Lindsay Aromin
Lindsay Aromin
During my travels, I feel drawn to flowers for their vibrant colors, tones and fantastic textures. Going through my photos I realized I took more pictures of flowers than people. Only my museum shots outnumbered them. I have even stopped the car so I could go out and take pictures of some vivid colors that caught my eye along the roadside.
I wanted to tell a story about artists and how we worked and thought and planned before we picked up a brush. My paintings start with one of my photos and devolve into a small painting and then into an abstraction of that painting. They are happy paintings that come out of a difficult time in my life and also in our country's life. I believe that you have to look at the brighter side of things and art will take you there
My background in art is strange. I was told as a third-grader that I could not draw and I took music lessons and I never had an art class. After taking a drawing-one class in a local college at the ripe old age of 52 and then transferring to U Conn where I graduated with a BFA Summa Cum Laude at age 58 and then on to my MFA at Vermont College at 60 years. After school, I reached out to Norwich Arts Gallery and have been a member since then.

Love Red Hearts
February 2023
Juror: Sara Munro, Owner of Studio 33 Art & Frame Gallery, New London

Romance
Anca Solomon
Mixed Media
First Place

The Kiss
Glynis Blanker
Photo
Second Place

Taking Flight
Diane Brown
Oil & Cold Wax
$125
Third Place

Sweet Talk
Silvanna Periquito
Gouache
Honorable Mention

Roses Are Red
Susan Scott Kenney
Acrylic
Honorable Mention

Red Heart
Rita Dawley
Mixed Media
Honorable Mention

Love in Black and White
Suzanne Starr
Acrylic
Honorable Mention

True Self
Fiona Lee-Charcoal
Merit Award in Honor of Dee Keaney
Sponsored by Rita Dawley