HUDSON — Come be a part of The HUB Station this month for a public reception and artwork present displaying sculptures and watercolor work from an area couple.
John and Jean Morehead will swim upstream to Hudson and The HUB Station Arts Middle, 145 Cedar Valley Street, for a month-long exhibiting of their artwork from Wednesday, April 20 to Friday, Could 20, which features a public reception from 6 p.m. to eight p.m. on Friday, April 22 to fulfill the 2 artists.
“I don’t do positive artwork, I do enjoyable artwork, and largely fin artwork,” stated John. He focuses on recycled objects that he transforms into particular fish. His spouse, Jean, will even show her stunning watercolor artworks in the course of the present.
“After I thought of it, there are such a lot of completely different varieties and species of fish,” John stated. “Fish was the factor, appeared the way in which to go. Mine should not anatomically appropriate, I don’t begin off with a plan, the objects I discover lead me off in whichever instructions it’s going to go. That’s the enjoyable half for me … I’ve in all probability made near 500 fish now.”
Be part of the Moreheads on April twenty second for the reception that includes their art work. Their art work will even be provided on the market throughout this gallery present.
“I say it ‘swam away’ when a chunk is offered,” stated John.
John Morehead is a self-taught artist whose ardour is creating whimsical fish sculptures from discovered objects. It’s the repurposing of discarded on a regular basis objects mixed with scraps of wooden and numerous metals of various shapes, textures, and colour, that give each bit its personal persona.
John and his spouse reside on Lake Tillery in Norwood, with a house studio known as The Fish Manufacturing unit.
