Ways of Seeing: Painting, Photography & Printmaking

Cathy Garnett is a visual artist, primarily a painter and printmaker. She holds a diploma in studio art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.  Cathy was selected to be an artist in residence at Acadia National Park, Schoodic Point in the Spring of 2017. For as long as she can remember she has wanted to paint.  Recently, her work, “Tidal Creek”, an acrylic painting was selected as best in show at the Three Stones Gallery in West Concord’s emerging artist show. Cathy holds a Masters of Landscape Architecture and has worked as a professional landscape architect in the Boston Area.

Richard McElroy is a painter who depicts the natural world and the place of man’s works in that landscape.  He has exhibited widely including the Arlington Center for the Arts, Concord Art Association, Danforth Art Museum, Whistler House Museum, Lexington Arts and Crafts Society.  In 2017 he received an Artist Residency at Lake Clark National Park, Alaska.  He holds a BFA in Painting from Massachusetts College of Art and a MS in Library Science from Simmons University.

Janet Smith is a photographer based in Arlington who enjoys photographing things that do not run away and occasionally things that do. In her early career, she learned techniques in landscape and nature photography in field workshops with Art Wolfe and David Middleton. She also studied black and white photography for a year at Harvard University with Christopher Janes. Her participation in master classes at the Maine Media Workshops with Lilo Raymond, Olivia Parker, and Same Abell helped her develop a personal style with still life photography. Her photographs are included in the permanent collections of the Children’s Hospital in Boston, and in private collections in the United States and abroad. In addition, her photographs have won awards in national shows at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester MA and have been included in juried shows at the Arlington Center for the Arts, Cambridge Art Association, the Concord Art Association, the Griffin Museum, and the Rocky Neck Art Colony in Gloucester MA. She has had solo shows at the Newton Free Library, the Cary Memorial Library in Lexington MA, and the Gutman Library at Harvard University.