, to sit and watch the clouds go by, to not hurry... To watch the "ancient conversation between the light and... everything.

I'm not sure if I chose printmaking or printmaking chose me. There was a visceral attraction to the richness of the blacks, the moodiness of the soft values, and how a sharp edge would send my mind looking for a solution to a suggestion. From the first run of the brayer, the first brushstroke... I watched a parade of images appear... A simple story told through a little window.

I paint on a clear plexiglass plate, cover the plate with a damp piece of handmade cotton rag paper, and roll it through a press. It's a collaboration, a conversation with possibility.

The poet, John O'Donohue, says "possibility is the secret heart of time." that when you slow it down, you find your rhythm and when you come into rhythm, you come into a different kind of time." Painting time... There is a rhythm to everything... it is how I see my world... It is how I see my work... One might say, I'm caught up in...the rhythm of it. And that is not a bad way to spend the day.

Paul’s Instagram

Paul Fitzpatrick Nager is a printmaker living in Old Lyme. He has exhibited in galleries and private collections from the shoreline of CT to Boston, to New York City, to Osaka, Japan. He studied at Mass Art and the Art Students League. pfitz.nager@gmail.com 860-304-9916