Flashes of Time: Coggeshall-Burr’s Barn Show
By Nina Rossi
Oct 15, 2015
Montague Center – Once a year, The Barn Gallery at 70 Main Street in Montague Center is open to display the oil paintings of Mishael Coggeshall-Burr. For three hours, landscapes painted as “flashes of time” are available to view and purchase during what might be the most exclusive – if not, certainly the briefest – art exhibit in Franklin County.
Mishael’s paintings of New York City capture the busy, colorful, sometimes wet and wild streets of the city that he loves to visit, using “bright, dissolving lights and dark, long shadows.” More local scenes of streams and woods of New England weave a very tranquil spell.
The artist and his family moved here from London five years ago, where Mishael worked at the Tate Gallery as an art handler. The couple bought an old farmhouse “that no one else wanted because it hadn’t been updated since the 1930s,” and turned the barn into a lovely gallery space that has hosted the exhibit for four years.
Yes, Mishael confirms, he’d like to get broader representation in a “real” gallery, at some point! His work sells well during his annual Barn show; the prices at these shows are extremely reasonable for work of high quality. He’s sure to find representation at a gallery easily, once he has time to pursue it.
Coggeshall-Burr is considering adding a spring show in 2016 – perhaps during the May Day celebrations, an event that helped draw him and his wife to the village with its happy paganism.
In the meantime, if you missed the last opening and closing this past Saturday, check out his selection of paintings online: www.coggeshallburr.com
Montague Center – Once a year, The Barn Gallery at 70 Main Street in Montague Center is open to display the oil paintings of Mishael Coggeshall-Burr. For three hours, landscapes painted as “flashes of time” are available to view and purchase during what might be the most exclusive – if not, certainly the briefest – art exhibit in Franklin County.
Mishael’s paintings of New York City capture the busy, colorful, sometimes wet and wild streets of the city that he loves to visit, using “bright, dissolving lights and dark, long shadows.” More local scenes of streams and woods of New England weave a very tranquil spell.
The artist and his family moved here from London five years ago, where Mishael worked at the Tate Gallery as an art handler. The couple bought an old farmhouse “that no one else wanted because it hadn’t been updated since the 1930s,” and turned the barn into a lovely gallery space that has hosted the exhibit for four years.
Yes, Mishael confirms, he’d like to get broader representation in a “real” gallery, at some point! His work sells well during his annual Barn show; the prices at these shows are extremely reasonable for work of high quality. He’s sure to find representation at a gallery easily, once he has time to pursue it.
Coggeshall-Burr is considering adding a spring show in 2016 – perhaps during the May Day celebrations, an event that helped draw him and his wife to the village with its happy paganism.
In the meantime, if you missed the last opening and closing this past Saturday, check out his selection of paintings online: www.coggeshallburr.com