Artist Reception

Recycled Dreams

Mixed-media and photography works by Linda Greenwood and Alison Scott.

Join us for the Opening Reception of Recycled Dreams on Friday, October 2 from 5:00–6:30pm. This exhibition will be on view from Friday, October 2nd through Saturday, November 21st.

Recycled Dreams features mixed-media, photography, and graphic design works by Linda Greenwood and Alison Scott, exploring how discarded objects, landscapes, and everyday images can be transformed into art.

For Linda Greenwood, this process grows from a lifelong love of art that began during childhood on Long Island, New York, through frequent visits to museums in Manhattan with her mother. Her interest in photography and art has continued to develop through classes at the Sharon Art Center in Peterborough and the CALL Adult Education Program at Keene State College.

Using her Photoshop skills, Scott creates abstract works. “I’m quite curious about how each of us moves through the world,” she says. Scott’s approach to art has been shaped by her experience at RISD, where she discovered the intensity and rewards of sustained creative work. “RISD was a revelation,” she says. “I didn’t know anybody could work so hard, let alone me.” She became interested in how immersion in the creative process could change the way she thought and worked. “When I immersed myself in my artwork, it talked back to me. You can’t predict something like that.”

Today, Scott embraces spontaneity as an essential part of her creative process. “Everything is improv. That’s my motto now,” she says. “And life is a dance—with stumbles.”

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Linda Greenwood moved to Peterborough in June of 1969. After her children were old enough, she worked in public relations for Yankee Magazine and then began to sell real estate, before ending her career as the owner of two children’s clothing stores, “The Rugged Bear” with her husband.

Greenwood has donated her artwork to many local fund-raising events by non-profit organizations. Her artwork is exhibited at Norris Cotton Cancer Centers in Manchester and Nashua and Healing with Art at Monadnock Community Hospital in the cancer treatment centers as part of their Healing with Art program.

She served as President of the Monadnock Camera Club, State Chairman of the Exhibitions committee for Women’s Caucus for Art, and is now chairman of the WCA Art Pod for the Monadnock Region.

Alison Scott attended Rhode Island School of Design, where she dove into printmaking, painting, nature drawing, landscape architecture, industrial rendering, clay slab building, and house construction while majoring in Illustration and Graphic Design.

After graduating, Scott designed publications for the University of Rhode Island, before moving to NH and working as a freelance graphic designer. Her artwork has appeared in Smoky Quartz issues and is shown and sold in local towns. Scott has lived in the Monadnock Region for 45+ years.

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