Events › Art Exhibit: Roslindale in Paint - Wendi Gray and Richard Pepp

The Roslindale Branch, in partnership with the Friends of the Roslindale Branch Library, are proud to host a collection of work by local artists: Wendi Gray and Richard Pepp. This exhibit is on view from Thursday, April 17 through Friday, May 30 (during operational hours). 

ABOUT WENDI:
I am a Plein Air painter and I live in Roslindale. I enjoy working in various mediums like oil pastel, oil paint, casein, gouache, and soft pastel En Plein Air, but I also enjoy painting from life indoors as well. I’m inspired by the outdoors and like painting streetscapes the most. I will paint anything though. I love light and how it transforms something very simple into something a little more interesting to look at. Painting outside on the street and inside local businesses has enabled me to connect with my community in a really unique way and I am grateful for that.

ABOUT RICHARD: 
After I retired after almost half a century of teaching college English, I thought I needed a hobby as well, and I decided to take a class to learn how to paint with watercolors. After all, I reasoned, I used watercolors as a kid; how hard could it be? I quickly learned that people who knew painting said, “Oh yeah, watercolors, that’s the hardest.” Over the next few years I took other classes, mostly of the adult ed “paint what you want” variety. With very little formal instruction, I filled up notebooks with sketches, many of them portraits drawn quickly as I rode the Orange Line to my adjunct job. (Nobody ever looked up from their phone.) Looking for a broader scope and inspired by the Gloucester paintings of Edward Hopper, I decided to paint what I saw in Roslindale. Working from sketches, photos, and en plein air painting, sometimes with Wendi Gray, these watercolors reflect what I’ve seen on the walks that my wife Adria and I have taken for many years, around the neighborhood, to the square, past houses, busy streets, cars, and, blessedly, the Arnold Arboretum.

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