Julie Carpenter Memorial Art Show
The late Julie Carpenter, a remarkably talented Burlington artist, will be remembered by fellow artists with a memorial art show for the public on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 6 and 7. The show will be in the Riverbirch Gallery, 7231 McHenry St., Burlington, next to the Bohners Lake fire station. Hours on Saturday are 1 to 5 p.m., and Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m.
Carpenter’s family has generously offered to display some of Julie’s watercolor prints in the show. Paintings by her friends from The Gatherings will also be on display. A percentage of any sales will go into a newly established fund to support art in the community, a project Julie would surely approve.
Carpenter was an advocate for the arts in Burlington. She worked tirelessly for Love Inc. and for the Burlington Area Arts Council. She organized some of her artist friends to paint together weekly. The group is known as The Gathering. Julie was their mentor. She shared her artistic knowledge with them by demonstrating new techniques and by helping them to become better artists through the critiques at the end of each painting session. She presented an annual art show benefit for Love, Inc., using art work by members of The Gathering, but she always remained behind the scenes and refused to take credit for her work.
It was not Julie’s way to brag of her accomplishments, but she held a degree from DePaul University and had had a successful career in banking before she retired and began painting seriously. She studied under some very fine artists, and her paintings were displayed in the Schauer Center for Visual and Performing Arts, Hartford, and in Kenosha at the Anderson Art Center, and well as locally. One of her works hangs in the Sinai Samaritan Hospital women’s cancer unit.
Carpenter was inspired by nature and she liked to use minimum control of the paint and water as they flowed across the paper. She considered her winter scenes her best, but her friends agree that her flowers were spectacular.
This lovely lady continued to paint with her friends until her illness made it impossible, but she left her mark on this community. Those who own a Julie Carpenter painting cherish her and her creative art work.
The late Julie Carpenter, a remarkably talented Burlington artist, will be remembered by fellow artists with a memorial art show for the public on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 6 and 7. The show will be in the Riverbirch Gallery, 7231 McHenry St., Burlington, next to the Bohners Lake fire station. Hours on Saturday are 1 to 5 p.m., and Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m.
Carpenter’s family has generously offered to display some of Julie’s watercolor prints in the show. Paintings by her friends from The Gatherings will also be on display. A percentage of any sales will go into a newly established fund to support art in the community, a project Julie would surely approve.
Carpenter was an advocate for the arts in Burlington. She worked tirelessly for Love Inc. and for the Burlington Area Arts Council. She organized some of her artist friends to paint together weekly. The group is known as The Gathering. Julie was their mentor. She shared her artistic knowledge with them by demonstrating new techniques and by helping them to become better artists through the critiques at the end of each painting session. She presented an annual art show benefit for Love, Inc., using art work by members of The Gathering, but she always remained behind the scenes and refused to take credit for her work.
It was not Julie’s way to brag of her accomplishments, but she held a degree from DePaul University and had had a successful career in banking before she retired and began painting seriously. She studied under some very fine artists, and her paintings were displayed in the Schauer Center for Visual and Performing Arts, Hartford, and in Kenosha at the Anderson Art Center, and well as locally. One of her works hangs in the Sinai Samaritan Hospital women’s cancer unit.
Carpenter was inspired by nature and she liked to use minimum control of the paint and water as they flowed across the paper. She considered her winter scenes her best, but her friends agree that her flowers were spectacular.
This lovely lady continued to paint with her friends until her illness made it impossible, but she left her mark on this community. Those who own a Julie Carpenter painting cherish her and her creative art work.
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