this represents about thirty emerging and established artists all of whom live and work you never exhibited anything you before never showed your work to anybody or are you an experienced painter and you're looking for additional menus to show your work we'd love to have you come and join us and we've got this wonderful mix of different mediums different types of lord and people were really excited about coming in to to show their work it was very exciting because when we got it there were so many different styles and and framing techniques so we had to put all the art spread out along ok looks good together how is it going to show what's going to make something pop and you know where it's going to get the most impact and so that's how we ended up mounting the exhibit so there's art throughout the main room three different hallways including some offices so it's really fun to just find things it feels like it brings so much of life into the town hall so i'm delighted to see the number of people have come to look at the exhibit and the huge variety of things i think they did a great job of finding a way to cluster things for instance there are groups that are architecture and there are groups that are clustered together because their colors really work together and there's a tremendous variety and it brings really active energetic have been through a specific group because we wanted to have a cohesive design or style or at least somebody to work through but at this point we felt we were comfortable enough in a room chooses a committee for the town hall art project to actually put an open call to artists and we we said you know whether you've shown before interested in showing professionals whatever come you know and we had no idea we were very very nervous whether people would respond or not and we were thrilled at the response we got from people who haven't shown before or are coming back to painting after thirty you know twenty thirty year break or something like that so we're very excited we were hoping to get that mix and we did i'm standing in front of an absolutely gorgeous weaving that's done by a professional weaver there are other paintings around that are done by people who have painted on you know sunday painter type of things but there are a number of people also who aren't present artists and i were only criteria was that be able to hang and it will because we don't ha are standalone work so i don't work full time as an artist at all i'm i'm an engineering technical field and but i've been working on this for quite a while i like i have like having a creative outlet created and i was playing with the ideas and thinking about structure and logic in order and also how organic growth and kind of free flowing energy fits into that so the piece is nowhere near ready to be to be made as a as a sculpture and so what i did is i took the model and laid it out and it had a laser engraving done kind of representing the shapes the  shows three different shapes but really it's all one ma it's all one one cor shape and i've broken it out so you can kind of look at the lines and experience how they fit together and and hopefully get into my head a little bit of it and what it was like in creating those shapes and fin ding you know finding a balance in that in order and structure and also in the organic growth and form i'd love to make it out of steel and the box itself the cube is designed to be about four feet by four feet by four feet so that would come you know roughly chest height and then the the organic limbs that come up would would be standing between six and seven feet i do a lot of pain ting now yes i as much as possible but considering i'm not retired yet i had two scenes that i felt like they would work here at this one particularly because it's actually a truck raceway road  jericho it's a truck that i passed by for years and years on my commute and over time it wasn't used and it began to be like a very elaborate flower box for me so i always enjoyed going by that truck and that's how this particular piece got in the exhibit took my paints outdoors on a beautiful day and caught the sky just as it was in the barn and the flowers and that's the way that one worked this one for me always has just a slight sense of amusement to it so i was actually happy to hear a patron go by read that the title of the work is retired and chuckled which made me very happy it would be wonderful to have been bers of the community come and look at pieces and say i didn't know that person was a painter or a metal worker or whatever there are tags beside each piece i think there may be one or two that are not for sale but your paintings and pieces of art are for sale and one thing that i should mention in that regard is that folks if you if folks are interested in purchasing a piece they need to cold the artist directly not go through us but if they have any questions about the show they can feel free to call