Art Gallery

Sara Peck Colby · Lucy Doheny ·

Denis Palmer

May 4 to August 31, 2025

Vernissage: Sunday, May 4th, 2 to 4 p.m.

About the Exhibit:

Uplands invites you to discover its summer exhibit. Sara Peck Colby, Lucy Doheny, and Denis Palmer will showcase paintings and ceramic works inspired by nature. Meet them at the vernissage on Sunday, May 4th, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., or during the artists’ reception on Thursday, June 26th, from 5 to 7 p.m. Admission is free.

Artists Statements:

Sara Peck Colby

I have been painting the landscapes around the Eastern Townships 
of Quebec for over fifty years. Using my work as a form of communication, endeavoring to touch the viewer with a memory of a favorite time of day, a season or an angle of light.

My paintings evoke walks in fields or quiet country roads. I use patterns and rhythms, shadows, branches, distant fields, to show informal glimpses of peaceful life.
 With a strong sense of design, my paintings sometimes verge on abstract.

 “I paint from life. I paint to tell surprise and delight in what I see. “

Lucy Doheny

I began my life with clay in 1977 as a student at Champlain College Lennoxville under the tutelage of Dean Mullavey. To work with clay is a wonderful thing. Imagine; the material is as old as the earth. Dinosaurs once walked upon the rocks that through erosion have become clay. There is a connection to the earth and its beginnings. Using the forces of nature: water and fire, clay is transformed into a vessel. The act of making pots hasn’t changed much in thousands of years: centre a piece of clay on a spinning wheel, pull the clay up, cut it off, let it dry, fire it for hours with very high heat, put a form of powdered glass on it, fire it again and voila, a finished pot.

Caution, this sequence can be addictive.

Denis Palmer

 I like to draw. Favorite subjects used to be figures – people working, playing, gathering at auctions, harvest suppers, the Cookshire Fair, or George and Myrtle Rowell’s sugar camp in East Clifton. Many of these fine people are no longer with us and the Covid pandemic has left me reluctant to join crowds.   So now I draw trees, lots of trees, forests, waterways, natural places where I’m usually alone. My drawings of late have been mainly in ink, but I do a few sketches with watercolor. In late afternoon, during the colder months, I work the sketches on to cherry blocks and carve woodcuts, printing them on bad weather days. Sometimes there’s a story that goes along with these images, so I add that too.

goes along with these images, so I add that too.