John Johnson Art Direction Design a Graphic Design Firm Located in Historic Collinsville Ct

Thursday, October 23, 2014
Farms, Forks, and Frames

John Johnson

John Johnson is a Connecticut native, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The University of Connecticut School of Fine Arts. He is the founder and possessor of John Johnson Art Direction & Design, a graphic blueprint firm located in historic Collinsville. His personal artwork provides an outlet creative freedom and unrestrained expression, yet relies heavily on strong compositional elements derived from nature and the existent world, seen through his eyes.

He has participated in numerous juried shows, group shows and solo shows in the region, primarily working as a 2-d artist with large scale gouache paintings, woodcuts and linotypes. Recent piece of work has been exhibited at The Mattatuck Museum, The William Benton Museum, Artwell Gallery, Gallery on the Green, Pump Business firm Gallery, West Hartford Art League, and several regional libraries.

Johnson states, "Through my artwork I am working to capture a momentary impulse, a place, a fourth dimension in my life. The imagery is based on my personal point of view of life experiences, travels and surroundings. For me, fine art is a gestalt experience; information technology's about the moment, the procedure, the feeling. I phone call it "surfing on brainwaves".

Deborah Leonard

My dear of nature through observation and bookish study has a strong influence on my painting....I detect enjoyment, interest, and dazzler in my surroundings wherever I may be. In the more than traditional pieces, color and vibrancy are used to express my subject matter. I adopt to emphasize the simple elegance of a single tree or even part of one. I am blessed to live in an especially beautiful surface area, with soft meadows and rolling hills. I enjoy painting outdoors whenever possible. In my work I try to capture lite and presence. I strive to tape the experience of a place or time."

"My abstract work is more near chance and intent. I phone call it "in your face art", because, when viewed up close, these pieces present a totally different vision. Relationships vie for focus and new interactions take identify. Synchronicity works its magic and the painting starts its journey."

Deborah Leonard is co-founder of theFarmington Valley's Metropolis and Country Canvases effect with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra. She is president of the Avon Arts Association and a fellow member of the Due west Hartford Art League, the Connecticut Plein Air Painters Society and Simsbury Open Studios.

She teaches art classes for adults in Simsbury. She has created and maintained local artists programs in Avon and Bloomfield, assuasive a venue for monthly shows and receptions to area artists.

Her work has appeared in numerous juried shows and is part of a permanent drove in the Children's Room at the Simsbury Library and private collections here and aboard. She has a designed jewelry for the Farmington River Watershed Association. Her work is currently for sale at Fastframe in Avon, Puffins Gallery in Watch Hill RI, Le Cherche Midi, Nantucket, MA, Petrini Gallery in Avon and Bill Selig Jewelers.

She serves on the boards of directors of the Farmington River Watershed Association, the Farmington Valley Visitors Association, and the Avon Art Clan.

Catherine Elliot

Catherine M. Elliott is a gimmicky artist whose work is evocative of the American Impressionistic Mode of painting. Her works are painterly visions of her innermost admiration of God'southward creation. The wonder of these works are in its fresh liberation of color and light offering the viewer a sense of awe and peace. The paintings explore atmospheric conditions capturing a moment in time and place invoking the viewer to intimately see the sublime. Ms. Elliott has created numerous deputed pieces, both commercial and individual. She is an elected member of the Lyme Art Association in Onetime Lyme, Connecticut, a legacy left by nineteenth century artists, and is today a showcase of notable artists.

The creative person is currently represented past Petrini Gallery, Avon, CT; West Highland Art, Wyckoff, NJ; P.S. Gallery, Litchfield, CT; Lyme Art Clan, Old Lyme, CT; Puffins of Watch Hill, RI; Brick Gallery, Essex, CT

Consider Catherine Yard. Elliott'south paintings a wise investment for your dwelling, workplace or gift giving that will bring joy and grace for many years to come.

Alexander Anisimov

Russian by nascence, Alex grew up in Tajikistan, in the family of renowned inlay creative person Yuriy Anisimov.

Raised with sculptors, painters and mosaic artists, Alex captivated Fine Arts with the air of their studios, oft helping them.

He went to the Russian Army for 2 years, traveling extensively and learning the globe around him.

After 4 years in the college of Fine Arts, and after constant exhibitions, Alex continued written report in Moscow. He moved to the US in 1991, to Hartford, CT.

Now happily living in Hartford Canton, he creates new pieces and participates in upcoming events.

Here is a list of some of the great items up available for auction!

Silent Auction Items

1. $250 Souvenir Certificate for Globe Products at Flamig Farm.
2. Executive Escape Parcel at Shear Artistry for a man or adult female. Value $185.
   Spend a day pampering yourself with a Full Body Massage, Scalp and Neck Treatment , Custom Designed Haircut, Spa Manicure and Luncheon at Shear Artistry Day Spa and Salon in Avon.
3. Golf for 4 people, 18 holes plus carts – Hop Meadow Country Club.
4. I Nighttime Stay for Two at the Newport Blues Inn and admission to the Newport Blues Café
   Includes full breakfast as well as free parking for i automobile per room.
   As well included Blues Buffet V.I.P
   As our guest, you lot volition receive Newport Cafe preferred seasonal reservation times and free entrance to regular, non-ticketed, live performance shows at the Blues Buffet, a restaurant and live-band nightclub located at 286 Thames Street. Value, $250.
5. Summer CSA Share at George Hall Farm, value $525.
6. Chef Tastings for four with Sommelier Pairings at The Eatery ON20 donated by ON20 Executive Chef Jeffrey Lizotte, $450 value.
7. A individual, tardily spring 2015 tour of the breathtaking lower Connecticut River valley by gunkhole with catered lunch.

   Have a private, belatedly spring 2015 tour of the scenic lower Connecticut River valley by boat - Nosotros will enjoy a catered dinner from Haddam'due south "The Cooking Visitor" in beautiful Hamburg Cove; tour The Nature Conservancy property at Selden'due south Creek; visit beautiful Essex by h2o; and just have fun exploring and eagle watching! Value $350. Starting bid $250. (Suitable for a group of 4)

8. Guided wing fishing trip to the Limestone Trout Club in Eastward Canaan.

   A day of guided fly-angling for two at the legendary Limestone Trout Order. Tucked abroad in a quiet corner of East Canaan, CT, Limestone is known not but for large, hungry brown and rainbow trout merely for breathtaking beauty and quiet. All equipment and dejeuner will be provided on a mutually agreed upon date which tin easily exist changed dependent on conditions or changes in plans. Minimum bid, $200. Value, $400.

9. Cake of the Month for i yr at Fitzgerald's Foods.

   You will receive 12 certificates, each good for one block per month at the Fitzgerald's Foods Bakery. And bring home a cake tonight. Value $300.

10. Dinner for Two at Metro Bis and a dark at the Simsbury Inn.
11. Oil Painting past Pam Albertsen. Framed size 14 x 17. Value $150.
12. Gluten gratuitous in-home cooking class for 6 – 8 provided by Heirloom Kitchen Catering. Value - $300 - $400. Minimum bid
13. Caput to Toe facial at Apple Rehab Sport & Spa.

    A full customized facial with a second therapist providing a 30-infinitesimal reflexology foot and hand massage. 60 minute treatment valued at $105

14. $100 gift certificate to Millwrights Restaurant.

Live Auction Items

1. Six hour charter fishing bout on Cape Cod. Value $650. Starting bid $450. (Suitable for a group of half-dozen.)
2. Fish Long Island Sound'southward "Race" with Helm Dan Wood and Bob Bingham – Half day chartered light tackle angling trip with Captain Dan Woods on FlyAway, a 30' center console boat. Join your host Bob Bingham for a tardily summer 2015 trip out to the "Race" to fish for stripers, blues and imitation albacore on the surface with light spinning tackle or by common salt water fly rod. Possible fisheries include Plum Island, Gardiners Island, Orient Point, Race Rock, and Fishers Isle…wherever the fish are! Value $650. Starting bid $350. (Suitable for a group of 3)
3. 1 calendar week stay at a villa in Tuscany, Italy
4. Two box seats to any NY Yankees home game.
5. Two box seats to any Boston Crimson Sox home game.
6. Ane week stay at a condominium in Kiawah Island, SC.
7. One week stay at a condominium in Kurebeach, Due north Carolina.
8. Diamond Earrings from Neb Selig Jewelers. Estimated value $2000. Donated by Bill Selig Jewelers. Minimum bid, $500.
   Cute diamond and yellow sapphire earrings, made with 28 square sapphire stones i.half dozen ct and 28 diamonds one.23 ctw, prepare in white gold.

Teacup Auction Items

1. $100 Spa Service from Apple Rehab.
2. Golf for four people, xviii holes plus carts at Bluish Fox Run Golf game Grade.
3. $250 Souvenir Document for Earth Products at Flamig Farm
4. Golf game for 4 people, 18 holes plus carts at Simsbury Farms Golf game Form.
5. Ane hour of Diet Counseling from a Registered Dietician, $250 value.
6. Silvery Pinchot Sycamore necklace donated past Sarah Byrnes, $130 value.
7. Souvenir certificate to Horan's Blossom Shop.
8. Bowl mitt carved from Simsbury's Pinchot Sycamore Tree.
9. Framed Catherine Elliott Print.
10. $100 souvenir card to Rosedale Farms.
11. Mobile Bike Tune-up by Bike Repairs Express, LLC., $65 value.
    Bicycle Repairs Limited is a mobile bike repair business concern that is able to service your bicycle at dwelling house or piece of work. Services are offered in most towns in the Farmington Valley of Connecticut (Simsbury, Avon, Canton, and the Granbys) and are simply a phone call away. Bicycle Repairs Express services all makes and models of bicycles from kids' and adult recreational models to high performance racing machines. We tin provide prompt, professional person, dependable and affordable wheel repairs for all of your needs.
12. $100 Gift Bill of fare to Trunk Talk in Avon.
13. 2 hour figurer consult from Global Figurer Consultants, $150 value.

A special thanks to the Simsbury merchants and friends who have donated items for our auction!

Bill Selig Jewelers

Flamig Farm

Shear Artistry Day Spa and Salon

Hop Meadow Country Gild

Newport Blues Inn and Café

George Hall Subcontract

The Restaurant ON20

Fitzgerald'south Foods

Metro Bis

Simsbury Inn

Heirloom Kitchen Catering

Apple Rehab Sport & Spa

Millwrights Restaurant

Blue Play a trick on Run Golf Course

Simsbury Farms Golf Grade

Sarah Byrnes Jewelers

Horans Flower Shop

Rosedale Farms

Wheel Repairs Express, LLC

Body Talk

Global Computer Consultants

Peter and Korten

Dawn and Bob Seaman

Helen Petersen

Bob Bingham

Fred Feibel

Farms, Forks, and Frames

Sponsors
The Simsbury Land Trust would similar to thank the following businesses for sponsoring Farms, Forks and Frames 2014.

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