Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Myra Hudson

Myra Hudson paints poignant snapshots of rural Vermont life. In one of her oil paintings, a tow-headed toddler helps out his dad in the kitchen; both of their hands wrap tightly around the same wooden spoon, the child’s tiny fingers just grazing the bottom of his father’s thick, rough-looking hand. In "Oilskin" (pictured), a stubble-faced man with an ear full of silver hoops stands outside in the rain, streams of water pouring off the edges of his hat. Hudson, who lives in Royalton, captures the intimate feel of small-town life in her landscape and figurative paintings, which are at Tunbridge Public Library for her first-ever solo show, November 16 through January 18.