FRANKIE BRACKLEY TOLMAN
17 High Mowing Road
Nelson, New Hampshire 03457 603.827.3732
www.frankiebrackleytolman.com
Frankie Brackley Tolman is a
professional artist and a signature member of the New England Watercolor
Society and the Rhode Island Watercolor Society. She is a faculty member at the
Sharon Arts
Center in Sharon, NH
where she teaches Watermedia. Her vibrant paintings have been accepted
into many national, regional, and local juried exhibits. The Mill Brook
Gallery, Art3 Gallery,
and the Sharon Arts Juried Members’ Gallery represent her. Her recent
solo show in New York City
featured 35 of her paintings.
RECENT JURIED EVENTS
2011 Monadnock
Art Auction, Jaffrey NH (also 2007 - 2010)
2011 NHPTV juried Auction, Durham NH
(also 2007 - 2010)
2010 Frances
N. Roddy Competetion,
Concord, MA
2010 Wolfe’s Neck Farm Art Show, Freeport ME
2010 Creatures Real & Imagined, Sharon
Arts Gallery, Peterborough NH
2010 Stonewall Farm Juried Art Auction – Keene NH
(also 2006-2009)
2010 Monadnock Art Auction, Jaffrey NH
(also 2007-2009)
2010
Art in the Barn, Essex MA (also 2007 - 2009)
2010 NHPTV juried
auction, Durham NH (also 2007 - 2009)
2008
15th Annual National Watermedia Competition, Pawtucket RI
2008 Art League of Rhode
Island Juried Exhibit, Bristol
RI
2008
AWA National Watercolor Exhibition, Glendale AZ
2008
The Monadnock Palette, Keene
NH
2007
14th Annual National Watermedia Competition, Pawtucket RI
2007
Northeast Juried Exhibition, Green Trees Gallery, Northfield MA
2007
NHARL Juried Show, Bedford
NH
2006
10TH Biennial North American Open Show, Gloucester MA
2006
The Great River
Show, Turners Falls MA
2005
12th Annual National Watermedia Competition, Pawtucket RI
2005
National Watercolor Society Juried Show, Sherman Oaks CA
2004
9th Biennial North American Open Show, Bennington VT
2004
AVA NH-VT Annual All Media Exhibition, Lebanon NH
(also 2003)
2003
AWA National Watercolor Exhibition, Surprise AZ
2002
8th Biennial North American Open Show, Concord MA
2002
3rd National Miniature Art Exhibit, Peterborough NH
2002 Sharon Arts Biennial Juried Show, Peterborough NH
2001
International Watermedia 12, Colorado
Springs CO
2000
International Watermedia 2000, Colorado
Springs CO
2000
7th Biennial North American Open Show, Boston MA
OTHER RECENT SHOWS AND
EVENTS
2011 Jaffrey (NH) Civic Center Spring Art Show
2011 Members Show, Sharon Arts Center,
Peterborough, NH
2010
Fall Foliage Studio Art Tour, Nelson, NH
2010 Paint Out! Peterborough NH
2010 Monadnock
Literary & Arts Festival (Invitational), Marlborough NH
2010 Prism Painters at Hancock Library
2010 Off-the-Wall Show, Jaffrey NH
2009 Solo Show, Interchurch
Gallery, NY, NY
2009 Art League
of RI, Gallery 297, Bristol
RI
2009 Sharon Arts Members’ Show, Peterborough NH
2009 Spring Show, Jaffrey
NH
2009 Art League of RI and Spring Bull Gallery, Newport RI
2009 New Artists-Members Exhibit, Pawtucket RI
2008 The Starving Artist, two-person show, Keene NH
2008 Off the Wall
Show, Jaffrey NH
2008 The Prism Painters at Burdick’s, Walpole NH
2008 Martini’s and Masterpieces, Boston MA
2008 New Works in Watermedia, Milford NH
2007 Watermedia
and Beyond, Jaffrey NH
2007 Homecoming –
solo show Topsfield MA
2006 A Celebration
of Audubon Sanctuaries (invitational), Concord
NH
2006 Recent Works
(invitational solo show), Peterborough
NH
2006 Splash! -
Contemporary Watermedia Artists, Peterborough
NH
2006 Endangered
Landscapes - solo show, Hancock
NH
2004 Out-of-the-box
Watermedia, solo show, Madison NJ
2003 New Works. Solo show, Madison NJ
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
2011 First
Place, Jaffrey Civic Center Spring Show
2008
B & H Award, Art League of Rhode
Island
2007
Selected to participate in “Professional Artist’s Toolbox” program, Boston MA
2007 Painting
selected to be “signature piece” for the “Evening of Hope Auction” by the Maine
Parkinson Society, Falmouth
ME
2006 Third Place,
Art-in-the-Park, Keene
NH
2005 First Place
(for body of work), Art-in-the-Park, Keene NH
2004 Third Place, Annual
Juried Show, Keene NH
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am constantly bowled
over by the heartbreaking beauty of the world and am compelled to translate the
emotional response that I experience (what Milton Avery called “the ecstasy of the
moment”) to paint and paper. Watermedia provides me with the luminosity
and vibrant colors to create an atmosphere that celebrates the joy of life -
and hints at its transitory nature. My inspiration primarily comes from the
fields, farms, forests, and seacoasts of the Northeast. The subjects of my
paintings are reduced to simplified shapes that provide clues to their history
and our ties to them.
ABOUT MY ART
My
artistic intent is to convey my personal response to a subject rather than to
portray a realistic image. The subjects of my paintings are clearly
recognizable though reduced to simple shapes with few details. By
distilling the image to its essence, I can focus on the feeling that the
subject evokes in me. I consider myself to be a Colorist, as I love to
work with bright, juicy color. My preferred medium is acrylic, applied to
paper or board. The rural landscapes and architecture of the
Northeast provide my inspiration.
WORDS TO PAINT BY:
“A work of
art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”
Paul
Cézanne
“Reality
can be beaten with enough imagination.” Mark Twain
“When I
paint the house in Maine
that my father built, I’m painting my father.”
Fairfield Porter