Fran R. Peppers Life's Moments

Life's Moments, oil paintings by Fran R. Peppers, captures the individuals in a fleeting moment of light and emotion and conveys the poetic mood of this scene. She explores the visual rhythm of light, space, color and shapes in and around the figure in order to project a certain feeling or emotion. The wet-on-wet, scumbling, and reworking painting technique which the artist uses is excellent for conveying the dynamics of the mood and emotion of people existing in their own particular time frame and environment.

Using a limited palette of rich, intense pigments, each of her paintings evolves through numerous stages of paint action and destruction before arriving at the point where a final resolution has been achieved. The artist's strong reaction to color, light and the human figure is evident in her paintings.

These recent paintings rotate around moments the artist has captured of people doing ordinary, daily activities: a mother and child sharing a quiet moment as evening draws near; a man enjoying a walk by the ocean in the evening; and a young woman pouring cream into an antique pitcher while standing in luxurious sunlight.

Besides devoting time to her painting, Peppers, a long-time resident of Lexington, has curated the Williams School of Commerce art shows since 1989 and the McCarthy Gallery since the fall of 2007. Peppers dedicates her show to her husband, Larry Peppers.

Exhibit on display through June 1, 2016.