Bennington Welcome Center, Artist of the Month

                                                         Fancy and the Moles 5"x7"
                                                        Acrylic on watercolor paper

                                              Early evening, Strohmaier Rd, Pownal VT 

                                                        Acrylic on panel, 8”x10”  2014

The Bennington Welcome Center is currently featuring “Taking Place,” a solo exhibition of work by Aimee LaPorte. October 29th - December 3rd 2014.
Please join us for refreshments on Friday, November 21 from 5:30 - 7:30pm for the exhibition reception and to meet the artist.

Aimee LaPorte is presenting a collection of landscape paintings and portraits. The Landscapes are inspired by the natural beauty of the Bennington area. Most of these paintings feature mountain vistas and cultivated land amidst epic and dramatic cloudscapes.  

The portraits are part of an ongoing series of paintings of companion animals. This series borrows its name from the Latin word “Gratus,” meaning beloved, dear, pleasing or agreeable. When she began the series in 2011, the style of her miniatures was inspired directly by a grouping of colonial familial portraits from the collection of the Bennington Museum. As time has gone on, these portraits have evolved in style and are quite customized to each subject depicted, from Victorian royalty to prominent or obscure historical figures.