Yellow House Vermont Red House
watercolor, 16 x 20 watercolor, 8.5 x 11
Shack Beach Sugar House
watercolor watercolor, 8.5 x 11
Watch Hill Man Clamming
watercolor, 16 x 20 watercolor, 8.5 x 11
Barn and Fence Vermont
watercolor, 16 x
12 watercolor, 8.5 x 11
Stowe, Vermont Bedford Street
watercolor, 8.5 x 11 watercolor, 12 x 16
Bridge House, Bermuda California Beach
watercolor, 12 x 16 watercolor, 12 x 16
Jamaica Ferry Point, Bermuda
watercolor, 16 x
20 watercolor, 12 x 16
Irish Cottage Rural Connecticut
watercolor, 8.5 x 11 watercolor, 8.5 x 11
Sligo, Ireland Natural Covered Bridge
watercolor, 12 x 16
watercolor, 12 x 16
Vermont Vermont Farm House
watercolor, 16 x
20
watercolor, 8.5 x 11
Artist Statement
I’ve loved sketching the world around me since I was a teenager. And now, after forty-odd years working as a graphic designer, I’ve returned to my early passion, this time in my favorite medium – watercolor. Why am I so enthusiastic about this medium? It’s the unpredictability, the accidents that can occur when paint meets the challenge to bring the paint under my control, to make it express my vision.
The paintings in this exhibit record scenes encountered during travels in Alaska, Bermuda, California, Ireland, Jamaica, Stowe, Vermont and Watch Hill, Rhode Island.
Biography Bob Callahan is managing principal of Bob Callahan Design, an independent professional graphic design consultancy specializing in the planning and creation of effective communication for selling, raising awareness, positioning, informing. His experience over the past forty-plus years includes award-winning projects for IBM, UPS, GE, People’s Bank, Arrow Electronics, Stamford Symphony Orchestra, Yale Repertory Theatre, and many others. Bob has had an active association for over 30 years with the International Design Conference in Aspen, Colorado. He has been guest lecturer on “visual thinking” at the University of Connecticut and gives slide lectures on the Windward Maroons of Jamaica. His previous art exhibition was in 1973 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts at the Galerie Orpheus Ascending, which featured drawings in graphite and pen and ink. This is Bob’s first watercolor exhibition. Bob is the father of six children, grandfather of eight, and lives in Stamford with Lucile, his wife of 49 years.