![]() ![]() The studio is cavernous, approximately 1,000 square feet and filled with easels, brushes, books and canvases, including an area for a work bench, a storage area and multiple work tables on casters she can move around for various projects. The home and studio she built in Lincolnville is airy and spacious with clean, white lines. Her work is currently included in the collections of the Portland Museum of Art and the Farnsworth Art Museum, as well as other university and museum collections, nationally. She had visited friends in Maine in the late 1980s and decided to move up to the Midcoast permanently in 1996. in modern foreign languages, and completed post-graduate studies in drawing and painting at the Hite Art Institute at University of Louisville. ”I wanted to be an artist since I was three years old,” she said.īorn in Lexington, Kentucky, Zopp graduated from the University of Kentucky with a B.A. Her interest in geology and nature is threaded through nearly her entire body of work, with a career spanning back to 1991 in which her work has been exhibited in a number of solo and group exhibitions. “I had the basic idea of what I wanted on the canvas, a lone vertical tree, so I walked around outside and found exactly the one I was looking for.” “In this case, however, I was looking for a specific tree,” she said. Zopp said she usually doesn’t have a specific idea for a new painting, more of a flash of an insight that becomes the first layer. One painting at the show is of a winter ash, a commonplace tree right outside her garage. Working in both oil and watercolor, she paints moody and layered landscapes of trees, bushes, rock formations, oysters and other natural forms that require the viewer to really stand close and contemplate what they are seeing.ĬRAFT Gallery in Rockland opened its first show of a selected group exhibition on May 25 with the theme of “Nature as Muse” including five of Zopp’s paintings. Plants and trees about to come into bloom fascinate her. LINCOLNVILLE - Of the nearly five acres of artist Dudley Zopp’s property, much of it is meadow and bog, surrounded by trees and shrubs - an ordinary sight in Maine when the greenery comes alive.īut, when Zopp, a painter and installation artist for almost 30 years, takes a walk around her land, she’s not just looking at what needs to be pruned back or weeded, she’s looking at what can be painted. ![]()
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