Awed by seasonal change

“Menagerie’’ (colored pencils on bond), by Linda Klein, in her show “A Walk in the Park,’’ at Bromfield Gallery, Boston, Nov. 4-20.

The artist says:

“For many years, I have walked the trails and paths in the parks around Framingham and Sudbury, {Mass.} and I have had the experience of watching nature change over the seasons.

During those walks I have seen a tightly curled green stalk unfurl into a showy green fan. I have seen moss slowly grow over a dead log creating a soft carpet for insects to make their homes. Trees move from the wind often swaying above my head, and their movements create sounds: creaking or swishing, bird calls, bees buzzing, insects digging or flitting.

As the seasons change, the greens begin to fade into shades of ochre, rust and brown. The leaves slowly float down from the trees or drop their needles to gather on the paths.

But during winter the sounds are quiet, almost absent except for the occasional bird flitting from tree to tree or the scuttle of some small animal looking for food.

I love this time. I am awed by its beauty and humbled by its very existence.

Resilient nature

From Linda Klein’s show “Nature Defiant,’’ at Bromfield Gallery, Boston, Sept. 4-27. She explains:

“The content of this exhibit continues the direction I began in my 2004 exhibit, ‘Excess,’ about which I wrote, ‘My paintings and drawings came out of a conscious awareness of my anxiety about where we are going in our world.’

“Unlike the anxiety that I expressed in that exhibit, this work is devoted to celebrating the resilience of nature and enacting nature’s desire to assert itself through forms that derive from nature itself and flourish in the human imagination as it creates the forms of things unknown. When I began this process, many months ago, no one could have predicted the pandemic that has caused us all to pause. I too sometimes forget that we share this world with many life forms, unseen or ignored, until they assert themselves and demand my attention.’’

See:

https://www.lindakleinart.com/

and:

bromfieldgallery.com

Soothing or spooky?

"Dreaming'' (oil and fabric), by Linda Klein, in her show "Family Matters,'' paintings based on her old drawings of children, at Bromfield Gallery, Boston, Feb. 28-April 1.