"Treasures From the Garden" exhibit January 6, 2007

Banish your wintertime blahs with a visit to the Williamsburg Library Gallery to see beautiful, original botanical paintings by local artists from the Juliet Kirby Art Group. More than 40 watercolors and colored-pencil drawings by nine artists make up the exhibit, which will be on display during library hours from January 6 through March 14.

The artists exhibiting include: Judy Adams, Noreen Adams, Kathy Brahney, Tomoko Hamada Connolly, Beatrice Gulbrandsen, Juliet Kirby, Yvonne Palmer, Christine Randall and Jasmine Winfreel, A free reception for the artists will be held at the Williamsburg Library on Sunday, January 14, from 2 to 4 p.m.

Juliet Kirby was born in England and started her art education in London. She immigrated to the USA and completed her art training, graduating from the New York Botanical Gardens Illustration Program. Over the years she has had successful one person shows in Connecticut, New York, North Carolina and Virginia, and in 1996 returned to England to exhibit with the Royal Horticultural Society, where she was awarded a silver medal. Juliet has participated in many juried group shows including exhibitions at the New York, Brooklyn, Missouri and Denver Botanical Gardens and at the New York State Museum in Albany, NY. She currently resides in Williamsburg, Virginia where she continues to paint and teach watercolor workshops in her favorite subject for This Century Art Gallery and most recently at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. She has taught most of the students in this current exhibition for the past few years.


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