Lake Meditations and Other Stillnesses by Connie Ehindero
Pittsford Fine Art
4 N Main St.
Nov 7, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Connie Ehindero’s abstract landscape paintings bridge the literal and the primal. She turns again and again to the places where land meets water. In the Rochester area, her favorite spots are painting plein air from the viewing platform at Braddock Bay State Park. Connie often paints from the bridge on the Brickyard Trail in Brighton and in her tiny studio on Sandy Pond in Oswego County, surrounded by marsh and dunes. Keuka Lake is an annual painting trip! But Connie has collected shoreline images from travels to Germany, Ireland, Newport RI, California coast, all around the Great Lakes, the Nile River and just mud puddles reflecting the sky! Lately, Connie has such a large visual library in her mind, that she doesn’t need to go anywhere most of the time.

The several mediums Connie uses are for different purposes. Watercolors on paper for sketching, acrylics on canvas for capturing the big picture and encaustic on boards for soul searching expressions. Twig charcoal is always nearby. Discovering painting with liquid pigmented wax changed the way she sees. When a medium becomes your language – whether it’s a dance movement, turn of phrase, a certain musical riff – that is where we become who we are! It’s a beautiful thing and is why the arts are so critical for us all.

This October Connie was juried into the International Encaustic Association show Lasting Impressions” in Cooperstown, NY. She received the Achievement in Wax Media Award, and sold all three large paintings to a collector in Cooperstown. Connie is very proud of the connections, energy and art being made by the student in my classes at The Mill Art Center. She finds it so life affirming to watch someone have that moment where their vision and ability meet in a new painting. A shared Ah Ha moment!

Connie Ehindero is currently a member of The Mill Art Center and Gallery, Honeoye Falls, NY, Pittsford Fine Art, Pittsford, NY, ART360 critique group, International Encaustic Association, Rochester/FLX Working with Wax, and the Arena Group.

Image credit: Earthbytes by Connie Ehindero