Bromfield Gallery

Call for Entry: TOO HOT a Juried Exhibition of New England Artists
LInk in bio for details and submission link .

August 5 - 23, 2026
Reception: Friday, August 7, 6-8 pm

TOO HOT Open to all media, all interpretations: heat as it relates to climate, politics, and s*x. Artists are encouraged to explore imaginative variations in media as well as content. Question, enlighten, provoke!

This is a juried regional exhibition. New England artists only. All media welcome. Submission by online jpgs through Submittable only.

The top 20 works by 20 different artists will be shown in person at the gallery. For these 20 artworks, the artist is responsible for dropping off and picking up the work. No shipping.

Bromfield is open to the public Wed-Sun, 12-5.

On view this month, gallery artist Cynthia Roberts: Mango Season
June 3 - 28, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, June 5, 6-8 pm

In these works, I’m exploring the act of witnessing through emergence and submergence of imagery in color-rich abstract environments. Careful botanical line drawings appear and then step back from the viewer, as more literal depictions step forward. Each painting is an ecosystem where the process of observation creates an interior life; plants appear to remember themselves, their history, their previous state perhaps, and the painter becomes transcriptionist of that immersive world, rather than arbiter.


picitured: "Night Remembering Day" (detail), acrylic on canvas, 30” x 40”, 2026

Final Week: Barb Cone: “Melting Point”
April 29 - May 31, 2026



My first introduction to encaustic was in a workshop decades ago in the high desert of New Mexico. Encaustic was a perfect medium to express the sharp edges and high color contrasts of this landscape. Representational work was difficult if not impossible, so shapes were abstracted, the surfaces built up and carved back. he melted beeswax filled the studio with its own sweet smell. Within a short time I was hooked.

While encaustic paintings are usually small-scale due to the difficulty of controlling the movement of the melted paint, my goal has been to push the boundaries by working ever larger. The work has become more physical as I work larger. This created a particular problem this past Fall after I shattered my leg, had metal pieces implanted during emergency surgery and was laid up for six months. I think of “Melting Point” as “my fractured leg challenge.”
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