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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Puffin
Sharon Whitham
$850.00
Submission Url:
Artist statement: This piece is part of series called, "Birds of no Paradise', focused on endangered birds and bird adaptations related to climate change. The puffins are a very unique bird whose natural habitats and food sources have been negatively affected by climate change.
Specific medium: Monotype, Oil on Paper
Finding Balance
Sharon Whitham
$1,500.00
Submission Url:
Artist statement: I spend a lot of time along the coast of Maine and am endlessly inspired by the infinite variety of colors and shapes of stones. i find myself stacking them, balancing them and wondering about their own history and journey.
Specific medium: Monotype, Oil on Paper, Diptych
Fall Swan
Wayne Wilhelm
$10.00
Artist statement: Local Blackstone Valley Photographer, whose to photograph the beauty of the nature around us.
Specific medium: Photograph
Fire Sky
Wayne Wilhelm
$10.00
Artist statement: The sky had such an awesome orange glow at night couldn't help but capture it
Specific medium: photograph
Flag flying high
Wayne Wilhelm
$10.00
Artist statement: The moonlight gave this flying flag the perfect light to capture America's symbol of Patriotism
Specific medium: Photograph
involutions:6826
Neil Wilkins
$360.00
Artist statement: An involution denotes an inward turn or curvature. This series is self-referential. These works explore the results of focusing on process. They present impermanent, elusive qualities that symbolize passing moments, acting as physical representations of transition. They inhabit a space where change is not sudden or abrupt. It is unhurried fluid motion that drifts, emphasizing new connections and possibilities.
Specific medium: mixed media encaustic
involutions:6837
Neil Wilkins
$360.00
Artist statement: An involution denotes an inward turn or curvature. This series is self-referential. These works explore the results of focusing on process. They present impermanent, elusive qualities that symbolize passing moments, acting as physical representations of transition. They inhabit a space where change is not sudden or abrupt. It is unhurried fluid motion that drifts, emphasizing new connections and possibilities.
Specific medium: Mixed Media Encaustic
The Gloaming - Moosehead Lake
Cathy Willey
$199.00
Artist statement: As a New England artist I find many and varied inspiration in the changeable landscape and abundant wildlife in our region. This piece is inspired by one of many trips to the Highlands of Maine.
Specific medium: Watercolor on 140lb Arches cold press pa
For Larry
Bruce Wilson
$275.00
Artist statement: The significance of Covid-19 became apparent to me in stages. First there was the requirement to begin working from home. Then there was the social distancing, followed by the closing of non-essential businesses. Restaurants were among the businesses designated as essential. They remained open, but with a catch: they could only sell takeout. How does a midscale restaurant put a brave face on a scary situation? "For Larry," a photograph of an outdoor pickup table, answers that question.
Specific medium: archival pigment print
More than a doorway
Bruce Wilson
$275.00
Artist statement: Early in the pandemic I did not pursue overt Covid-19 subject matter. I wanted my photography and my photographs to ignore all that, as if they would somehow make it go away. As the epidemic continued and expanded, my resolve ended. During those innocent early days, I captured a local doorway that seemed to suggest both the security inside the home beyond the doorway and, reflected in the doorway, the growing concern in the larger world.
Specific medium: archival pigment print
Leaving the beach
Bruce Wilson
$275.00
Artist statement: Around July 4, thinking a change of scenery would do us well, my spouse and I decided to spend a week on the Cape, Massachusetts's well-known vacation destination. To my relief, there was a high degree of Covid mask compliance and safety awareness at the places we visited. That did not necessarily mean, however, that everyone was happy with the outcome. No one was. The two young woman in the photograph both harken back to happier times and remind us that all is not well, at least not now.
Specific medium: archival pigment print
Sweet pea
Christine Wilson
Artist statement: Birth flower
Specific medium: Acrylic paints
School girl
Christine Wilson
Artist statement: Colored portrait
Specific medium: Colored pencil
Blackstone Canal
Robert Wilson
$175.00
Artist statement: As a watercolor painter I paint strictly En Plein Air. The outside environment is my studio. Most of my art is finished on site, yet some I finish at home. I try in my art to develop a style of painting where the paint is loosely applied letting the paint move itself around the paper and create it's own edges, values and abstractions. I eventually hope to develop an even more abstract style that is still based on the environment and landscape.
Specific medium: Watercolor
Tree in Concord
Robert Wilson
$195.00
Artist statement: As a watercolor painter I paint strictly En Plein Air. The outside environment is my studio. Most of my art is finished on site, yet some I finish at home. I try in my art to develop a style of painting where the paint is loosely applied letting the paint move itself around the paper and create it's own edges, values and abstractions. I eventually hope to develop an even more abstract style that is still based on the environment and landscape.
Specific medium: Watercolor
Apple Orchard
Robert Wilson
$300.00
Artist statement: As a watercolor painter I paint strictly En Plein Air. The outside environment is my studio. Most of my art is finished on site, yet some I finish at home. I try in my art to develop a style of painting where the paint is loosely applied letting the paint move itself around the paper and create it's own edges, values and abstractions. I eventually hope to develop an even more abstract style that is still based on the environment and landscape.
Specific medium: Watercolor weaving
Fall view
DANA WILSON
$50.00
Artist statement: I wanted to capture the beauty of the lake at almost dusk.
Specific medium: Photograph, digital
Fall sunset
DANA WILSON
$100.00
Artist statement: I wanted to capture the beauty of the Lake of the Isles in the fall. The colors of the sky and lake at times are surreal.
Specific medium: Photograph, digital
The Blue Door in Provence
William Witherell
BVAA Member
Artist statement: This painting is on of many stemming from my memories and photos from the 27 years I spent living in Paris and travelling throughout France.
Specific medium: Acrylic
The Fisherman
William Witherell
BVAA Member
Artist statement: This imagined scene could be from the New England coast or from the European coast, where fisherman still cast their nets from small boats. My paintings often focus on the play of light on water.
Specific medium: watercolor
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