CASSOPOLIS — Artists from Cass County have a new show at the Cass District Library in Cassopolis, featuring 16 paintings by seven artists, who range from professional to student in a variety of different media. The different mediums include acrylic, oils, watercolor, wood turning and mixed media. The theme of the show is “New Works.”

Some of the paintings are for sale and prices range from $50 to $500 depending upon the difficulty of the subject, the experience, collectability, training and skill of the artist.   

Collectability refers to collectors who want an artist’s work as part of a  collection,  to include in a  decorating display, as part of a series or for financial speculation reasons.

The series “Endangered Species,” in which artist Sharron Ott portrays endangered animals, or the “Lilly Pad” series by Alli Farkas are examples of series paintings.

Among the works in new show are Bartemio’s, “Woods” (acrylic) and “Gourds on a Tablecloth” (charcoal), “Big Rock Valley’s Coneflower” (acrylic) and “The Library Chair” by Kim Sawyer of Edwardsburg. Mixed media works by Lin Pollard include “Life,” in red and earthtones and “Strata,” an earth tone on a 16×20 canvas.   

Sharron Ott is displaying “A Trio of Cranes” (mixed media), “The Place of the Bees II” (mixed media), “Found After 29 years: The Yellow Spotted Bull Frog” (mixed media) and “Silent Witness: Hines Emerald Green Dragonfly” (mixed media).

Alli Farkas, of Dowagiac is showing two watercolor paintings, “‘Callas 1 and Callas 2,’” both beautifully matted and framed. A mixed media (oil on acrylic) by Tom Rose of Cassopolis is titled “Library Tree.”

Scenes by Jerry Sorn include “Natures Wonders” and Amish themed “Homeward Bound,”  both acrylic on canvas.  Popular woodturner Neil Benham has turned bowls on display, while Edwardsburg artist Rozaleen Sullivan is showing several floral paintings.

Cass area artist Roz Sullivan was born in a small coastal town in northern Scotland and emigrated to the United States at age 20, eventually moving to Chicago and Edwardsburg. After being influenced by her favorite artist, Georgia O Keeffe, and her love of southwest themes, she diverted from involvement with dance, theater and singing to painting. She uses bold strokes in a painterly fashion to create as sense of movement in her works.  Several of her paintings are in places of prominence, including the Office of the Dean of Moraine Valley College and the Lerner Theater in Elkhart.

The display at the Cass District Library in Cassopolis will run through May.