BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121116T220000Z DTEND:20121117T003000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:* Late Bloomer: Opening Art Reception for Groton's Lois Underwood DESCRIPTION:***Late Bloomer: Watercolors by Lois Underwood***\n\nOpening Reception\nFriday\, November 16\, 5:00-7:30 pm\nOpen Studio Groton\n30B Hollis Street\nGroton Center\n\nTwenty years ago\, Lois Underwood began to paint. She tentatively\nsketched her first flowers from blossoms she picked in the garden of\nher home in Groton (Underwood\, an iconic Grotonian\, is a life member\nof the Groton Garden Club). And sometimes during winter she'd resort\nto using photographs of flowers from postcards and magazines for motif\nand inspiration.\n\nAs Underwood became more adept at drawing and the unforgiving medium\nof watercolor\, her paintings acquired confidence\, and her compositions\nbecame more thoughtful and daring. Small florals set against black\nbackgrounds startle with their sophistication.\n\nOver the years\, taking classes first at the DeCordova Museum in\nConcord and then at the Fitchburg Art Museum and with local artists\,\nUnderwood took new ideas back to her small studio to practice\,\npractice\, practice.\n\nUnderwood started to keep a sketchbook\, a habit long practiced by her\nhusband Bayard Underwood\, whose sketchbooks span his adult lifetime.\n(Bayard\, artist and architect\, died in 2010 at the age of 93.) In her\nsketchbooks Underwood recorded visual observations: the particular\ncurve of a person's nose\; the shape that her cat\, The General\, made\nwith his back turned\, or the way he crossed his paws in that prim\nmanner cats have\; the patterns of leaves on a branch. Anything that\ntriggers a visual curiosity was and is added to Underwood's\nsketchbook.\n\nTwo decades later\, Underwood's interest in the world around her has\nonly sharpened. On her weekly trips to Nashua for groceries\, Underwood\nsometimes stops to see the seasonal changes in the little pond off\nLocust Avenue in Tyngsboro. A sensitive observer\, Underwood doesn't\nmiss the impact of careless intervention by our fellow humans on\nfragile ecological systems such as this pond or the effect of weather\nand neglect on an Oklahoma farmhouse\, which she saw on a trip to her\nbirthplace some years ago. Though often working from photographs\,\nUnderwood manages to convey a sense of the personally observed in\nthese works\, and powers them with a poignant sense of loss and\nacceptance\, longing\, and matter-of-fact resilience.\n\nMore recent among Underwood's works are directly observed views from\nan upstairs window of her home looking west. A sense of play and\nexperimentation are evident as Underwood employs cutout images from\nmagazines in this unusual view of upper Main Street in Groton. These\nand other paintings of buildings demonstrate Underwood's interest in\nstructures in the landscape.\n\nIf you missed Christine Lindemer's lovely piece about Lois\, you can\nread it on the Groton Line here:\nhttp://www.thegrotonline.com/2012/11/13/lois-underwood-opens-solo-show-at-open-studio\n\nJoin us for an opening reception Friday\, November 16\, 5:00 to 7:30 at\nOpen Studio Groton\, 30B Hollis Street in Groton Center. Open Studio is\nlocated between the Groton Toy Shoppe and Groton Hair. Parking is\navailable along the street and behind the building. Open Studio is\nwheelchair accessible via the rear access ramp. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
\n***Late Bloomer: Watercolors by Lois Underwood***\n\nOpening Reception\nFriday\, November 16\, 5:00-7:30 pm\nOpen Studio Groton\n30B Hollis Street\nGroton Center\n\nTwenty years ago\, Lois Underwood began to paint. She tentatively\nsketched her first flowers from blossoms she picked in the garden of\nher home in Groton (Underwood\, an iconic Grotonian\, is a life member\nof the Groton Garden Club). And sometimes during winter she&rsquo\;d resort\nto using photographs of flowers from postcards and magazines for motif\nand inspiration.\n\nAs Underwood became more adept at drawing and the unforgiving medium\nof watercolor\, her paintings acquired confidence\, and her compositions\nbecame more thoughtful and daring. Small florals set against black\nbackgrounds startle with their sophistication.\n\nOver the years\, taking classes first at the DeCordova Museum in\nConcord and then at the Fitchburg Art Museum and with local artists\,\nUnderwood took new ideas back to her small studio to practice\,\npractice\, practice.\n\nUnderwood started to keep a sketchbook\, a habit long practiced by her\nhusband Bayard Underwood\, whose sketchbooks span his adult lifetime.\n(Bayard\, artist and architect\, died in 2010 at the age of 93.) In her\nsketchbooks Underwood recorded visual observations: the particular\ncurve of a person&rsquo\;s nose\; the shape that her cat\, The General\, made\nwith his back turned\, or the way he crossed his paws in that prim\nmanner cats have\; the patterns of leaves on a branch. Anything that\ntriggers a visual curiosity was&mdash\;and is&mdash\;added to Underwood&rsquo\;s\nsketchbook.\n\nTwo decades later\, Underwood&rsquo\;s interest in the world around her has\nonly sharpened. On her weekly trips to Nashua for groceries\, Underwood\nsometimes stops to see the seasonal changes in the little pond off\nLocust Avenue in Tyngsboro. A sensitive observer\, Underwood doesn&rsquo\;t\nmiss the impact of careless intervention by our fellow humans on\nfragile ecological systems such as this pond or the effect of weather\nand neglect on an Oklahoma farmhouse\, which she saw on a trip to her\nbirthplace some years ago. Though often working from photographs\,\nUnderwood manages to convey a sense of the personally observed in\nthese works\, and powers them with a poignant sense of loss and\nacceptance\, longing\, and matter-of-fact resilience.\n\nMore recent among Underwood&rsquo\;s works are directly observed views from\nan upstairs window of her home looking west. A sense of play and\nexperimentation are evident as Underwood employs cutout images from\nmagazines in this unusual view of upper Main Street in Groton. These\nand other paintings of buildings demonstrate Underwood&rsquo\;s interest in\nstructures in the landscape.\n\nIf you missed Christine Lindemer'\;s lovely piece about Lois\, you can\nread it on the Groton Line here:\nhttp://www.thegrotonline.com/2012/11/13/lois-underwood-opens-solo-show-at-open-studio\n\nJoin us for an opening reception Friday\, November 16\, 5:00 to 7:30 at\nOpen Studio Groton\, 30B Hollis Street in Groton Center. Open Studio is\nlocated between the Groton Toy Shoppe and Groton Hair. Parking is\navailable along the street and behind the building. Open Studio is\nwheelchair accessible via the rear access ramp.
\n LOCATION:Open Studio Groton\, 30B Hollis Street in Groton Center. Open Studio is located between the Groton Toy Shoppe and Groton Hair. Parking is available along the street and behind the building. Open Studio is wheelchair accessible via the rear access ramp. UID:e.518.9325 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260428T065448Z URL:http://nashoba.preview.gochambermaster.com/events/details/late-bloomer-opening-art-reception-for-groton-s-lois-underwood-11-16-2012-9325 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR