Beyond the Wildflowers | Arcangel Gallery Exhibit at the Botanical Gardens

About this event

Now - December 14, 10am-4pm See beautifully painted scenes of nature, inspired by local, national, and international locations. Step Beyond the Wildflowers and enjoy the brilliant colors of changing leaves, the cool comfort of snow-covered forests, the simple beauty of milkweed, and more! “I love the play of light on objects and I try to capture the grandeur of all the world I’m privileged to see. That’s what’s this exhibit is all about.” Meet the artist, Michael Killelea! Michael Killelea is an artist, author, teacher and traveler. His work and biography have been included in the Smithsonian Institution’s Library for the American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery, the Library of Congress, the Watson Research Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and those have become the basis for permanent files on him. He has been included in the Burchfield Penney Art Center data base as one of 215 best past and present artists in Western New York. He has traveled extensively and painted in plein air almost everywhere he’s been. He is the former Secretary and a Signature member of the American Society of Marine Artists (ASMA). He’s also a Signature member and Program Committee chair of the Niagara Frontier Watercolor Society, a former Board member of the Niagara Arts & Cultural Center in Niagara Falls, and a signature member of the Buffalo Society of Artists. Until Covid ended it, he painted every Saturday year round in plein air with the All Weather Gang. Killelea is a graduate of SUNY Farmingdale and has attended Pratt Institute and the School of Visual Arts. His work is in numerous private collections, has been reproduced on book and magazine covers, posters, prints & greeting cards and is featured in two books he wrote and illustrated about Long Island’s rural North Fork.