April exhibit: Dennis Doyle & Chuck Sullivan

When:
Wednesday, Apr 01, 2015 10:00a -
Thursday, Apr 30, 2015 6:00p

Where:
South Street Gallery
149 South St
Hingham, MA 02043

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Art

Event website:
www.southstreetgallery.com

Our April exhibit features all new paintings of two artists: Dennis Doyle of Weymouth and Chuck Sullivan of Milton. Public will have a chance to meet the Artists at the RECEPTION ON SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 2-4PM.


About the Artists


DENNIS DOYLE
Dennis, a life-long resident of Weymouth, MA, was educated in public schools and at Massachusetts College of Art. He is a licensed merchant mariner working on tugboats, where he plies his trade upon creeks and rivers, bays and harbors, inland waterways and coastal routes, from Maine to Louisiana.
“I developed an early affinity for drawing that grew into a lifelong love for painting. My Mass Art tuition was paid with wages earned on the local clam-flats (Weymouth Hingham Hull), and from lobster and gill-net fishing on Stellwagen Bank. I've never had a traditional job and don’t expect I ever will, l am a water-man by trade with a passion for paint.
In 2006 I took a workshop with George Nick, a painter whose work I truly admire. During the workshop I appreciated his energy and these painting mantras that he would run by you...one being something to the like of: "There isn't anything you can't learn to paint" and "just paint what you see". If there is such a thing as a plein-air painting addiction, I have it and I hold George Nick partly responsible, thanks for that.
I have a small studio but I'm hardly ever there except to drop off or fetch some paintings. I prefer to work outside in the elements and before what matters. On the boat my paint bag is a stow away, I am prepared to "chase the light" and answer inspiration's call with a quick painting, anywhere anytime up and down this entire coast. I'm fortunate. Art is interpretation and presentation of this life, and plein-air painting is its body and soul.”


CHUCK SULLIVAN
When Chuck Sullivan painted his first still life at the age of 43, he found his place in the world and began to understand the need, the calling, and the passion to paint. Seven years later he closed his travel business to pursue painting for real.
Chuck has a unique vision, a different point of view. He brings a modern sensibility to a traditional approach. The diversity of his work reflects his curiosity. He is as comfortable painting life-size religious statues as he is miniature plein-air studies of the Boston coastline or Irish landscapes.
His paintings are visceral: they feel real. He can render the mood of a moment. He sees beauty in the ordinary and the absurd. He is always evolving in his painting and his sense of design. He is a student of the craft and he understands it as a life-long pursuit and that he will never be good enough.

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