Two Wareham artists featured in Marion
Sep 5, 2019
Kate Furler called this painting of songbirds “Morning Chat.” Photo by: Grace Ballenger
The daughter of one of the painters refinished this sailor, who has since become the group’s mascot of sorts, appearing at many shows. Photo by: Grace Ballenger
This bulldog painting got the title “Grumpy” from Kate Furler. Photo by: Grace Ballenger
This flower was named “Spring Blossom” by Karen Tamagini, who painted it. Photo by: Grace Ballenger
Karen Tamagini must have caught this fox on a morning walk, as that’s what she called her painting. Photo by: Grace Ballenger
Furler called this painting Swift’s Beach Hammock. Photo by: Grace Ballenger
MARION — Wareham artists Karen Tamagini and Kate Furler paint with The Canal Side Artists a group of artists that move up and down the canal for good painting spots. Now their work has washed up in Marion at the town’s Benjamin D. Cushing Community Center.
The Canal Side Artists focus primarily on watercolors, but besides that “we all paint different things in different ways,” said Helen Johnson, a Rochester resident and artist in the group that helped to organize the exhibit.
The group has an instructor, who will teach what Johnson called “the basics of how paint and water move,” and suggest something to paint.
But artists can also bring the projects they have been working on to group sessions.
The group has up to 15 artists, though the attendance is much lower at some sessions.
The group has exhibited at a number of different Southcoast locations in the past — “we kind of hang everywhere,” Johnson said. What’s more, some of the artists in the group enter and win art contests.
But when they are together, the group isn’t competitive.
“I always learn from everyone else. And we always welcome new people to join,” Johnson said.
The exhibit will be on display at the Benjamin D. Cushing Community Center until Oct. 30.
