Westport River Gallery

Fall Colors Begin to Blossom by Okumura

J. Okumura's use of color and creative texture lend harmoniously from the natural world and her heritage of both Eastern and Western influences. She derives inspiration for her oil and acrylic paintings of a wide variety of subjects, which she hopes conveys a sense of motion and evoke a wide range of emotions. Okumura grew up in Philadelphia and has been creating art for almost two decades. She attended Syracuse University in addition to receiving her MFA from Boston University. She has a strong comprehensive knowledge of the Art Market: Modern and Contemporary Art with diverse and extensive Fine Art experiences such as Fine Art Consultant, Design Associate, Adjunct Educator at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and founding Exhibition Chair for National Association of Women Artists, Mass.

Wisteria Frames Back Porch by Courchia

The interplay of light and shadows is not by accident in the works by French artist JP Courchia. And the basic constriction of many famous works of art is also not by accident. Jean-Paul Courchia comes to the Westport River Gallery in Westport, Connecticut by way of France. The physician-lecturer-artist’s oil paintings on canvas are displayed in Marseille in the famous Provencal Gallery Jouvène, which Van Gogh and Cezanne called home for their art work. Her Highness Queen Paola of Belgium and Madame Nobutaka Shinomiya, wife of the Consul of Japan in Marseille, are avid collectors of his work.