5/19/2023 0 Comments Coblyn sherburnThere were others who drifted in and out. Beth Summers brought me in 1985 or ‘86 I liked the concept, but not the short poses. Steve Lohman was another occasional member. Marsha Winsryg, Paul Karasik, Bill Fielder, Lincoln Hanson, Hela Buchthal, Eleanor Rodegast, Natalie Huntington, Zada Clarke, Beth Summers, Cathy Thompson, Linda Zeigler, and Tom, of course, were among the earliest participants, the core group. ![]() He has a collection of drawings “of group regulars Eleanor Rodegast, Bill Fielder, Linc Hanson, Tom Maley, Ruth Kirchmeier, and my favorite model, Natalie Huntington.” As a cartoonist, he felt that he needed to work on clothed figures, to study how fabric draped and moved. Marsha Winsryg recalled, “If a model failed to show up, Bill was known to pose with a hoe, shovel, or rake.” Ruth Kirchmeier mentioned that drawing the nude figure in a landscape setting was something she and the others relished - an unusual and unexpected juxtaposition of visual elements.īesides drawings of nude models, Paul drew the other artists. Linc Hanson was in charge of lining up the models. He remembers setting up on Bill and Ann Fielder’s lawn, the group’s summer venue. Paul Karasik drew with the group during summer visits and became a regular after he moved here year-round in 1989. It was open to everyone, which was so great.” It was so important to know there was a group of artists and that it was an open group. Liz Taft, new to the Island in 1998 “not knowing a soul,” arrived at the Maley’s for the same reason. They became lifelong friends.” She called it “a vital presence in the lives of people to whom art is important.” When Ruth Kirchmeier moved to West Tisbury in the 1980s, she recalls meeting ”The first friends I made on the Island. In the day, the Maleys’ living room was the place for artists to meet one another. ![]() Now the group is preparing to reconvene beginning in March. When the artists were ready to start meeting again in 2022, the name was changed to Open Studio Life Drawing, and everyone agreed that they would continue as a permanent part of Featherstone. Following Tom’s death, and then Helen’s, the artists met in what Ruth Kirchmeier called, “a moveable feast” of members’ living rooms, before eventually relocating to Featherstone Center for the Arts in 2004 until everything came to a stop during COVID.
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