Opening reception: Fast Impressions and Outtakes, Works by Lynne Gilliatt @ Thomas Gallery, 107 N. College Avenue, Bloomington

This is a festive show of colorful, abstract interpretations depicting people and places from Lynne’s life and travels to her favorite parts of the world.

Lynne is a native of Bloomington, Indiana and has been an artist for most of her life. She works mainly in chalk pastels on sanded paper.

Her work depicts mostly people and places, largely those experienced in her extensive travels to Switzerland, the British Virgin Islands, Mexico and Southwest United States.

Lynne’s paintings reflect sounds blowing over sand, dunes, lakes or oceans. They might be interpretations of light hitting adobe or church walls or shadows making light and dark patterns. Smell, sights and sounds all play a part in her paintings. As memories of these experiences seep into her memory, she later lets them out in her work.