Open Studio & Sale: Candace Compton Pappas and John Pappas

Artists John Pappas and Candace Compton Pappas will be opening their home and studio to showcase paintings, drawings, prints, and constructions.

Work will be available for purchase throughout their home just north of Chelsea. Join the Artists and River Gallery in a relaxed setting with art, refreshments, and good Spring cheer!

Event Details
19600 Island Lake RD
Chelsea, MI
48118

Sat., May 21st & Sun., May 22nd
10:00am - 4:00pm

This event is free and open to the public!

Candace's Artist Statement:
Most small paintings are on cement that has been troweled into a wood frame. I use acrylics, inks, oils, stains, and glues which are layered, sanded and glazed over many times. Larger works have a ground that is heavily textured with clay, plaster, acrylic mediums, and thick paint.
I work with imagery that is close to me. The birds outside my studio have shown me what flight and return, character and persistence can be. Chairs represent a solitary place, a throne, a place to land. Houses are templates, made of solid or disintegrating cement, as well as wax, raising questions of permanence and light.
The search for home, both literally in my surroundings, and metaphorically in my Self has been a constant theme underlying my work.

John's Statement:
Drawing is an impulse that I’ve always had. Working as a graphic designer since the early 1980s has afforded me countless colors, type styles, photo filters and other embellishments. With ink on paper, wood or bark I can produce images that are closer to the source of who I think I am. My drawings are largely portraits of subjects whose lives and behavior hold great interest to me.