{"id":4989,"date":"2024-08-26T10:18:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T15:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomaspaquette.com\/?page_id=4989"},"modified":"2024-08-28T21:01:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T02:01:08","slug":"newsletter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thomaspaquette.com\/newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Below is content from my most recent Newsletter.
\nIf you aren’t already receiving updates on new paintings and\/or studio newsletters, you can sign up at UPDATES<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nNumber 72 – August 27, 2024:
\n<\/span>ART OF THE STATE, OLD-GROWTH FOREST PAINTINGS, AND A NEW GOUACHES BOOK<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Art of the State<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My painting titled GH Old-Growth Forest<\/em> (below) is on display in the State Museum of Pennsylvania’s<\/span>
\nprestigious annual juried exhibition Art of the State<\/em><\/span>. It is accompanied by 95 artworks chosen from 2,200 entries.
\nThe exhibition runs from September 8 through January 5, 2025. <\/span><\/p>\n

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GH Old-Growth Forest,<\/em> 36 x 74 inches, oil on linen, 2024<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\n

Focusing on old-growth forests
\n<\/span><\/strong>
\nThe old-growth forest painting in the State exhibition brings me to a related topic. Since a young age, I have been fortunate to wander
\ninto several virgin (unlogged) forests in the western U.S. More rare in the east, only less than 1% of the original forest still survives, and tracts
\nof uncut forests are much more difficult to find here. I was in my early thirties in 1992 when I stepped into Big Reed Forest Reserve, just five years
\nafter The Nature Conservancy in Maine<\/a><\/span> acquired it. <\/span>
\nBig Reed is New England\u2019s largest contiguous forest to have survived undisturbed for hundreds of years. I painted many of TNC\u2019s preserves,
\nbut Big Reed was sort of a crown jewel. Crossing into the land, I had the clear sense of entering an extraordinary, timeless place. A dense weave
\nof ancient and younger trees, mosses, and other flora and fauna created a delicate harmony never shattered by heavy footprints, roads or chainsaws.
\nBelow is a painting from that time and place.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ancient Birch, Big Reed Forest Reserve<\/em>, 40 x 30 inches, oil on canvas, 1992-96<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


\nI have always loved experiencing and painting these rare remnants of nature, lands granted free rein to live and develop entirely naturally.
\n<\/span>Because of that, for the last couple years I have focused on ancient forests of the eastern half of the U.S. as my primary subject. I will write
\nmore about this when the paintings are unveiled in my two 2025 solo exhibitions (Gross McCleaf Gallery<\/span>\/Philadelphia\/May and
\nGroveland Gallery<\/span>\/Minneapolis\/September).<\/span>
\nIf you wish to know more about this topic, Old-Growth Forest Network<\/a> is doing a terrific job of creating a national network of old-growth forests.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

A new gouaches book in the works<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Cover of the new book “The Intimate Landscape”
<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


\nBefore Christmas, a new book of my gouache paintings (the little guys) will be published. Compared to my prior book of gouache paintings,
\nthis one will have 50% more pages (about 200) and paintings (about 150), and will measure slightly larger, easily accommodating
\nfull-size reproductions of these small paintings. The Intimate Landscape<\/em><\/span> will feature new paintings finished after that prior book, Gouaches<\/em><\/a><\/span>,
\nwent to press in 2006. Barbara L. Jones, Curator Emerita at Westmoreland Museum of American Art, contributes the foreword.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ordering details will be in an upcoming newsletter.<\/span><\/p>\n

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To sign up for emailed New Painting Updates<\/em> and\/or Newsletters<\/em> : Updates<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nTo see prior newsletters, visit the Newsletter Archives<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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