Spotlight BY JENNIFER JOHNSTON
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Concord and surrounding towns like Acton, Maynard, Lexington, Lincoln, and Stow have a rich artistic culture. In Concord alone, we have The Umbrella Arts Center and Concord Art as well as the Artscape artist community operating out of the Bradford Mills Building in West Concord. We also have two excellent commercial galleries, Three Stones Gallery in West Concord, and the Lucy Lacoste Gallery in Concord Center. As well, Village Art Room in West Concord provides a wonderful gathering place offering projects and classes for art making and creative community outreach in our town. Concord has several artistic facets and tributaries permeating and enriching our entire community.
MARTHA WALLACE JONATHAN MACADAM Martha Wallace (known as Marty) Three Stones Gallery has been came to ceramics later in her life after representing painter Jonathan receiving an MBA from Harvard Business Macadam for five years and I have been School and working in the tech industry privileged to witness Jon’s evolution as a in the ‘80s. Marty then raised her children painter. Jon was born in England and came with her husband in Concord and volunteered on several boards to the United States at 10 years old. He attended Concordboth in Boston and Pennsylvania. Ten years ago, Marty took her Carlisle High School and then lived in Beverly, MA for fifteen first ceramics class at (then named) Emerson Umbrella and she’s years. It was on Boston’s North Shore that Jon really fell in love never looked back. One of the first things I noticed about Marty’s with the marshes, rivers, inlets, and ocean that are so typical ceramics is that they are definitely not cookie cutter shapes, of the New England coastline. He travels often throughout patterns, or glazes. As Marty says, “I’m not interested in doing New England creating his oil paintings and then returning to the same thing over and over,” and she finds it interesting to the North Shore, his ’home turf’. Following college, Jon lived in experiment with many different ideas. She’s a ‘ceramic explorer’ Orvieto, Italy studying the art of the Italian Renaissance where yet as I was arranging her work in Three Stones, I realized there is he learned the skill of layering glazes with oils creating what I definitely an over-riding Marty style. Her work strikes a very fine like to call, ‘the Macadam Glow’. Jon’s paintings have a unique balance between functionality and daily use with a keen, beautiful inner glow radiating from his skies and water brought alive by his aesthetic. I am always eager to see what Marty will be pulling from appreciable skills as a painter. The emotional and even spiritual her kiln at her next firing. impact of his paintings is serene, palpable, and powerful. ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Jennifer Johnston is a fine art photographer and mixed media artist who has lived in Concord for twenty years with her two daughters. She is the owner of Three Stones Gallery in Concord, Ma. and Rockport, Ma. She has an MA in Expressive Therapy from Leslie University. 24
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