Monique Sakellarios is the Featured Artist of the Month

Peterborough, NH: “I want my paintings to be light and warm, so they make you feel good. I want to convey feeling - that’s the sole purpose of my work,” says Artist Monique Sakellarios whose impressionist paintings of landscapes, gardens, and market scenes are featured at Sharon Arts Downtown Galleries for the month of August.

“Her paintings are characterized by their impressionist style and by their rich warm palette an effect achieved in part through Ms. Sakellarios’ practice of priming her canvases with cadmium red,” states curator Virginia Barnes of the Churchill Gallery in Newburyport, MA. “She paints wet-on-wet and the resulting works reflect a fluidity of style and an immediacy which capture her subjects with compelling integrity. Her landscapes are gentle, reflective worlds, which are imbued with a quiet dignity and elegance. As silent observer, Sakellarios immortalizes the private world to which she often bears witness. Her compositions resonate with light and sentiment and speak to a universally appealing theme of serenity and grace.”

Ms. Sakellarios studied at the Leonardo Da Vinci School of Art, and the American University, both in Cairo, Egypt. Monique exhibits in national competitions and has won numerous awards for her oil paintings. She is a juried member of the New Hampshire Art Association, a Signature Member of the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society, and a Signature Member of Oil Painters of America.

Monique Sakellarios lives in Nashua, New Hampshire. Additional information on the exhibit is available by calling 603-924-2787. http://www.moniquesakellarios.com/

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The mission of Sharon Arts Center, a non-profit organization, is to support and serve artists and craftspeople, to engage the community in the artistic process, and to foster the relationship between artists and the community through education, exhibitions, the promotion and sale of art and craft, as well as through special programs and events.

Sharon Arts Center offers a wide variety of art classes and programs in the school facility in Sharon, NH, and has an Artists’ Resource Center (selling art supplies), a Fine Craft Gallery, a Juried Artist Member Gallery, and an Exhibition Gallery in the Depot Square facility.

The Sharon Arts Fine Crafts Gallery is located in Depot Square in Downtown Peterborough. Store hours are: Monday – Thursday 10am to 6pm, Friday 10am to 7pm, Saturday 10am to 6pm, Sundays 11 – 4 PM, and First Fridays 10am to 8pm (first Friday of each month). The Fine Art Gallery is open year round.

Sharon Arts Center is sponsored in part by the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, The Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation, and art lovers like you!