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Featured Members:
Sally Caswell
Sally joined 19 on Paper in 1995 and is one of our earliest members…..
 My means of expression
are the traditional media of painting, drawing and printmaking, such as intaglio and stone lithography. I am at home with the watercolor medium and enjoy its jewel-like colors of transparencies and glazes. In oils and acrylics, on paper or canvas, I continue working in the tradition of glazes over ground colors.For me, these media offer a warmth and sensuousness relating to Earth and humanity.
Since the early 1970's the complexities of form have fascinated me. Grounded in the textures derived from the Abstract Expressionists, my work reflects the spirit of the landscape, its richness of form and color, textures and patterns of nature. The frequent presence of water in my paintings, its reflections and fluidity, its necessity for life, holds for me the universal symbolic reflection of spirituality, much in the philosophical traditions of the Luminists. Read More…
Sally Caswell, who is also showing three of her paintings in the "Small Works: Encounter New England Exhibition", from April 7 - July 2, 2022, at the Copley Society Gallery, See CopleySociety.org.
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Robin Beckwith
 Robin Beckwith relocated from Virginia to Rhode Island in 1982 to study painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. After graduation, she was employed as a graphic designer for a local manufacturer. When she retired, she was happy to turn more of her attention to painting. One of Robin’s greatest pleasures is painting from nature.
She also delights in the challenge of experimental painting and finds that the discipline and joy of painting from nature and working from an inner vision support one another. Robin begins with watercolor, most often on synthetic paper, creating a visually textured surface with a variety of resists, using leaves and other natural objects, handmade stamps, or synthetic cobwebs, setting her starts aside. She then develops imagery and shapes in an interactive manner, using her imagination as well as direct references. She may use water soluble crayons, colored pencils, inks, or other mediums to further develop her work. On those rare days when it is below freezing in winter, Robin applies paint to the paper outdoors, and allowing it to freeze on the paper surface. The exciting textures which may develop are rarely duplicated.
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