Marion artist Nancy Dyer Mitton and her New York City counterpart Robert Seyffert, will have a with dual exhibitions of their paintings  at the Marion Art Center from Aug. 16 through Sept. 28.

An artists’ reception will be held on Friday, Aug. 16, from 6 to 8 p.m.  The David Mitton Project, jazz ensemble, will perform Saturday, Sept. 14 at 7:30 p.m. Robert Seyffert will present an artist’s talk on Saturday, Sept. 28, at 11am.

Mitton and Seyffert are fellow painters and friends. They met at The National Arts Club in New York City. Earlier this year, Mitton won First Prize in the 2019 NAC Exhibiting Artist Exhibition.

Seyffert is the former director of the Rochefort-en-Terre Artist Residency program in Brittany, France where Mitton received artist residence grants in 1995 and 2001.
She is a resident of Marion.  Her paintings are represented by Soprafina Gallery in Boston.

Frank Roselli, Director of Soprafina Gallery, describes Nancy Dyer Mitton as “an avid lover of nature: it’s expansive beauty, power and light. Her paintings use the physicality of the oil paints as she creatively constructs her canvas using wet paint with adroit skill.”

Seyffert lives and paints en plein air in New York City. This exhibition focuses on his love of vintage American cars parked on obscure city streets. He paints in a classic Contemporary American Realist style, not unlike Edward Hopper.

As Seyffert explained to American Artist Magazine in 2003,“whether it’s a big tree or a 1965 Pontiac, there’s something about the light hitting the subject that excites me, and that’s what I paint. I’m trying to get the sensation created by the thing I’m looking at, and not just copying it” (Howell, 2003).