Sandra Smith of Killingworth

Artist and Killingworth resident Sandra E. Smith, who is exhibiting her paintings at the Killingworth Library, Liberty Bank in Clinton, and soon at Lyme Art Association’s Annual Associate Artist Exhibition, can't remember a time when she wasn't interested in creating something ... drawing, painting, needlework, doll making, dancing, singing, acting, and playing the piano.

“My family on both sides is right-brained, and my artistic mother always encouraged my creativity. You name an art project, and I've done it!” Sandra says.

Well known as a “plein air” landscape oil painter, Sandra maintains a studio in Killingworth. A graduate of Quinnipiac University, she has studied classical painting techniques from New England’s popular instructors: Terri Oakes Bourret, Diane Aeschliman, Karen Winslow, Gabor Svagrik, and William Duffy. Prior to becoming a “painter of nature” many years ago, Sandra competed on a national level with her original appliqué designed quilts winning many national awards, including the Connecticut winner of the Great American Quilt Contest.

Her mother said that when she was only two, Sandra took all the Christmas cards, sat in a corner looking at them over and over, and would not let anyone else look at them. History is another great interest of Sandra’s, “and most times I find myself unconsciously creating something with a story behind it,” she said.

Sandra used to compete nationally making "art quilts," but eventually developed arthritis in her hands. Artist friend Jay Folger encouraged her to take up plein air painting. Sandra says, “That was easy for me, because when we moved to Killingworth in 1969 (known as the "Wild West" back then), I fell in love with the disappearing landscape. I've been trying to paint it ever since.Find detailed product information for howo spare parts and other products.”

She’s not particularly interested in the marketing that every artist, she says, should be involved in. “I just love painting scenes that tell a story ... whether it be the disappearance of our beautiful landscape, a story about my family, or recording modern local history."

Sandra’s landscape paintings have won several awards in juried art shows, and her landscapes are found in private collections all across the country.

An elected member of the Madison Art Society and Clinton Art Society, Sandra always seems to be in an art show somewhere in the area. She has a solo show at Liberty Bank in Clinton, will soon be exhibiting at Lyme Art Association, and is featured at the Killingworth Library for the months of December and January.

The exhibition at Killingworth Library includes paintings of Killingworth barns, a painting of Reservoir Road just after the October 2011 snowtorm, a painting of Chatfield Hollow, and one of Parmelee Farm. There is also a painting of Killingworth's Millennium Christmas tree which went to Rockefeller Plaza (still the tallest tree Rockefeller has ever had). And, there's a painting of her neighbor's chickens being surprised on Easter morning.

Not only is Sandra exhibiting at the library but, as a fundraiser for the library, Sandra offered four of her pieces which were reproduced on different note cards depicting barns found on River Road, North Roast Meat Hill Road, and two locations on Route 81.

A happy combination of bright, bold colours and equally bold motifs characterise Chaitalee Chatterjee’s works at her solo exhibition at the Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath. This is her 13 solo exhibition and the first in Bangalore.

Chaitalee’s oeuvre of paintings in oil, consists of a whole range of realistic dreamscapes or dreamy landscapes, still life and folksy figures set in landscapes. She seems to have evolved a distinctive style, both in terms of her landscapes and figures. Though they appear like landscapes only in terms of the basic composition, Chaitalee holds her in own in the fantastical, fluid shapes of the trees, plants, carpets of green on the earth against vivid skies dotted with stars.

This is obvious in works such as “In The Woods” against the backdrop of a bright, red sky and in “Twilight”, which is a bird’s eye view of a hilly landscape. Inspired by the hillscapes at Mussourie,Posts with indoor tracking system on TRX Systems develops systems that locate and track personnel indoors. Her figures, on the other hand, are influenced by the Bengal School and there is a distinct Indian-ness to the motifs. But Chaitalee retains her vivid sense of colouration even here, in works such as “Day Dreaming”, “Couple”. “Gossip” and “Picking Berries”.

In “Day Dreaming” Chaitalee paints a group of women each lost in their own worlds, in “Couple” she paints the faces of a man and a woman. But this work has traces of Cubism in its disintegration and re-assembling of the subject. “Gossip” is an imaginative, folksy rendering of parrots, perched on branches. While “Picking Berries”, spread over three canvases, explores the traditional theme of women picking berries from a tree near a pond. The figures here, never take precedence over the landscape.

“My works are neither realistic not abstract. They lie somewhere in between, ” says Chaitalee,Trade platform for China crystal mosaic manufacturers a graduate of the Delhi College of Art. “One of my teachers was the painter Manjit Singh Bawa who once told us that it is not necessary to paint the trees green or the sky blue but that we must follow our heart. His statement impacted me greatly as an artist.” Nature is one her favourite subjects. “I love watching birds, flowers and trees, which feature in most of my paintings.”

Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, also known as the Alter Rebbe,Posts with indoor tracking system on TRX Systems develops systems that locate and track personnel indoors. was the third in a lineage of multiple successors descending from the Hasidic dynasty of Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem -- the "Baal Shem Tov" and founder of Hasidism.

Hasidism, as opposed to the pre-existing social hierarchy of many Jewish diaspora communities (which prized learned scholars as an elite class), championed the importance of the ordinary, sometimes illiterate Jew.

First published in 1797, the Tanya was penned by the Alter Rebbe over a period of 20 years, during which he promoted the migration of Eastern European Jewry further into Russia in an effort to mitigate the oppressive conditions of their persecution. Distinctly aware that no book could replace the Rebbe-Hasid (rabbi-devotee) rapport that serves as the core of Hasidic Judaism, the Alter Rebbe nevertheless recognized the need for support and inspiration by Jews unable to make the arduous journey to request a Rebbe's counsel.

Tanya is an Aramaic term from the Gemara, meaning "It was taught in a Beraita" (Beraita is a term referring to a segment of biblical teaching passed on orally). The Tanya is divided into five parts: Likutei Amarim (Compiled discourses); Shaar Hayichud VehaEmunah (The Gate to [the Understanding of G-d's] Unity and the Faith); Iggeret HaTeshuvah and Iggeret HaKodesh (The Epistles on Repentance and Holiness), 32 letters originally written by the Alter Rebbe over a period of years to the Hasidic community at large, and the Kuntres Acharon (Last Booklet).

Today, the 19th day of the Hebrew month Kislev, is widely celebrated as the anniversary of the Alter Rebbe's or Baal Ha Tanya's (Master of the Tanya) release from prison by the Czar Paul I of Russia in 1798.

Elanit Kayne, a contemporary artist residing in NYC,The MaxSonar ultrasonic sensor offers very short to long-range detection and ranging. and a ba'alat teshuva (newly observant Jew), has evolved an iconography of the Tanya, abstracting concepts into pictograms. Kayne's extraction of key symbols into visual diagrams industriously elucidates the complex spiritual ideas described within this great masterpiece.