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Ilene Rubin and Tom Furey will be showing their Original Oil Paintings at The Free Library of Northampton Township, 25 Upper Holland Rd, Richboro, PA.
This Exhibit is dedicated to surviving Covid-19 last year. Tom Furey said, Lucky for me “I paint” since I was unable to leave the house during 2020. Over 45 Oil Paintings were created both large and small. This Exhibit displays 17 or those 45 paintings from this time.
My work is an extension of my life. It is not something I have to do for money, it is something I need to do for life. My purpose is to paint every day. While painting for the last 50 years, I have become a close observer of my surroundings. Discovering constantly the beauty of the nature of our world in the people, places and things surrounding me. They seem to show up at the strangest times and in the strangest places, but if I am not aware of my world, I will miss them. Some of those occurrences appear in this exhibit.
My oil paintings are not staged or enhanced to promote a sale. They are actual observations I capture. Getting in my car to go to work and I notice my neighbors flowering dogwood. Visiting a local historic site and see a woman dressed in colonial costume, my interest was seeing what was behind me in window reflections above her and through the building and inside at the same time. Even a simple dish of peppers given to me by a friend becomes a beautiful composition. I must confess the bowl of oranges was moved to a staged area just for some fun! Painting is intense work and discovery. Painting Fine Art is a challenge and allows me to show my world to the observer.
I paint to share my love of expressing my feelings, thoughts, heart and life!
Ilene Rubin is displaying Original Oil Paintings of Bucks County and the surrounding area. Her style is considered Painterly and with very a good realization of her compositions. The painting on display draw you in with their color and rendering.
Ilene Rubin has been involved in art in some capacity, and most of the time in many capacities, since she was a young child. She won her first drawing award at the age of 9. She has painted murals, boots, purses, a line of women's and children’s clothing, furniture, walls and even a radiator and closet doors with motifs that range from folk art designs to landscapes. Basically, anything that can be painted is in serious consideration for painting. She is still painting ‘stuff’ but spends most of her time now painting the landscape. For Ms. Rubin, it’s a mesmerizing vista that captures her imagination, the dance of shadow and the bold and unabashed explosion of autumn color that makes her canvases sing. Capturing a landscape is for Ms. Rubin, a permanent record of a beauty that is quickly shrinking due to development and environmental decay. A moment in time preserved, even if the painting itself is an interpretation, will have her running for her brushes or pastels. Her deepest inspiration comes from an urgent desire to capture what is all too quickly vanishing from our scenery and has become somewhat of a quest.