The August show at Stover Mill Gallery features the diverse talent of two artists working in different mediums.
“Masters of Color and Clay,” highlights the oil paintings of Bucks County artist Dot Bunn and the wood-fired stoneware of potter Willi Singleton.
Bunn is a full-time professional oil painter. A Signature Member of Oil Painters of America, she has painted in oils since 2003. Her representational work is inspired by places and things she has experienced, and she believes painting should be an expression of those experiences rather than an exact copy of nature.
“My great love of the Bucks County countryside has given me endless landscape inspiration,” she said, “but I also enjoy painting the flowers from my gardens and figurative work. I have never found myself lacking for something to paint. The very act of painting is a joy for me.”
Singleton’s wood fired stoneware incorporates pre-industrial techniques of making with locally sourced clays and glaze materials to create vessels for food, flowers and Tea practice (Chanoyu).
Landscape-inspired patterns are materialized by utilizing the local landscape itself: clay from Hawk Mountain, a bluish corn stalk ash glaze from the farm fields, a creamy bamboo ash glaze from the bamboo stand behind his studio, and chocolaty creek clay used as an iron-rich glaze. The pots embody the place.
Bunn has participated in solo and group exhibitions throughout the region and exhibits nationally with Oil Painters of America; Allied Artists of America; Hudson Valley Art Association and Professional Artists of America. Her work has garnered numerous awards, including the Alden Bryan Memorial Medal for Traditional Landscape and two Patron Awards for Painting from Phillips’ Mill. Additionally, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award in the Arts by the Central Bucks Chamber of Commerce in 2022.
Admission to Stover Mill Gallery, 852 River Road (Route 32), Erwinna, is free and handicapped accessible. “Masters of Color and Clay” will be open weekends in August from 1 to 5 p.m. Aug. 5-6, 12-13, 19-20, and 26-27.
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