Best in Show winner for the Scituate Arts Association 2025 Juried Show, Charlene Goff, grew up in Massachusetts. She attended UMASS Amherst undergrad and earned an MBA from Northeastern University.  She won with her oil/acrylic entry, “Spring Fields After the Rain.”  She states that after her recent sale of her foodservice conference business (she worked in that industry for 43 years) she now has time to focus on painting and art on a daily basis.  A member of several South Shore art associations, Charlene resides in Hingham. Art has been important to her since childhood. For the past several years, she has painted on the South Shore, Florida, Italy and Mexico.

                In her work she finds that the “Color, light and forms found in nature drive my painting subjects. I work primarily in acrylic using both brush and knife. I like how acrylic allows me to build layers of color to create depth, particularly effective in my garden paintings. My goal is to express ideas with impactful and expressive strokes, simplifying and abstracting forms to enhance color and light. I find inspiration every day outdoors and through traveling. In particular, I found the Cotswold countryside and English gardens I visited in May 2024 strongly influencing my recent paintings.”

                And of her winning piece, Charlene explains that “ ‘Spring Fields After the Rain’

 was inspired by the new growth in the fields behind Hidcote Gardens in Gloucestershire, England. It was clearing after a brief shower showing off the patchwork of colors, enhanced by the hedgerows dividing the fields and the colors of the newly leafed out trees. Painting in my studio, I use images as a starting point and a reminder of the day and atmosphere for any painting that I complete.”                     

The SAA’s Juried Show is sponsored by

Business Patrons -Janet Cornacchio, Jack Conway, Scituate, and Frame Center of Hanover