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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
“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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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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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.