2020 Small Stones Festival of the Arts
Welcome to the Small Stones Festival of the Arts - 2020 COVID-19 Edition
Awards Note: Jurors' Choice Awards were also given to each of the First and Second Prizewinners in each category, alhtough this gallery only supports showing one prize per work.
- VIEWING - Click on an image for a larger view.
- NAVIGATION - The images are sorted with prizewinners first (note that most prizes will be awarded on October 23), then alphabetically by artist last name. Note that there are 25 pages in the gallery - use the page selector to see more entries.
- SEARCHING - You can enter an artist's first or last name in the search box to find a given artist.
- FILTERING - You can create a filtered view to see only paintings or photography by selecting a choice in the Category Filter box. You can see only those entries selected by our jury for inclusion in our printed catalog by using the Tag Filter. The Tag Filter also allows you to view entries by members of the Blackstone Valley Art Association or Worcester County Camera Club.
- VOTING - Voting is now closed.
- PURCHASING ARTWORK - This year, Small Stones Festival is not directly selling any of the artwork on exhibition. If you wish to purchase an artwork, some of the works include a web address for the artist, allowing you to contact them directly via their website. For others, we will relay any messages sent to artists@smallstonesfestival.org. Specify which artist you wish to contact and provide your contact information.
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Nightscape
Ponnapa Prakkamakul
Selected for catalog
Artist statement: As a painter and a landscape architect, site investigation and immersion play an important role in Ponnapa’s work. Ponnapa art reflects her immersive experience engaging with the landscape through the performative acts of searching and collecting materials to paint with such as soil, plant, groundwater, and rust from found objects. For Ponnapa, this painting process fosters a deeper connection to new places as an immigrant – through art she cultivate her sense of place in this new land.
Specific medium: Mixed media on paper
The Visitor
Ponnapa Prakkamakul
$950.00
Artist statement: The visitor is a work done during David Bethuel Jamieson Fellowship and Artist Residency at C-Scape dune shack in Provincetown. Ponnapa used groundwater with high iron level to produce rust with various shades to paint with. Similar to organic materials, rust reacts to different levels of oxygen, moisture, and pH creating unpredictable colors and textures that respond to the dramatic weather condition within the sand dune environment.
Specific medium: Mixed media on paper
Great Egret
Nancy Present-Van Broekhoven
$300.00
Artist statement: I love painting birds and this great egret seemed to appear out of nowhere while I was walking in the Florida Keys. It is the first in a series of bird paintings that I have completed this year while vacationing in Florida. The other paintings in the series include pelicans, blue herons, and hummingbirds.
Specific medium: watercolor
All About Spring
Nancy Present-Van Broekhoven
$375.00
Artist statement: These are various flowers from my garden printed and painted on watercolor paper. I then included a dragon fly in ink.
Specific medium: watercolor with ink
Hemlock Gorge
Nancy Present-Van Broekhoven
$200.00
Artist statement: I started painting this scene plein-air at the Hemlock Gorge in Newton. I then took my watercolor home and completed the work in my studio. I was fascinated by the reflection of the bridge in the water.
Specific medium: watercolor
November 9, 2016
Richard Price
Artist statement: The morning after the 2016 presidential election the police scanner called out to the Grafton Fire Department to rescue a fox that had its head caught in a sewer grate. I grabbed my Canon camera and wound my way through a suburban neighborhood to the spot. The first responders lubed the animal's neck with what looked like dish soap until they were able to free it.
Specific medium: photograph
Water Dancer
Nicole Prisby
Artist statement: It is Labor Day 2018 in Ipswich, MA. It is the golden hour just before the sun sets over the peaceful water. It is a perfect time, a perfect place, and a perfect moment to capture the last jump of the day, the last jump of the summer. My water dancer.
Specific medium: Digital photography
Mother Earth
Nicole Prisby
Artist statement: Mother Earth was completed on April 22, 2020 to celebrate Earth Day’s 50th birthday. In the true spirit of this holiday, this piece of art is created entirely of recycled materials. The canvas is cut from an old poster and a cardboard box, the collage pieces are glossy magazine pages, and the frame is a secondhand find. I sketched the land masses then my young artists, Madison (age 11), Jackson (age 9), and Aiden (age 6), cut, arranged and glued the pieces to complete our worldly masterpiece.
Specific medium: Paper collage
Early Evening Light
Joanne Quinn
Selected for catalog
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Artist statement: Joanne Talbot Quinn has been an artist almost all of her life and has experience working with all media but prefers painting with oil and pastel. Her painting style crosses Realism with the softer edges of Impressionism. She is inspired by the gentle beauty and spirit of New England; her wish is that people who see her paintings establish a connection between her work and nature with all its riches.
Specific medium: Oil painting
Truro Light
Joanne Quinn
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Artist statement: Joanne Talbot Quinn has been an artist most of her life and has experience working with all media but prefers painting with oil and pastels. Her painting style crosses Realism with the softer edges of Impressionism. She is inspired by the gentle beauty of New England; her wish is that people who see her paintings establish a connection between her work and nature with all its riches.
Specific medium: Oil painting
Looking East
Joanne Quinn
$700.00
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Artist statement: Joanne Talbot Quinn has been an artist most of her life and has experience working with all media but prefers painting with oil and pastels. Her painting style crosses Realism with the softer edges of Impressionism. She is inspired by the gentle beauty and spirit of New England; her wish is that people who see her paintings establish a connection between her work and nature with all its riches.
Specific medium: Oil. 8” x 16”
Outdoor Shower
Joanna Quinn
$200.00
Artist statement: Joanna Quinn is 2011 a graduate of Framingham State University with a double major in Studio Art and Art Education. She has experience working in all media but prefers photography. Photographing consistently for years, Joanna prefers to explore the emotions and dynamics of the human form through self-portraits and portraits of others. Ms. Quinn is also an enthusiastic landscape photographer.
Specific medium: Photography
Windswept
Joanna Quinn
$200.00
Artist statement: Joanna Quinn is 2011 a graduate of Framingham State University with a double major in Studio Art and Art Education. She has experience working in all media but prefers photography. Photographing consistently for years, Joanna prefers to explore the emotions and dynamics of the human form through self-portraits and portraits of others. Ms. Quinn is also an enthusiastic landscape photographer.
Specific medium: Photography
Untitled
Mark Rearden
Selected for catalog
Artist statement: No statement.
Specific medium: digital photograph
Untitled
Mark Rearden
Artist statement: No statement.
Specific medium: digital photograph
Untitled
Mark Rearden
Artist statement: No statement.
Specific medium: digital photograph
Where Did the Years Go?
Colleen B. Reilly
$750.00
Selected for catalog
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Artist statement: I noticed this older woman (and that’s a relative term) sitting with her family at an outdoor picnic table having lunch. They were speaking in another language which made her more interesting as she looked like she was from the “old country”. I was so attracted to her face, especially wearing the old-fashioned scarf. She looked so interesting, so alluring to me. I wanted to know what she was thinking, how she was feeling, what was her life story? I just found it so difficult to look away.
Specific medium: photograph with monochrome treatment
Little Girl Turnaround
Colleen B. Reilly
$550.00
Selected for catalog
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Artist statement: This image was taken in a small storefront that had been converted into a community church. It was summer, and the Sunday service lasted for several hours. The adults were so pleased to have someone take their photographs and share their day's activities. But children can grow restless, but his little girl was so good throughout the afternoon. I really didn't pay much attention to her, that is until she turned around. What a beautiful little face God had created and I was able to capture.
Specific medium: photograph with monochrome treatment
Looking Back
Colleen B. Reilly
$750.00
Selected for catalog
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Artist statement: It was a Sunday morning in Lancaster, Pa as an Amish buggy passed by with three children looking out the back window. They reminded me of so many happy times sitting in the rear seat of my family’s station wagon watching the world go by. This image reveals that children in every culture share many of the same experiences as they travel with their families. No matter who you are, or what time period you live in, the back seat offers young children an innocent view of the world they live in.
Specific medium: photograph
Into the Light, Orvieto, Italy
Jo Ellen Reinhardt
$1,800.00
Selected for catalog
Artist statement: This painting is based on a scene from Orvieto, Italy. My intention in creating this scene was to capture the beautiful distant light and illuminated Duomo. The figures give scale to the height of the structures and also add to the hustle and bustle of this busy city.
Specific medium: Oil
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