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Marianne van Lent, “Dark River Flats,” fresco secco, 24 by 24 inches.

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MARIANNE VAN LENT EXHIBIT AT DEBORAH DAVIS FINE ART w/1 cut

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HUDSON, N.Y. — Deborah Davis Fine Art, Inc, at 510 Warren Street, features the paintings of Marianne van Lent in the gallery’s first show of 2008. The paintings, from a body of work titled “Fresco Secco,” are on view through Monday, February 18.

Van Lent, who divides her time between Greene County and Manhattan, has been painting the Hudson River and its surrounding area for many years, stating that they have become the inspiration for the imagery of her landscape paintings.

Influenced by the Hudson River School and the Northern European tradition of romanticism, where nature corresponds to human emotional states, her paintings explore the “dream of place.” They communicate a longing for a time and place that embodies the spiritual sanctuary of pure nature, far from the faster and faster pace of  the technological age.

The paintings in this exhibit are either fresco secco or suspended pigment on canvas.

Van Lent’s work has been exhibited in the Hudson Valley, New York City and its environs and in Germany.

For information, 518-822-1890 or www.ddfagallery.com.