Summer Street, Portsmouth

Summer Street, PortsmouthStacey Durand studied printmaking and art education at Montserrat College of Art. After living on the North Shore for nearly ten years, she returned home to New Hampshire. Durand is the gallery manager of the Lamont Gallery and mom to a busy little girl. She lives and works in the seacoast exploring and painting the overlapping homes and quirky neighborhoods of the area.

what about the McDonald’s drive-throughs and Walmart parking lots

and ink wash drawings

Her usual day when not in school was playing with the materials she found in nature around her: wooden sticks

printed on quality fine art 100% cotton paper

Their products are manufactured in Los Angeles

coral reefs to the sand dunes

I wrote this poem to accompany the works:"

Kent's transition to painting was catalyzed by a realization that the rational economic lens was insufficient to capture the profound complexity inherent in human experience

She uses her hands to build with clay and translates her drawings and paintings into textile designs

empathetic and beautiful creatures that deserve as much respect as our more ‘obviously beautiful’ feathered friends

EYE-CATCHING DESIGNS/GREAT GIFT: Features three different geometric designs by Marleigh Culver

and beyond