‘Wine, Women and Art, Part V’

SHERMAN — “Wine, Women and Art,” a multi-media art exhibit and sale, has been invited back for its fifth year at White Silo Farm and Winery. The exhibition will be on view Friday, September 3, through Sunday, September 19, and will have its opening reception on Sunday, September 5, from 2 to 4 pm.

The popular event will feature the newest works by award-winning artists in the pastoral setting of Sherman. On exhibit will be a unique display of acrylic, oil, watercolor, multi-media, and woven paintings, collage and pottery by Connecticut artists Dorothy Hyde, Adele Moros, Paula Renee and Judith Taylor.

Dorothy Hyde, of Wilton, is primarily a plein aire painter who works on location throughout New England. She focuses mainly on maritime and landscape images that illustrate atmospheric light, such as a wave breaking or the mist rising over a marsh.

Ms Hyde has won numerous awards for her work, which is in private and corporate collections such as The National Audubon Society, The College of New Rochelle, St Joseph’s Medical Center, and others. She has also produced commercial art for Estee Lauder Cosmetics, Holt Rinehart and Winston, and McGraw Hill.

Bethel painter Adele Moros is a multi-media artist whose work varies from miniatures to murals, portraits, still life, and landscapes. Her Tiffany Cow raised $60,000 for charity at the New York Cow Parade 2000.

Ms Moros has taught painting for the past 26 years and is a Fellow with the International Guild of Miniature Artisans. She has won many awards, and her work is included in numerous private, corporate, and museum collections, including the Toy and Miniature Museum of Kentucky.

Paula Renee is known for her tapestries, woven paintings and dimensional paper constructions.  Her multi-media art is in major corporate, public and private collections worldwide including the Presidential Suite and 17 lobbies of the Tobu Hotel in Kinshicho Japan; the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad India; the West Point Jewish Chapel; the home of actress Mary Tyler Moore, and numerous others.

Ms Renee, of Danbury, has exhibited widely for over 30 years in prominent NYC galleries and throughout the US, including traveling exhibitions at American Cultural Centers in major cities of India;  museums and art centers in Virginia and Tennessee; also Trenton City Museum, Hudson River  Museum, Bergen Museum and others. Her art has been on the covers and in featured articles in numerous magazines, such as Fiberarts, Science of Mind, Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot and in the book Pages of Revelations in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Judith (Lerner) Taylor, a former soloist with American Ballet Theater, continues to express the joy of movement through her unique ceramic creations, which she calls EarthDances. For over a decade, Ms Taylor’s award-winning work has been exhibited in high-end art galleries in New Jersey and Connecticut and is part of numerous private collections in the USA and Europe.

The common theme in all her work is motion, conveyed either in the basic shape of a piece, the designs carved into the clay, or her unusual glaze treatments. Since becoming a Roxbury resident, she has begun incorporating images of nature into her work, and leaves, flowers and hummingbirds continue to be featured on her pottery.

White Silo Farm and Winery, at 32 Route 37 East in Sherman, is open Friday through Sunday from 11 am to 6 pm. The gallery will also be open on Labor Day Monday September 6.

For further information, call 860-355-0271 or visit WhiteSiloWinery.com.