Welcoming of Spring

For New Englanders, daffodils and crocuses mark the start of Spring.  The enlarged exaggerated sizes of the flowers painted on this door is intentional and will hopefully inspire the viewer(s) to pay closer attention to nature.  Approaching from one direction the images are created by dots of color that pay homage to impressionist painters, stippling dots and modern-world pixelated images. The image morphs from a 6 foot tall daffodil into little playful dots of color.   
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Approaching the artwork from the other direction one sees the mirror image on the reverse side of the door.  The colors range from the greys of winter to a painterly  explosion of pinks, purples, blues and greens.  This artwork was pained by mother/daughter team Kathy and Maria Lobo with acrylic paint and weatherproofed with layers of polyurethane.   We hope that this door brings viewers joy as they pass by, inspiring them to  kneel down and take a closer look at the flowers and plants along the trail.  

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Spotlight: Maria and Kathy Lobo

Kathy Lobo grew up in Watertown and earned a BFA from the Philadelphia College of Art, now known as the University of the Arts.  She earned a graduate certificate in Traditional Chinese Painting from the Tianjin Fine Arts College.  Maria Lobo grew up in Queensland Australia and Arlington.  She earned a BFA from Mass College of Art.  Presently she is completing a Master of Arts degree from Shaanxi Normal University in Xian, China.  
Since 2015 Kathy and Maria have collaborated on several projects.  For example, in 2015 they received a grant to paint a power box in Arlington (at the corner of Park Ave and Paul Revere Road).  In 2018 they joined artist Lily Yeh in Taiwan to paint murals at a school north of Taipei and to create mosaics at a Buddhist Convent in Kaohsiong City.  Later that year they collaborated and painted murals in an outside. Courtyard of a tea house in a hutong next to the Forbidden City in Beijing.   

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