The Visual Artworker: Stop Along The Way

Monday, June 23, 2025

Stop Along The Way

At Pittsford Fine Art: Oil painting by Suzi Zefting-Kuhn

4 North Main Street, Pittsford, New York

Tag along with us as we take a look in the Pittsford Fine Art Gallery. This is a cooperative effort to showcase some of our best local talent and a featured artist this month has been Kathleen Warren. I don't remember seeing her artwork before and this presentation has a focus on her garden and particularly her paintings of flowers. I would call her style painterly realism and images like the one on her show card have a casual composition that has structure and vitality.

Kathleen Warren at Pittsford Fine Art

I enjoyed seeing a whole wall of paintings by Mark Stash, especially his portrait of a Ruffed Grouse ( see below ) and also the colorful "Casting on Canadice". I also was attracted to the paintings of Joni Monroe, and Suzi Zefting-Kuhn ( Oil painting of Penguins above ).

Mark Stash has painted this "Ruffed Grouse"

Pittsford Fine Art, Pittsford, NY

Considering the field of nature, we drive down Route 89 enroute to Ithaca and stop in the park to see the falls at Taughannock State Park - and it was running at full tilt!

Stop to see the falls at Taughannock State Park

We drove toward the Museum of the Earth just outside of Ithaca. It has been years since we were last there, and the exhibits have really been developed. When we were last there I know we took a long look at the wall of tiles that was mounted by my friend Barbara Page. I know that we didn't see the enormous skeleton of the Right Whale that is now hanging up near the entrance.

Museum of the Earth

The "Right Whale"

I remember that the last time we visited this museum there was an exhibition of paintings by John Gurche that was spectacular. His artwork featured dinosaurs and I was very impressed by his knowledge and his technique. Today the museum has many exhibition rooms with engaging stories that we could share with our grandchildren.

Before we left the Ithaca area, we wanted to stop in to shop at the Market. This is a wonderful experience to take in all the pleasing aromas of food being prepared, and then to sit outside and enjoy Lake Cayuga.