Peggy Earle:

Brooklyn, New York native who moved to Middlebury in 2008. She studied art in Manhattan at C.C.N.Y. and the School of Visual Arts. She is an oil, watercolor and acrylics painter, as well as a mixed-media assemblage artist.

She has exhibited her assemblages widely in invitational and juried shows in southeastern Virginia; in two international online group shows and in 2001, at a gallery in New Plymouth, New Zealand. Her work has been photographed for conceptual illustrations in newspapers such as the Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk) and the Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer, as well as for a column in Modern Maturity (now AARP) magazine.

The acrylic paintings in this exhibit represent work she has done over the past year. All are acrylics and they fall into two very distinct categories. One is a series of enlarged details copied from Old Master paintings. The other contains loose impressions of real places or objects, such as water lilies on Lake Quassapaug; Piazza San Marco after the rain in Venice; and some garlic bulbs grown by a friend in New York.