Oak Island Sunfish Regatta, 8 x 8 inches, oil on canvas panel.
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Eclipse Artisan
Boutique
More than 200 local and
regional artisans:
203 Racine Drive,
910-799-9883,
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“The First of May”
Acrylic on canvas
40 inches high by
30 inches wide
$1,345
For Sale By Owner
Golden Gallery
Cotton Exchange
311 North Front Street,
910-762-4651,
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“My Second Mermaid”
Watercolor original and
archival pigment prints
by Mary Ellen Golden
Large, original, framed Dominican/Haitian painting circa 1997.
42 inches by 31 inches.
Can be inspected by appointment only,
at 7232 Wrightsville Avenue, Ste. D, Wilmington, NC
Contact: Pat Bradford 910-367-1137 or 910-256-5830
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rides out to Shackleford Banks to take pictures, and kept them
in the back of my mind even after we left. I felt drawn to them
— they were displaced, and I felt displaced. Those lone, solitary
figures out there were so beautiful and I knew I wanted to paint
them.”
The connection Powell felt to the beautiful animals continues
to inspire her art. Her ongoing depictions of them, spurred by
an intensive horse-painting workshop in Colorado, are mostly
portraits of a solitary horse, often on an abstracted surface.
Brightly colored and roughly hewn backgrounds developed on
her characteristically small canvases produce an emotional ten-sion
between wild and intimate, vibrant but contained.
She employs a “broken color” technique in these and other
paintings, breaking up what would be large swaths of color
with heavily individualized brushstrokes. This technique was
originally developed by the Impressionists as a way of depict-ing
light dispersal and, along with Powell’s strategic use of
underpainting, contributes to the emotion and temporal atmo-sphere
of her signature style.