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Vincent Crotty, Urban Landscapes in Oils, Painters Guild Demonstration

Vincent Crotty, Urban Landscapes in Oils, Painters Guild Demonstration

Lexington Arts and Crafts Society  
130 Waltham Street  
Lexington, MA 02421  
 
Vincent Crotty, Urban Landscapes in Oils, Painters Guild Demonstration  
 
September 20, 2015  
 
2:00 – 4:00pm Demonstrations take place in the Plummer Studio  
 
 
An Irish-born artist who has been living in Boston since 1990. Regarded for his original landscapes, interiors, and figurative paintings, Vincent works from inspiration and intuition. His paintings reveal a remarkable understanding of light — transforming everyday subject matter into images that are memorable and moving.  
 
Painting from life as often as he can, Vincent’s plein air approach creates a feeling of spontaneity and ease in his work. With a style that is loose and fresh, cheerful and evocative, he expresses a highly individual vision in contemporary representational painting.  
Vincent explores the places and faces of both Atlantic coasts as his primary subject matter. With fluid and confident brushstrokes, balanced by sensitive color, his paintings convey vivid moods and characters, and depict an immediate sense of time and place. Inspired by the 20th Century Ashcan School, his paintings of Boston and New England celebrate the gritty corners of urban American life. In Ireland, he captures the silvery gleam of wet galvanized roofs, and bursts of winter sunshine illuminating a wild landscape.  
Vincent’s work has been recognized with awards from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the John Stobart Foundation in Boston, and plein air competitions internationally. He has exhibited his work in galleries in Ireland and throughout the US for three decades, and has presented workshops in Ireland, Nova Scotia, Colorado, Wyoming, New York, and throughout New England. His paintings been commissioned by the Boston College Burns Library, the Irish Cultural Center of New England, the Michael J. Quill Irish Cultural Centre in New York, and other organizations and private collections.  
 
Join us for an inspiring afternoon. Speak with the artist and with the many artists of the Guild and find out what it means to be part of this community of artists. Perhaps you will be inspired to take a class or join the group.  

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