Artists, Past & Present

Georgette Sinclair recently returned from Provence, France where she painted with well-known artist Elizabeth Mowrey.

Georgette Sinclair's art training started in her childhood when she attended the Public School of Art in Romania where she took drawing and painting classes.

After Ms. Sinclair immigrated to the United States, she started a new life as an American citizen while attending school at night. She obtained a Master of Science and a Doctoral degree in Audiology, which adds to her Master degree in Special Psychology and Pedagogy already earned back in Romania from Cluj-Napoca University.

In New York, she attended the Art Student League of NYC, studying under Richard Pionk and John Foote, in addition to attending workshops at Woodstock School of Art and the Hudson River Valley Art School. She also studied with master pastelist, Elizabeth Mowry, at various workshops in France in the Artist's Retreat Program.

Ms. Sinclair works mostly in pastels and oils and is fascinated by the beauty of nature. She finds poetry in ordinary scenes and her landscapes express a mood and speak to everyone by freezing a moment before it is gone forever. In her vision, expression of mood is the response to a fragment in time. She delights in painting outdoors but is also fascinated by peeking in and out of the windows which are the subject of some of her paintings. She travels extensively and her trips, a great source of inspiration, have a big impact on her work.

Ms. Sinclair has been a member of the Salmagundi Club and Pen & Brush, Inc, NYC since 2001 and RIVAA (Roosevelt Island Visual Art Association, NYC) since 2000.

The body of work on display includes oil paintings and pastels from her trip as well as past works.

For more information about Georgette Sinclair visit www.georgettesinclair.com.

Cai Xi Silver (pronounced ‘tsai shee’) has been a painter for more than thirty years, art instructor for more than twenty years, in China and the United States, and a language instructor for more than ten years. Cai is a graduate of Shanghai Drama Institute where she studied fine arts. She also studied painting with professor Du Yingchao of the Sichuan Institute of Fine Arts. She has worked in film, theater, and television in China, New York and Wisconsin doing scenic painting, costume, make-up and stage design. Cai also studied T’ai Chi Chuan martial arts in China with Master Jing Hui and is herself a Tai Chi master. Cai is an instructor and workshop presenter for children and adults in art, Chinese language and culture, calligraphy, and T’ai Chi. She has had solo and group shows in Vermont, New York and several other states and in China.

With her husband, Cai has organized a number of Chinese festivals in southern Vermont during the past five years. They are launching the Asian Cultural Center of Vermont and the C.X. Silver Gallery in Brattleboro. For further information the websites are: www.asianculturalcentervt.org and www.cxsilvergallery.com.

On her experience of landscapes and landscape painting, Cai says: “Ever since I was little, I have loved looking at the open sky, how huge and deep it is, and the land, how expansive it can be. I want the painting to represent the total power of Nature. I grew up in a big Chinese city, dense with people and houses, and have lived in other cities most of the time until five years ago, when I moved to Vermont. Now the powerful Earth and Sky, everywhere I turn, surrounds me. Now, my twenty year play with abstraction in my painting has turned to a focus on the wide sky and the land. My latest oil landscapes are the result of the ongoing process that draws me into each picture. There is a feeling of the oneness of vast Nature. It is an ongoing prayer for peace on Earth. In all of these paintings, the process of doing each painting has been a feeling of myself melting into the painting so that there feels as if there is no “me,” only the painting.”