ROCKY NECK GALLERY’S SUMMER ARTISTS SERIES INTRODUCES NELLA LUSH 
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NELLA LUSH
Oil, wax on canvas 36 x 36
Rocky Neck Gallery is pleased to announce the second show of the Summer Artist Series introducing the artist Nella Lush and her exquisitely beautiful seascapes and frescoes. The show, titled Nella’s Journey, opens Wednesday, June 12 until July 2. An artist reception will be held on Sunday, June 16th from 4-6 PM. The public is invited to attend this free event and hear Nella talk about her work and process.
An experimental artist, Nella enjoys working on a variety of subject matter from abstracts to frescos, nature and the sea. The Cape Ann coastline is her muse where she spends time recording the atmospheric moods of the sea, light and sky. Back in her studio she interprets these emotions on canvas where the process of painting is, for her, a spiritual journey. She works mainly with oils using cold wax as a medium often adding marble dust to create more texture and depth. It is her application and scraping away of numerous layers, again and again, that shape the final painting.
“I connect with things that leave a mystery… that the viewer is digging into the painting and each time they find something different. I don’t seek perfection: I just seek to be heard and to have the viewer connect emotionally to my work and to bring them to a time and place in their life.”
Nella is represented by the Art Essex Gallery, Essex, CT; the Mystic Seaport Maritime Gallery, Mystic, CT; Lorica Gallery, Andover, MA; and Peter Alpers Art, Andover, MA. She is a Signature Member of the American Society of Marine Artists; a member of National Associations of Women Artists in NYC; Rockport Art Association, Rockport, MA; a member and board trustee of North Shore Art Association, Gloucester, MA; President of the Andovers Artists Guild; and associate member of the Oil Painters of America.
Please join us and meet Nella Lush on Sunday, June 16th from 4-6 PM for a reception and artist talk. Delicious refreshments will be served.
RNG is located on 53 Rocky Neck Avenue, Gloucester. The hours are: Sunday – Wednesday: 11 AM – 6 PM, Thursday – Saturday: 11 AM – 8 PM. Free parking is available. For more information please visit our website http://www.rockyneckgallery.com or call 978-282-0917
Greetings dear Joe,
My name is Tesa and we met a few years ago when I was director of Sustainable Cape Ann (we started the Farmers’ Market).
I moved to Indonesia three years ago, and now live in California but still love to support cool projects back in Cape Ann. I did two interviews with Robert Newton in 2008 and 2011, which I just cleaned up and posted on my blog with a link to his current Indiegogo Campaign. If you have time to read them, and feel comfortable mentioning them on your blog, I was hoping it might create some support for Robert’s fundraiser.
Warm regards,
Tess Silvestre
The offshore fishing out of Gloucester ,Ma. couldn’t be better.I was out the other day and limited out on cod and caught some real nice sized haddock.I’m glad we are allowed to catch fish for my charter clients and also some nice locale fresh fish to take home for dinner.
I caught this nice haddock my self and decided that it was for my dinner.
Capt. MikeParisi
2013 Carolyn O’Connor Scholarship Applications Now Available
Applications for the Carolyn O’Connor Scholarship are now available at the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce, 33 Commercial Street in Gloucester, and online at capeannchamber.com. The Businesswomen’s Committee is delighted to announce that the scholarship award will continue to be $1,250 this year.
The O’Connor Scholarship is offered to a Cape Ann woman who is looking to change careers or re-enter the workforce, and who would require some form of continuing education to achieve that goal. Applicants must have a high school degree or its equivalent, be a legal resident of Massachusetts, and be accepted to an accredited college, university or job training program.
The deadline for submitting the application for the Carolyn O’Connor Scholarship is Friday, June 28.
Good Morning Gloucester 