Landscapes With Grabowski, Sept. 12

The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown will present an acrylic landscape demonstration by Jim Grabowski on Wednesday, September 12, at 7:30 pm. The program will be held at Newtown Meeting House at 31 Main Street in Newtown (at the flagpole). The public is welcome and admission is free.

James Grabowski, a native of New Britain, Conn., received his bachelor’s degree from Central Connecticut State University in 1966. After serving as the university art department’s first graduate assistant, he earned his masters from the university in 1968.

After leaving Central, Mr Gabowski taught art for several years but soon found himself being commissioned for his paintings and collages. For the last 20 years he has devoted himself exclusively to his art, which he creates in his studio in Marlborough, Conn.

In recent years Mr Grabowski has received commissions for his paintings from more than 100 national and international corporations as well as non-profit organizations such as Connecticut Public Television, New Haven Symphony Orchestra and Hartford Graduate Center.

Although known primarily as a painter of expansive abstract canvases, filled with bold color and motion, Mr Grabowski’s recent work also includes impressionistic landscape paintings that are quieter, often inspired by the Connecticut countryside.