Featured Artist: Joan Mentzinger
Windham Fine Arts presents our featured artist, Joan Mentzinger. Inspired by the paintings of John Singer Sargent, John Carlson, and others, Mentzinger began studying art while pursuing a career in healthcare. She works out of her restored 178-year-old farmhouse in Massachusetts at the foot of the Berkshires. From her base in New England, she is able to explore the natural scenery, historic villages, and agrarian towns that inspire her. Mentzinger is taken by well-weathered rural scenes: old barns, late-season fields bronzed by the sun, antique trucks and other equipment that speak of hard, honest work and show the patina of age. Her works are atmospheric and focus on the interaction between the subject and the light surrounding it. They speak to the changing seasons, and indeed the passage of time.
Stillness of Summer
New Works by H.M. Saffer II
Windham Fine Arts presents Stillness of Summer, featuring artist H.M. Saffer II, whose style of ink painting conveys his journey as a musician and painter. Once a celebrated musician, Saffers’ artistic path took an introspective turn. His search led him to Japan where he immersed himself in the ancient practice of Sumi-e, a meditative form of ink painting rooted in simplicity and spirit. Under the guidance of traditional masters, Saffer learned to distill the world into elegant strokes and meditative forms. With a musician’s sense of timing and flow, Saffer’s paintings convey an echo of stillness and harmony.
Whether you’re a lover of art, music, or the quiet beauty of the Catskills, we invite you to Windham Fine Arts. In our 24th year, and gem of the Catskills, we sparkle with time.
