For over 35 years Salmon Falls Gallery has showcased the beauty and craftsmanship of over 90 independent artists from around western Massachusetts and the surrounding area. These artists have created a range of items from practical everyday objects to spectacular showpieces, including wool handbags by Katherine MacColl, pastels by Rebecca Clark, and otherworldly porcelain sculpture by Lulu Fichter. Salmon Falls Gallery is owned by world renowned glass artist and Shelburne resident Josh Simpson.
Featured exhibit
MADGE EVERS: The New
Herbarium
On view September 4 –
October 28, 2024
Madge Evers uses foraged materials to explore decomposition and regeneration and has adapted the
mushroom spore print form to make works on paper. Referencing photosynthesis and the ancient collaboration in mycorrhiza, her practice sometimes includes photography, the cyanotype process, and paint. In the artist’s own words, The New Herbarium series “explores our entangled dependence on an ever-changing environment and the increasingly chaotic results of our desire to shape the natural world” by reimagining the centuries-old process of collecting and preserving plants for science and art.
Her work has been published in Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture and acquired by private and institutional collectors. Artist residencies in New
England, Virginia, and Ireland have allowed Evers to interact with landscapes and their histories. Madge lives and works in western Massachusetts where she was a public school teacher for 25 years. She now facilitates cyanotype workshopsfor people of all ages.
Featured exhibit
MARGARET LLOYD: Wings of
the Wind
On view September 4 –
October 28, 2024
Painter and poet Margaret Lloyd’s oil paintings are largely inspired by her Welsh heritage and the landscapes of Western Massachusetts, where she currently resides. In Lloyd’s most recent series, Wings of the Wind, she is, in the artist’s own words, “searching for and forging the places that finally emerge—the wild expanse of sea, of sky and wind, of land—the ancient world, loved places, internal landscapes.”
Margaret Lloyd attended the University of Rochester as an undergraduate and received her Ph.D. at the
University of Leeds, England, working under the supervision of the poet Geoffrey Hill. A poet and painter, she lives in Florence, Massachusetts, and is Professor Emeritus of English at Springfield College.
Her poetry has appeared widely in journals and anthologies and she has received several awards, fellowships, and residencies. As a visual artist, Lloyd began as watercolor painter, then moved into working with slate, and is now immersed in painting with oil. She has held several exhibitions, as well as published paintings and painting/poem pairs in journals, nationally and internationally.