The Front Street Art Gallery is ushering in summer with “Flowers & Feathers,” art by Janet Cornacchio and Kathleen Mullins Mogayzel. Janet and Kathy have painted and worked together in the Scituate Arts Association’s Front Street Art Gallery, on the SAA’s executive board, in Mary LoPiccolo’s watercolor class at the Ellis House, and various workshops, including one with Sergio Roffo in Italy. They are serious gardeners who love painting flowers such as peonies, roses, amaryllis, iris, lilacs and more. Plus, they’re bird lovers.
Come visit the gallery and see their visions of flowers and feathers through July 19. And if you miss this show, they will reappear with more works in the SAA Library Gallery in Scituate Library from August 19 to September 13.
Janet Cornacchio, who focuses on watercolors with an occasional mixed-media work, particularly enjoys painting two species of birds – egrets and peacocks. Working in the garden and studying backyard birds haveled toan innate understanding of the garden’s avian visitors. Egrets with their skinny, double-curved neck and long, pointed beak, huge wingspan, and fascinating rookeries, occasionally appear in a more abstract representation. Recently a return to a fortress in Lisbon reawakened a love of peacocks. She’s done several works with them and expects a few more.
Kathleen Mullins Mogayzel received a B.A. in art from Regis College in Weston and studied graphic arts, painting, and printmaking at several institutions. Kathleen’s artistic visions begin in nature. The South Shore and South Coast tidal marshes and wildlife have been the main source of subject matter for her artistic creations – prints, oils and acrylics and mixed media. A printmaker for more than 16 years, she is currently exploring collage in more depth using printmaking with handmade papers and ephemera from nature. Combining her two loves of nature, flowers and birds, has been a joyful opportunity for Kathy. She has created artworks in various mediums of images and observations from her garden on the Herring River.
