Here & Now - Rob & Joy Gough's Art June 2005

Photographer Rob with two panoramas of Ross County scenes: Mount Logan in distance (from Kellenberger Road) and Buzzards Roost. An Indiana city canal scene is behind him.

I haven't made it to an opening at Chillicothe's Pump House Center for the Arts yet, so I figured the Gough's mother & son show "Journeys in Time and Place," running through July 16, would be a good start.

I was right. (And the muchies were good, too! ;)

	Four panoramas of Ross County scenes by Rob Gough, from top down: Buzzards Roost (just south of the cliffhouse), Paint Valley (from Grandview Cemetery), and two Lake Ellensmeres.

Rob's "Panos"

Like me, Rob's medium is photography (though he also does sound tech). Unlike me, he has a really nice digital camera and a super tripod. With those, and a relatively inexpensive computer program, he creates panoramic images (or "Panos"). His panos of local and historic scenes caught my eye, of couse.

Visit his website for glimpses at his panoramic photographs. (I can see Rob echoes his dad's series of Mount Logan with his view of the hill from Kellenberger Road .

Joy's "Painting Poetry"

And up in the loft was Joy Gough, with an equally large crowd admiring her "Painting Poetry." The cozy, warm space was just as right for her low-tech luscious and translucent watercolors, as the bare white walls below were for son Rob's high-tech prints. (I have to admit that if I weren't so impatient that I choose photography as my art, watercolor would be my next choice - so I can appreciate Joy's medium, too.)

She was so busy visiting that I chose not to distrct her from showing her more than 30 years of artwork to visitors and friends.

Joy Gough (in black, back to camera) among displays of her art in loft of Pump House Center for the Arts on opening night.

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