Creative Cravings

There are so many things I have yet to take advantage of here. One of them would definitely be the art galleries and exhibits around. There are way more than we all believe. Every couple of miles, there is a small exhibit we usually overlook. I noticed this a few days ago when I was taking leisure ride and saw a Native American Arts sign on the side of the road. When does anyone just randomly pull over and view the gallery? Um… we don’t. With such a busy world we live in, we never just randomly stop and check things out for the fun of it.



I have only been in the Liros and Leighton Gallery in the Blue Hill town.


The Liros Gallery also does art restoration and custom framing which I think is pretty interesting. They have European paintings to icons to Japanese prints. Who would have thought there is a place in Blue Hill which offers this kind of art? Here is a piece from their website which reminds me of my art history class days. Even though Madonna and Child scenes make me sick, I enjoy this one.

The Icon of the Mother of God Runo Oroshennoe(chu)


Egg tempura on wood panel, with silver filligree and gilded rizza with cabochons Moscow, assayer's mark 1879, 12 1/2 by 14 inches

The Leighton Gallery features a rotation of artists which changes every few months. They have more sculptures than Liros does. Again, there are so many things I have yet to explore such as their sculpture garden which I have never seen.



I need to check these galleries out again and find some hidden gems around the peninsula. For more information follow the links:

http://www.leightongallery.com/
http://www.lirosgallery.com/