GARNER Arts Festival_2025 Digital Event Guide

BUILDING 35 — NED HARRIS GALLERY

EDWARD M. O’HARA Echoes of Grass The Artwork of Edward M. O’Hara | Works on Paper

Pictured: Echoes of Grass 30 by Edward M. O’Hara

By using the earth as his brush, O’Hara’s new series breaks free from studio restraints while capturing the beauty, motion and ephemeral fragility of nature. The artist creates these works in the fields of his farm in Highland NY. After applying paint directly to the wind-blown grasses, he repeatedly presses paper with his hands and feet onto the grassy surfaces. When the paper is peeled away, bold, energetic, fractal patterns are revealed, patterns that are mirrored throughout nature - in ocean waves, sand dunes, and wispy clouds. - Artist, Edward M. O’Hara