April Art Exhibit
Walden Whitham - Paintings (North Room) and Sarah Warren - Weavings (South Room)
Opening Reception
Friday, April 10 at 5:00-7:00pm
Exhibition runs Wed, April 8 - Wed, April 29
Available for viewing during Dubhub open hours:
Mon 10 -12 , Tues 9am-3pm & Wed 10-3 and by appointment.
Walden Whitham (Richmond, New Hampshire) is an educator, musician, storyteller, writer, and visual artist. He has always explored art in various forms, but it was during a graduate program in arts and education at Leslie college in 1996 that he started taking creating art more seriously. Currently, he studies watercolor with Jeannie Eismont, also of Richmond, NH.
He finds most of his inspiration in the natural world, often capturing images with photography,traveling with watercolors for convenience, exploring painting first with monochromatic acrylic, and then with oils.
In the midst of the chaos of troubled times, he continues to look for beauty around himself whether it is in his own backyard or the part of the world where his travels lead him. Walden has exhibited his art locally at Sunflowers Cafe, the Peterborough Hospital, the Jaffrey Civic center, and in private homes in a half dozen states.
Sarah Warren's goal as a weaver is to communicate the peace, inspiration and renewal that can be found in the natural world. Sarah started weaving in 2001 when she happened upon a landscape weaving class in Santa Fe, NM. With a background in watercolor painting, knitting, and needlepoint, Sarah quickly became enthralled with tapestry weaving. Among the master weavers Sarah has studied with are the late James Koehler, who taught her design techniques based on sacred geometry as well as how to dye wool and Jennie Slick, who taught her Navajo weaving techniques. Sarah became juried into the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen in 2007. She exhibited in many of their galleries throughout the state and had a sales booth for 14 years at their Annual Craftsmen Fair in Sunapee. Sarah has won awards and exhibited throughout the United States, Great Britain, and Europe. Although retired from exhibiting and taking commissions in 2023, she is still active in her craft.
Sarah has lived in New York City, Cambridge,Massachusetts, and Northern New Mexico. She currently calls both the WhiteMountains and Dublin, New Hampshire home.
Artist Statement:
I am constantly analyzing colors, patterns of light, and the angles of natural land and sky scapes, imagining how to turn what I see into tapestry. All of my tapestries are woven with weft that I have dyed, using wool spun by Harrisville Designs. I use cotton-seine warp. I weave larger tapestries on Macomber floor looms. My smaller designs are woven either on Navajo frame looms or Mirrix table looms.
