by Earl Schofield
Earl Schofield is set to unveil his latest collection of paintings in the Peterborough Town Library’s Community Art Gallery. His show, Encaustic Landscapes, is on display until the end of February. These works offer the viewer a deeply personal and spiritual exploration of the human experience, the passage of time, and our interconnectedness with the natural world.
A reception will be held on Thursday, January 30th from 5-7pm and Schofield will give a presentation on his artistic process during the reception at 6pm. Half of all the proceeds from the sales of Schofield’s paintings during the exhibition will be donated to the Peterborough Food Pantry.
Schofield approaches painting as a form of spiritual communion, with each brushstroke serving as a prayer and each piece functioning as an act of worship. "Paintings are… a way to connect with the larger universe while celebrating and sharing that connection," Schofield explains.
Schofield creates his paintings with encaustic (layering colored wax). The wax itself serves as a metaphor for humanity: delicate yet resilient, capable of endless variation, and adaptable to change. "Like people and societies, the wax can be fragile but, if cared for, can be extremely enduring," Schofield reflects. This layering process is also a metaphor for experience and the passage of time, with each layer representing the generations before us and the "flaws" in the work mirroring the imperfections that make us strong and beautiful, akin to the bark of an ancient tree or the wisdom of an elder.
About the artist:
Earl Schofield has taught visual art at the Dublin School for the last twenty-three years. He lives with his two children, a cat, and three dogs. Schofield works primarily in encaustic but has recently been reunited with his first love, watercolor. He can run a chain saw, accessorize a prom dress, loves fast cars, cooks AND cleans, shoots halfway decently, has a Doc Martens collection, is incredibly vain about his amazing hair and has been with the same hairdresser since 2002. He has shown work all over New England and nationally. His work is in two museums, a bunch of banks, hospitals and an even bigger bunch of super lucky peoples’ individual collections globally. He currently has absolutely zero representation and blames it entirely on George Bush and the financial collapse of 2002. He is pretty sure none of this will make you want to buy a painting if you didn’t want one already.
You can find out more about Earl and see more of his artwork on his website: earlschofieldfineart.com
Peterborough Town Library, located downtown at the corner of Main and Concord/Rt 202, has a large meeting room, study rooms, classroom, and a board room available to the public.
