Monday, May 16, 2016

June 3rd Ripoll-LeFevre and Wilkinson

Join Arts for ACT Gallery, located at 2265 First Street in downtown Fort Myers on Friday, June 3rd, from 6 to 10 pm for the opening reception and art walk for our June featured artists: Diana Ripoll, showing in the main gallery, also featuring Dharma LeFevre in the white gallery, and off the main gallery Alex Wilkinson.  This exhibit continues through June 27, 2016. 


In the Main Gallery – Diana Ripoll was born with a natural fascination for brilliant color and abstract ideas. She has had the good fortune of traveling the world and her mind has become a vast well of snapshots and experiences that her subconscious draws upon to create her paintings. Diana chooses the color that attracts her at the moment, and then continues to add colors and watch how they flow, mix and move. The paintings begin to form themselves, she then finds what is hidden, and begins to consciously bring it out. Only when the work is completed does she find the true meaning of the piece and what inspired it. With each completed piece, Diana looks forward to revisiting the story it represents.

In the White Gallery  –  Dharma LeFevre  is a fine art figurative artist that calls Fort Myers home.  Raised in Naples, Florida she attended college in Oklahoma at Neo A&M Junior College for Graphic Arts.  There she found that she disliked the graphic arts and decided to go on a different career path.  Dharma took a 20 year creative hiatus and instead focused on a family and job.   Five years ago she decided to create again and taught herself how to paint in various mediums from acrylic to coffee and teas.  Her artistic background is based in fantasy, mythology and figurative.  Her current body of work has inspirations that pull from feminine Art Nouveau, urban lines and techniques and vintage influences in saturated colorful pieces. 

 In the Small Gallery – Alex Wilkinson  is a self-taught mixed media artist.  She has worked as a needle arts designer and instructor for 20 years using pieces of fabric as her canvas.  Today, Alex employs traditional pen and ink, acrylic paint, colored pencils, oil pastels, markers, paper and found objects to create her mixed media art work on canvas or Bristol board.  Her favorite subjects are animals, feathered friends, Art Deco, and Celtic lore.  Her often whimsical fold art designs include small stitch-like black and white line patterns in the Zen Tangle inspired art style.  Zen Tangle (doodling) has been around since ancient times.  It was visible on the walls of Egyptian Pyramids, in Celtic Manuscripts and in basic borders and shapes worldwide.  Come view the Zen of Alex Wilkinson.