SPIRIT & SPLENDOR

Perry Lawson Fine Art is pleased to present Spirit & Splendor, a two-person exhibition featuring abstract landscape paintings by Elizabeth Hoy and Robin Reynolds. Both artists work primarily outdoors to explore the transformative power of nature and their environments.

Elizabeth Hoy explores changes in perception and how human experience and consciousness leave their mark on specific spaces, likening her method to a visual game of telephone where the viewer becomes the final interpreter. Hoy engages in a dynamic process, swiftly painting landscapes from life, sometimes transforming them into sculptures and installations using found materials. Her work reflects a continual dialogue with the environment, capturing subtle shifts and playing with the interplay of landscape scale, the human body, studio architecture, and her artistic creations.

Hoy has received numerous fellowships from Le Couvent artist residency, Wave Hill, the Alfred and Trafford Klots International Program for Artists, the Bronx Museum, Maine Farmland Trust, and the Royal College of Art in London. Her work has been exhibited internationally and across the U.S.; including A.I.R. Gallery and Wave Hill, the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. She received a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. Hoy lives and works in Providence, RI.

Robin Reynolds paints plein-air (outdoors) from spring to fall and works indoors with collage in the winter. Finding inspiration in the cyclical patterns of nature, she creates luminous, lush, layered surfaces. She considers her garden a sanctuary. An intuitive approach of playful and energetic mark making begins a process of looking, layering, wiping away and building up of a surface celebrating the exuberance of color and line found within nature. Instead of depicting a time-anchored botanical or geographical exactitude Reynolds works in a series of three to seven sittings welcoming weather and the passage of days to transform her viewpoint. The garden serves solely as a guide for her organic process within her outside studio. 

Reynolds has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Jurors Prize and Best Painting Awards at the Arts Worcester Biennial; as well as residencies at Millay Colony, Dorland Mountain Arts and Vermont Studio Center. She is represented by numerous galleries and has exhibited throughout the United States, including Soprafina Gallery in Boston,Cynthia Winings in Blue Hill, ME, Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe, NM and Prince Street Gallery in NYC. Reynolds holds a BA from Colby College, a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and an MFA from the Savannah College of Art & Design. She lives and works in North Brookfield, MA.