Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Jeanette Fournier

Jeanette Fournier spends about as much time staked out in the woods with her camera as she does at the easel. The New Hampshire painter waits for wildlife to approach her camouflage tent so she can snap intimate closeups. She’s spotted bobcats roaming the White Mountains. She’s fashioned handmade “moose calls” to lure the elusive ungulates. Afterwards, she recreates the photos at home in watercolor. Fournier’s show, “Art of Nature,” at Jeffersonville’s Bryan Memorial Gallery catalogs her recent animal encounters, including chickadees, foxes and owls, as well as animals from farther afield, such as elephants from a Chicago zoo. Through December 23. Pictured: “The Ties That Bind.”