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Lithographs - Phyllis J. Hammond (P.J.)

P.J. resides on the Canadian border in Newport, Vermont. She has long had an affair with the landscapes of the north and their plant life. Underlying themes of her work continue to be her love of wildflowers, forest floors and eroded mountains.

In 1990, she was invited to have a one-woman exhibition in Iceland after having gone there to paint landscapes on two previous occasions. The following year, her paintings were exhibited in Quebec, Canada. In 1995, she was invited to show her work in Texas and Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. The exhibition in Red Deer was one of her Icelandic work shown in conjunction with an Icelandic Symposium.

In the summer of 1996, the artist had a major exhibition at the Fairbanks Museum in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. She has also had a series of six Vermont Wildflowers ligthographs printed by the renown fine arts printer, Stinehour Press (also located in the Northeast Kingdom in Lunenberg). November 1998 saw the publication of her book, “Traveling with Wildflowers: From Newfoundland to Alaska.”

Mrs. Hammond is a graduate of Wellesley College in Massachusetts. As a youngster she studied watercolor with Elsa Bley and after college went for criticism to Hyman Bloom in Boston. Her work is found throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. She works primarily in watercolor and acrylics. Although wildflowers have engrossed her the last few years, they are by no means the only aspect of the work of this very diverse artist.

Most recently, Mrs. Hammond was been a guest speaker at the large Rhode Island Flower Show, the Annual Meeting of the garden clubs in Providence, Rhode Island, the Denali National Park and garden clubs in Vermont.