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Frank G. Landry
I've always liked to draw, but never had or took the time to produce much through the years. Majoring in Zoology at UVM, I had the opportunity to do index card sketches looking through a microscope. At least one person liked my style because during the holiday break, my cards disappeared, never to resurface. Fortunately, my instructor had seen my work and marked me accordingly.
Through the years, I did relatively little art work having become very busy being a dentist and volunteering. At the far end of my career, I started to take courses and getting interested in various media, but I was still not producing that much.
A few years after my wife died, I moved back to my hometown, St. Johnsbury, to marry a sweetheart of old whose spouse, a friend, had died a year after mine. She had always been an artist and enticed me to become more serious. Together, we took workshops at the annual Holbein week in Colchester, which introduced me to oil pastels, something I've grown to really like. In an attempt to get away from the tight, detailed approach I developed while doing dentistry, I expanded into abstract art, which I am also enjoying.
I've exhibited at the Roxbury (NJ) Art Association's Annual Members' Spring Show, which I ran for six years. Here in Vermont, I've exhibited paintings at the Catamount Art Gallery on a fairly regular basis and have donated several paintings to various organization auctions. For a month last September, my wife Rosalie Vear and I had a well-received joint show in one of the galleries at Catamount.
All of this to say that I am a rank amateur who is doing fairly well and enjoying art working side by side with my artist wife. My recent joining of VPS and Boundless Gallery is one more step in my development. I'm having a ball!
Frank Landry, 277 Summer Street - #2, St. Johnsbury, VT 05819
This artist can be reached via e-mail: oxytooth@kingcon.com or phone: 802-748-4734
Canna Lily Expolsion - 22" x 18" soft pastel and colored pencil
Horses - 12" x 16" oil pastel