These Varied Works Are A Treat

The Trinity Gallery Juried Art Show, running through Oct. 15, presents paintings and drawings of rivers, mountains, lakes, fields, barns, familiar landmarks, cute kids, cute animals and flowers. 

Plenty of flowers. 

It has the stuff of magic, too. Robert Cronin, that master painter and storyteller, has three pieces in the show, each with its own beguiling secrets. Particularly beautiful is his “Sleeping Gypsy,” a woman in white lying in a cradle near the sea, with her own moon and stars overhead. It’s gorgeous. And mysterious.

Among several images of flowers in the show, Antonella T. Preve’s “Vase of Flowers,” which sold the first day for $4,000, is formal, detailed and decorative. Mary Anne Carley’s watercolor, “One Different Lily,” characteristically fills its entire space with flourishes of color. And Scott Taylor’s  “Summer’s Retreat,” a great bowl of jolly, spikey sunflowers, won first place in the show.

In a related genre, Joan Palmer’s “Summer Harvest” is a detailed watercolor of small and large tomatoes ranging in color from pale purple, through red and yellow and the faintest pink.

Standing out from all the bright images here is  Paul Chinelli’s very detailed pencil drawing of a “Pembroke Welsh Corgi,” alert for eternity.

As for countryside, Constance Horton’s small and beautifully composed “Haystacks” is a gem. Overframed, but otherwise lovely.

Among some very nice small images in the show is BZ Coords’ pastel, “Flight,” a small bird in a blur of blues and greens.

And Walter Bogad’s “Sue’s Neighborhood Brookline” approaches the column of pale brick on a city street at an interesting photographic angle. Another standout is Jodi Luby’s refined and absorbing and masterful “Balance,”  an aquatint etching in black and yellow and yellow and black. You will see what I mean. Don’t miss it.

This annual art show mounted in Trinity Lime Rock’s Episcopal church displays 90 works, by about half that many artists. It’s quite varied and a treat on a rainy day. Every other kind of day, too.

The Trinity Gallery Juried Show runs weekends from noon to 4 p.m. through Oct. 15. It is located in  Trinity Episcopal Church at 484 Lime Rock Road in Lake­ville. For information, call 860-435-2627 or go to www.trinitylimerock.org.