DATE:
March 5, 2025 - March 30, 2025

ARTISTS:
Georgine Honohan, Sharon Nakazato, Joann Zwolski

CURATOR:
Kelly Edwards

OPENING RECEPTION:
March 8, 2025 12:00p - 3:00p

ARTIST TALK:
March 22, 2025 1:00p - 3:00p

I am a watercolorist and I am a daily sketcher. Watercolor is a medium that enables me to capture what I discover around me. It is portable, meditative, and full of controlled surprises. The transparency of this medium can capture depth with layers. The flow of
the watercolor shows off the fluidity of nature The light of the paper showing through lends a freshness to my paintings. Watercolor is a constant challenge that absorbs me on a daily basis.

Drawing/sketching is an important part of my daily art. It allows seeing deeply the edgesand shadows and shapes that help me see form. Handmade sketch books travel with me constantly.

Composition is ultimately the force that holds it all together. Line, color, and value are at the forefront of my mind when I begin a watercolor painting. It is through daily sketching and watercolor painting that I am engaged with the world around me.

During my 8+ years working and studying in Japan, I was privileged to be tutored in the discipline of Asian Brush Calligraphy by a Japanese master. Some time after moving to NY I also returned to working in a wide range of mixed western media. Yet I’m told the Japanese sense of space and form and sensitivity to line—and underlying spirituality based in a deep desire to touch and express love in the natural world—is discernible in everything I do, from abstract to figure drawing/painting to collage to landscape. Even my most abstract work contains a reference to the world around and in me. My wish is to share that joy with others who choose to make my art a part of their lives.

My inspiration comes from the interplay of three art elements - line, color and texture. I allow the unexpected to happen with endless possibilities as the result. I work spontaneously building layers. Each layer reacts mysteriously with the previous layer. It is a continual process of discovery. As the painting develops my focus becomes fine tuned and I start to organize and develop my composition. The interplay of the lines, color and textures are essential components.

My line is a quick mark that tries to capture and record energy. Color is another essential ingredient in my work. My palette is full of brilliant values from a wide spectrum of colors. I love all colors but favor red. Red energizes, motivates and inspires me. Red is a symbol of joy. My texture is both implied and real. I create
texture through layers and layers of paint. Sometimes I apply the paint with non-traditional painting tools such as a potato masher.

Interaction with the viewer is the essential final process. I encourage the viewer to bring their vision and life experiences to the painting. The abstract nature of this work allows the viewer to explore the paintings and see what lies within the mysterious layers.

Georgine Honohan received a BA in Fine Art from Marymount Manhattan College. She worked as an Art Instructor for several years at St. Mary’s in Katonah and St. Patrick’s in Bedford, then as an Interior Designer at Ethan Allen in Danbury CT. She has exhibited her art work at Ridgefield Guild of Arts, Beacon Artists Union, Henrick Hudson Library, Mahopac Public Library, The School House, The Katonah Library, Putnam Arts Council
(where she has served as Board Chair), and the Howland Center in Beacon.

For 6 of the 8 years that prize-winning artist Sharon Nakazato lived in Japan, she studied Asian Brush Calligraphy intensively with celebrated contemporary master Shinzan Kamijo. She holds a license to teach from the Japan Calligraphic Arts Association of Tokyo. While continuing on her Path of the Asian Brush, in recent years Nakazato has revisited her western art background and explored an expansive range of mixed media, some incorporating Asian calligraphy and all drawing on years of experience with Eastern brush, ink, line, and space. Nakazato has exhibited widely from Tokyo to WA, CO, CT, and NY, including one-woman shows in NYC, the Seattle area, the greater NY area, and Ridgefield CT. She holds a BA and MA from the U of Michigan, with strong minors in art history, and did extensive graduate work in Japan at Tokyo and Sophia Universities.

An ongoing student of Japanese culture, she has lectured and published in both
Japanese and English and co-founded and served for 10 years as Director of
the Yasuragi Japan Arts Center. Until recently she ran the arts program at
Longview School, where she has taught a variety of courses related to art
history, history, writing, and Japanese language and culture. She monitors the
Life Drawing sessions at Arts on the Lake in addition to managing FroGS Plein
Air events along with the Annual FroGS Juried Art Competition. Nakazato
continues to combine an ever-widening diversity of media in a distinctly
personal expression and is now exhibiting by invitation through the Tri-County
area. Her work can be found in various private collections.

I received my BFA from Pratt Institute, and my MA from the College of New Rochelle. I have exhibited my artwork in many solo and group shows throughout the tri-state area and the state of Delaware. I have taught art for over thirty-five years to students from kindergarten to high school and have been teaching adults drawing for many years in a variety of places. I was a trustee, including the chairman, with Putnam Arts Council and I am currently a trustee with the Peekskill Arts Alliance Board.