Archive for the ‘Artists’ Category
Sunday, October 23rd, 2011
About the Artist :: Jill Valliere
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Studying Decorative Arts at Rhode Island School of Design and working as a Faux Finisher/Muralist over the past twelve years has given me a unique perspective to Fine Arts painting. The technique that I am using for these paintings initially came to light while I was producing sample boards for a client. The first sample board for this client hadn’t turned out the way that I had anticipated, so I set that board aside as a failure and started the next one. When my husband came home that evening, he was astounded at how beautiful that sample board had come out. He was talking about the one that I had dismissed as a failure. When I looked at it again from a different perspective, I saw that it was actually quite beautiful! After thinking about this board for almost two years, I set aside some time to develop the idea and spent four additional years trying to perfect it. After much trial and error, I have finally developed what I believe is a unique and memorable painting style.
Each of these paintings has countless layers of glazes, paints, plasters, metal foils, and varnishes. The final product is a result of many hours sanding and scraping between layers to expose the numerous colors and textures that I have applied. Each painting is unique in that I could never replicate the finish or colors a second time. The resulting work is a combination of careful planning and happy accidents along the way.
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Saturday, October 8th, 2011
About the Artist :: Emily Passman
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Emily (Osman) Passman is a painter of oils and acrylics, exhibiting throughout the greater-Boston area and New England. Emily’s still lifes and landscapes maintain realism without losing a sense of the abstract. After earning both a fine arts degree and an M.A. in education, Emily had a successful career as an elementary school teacher, then graphic designer. Since moving to Lexington, MA with her husband and son, she has devoted herself entirely to her painting and teaching art locally. She is involved with many local arts events and is a member of the Lexington Council for the Arts. She currently paints in her studio at the Munroe Center for the Arts and shows her work at her barn/gallery.
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Sunday, July 31st, 2011
About the Artist :: Kate Emlen
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Recently I’ve been thinking about motion and color. One kind of motion is in the movement of the paint. Another is the motion of composition: the rhythm of space and counter-space, where and how closely objects are located in relation to each other and to the picture plane, and how all the elements are influenced by color. Sometimes, even the quietest composition can feel as if it is moving and breathing. This is a mystery that interests me a great deal.
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Friday, July 29th, 2011
About the Artist :: Monique Lazard
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Monique recognized her calling as an artist on her 10th birthday when she received her first set of watercolors from her uncle, Ray Bertrand, a WPA Muralists and art teacher at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her formal studies began as an undergraduate at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. She received a BA degree from the California College of Art, and pursued graduate studies at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
She began her career as Fashion Illustrator for Liberty House department store chain in Oakland, California. She became Art Director in 1979 for the Nob Hill Gazette in San Francisco, and in 1984 moved to NYC becoming Art Director for numerous fashion publications within Fairchild Publications. While living in NYC, she also enjoyed teaching fashion illustration at the Parson School of Design.
In 1992, depleted from the fast pace of NYC, she made a fresh start in the quaint mining town of Telluride, Colorado, working as Art Director for the Telluride Magazine. While in Telluride, Monique also taught figure painting in watercolor at the Ah Ha School. It was during this period that she began to shift her emphasis to painting, spending hundreds of hours hiking the Rocky Mountains with watercolors in tow.
Monique continues to learn and grow as an artist. She is continuously painting with other artist and attends workshops and classes at the local Art Centers on the Main Line and in Philadelphia. She lives with her husband and daughter in Brynn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
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Saturday, July 2nd, 2011
About the Artist :: Stephen Winterton
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
About the Artist :: Amy Brnger
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Amy Brnger lives and works in Portsmouth, NH. She has worked in the Seacoast region as an artist since 1987. She has shown her work at a number of galleries and colleges locally, nationally, and internationally. Accomplishments include two grants from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation in Quebec, Canada, several N.H. State Council of the Arts painting commissions, private commissions, and representation at a number of galleries in New England and Montreal, Canada.
Her recent work reflects the natural world, home life, and reflections about her studio and surrounding landscape. These paintings include flowers, fruit, landscapes, and interiors.
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Saturday, June 25th, 2011
About the Artist :: Bill Barton
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Bill is a 1974 graduate of Montclair State University, where he received his B.A. in Fine Arts.
He started his artistic career in photography, working as a free-lance still photographer and then a video photographer for various news stations in New England. He picked up a paintbrush again in 1985 when he became inspired by the architecture of Portland’s Old Port. He now draws inspiration from the Maine seacoast and harbors and the Vermont countryside.
He has been in numerous solo and group exhibitions and juried shows. He was most recently awarded a highly-coveted spot in the Center for Maine Contemporary Art’s biennial juried show, where he was one of only 41 artists accepted out of more than 650 submissions.
Bill lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine with his wife and two children.
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Saturday, June 25th, 2011
About the Artist :: Brita Holmquist
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Brita Holmquist was born in New York City, daughter of painter Ibbie Holmquist and Goran Holmquist of Bonniers Inc., the store that introduced the United States to International craft and industrial design. She attended the Moore College of Art in Philadelphia.
Brita spent her first winter in Maine, 1971-1972, working for the Maine Audubon Society as the resident artist creating everything from brochures to the layout of the monthly newsletter. She also worked at the Ram Island Arts Center as a designer of arts programs and advertising materials. The next fall, she left for Florence, Italy to study with American painter, Richard Serrin.
After two years of study in Italy, Brita returned to Maine, and married Florentine, Roberto Bonechi. They bought the house in Cumberland in 1975 where they still live. In 1982, the Bonechis’ daughter, Lilias was born.
As Maine is a small state, Brita has served on the board of the Maine Festival, the Portland Arts Council, the Artists’ Advisory Panel to the Maine Commission, the Artists’ Advisory Council to Maine Coast Artists, the Advisory Board to the Institute of Contemporary Art at the Maine College of Art, as well as the Cumberland County Democratic Committee. She has also served on the boards of Figures of Speech, The Breakwater School, The Winter Harbor Theatre Company, The Jason Project, and The Maine College of Art. As a summer resident to the island of Islesboro, she served on the Comprehensive Plan Committee and on the Community Fund there.
She cofounded 10×10, an artists’ group of ten, and the Peregrine Press, a cooperative artists’ press in Portland, Maine in 1991. Brita also designs earthenware and catalogs for her husband’s Italian ceramics importing company, R. Bonechi Imports. She runs her own faux finishing business ‘Suspended Belief’ of both external and internal finishes and murals.
Brita’s work is in the collections of the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Maine and the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine.
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Saturday, June 25th, 2011
About the Artist :: Todd Bonita
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Todd Bonita earned his BFA with honors from the Art Institute of Boston in 1996. He was awarded “Best in Illustration” and the “AIB Purchase Award.” From 2000-2002 he continued his post baccalaureate study of classical painting and drawing at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. He periodically continues private study of the French Academy drawing and painting tradition with noted instructors from The Paul Ingbretson Atelier in Manchester, New Hampshire and Dennis Cheaney at the New England Realist Art Center in Boston.
He began his career as an illustrator and mural painter creating works for newspapers, magazines, book publishers and design firms. His clients included Disney, MTV, Random House, Simon and Schuster, McGraw Hill, Houghton Mifflin, United Way, and dozens of others. His illustrations appear in over thirty books. He has worked for many of the major book publishing companies and is represented in the children’s book market by agent “Maggie Byer Sprinzeles.” In 1997, he worked with artist,”Joanna Ciampa.” They painted a 15’x30’ mural for the Massachusetts State Police of five fallen officers who were killed in the line of duty.
In 1997 he worked as a chainsaw sculptor on Cape Cod for World Champion chainsaw artist, Barre Pinske. From 2000-2003 he worked for A.C.Coin and slot company illustrating and designing imagery, murals and sculpture for the gaming industry. His work can be seen in casinos all over the world. His most recent staff position was at the Foreside Company in Portland, Maine where he designed, illustrated, sculpted and created merchandise for the home decor industry. His wall art, designs, and sculptures can be found in TJMaxx, Home Goods, Home Depot, boutiques and gift shops in all fifty states and parts of Canada.
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Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
About the Artist :: David Dodge Gray
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Education
Butera School of Art, Boston, MA (closed 1980’s) – Graduate
The Haystack School, Deer Island, ME
Studied: Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
Studied: Richard Estes
Exhibitions
Gallery Lamedusa, Rome, Italy
Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA), Rockport, ME
PS Galleries – Ogunquit, Dallas, TX
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Judy Youens Gallery, Houston, TX
Chicago Art Expo
Miami Art Expo
Gumps Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Carol Craven Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Harbor Square Gallery, Rockland, ME
Hoxin-Kaufman, Chicago, IL
Patricia Cloutier Gallery, Tequesta, FL
Hawthorn Gallery, Alabama
David Dodge Gray served on the Visual Arts Advisory Panel to the Maine Arts Commission. He was also on the Advisory Board of Maine Coast Artist.
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Monday, June 22nd, 2009
About the Artist :: JoAnne Houlsen
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JoAnne Houlsen knew from an early age that she would paint one day, and has worked toward that goal all her life. Holding a B.A. in Studio Art and a B.S. in Education, both from the University of Maine, she now is a full-time artist, spending most of her time painting and giving art lessons at her studio in Bangor, Maine.
Inspired by all that she sees, she primarily focuses on landscapes. Becoming completely involved in what is happening around her, from clouds in the sky on a windy day, to the fragrance in the air near the sea or a flower garden; all serve to influence the experience, as she creates each painting. Many of her works are inspired by the memories evoked from photographs she’s taken through the years. That initial inspiration, the spark that caused her to want to document what she had seen, is then reproduced within her work.
As an art teacher, she stresses the importance of truly seeing and understanding what one is looking at, in order to transfer that vision onto canvas. Learning to conceptualize the relationship between an object and how it will relate to the overall painted image is something she takes pride in stressing regularly.
Ms. Houlsen’s work has been shown in exhibits throughout Maine, including the Group Show in the offices of Senator Susan Collins and several exhibits over the years at the University of Maine.
She received the Outstanding Achievement Award, University of Maine, Orono for the design and construction of a Ceremonial Mace.
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Friday, May 22nd, 2009
About the Artist :: Daniel Corey
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Daniel Corey is a traditional painter rooted in the aesthetic values of the Ashcan school and the impressionists of the Cape Cod School of Art. Inspired by light quality, color harmony and abstract shapes, his paintings are created from direct observation. Enjoying the challenge of painting nontraditional views and subjects, he finds the beauty in them, along with what he interprets as, “what makes Maine, Maine”.
Mr. Corey, hailing from Bristol, Maine, was named the 2009 Monhegan Island artist in residence by the Monhegan Artists’ Residency Corporation (MARC). The program provides lodging and stipend for a five-week residency on the island for an emerging Maine artist each summer.
“What I accomplished during my residency on Monhegan, is most simply stated as— growth,” says Corey. “I believe the time and surroundings provided through this residency allowed me to focus on what makes my paintings mine, and what makes me, me. Being familiar with the rich art history of the island and the part some of my personal painting heroes have had in it, made this residency very special to me. It was a priceless opportunity to experience the scenes they painted and walk in their footsteps, while having the time to paint my own personal view of the island. Hopefully I left a few footprints of my own. ”
For well over 150 years, Monhegan Island has inspired countless artists, including Robert Henri, George Bellows, Rockwell Kent, Reuben Tam, Elena Jahn and Jamie Wyeth, to name a few. While Monhegan continues to attract artists from across the country and around the world, it is increasingly difficult for Maine artists to find affordable housing for an extended visit on the island. The Monhegan Artists’ Residency is designed to give back to Maine artists part of their heritage and tradition. Each year the residency program offers one or two emerging Maine artists the opportunity to work without constraints on Monhegan Island. In 2009 approximately 40 artists applied for this prestigious honor, with just the one being awarded to Mr. Corey.
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Saturday, May 9th, 2009
About the Artist :: Judith Schuppien
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Judith Schuppien attended public schools in Milbridge, a small coastal town in Washington County, Maine. She won a scholarship to the University of Chicago, where she earned a BFA and MFA.
She paints mainly in oils, but has also worked in pastels. Her loose, expressive style, often bold and colorful, presents familiar subjects in a fresh and interesting way. In her travels, she keeps an eye out for the occasional odd juxtaposition, an unusual point of view, and always, an emotional connection.
After growing up along coastal Maine, in a lobster and fishing family, Judith draws inspiration from images reminiscent of her childhood. Working both as an “plein air” and studio artist. Recently, much of Judith’s work is focused on the working harbors of the Maine Coast, and the time-worn downtown’s that follow Maine’s rivers.
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
About the Artist :: Lindley Briggs
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Lindley Briggs received her B.A from Connecticut College, New London Connecticut in 1967. She studied sculpture at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts and The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture from 1967 through 1969. Over the past five years she has both taken and taught courses at Sanctuary Arts in South Elliot Maine. There she has returned to working on clay portrait sculptures with live models as reference in order to gather some reality data to add to the mythical creatures she creates in her studio.
Over the past 35 years, she has had numerous shows featuring her sculptures, drawings, collages and prints. Her work has been featured in national publications —- YANKEE MAGAZINE, FINE WOODWORKING, THE NEW YORK TIMES, ART BUSINESS NEWS and THE BOSTON GLOBE. Her current collection of bronze sculptures in represented in six galleries.
Recently she has written about her current collection of bronzes: “The boundaries between fantasy, reality and surreality are not necessarily firm. I love to explore and manipulate these boundaries. For years I have created fantastic winged, feathered and finned creatures in both two and three dimensions. My creatures are seldom purely realistic. They are whimsical, anthropomorphic and capricious. They fly, swim or otherwise waft through their environments. They are inspired by my lifelong fascination with the beauty of natural forms-shells, stones, branches, wings and the fanciful imagery from Classical Greek and Roman mythology-winged, dancing and otherwise dynamic deities.”
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
About the Artist :: John Schmidtberger
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John Schmidtberger is a painter currently living and working in Bucks County, PA. In the summer, he and his family relocate to mid-coast Maine. His primary focus is plein-air landscape painting, though he includes figures in many of his works. In addition, John creates figure drawings in charcoal and pastel on paper. He has been involved with artists’ drawing groups for many years.
John grew up in Hackettstown, NJ. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire where, in his senior year, he won the Germain Glidden Prize for Excellence in Art. He began studies at the University of Pennsylvania in 1979 as a pre-med student, but soon changed to Fine Arts. He studied painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture with Neil Welliver and Robert Engman, earning a Bachelors Degree in 1984 and a Masters of Fine Arts Degree in 1987.
John’s work has been exhibited at the James A. Michener Museum, Doylestown, PA; The Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY; Elan Fine Arts, Rockport, ME; NTWH Gallery, Belfast, ME; and The Trimbur-Henry Gallery, Doylestown, PA. His work was reviewed in the New York Times, and has appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine.
John’s work is represented in numerous private and public collections, including the personal collections of Charles Cowley, CEO, MBNA corporation and Kate White, Author, Editor in Chief, Cosmopolitan Magazine.
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
About the Artist :: Emily Leonard Trenholm
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Emily Leonard Trenholm is inspired by shapes and color relationships occurring naturally in the landscape and paints on location, year round. Growing up in Yarmouth, Maine, the New England landscape directly and significantly influences her work. Emily graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 2005 with her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting. In May 2011, Emily completed her Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting from Boston University, where she studied with John Walker, Dana Frankfort, Richard Ryan, Harold Reddicliffe and Richard Raiselis.
Emily says of her process, “Working as a perceptual painter, my compositions filter the world around me. I paint on location in an attempt to capture elements of physical and visual space. I am inspired by moments where the landscape becomes woven through light and shadow, active and inactive shape. Quilting has become a visual exercise for my painting. By placing and arranging color and light, I work to construct a painting in the way I would build a quilt. I hope to speak to the viewer about the act of looking and our visual connection to the physical world.”
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
About the Artist :: Loretta Krupinski
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Originally from Long Island, New York, Loretta Krupinski moved to South East coastal Connecticut, and currently lives in Mid-Coast, Maine. After graduating with a BFA degree from Syracuse University, Ms. Krupinski worked for many years as an illustrator and graphic designer, but has chosen to pursue a dual career as a maritime artist and an author and illustrator of 27 books for children. She has won numerous awards for both.
As a studio painter, Ms. Krupinski prefers to paint local harbors and classic wood boats. Her move to coastal Maine has prompted an additional interest in historical paintings of the maritime industry. As a sailor herself, she has come to know first hand the subjects she chooses to paint. Ms. Krupinski believes in the importance of preserving the images of the maritime waterfront for the future. Historical black and white photographs come to life through paint brush and color.
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Sunday, July 29th, 2007
About the Artist :: Leonard Mizerek
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Leonard Mizerek nurtured his artistic love of nature while growing up in the Brandywine Valley. As a young boy, he often went painting along the Brandywine River, deriving inspiration from the countryside of nearby Pennsylvania. His early influence was with the Brandywine School.
Leonard, known for his colorful, luminous seascapes and expressive brushwork, paints on site at coastal locations throughout the world. Leonard was awarded Artist in Residence for June ’06 at the Museum Yvonne Jean-Haffen in Dinan, France. He painted the area for the month and those paintings were exhibited in France and subsequently one was made part of the museum collection. He was one of 15 artists selected to paint at the Forbes Colorado Ranch; and exhibited at the Forbes Museum in New York and made part of the permanent collection. He was featured on the August 2001 cover of American Artist Magazine. He was invited as one of 23 nationally recognized contemporary marine artists exhibit in a special three museum exhibition, which toured New England to the Newport Art Museum, the Maine Maritime Museum and Connecticut River Museum. In addition, he exhibited in the Coos Bay Museum of Fine Art and the Cape Museum of Fine Art.
Leonard is one of 70 elected members of the prestigious Guild of Boston Artists. He was awarded Fellowship, the highest honor as one of only 21, in The American Society of Marine Artists. Recently, Leonard was elected to the New England Plein Air Painters.
Past exhibitions have included several Featured Artist and One Man shows: The American Society of Marine Artists Exhibitions at the First USA Riverfront Arts Center, Wilmington, DE; The Delaware Art Museum; The Frye Museum of Art, Seattle, WA; The Mariner’s Museum, Norfolk, VA; The Cummer Museum, Jacksonville, FL; San Diego Maritime Museum; The Mystic Seaport Museum. He has exhibited in the Annual Mystic International since 1988 and the Annual Modern Marine Masters Exhibition since 1995 at Mystic Seaport; two exhibitions at the National Academy of Design in New York; Operation Sail, Boston; First Place in the Sea Heritage Marine Exhibition; The International Society of Marine Painters and numerous national exhibitions. He graduated with a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and studied at the New York Art Students League under nationally known artist, Nelson Shanks. He also studied at the National Academy of Design under internationally known artist, Raymond Kinstler. Leonard is an officer and Fellow of the American Society of Marine Artists. He is also a Signature Artist Member of the New England Watercolor Society, and the International Society of Marine Painters.
Leonard was selected for Painting Ships, Shores, & the Sea, a book showcasing America’s top artists by North Light Books. He was chosen as a finalist in The Artist Magazine’s Competition ’95, ’97, and 2001. He was recently included in magazine articles in Maine Boats & Harbors, Sea History, Marine Art Quarterly, American Artist Magazine and Watercolor Magazine. Len is also featured in the book, Splash 3, as well as in Gallery of Marine Art, Rockport Publishers, and Bound for Blue Water by Greenwich Workshop Press.
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Sunday, July 29th, 2007
About the Artist :: Diane Scott
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EDUCATION
Ecole Louis Riel, St. Boniface, RN from St. Boniface Hospital
Three Schools of Art in Toronto, Ontario
BFA from Herts College of Art and Design (now Hertfordshire University), St Albans, England
6 years of study at North River Arts Society with John Kilroy
Many workshops with a plethora of talented teachers/artists – Lois Griffel, Tom Browning, Kevin MacPherson, Carolyn Anderson, Dan Gerhartz, Scott Burdick, Mark Daily, Don Stone and Randall Sexton.
PRIZES/ACCOLADES
North River Arts Society
2007- Calendar Competition- Finalist
2005 – Calendar Competition- Cover Award for “Fog Lifting, Stonington”
Numerous Honorable Mentions over the last 5-6 years
Hull Lifesaving Museum- Fall Sea and Sky Show
2005 Honorable Mention
2004 Best in Show
Festival of the Arts, North River Arts Society
Best Marine Painting 2004 and 2003
Juried Art Show, May 2000- First Place, Oil/Acrylic
Cape Cod Art Association
All New England Juried Show 1999- First Place, Oil/Acrylic
Feb 1997- Juror’s Award
Scarborough Art Guild 1995
Best Oil Award
Scarborough Citywide Juried Consillium Show 1995
Consumer Gas Cash Award
TEACHING
Diane taught beginner and intermediate oil painting classes at North River Arts Society for several years. She stopped teaching in 2004 to concentrate full time on painting. She also gave classes at the Attleboro Museum in 2000 and 2001.
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Friday, September 15th, 2006
About the Artist :: Tim Fisher
U.S. Bells is the name of Tim Fisher’s furniture business, as well as, a small bell foundry in Prospect Harbor, Maine. At U.S. Bells cast bronze wind bells, hardware, and other custom jobs are created.
Fisher and U.S. Bells are now introducing their first series of outdoor furniture. The concept behind this series is to create a line of work in wood and cast bronze that can withstand the Northern climate and still retain a high level of craftsmanship. Working with balanced shapes and appropriate materials, U.S. Bells aims to design a variety of pieces in the spirit of Maine artistry, with much attention given to details and hard work.
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Friday, September 15th, 2006
About the Artist :: W. A. Mitchell
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W.A. Mitchell furniture pieces designed by internationally known Arthur H. Mitchell are handcrafted with traditional old world joinery. Cherry wedging of legs and spindles, pegging of crests and seat backs, display the continued emphasis on quality.
These comfortable and elegant sitting pieces are designed with unique adaptability to personal tastes and lifestyles.
Over years of faithful service each piece will develop a unique patina as its natural beauty matures and creates something more than fine furniture.
The quality in the furniture of W.A. Mitchell is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution as it represents the choice of many alternatives.
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Monday, August 21st, 2006
About the Artist :: Thomas Merriam
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When Tom was just six years old his father would sit him down for hours to copy pictures selected from the National Geographic onto paper grocery bags. These pictures would be drawn over and over until they met Dad’s satisfaction. Tom’s father was a draftsman by trade and could not stress enough the need to pay attention to all of the details.
Tom’s home town of York Harbor, Maine was a hot spot for landscape and seascape artists. He developed a love for these subjects while sitting behind some of the artists and watching them paint.
George Carpenter who claimed to be the last surviving member of the Whiskey Water Colorist Association, let Tom apprentice with him for three years. He taught Tom many of the old ways that water colorists used to practice their trade. Tom learned to paint small in the field so as to catch the mood, to use whiskey in the winter as a wash so his brushes wouldn’t freeze and how to work outside in almost any weather.
“I enjoy painting small. My work fits into odd places that larger paintings don’t and I like concentrating all that color like a jewel into one little spot.”
A Maine native, Thomas grew up in York Harbor and now resides in Naples. He is a graduate of the New England Conservatory in Boston. He is self-taught and has been painting for over 30 years.
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Monday, August 21st, 2006
About the Artist :: Bob Maurer
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Bob Maurer has been painting watercolors for thirty years and enjoys the medium and its spontaneity and freshness. His painting style has been influenced by the California Tonalists and the feeling of mood those early twentieth century artists were able to create. Interested in capturing a mood in his paintings, Bob says the actual objects in the scene often act more as a backdrop for the atmospheric effects he wants to achieve.
One of Bob’s favorite subjects is architecture. His interest in architecture began to emerge at about the age of 9 when he was impressed by the vocal and often newsworthy Frank Lloyd Wright near the end of Frank Lloyd Wright’s life. Bob’s love of older architectural styles led to a six year project of producing ink drawings of dozens of local landmarks for the Canton, Ohio Preservation Society. His paintings and drawings of buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places hang in the collections of Hillary Clinton, Ohio Governor Bob Taft, and numerous other elected officials across the country.
Old cars, trucks, boats and bicycles also catch his attention. He says that he has often gotten himself in trouble by being compelled to haul a special old relic home with him to care for it, but now has learned to be content to simply paint it where it lies.
After a thirty year career as an urban planner in Ohio, Bob is now a full time artist. His works are in many private, corporate and public collections across the country.
Bob is a Roycroft Renaissance Artisan, associated with the current interest in Craftsman design and bungalow architecture of the early 1900’s. The Roycroft working campus is located in East Aurora, New York, where Elbert Hubbard originally organized the Roycrofters in 1897.
He is a signature member of the Ohio Watercolor Society, one of the top watercolor groups in the country; and has qualified as a lifetime member of the Whiskey Painters of America, with a limited membership of 200 watercolorists who use whiskey instead of water (on their brushes) in painting miniatures no larger than 4″x 5″. The group was founded in the 1950’s in Ohio and now is a national organization.
Bob travels throughout the United States sketching and taking photographs to use as resource material for new paintings.
Art Experience
- 2003 Received Award of Merit, Ohio Watercolor Society Exhibition
- 2001 Ohio Governor Bob Taft is presented with one of my watercolors from Stark County judges
- 2001 Official artist for the Wm. McKinley 100th Anniversary Inaugural Celebration, McKinley Museum
2000 Solo Exhibit, Massillon Museum
- 1999 Hillary Clinton is presented with one of my watercolors from the National First Ladies Library
- 1999 “Courthouse Snow” one of my watercolors is purchased for the permanent collection of the North Canton Little Art Gallery
- 85-89 Owned, Operated Centre Gallery, North Canton, Ohio
- 82-88 Official Artist for the Canton Preservation Society
Memberships
- OWS Ohio Watercolor Society
- RRA Roycroft Renaissance Artisan
- WPA Whiskey Painters of America
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Monday, August 21st, 2006
About the Artist :: Wayne Hall
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All of my rustic furniture work begins in the woods where the trees are. The patterns of growth and spatial relationships inform all the designs I work out in the studio. Although comfort and structural integrity are important in my work, the purpose is artistic.
The rustic furniture style gives me permission to work in the woods as an artist. This work is exciting, mysterious and playful to me, as nearly all creative work, however important or sophisticated, still feels like play to the engaged artist.
I want my pieces to evoke some of the vitality, mystery and sometimes serenity of the out-of-doors for those who encounter and live with them.
Nearly all my work is made of red maple saplings and twigs, using strong mortise and tenon joinery. Dowels, pegs, bronze nails and screws may be used to attach small pieces and enhance structural integrity.
Trees for peeled work are cut in the spring when the sap is flowing and bark slips off cleanly. I cut wood in the winter to retain the bark; the sap is down and adhesion is greatest.
Watco Danish Oil provides a finish requiring only damp wiping to clean, although wax or polish may be applied for more sheen if desired. Cotton shaker tape seats are cushioned with foam for comfort.
Maple is not known for decay resistance; my work is recommended for indoor use unless a weather resistant finish is requested on commission. Then a covered porch should provide enough protection if the finish is maintained and exposure limited.
My pieces are one-of-a-kind works carefully designed and crafted by hand. Only a limited number can be produced each year. Treated as you would any fine furniture, these pieces should last indefinitely; they may even become heirlooms or tomorrow’s antiques.
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Monday, August 21st, 2006
About the Artist :: Ken Peterson
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“I feel fortunate to have the opportunity to work with hot glass. It’s been my path for the exploration of my identity as an artist, an American artist who is half Japanese and half Caucasian. Growing up surfing in Hawaii, I spent a lot of time in the ocean. I loved the water, and how it moved. I found that if I flowed with the water, surfing went smoothly, but if I became stiff and lost my fluidity, I would lose control. Hot glass is like the ocean. It takes a fluid touch. Whenever I shape a piece of glass, I feel like I have a little piece of hot molten ocean in my hands. Being able to create forms, vibrant colors, and optical illusions from a liquid has fascinated me from the moment I was first exposed to the glass blowing process. Since then I’ve been in love, and completely hooked.
I had the unique opportunity to go to one of the only high schools in the nation with a hot glass studio. It was at Punahou School on the island of Oahu that Hugh Jenkins first put a blowpipe in my hands. I spent a year there in an excellent program learning the basics and trying to figure out how to work with this strange and tricky material. I wasn’t ready to give up blowing glass after graduating from high school in 1995. So when I found I could study both art and engineering at Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, I couldn’t resist and came to California. Here I met the interesting glass-sculpting professor, George Jerich. George made me look at glass from a different direction. I’ve also been blessed since 1998 with the opportunity to apprentice under Carle Radke at Phoenix studios in Harmony, California. Carl, who is a master of Tiffany style Art Nouveau glass, taught me techniques that have been essential to the development of my color application and approach to blowing. All of my present work is made at Phoenix Studios. During the summer of 2001 I studied off hand solid sculpting from the Italian Maestro Dino Rosin, at Pilchuck, near Seattle, Washington. This had opened the door to a whole new world of possibilities. I’ve been lucky in that I’ve always been able to design my own pieces. The process of concocting an image in my mind and making that image reality through a piece of molten glass keeps me continually excited about my work. From the first time I touched hot glass to now, glass has become my main passion in life. I am lucky to have been at the right places at the right times. If all goes well, my exploration will continue.
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Monday, August 21st, 2006
About the Artist :: John Lufty-Balzer (“Johnny B”)
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A sculpture as well a teacher, Johnny B’s Tumbled Stone Sculptures actually began as a garden experiment inspired by a friend. The bases are typically Deer Isle granite, which is used in buildings around the country. They have been sawn, ground, chiseled and flame-treated to their present shapes. The tumbled stones have been carried as much as half a mile from beaches, road sides and quarries in Maine and New Brunswick (the colored stones being from Canada). All are shaped by the action of the water. Some are shaped by glacial rivers created by receding glaciers 10,000 years ago. They are all uniquely beautiful granites, colored mostly by various feldspars.
Once the major tumbled stone is chosen, the rest of the sculpture builds itself. It determines the shape and size of the base and then all the other stones. Each sculpture is built free standing without shims. Every stone is marked, drilled, pinned and the sculpture reassembled. Each pin is glued with high grade silicon caulk on top of each stone to prevent water damage during the winter.
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Saturday, August 19th, 2006
About the Artist :: Barbara R. Traficonte
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“I paint “en plein air” and also in my studio. Since studying with Albert Handell, if I am painting a landscape or seascape, I work a little differently than I used to. I now try to start a painting on site; work it until the light changes too much, taking pictures with my camera every 30 minutes or so, and then take it back to my studio and finish it, using my photos if I feel the need. I then let it sit for some time and keep evaluating it and changing it, if necessary. This is a slower process and I feel it has helped me to refine my painting. There is always the danger of overworking a piece this way, but I think in the end it has helped me to be a better artist.
“I have also a different view of what my paintings should be. I want the viewer to feel what I felt when I painted the painting. If should say something about the day and mood; about the light and color; and about me as the painter. The painting need not be sweet or pretty, but should be a well composed, strong painting which makes the viewer want to look at it.
“Finally, although I enjoy painting still lifes and do at times, I am particularly inspired by and attracted to the flowers and landscapes of Maine in all their seasons. I love to paint and though I am a certified picture framer in my everyday life, I do make time to create a painting as often as is possible. There is a group of four women with whom I paint. We travel far and wide trying to find the perfect spot, with the perfect light and the perfect feel to paint. It is the joy of life.”
Barbara loves to create with pastels on Wallis paper, and archival acid-free material. She resides in Norway, Maine.
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Saturday, August 19th, 2006
About the Artist :: Cynthia Morse
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Cynthia considers herself to be a landscape/seascape artist, finding trees in particular to be fascinating. She attributes this title to the fact that she is most interested in the special, dramatic quality of light. She finds her best time to paint is early in the morning or just before sunset. She feels this is when the colors in the landscape are most vivid and shapes take on a boldness that is not as noticeable during mid day.
Although she works in a variety of media, she prefers pastels because she can select from a wide range of colors. She likes the directness of choosing colors instead of mixing them and the expressiveness of gestural drawing that can be obtained only with pastel. Cynthia was born here in Maine and lived here most of her life. Her paintings, which she generally sketches on site, and then finishes in the studio, are all inspired by the Maine landscape.
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Saturday, August 19th, 2006
About the Artist :: Nancy Lovley
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Nancy Lee Lovley, artist, creative painter, and floral designer, brings to her pastel portraiture sensitivity, and intuition about the creative process. Born in New England, and a resident of Maine for over twenty years, Nancy is represented in collections throughout New England, the United States, and Canada.
Nancy’s focus is on pastel portraiture, having refined and mastered the medium for thirty years. “The medium of pastel, with its variety of colors, its ability to be easily blended on the surface of the paper, or board, is perfect for me. With it, I can create the color nuances so critical to portraiture, and the skin tones. The medium captures light and shadow contrast, and is wonderful for adding depth of textures to my work.”
Underlying, and guiding her technical work, is the desire to elevate the viewers’ consciousness to the beauty and harmony of mankind, as God’s highest creation.
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Saturday, August 19th, 2006
h2. About the Artist :: Gudrun Kiefer Tarr
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Gudrun Kiefer Tarr, painter and long-time art educator, was born in Germany and studied fine art at the prestigious Kunstakademie Dusseldorf and in the United States at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where she received a University Fellowship, and at the University of Maine. In addition to heading the art department of the Bangor school system, she has served as a model art curriculum consultant to a number of school districts and was the recipient of the 1993 “Distinguished Service Award” of the Maine College of Art. Her accomplishments were recognized in feature articles in the Bangor Daily News and in an article, “A Mixture of Discipline and Freedom”, which appeared in the University of Maine Magazine.
Living on the Maine coast overlooking Penobscot Bay, and sailing the Maine waters during the summer months, Gudrun’s work reflects her ongoing fascination with the ever-changing and mysterious interaction of light, ocean, and land. On the water, the constant of a horizon in the seemingly infinite space becomes a very special visual focus, as is evident in much of her work.
This painter’s primary focus is the reinterpretation and translation of the tangible and real into something more spiritual and metaphysical, reducing subject matter to its minimum and using color as a means of setting an emotional visual stage, not telling the viewers what to see, but rather inviting them to see for themselves.
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Saturday, August 19th, 2006
About the Artist :: Janis H. Sanders
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Expressive Intention
Salt air, salt spray, sweet smell of summer grass, verdant marsh, an old house at the water’s edge, wind in your hair, sun on your face.
These elements draw me outdoors, to the grassy dunes of Truro, the calm marshes of the North Shore, to the rugged cliffs of Maine.
Many of my paintings are done “en plein air”, a method introduced in the mid-1800’s by Boudin and other French artists, and pursued vigorously by the Impressionists, a name coined by an art critic in response to Claude Monet’s work, Impression, Sunrise, 1872.
Each of my works is done as spontaneously as possible, with only minimal blocking in of forms.
I begin each painting with the sky, to me the most important element.
The sky IS light, some days slightly purple, sometimes hazy cream, clear aqua, rosy, peach, celadon; we are immersed in it. Sky is the key to determine the entire atmosphere of the painting, and visually and practically provide the backdrop for the other objects in view.
My self-assigned task for each work, is to convey the ethereal ‘thing’ of light in paint, as the sun casts its breath on the world.
I paint vigorously, expressively, physically, applying paint with a palette knife in blocks/area of color, smoothing/blending minimally to keep the paint fresh and say the essence of the ‘thing’.
I take tremendous joy in the attempt, and the subsequent sharing of the result with you.
Thank you for looking, sharing the experience.
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Friday, August 18th, 2006
About the Artist :: Eugene Quinn
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In the tradition of the tonalists, the luminists, and the artist-travelers of the Victorian age, Eugene’s work conveys truth and beauty found in the natural world. He paints outdoors in all seasons rendering particular places at a particular moment, be they grand or simple, in lands far away or on the street where he lives, moved by experiences foreign and familiar.
Eugene earned degrees in Fine Art and Art History at Providence College all the while pursuing his interests in science and architecture. Then after years of part time study at The Art Students League and The New York School of Visual Arts, he learned essential technical training in traditional painting from John Osborne at The Ridgewood Art Institute.
He spends the summer months in Maine on the road painting and showing his work. When he isn’t traveling with his easel he is on Cape Ann, a coastal community of fisherman and creative types with a great tradition of American oil painters.
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Friday, August 18th, 2006
About the Artist :: Aline Ordman
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Aline Ordman is influenced and inspired by the New Hampshire and Vermont environment in which she lives. Her paintings not only reflect the area landscapes, but are also inspired by the particular qualities of light and color. Her landscapes, figures and still lifes use these qualities to illuminate the human and natural worlds, to capture the beauty that radiates from a particular passing moment. A flicker of light on a shoulder, a splash of sun on a summer hat, flakes of light in a stand of maples, a shower of late afternoon sun on a hillside- these are the moments that attract her.
Aline received her BFA at Cornell University, and continued her training at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, earning a degree in Illustration. She developed an early love affair with pastels, influenced by Degas, Marie Cassatt and Berthe Morisot, as well as, by the American Impressionists John Singer Sargent and William Merritt Chase.
My goal as an artist is to find those times and places where beauty is not only evident but startling and suddenly present.
Aline has extensive background in teaching. She has more than twenty years of collective experience teaching figure drawing and pastel figures and landscapes, at the Academy of Art in San Francisco, Lebanon College in Lebanon, NH, Maryland Hall for Creative Arts, Annapolis, MD and at the Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH and AVA Gallery in Lebanon, NH.
Her work has been accepted at many national and regional juried exhibits, including solo exhibitions at Maryland Hall, Annapolis, MD (1998) and Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (2005). Aline received national distinction of being awarded *Signature Membership* status in the *Pastel Society of America*, and was honored with *The Great American Artworks Award* at the 33rd Annual juried exhibition of the Pastel Society of America in New York City in 2005. That same year she was accepted in the juried show of the Hudson Valley Art Association and received *Honorable Mention Award in Pastels*.
Her work has been featured in several magazines and on several book covers and hangs in collections throughout The United States and Europe.
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Friday, August 18th, 2006
About the Artist :: Kathleen D. Johnson
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I am an artist specializing in oil paintings of Downeast Maine and its people, especially Mount Desert Island, where I have been a resident for nineteen years.
Growing up in Maine, I loved the outdoors, the changing seasons and colors, the beautiful landscapes and coastlands, and the hard-working people.
After attending the Art Institute in Kansas City I traveled to the Southwest, where I met my future husband. We returned to Maine to start our family, and for the next seventeen years I focused on raising our two sons.
In 1987 we moved to Bar Harbor. Several years ago I resumed my painting career as a full time endeavor.
Resume
- 1973. Received a full scholarship to attend Unity College at its new art department, founded and headed by Leonard Craig.
- 1974. Won first prize in a competition at Colby College, and was awarded the Marguerite Zorach Scholarship to attend the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
- 1975. Attended the Skowhegan School on full scholarship and at the end of the nine week session was awarded the drawing prize.
- 1976-78. Attended the Kansas City Art Institute on scholarship, studying with Wilbur Niewald and Stanley Lewis, in a combination of representational and abstract disciplines.
- 1996. Entered my first juried exhibition and four paintings were chosen by the Union of Maine Visual Artists for their show of Downeast art.
- 1997. Began showing my work at the Argosy Gallery in Bar Harbor, where I have sold over 160 paintings.
- 1997. Had my first solo show, in Portland, Maine, for which I received very good reviews.
- 2001. Painting titled “Mount Desert Island Fishermen” was chosen from among 2118 nationwide entries for the Top 100 Show of the National Arts for the Parks Competition. (www.artsfortheparks.com)
- 2004. Painting chosen for top Mini 100, National Arts for the Parks
Exhibitions
- “The Painting 2″ International Juried Art Exhibition
Period Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska
Received the Director’s Award
- Salon International 2002
International Museum of Contemporary Masters of Fine Art
Greenhouse Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
- Heartland Artist’s Exhibition 2002
Merriam, Kansas
- Oil Painters of America National Show
Hilligoss Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
- The Salmagundi Club 25th annual juried art exhibition for non- members
The Salmagundi Club, 47 5th Avenue, New York, New York
- Oil Painters of America Eastern Regional Show
Richmond, Virginia
- “Small Works ” juried show, Carl Little, Juror
The Clark House Gallery, Bangor, Maine
- 2001 National Arts for the Parks Exhibit, shown in several locations around the country
- The 2003 Member’s juried exhibition, the Salmagundi Club
- 2004 National Arts for the Parks Exhibit, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
- The 2004 Member’s juried exhibition, the Salmagundi Club
- Solo Exhibition, January 2006, The Argosy Gallery in Portland, Maine
- The Acadia Invitational Show, The Argosy Gallery
- Featured artist for the month of September 2006 at the Camden Falls Gallery
Memberships
- The Salmagundi Club, 47 5th Ave., New York City
- American Women Artists, Saint Jo, Texas
- Allied Artists of America
- Oil Painters of America
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Friday, August 18th, 2006
About the Artist :: Anne Holt
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Every artist uniquely views the world around them and creates their own interpretation of it. As a painter, my intention is to capture the essence of a place. Instead of relying solely on realism, I use more expressive forms and colors to convey my own interpretation of the environment. By considering light, atmosphere and tone, I aim to portray the fundamental nature of a landscape. In this series of works, I developed a language that would clearly define the presence of the scene and communicate its impression to the viewer.
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Friday, August 18th, 2006
About the Arist :: Paul Garnett
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A native of Massachusetts, marine artist Paul Garnett is entirely self-taught. For seven years he served as the shipwright on Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s tall ship replica of the famous ‘Bounty” that was built for the 1962 production of “Mutiny on the Bounty” starring Marlon Brando.
His artwork has been featured in Nautical World Magazine, Marine Art Quarterly and Sea History Magazine. He has also had his paintings appear on A & E’s “Sea Tales”, as well as, The History Channel’s program “History’s Mysteries”. The Clinton County Historical Society in New York licensed “Battle of Valcour Island” as a poster for their recovery project on the lake where the battle took place.
Mr. Garnett’s paintings have also been featured as the covers of the trilogy by naval historian William H. White about the War of 1812 – “A Press of Canvas”, “A Fine Tops’l Breeze” and “The Evening Gun”. His latest book cover was done for “The Greater the Honor” also by Mr. White, a tale of the Barbary Wars.
The artist’s paintings have appeared in such shows as “Charlestown – Then and Now” at the Charlestown Naval Museum, “Masters and Commanders” at the Union League Club in New York City, “Art of the Boston Waterfront” at the John Stobart Gallery in Boston, as well as, in the Gallery at Mystic Seaport and the Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, NY. Mr. Garnett was the featured event artist at the America’s Sails 2002, St. Petersburg, Florida. In July 2005, Mr. Garnett was involved in the National Juried Exhibition at the 12th Annual Maritime Art Exhibition at the Coos Art Museum in Oregon.
Both the Constitution Museum in Charlestown and the Marine Museum in Fall River Massachusetts have permanent exhibits of his work. The artist is also a longtime member of the National Maritime Historical Society and a member of the International Society of Marine Painters. Mr. Garnett also accepts private commissions, working exclusively from his studio in Newtonville, Massachusetts.
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Friday, August 18th, 2006
About the Artist :: Terry Elkins
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Terry Elkins received a MFA from the University of Houston in 1978 and has lived in Bridgehampton, on the East End of Long Island, NY since 1987. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States, and is in numerous public and private collections. Terry Elkins has been the recipient of two Pollock- Krasner Foundation awards. Mr Elkins has also taught classes in “plein air” for The Parrish Art Museum, Guild Hall, and the Victor D’Amico Institute of Art. He is an active member of the Long Island Chapter of the National Lighthouse Society. He’s also been active for the last 8 years in his community as a volunteer EMT for the Bridgehampton Fire Department. Through his art, Mr. Elkins continues the tradition of Long Island’s rich heritage of landscape painters like John Frederick Kensett, William Merritt Chase, Thomas Moran, and Childe Hassam.
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Friday, August 18th, 2006
About the Artist :: Rebecca Daugherty
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“I’d have to consider my mother my earliest influence in art. I was five years old. Although I had seen her draw before, I had never seen her paint. One afternoon she climbed out my bedroom window onto the roof of the porch to do an oil painting of a mountain. I was never allowed to go out onto the roof. Fascinated, I watched her from the open window. I thought, I want to do that. I want to use little dabs of creamy colors to create a mountain. I want to sit on a roof. I decided to be a painter.”
Rebecca Daugherty began to appreciate wooden boats when she was fourteen and her family moved aboard a sailboat. “It must have been all that sanding and varnishing. It makes you look at boats very closely and learn to appreciate their lines and character.”
Rebecca’s early work reflects her interest in form and nature: the unfolding petals of a flower or leaves of an artichoke, spiraling interiors of broken shells, and rock formations of the Southwest. These images created the foundation of themes and forms that continue in her present work.
Rebecca has been exhibiting her work since 1988. She earned a BA at Goddard College with an emphasis in painting and then studied art education and printmaking at the University of Iowa.
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Friday, August 18th, 2006
About the Artist :: Guy Corriero
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Guy attended the School of Visual Arts and The Art Students League in New York City where he studied with John Groth, Earl Mayhan and Mario Cooper. He has a B.A. from C.W. Post College and a M.A. in Humanities from Hofstra University. After teaching studio as well as academic art courses on the college level from 27 years, he finally retired to paint full time but not before he was awarded The New York State Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Guy’s reputation as an excellent teacher was noticed also by Educational Videos of Huntsville, Texas where he made instructional videos entitled “Watercolor Painting Made Easy”.
“The sea in both its fury and calm has always been a fascinating subject to me. I suppose it all began as a lifeguard in Long Beach, L.I. where I spent my formative years.” As you can see most of Guy’s paintings were done on the rocks of Monhegan Island, Maine where he has painted every summer since 1970. It was upon a visit to the Grand Central Gallery in New York that he came upon Fredrick Waugh seascape painted on Monhegan Island that sparked his interest in the rocky and often dramatic coast of Maine. Painting in both watercolors and oils, Mr. Corriero feels that painting on the spot is essential to artistic development and sensitivity to the subject.
“There’s something that gets into the painting that is inexplicable but always recognizable. When painting in my studio I surround myself with plein aire paintings done on Monhegan with the intention of obtaining the same atmosphere and sense of immediacy of the smaller pieces.” Equally facile in watercolors and oils, Guy paints both indoors and out. “I think it’s interesting to note that all the watercolors that were chosen for the annual exhibition of The American Watercolor Society were painted from nature.” He explains, “You never know when a great subject is going to pop up somewhere and you just have to paint it!”
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Friday, August 18th, 2006
About the Artist :: Yves Parent
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Born in Normandy in 1941, Yves Parent was exposed to art and the sea from an early age. (His mother is an art teacher.) His university studies included law and political science; he spent several years in the French civil service, being stationed on the Island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean. Sailing and painting, however, have always been his passion. His watercolors are always with him- he painted Cape Horn on location, while crewing aboard Kriter IX, the French entry in the round the world races between 1981 and 1982. He has been a crewmember in many offshore races between 1962 and 1980. He sailed in eight Fastnet races. Single-handed Trans-Atlantic Races took him from France to the Caribbean in 1978 and 1982.
Two books of his watercolors, both out of print, were published in Paris. Currently he is contributing some material to a book titled Painting Seas, Skies, Ships and Shorelines to be published by North Light Books, specializing in art related subjects.
Mr. Parent’s works are exhibited by a number of East Coast galleries, including the prestigious Mystic Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport Museum. He is frequently commissioned to paint portraits of yachts and waterfront homes; in the past several years he has completed over fifty commissions. He is an artist member of the American Society of Marine Artists (ASMA). He conducts regular, well-attended watercolor workshops which he can conduct in French and English. In the past he has painted and exhibited coastal scenes in France, England, Bermuda and St. Martin, in addition to the United States.
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