 I do a lot of work with color. I'm really interested in color and composition. So I'll use a combination of outdoor studies, photographs, and color studies. I've changed environments so much that it changes what medium I think is appropriate to communicate. And I got interested in like performance and installation art there, and that just made it more exciting. But otherwise I'm really taking the material and totally taking it apart. Oh man, I've always wanted to be an artist ever since I was a little girl. In the main floor gallery we're showing the nitty gritty. This show depicts the people in the places in Vermont that don't turn up in our tourism literature. I paint landscape, often New England landscape, made in Vermont. And I tend to look for sort of the underbelly of the landscape. I'm less interested in the typical kind of bucolic pastoral cow barn kind of landscape and tend to go for the back of the barn. I find a lot of romance and beauty in kind of the reality of how people use working landscape. To me this piece is a lot about the experience of growing up in Vermont. And there's kind of like some of the patches, like the wood stove and kind of just the aesthetic of the quilt as a whole. Kind of this isolated in Vermont, like in a warm house, but still isolated feeling. And also since it is showing the darker side, which I don't see as necessarily like showing the darker side, but just it's realistic that I felt like the nitty gritty was trying to provoke kind of clear eyed views of Vermont and not the glorification of it. In the second floor gallery, we're showing collages by Anne Cummings. And these collages are made out of 100% post-consumer waste. It all started when I started kind of questioning my art making in general and what materials do to the environment in things like acrylic paints which are made of plastics. And as an environmentalist I began to kind of question rationalizing my art making with my ethics. And I thought what could I be doing that would be a way to raise environmental awareness and make my art making a little bit more environmentally conscious. In the third floor gallery, we're showing paintings by Janine Lund in a show called The Lights of Home. Well, I always wanted to do interiors, that's what these are called interiors. And somehow I always thought I would do them in pastels and I could never bear the thought that I was going to have pastel dust all over my house. Like, you know, I'm sort of a practical person. So when I decided, well, I will just do oil paints. And then the little paintings, I thought it would be sort of amusing to do these little paintings of things that were in the bigger paintings. Kind of a where's wall though, sort of thing. Studio Place Arts is located at 201 North Main Street in Berry, Vermont. To find out more about upcoming activities and exhibits at Spa, go to our website, that's www.studioplacearts.com.