March 23 through April
Four Seasons of New England in Pastel
Brenda L. Ferro

The Friends of the Library welcomes Brenda Ferro to the Amherst Town Library at the end of March through April. She will be exhibiting a variety of pastel landscapes from all four seasons across New England. Some of the locals will include New Boston, Lyndeborough, Weare, Mason, and Temple. Brenda has been a New Hampshire resident for 11 years and currently resides in Mason. She was born and raised in the small northern New York town of Waddington near the Canadian border on the St. Lawrence River and enjoyed drawing from a very early age. Her family is very important to her and the generations have taught her to “Stop and smell the roses” as she appreciates life around her.

Mountain Laurel Time

“Having grown up in a rural area, I developed an appreciation for nature and animals which have long been my favorite subjects. My current work is largely pastel landscapes, florals and wildlife pieces done in a traditional realist style.” Brenda will also do an occasional still life painting in pastel with her family heirlooms and hopes to share that sense of connection to the past with her viewers. In addition to pastels she also works in acrylic, colored pencil or graphite and has won awards in these mediums as well. “It is my hope that those that view my nature paintings and drawings share, in some small way, the feeling of peace and wonder at nature’s diversity that I experience first-hand.”

Cemetary Hill View

Through lots of repetition, trial, and error, Brenda is primarily a self-taught artist and is liberally seasoned with occasional art classes. These classes provided her the basics of drawing which gave her a solid foundation to pursue other mediums. She credits her high school art teacher, Mrs. Hildreth, with greatly enhancing her abilities through the “drawing on the right side of the brain” method. She also took advanced drawing courses during college at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute in Utica, New York where she studied figure drawing, still life and more abstract drawing styles. In more recent years she has taken pastel painting courses at E.W. Poore’s from Linda Obremski and Sue Zylak and acrylics from Kim Roth. She has been showing and selling her art work since 2001. Brenda is currently a member of the Pastel Society of New Hampshire and the Keyes Art Group. She participates in several of the local outdoor art shows and has been privileged to win awards on several occasions. Currently Brenda has rotating exhibits at The Frame Depot in Milford, NH and Becky’s Frame Studio in Bedford, NH. For more information please visit her web site at www.blfcreative.com.

Think Spring - It's Time for the Student Art Show!

Coming this May the Friends of the Amherst Town Library
will be hosting its 20th Annual Student Art Show! An
artist reception will be held on Mother's Day, Sunday May 12,
from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

New this year, in additions to students receiving participation
ribbons, 15 art awards will be given to selected artworks juried
by five local artists. This year Mont Vernon Village School students
will be participating for the first time.

Awards will take the form of framing two-dimensional artworks or a
plaque for three-dimensional artworks. Announcements of award
recipients will take place at the Student Art Show receptions on
Mother's Day at 2:30 p.m.

A special thank you goes to the following local businesses and an
anonymous sponsor that made these awards possible:

Allen Remodeling
Amherst Country Club
BMA Architectural Group
Boyd & Boufford Insurance Agency
Children's Dental Center of New Hampshire
First Colebrook Bank
Garden Gate Quilting
Casual Cat
Mike's Auto
Moulton's
Triangle Credit Union

In appreciation of our sponsors, artworks that receive awards
will be hung at the local businesses that sponsor the awards in
the month of June followed by a group showing at the SAU-39
administrative offices for the month of July.

The Friends of the Amherst Town Library would also like to thank
the following businesses that made contributions to the Student
Art Show reception:

Stop and Shop of Milford
Target of Nashua