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Safety Harbor artist Karen Baker will be
one of 10 nationally known, award-winning artists featured in a
special show on Sunday, Mar. 25 hosted by art publisher White Creek
Images at the Rice Mansion Inn, a historic mansion built for seed
tycoon Jerome B. Rice and located at 16 West Main St. in the
Victorian village of Cambridge, NY.
Baker is founder and director of The
Vermont School of Art & Creativity, which offers workshops
during July and August in southern Vermont. Her still life fruit
and vegetable series prints are published by White Creek Images of
Cambridge.
She will attend along with fellow White
Creek artists Michael Crampton, George Forss, Anthony Kleem,
Adriano Manocchia, Virginia McNeice, Connie Netherton, Andrew Orr,
Leslie Peck and Brian Sweetland.
Renovated and restored rooms in the
mansion will be decorated with framed samples of the artists'
works, including Baker's luminous pastels of fruits and
vegetables; Connecticut artist Michael Crampton's bold images
reminiscent of the art deco style; magnificent black and white
photography by Cambridge, NY artist George Forss; Ohio native
Anthony Kleem's nostalgic primitive paintings; Greenwich,
NY artist Virginia McNeice's soft country scenes; fluid
landscapes and dramatic still life oils by New York artist Adriano
Manocchia; New York City Connie Netherton's powerful still
life inspired by the Dutch masters; Vermont artist Andrew Orr's
painterly renditions of flowers; Greenwich, NY artist Leslie
Peck's masterful farm animal portraits; and Vermont artist Brian
Sweetland's traditional interpretation of farm scenes.
Baker is a pastel artist and teacher of
plein air painting whose subjects include New England rural scenes,
colorful floral paintings and landscapes from the Florida
Everglades and sugar cane fields. Her paintings often feature
dramatic skies and full-palette hues and have won awards in
regional and national exhibits.
For more information, see
www.kbakerstudios.com or call 727-366-6477.
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