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Woodbury artist Richard Beaulieu presents a retrospective of his works in an exhibition that continues through March 10th at the Good News Cafe Gallery. From the collage "Vanity" (pictured here) and the twin "Fish" watercolors to oil studies such as "Night Forest," "Pensive Nada" and "Holy Matrimony," the current show offers a delightful sampling from his considerable body of work.
One of 12 children, Mr. Beaulieu was born in the small New England town of Barre, Vermont, where he was first inspired to capture on paper the beauty of his surroundings. "Through art," he says, "I found a sense of inner peace. In art, I found my bliss."
Mr. Beaulieu taught art in the Region 15 School District for 23 years. He now works out of his studio in Woodbury, Connecticut. He has given several seminars for teachers, adults and students in the area.
Although Mr. Beaulieu has traveled around the world, he has always been on a journey to explore the expressional possibilities within the action of drawing a line or combining strokes of paint. He believes that, when the process of drawing and painting support each other in a harmonious manner, they combine into a colorful and striking manifestation of personal experience that reflects the universal poetry and cacophony of our human condition.
Accordingly, he strives to apply his strokes in sync with his personal inspiration to create spontaneous images that enlighten as they connect to our individual experience and collective psyche. His works vary from the simple elegance of a single tree to expressional abstracts that are often crowded with humanity and symbolism and portary a pure existentialist vision of Nature and the nature of man.
Mr. Beaulieu attended the Hartford Art School where he studied under Henry Kreis, Wolfgang Behl, Paul Zimmerman and Henry Tomkins. His work has been shown in numerous galleries in the United States and abroad, and is part of the permanent collections of Jack Aractangi of Paris, Jerry Weiss of New York, Gustave Dabney of Dallas, Cecil Narcisso of Santa Barbara, and Raymond Chedid of Beirut, Lebanon.
Accomplished in several mediums, Mr. Beaulieu has pieces available in sculpture, pen and ink, oils, acrylics and pastels. He was one of the founders of the Arts Festivals of Connecticut and remains active in the regional arts community.
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