Arts in the Village Gallery announces the October Featured Artists Exhibit Light into Dark, a show exploring light and line exclusively through shades of black and white. Featuring the ceramics of Carol Clay-Ward, and the photography of Mary Louise Ravese, join us at the Gallery to experience this unique show.

Carol Clay-Ward features her black and white “Naked Clay Raku” pottery, created using a process whereby a newly fired vessel is doused in water, causing the glaze to pop off — hence the term “Naked Clay Raku.” Raku, functional vessels, as well as a selection of sculptural clay pieces, are co-mingled for an inspiring presentation of ceramic arts.

“Working exclusively in black and white forces people to look at the world in a different way … to see with a ‘photographer’s eye’ and notice the fundamental design of things and the play of light and shadow,” says photographer Mary Louise Ravese. Nature and architecture are among the subjects featured, all professionally printed and framed by the artist.

Meet Carol, Mary Louise and other gallery artists and enjoy wine, light fare, and saxophone musician Mike Girdy at the open to the public reception on Saturday, October 22nd, from 4 to 7 pm.

The Byrne Gallery will be featuring beautiful Virginia Landscape paintings by two nationally recognized landscape artists.
The exhibition will be on for the entire month of October 2016. The will be a special reception for the artists on Saturday, October 8th, 2016
from 5 PM to 8PM at The Byrne Gallery in Middleburg, Virginia. The event is free and everyone is invited to attend.

Gerald Hennesy, a native of Washington, D.C., attended the Corcoran School of Art on a scholarship. He began his art career as a newspaper artist, but after Naval duty during WW II and Korea, he began devoting himself exclusively to fine art painting. Since 1972 he has maintained his studio at the home he built in Virginia.

Gerald paints primarily in oil in an impressionistic style, working both in plein-air and in his studio. It is important that a subject chosen for a painting be exciting to him, so it will then also be exciting and interesting to the viewers of his completed piece. Once a scene has been selected and the composition sketched in, Gerald paints rather rapidly, while attempting to achieve a freshness of color and expressiveness in his brushwork. He is particularly concerned with depicting the effect of light on his landscape and seascape subjects.

Jim Rodgers was born in northern New Jersey. Mr. Rodgers studied at the Art Students League in New York City and also attended the Ridgewood Art Institute where he studied landscape painting. Mr. Rodgers paintings focus on the essential details emerging from a cohesive mass augmented with poetic highlights evolving into a hybrid fashioned from painterly and impressionistic inspirations in a contemporary sense.

Mr. Rodgers paints a wide range of subject and subject matter: from lush American and European landscapes to intimate genre paintings as well as elegant and sophisticated still life and floral renderings. His paintings reflect richness in tone and color in his style that comes from over 30 years of professional study and numerous sojourns throughout America and Europe.

Please contact The Byrne Gallery at phone (540) 687 6986 or email: byrnegallery@ aol.com for additional information.

An exhibition featuring paintings and original prints by twenty artists from the Mid-Atlantic, including Ron Boehmer, Frank Hobbs, Philip Koch, Frederick Nichols, and Tom Tartaglino. Open Thursday through Sunday 11am to 5pm and by Chance or Appointment. (Image title: “Sunset Massanutten” silkscreen 18″x27″ by Frederick Nichols

The exhibit features multi-media art by local artist Tia Maggio including oils, pastels, and color pencil sketches.

The exhibit runs from Wednesday, October 5 – Saturday, October 29, 2016.
Exhibit Admission is free. Our Exhibits are open Tuesday-Saturday (Closed Mondays) from Noon to 3:00 PM as well as during concerts and by appointment.

There will also be an Artist Reception on the final day of the exhibit – Saturday, October 29 from 6:00 to 7:00 PM.

About the Artist: It has been 25 years since Tia Maggio moved from the Big Apple to (then) rural Loudoun County Virginia, and where she raised her two children. Currently she resides in bucolic Millwood, a place that has provided much inspiration. Her pastels of sloping Piedmont hills and skies have been exhibited locally in Northern Virginia and New York City, and are in private collections in the U.S., Italy, Southern France, and most recently, Guatemala. Tia pulls her inspiration from nature as “it is the only thing that really makes sense to me – wild sunsets, storms, brambles and branches.” Once described as a tonalist, she describes herself as a nature based expressionist.