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Gilmanton NH News

August 5, 2009

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Attention all Veggie Gardeners

The Food Pantry Needs Fresh Food.


If you have a surplus of fruits or veggies from your garden please call Lori Baldwin at 364-7715. She will come and pick-up your donation. The pantry is open every 2nd & 4th Saturday of the month.




Fall Baseball


Gilmanton Youth Organization (Suncook Valley/ Lakes Region) is forming an 11/12 year old wooden bat fall baseball team. (70’ Diamond). Need to be eligible for Cal Ripken or Little League in the 2010 season. Go to leaguelineup.com/gyo-baseball for more information or email [email protected]. We will play in the GSBA league.




Celebrate the Gift of Life and come to the American Red Cross Blood Drive being held at the Pittsfield Elementary School on Monday, August 10, 2009, from 2 to 7 p.m. The Drive is sponsored by the Elementary School Parent Teacher’s Organization. Childcare will be provided. A special incentive - make it a sweet summer - give the gift of life and enjoy life’s sweet rewards, courtesy of Friendly’s Ice Cream.


All presenting donors in the month of August will receive a coupon for a free carton of Friendly’s Ice Cream!



 

Gilmanton Old Home Day Art Show Update


Old Home Day, August 15 will soon be here! Area  artists welcome! An earlier article failed to mention that a fourth category, sculpture is included as usual. Bring your entries Thursday, August 13, to Smith Meeting House, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.


Not over 3 entries per artist. Painting, photos, graphics, sculpture.


We are honored to be featuring Barbara Clairmont Gray of Gilmanton.

 


 

Barbara Clairmont Gray, Oil Painter


Barbara Clairmont Gray, who usually signs her work BCGrary, is a Gilmanton, NH, painter who captures what others see all the time but perhaps are so accustomed  to seeing that they don’t see at all. Her work is rich in color and texture, in patterns.


“My work is about color and about paint, about surface and texture. It’s about the shapes and beauty of negative space. I don’t want my work to look like a photograph, and if it does, I consider the painting a failure. I want my paintings to look like paint. I strive to put paint together in a way that delights the senses through the unexpected use of color. The way I paint is not necessarily what is in front of me but more about how I choose to interpret what I see. I strive to capture the beauty of the everyday. If there is no beauty to be gleaned from the ugly, my tendency is to completely ignore it.”


But find beauty she does, not only in the daylilies that fill her dooryard, but also in the area farms and barns and silos, in the telephone poles that march silently along the edges of rural roads and byways. “The world is changing faster than some of would like. I’ve been spending the summer capturing some of the aspects of a changing landscape that one day will be gone forever. It doesn’t have to be a charming vista. It’s all about the paint, about the texture and the use of color, about the creation of something lasting and beautiful. My attempt is to extract the beauty of color and concentrate solely on that. This might be something as simple as a picket fence, or daylilies, whether on a rainy morning or in shade or full sunlight, or a particular slant of the light in August and how that light influences local color.”


Barbara has been involved in art since her childhood. In high school her classmates voted her Most Artistic. While friends earned money babysitting and mowing lawns, Barbara was accepting commissions to do portraits and hand-painted signs for area restaurants and businesses; she was showing and selling her still-lifes and landscapes. Later she studied fine art at the University of Massachusetts and at Rhode Island School of Design. She graduated university magna cum laude.


When asked how she works Barbara responds: “I do a lot of small pencil sketches. Later, I’ll select a sketch that I might like for its composition and potential for color and texture. Then I’ll paint a number of small studies in oils - like Monet with his water lilies and haystacks and bridge. The study that I most like will become a larger painting.”


“My painting is continually evolving. I don’t paint in any one set fashion which I think is limiting oneself. I tend to paint in batches, concentrating on a particular approach to my paintings in one batch of perhaps 5 or 10 painting, then experiment with an entirely different approach in my next batch. I never settle into any one way to paint which I think is limiting oneself artistically. I am constantly learning and pushing myself to explore something new, which I think is the way one grows as a painter.”


As adept with a hammer and a saw as with a palette knife and a brush, a propensity and love for which she is quick to credit her builder grandfather, Barbara designs and builds shingle designs, things like life size Canada Geese and Mallard Ducks out of white and red cedar shingles that grace the gables of shingle-style lake front homes in the area - along the shores of Squam Lake and Winnipesaukee and Alton Bay, near Sawyer Lake and on the home she shares with her husband and family on Meadow Pond. There are also small songbirds that perch on the top corner edge of a window or door frame and even a gilded hummingbird in flight for low on the siding by the daylilies. Canada Geese are popular in New Hampshire and over the years she’s built a design in every exposure imaginable, noting that her designs must not only be beautiful but, like the shingled wooden siding around them, must also overlap and shed water. Her paintings have been in galleries and shows throughout New England as well as on the cover of a magazine, and she’s won numerous awards.


“I’d like to concentrate solely on my painting,” Barbara says, admitting that working on a shingle design from high aloft in the lift of a bucket truck is something she’d increasingly rather forego at this point in her life, especially in less than favorable weather, her husband watching nervously from far below, preferring instead to paint on location or from the comforts of her own studio.


Barbara paints mostly on commission with works ranging in price from $500 for her smallest works to $2500 and up for works 36x36 and larger, but she sometimes will offer a painting without charge. “The way that works is that by mutual prearrangement I’ll stay at someone’s main residence or vacation  home when the home is empty and while they are away and stay anywhere from a week to up to a month painting their house, their views, their gardens. Later they get first pick of any one of the body of paintings I created while at their residence, something I call my Artist in Residence program. Arrangements can be made up to a year or more in advance.


In her spare time, Barbara enjoys gardening and tending her small flock of hens, both of which routinely make their way into her paintings, and she loves spending time with her husband, family and friends. A sample of her work can be viewed at Gilmanton Old Home Day Art Show at the Smith Meeting House on August 15 from 9 a.m. to close where Barbara is this year’s feature artist. To inquire about a commission or about her Artist in Residence program, Barbara can be reached via email at [email protected]

 


 

Librarian to be Welcomed at GYRLA Annual Meeting


At its annual meeting, the members of the Gilmanton Year-Round Library Association will welcome their new librarian, Gary Mason, who has already begun work to prepare the library for opening in mid-September.


The meeting is scheduled for Monday, August 10, 7 p.m. at the Library on Route 140, opposite the Gilmanton School. The Board urges all members to attend, and welcomes Gilmanton residents and friends to join them to meet the librarian and learn more about plans for readying the library to serve the people of Gilmanton.


The agenda includes election of officers and board members to the Board, reports from the officers and committees and plans for an opening celebration. The meeting will be concluded with the traditional “make your own” ice cream sundaes, along with a chance to tour the library and informal discussion of future options.

 


 

Fall 2009 Gilmanton Youth Organization (GYO) Soccer Sign-Ups


Monday, Aug. 10th, 6-7 p.m., Gilmanton School. 


Saturday, Aug.15th,      10 a.m.-2 p.m., Gilmanton Old Home Day, (Smith Meeting House).


Wednesday, Aug. 17th, 6-7 p.m., Gilmanton School.


Sign-ups for Gilmanton Youth Soccer are open to Gilmanton children Kindergarten through 6th grade.  Looking for boys and girls to learn and play soccer, whether you’ve played before or not. Cost is $40 per child which includes jersey. $50 for late sign-ups (after August 17th) if space allows.  The season runs from late August through early November. 


GYO was formed in 1990 to promote athletics, sportsmanship, and teamwork.   We would like you to be part of this great organization.  GYO is always looking for parent volunteers.  Even if you have never coached before, we are always looking for head coaches, assistant coaches, and other volunteers to help. 


If you have any questions, please contact:  Phil Eisenmann, Soccer Coordinator, @ PO Box 476 Gilmanton, NH  03237, 267-7912, [email protected]

 


 

Floor Rug (Cloth) Exhibit At The Gilmanton Corner Public Library


During the month of August, one can view samples of floor rugs also known as floor cloths. Diane Nyren has chosen this display using a new type of floor rug material. It eliminates a few hours of work and also adheres to the floor better. Diane will add, during the month, other interesting table mats with matching coasters.


Along with her display will be reference books, the history of floor cloths (rugs) as well as a sign up sheet for classes she will begin in the fall at the library.


One of her floor rugs, Americana, will be raffled at Old Home Day, August 15, with raffle tickets available at the Library. 

 


 

 

 











 
 

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