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Jill Nooney
Jill Nooney is still trying on multiple experiences as she tries
to satiate her creative impulses. She has extensively dappled
in multiple disciplines, including business (practices full time
as a psychiatric social worker), second businesses (founded and
runs Fine Garden Art), sculpting (carving, designing and fabricating),
gardening (a very knowledgeable plantsperson, she designed and
planted Bedrock Farm), wifery, and most recently the cello. She
has written articles in several magazines, lectured on garden
art, and judged Boston flower shows. She lives with her favorite
dog, Greta, in Lee NH. Several other people occupy the house also.
by Bob Munger
Allen Wynn
Allen Wynn grew up on a farm in southern Ohio. A self-taught
artist who never took formal art classes, he has discovered
art as a vehicle for expression of his thoughts and emotions.
His tough, graceful sculptures represent the inner beings of
working people that he has known throughout his life. They are
usually women, sometimes accompanied by a child whose role is
that of a clear-eyed observer. Occasionally he will add a bird
or a fish, not as an overt symbol but as a simple evocation
of rural existence. These figures are reserved yet accessible,
their train of thought reinforced by gestures as simple as a
turn of a head or the position of an arm. Their emotions are
contained within themselves. Allen's Wynn's sculptures are monumental
in proportion, whether they are large or small in size. They
are ageless in style and timeless in their emotional and intellectual
content.
-Suzanne Deats, Santa Fe arts writer
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