Sarah Ahearn Bellemare

Local Artist and Author of "Painted Pages"

Northampton artist Sarah Ahearn Bellemare's new book, "Painted Pages: Fueling Creativity with Sketchbooks and Mixed Media," is available at Pinch along with her paintings and framed prints.  Sarah first began painting as a way to illustrate poetry. Her mixed media paintings are layered with found images, fragments of text from old books, and pieces of vintage maps. These ephemera become the fabric and focus of many of her whimsical paintings.

More inspirational guide than step-by-step workbook, "Painted Pages" is about helping you to find your own unique way, in the everyday, to be creative and make art. With specific how-to techniques and creative prompts on using an artist's sketchbook in a new way, these pages provide a gentle push to help you discover and integrate your creative passions through sketchbooks, workspaces, and mixed media. Through beautiful full-color imagery, you’ll learn in each chapter how your collections, scraps, ideas, and doodles can lead directly to, and fuel ideas for, creating individual works of art.

If you love what you see here or have any questions, please call Pinch at 413-586-4509 or email info@pinchgallery.com.