WEST CANAAN — A Mascoma Valley Regional High School student will have her landscape painting, “Cows,” displayed in the U.S. Capitol after winning the 2nd Congressional District Congressional Art Competition.
U.S. Rep. Maggie Goodlander, D-N.H., honored Mascoma senior Audrey Webber in a ceremony at the Kimball Jenkins School of Art in Concord last week, according to a news release from the Mascoma Valley Regional School District.
During the ceremony, “it wasn’t 18-year-old Audrey making an incoherent speech to a crowd of fellow artists; it was the 9-year-old Audrey who begged her sister to teach her how to draw,” Webber said in the release.
Webber tried to convey a feeling of tranquility “with a dash of solemnity” in the acrylic painting that will hang in the Capitol.
“The yellow and blue sky is unique and gorgeous, the sun falling behind the mountains, casting light on the backs of the cows,” Webber said in the release.
Part of the award includes round-trip airfare to attend a ceremony in Washington, D.C., in June.
Webber’s work has also been displayed at AVA Gallery & Art Center as part of its annual high school art competition and in a solo exhibition at the Enfield Public Library last May, Mascoma art educator Bess French said in an email.
“Audrey has spent much of her time in the Mascoma High School art room, growing as an artist while exploring landscape painting and building her technical skills,” French wrote.
Webber is planning on studying education and psychology at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass., next fall.
