Isabel Sharlotte Lane of Westbrook and Elena Gerard of New Haven will be the Madison Art Society Madison Town Hall artists in March and April.

Both show a variety of subject matter including the local seaside, still lifes, and the human figure. Their work can be viewed at the Madison Town Hall, 8 Campus Drive, Madison during the months of March and April. The exhibit can be viewed during regular business hours.

Isabel Sharlotte Lane

Lane has been a resident of the Connecticut shoreline for most of her life and its ever-changing views, serenity, and beauty have inspired her work. Because she paints en plein aire, she is able to capture its true colors, atmosphere, light, vastness, and feeling. Her travels throughout New England and Europe have also inspired her art.

For more than 17 years Lane has taught art in both public and private schools having earned a B.S. with a professional educator certification at Southern Connecticut State University. Additional education includes a master of fine arts in illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and the Lyme Academy of Fine Art, Old Lyme. Her paintings and etchings have been exhibited and collected at various venues in New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, and notably at the The Little Gallery, Chester. Lane currently works from her studio located in a 1740 post-and-beam carriage house beside the Falls River in Westbrook.

Elena Gerard

Gerard has spent summers doing plein aire painting on the Connecticut shoreline along with many other artists. She paints in oil, watercolor, and acrylic. On a weekly basis, she joins artists at The Brush and Palette located at the Slade Ely House, New Haven, to paint from live models that have inspired her to complete more than 100 figure drawings that can be seen at her website ElenaGerard.com. She is a member of the Connecticut Watercolor Society and The New Haven Paint and Clay Club.

The artist received a BFA at Paier College of Art, Hamden. In addition she has a life membership at The Art Student’s League, New York City, where she studied with Irwin Greenberg. Gerard has sold art by commission in Connecticut, New York State, California, Washington, and Florida. She illustrated a book, Even a Little is Something. In 2014, Gerard received the Milford Art Council’s Plein Air Project- Mayor’s Choice award, which is in the permanent art collection at the Parson’s Government Center, Milford.