In-Person Reception for Roberta Shea's Exhibition: Autumn Refrain

Come and meet the artist and enjoy light refreshments!

Of her exhibit “Autumn Refrain” Roberta Shea says, "I wanted to capture in paint a moment in time when our lives have been temporarily stopped and disrupted while nature and the seasons continued to change. These landscape paintings show nature on a dynamic cusp between fall and winter while saying goodbye to warm, summer days. It is a time for starting over, amid falling leaves, cool nights, and colorful transitions all in anticipation of a cold, silent winter. In the stillness of everything gone, I have attempted to paint the flourishing of human nature as it regenerates and grows with the seasons.  These paintings reflect the vivid pulse of life in color, line, and form.".

Shea grew up in New Haven and completed her formal degree in art education at Southern Connecticut State University. Pursuing her life-long interest in art, Roberta joined the Society of Creative Arts in Newtown and was a board member, as well as, a member of the Washington Arts Association where she studied monotype printmaking with master printmaker Anthony Kirk and oil painting with Impressionist/ Expressionist painters Ira Barkoff and Souby Boski.

As a member and active docent at the New Britain Museum of American Art, she leads adult and student tours through the museum’s masterpieces.  At the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, with fellow painters, she exhibited in a group show, “Sphere of Influence” and has participated in group and solo shows in Madison, Southbury, Woodbury, New Haven, Roxbury, Danbury, Newtown, Ridgefield, Wilton, Conn., Durham, New Hampshire and Brewster and Woodstock, New York.