Eskedal featured at Main Street Art Gallery

The MWV Arts Association’s Main Street Art Gallery is highlighting the watercolor and acrylic paintings of Jan Eskedal from Madison on Friday, August 25th from 4-8 pm with an Open House.

Eskedal finds inspiration in the beauty of nature, especially the NH White mountains of various seacoast vistas. She is also a gardener who enjoys capturing plants and flowers in her work. She paints in a variety of mediums including watercolors, oils, acrylic and also creates decoupage pins based on her paintings or by combining various collage elements. Most work is realistically rendered but she occasionally experiments with abstraction.

Whether in grand vistas or more intimate views, she displays contrasts and similarities to create visual tension while providing interest with the detail, color, light, texture, atmosphere and surface quality of objects. The transparent watercolors are done over rough paper using dry brush techniques built up in layers over background washed showing details and textures. Acrylics and oils are usually on canvas or board. She works both “en plein aire” in various locations and in her studio in Silver Lake, NH. Subjects may be from nature, memory or her imagination.

Eskedal has been creating art most of her life and still enjoys the process of bringing a new image or concept to life. There is never a shortage of potential subjects to interpret, and bringing chosen ideas and scenes to life is always a welcome challenge!

The public is welcome to meet the artist and enjoy the fine arts gallery. Refreshments will be served. Main Street Art Gallery is located next to Sawyer River Trading Company, behind the MET Coffeehouse, 16 Norcross Circle,  North Conway Village. For more information, call 603-356-2787.