Color Connects!
Backnang was all a buzz recently with the names of Chelmsford community artists on everyone’s lips thanks to a wildly successful vernissage held under the motto: COLOR CONNECTS. The brainchild of Jennifer Flint of Artists at the Meadows and the team of the Partnerschaftsverein Backnang-Chelmsford , this art exhibit illustrated in no uncertain tones, that town twinning is not an antiquated armchair notion, but rather, a catalyst for creativity and collaboration. Working under the theme of tea, thirteen Chelmsford artists all submitted canvases especially commissioned for this event, and although the parameters were similar, the works could not have been more different. Ranging from an abstract image painted with tea itself to varied representations of a “storm in a tea cup” the paintings drew observers into unique and separate sensory experiences. ...