Oil Paintings by Carol Gobin

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Oil Paintings by Carol Gobin

Time: April 2, 2009 to April 29, 2009
Location: Hosmer Gallery, Forbes Library
Street: 20 West Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website or Map: http://www.forbeslibrary.org
Phone: (413) 587-1013
Event Type: visual, art
Organized By: Hosmer Gallery
Latest Activity: Apr 3, 2009

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Reception: Saturday, April 4, 2-4 PM

Carol Gobin grew up in the hills of northwestern Connecticut, and spent her childhood summers exploring old barns, swimming in lakes, building forts and painting-by-numbers. She went on to study house-building, architectural drafting, graphic design and visual arts. She received her formal education at California College of Art studying graphic design, and at Berkshire Community College studying drawing and painting with Mark Milloff.

A fascination with architectural detail, glowing late afternoon light as it rakes across the landscape and buildings and a stormy sky, inspires Carol to catch that moment just before the sun sets. Working from photographs, sketches and imagination, she paints in thin layers of oil glazes on canvas until the luminosity, balance and harmony of colors are attained, adding the final realistic details last.

Carol's recent work focuses on the farms that are part of a way of life that is still very strong in this area. The barns and outbuildings are fading away, falling down, decaying from age and being replaced by metal structures that lack the charm and beauty of the traditional post and beam buildings. It is her hope to capture the patina of these aging buildings on canvas before they crumble to the ground.

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