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Norfolk Public Library Artist of The Month
January 2012
Marjorie S. Sardella
This January from the 9th through the 27th, Marjorie S. Sardella of Beaux Regards Photographic Art, will be our featured artist of the month. She will be exhibiting a retrospective of her works, both black-and-white and color, including for the first time photos of the World Trade Center taken in April 2001.
Marjorie Sardella has been in love with photography since receiving her first camera, a Brownie, at the age of ten. Ms. Sardella painted in oils for several years, but eventually returned to her first love, photography. Though she no longer works in oils, that experience is reflected in her photographs, which are frequently mistaken for paintings. She has photographed extensively in the northeastern United States, France, Italy, Austria, and England.
A member of the Franklin Art Association, she has received several awards for her works.
She loves photographing the beauty and power of nature, the intricate landscape of cities, the joy of friendship and play, and finding the large in the small – streets that invite viewers to walk down them, doors that beckon people inside, the colorful splash or eloquent grace of a flower, the small details that are worlds in themselves. She believes that we all need beauty to nourish our souls as much as we need bread to feed our bodies. Art, in all its forms, has the power to heal, renew and strengthen our spirit.
A New England native, she has taken photography courses at Boston College. Through these courses and her early experience with black-and-white photography, she came to love the process of creating a finished photo from a negative in the darkroom, skills she now applies to her colour photographs in the “digital darkroom”.
She resides in Franklin, MA with her husband, and for several years has had an appointment as a Visiting Scholar at Boston College.
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