“Portrait of a Landscapist” at the South Shore Art Center

American Realist Anne Heywood’s new exhibition, “Portrait of a Landscapist”, opens on Friday, February 24th with a reception from 6 – 8 pm in the Manning Lobby at the South Shore Art Center in Cohasset, MA. This collection of paintings gives viewers a glance of Heywood’s artistic vision, both from her personal choice of subjects, and also from her unique “take” on the landscape theme.

The show’s title piece shows the back of a figure gazing out to the three basic landscape elements: water, sky, and land. Heywood has placed the viewer’s perspective low, and composed the foreground with simple abstract shapes that suggest a manmade object. The standing figure is large, with her back to the viewer, lit by an unseen setting sun. By keeping the arrangement of objects and colors simple yet realistic, Heywood gives us the opportunity to “see” the building blocks of landscape paintings through the unseen eyes of the standing figure. Each piece in this exhibition expresses the artist’s love of the landscape, and carries undertones of mystery, suggesting a “collection” of stories behind this collection of paintings.

“Portrait of a Landscapist” runs to April 9th. The South Shore Art Center (SSAC), located at 119 Ripley Road, Cohasset, MA, is the largest art center south of Boston and is open Monday – Saturday 10 – 4 and Sunday 12 – 4. Anne Heywood is an American Realist artist, author, and art educator; she has been a faculty member at the SSAC for over 20 years. Heywood maintains studios in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts and Waldoboro, Maine. She shows her work in Maine at the Heywood Gallery in Waldoboro, Gifts at 136 in Damariscotta, and the Portland Art Gallery in Portland, and in Massachusetts at her working studio in East Bridgewater and the offices of the Thompson & Lichtner Co., Inc. in Canton, by appointment only. Heywood’s paintings can be found in private and corporate collections in the USA, Netherlands, Italy, Israel, and other countries.