Marion Art Center

  

 

Coleman & Hawley Exhibition - Feb. 2010
An interesting two-person show opened at the Marion Art Center on Sunday, February 28th with a reception to meet the artists from 4 to 6 p.m. “Beauty in the Boatyard – Ten Years at Burr Brothers” is the title of Terry Coleman’s photographic essay and “Landscapes and Figures, Real and Imaginary” is the title of Molly Watson Hawley’s compositions in fabric, paint and pastel. The two women have unique styles, similar backgrounds and ties to Marion and New England.  

 

Molly Watson Hawley works in a number of media to explore how the surface images of the visible world represent a deeper and ultimate reality. She began her undergraduate studies at Middlebury College, then went on to study graphic art at the Boston Museum School and the Cleveland Institute of Art where she specialized in printmaking. She has since worked extensively in other media including combining fabric, photography, painting and drawing. For years she has painted commissioned portraits for private clients and institutions. Her work hangs in permanent collections of Baldwin Wallace University, Cleveland’s University School and in many private collections.

Hawley studied for a number of years with the plein air masters Cedric and Joanette Egeli at the Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown. Her portraiture has been informed by her work with masters Jose Cintron and Bert Silverman. In addition to her continuing portrait commissions, she is actively at work on an extended series of Cape Cod and Vermont landscapes.

Her home and studio are in Ripton, Vermont, where she lives with her husband, the writer Richard Hawley. She visits her parents who live in Marion often.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   Terry Coleman is the daughter of a talented portrait and landscape painter who was active in the Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and Syracuse, New York art community. She grew up surrounded by art and began drawing at a very young age when she “covered all available surfaces with angels sporting wings and ponytails.” She studied a wide variety of media beginning with oil painting, followed by watercolor, photography, weaving, sculpture and handbuilding with clay. For the last ten years, she has studied mon-print with Esther Maschio working to develop a more abstract aesthetic.

Photography has been a life-long love for Terry. Her photography is much more deliberate, begins with a realistic image, and then sometimes drilling down so closely that objects can become pseudo-abstract. She carries a camera during many normal activities and vacations taking advantage of opportunities that are present.

“Beauty in the Boatyard…” began this way – as an attempt to capture the seasonal progressions and quiet beauty inherent in the place, a wonderful old and new boatyard, rich in the best traditions of Yankee New England seamanship. There are objects unchanged for centuries nicely combined with the newest in nautical technologies; the security of thing well-done – lines coiled just so, pickup floats neatly stacked; the stillness of the smallest boats at day break…magical, magical reflections.

Terry’s photography and prints have been exhibited locally in juried and invitational shows since 1995. She lives and works with her husband, Fran, in Pembroke, Massachusetts. They spend time in Marion often on their boat.