Artist Statement

I have had a career for over twenty-five years working with wine, as both a wine director, sommelier, educator, and consultant. Early on in my career, I came to embrace wine as more than just a beverage. I consider wine art, and a portal to my love of the poetics of language, a gateway to communicate creatively the essence of wine. Art of any medium asks that we slow our pace and listen to what we see, hear, feel, and in the case of wine, taste. For me, the relationship between wine and other arts—painting, ceramics, sculpture, photography, writing, music, dance—and our understanding of them, our relationship to them, lies within the echo of the pause, as the poet Pablo Neruda so beautifully intoned in his Love Sonnets XVII, when he wrote of loving, ’secretly, between the shadow and the soul.’ 

Paige Farrell received her B.A. in French Language and Literature from The University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She studied at Sorbonne University, Paris, France, as well The School of The Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Farrell is a fine wine consultant with private and corporate clients, and she is a regular contributing writer for numerous publications, including Northshore Magazine, Art New England, and Edible Boston. An exhibiting ceramicist and photographer, Paige lives on Cape Ann.