Watercolor by Phyllis Greenway This is one of many watercolor paintings which are on display at the Gifford during a one woman show of the works of Phyllis Greenway. RANDOLPH – The talented cooking columnist for the Northfield News is far more than just a good cook.

Artist Phyllis Gosling Greenway is now displaying watercolors, sketches and pastels in the Gifford Medical Center art gallery in Randolph.

Mrs. Greenway, an artist and teacher, is a graduate of Green Mountain College and Saint Mary College in Kansas.

She went on to study at the University of Kansas, at The Torpedo Factory art center in Alexandria, Va., and with Albert Handel, former head of the American Pastel Society, Burt Silverstein, Charles Reed, Alex Powers and others.

Since then, she’s taught at Studio Place Arts and Green Mountain College in Vermont and at the Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Bay School of the Arts and Charles Taylor Arts Center, all in Virginia, and had juried shows with the Vermont Watercolor Society this year and throughout Virginia, where she lived until moving to Northfield in 2007.

“It is my great joy to now live, paint and teach in Vermont,” said Mrs. Greenway, who had been visiting the state with her husband, a Norwich University graduate, since 1952.

Mrs. Greenway’s art includes a variety of still lifes, abstracts, portraits, plein air, landscapes, drawings and even sculptures. The works, she says, come from her personal experience.

She has titled her collection of works currently on display at Gifford “Exploring my World.”

“As I paint or draw, I am creating a diary of experience. The sketches, which may take a moment or an hour, may be enough for me. Sometimes I move on and turn to the next phase of a finished painting. One sketch, or many, may turn me to development of yet another idea,” she said. “Art is a puzzle filled with frustration, excitement and meditation for me.”

See Greenway’s “World” at the Gifford Gallery through Jan. 20. The show is free. The gallery is just inside the main entrance of the Randolph hospital at 44 S. Main St. Call Gifford at (802) 728-7000 for more information.

See more of Mrs. Greenway’s works online at www.phyllisgreenway. com or call her at 485- 8373 to schedule an appointment to visit her Northfield studio.