A resident of Colebrook, Carla Francesca Parachini will exhibit her work at the Norfolk Library during the month of March. The exhibition “Reflections” will include paintings on canvas, glass, and ironstone plates. It will also include a few examples of botanical mixed media ~ representational compositions derived from local flora. Carla's works will be on display from March 1 to April 2.

Carla was among the first students to attend Simons Rock Early College, (where she first fell in love with the Berkshires). She studied printmaking with Antonio Frasconi and Leonard Baskin, and spent a year in art school in Italy. During her years at Hampshire College she taught children art and discovered the field of child development — passions that resulted in a doctorate at Harvard in developmental psychology, and a career as a Columbia University professor and pioneer in children’s educational television and interactive media . Now in “retirement”, her return to making art through purely analog artistic expression provides the opportunity to visually explore her love of nature. No longer commuting to the city (post Covid), she can indulge in concentrated creative hours in her Colebrook barn studio.  You can see a collection of her work at ~ www.CarlaFrancescaParachini.com.

“The impressionistic representations in my paintings, and botanical mixed-media compositions, express my personal reflections on the astonishing beauty I observe in nature.“