Fall show at the Sign of the Whale opens Thursday

Twenty-one artists will be exhibiting new paintings and art prints at the Sign of the Whale Gallery in Dayton starting Thursday, Sept. 25.

The show will include a lot of variety, from the free wheeling brushwork of Maggie Schmidt in her Par en Bas landscape series, to the detailed pen and ink rendering in Brian Porter’s Armed Robbery. Other local landscape is represented in JoAnn Horton’s Upper Pembroke and in her Sandford, in Virginia Stoddard’s Cheggogin Hills, and in Denise Comeau’s Cet automne and Pointe à Major.

Other works include Grand Pré in Snow by Father Maurice LeBlanc, Hirtle’s Beach Ponds by Robert Rutherford and Briar Island Shed by Dan Earle.

Cecil Day is exhibiting her final two etchings from her residency in Brigus, Newfoundland.

New work will also be exhibited by Angelina Comeau, Bill Crowell, Bob Hainstock, Lio Lo, V. L. MacLean, Roy Mandell, Isao Morrill, Susan Paterson, Twila Robar-DeCoste, Diane Castonguay Rosati (continuation of her whale series), Kath Kornelsen Rutherford, and Anna Syperek.

The show runs from Sept. 25 to Oct. 18 and is open daily. People will have a chance to meet the artists this Thursday from 7 to 9:30 p.m. and on Friday, Sept. 26 from 2 to 4 p.m.