About: Lisa Elliott is curating this show on behalf of her late husband Willoughby (Bill) Elliott (1943-2016). Bill taught drawing, printmaking and painting at UMass Dartmouth for over 40 years and retired as Chancellor Professor Emeritus in 2011. The show includes his landscape and still life paintings and serigraph prints.

The opening is Thu Jan 9, 5:30-7 PM. Light refreshments will be served.  Artwork is for sale. One third of all artist proceeds will go to the Willoughby Elliott Endowed Scholarship at UMass Dartmouth.

View the exhibition Jan 9 – Feb 8, M-F, 9 am -5 pm, Sun 9 am – 1 pm. 

Entrance is One Benevolent Street Providence, RI 02906.

Willoughby Elliott Artist Statement

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California Willoughby (Bill) Elliott received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Chouinard Art Institute (now California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles) and an MFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design in 1967.

Bill taught drawing, printmaking and painting at UMass Dartmouth for over 40 years and retired as Chancellor Professor Emerita in 2011. His work was well respected and exhibited frequently by galleries and art organizations in Boston, Cape Cod and throughout Massachusetts. Bill’s work was also selected for numerous exhibitions and juried competitions including the DeCordova, Worcester, Newport Art Museums, and New Bedford Art Museum.

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Bill wrote: I have always had an interest in light and how it is affected by atmosphere. I think that is one of the main reasons I started painting landscapes. Unlike the traditional Impressionist painter, however, who also shares these same interests, my own involvement is less with the observational and scientific and more with the emotive and sensual. I would like the observer to “feel” what the space is all about. My interest in landscape is really in the space itself. I don’t deal with the things in the space except in a very primal way. The elements of earth, water, light and atmospheres are the ingredients in a natural drama that is continually playing itself out. The paintings shown here are part of a recent series that deals with energy changes within a space… storms and their aftermath. Click here: http://www.artanagallery.com/willoughby.html