Flights of Discovery: The Avian Art of Barry Van Dusen

Laughing Gull by Barry Van Dusen

 

Fruitlands is proud to present our 2010 Artist-in-Residence Barry Van Dusen, an internationally recognized wildlife artist living in central Massachusetts. He has illustrated a variety of natural history books and pocket guides, many in association with Massachusetts Audubon Society. His articles and paintings have been featured in Bird Watcher's Digest, Birder's World and Wildlife Art magazines. Barry has exhibited regularly in the prestigious Birds in Art show (Wausau, Wisconsin) as well as in many galleries in the United States and Europe. In 2007, he was commissioned to create the UK Habitat Conservation Stamp (the British counterpart to the US Federal Duck Stamp.)

Van Dusen's work is featured at the Flights of Discovery exhibition, running through November 15, 2010. The Oils, watercolors and prints displayed at the Museum Wayside and neatly arranged in categories—songbirds, shorebirds, birds of wetlands or grasslands feathered friends, “other nature” and New England landscapes—range in price from $250 to $5000. They are for sale.

Van Dusen also has a display of his ornithological illustrations-for books like bird guides-in the Ell Gallery at Fruitland Farmhouse. Additionally, a PowerPoint presentation of his “process of painting” called “Nature Artist at Work”, field to studio to production, is shown.

Sign up now for a very special event on October 2:  "Studio Workshop:  Drawing & Painting Birds with Barry Van Dusen".  In this day-long workshop, Barry will teach artists the techniques he uses to create bird paintings that capture both realistic, accurate detail and impressionistic beauty.  Limited to 12 students.