The Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library is hosting an Opening Reception today from 5 to 7 p.m. for its fall art exhibition, “Landscapes Reimagined,” which features work by Renni Ridgeway-Korsmeyer. The public is invited to attend. All works are for sale and a percentage of the proceeds will benefit the Library.
Ridegeway-Korsmeyer holds graduate degrees in both education and psychiatric social work and spent many years as a teacher and psychotherapist. To her, it felt natural to move from working with people as a psychotherapist to expressing feeling on canvas as an artist.
She is an elected artist in the Madison Art Society, Guilford Art League, and the Essex Art Association, and is an associate artist in the Lyme Art Association, the Clinton Art Society and the Mystic Art Association. Her work frequently appears in the juried shows of these societies, as well as in other juried and invitational art exhibitions and galleries.
Ridegeway-Korsmeyer lives in the Old Lyme, Conn., art community, where she discovered her love of painting. She works in oils and pastels and enjoys each medium equally. In her subtle sensitive landscapes of the shore, sky and marshes, she notes that changes in nature, like the feelings and emotions of the artist and viewer unfold, shift, and evolve.
She studied with prominent artists and art teachers in the Old Lyme and has participated in plein air classes throughout New England. Her work can be found in private collections in Connecticut, New England and throughout the United States.Ridegeway-Korsmeyer continues to paint en plein air and in her studio in Old Lyme.
The ‘Landscapes Reimagined’ show runs until Nov. 30.
The Library is located at 2 Library Lane, off Lyme Street in Old Lyme. Winter hours are Monday and Wednesday, 10am to 7pm; Tuesday and Thursday, 10am to 6pm; Friday, 10am to 5pm and Saturday, 10am to 4pm. Parking: If the Library’s parking lot is full, additional spaces are available on Lyme Street. There is also a lot behind the Old Lyme Memorial Town Hall across the street from the Library.