Marblehead Seascapes – Harikleia Kuliopulos

March 4 – April 16

Paintings, Schrage Gallery

Until September 2021, Harikleia Harriet Kuliopulos’ view of Marblehead has been predominantly from the water looking towards land, for her family has been sailing in Marblehead since she was a small child. While painting a series of seascapes last Fall, her view shifted; now land-based, looking out over the water beyond the shapes and colors of land shapes both natural and man-made. The series began an unexpected love affair as she both rediscovered her childhood wonder of this special place while exploring her new view and relationship to Marblehead.

These paintings are all executed en plein air, where she strives to capture the light key and atmosphere of each day that she sets up to paint. The result is a depiction of light and other natural conditions of tide, time of day, and atmosphere in nature’s ever changing daily and seasonal cycles. While all are seascapes, within this genre, her subject changes from the intimacy of Little Harbor, to the rhythm of moored boats in Marblehead Harbor, to the uncontained sea as it meets land.