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The Burgwin-Wright House is excited to welcome North Carolina artists, Ellie Snow and Kathryn DeMarco for the show “ The View from Here” on display throughout the holidays and into the new year! The Opening reception, in conjunction with Fourth Friday Gallery Nights, is on Friday, November 28 from 6-9PM.
Their artworks will be on display and for sale in our art gallery through January 17. Admission is free. The gallery is open Monday-Saturday 10am-4pm.
The View from Here reflects a perspective grounded in observation, memory, and imagination. Artworks by Kathryn DeMarco and Ellie Snow navigate the space between humanity and the natural world — where identity and instinct intertwine. We invite viewers to pause with us in a moment of reflection, to consider how we see ourselves and others, and how beauty resides in the fragile, the ordinary, and the deeply personal.
Kathryn DeMarco’s work is a celebration of portraiture through the medium of collage—where the tactile nature of cut paper meets a deep commitment to realism. In creating images of companion animals, winged creatures, and self-portraits, she seeks to capture more than likeness; she aims to reveal presence, spirit, and emotional truth through layers of paper, paint, and glue.
Ellie Snow’s paintings are a means of escape, a window into a fairy-tale kind of world where she can ponder the beauty and complexity of being human, and the stories that repeat themselves through time like a pattern. Lately she has begun capturing the bits of magic found in corners of antique shops, in addition to the landscapes, plants, and animals around her woodland home.
From the Artists
About Kathryn DeMarco
I am Kathryn DeMarco. I am an artist living and working in Durham, NC. My dog, Rosemary Petunia, and my cats, Ted Talks, Charlotte Schyler Ruth, and Sheena of the Jungle, a tortie with tortitude, are my studio assistants and sometimes models. �
My medium is collage and my focus is portraiture. I love figurative painting and sculpture and drawing. The cut and paste technique is a process that I started experimenting with in college. I have worked to perfect and enjoy this method ever since. The process of choosing colors and textures and then applying them to a detailed drawing slows me down and allows me to think about the composition.
All of my work is realistic portraits of animals, people, and myself all made out of cut paper, a little paint and glue and lots of skill and imagination. I specialize in animal portraits of your companions, using materials that YOU want to incorporate to celebrate your companion. Enjoy!
My work is included in many personal collections in the Triangle and beyond. I have had many solo shows at Craven Allen Gallery in Durham, and many other galleries in Durham, Chapel Hill and Hillsborough over my 30+ year career.
My solo show “Finding My Way” was exhibited at The Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington in November 2019.
About Ellie Snow
Ellie Snow is an artist based in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Her paintings explore emotional themes through landscapes and still lifes, often beginning with photographs she takes around her home in rural North Carolina. The paintings that result are color driven, emotive, and sometimes dream-like, balancing the beauty, complexity, and humor of being human. She imagines them as a snapshot of a larger story.
Ellie is a member of the Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, and fairly new to working as a professional artist.
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