Leah Arnold – Hanging Exhibit, Level 1
Leah Arnold is a resident of Andover and a freshman at Presentation of Mary Academy in Methuen. Since the age of 9 she has been taking art lessons with Andover artist Janet Hamlin, who has helped her develop skills across different media. Most of her art focuses on nature or animals, but as someone who loves to travel she also paints or draws places she has visited (one of the paintings shown is a clochán, a kind of monastic stone hut, from Ireland). Her art is done in many media, including acrylics, watercolor, oil, pastels, and even paper (collages). She also likes painting and drawing in different styles, whether more realistic and detailed or more impressionistic. The most recent of these pieces are the paired still-life paintings and the roosters, which she painted to celebrate the current year of the Chinese zodiac.
None of the exhibited items are for sale, but anyone interested in inquiring about her art please contact her at sketchartistla@gmail.com.
Level 1 Display Case – Paintings by Kathryn Quirk
Artist Statement
I have been painting and doing art since I was very young. In 2012, I graduated with a B.A. from Emmanuel College. I find inspiration though books, for example Memoirs of a Geisha, as well as beach scenes and still lives. I grew up in Chelmsford, around nature and beaches, and while studying in Boston, enjoyed many visits to the Museum of Fine Arts.