Windham Fine Arts is very pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit, “A Painter’s Poetry: James Coe, Solo.” The Opening Reception is Saturday, December 11, 2010, 5-7PM. It is exciting when a painter (or any artist) seems to be arriving at an important moment in his or her life as an artist - the moment when the vision and skills come together in a new way, and the passion that inspired him to begin decades ago only increases. Those who have been following the work of Mr. Coe might be catching just this sort of moment. Mr. Coe has a passion for nature, and particularly for the feathered creatures that inhabit these places. (He went to Harvard as an undergraduate to study biology with the intention of becoming an orinthologist. He later went to Parson’s School of Design for his Master’s degree). People are increasingly drawn to and responsive to his work. Known for his rendering of birds in their natural habitat, Mr. Coe has developed eye, palette and brush for landscapes that are “impressionistic.” Several award-winning works will be seen in this exhibit, including “April, Woodhull’s,” which took first prize in last year’s inaugural Laumeister Fine Art Competition sponsored by the Bennington Center for the Arts in Vermont. Passion and mastery, particularly of the subtle sort that is so characteristic of Mr. Coe’s work, attract the viewer into the painting, the place where the artist was, where you now want to be. Most of us cannot do that with a brush, with line, with color. We remember the feelings we had at a certain moment in nature, we want that to come with us, back home, back into our ordinary time. James Coe physically brings himself to these pastoral settings, creates studies, mixes his magic in the studio and gives it back to us! That is art, visual poetry.