"Birch Tree" (photograph) / Malcolm G. MacKenzie
“Trees” is the title of Malcolm G. MacKenzie’s photographic exhibit in the Upstairs Gallery at Gallery on the Green, so you might find yourself a bit thrown when you come upon photographs featuring the likes of a great horned owl, or nesting great blue herons, or the unoccupied rowboat resting atop almost perfectly still water.
Don’t be. It all makes perfect sense.
As MacKenzie sees it, everything in the exhibit is connected in one way or another to trees, including, as he puts it, “the critters that depend upon them for survival.”
MacKenzie, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, who now splits his time between Canton and the southeast coast of Florida, owned Finlay Printing in Hartford for many years. That exposed him to plenty of photography, but he didn’t take it up seriously for his own enjoyment until about six years ago.
Since then, he has brought his camera along on trips to places such as Antarctica, Alaska, Yellowstone, Argentina, Peru, Tanzania and Kenya.
MacKenzie admits to having had “a clandestine love affair with trees” all his life. But he says he didn’t understand the depth of that relationship until he began reviewing his work and preparing for this show.
Click here to check out Malcolm MacKenzie’s website.
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MacKenzie’s exhibition and two others currently up at Gallery on the Green will run through June 26.
The Spotlight Gallery, also upstairs, features the photo/monoprint work of Margaret Burgess (an example of her work appears in the gallery below). Link here to the Gallery on the Green website for more on Burgess’ exhibition. A member-guest show is running in the Main Gallery downstairs.
Gallery on the Green is open Fridays through Sundays from 1 to 5 p.m.
To see some more images from Malcolm MacKenzie’s exhibit in the Upstairs Gallery, click on any of the six images below and use the arrow left or arrow right button at the bottom of the larger image that pops up. To return to this page, click on the full image you are viewing.
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