Watercolor Impressions Captured en Plein Air by an Artist in Love with the North Fork   

Riverhead, NY (June 5, 2007)–A collection of Michael Killelea’s watercolor paintings celebrating Long Island’s North Fork is on display in the new Rosalie Dimon Gallery in the Jamesport Manor House on Manor Lane in Jamesport from May 14 through Aug 13, 2007. An opening reception will be held on Sunday June 24th from 3-6 pm. The public is invited.

Killelea’s artwork, headlined as “exquisite watercolors” in a feature article in American Artists Watercolor magazine, was done on location during his travels throughout the area. He is an inveterate plein air painter who carries his brushes with him almost everywhere he goes. “I keep trying,” Killelea says, “but there just doesn’t seem to be enough time to paint all the paintings I see.”

The compulsion to paint that began as he wandered locally, expanded as he traveled west across the United States and east through much of Europe, and continued during trips to Thailand and China. Killelea is also the author-illustrator of two books of prose and watercolors about the North Fork, Wandering the North Fork (2004) and Seasons on the North Fork (2006). His work can be seen online at www.killeleart.com. Sales of Killelea’s art will be made through the East End Arts Council.

The Rosalie Dimon Gallery is housed in the magnificently renovated Jamesport Manor Inn on Manor Lane, one mile north of Main Road in Jamesport, NY.

EEAC exhibits are made possible with support from the New York State Council on the Arts, Suffolk County Office of Cultural Affairs and the Town of Riverhead.

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