Taryn
Plumb
HEARTWOOD
COLLEGE OF ART
NORTH
DAM MILL
2
MAIN STREET
BIDDEFORD,
MAINE
JANUARY
30 THROUGH MARCH 30
BONNIE
FAULKNER AND CAROLANN TEBBETTS
As
a girl, Bonnie Faulkner recalls endlessly drawing circles —
“circles and circles and circles,” as she emphasized — and,
inspired by the way light played with colored glass, she hit upon the
novel idea that she could “paint” with that fragile material.
Eventually,
she literally fused those two ideas into colorful, intricate glass
renditions of the mandala, a circular symbol that represents both the
cosmos and the self.
“It’s
analogous to life,” the Heartwood College of Art MFA candidate
explained recently between sips of tea in her Yarmouth studio
overlooking an expanse of ocean mudflats. “If the inside is worked
out, things emanate out from there.”
The
lifelong Maine resident will further explore the spiritual and
psychological symbol in an exhibit, “Masters in the Studio,”
opening January 30 at Heartwood’s gallery at the North Dam Mill in
Biddeford. The show, which will run through the end of March, will
feature the final theses of Heartwood’s first round of
low-residency MFA candidates, who have each been studying their craft
through the program for five years.
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