There’s no one way to paint a New England summer. For some people, summertime is a cold drink on a Cape Cod beach; for others it’s a walk through a forested trail teeming with life, and for others still, it’s ducking into an air-conditioned building to beat the city heat.
At the Savage Godfrey Gallery in Norwell, Massachusetts (located on the South Shore between Boston and Plymouth), mother-daughter team Sunne Savage and Christina Godfrey bring together three painters for their fourth show, “Summer Daze,” on view through August 29. Painters Jen Kelly, Jess Hurley Scott, and John Vinton approach the season with distinct styles that make up a complementary patchwork of summertime scenes.
According to Gallery Director Christina Godfrey, the duo’s goal has been to put together group shows that are a mix of hyper-local and regional emerging to mid-career artists.
“In the end, we try to curate a group that is aesthetically pleasing together — [a group] that’s diverse in medium but aesthetically pleasing, and just flows,” she said.
Vinton’s work, coastal landscapes in an abstract and expressionistic style, is part of a series inspired by Duxbury’s “Powder Point.” The series, explained Gallery Founder Sunne Savage, originally began as a commission but turned into something grander.