Craighead Green Gallery invites you to a special children’s book reading with artist Daniel Angeles, celebrating Belle and Her Missing Heart. Through watercolor illustrations and gentle storytelling, Angeles introduces a tender narrative shaped by love, resilience, and the journey of finding one’s way home.

The imagery—floating hearts, watchful birds, and forms guided by emotion—offers a glimpse into Angeles’s visual world, one that speaks to both children and adults through imagination and care.

Taking place earlier in the day, this reading offers families and visitors a welcoming moment in the gallery before the evening’s opening reception. A chance to slow down, listen, and enter the story together.

Daniel Angeles presents a series of narrative watercolors charged with emotional depth and imagination. Blending symbolic imagery with a refined command of the medium, Angeles constructs dreamlike worlds that speak to both the surreal and the personal. His luminous, layered washes of pigment lend each work an intimate, almost cinematic quality—inviting viewers to uncover the stories that unfold within.

Carole Pierce’s ethereal paintings invite the viewer into a realm of quiet contemplation. Her atmospheric compositions, built through delicate layers of color and light, blur the boundary between abstraction and landscape. Pierce’s work reflects a meditative inquiry into perception itself, where stillness becomes luminous and infinite.

Ian Grieve’s paintings bring a playful, textural energy to the exhibition. Working in a figurative style, Grieve uses the painting itself as his palette, allowing color and form to mix and build directly on the surface. The result is a body of work that feels spontaneous and tactile—celebrating imperfection, gesture, and the joy of creation. His lively compositions blur the line between observation and abstraction, offering a witty and heartfelt perspective on human experience.