Rachel Brask gives demo & talk at Art & Sculpture Walk, in collab with Shawndavid Berry

On a sunny weekend July afternoon, artists Rachel Brask and Shawndavid Berry sprinkled their paintings and sculptures around a beautiful private property in South County RI for an Art & Sculpture Walk, giving untraditional context to each of their works. Several pieces were curated and hung together, including hanging a couple paintings from a tree, the outside of a shed, and along a patio. Nature is a key inspiration in both Brask’s & Berry’s work, and so the integration of art with the environment just felt like a natural fit for new context. In one instance, the watery run of Brask’s rainy oil painting provided the feeling of running water down into the fountain of one of Berry’s wood sculptures, aptly titled, “Water Nymph.”

Rachel Brask gave a live demonstration of her oil paint process of transforming her detailed pointillism paintings into runny rainy messes of slowly dripping paint, inspired by rainy days. From the edge of the patio, she essentially “destroyed” part of her painting using stand oil and a brush in front of a small crowd of 60+ guests.

Following her demo, Shawndavid Berry revealed his latest large-scale wood carved sculpture of a nymph appearing to float out of a large rooted tree, sharing a discussion of his process of spalting wood and carving, and sources of his inspiration for sculptures around the exhibit.
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Guests were treated to walking the grounds to examine and observe the sculptures and artwork around the property while enjoying light bites and refreshments, talking with the artists about their processes and asking questions.

A few lucky people became new collectors of Rachel Brask’s work and of Shawndavid Berry’s sculptures! The artists are very grateful for the support of gracious host Mr. Rossby for providing the venue for this art walk, and all who attended and helped are greatly appreciated.