Art exhibit in Ridgewood features oil paintings
Friday, June 14, 2013
BY EILEEN LA FORGIA
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
It can be said that Wes Shaw is an original “Mad Man” – an advertising and art director from the same era as those on the fictional TV series. He even won a Cleo award for a Kodak commercial.
But painting is his true passion, and he is exhibiting 28 oil paintings at the West Side Presbyterian Art Gallery in Ridgewood. “Trees – A Retrospective” features Shaw’s impressionistic style and shows scenes painted in his native Pennsylvania as well as the beauty that he has found locally.
After working in New York City, Shaw went on to form his own agency, Words and Pictures Creative Service of Park Ridge, N.J. for 25 years. “Words and Pictures is what every ad has,” he explained. Shaw returned to his fine arts roots with exhibitions of his oil paintings in New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, including at the well-known Salmagundi Art Club in New York City.
Bucks County is his favorite area in which to paint. He noted that his work follows the tradition of the New Hope School of Painting. On display is “Blue Shadows,” a snow scene, “Cuttaloosa” in autumn, and “Bridge to Carversville,” another Pennsylvania scene.
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