Faculty
Rotem Amizur, Painting
Rotem Amizur was born in New York and currently lives and works in Israel. She graduated from the Jerusalem Studio School Master Class in 2013. In 2009 and 2010, she participated in the Italy Master Class Programs instructed by Israel Hershberg, Stuart Shils and Ken Kewley. Rotem has taught painting and collage since 2014 and has given numerous workshops in Israel and the US. She is represented by Rothschild Fine Art Gallery, Tel Aviv. Rotem has received the Henrion Award for painting from the Hampstead Art Society in London, and her work is part of the permanent collection at the Israeli Presidential Residency and private collections around the world.
David Baird, Painting
David Baird began studying painting at the Ryder Studio School in Santa Fe, NM , the Art Students League, NY and Studio Escalier, FR. While studying overseas, he has benefitted from extensive exposure to some of Europe’s greatest works of art. Since 2015 he has participated in the Jerusalem Studio School Master Class program in both Civita Castellana, Italy, and Jerusalem, Israel, and was the recipient of the Avigdor Arikha Memorial Scholarship in 2019. David also travelled broadly teaching drawing and painting in the US, Australia, and Europe.
Garin Baker, Painting
Born in 1961 in New York City, Garin Baker was raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. With a strong focus on working from life his realism combines an expressive nature showing a passionate engagement with a variety of contemporary subjects including large New York cityscapes filled with bustling people to spacious rural landscapes reminiscent of the Hudson River School of Painting. To his credits are numerous gallery exhibitions and national awards. He's also an instructor, teaching life painting and drawing at the prestigious and world renowned Art Students League in New York City.
In addition, Garin Baker runs a Public Art Mural Company, which offers apprenticeships and workshops to students and artist an opportunities to work professionally and improve their craft. Completed Public Art Projects include Murals in Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, DC, New York and Helsingor, Denmark.
His work has been a featured in American Artist, Fine Art Connoisseur & Plein Air Magazine as well as many other national and international publications in print and online.
Garin Baker's Studio Gallery offers collectors and art connoisseurs alike an opportunity to visit and purchase in person or online from a wide selection of small plein air studies, figurative works and large studio paintings as well as prints and drawings.
As relevant then as it is today. "The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it." Baudelaire “On the Heroism of Modern Life”, The Salon of 1846.
Bettina Bauer, Painting
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Bettina Bauer is an Argentinian figurative painter whose work is characterized by an intense and restrained expressiveness, and autobiographical elements of her daily life.
She graduated from the National School of Fine Arts “Prilidiano Pueyrredón”, and also specialized in Visual Arts, from the National Institute of Arts.
Jacqueline Barnett, Drawing
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Jacqueline Barnett studied for four years at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, receiving a certificate in sculpture. She also studied with Oliver Grimley and Milton Glaser, receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania and a teaching degree from the University of the Arts. Jacqueline has taught in the Philadelphia Public School for twenty-three years and has been monitoring workshops at The Philadelphia Sketch Club for ten years. Jacqueline is currently sculpting reliefs and participating in exhibitions across Philadelphia.
Yonatan Becker, Painting
I am a Tel Aviv-based painter born in Israel.
I’ve been painting since childhood, but also attended art schools.
I graduated from the Jerusalem Studio School in 2013, while studying with Israel Hershberg in the JSS programme in Italy. In Sienna I also studied with painters Stuart Shils and Ken Kewely.
My exhibition record includes venues in Israel and Europe.
Pamela K. Beer, Painting
Pam initiated her artistic journey approximately 35 years ago, commencing with the delicate nuances of watercolor and the vibrancy of acrylics. A self-taught artist, she honed her craft under the guidance of various art masters.
Initially drawn to representational art with a whimsical twist on life, Pam later found her artistic voice in the realm of abstract expression.
Her artistic evolution unfolded with the aid of oil and cold wax medium, leading to the emergence of her distinctive personal style evident in her current body of work. Each abstract piece she crafts serves as a visual narrative, reflecting the natural beauty of her Montana surroundings and encapsulating the tapestry of her life experiences. Through intricate layers of opaque and transparent paint, Pam masterfully captures the essence of life's chaos, weaving it into a narrative imbued with a sense of serenity and hope.
Peter Beeson, Painting
Peter Beeson was born in London and now lives in St Ives, Cornwall. His paintings can be found in collections worldwide, he has participated in many solo and group exhibitions and has been a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
Peter Beeson’s work has been noted for its light-filled textural surface and a quiet approach. Early European painting technology is rediscovered as a key element in the depiction of contemporary subjects. Self-made and found materials in the forms of soft pastel, natural temperas and oil paint, are used to realize the atmospheric weight of a particular moment.
Natalie Bird, Painting
Natalie is an artist who paints in oils and pastel. Her aim is to create atmospheric paintings, based on good observation, conveying an honest connection to a place she has recently visited. Nature is her primary guide. She is half Scottish so she draws much inspiration from Scottish landscapes. Her subjects are the landscape and still life.
She sketches and paints as much as possible from life, “en plein air,” and then works further on paintings back in the studio, relying on recent studies, memories and notes.
Instead of going to art school, she decided to study art history and architecture at university. Having worked full time for the NHS over many years, in 2023 she reduced her working hours in order to focus more on her love of painting. She is therefore mainly self-taught in drawing and painting, but has attended many courses over the years, aided by books, podcasts, the internet, trial, error, patience and practice and more practice!
She takes inspiration from many artists, the main ones being the impressionists/post-impressionists, the Scottish Colourists, Seago and Singer Sargent. A modern inspirational hero is the late Ken Howard.
She is married and lives in South West London near imbledon Common. She has been selected on a number of occasions to exhibit at the Mall Galleries, such as the New English Art Club and the Royal Society of British Artists, and has also had a painting accepted for the RA summer exhibition.
Lizzie Black, Painting
Artist Lizzie Black lives in the far West of Cornwall in a small fishing village.
She comes from a family of artists and was taught to paint in oils by her father Bernard Evans, a well known landscape artist and teacher.
After a formal training in Fine Art at Universities in Falmouth and Bristol she went on to work alongside her father at his painting school teaching plein air painting. She paints plein air in her local fishing village and surrounding area.
During lockdown of 2020 when restrictions were in place Lizzie found herself unable to go out painting into the village and began to paint from her home.
‘I have a wonderful collection of antique china and glass so I began to choreograph my own scenes on a table in the garden.’
These became her popular Garden Series and they have evolved since then.
‘Sometimes I add fruit or teatime treats and I like to create a story behind the picture, to take the viewer somewhere else: escaping into another nostalgic world.’
Lizzie Black exhibits her work in Cornwall and the UK. Lizzie is currently building an international reputation with works in art collections in the US, Europe and Australia.
She has exhibited with the Royal Institute of Oil Painters at the Mall Galleries in London for the past three years and recently received the Dry Press Award for one of he garden studies.
She has taught online classes and workshops in the UK and takes students on plein air trips in her local area.
Richard Blades, Painting
Richard was born in 1978 and raised in East Anglia. His passion for painting began whilst living in Cornwall in his mid-twenties, working under the influence of professional painters based in the Rame Peninsula. Although academically trained, obtaining a BA in Fine Art from the University of Plymouth, Richard regards himself as a self-taught painter. Having grown up in East Anglia, much of Richard’s work is based on and inspired by the skies and landscapes of the area but having traveled widely, his paintings take on a universal quality. Along with the landscape, he is also a still-life painter, fascinated by the quiet corners of studios and how light falls upon objects and plants. Richard, who recently moved to Norfolk after a decade in London, says of his work
“I am primarily an expressive landscape painter working in the English Romantic tradition. I feel a deep connection to the landscape and the artists who also chose the sky, sea, and land as their sources of inspiration. Turner, Constable, Seago, Daubigney, and Courbet are my personal favourites. The gaps between generations and hundreds of years matter little. Regardless of what has changed in this world, the technological advancements, and societal shifts, the landscape is always there, as something eternal, the ever-changing muse, always present, yet never the same. ”
Richard’s work is regularly exhibited in Cornwall and London and is held in private collections, both in the UK and abroad.
James Bland, Painting
James Bland received his BA with honors First Class in Fine Art from Canterbury Christchurch University in 2003 and his MA in Fine Art from Canterbury Christchurch University in 2005. Bland was the first prize winner of The Winsor & Newton Oil Painters Awards at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 2013. In January 2015, he was elected a member of the New English Art Club, a London-based exhibiting society, based at the Mall Galleries. He currently lives in London, England.
James Bland is a figurative artist who enjoys the surprises and the surrender of control that oil painting offers. Memory, folklore, and dreams are the main subjects of his work and his paintings offer tantalizing glimpses of narratives alongside the rigorously-observed depictions of light and form. Bland’s work incorporates diverse approaches to style and subject, but is grounded in the practice of drawing and painting from life. His aim is always to find something surprising in the subject. Though some of his paintings are done quickly, most spend a long time in the studio looking for the right element, pose or composition. The paintings will be cut down, re-stretched, scraped back and painted over while Bland tries to work out what they need- some kind of surprise seems essential.
Billie Bourgeois, Painting
Bourgeois was born in New Orleans, Louisiana during WWII., the oldest of six children, each of whom are musicians or artists. Growing up with stifling humidity, rich cuisine, and a strong experience of family created the unique environment for nurturing creative fluency. Her spiritual upbringing planted within her a sense of the sacred and mystical and provided fertile ground for an already natural instinct for art.
For Bourgeois there must be a relationship between form and content. She is always concerned with the composition and formal aspects of the work, balanced with subjects derived from nature and intuition. She is most at home with suggestions of gesture and strong personal mark making. Her goal is response to the subject, not so much representation.
Catherine Bobkoski, Painting
Catherine Bobkoski is a still-life and figurative artist whose work celebrates the quiet beauty of ordinary things. Her expressive, yet delicate paintings of flowers and still life scenes are exhibited nationally, including at the Oil Painters of America 2021 National Juried Exhibition.
Catherine also enjoys sharing her knowledge and love of painting with others. She is a sought-after painting instructor with over 10 years of experience and teaches at many art schools throughout Southern California. Students describe Catherine’s teaching style as generous, thorough, and joyful. She especially enjoys teaching painting and drawing basics to students in a clear, concise way that is easy to understand.
Catherine began studying drawing and painting at The Watts Atelier in Encinitas, California, and later at Grand Central Academy and New York University in New York City. She has also studied with many inspiring artists along the way, including Daniel Keys, Dustin Van Wechel, and Vadim Zang.
Lon Brauer, Painting
Lon Brauer is an American artist known for his work in figure and plein-air landscapes. He has a BFA from Washington University and an MFA from Fontbonne University – both in St. Louis, Missouri.
My work is representational but does not rely on the literal. I look for things that I’ve never seen before within the ordinary; and, I look for that which I think will live within the broad world of art-making with some relevance. It’s the editing process that dictates whether something hits the wall or not. I drive my paintings only to a point. I let the work itself have a hand in the final result. There are certain visuals that excite me, primarily within figuration - be it figure, landscape, or still life themes. I see the making of a painting as having two aspects – the subject, and the mechanics. I’m enamored with how paint moves on the surface. I use brushes of course but also try my hand with sandpaper, serrated knives, sticks, rags, and whatever may give me an interesting mark. The mark-making describes not only the subject and form of the painting in a sculptural way but it also lends credence to the hand of the painter. My hands are all over my work in some way or another.’
Brauer has shown his work both nationally and overseas. He holds signature membership with the Oil Painters of America, the American Impressionist Society, the Outdoor Painters Society, and the American Society of Marine Artists. He travels extensively with top plein air events each season. When home, he is in the studio painting and sculpting. He holds frequent workshops where he teaches drawing and painting through figurative themes. Lon Brauer Studios is in Granite City, IL where Lon lives with his partner, quillwork artist Djuana Tucker.
Anne Blair Brown, Painting
Anne Blair Brown was born in North Kingstown, Rhode Island and raised in in Nashville, TN where she currently resides. Her work centers on intimate scenes inspired by local surroundings as well as travel in the US and abroad.
“My artwork starts in reality and evolves through my imagination. As an impressionist, I believe in a painting process that enables me to tap into my creativity rather than trying to copy and perfect. My goal is to invite you, the viewer, to connect to the painting such that you personalize the experience and use your own imagination to complete the story.”
Currently, Anne’s work can be seen at art galleries across America including Provincetown, MA, Kennebunkport, ME, Charleston, SC, Bluffton, SC, and Leipers Fork, TN.
She is a Master Member of The American Impressionist Society and Signature Member of The Oil Painters of America. She is the Past President of the Plein Air Painters of the Southeast (PAP-SE) and remains active in the group. She is also an active member of The Chestnut Group, a nonprofit group of artists dedicated to preserving endangered ecosystems, historic locales, and aesthetically and environmentally significant places.
Hillary Butterworth, Painting
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Hillary is a representational painter whose work explores portraiture in the digital age. As a teacher, she believes in providing the tools for students to capture emotion and atmosphere in their work. Her method begins by using abstract, gestural marks to represent a subject's essence, then slowly building toward representational accuracy. She emphasizes the importance of understanding your medium and developing a technique that embraces the material’s natural qualities. With this approach, students learn to delve deeper into their subject matter, develop their artistic voice, and create drawings that are both technically proficient and emotionally resonant.
Lynne Campbell, Painting
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Lynne Campbell is a Philadelphia painter. She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she was awarded the William Emlen Cresson Memorial Travel Scholarship, enabling her to spend a summer of study in Europe. Lynne also received three consecutive painting fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, one of which she used to study Archaic and Classical sculpture in Greece. Her work has been exhibited across the country and has been published in the national periodical New American Paintings (nos. 27, 39, and 63). She has taught painting at The Hussian School of Art; Cheltenham Center for the Arts; and Cathedral Village. Lynne is represented by Morpeth Contemporary.
Carol Carter, Painting
Carol Carter is an internationally renowned American artist whose work has been exhibited in six countries and published worldwide. She has won numerous international prizes for her work.
She received her MFA from Washington University, St. Louis.
She was awarded a MAA-NEA Fellowship in Painting and Works on Paper in 1994. Voted Best St. Louis Artist by The Riverfront Times in 2000.
The US Embassy sponsored a solo exhibition of her work at the Teatro del Centro de Arte, in Guayaquil, Ecuador in 2003.
She was Artist-in-Residence for the Everglades National Park [AIRE] in 2010. She developed the Everglades Series exhibition based on this study.
In 2011, she participated in ArtPrize in Grand Rapids, MI at 5/3 Bank as well as, Watercolor USA, Springfield, MO. Two watercolors were chosen for the Montenegro Embassy collection for 2019-2023.
In 2019, WILD THINGS was held at the Shrode Center for Artin Mt. Vernon, IL curated by Carrie Gibbs.
She was guest artist and symposium speaker for the American Women Artists Symposium at the Steamboat Springs Art Museum, Steamboat Springs CO in 2019.
She has lectured on “How to Make a Living as an Artist” in three venues in 2019.
OSF Health Care, Crate and Barrel, and Soft Surroundings recently added her to their public collection.
She has been published in many magazines and books internationally.
She has taught in France, Norway, Ecuador, Hong Kong, and the US Virgin Islands. She teaches watercolor from coast to coast in the United States.
Carter was elected Master Signature Member of American Women Artists and Heartland Art Club, St. Louis, MO in 2019. She received the Snehil Lifetime Achievement Award, Snehilsrijan, India.
Carter received the Woman in the Arts Recognition Award, National Society of Daughters of American Revolution in 2021.
Ms. Carter’s work is represented in many public and private art collections.
Lynne Cartlidge, Painting
Lynne Cartlidge was born in New Zealand in 1964. Her family returned to the UK in 1967 and settled in Cornwall which is where Lynne spent her formative years. She did her Foundation Diploma in Art at Falmouth Art School and a Degree in Fine Art at Cardiff College of Art, graduating in 1987.
Since then, she has lived in Cardiff, Wales. She retains strong links with Cornwall, which continues to influence her work.
She was elected a member of the Royal Cambrian Academy for the Arts in Wales in 2017.
Lynne has developed her own interpretation of still life subjects, absorbing the influence of both the 20th Century artists connected with Cornwall and French Post-Impressionism.
Further details, including galleries that show Lynne’s work, can be found at her website.
Giovanni Casadei, Alla Prima Still-Life Painting
I was born and raised in Rome, Italy. From 1978 to 1983 I studied under the artist Alfonso Avanessian, a renowned artist in Rome and Italy. On December 1, 1983, I arrived in Philadelphia. At the age of 27, I started the biggest adventure of my life — to be an artist. In 1988, I enrolled in a four year certificate program at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. I began to take classes with Seymour Remenick, who became my mentor and friend for the last ten years of his life. Since 1993 in the last 27 years I have been showing and selling my work nationally in Philadelphia PA, Wilmington DE, New York NY, Atlanta GA, San Francisco CA, Laguna Beach CA. Currently showing in Philadelphia PA, Wilmington De, New York NY galleries. Since 1997, I have been teaching painting at various art centers in the Philadelphia area. I also was a guest teacher in Italy for painting workshops. I enjoy teaching and sharing my knowledge and experiences from my studio and as an en plein air painter with my students. I have found teaching to be inspiring, challenging, and creative.
Gillian Cavoto, Painting
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Gillian Cavoto is a fine artist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is a graduate from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and former visiting artist at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Gillian loves to be outdoors and surrounded by nature. She gets outside whenever she can, and loves all the surprises she finds every time she's able to get out there. Her work is almost exclusively inspired by nature, and she loves to get familiar with her subjects when painting them. Gillian believes that's a great way to learn every detail about something, to study it for a piece of art, you'll notice everything. She works predominantly in watercolor, and is now living in Georgia, where she continues to make art in her home studio.
Roger Chavez, Landscape and Master Copy Workshops
Roger Chavez places his practice as a form of philosophical investigation by beginning with his subject matter as a point of departure. Serving as a motif, the immediate accessibility of his subject allows him to scrutinize the objects, their shadows, shapes, and space they occupy. He begins with a focus on the same subject over a stretch of time and his subject arrangement rarely changing. His questions elicit responses to how we see the same source differently in time, forming a repository of works of extended trials. The works are open to interpretations and simultaneously giving auras of timelessness, mortality, and identity.
Roger Chavez has had solo exhibitions at the Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, PA, Gross McCleaf Gallery and Rosenfeld Gallery in Philadelphia. He is represented by Stanek Gallery in Philadelphia. Selected group shows include Ballinglen Museum of Contemporary Art- Ireland, Woodmere Art Museum-Philadelphia, Hopkins House for the Contemporary Arts- New Jersey, and Cacciola Gallery, New York. His projects and research have been supported by a Franz and Virginia Bader Foundation grant, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, The Pollock Krasner Foundation, The Vermont Studio Center, and a Serge Sacknoff Prize. Chavez received his MFA from American University, Washington D.C. and completed the Certificate program at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.
Robin Cheers, Painting
Robin’s work is about connection – connection to the world and to one another. She is driven by a passionate desire to capture the beauty of often-overlooked moments of daily life. Capturing life with colorful, painterly brushwork which lends to the feeling of the fleeting moments she is recreating, her work invites viewers to be mindful and aware of the gift of being in the moment.
Since beginning drawing lessons at age 7, Robin has worked in creative pursuits in some form ever since. Earning her B.A. from Virginia Tech, Robin worked in graphic arts and web design for a decade. Serious fine art study at Austin Fine Art Classes with Elizabeth Locke and other mentors set her on the path to success when she became a full-time fine artist in 2000. Robin is an active member of the Austin art community, teaching online and local painting classes and workshops. Her instructional video “Brushwork Secrets Unleashed” is available from Streamline Art Video. She is a signature member of the American Impressionist Society and artist member of the Oil Painters of America, National Oil and Acrylic Painters, and the Austin Visual Arts Association. Robin is a founding member of Plein Air Austin and has won awards of excellence in both plein air competitions and juried art shows. Her work is collected worldwide.
Ellina Chetverikova, Painting
Ellina Chetverikova was born in Severodonetsk, Ukraine. She had developed a fascination with drawing and painting at a very young age. After completing music and art school in Ukraine one of her biggest dreams was to study and live in the United States. She came to the USA to study at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, OH which she completed in 2012 with BFA and Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, completed in 2014 with MFA. Throughout the years Ellina had taught at the Art academy of Cincinnati, Rochester Institute of Technology, and at DAAP University of Cincinnati. Ellina received an honor of completing a one-year Residency at the Manifest Gallery and Drawing center where she taught private and group classes in 2017. She was awarded Jentel Artist Residency in Wyoming, in the early 2020. Ellina has exhibited her work around Europe and the United States.
Mashiul Chowdhury, Drawing
Mashiul Chowdhury is a Philadelphia-based artist and an alumnus of Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts (PAFA). He is a member of the Philadelphia Sketch Club. Mashiul Chowdhury was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He grew up and went to medical school in Bangladesh, and immigrated to the US in his late 20s.
After a stint of research and completing residency and fellowship in infectious diseases , Mashiul pursued academic career as an associate professor of medicine in Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia . Mashiul started to attend alumni figure drawing session at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia (PAFA) in 2002.
Mashiul’s work is inspired and shaped by Western art in the last century. Most but not all of these masters are Western. He is driven primarily by abstract art. He has been particularly attracted and inspired by the work of Anton Tapies, Pablo Picasso, Cy Twombly, Willem de Kooning, Stuart Shills, Bruce Samuelson, Jogen Choudhury and Rabindranath Tagore. In his drawings, he draws inspiration from older masters like Michelangelo, Rafael, Peter Paul Rubens and Edgar Degas.
Mashiul dabbled in art when he was in college. This was primarily commercial, derivative art like designing posters, book and magazine covers. While in college in Bangladesh, he was part of an exhibit of hand-drawn political posters of three artists that drew national acclaim.
After he moved to the US and honed his skills as an artist, he has participated in several exhibits. This includes participation at juried art exhibits at Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Cerulean Art Gallery, Blink Art Gallery as well as solo exhibits at various commercial art galleries and art centers in Philadelphia and its suburb.
Mashiul has huge followers in social media and they regularly participate in his national and international workshop. With medical science background, physician Mashiul masters his ability to teach figure drawing with great clarity of anatomy to his students.
Elliot Clausen, Painting
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Elliot Clausen holds an MFA in painting from Indiana University and a BFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Elliot’s work has been exhibited worldwide, and he has been awarded several grants in support of his painting practice, including the Elizabeth Greenshields Grant. Elliot has taught numerous painting and drawing classes to students of various backgrounds and skill levels. Elliot currently lives and works in Minneapolis, MN.
Colette Clegg, Painting
Colette Clegg is an Irish artist based and working in the UK. She studied at Limerick School of Art. After several years in the IT industry she started painting seriously in 2003. She took several short courses with painters from New English Art Club including Jason Bowyer, SalliAnn Putman, Tom Coates, David Parfitt and Karn Holly. She has painted with David Tress in the Scottish Highlands. More recently she has been taking courses with Nicholas Wilton, Karen Stamper, Emily Ball, Katie Sollohub and Liz Hough.
Colette seeks to make the ordinary, extraordinary, each painting an emotional response to the world around her. She returns to the same subject over and over – semi-abstract landscapes, still life, fish, female forms, horses and animals.
She exhibits regularly with the New English Art Club, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Society of Women Artists, Surrey Artists Open Studios. She was awarded the People’s Choice Award from the Artist Magazine for her entry in the David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year 2020.
She sells her work through the Russell Gallery, London and Nadia Waterfield Fine Art in Hampshire.
Cathleen Cohen, Painting
Cathleen Cohen was the 2019 Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, PA. A graduate of PAFA’s certificate program, Cathleen is a poet, painter and teacher who created the We the Poets program to encourage students’ creativity and literacy (www.theartwell.org.) Her painting and poetry often inspire each other. Poems appear in many literary journals and her three book collections: Camera Obscura (Moonstone Press), Etching the Ghost (Atmosphere Press) and Sparks and Disperses (Cornerstone Press). Her paintings are on view at Cerulean Arts Gallery (www.ceruleanarts.com)
Adam Cohn, Painting
Education:
12 Years Waldorf school
2003-2007, Jerusalem Studio School (Israel Hershberg)
2004-2006, JSS Summer Program, Italy
2010-2011, New York - studying sculpture with Jonathan Shan
Teaching:
2012 - present- teaching at-Hatahana School for Painting and Drawing, Tel Aviv
2012-2014, teacher at Avni Inst. Tel Aviv
Valerie Collymore, Painting
A highly experienced, passionate, and sought-after instructor specializing in the French Impressionist Tradition of Oil Painting and the Science in Art, Valerie is known for her clear explanations, thorough preparation for all lectures and demos, and rare niche information about painting in the style of the French Impressionists.
As a former physician, Valerie uses the science in art to bring you lasting understanding and skills, from the physics of paint manipulation, the chemistry of color mixing, the mathematics of composition, and the psychology of joyful perseverance and resilient growth as an artist.
Clients enjoy a consistently warm, supportive, and positive learning environment while being gently pushed forward to achieve new levels.
Valerie is also an award-winning artist with a record of successful solo gallery exhibits.
Miguel Coronado, Painting
Miguel Coronado was born in Madrid in 1972. He graduated in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid.
He is considered one of the best painters of his generation.Very soon he began to show his work in the Spanish art galleries. After achieving his first prizes, he participated in international art fairs in Europe, America and Asia and organizes his first solo shows in Paris.
The evolution of his painting leads him to investigate the possibilities of pictorial language.
He raises the practice of painting as a search where the successes have more to do with an adequate relationship of the expressive elements than with fidelity in the representation.
The richness and eloquence of the pictorial resources, the harmony of color and the expressive possibilities of the material become for Coronado the most important objective of his pictorial work.
He is professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid.
He currently lives and works in Madrid.
Ben Cowan was born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Indiana University. Cowan held a residency in Umbria, Italy, that deeply influenced his paintings. Since then, the landscape and character of his surroundings have remained the energizing force in his work. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His work captures the familiar sights of his neighborhood using cropped, collaged and simplified vistas to capture a concentrated experience that refers to both the interpersonal and the supernatural.
Cowan’s work has been shown in solo and group shows throughout the United States including New York City’s CJ One Gallery and W83 Gallery. He has been featured in Manifest Gallery’s International Painting Annual, Fresh Paint Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and The Brooklyn Review. Cowan’s work is in private and public collections including The University of Scranton, Ann Arbor District Library in Michigan, and The Racquet Club of Chicago.
Alex Cree, Painting
Alex Cree studied at Canterbury Christchurch College (2002) and the Royal Drawing School (2007), both of which championed work form direct observation.
He was trained in the Euston Road tradition, which can be described as: analysing data in a cool, detached way. The years since art school have shown a creeping trend towards a decorative, playful style.
“I am still very much committed to working from direct observation, but the paintings are becoming a mixture of facts, fictions and whimsies.”
Alex has shown extensively throughout the UK, Spain and Ireland, including London’s Trinity House Paintings, Mall Galleries, Dulwich Picture Gallery, British Museum, RA summer show and the Solomon gallery, Dublin.
Marcelo Daldoce, Painting
Marcelo Daldoce (b. 1979) is a Brazilian artist living and working in Philadelphia since 2020. In 2016, he acquired his MFA from the New York Academy of Art. He has shown his work in Brazil, NYC, Sotheby’s, and many other international exhibitions. Daldoce’s primary medium is watercolor. For more than 20 years, he has been uniquely transforming it. His skill, style, and subjects have infused the medium with contemporary vitality.
Denis Dalesio, Painting
Denis Dalesio is a fine artist from Norwalk, CT. His work has been featured in multiple group shows around the world, including the 2019 British Portrait awards. He received his BFA from Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts and MFA from the New York Academy of Art. Over the years he has developed a strong understanding of traditional and contemporary techniques. Some of these techniques include oil painting, observational drawing, anatomical study and digital painting.
Lana Daubermann, Painting
Lana Daubermann is a landscape and still-life painter, and one of the resident artists at Pentridge Studios, Melbourne, Australia. She primarily works in oils and enjoys the immersive qualities of paint and its endless possibilities in mark-making. She teaches and exhibits regularly and has been a finalist in the prestigious Glover Prize 2022, the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize 2023, and The Milburn Prize 2023. She has loved painting since she was a child, with her more formal art education primarily stemming from The Victorian Artist’s Society with its roots in tonal impressionism - although her practice is continually expanding. Fleeting feelings, the passing of time, and a sense of nostalgia are common threads that weave through her work.
‘Light and space affect my mood so greatly - a small shift in the sun, the temperature of a breeze, or a subtle change in scent can have such an impact on how I feel in any moment. It’s these impermanent human experiences I try to capture.’
Julie Davis, Painting
Austin, Texas artist Julie Davis is drawn to the individual expressions of trees and the curious lines of long-forgotten structures, giving her paintings “both a lyrical and an architectural vibe.” Her plein air work earned Best of Show in the 2019 American Impressionist Society’s Central Park Paintout in New York. Her work has been featured in Plein Air Magazine and in Southwest Art Magazine’s Artists to Watch section and is in private collections across the country. Davis is a Signature member of the American Impressionist Society, Oil Painters of America, and American Women Artists, and is a member of the historic Salmagundi Club. She is represented by Mockingbird Gallery in Bend, Oregon, Gallery 330 in Fredericksburg, Texas, and Davis Gallery in Austin, Texas.
Matt DeProspero, Painting
Born and raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Matt now lives and works in Lambertville, NJ. His passion for oil painting began early on when he started taking lessons after school in the third grade. Influenced from childhood by the works of N.C. Wyeth, Maxfield Parrish and The Golden Age Illustrators, Matt went on to receive a degree in Illustration from Hussian College of Art and studied Painting and Drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. A lifelong learner, he has also studied and taken workshops with some of the top contemporary Realist painters in the country, namely Jeremy Lipking, Daniel Keyes, Scott Burdick, Stephen Early, Jon Redmond and Jeff Hein.
The importance of painting from life was instilled in him from his days at the Academy, and Matt continues to maintain a regular practice of painting en plein air and working from the model in order to inform his studio work. He has always strived to capture those elusive moments in his paintings when the light and atmosphere are just right to describe each particular scene in an honest way, distilling beauty from the everyday.
As an accomplished craftsman and woodworker, Matt loves to be hands-on in every step of the creative process, from preparing custom painting panels to making and gilding his own frames.
Melanie Dion, Painting
Melanie Dion graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) with a BFA and Certificate in painting. In 2016 she was selected as a resident artist at the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts. She was also a recipient of an alumni studio fellowship at PAFA in 2015 and 2016.
Angie Dixon, Painting
Ange Dixon has been painting with Asian brush and ink and teaching Sumi Painting for more than 40 years. She graduated from the University of Washington in 1976 with a fine arts degree and a degree in art history. While at the University of Washington, she was influenced by the Northwest School of Art and visiting painters and calligraphers from Japan. She went on to graduate studies at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Art in the People’s Republic of China in 1984.
She is versed in the traditional Asian brush and ink techniques and cultures as she studied under both Japanese and Chinese instructors. She has also made the medium her own and taken it into the language of contemporary art in installation work and mixing the tradition with other traditions and media.
Her art work can currently be found in the Washington State Arts Commission Collection, on her website and at the Yuan Ru gallery in Bellevue, Washington.
Gia Dong, Painting
Gia Dong is a painter and art instructor who currently lives in California. She graduated with a BFA in Illustration from ArtCenter College of Design, and her passion is to capture the beauty in life through simple color and light design.
Riley Doyle, Painting
Riley Doyle (b. 1990) was born and raised in Colorado. He attended Metropolitan State University of Denver for a BFA in printmaking. In 2014 he moved to Seattle to attend the 3 year Georgetown Atelier program. In the Summer of 2016 he attended the Hudson River Fellowship and began a landscape and plein air painting addiction. Since graduating, he has acquired several accolades including the Stobart Foundation Grant, making Southwest Art Magazine’s 21 Under 31 feature issue list, and he has won awards from the Portrait Society and the Plein Air Salon. He has also been an instructor since 2016, teaching figure drawing and painting as well as plein air, and studio landscape painting both in person and online. His current work draws from both his figurative training as well as his plein air practice.
Rachel Dowd, Painting
Rachel Dowd was born in Middletown, Ohio and spent a large portion of her childhood moving and traveling within the United States and abroad. She is now an impressionist painter based in Northern Indiana who celebrates the beauty of daily life through her oil and gouache work. Being self-taught, Rachel's journey towards becoming an artist started in childhood and was deeply influenced by her experience as a mother and her travels both as a child and an adult. Her oil and gouache paintings are characterized by minimal brushstrokes and a "less is more" approach, which reflects her fascination with light, movement and the emotional textures of everyday life. Russian impressionists, contemporary impressionists and the simple joys of home and nature inspire Rachel's art. Rachel also shares her passion for art as a teacher and hopes to inspire others to cultivate their creativity. Her work invites viewers to appreciate the beauty of the ordinary and encourages them to take a moment to savor life's quiet moments.
Abigail Dudley, Painting
Abigail Dudley is a recent graduate from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia, PA. While in the undergraduate program at PAFA, Abigail received The Raymond D. & Estelle Rubens Travel Scholarship for European travel. Her primary mode of work is painting. Abigail works between different modes of perceptual painting and invention to explore themes of capturing the small moments in life where nothing and everything seems to coexist simultaneously. In her work, she navigates between domestic interior spaces and rural landscapes, often finding where the two areas overlap. Abigail is a recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshield Grant. Abigail also was the artist in residence at the Lois and Charles X. Carlson Landscape Residency in 2021.
Holly Dudley, Drawing
Holly Dudley is an artist living in New Jersey. Holly has studied at numerous art establishments on the east coast, notably at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she is currently in the undergraduate program. Holly Primarily works in drawing media and oil painting. Her work focuses on the landscape, figurative work, and interior subject matter. Her work focuses on observational, atmospheric, and illusionistic qualities along with using a conceptual approach to convey a compelling and poetic portrayal of spaces she encounters.
Mark Dunford, Painting
Mark studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, from 1982-1987, where he was taught by Euan Uglow, and Patrick George, continuing a preoccupation for painting appearances through William Coldstream’s advocacy. His awards include the Robert Ross Scholarship from the Slade and the Richard Ford Award from the Royal Academy of Arts and the Young Artists’ Award from the Royal Institute of Painters in watercolour.
Mark Dunford is an elected member of The London Group, and he exhibits regularly, in the UK and internationally. He lives and works in Cornwall and has taught painting and drawing since 1988 and is currently a Programme Team Leader for Art & Design.
Mark Dunford is a painter who works directly from his subject, using extreme drawing methods and charged emotional colour. His influences include Cézanne, Piero della Francesca, Mantegna, Constable, Chardin and Seurat and many others.
Claire Duplouy, Painting
Claire Duplouy, originally from the south of France, born in 1992. She lives and works in Paris.
Always attracted by the artistic world, Claire Duplouy left her native Lot and joined the Lycée d'Arts Graphiques in Aurillac, where she began to create her own universe. She continued her studies at the Beaux-Arts in Bourges and experimented with several mediums such as photography, video, sound installation and painting. His love for the poetry of images and sound enabled him to enter the Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Audiovisuel in Toulouse.
Her dreamlike universe and fantastic is growing and forging itself and she is directing two short fiction films. Having acquired her Master's degree, she returned to the capital and resumed her brushes.
Through her paintings, Claire Duplouy writes her dreams and dreamlike memories. Between a desire to create a parallel universe and that of reconstructing a memory, Claire Duplouy's watercolors bear witness to a passage, a trace using the material of the paper and its reliefs. Among some paintings, the spontaneous brush movement marks a sensation, an emotion.
The evolution of his paintings draws inspiration from natural compositions, from the desire to intertwine his entrails with the elements of the earth.
Nathan Durnin, Painting
Nathan Durnin is a Philadelphia based painter whose works explore landscape, figure, and abstraction. While the subject matter varies, the work is connected by an enthusiasm for light, color, and paint.
Durnin received his Master of Fine Arts degree from The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA. Nathan Durnin has exhibited at Gallery 222, Artists’ House Galley, Goggle Works and Works On Paper Gallery. He is the recipient of the Artists’ House Gallery Award, the Benjamin West and the Charles Toppan Prizes along with other numerous drawing and painting awards. In addition to being a practicing artist, Durnin also teaches painting and drawing courses at Delaware County Community College and Villanova University.
Ellen Eagle, Painting
Ellen began her art studies at the age of 4. From this young age on, Ellen was captivated by portraiture, on which she continues to focus. She graduated from the High School of Music and Art, NY, and the California College of Arts and Crafts. She later studied at the National Academy School, N.Y. and The Art Students League of New York. She is now in her 15th year as an ASL faculty member, where she teaches the only class devoted exclusively to pastel. She gives portrait painting workshops throughout the country and overseas. Her writings and pastel paintings have been published in many journals, newspapers, and books, including her own “Pastel Painting Atelier”, Watson-Guptill Publishers, N.Y. The Newark Star Ledger wrote that Ellen’s portraits “achieve a translucency not seen centuries”.
Ellen has had four solo shows and has exhibited in many group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the country and in Asia.
Her pastel paintings are in many private and corporate collections, including the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, D.C.
José Eidelman, Painting
José Eidelman was born on October 28, 1971 in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied at the National School of Fine Arts Prilidiano Pueyrredón. He taught drawing at the same school from 1998 to 2004. He also worked, teaching drawing and painting classes at the Mutual for Fine Arts graduates. He held several group exhibitions and his first solo show in 2006 at El Puente Art Gallery. In 2007 he exhibited at the Café de los Angelitos, for this year he was invited to participate for several consecutive years in the Schildersweek (Painting week) in Domburg, Holland. He held his second solo show in 2008 at El Puente Art Gallery and in 2013 at the Mercedes Pinto Gallery. The Marie Van Tak Museum in Domburg and national and international collections have his work.
Amy Erickson, Painting
Amy Erickson is an observational painter who lives and works in Seattle, WA. She earned a BFA in Painting from the Kansas City Art Institute and has pursued further training in painting and figure drawing at Gage Academy of Art (Trowbridge Atelier, 2020; Flack Atelier, 2019). Amy has exhibited in many cities in the US, including Seattle and New York. Amy has taught workshops for Warrior Art Camp, Gage Academy of Art, and the Seattle Artist League. She is currently on the faculty of the Modern Color Atelier at Gage Academy of Art.
Annelise Firth, Painting
Growing up in Kent, Annelise was drawn to bringing nature to life on a canvas, after seeing Monet’s Chrysanthemums. This painting captured an overall impression of the flowers, hinting at the subject rather than trying to create a completely realistic replica of it. This duality, of forms both visible and hidden, is constant in her own artistic practice. Later in life - after a nursing career in London - she completed an MA at UEL in Fine Art. As a child of antique dealers, she is moved by the lights and colors of inanimate objects; and how they interact with nature. Her knowledge of figurative painting informs her floralscapes, from color and concept to tone and form.
Annelise’s method is a union of intuition and practicality. Always painting from life in her home studio, she will spend time setting up a still life, usually a mixture of antique objects, vases and flowers foraged from her garden or countryside. In terms of the subject matter there is a level of control and confinement. While drawing and painting, in watercolor and oils, is much more fluid. Experimenting with different color palettes and painting quite thinly, to create luminosity and flow. Her paintings combine elements of both figuration and abstraction; often working with - not fighting against - drips on the canvas as she goes. Elsewhere, she enjoys the freedom of using sable brushes in different shapes and sizes. While she’ll often mix up colors in advance, more the case with larger scale works - she enjoys the freedom of creating personalized hues along the way.
Valentin Fischer, Painting
Valentin fischer (b. 1984) is a german selftaught painter based in stuttgart, who works mainly figuratively in oils. he collaborated with galleries in new york and san francisco and also exhibited his works in europe.
Dean Fisher, Painting
Dean Fisher has been a painter and draughtsman for over thirty years. He has exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. in prominent galleries such as Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY; The Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY; Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY; and Prographica Gallery in
Seattle, WA.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Dean spent eight years in Spain, France and England painting, studying and copying the masters in major European museums as a form of study. Dean’s paintings and drawings can be found in many private and corporate collections throughout North America and Europe. Dean and his artist wife, Josephine Robinson, live in Milford, Connecticut.
“There are certain things I see which I know I have to paint, this can be many different subjects but is usually an assemblage of forms and colours which create a compelling compositional structure.
Just about any object bathed in light is extremely beautiful to me, this can be difficult because I want to paint everything…but I try to keep it limited to those subjects which scream “paint me” the loudest.
I really don’t want to analyze beforehand why a subject speaks to me so much because this is very complex, so many things enter into this equation.
By defining the reasons too much I fear that my response to the subject will be too pre-meditated, based on assumptions and a fragment of what is really there, all which I believe can inhibit the outcome. Instead I just jump in and with my knowledge, experience and skills try to put everything I see, think and feel about the subject into the painting.
This most often leads to a more satisfying result and a painting which I feel is a more complete representation of who I am.”
Anthony Folks, Mixed Media
Anthony Folks is a visual artist most known for his collage works on paper. He received a BFA from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) before obtaining his MA in Art Education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). While at SAIC, Hip-Hop became a source of artistic research for pedagogy. His collage work continues to draw inspiration from various sources, including Kuba Cloth patterns and designs. While volunteering at the Stoney Island Arts Bank—working with the Johnson Publishing Collection—Anthony co-curated a collection exhibition aimed at refreshing the narratives surrounding African American history. Recently, Anthony was selected for 2021 Philadelphia Fellowship for Black Artist with Mural Arts Philadelphia.
Jane French, Painting
Based in Leicester, Jane French is an accomplished figurative artist and portrait painter. She is a proud member of the Contemporary British Portrait Painters collective (CBPP) – a group of some of the best portrait artists working in Britain today. Having originally studied Fine Art at Newcastle University, and later an MA in Design at De Montfort University (Leicester), Jane worked as an illustrator and graphic designer before focusing professionally on her own practice. She is also an art and design tutor, working online and at art centres and FE/HE institutions across the UK. In 2021 she was selected to appear in Sky Arts ‘Portrait Artist of the Year’. She painted comedian/writer/ broadcaster Ian Hislop – who chose her painting to take home with him. Also in 2021, Jane painted three portraits for the NHS Heroes project organised by Tom Croft. They formed part of an online exhibition and one of them featured on the front cover of the ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ book published by Bloomsbury Publishing. In late 2021 and early 2022, Jane worked on a personal project during which she painted 100 Portraits.
Will Gabaldón, Painting
Will Gabaldón (b. 1978 Belen, New Mexico, lives and works in Chicago) received his B.F.A. in painting from the University of New Mexico and his M.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to moving to Chicago, he lived and worked in Brooklyn, NY. While living in New York City, he was a painting assistant for Jeff Koons, founding member of the artist-run exhibition space TSA Gallery and was actively exhibiting work in many group exhibitions in New York. He has held solo exhibitions at The Journal Gallery, New York; Galería Mascota, Mexico City; Various Small Fires, Los Angeles and Seoul; TSA Gallery, Brooklyn, New York; and Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Recent group exhibitions include Make Room, Los Angeles; Venus Over Manhattan, New York; Ackerman Clarke at NADA Miami, Florida; Sanitary Tortilla Factory, Albuquerque, New Mexico; He currently lives and paints in Chicago, Illinois with his wife and two daughters.
Isabel Garmon, Painting
Isabel Garmon is a Spanish woman painter born in May 17th of 1985 in Zaragoza with a large education in illustration and academic technique thanks to have studies close to great master painters and also to one of the most prestigious academies in Italy, The Florence Academy of Art.
During this period of training she won important art schollarships like the Elizabeth Greinshield ́s Foundation one and art prizes what means she got a strong base in drawing and painting skills. Thanks to it Isabel can explore her most creative side and find the way that let her to be honest and veritable through her art.
Her present art is using an impressionist and symbolist language having a main goal that is to create worlds of light and color to invite people to enjoy and have a great experience through them. She runs into the idea of how every artwork is a forward step where to create a new life and explore ways of expression of how to talk with the viewer. Isabel feels she is a restless soul and always is creating, exploring new materials and languages of expression.
Isabel ́s artworks talks about the human power using woman as main character on her paintings. She uses the feminine body to talk about the light that human beings radiates and to put in knowledge to the viewer the big power that lives inside of them. Her artworks are in private collections around the world in different countries and also in museums as the MEAM in Barcelona.
Beverly Gattorna, Painting
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Beverly holds a degree in painting and drawing from Massachusetts College of Art & Design in Boston and has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions throughout New England & the Mid-Atlantic. With a passion for abstract art and a deep-rooted connection to landscape, her work reflects an intuitive and emotional response to nature. Beverly was born in Wisconsin, raised in Connecticut, often travels to Oregon, and resides in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Elizabeth Geiger, Painting
Elizabeth Geiger majored in painting and mathematics at the University of Virginia in 1990, and continued her art studies at the New York Studio School and Vermont Studio Center. She is married to figurative painter Philip Geiger and they have two children who recently graduated from art schools.
Geiger has won a fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, been featured in American Artist magazine, and has shown regularly throughout the eastern United States. Her work can be seen in the Sheltering Arms Hospital in Richmond, the Augusta Medical Center in Fishersville, VA as well as the Clay Center Museum of Art in Charleston. WV. Geiger shows at Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia, PA.
Known for dramatic still life paintings, Elizabeth has also focused her painting practice on landscape. Along with regular teaching at the Beverley Street Studio School in Staunton, VA, Elizabeth Geiger teaches online at the Winslow Art Center in Bainbridge Island, Washington and has been a visiting artist at the College of William & Mary, the Kentucky School of Art & Design, Washington & Lee University, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Mount Gretna School of Art.
Martin Geiger, Painting
Martin Geiger is a figurative painter and draftsman who works and lives in Staunton, Virginia. He received an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in 2018 and graduated in 2019, after four years, from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. He currently teaches at the Beverly Street Studio School in Staunton, VA and has taught at the Currier Museum in New Hampshire and Winslow Art Center in WA. He works part-time at Bronzecraft Foundry in Waynesboro, VA.
Words that describe his work might include light, geometry, space and activity. He is constantly chasing implied grandeur and action, compelling him to explore constantly to find the most invigorating subjects in his immediate area. While he tends to return to oil painting, his curiosity often lures him into other mediums like graphite, charcoal and watercolors.
Scott Gellatly, Painting
Scott Gellatly holds a degree in painting and drawing from the University of Oregon and has exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States. A landscape painter at heart, Scott’s work has become more abstracted, with greater emphasis on pure color and gestural mark-making to evoke nature. Scott is an Oregon native and lives in Portland with his family.
Francine Gourguechon, Mosaic
My art education began at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. There, I studied drawing, painting and sculpture under fine local and international teachers. My studies lead me to traveling the world to view art of any kind. While in Europe I became mesmerized by the fantastic mosaics in France, Italy and Spain and that turned me on to the art and process of mosaics. I have had my mosaic work shown at various galleries and published in books and magazines.
As a life-long artist I have worked in many mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and mosaic art. Combining my experience in all these mediums I have focused on mosaic art as my primary direction. Mosaics are an ancient and beautiful medium, long used in places of learning and worship. The historic and enduring quality of mosaics challenges and inspires my work while offering vibrant decorativeness and fascinating detail. Taking mosaics from a representational approach to an abstract art form using color, movement and impact is the goal for my recent mosaic work.
Randall Graham, Painting
Randall’s passion for art has been apparent since childhood. His love of drawing and creating stories through works of art started at a very young age and hasn’t stopped yet. He studied at The Carlin Academy of Fine Art. Bo Bartlett has also taught Randall and influenced his style. The tradition of Chester County artists continues with Randall. He was born in Malvern Pa and today he resides in West Chester PA with his family. He keeps a studio in Malvern where he works and teaches traditional painting fundamentals.
Randall is ambitious when it comes to his approach to painting. His work comes in a variety of channels including studio work, en plein air (outdoor painting) and his "en rain air" style. The "en rain air" style comes about from painting a scene from his minivan or window while it is raining. The rain drops on the window act as a means for abstraction. The juxtaposition of abstract and reality creates emotional paintings which have become very popular with Randall's collectors.
Randall also loves to share his knowledge of painting through teaching. Helping others create is a truly gratifying experience. Randall teaches traditional painting fundamentals at Randall Graham Studio in Malvern, Wayne Art Center and Chester County Art Association.
Al Gury, Painting
Al Gury is an educator, writer and artist.
He is a Professor of Painting, Drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Deeply committed to art education, he teaches many courses on painting, drawing and art history, as well as teaching art education methods to undergraduate and graduate students. National and international workshops are also a regular part of his engagement in art education. He is also a lecturer at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.
As a writer, Al Gury has written three books for Penguin-Random House on art methods and art history, Alla Prima, Color for Painters and Foundations of Drawing. In addition, he has authored dozens of articles for museums and art publications in the US and Europe such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, Artists and Craftsman Magazine and numerous other venues. Al’s specialties include color traditions and practice in painting, old master and contemporary painting methods, drawing and figure anatomy history and methods, traditions and practice in portrait and landscape and others.
Al Gury is a practicing painter, with regular one person exhibitions at the F.A.N. Gallery in Philadelphia, as well as galleries and museums in other states.
Very involved in community and social justice activities, Al is a cat foster parent and advocate for animal rescue and nursing care via the Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society.
Joe Gyurcsak, Painting
Mr. Gyurcsak paints a broad range of subject matter including interiors, still life, figure and landscape painting. He has a keen sense for capturing the essence of his subject matter with a bold and candid approach. He exhibits in galleries across the country his award winning paintings continue to pique the interest of collectors nationwide.
Artist’s statement:
“My paintings express a sense of light, atmosphere and mood; they transcend the techniques that were employed to create them and breathe the very light and atmosphere they were painted in. I like to capture the fleeting moments of life; the sublime manifestations of light and color, their aesthetic influences on the subject.”
Current Gallery Representation:
Artful Deposit, Bordentown, NJ
Edward Montgomery Gallery, Carmel-By-Sea, CA
Hagan Fine Art Gallery, Charleston, SC
Elana Hagler, Drawing
Elana Hagler was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, and immigrated to the United States at the age of five. She received her Bachelor of Arts in both Studio Art and Psychology from Brandeis University, Boston, and continued her studies for two years at the Master Class of the Jerusalem Studio School and in Umbria, Italy. She then received her Master of Fine Arts from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Elana has won multiple prizes in painting and drawing and has exhibited her work across the United States and internationally. She has taught fine art at Cornell College, the Delaware College of Art and Design, and at Swarthmore College. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama, a writer for the popular art blog Painting Perceptions, and designs coins and medals for the United States Mint as part of their Artistic Infusion Program.
Joan Hanley, Painting
Joan Hanley’s oil paintings explore intimacy in contemporary life. She began her training in both art and meditation in high school (NYC) and has continued to train, teach, and exhibit in the US, Mexico, Europe, India, Japan, Taiwan, and China over the past 50 years. Art school (Hartford Art School, School of Visual Arts & Vermont College), years of painting, a love of art history, studies in East Asian calligraphy, psychotherapy, and meditation are present in all of her work. She currently mentors artists earning their MFA’s through MassArt and Lesley University. Her studio is in a 19th-century Mill in Harrisville, New Hampshire.
Rebecca Harp, Painting/Pastel
Rebecca Harp is an American artist who currently resides and works in Naples, Italy. Born in 1973 in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, she graduated cum laude from Lawrence University in 1995 with a double bachelor of arts in English Literature and Italian Renaissance Studies. In 1998, she moved to Florence, Italy to attend Charles H. Cecil Studios, and from 2003 to 2008 she taught drawing and painting in her private school to students from around the world. From 2009-2011, she concentrated on both indoor and outdoor scenes in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Rehovot, Israel. Upon settling in Naples in 2012, Rebecca devoted her time to starting a family, and in the past few years she has resumed her art and teaching practice. She has exhibited in London, New York, Boston, Rome, Florence, and Naples, and her works are part of private collections in Australia, Canada, England, France, Holland, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Malta, Spain, South Africa, and the United States.
“As a mother artist, I struggled at first to find a way to return to my work that would allow for the inevitable interruptions and yet retain focus, thus I began to explore other mediums that were more immediate, in particular pastel, charcoal, and watercolor. This opened the door to a freer approach to painting through impulsive impressions of light, mass and color, balanced by more careful observations of weight and line. It also led me to a primary focus on plein air landscape painting, particularly on the streets of Naples.
“My work tends towards impressionism and intimism, due to an attraction to the transformations of light and color, the constant revelations within everyday life as a mother artist, and the significance of place. The rich and chaotic beauty of Naples, in fact, is perhaps the strongest influence, as I try to navigate its layers while I discover my vantage point from within it. In my work I try to convey the visual impact not of objects, people or places, but of the evolving, vibrating nature of those subjects. My paintings then become a record of strong yet fragile sensations, suggestions and moments, suspended in time on the surface.”
Sara Havekotte, Textile Arts
Sara Havekotte is an artist and arts professional working in Philadelphia, PA. Sara is trained broadly as a textile artist and works predominantly in quilting and weaving. Her work explores the intersection of textile history in relation to women’s experiences. Sara uses fiber material to create mid-scale wall works that loosely record her own lived experiences and then link them to broader concepts like spirituality and mythology.
Sara received her Master of Fine Art from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art (2020) and her undergraduate degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art (2013). They have exhibited at spaces such as Room 482, Brooklyn, NY; Current Space Gallery, Baltimore MD; Atelier FAS Gallery, Philadelphia PA, and The Weaving Mill, Chicago IL. Before moving to Philadelphia for her master’s degree she was a participating member at Current Space Collective in Baltimore MD.
Clare Haward, Painting
Clare Haward is a London based painter and member of the New English Art Club (NEAC). She combines studio practice with teaching painting and drawing, exhibits regularly with 155a Gallery and has had work selected for The Threadneedle Prize, the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, the ING Discerning Eye. She was awarded an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation scholarship in 2019. Clare studied art at Camberwell College of Art, has a BA (hons) in Fine Art from Leeds University and a postgraduate diploma from the Cyprus College of Art. She has also spent several years painting in Israel at Hatahana School in Tel Aviv and the Jerusalem Studio School.
Amanda Hawkins, Painting
Amanda K. Hawkins is an award winning painter living and working in Beverly, MA. She received a Masters in Fine Arts in Painting from Boston University in 2021 and Bachelor of Fine Arts from Montserrat College of Art in 2014. She is on the Board of Trustees at Rocky Neck Art Colony and shows her work in gallery shows across New England. Amanda teaches painting workshops across North America, including in British Columbia and Arizona, in addition to virtual workshops with an international draw. Her studio blog is shared with over 25K people worldwide and her work can be found in private art collections across the globe. When she’s not painting, Amanda is outside exploring the many landscapes of New England.
Julia Hawkins, Painting
Julia Hawkins is a contemporary figurative artist based in Surrey, England where she teaches at the Leatherhead Institute and runs a private teaching studio.
Elected a Member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 2020 and the New English Art Club in 2022, she is a regular exhibitor at the Mall Galleries in London. Her work was also selected for the prestigious Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize and Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize exhibitions.
Julia's portraits and landscapes reveal an experienced painter and fine colourist, who tries to capture the essence of her subject. A number of her works are owned by private collectors both in the UK and internationally.
She completed an MA in Graphics and Illustration at the Latvian Academy of Arts and studied drawing at the Riga studios of Professor Vitaly Karkunov. Julia moved to the UK in the early 90's after working for various publishing companies in commercial and editorial illustration.
In 2019 Julia was invited to teach a public five-week course at the Royal Academy and in 2020 at the St Ives School of Painting. She is also one of the tutors at the London Art Academy.
Nicki Heenan, Painting
Nicki Heenan is an international artist with a studio in both the Cotswolds, U.K and New - Zealand. Being described as intrepid by her fellow peers, she has explored caves in the South of France, glaciation in the Swiss Alps and the volcanic soils of New Zealand. Her art practice includes using material pigments found on location to substantiate paintings that allude their origins. Perhaps not surprising with a master’s degree in Science that the study of the materiality of painting and paint as substance should play a fundamental part in her work. To balance the analytical aspect, Nicki is also an accomplished musician having previously been a pianist at Highgrove - the estate of HRH Prince Charles for 13 years and a choir director.
"Since the days of drawing on cave walls humans have not only used their voice and their gestures to share their narratives, but have used materials to give their stories a physical presence.”
I believe that we all have a story to tell as artists and we are all connected in some way through our experiences. Sharing what we know and being able to articulate that through painting is why I enjoy working with people - to help each person to express themselves through gaining a knowledge of materials and a painterly means of communication.
Nicki’s work can be seen at Art by the Sea Gallery in Auckland, NZ, Hope Gallery in Yorkshire, U.K. amongst others. Her work has been featured in the Cold Wax Book, Sky Landscape Artist of the Year 2016, ‘ Five Ones to Watch’ in the Watercolour Magazine and The Artist Magazine. Nicki is a Fellow of Ballinglen Arts Foundation where currently her painting from the Museum is on loan to the US Ambassador to Ireland. She is a member of the RWSW and contributes to many national and international group shows both in oil painting and watercolour. Nicki is a popular and approachable tutor who runs regular workshops in England, Wales, Ireland, Switzerland and N.Z.
Tyga Helme, Drawing
Tyga uses the directness and urgency of drawing from life as a springboard for all her work. She finds subjects in nature’s edgelands; where trees or mountains meet the sky, where sea meets rock or in forgotten undergrowth. In working from life she celebrates the spontaneity of the moment whilst also returning to places over and over again, building on memory and feeling. Tyga studied Fine Art and History of Art at The University of Edinburgh, graduating in 2012. She then studied at the Royal Drawing School in London and was awarded the Machin Foundation Prize. She has been granted artist residencies at Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Borgo Pignano, Italy and Vermont Studio Centre, USA. She was the artist in residence at Sevenoaks School and has completed a teaching residency at the International Institute of Fine Arts, Modinigar in India. Her work has been shown widely in exhibitions including at the Fleming Collection in London and Christies in New York. She is represented by Messums Wiltshire.
Mike Hernandez, Painting
A native Angeleno, Mike Hernandez is a plein air painter skilled in gouache, oil and acrylic, who’s works have been featured in several on-line publications as well as galleries. His process began as a young child, painting still life images. Influenced by the likes of Edgar Payne, Sorolla and Franz Bischoff, Mike soon explored the foundations of color and light in the outdoors – striving to find the beauty in the ordinary. With a palette that resides at the crossroads between industrial and landscapes, he finds inspiration anywhere from the Eastern Sierra range to the muddy concrete banks of the Los Angeles River. Mike studied at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, graduating with a B.A. in 1998. Currently he is a Production Designer at Dreamworks Animation as well as a nation-wide sought-after workshop instructor. His works can be found in several private collections around the world.
Lara Cantu-Hertzler, Painting
Lara Cantu-Hertzler is of Mexican and Swiss German decent and a life long artist and resident of Philadelphia. In 2000 she was accepted to Philadelphia’s High school for creative and performing arts as a visual artist, however she also later also majored in dance and voice. Her work is inspired by Philadelphia’s diverse community of artists and distinct architecture. Cantu-Hertzler’s work is informed by the classical training she received from The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, however her work also contains expressive and abstract elements. Layers of paint and unusual color combinations create a sense of space and time. Her work often depicts a female figure that often represents the artist herself or a close friend.
Themes of Cantu-Hertzler’s work include the female gaze and female identity, personal exploration, light, movement, and imagination. Lara teaches painting privately, also at Fleisher Art Memorial, Wayne Art Center, and Abington Art Center. Her work is well collected and has been in a over dozen solo exhibitions.
Emily Rose Hirtle, Painting
Emily Rose Hirtle is from Westerville, Ohio she attended “The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and received her BFA and Certificate in Painting in 2017. In May of 2019 she received her MFA in Drawing from “The New York Academy of Art”. Her work is part of numerous collections such as: The Linda Lee Alter Collection in Philadelphia, PA. Actress and Model Brooke Shield’s and Actor Aidan Turner. She is a practicing Artist and a Drawing/ Painting instructor for numerous institutions in Philadelphia, PA.
Hilary Hirtle, Creative Writing
Hilary Hirtle is a writer and visual anthropologist dedicated to exploring the dialogue between art and anthropology. She specializes in crafting compelling narratives and shaping immersive experiences that weave together stories of nature, culture, and identity. Passionate about guiding individuals on their unique journeys of self-discovery and purpose, Hilary is also a Veriditas-trained labyrinth facilitator.
Insa Hoffman, Painting
At 17 I left my parent’s home to spend a year in Italy following my calling. I discovered early in life that I wanted to become an artist. In Italy, I came in touch with a culture embedded in the quest for beauty and rooted in a glorious tradition of fine art. I studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna, Italy.
I received a traditional formation in classical painting and at the same time, I was trained to think as a contemporary artist. In the 90s conceptual art and postmodernism were high en vogue. For many years I felt trapped in the intellectualism of these formative years. It took me some time to break free of those concepts and find my painterly voice.
In my work, representational and abstract painting are intertwined. I explore the patterns of shapes in nature and find in all forms an underlying structure that I am interested in. It´s all about the rhythm of light and dark which I perceive not only as an optical phenomenon but as well as an existential experience. The components to arrive at an abstract interpretation of the visual world are dialogues of shape, line, and color harmony. Our work is to listen and understand that formal dialogue through our own lens. My interest is to go beyond representation while keeping a visual reference like artists from the modernist tradition. Maybe I will land in pure abstraction with time.
For 18 years I have been teaching in my studio, for 2.5 years mostly online.
David Holt, Painting
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David Holt is a classically trained painter and teacher with special interests in art history and the transmission and interaction of visual cultures. He is a graduate of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, and has a BFA in Painting from the University of Utah and an MFA in Painting from American University in Washington, D. C.. He was an early teacher and founding board member of the Washington Studio School.
His solo exhibitions have included several at Loop Gallery in Toronto, as well as others at Bowery Gallery in New York City, Dudley House at Harvard University, and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Wassenaar, Netherlands. He has exhibited in group shows in a variety of gallery, museum, and university settings. Awards have included a Ragdale Foundation Artist’s Residency and a grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation.
An art professor and department chair for many years at Marymount College (later part of Fordham University) in Tarrytown, New York, Holt now lives in Toronto where he teaches at Upper Canada College.
Ian de Hoog, Painting
Ian de Hoog is a Canadian artist and teacher working primarily in watercolor. He is an active member of the Semiahmoo Arts Society and the Federation of Canadian Artists. As an instructor, Ian is a frequent contributor to the Visiting Artists series for the Opus Arts Supply chain in British Columbia and is a watercolor instructor at Winslow Art Center on Bainbridge Island and the Shadbolt Centre for Fine Arts in Burnaby, BC. In addition to this Ian has also traveled throughout BC to give various workshops and demonstrations to different art groups and societies.
Aliene de Souza Howell, Printmaking
Born in Nashville, TN to a Brazilian mother and psychologist of Welsh descent, Aliene de Souza Howell received her BFA from Guilford College and MFA from the New York.
Academy of Art. Howell’s work is situated between what is conscious and unconscious, she explores links between nature and humanity. Howell does this through hybrid and fantastical beings who examine our interactions with each other, the objects we use, and the natural world.
Printmaking plays a vital role in this communication. It’s graphic and monochromatic nature lend the work an austere, documentary character, creating a world out of time and place. She completed a postgraduate fellowship at the New York Academy of Art, residencies in Leipzig, Germany and Ballinskelligs, Ireland. She is currently working on a solo exhibition at Wichita State University in Kansas, January 2022 where she will be a visiting artist. She hiked in the Bavarian Alps with her best friend and they were so high up, they watched a storm pass below them.
Howell lives and works in Queens, NY with her cat and two turtles. Her work is included in the collections of Naomi Watts, Liev Schreiber, Howard Tullman, Francie Bishop Good and Eric Fischl.
Karen Israel, Pastel
Karen Israel is a self taught artist who, after working in the brush mediums, discovered the versatility and immediacy of pastel. She has studied at the Arts Students League and other art societies in classes and workshops. In addition to numerous awards, Karen’s work was featured in The Pastel Journal, Practique Des Arts Magazine and Southwest Art Magazine. Her art is held in private and public collections across the world and was recently exhibited in an invitational exhibition in France.
Karen has achieved Master status with the Pastel Society of America and the International Association of Pastel Societies; Signature Member of the American Artists Professional League and the Pastel Society of the West Coast.
Karen teaches frequently in her local art community and regularly travels for workshops.
Karen is an artist member of the Salmagundi Club, NYC, The Copley Society, Boston and the Lyme Art Association and serves on the Board of the Hudson Valley Art Association and the Pastel Society of America.
Eric Jacobsen, Painting
Awards
2021
“2nd Place”, Cape Ann Plein Air, Gloucester, MA
“Award of Merit”, 22nd Annual American Impressionists Society, Omaha, NE
2020
“The Newcomb Award for Traditional Award”, RAAM Show Rockport, MA
“Honorable Mention”, RAAM Show, Rockport, MA
2019
“Master Class Winner”, Art Muse, February
“Master Class Winner”, Art Muse, March
2018
“Petite Artist’s Choice”, Olmstead Plein Air, Atlanta, GA
2017
“Finalist”, Boldbrush, FASO, October
“Honorable Mention”, Rice Gallery of Fine Art Plein Air Show, Overland Park, KS
“Finalist”, Boldbrush, FASO, August
“Second Place”, Pacific NW Plein Air, Maryhill Museum
2016
"Peoples Choice Award", Cape Ann Plein Air, Cape Ann, MA
"Artists Choice Award", Paint the Peninsula, Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Port Angeles, WA
"Honorable Mention", Paint the Peninsula, Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Port Angeles, WA
"Third Place", Door County Plein Air, Peninsula School of Art, Fish Creek, WI
"Artist Choice Award", Door County Plein Air, Peninsula School of Art, Fish Creek, WI
2015
"Second Place Overall", October/November, Plein Air Salon, Plein Air Magazine
"Artist Choice Award", Sonoma Plein Air, Sonoma, CA
"Third Place", Paint the Peninsula, Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Port Angeles, WA
"2nd Place Quick Draw", Paint the Peninsula, Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Port Angeles, WA
"2nd Place", Smith Rock Paint Out, High Desert Art League, OR
"Artists Choice", "Weekend in the West", Evergreen Fine Art, Evergreen, CO
Melissa Joseph, Fiber Arts
Melissa Joseph is interested in connecting people through collective memory and shared experiences. Her work addresses themes of diaspora, family histories and the politics of how we occupy spaces. Her work has been shown at the LiteHaus Gallery, Delaware Contemporary, Woodmere Art Museum, Southern Exposure, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Rider University, Collar Works, and featured in New American Paintings, ArtMaze, and Hyperallergic. She participated in residencies at the Center // Substructured Loss, the Growlery, Chautauqua Visual Arts, the Textile Arts Center, BRIC, and currently the DieuDonne Workspace Residency and the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program. She is represented by RegularNormal Gallery in New York.
Andrés Kal, Painting
Andrés Kal, a talented visual artist from Bogotá, began his journey by publishing illustrations in newspapers and magazines during his high school years. He later graduated in Graphic Design from Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in 2001. His work is renowned for its exploration of figuration through portraiture, capturing the various facets of human identity. With a career spanning 18 years, during which he shared his graphic and pictorial experience at prestigious educational institutions in Colombia, Andrés Kal made a pivotal decision to fully embrace painting and develop his unique visual language. This transition was inspired by his time in London, where he attended Drawing and Painting classes. His adept brushwork reveals the visible, intense, and subtle layers that compose each portrait, masterfully superimposing the imperceptible. Immersed in profound thoughts, his characters invite viewers to explore their inner selves and transcend subjective perception. His artwork has graced exhibitions in Colombia, Peru, France, Hong Kong, and Canada. Currently, he resides and works in Bogotá, Colombia.
Ken Karlic, Painting
Contemporary artist Ken Karlic paints in watercolor and oil with a sense of urgency and passion that is about capturing the essence of a subject. Trained in graphic design, painting and architecture, Ken merges these disciplines in his fine art paintings with a style and voice that is uniquely his own.
Originally from Chicago, Ken Karlic exhibits regularly in the Mid-Atlantic region as well as painting in national juried plein air events. He was recently featured in The Art of Watercolour, PleinAir Magazine, Voyage Chicago, Fine Art Today and American Watercolor. For Daniel Smith Art Materials, Ken recently wrote Sophisticated Chaos with DANIEL SMITH Watercolors, Step by Step Painting Large Scale, which was distributed to their global client community.
Ken Karlic received a BFA from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. He lives and works in Bel Air Maryland.
Kraig Kiedrowski, Painting
Kraig Kiedrowski was born and raised in Montana and spent much of his life in California and the American West. He began his studies in fine art at MSU Billings and went on to the Art Students League in New York where he concentrated on drawing the figure. Later settling in Northern California he began a lifelong pursuit of landscape painting. The agreeable climate scenic beauty and California’s long tradition of outdoor painting were an inspiration in the early days.
In 2000 he and his wife Lucinda settled in the San Antonio area and he expanded his subject matter to South Texas Hill Country, the Gulf Coast and the Big Bend region of West Texas. Besides sweeping vistas and landscapes he enjoys finding beauty and interest in common everyday subjects around town or in the garden. Kraig has taught numerous workshops and taught ongoing figure drawing classes at The Coppini Academy of Fine Art, Hindes Academy of Fine Art and the New Braunfels Art League. The Hunt Gallery of San Antonio, Texas has represented his work since the early 2000s. He also enters in national juried competitions and has been honored with many awards and recognition. He participated in all 15 of the annual Maynard Dixon Country Shows at the Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts in Mount Carmel, Utah. In 2019 He won the first place $5000 award in the “Spirit of Texas” national competition exhibited at the Witte Museum in San Antonio, Texas.
Lauren Kindle, Printmaking
Lauren Kindle is a painter who lives and works in Easton, Pennsylvania. She was the recipient of the 2017 Artist of the Year Award from the Arts Community of Easton. That same year, she was awarded a partial scholarship for an artist residency with JSS in Civita, which gave her the opportunity to paint for two weeks in Civita Castellana, Italy. She earned her Bachelor of Arts with a concentration in Art and Classics at Hampshire College in 2003.
In addition to painting, Kindle is involved in her local arts community. For the past five years, she has managed a weekly figure drawing group at Lafayette College for local artists. She teaches private painting lessons and workshops from her downtown studio and virtually.
Kindle works predominantly in oil paints in a representational manner, from life as well as imagination. Her paintings are about reverence for the moment, which is evident in the slow and careful mark-making with which she records her response to the world. In a busy, hectic, era, slowing down is healing.
Katie Knoeringer, Painting and Collage
Katie Knoeringer is a Philadelphia-based artist originally from New Jersey. Her work has been featured in the book 500 Paper Objects as well as on the cover of POST (Philadelphia Open Studio Tours).
She has attended several residencies on the East Cost and in the Midwest, most notably Jentel in Wyoming where she began her current body of work.
Katie’s work has been exhibited extensively in Philadelphia as well as nationally, including at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Annual Delta Exhibition in Little Rock, Arkansas. Her recent solo shows include an exhibition at Cerulean Arts and at House Gallery, both located in Philadelphia.
Katie teaches at Drexel University and Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia. She is an avid animal lover and jogger.
Mike Kowalski, Painting
Mike Kowalski’s paintings draw inspiration from the natural surrounds of his home in Shoreham as well as the cityscapes of Melbourne, Australia. He paints from observation, sketching in charcoal, oil and watercolor to capture the moods and images of the natural and built world around him. Born and raised in California, Mike started entering art shows as a teen and eventually earned a BFA from Utah State University. He lived and worked as an illustrator in California and lived on Marrowstone Island, Washington for many years before moving to Australia in 2014. Mike still works as an illustrator specializing in architectural subjects. However, Mike spends most of his time painting internationally award-winning watercolors and oils, as well as teaching workshops worldwide. Mike has been invited to and won awards many of the major plein air events in the USA, including artists choice at Sonoma Plein Air and 1st place at the Pacific Northwest Plein Air Invitational. In 2015 Mike won the coveted Silver Medal of Honor at the 148th AWS International Exhibition in New York and most recently in October 2020, won awards at the 100th National Watercolor Society International Exhibition. His watercolors were on exhibit in Italy, Greece, Japan and Russia in 2019-2021. Mike’s work is influenced by John Singer Sargent, the California Impressionists, Maynard Dixon, as well as Australian artists Hans Heysen, Ivor Hele, and Harold Herbert.
Memberships include:
American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society, and Artists Who Teach.
Silvius Krecu, Painting
I have been painting and showing my work in galleries for the past 40 years. Having completed my studies at the American Academy of Art, where I received two scholarships, I traveled to Europe in 1985-1991 ). to study the works of the great masters. I chose to live in Madrid, in order to avail myself of the works of the great Spanish painters; Velazquez, Goya, and Murillo, on display at The Prado Museum. From there I traveled to Paris, to study great masters at The Louver, and the Impressionists, at The Jeu de Paume, (now closed, the Impressionist works were moved to the Musée d ‘Orsay). Finally, I moved to Germany, where I lived for 3 years, continuing to paint and teach. I have been resident of Florida since my return to the United States in 1992
Bhavani Krishnan, Painting
Born in Switzerland and raised in India, Bhavani Krishnan currently lives and paints in beautiful Oregon, USA. After pursuing a career in engineering, she picked up the brush again in 2012 and rediscovered her passion for art. She has always found tremendous inspiration in nature, expressed by her love for art, hiking, and travel. Bhavani was awarded the Hudson River fellowship in 2016. Since then, Bhavani has participated and won awards in several plein air shows including Plein air Easton, Lighthouse plein air, Paint the Peninsula, Pacific Northwest Plein Air and Glacier National Park Plein Air. Her work was juried into American Impressionist Society national show in 2018, 2019, and 2021. Her work is held in collections across USA, Europe and South America.
Bhavani strives for painterly realism in the various subjects that she paints in oils. Her paintings are built upon abstract shapes of colors, yet they are representational. Painting from life is the ultimate thrill for her. She is inspired by patterns of light and shadow, evocative passages of color and exciting variety of shapes. Her vision as an artist is to convey this spark in her painting in hopes of transcending her visual experience to the viewer. Bhavani takes time to carefully design and plan her painting. She is transported to another world while painting, a world with just her subject, tools and herself. Each painting paves the way for the next one and is a stepping-stone towards her goal to be a better artist. This insatiable quest for learning and desire to create, keeps her striving towards artistic excellence.
James Kroner, Painting
James Kroner b. 1978 began studying art in his early twenties and eventually deliberated to pursue it over his longstanding study of philosophy. Something clicked for him while drawing a series of gesture poses from a figure modeling class, and it was from this click that happened again and again which opened his mind to the path he would take.
During his MFA at the Academy of Art University S.F., James cultivated a powerful shift in focus driven towards self-development as a painter. He received numerous awards including first place for landscape painting 2010 Annual Spring Show, and a full scholarship to study in Italy for the summer of 2011. He has since exhibited his artwork in a large number of shows including solo shows and various group shows. He received the Emerging Artist of 2014, a Solo Exhibition through the Academy’s Atelier Gallery in San Francisco.
We see an incredible awareness of light and atmosphere within his scenes, glowing with an ethereal vitality as if actually alive and moving. From across the room his scenes take on a striking sense of realism in some areas while in others diverge into an orchestral arrangement of tone and color, dissolving away from form altogether yet maintaining a wonderful harmony as a whole. There is a vigorous presence, and a fragility, as if he took a risk within his process of painting. He says that “While painting I want to make a discovery, the process itself is unknown and the viewer can also see this excitement within the work.” He is continually shifting his approach to fit with a result.
Exhibiting in numerous galleries for a variety of group and solo shows, Kroner has already caught the attention of collectors and enthusiasts. This established artist shows a keen ability and growing reputation, looking to be a long, adventurous career.
Jennifer Lande, Culinary
Jennifer approaches life and art from a holistic standpoint, seeking to empower while creating joy and
shared experiences.
Jennifer was born in North Jersey, moving overseas to London, and Paris, before settling back in New
Jersey. Having gone to a Montessori preschool, she insisted on being largely self-taught, often bucking traditional methods of learning. She studied art and academics, graduating as an Honor Student and member of the National Arts Honor Society.
After spending most of her adult life in Philadelphia, Jennifer left the city static to hone herself. She picked a town known for its diversity, embarking on a multi-year-long culinary ethnography project. She was awarded multiple full scholarships for non-violence training and certification, took time to learn singing, new languages, the ethics of humane computing and platform-building, methods of extremist and cult-deprogramming, as well as furthering her love of cryptology. She volunteers with educational and environmentally-conscious organizations, serving on a cultural and diversity committee as well as one for a nature preserve.
Jennifer is deeply motivated to create ground-breaking art focused on honoring nature’s light and beauty
in plant and animal form and is developing a series used to educate and inspire the public in science and
art museum settings. This is her True North.
Elisabeth Larson, Painting
Elisabeth grew up in Germany and the United States. She has a BFA and BA in painting and drawing and linguistics from the University of Washington. She studied at the Jerusalem Studio School for two years and participated in the Italy Master Class programs instructed by Israel Hershberg for three summers. Elisabeth was an artist in residence at the four pillars program in Mount Gretna, Pennsylvania and more recently at Bryant Park in NYC. She is the creator of the painting instruction website ArtStudioLife.com. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally. She currently lives and works in Seattle, WA.
Patrick Lee, Painting
Patrick Lee takes a unique creative approach to making paintings in the studio and en plein air. He draws heavily on intuition and imagination to develop an image, often altering the drawing, color, and spatial relationships to create a mood and express a feeling about the subject. This often leads to strong elements of abstraction and suggestion in his work, rather than explicit detail. This gives the viewer an opportunity to connect with each piece in their own way, inviting them to let their own imaginations make personal associations and connections. Bachelor of Fine Arts | Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.
Julia Levitina, Sculpture
Julia Levitina was born and raised in Odessa, Ukraine, and currently lives and works in Philadelphia. She creates powerful and elegant figurative sculptures in bronze that aim to capture extraordinary in the ordinary. Levitina personally attends to her entire craft process, from clay to bronze, including metal casting and finishing, in her studio.
Julia Levitina has held solo exhibitions of her bronze sculptures and drawings nationally at Brookgreen Gardens, Frederick Meijer Sculpture Gardens, Noyes Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, among others, and internationally at City Hall of Odessa, Ukraine, St Jean des Arts, La Maison Verte in France and Foundation Taylor in Paris. Levitina's bronzes can be found in public and private collections in US and in Europe, including La Salle University Art Museum and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in PA, Thomas More Law Center in Ann Arbor, Flanders House in New York City, Jewish Museum in Budapest and Van Mieghem Museum and City Hall in Antwerp, among others. Levitina is represented by Stanek Gallery in Philadelphia and Somerville-Manning Gallery in Wilmington, DE.
Julia Levitina has been an invited guest artist and lecturer at Paris Academy of Art and Montferrier-sur-Lez in France, as well as at the Cheltenham Art Center and Fleisher Art Memorial in PA, where she currently teaches figure and portrait modeling workshops. She has taught foundry and application of bronze patinas at Florence Academy of Art in collaboration with an internationally acclaimed art foundry Ciglia e Carrai Fonderia Artistica in Florence, Italy, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
Julia Levitina is a recipient of Alex J. Ettl Grant, highest honor bestowed by National Sculpture Society upon a figurative sculptor of exceptional merit, in addition to earning multiple prizes and awards nationally, most recently Philadelphia Sculptors Grant, and internationally, notably Foundry Prize from prestigious Foundation Taylor in Paris, among others. In recent years, Julia Levitina has completed a number of large commissioned sculptures in bronze, including St Joan of Arc for Thomas More Law Center, ¾ life-size nude for private garden in Haverford, PA, and an over life-size figurative bronze sculpture of St Joseph with Christ Child for Georgetown University’s Main Campus in Washington, D.C. She recently held a solo exhibition of her bronze sculptures, titled Fundamentals of Flight, in Philadelphia.
E. B. Lewis, Painting
E. B. Lewis is the illustrator of over 75 books for children including Coming on Home Soon, (a 2005 Caldecott medal winner). Talkin’ About Bessie (a 2003 Coretta Scott King Award winner), The Bat Boy and His Violin (a Coretta Scott King Honor book), Down the Road (a Notable Book for Children by the American Library Association), and The Other Side (a Notable Book for Language Arts). The Coretta Scott King Award is the premier award honoring African-American authors and illustrators of outstanding books for children and young adults.
His work is exhibited in galleries throughout the United States, and he serves on the board of directors of the Philadelphia Watercolor Club. In 2003, the Kerlan Collection at the University of Minnesota purchased a collection of original watercolors from E.B.’s first fifty children’s books. His work is also part of the permanent collection at Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center. Today, his works are displayed in museums, owned by private collectors, and sold by art galleries throughout the United States and Europe.
He is also a member of The Society of Illustrators in New York City, and an artist member of Salmagundi Art Club of New York. He lives in New Jersey.
Michelle Lewis, Painting
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Michelle Lewis is a Utah artist and mother. She received her BFA in Visual Communications/Design from Weber State University.
Working mainly in acrylics, her work reflects her love for bold blocks of color, layering and line.
Michelle’s current work is influenced by the floral-patterned wallpaper, embroidery, hand-painted porcelain and artwork that filled her grandmother’s home.
“Art is my escape. The process of creating brings me joy, and I love expressing that in my work.”
Stefanie Lieberman, Painting
Stefanie Lieberman is an award winning landscape, still life and animal painter and graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She has enjoyed a wide gallery representation throughout the United States and has been featured in such publications as American Art Collector, Atlanta Style & Design, Fine Art Connoisseur and was chosen for the Cover Art for Gallery Guide and the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association in 2009 and again in 2013.
Her works are among many private and public collections including the Rome Council of the arts, Rome, GA, the Museum of American Art in Delaware, Crozier Chester Medical Center, PA. She has been commissioned by institutions such as: the Buckhead Club, Atlanta, GA, The Vanguard group, Malvern PA, Chester County Hospital and The American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog, NYC, NY.
Ms. Lieberman lives in Philadelphia, PA where she teaches painting both privately and institutionally. Her medium of choice is oil paint due to its versatility, consistency and brilliance of color.
Catrin Llwyd, Painting
Having graduated from the Cardiff School of Art and Design in 2010, I have continued to develop my art practice. Working primarily with watercolour on paper, and oil on board, my work centres around capturing the natural world and exploring atmospheric landscapes that are both real and imagined inspired by my surroundings. I currently live and work in Cardiff, Wales, UK.
My work has been included in ‘Into a Light’ Saatchi Gallery (Prints and Original Gallery), Royal Academy Summer Show 2020, London Art Fair and Mostyn gallery.
I have had solo shows in Cardiff and have works in private collection in the US, Canada, Japan, Germany along with works included in the UK Government Art Collection.
Mitchell Long, Painting
Mitchell Long has been painting landscapes and interiors for 30 years. He studied at Columbus College of Art and Design, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The University of the Arts and received his MFA at Louisiana State University. He has been a resident of New Orleans since 1998. Mitchell shows his work at Gallery Orange and is an adjunct drawing instructor at at Southeastern University in Hammond Louisiana.
JaFang Lu, Drawing
JaFang Lu was born in Taiwan. She has been drawing and creating things with her hands ever since childhood. Her formal education in the arts started at the City College of New York University where she obtained a B.A. degree in creative writing and ceramics. While still in college, she took drawing, painting, sculpture and ceramic classes at the Art Students League of New York, New York Academy of Art and Greenwich House Pottery. She studied with painter Nelson Shanks at the Art Students League of New York and Studio Incamminati where she is also currently teaching.
JaFang’s subject of interest in drawing and painting has long been ‘people’ but she is also constantly torn among the many things she’s interested in painting and doing and the limited amount of time to do everything.
Her work has been in the solo show at Cheltenham Center for the Arts in Philadelphia in 2011 and various juried and group shows around the country, most recently Susquehanna University’s Figurative Show and Salmagundi’s annual juried show in 2019. In 2019, she’s the first and second prize winner at Studio Incamminati’s and Salmagundi’s portrait competition, respectively. She is the recipient of the Leeway Foundation’s Art and Change Grant in 2011.
Lucy MacGillis, Painting
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Lucy MacGillis, originally from Pittsfield, Massachusetts, has been living and painting in Umbria, Italy for over twenty years after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 2000. Her work is currently shown at the Galerie Lendl Haus der Kunst in Graz, Austria, at the Blue Heron Gallery on Cape Cod and at the Hoadley Gallery in Lenox, Massachusetts. She also teaches painting seminars in Italy, at the Kunstfabrik Wien in Austria and at Black Pond Studios in Massachusetts. MacGillis works directly from observation, painting with oil paints she grinds from natural earth pigments. She lives with her boyfriend, Piero and her son Vito in an old restored farmhouse on a hillside in Umbria.
Kayla Martell, Painting
Kayla lives and paints in the beautiful countryside of Wicklow, Ireland. She loves bringing to life the spirit and beauty of every day things on the canvas. Each painting is a little conversation between her and those special characters. Kayla uses alla prima techniques in her work, and maintains thick paint and expressive brushwork.
Kayla’s paintings have been shown in exhibitions in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England, including The Royal Society of Oil Painters(ROI), The Royal Society of Marine Artists (RSMA), The Royal Scottish Academy (RSA), Society of Women Artists(SWA), Dublin Painting & Sketching Club (DPSC), Graphic Society of Fine Art (GSFA), and others. Kayla is an associate member of the Society of Women Artists.
Victoria Martinotti, Painting
Victoria Martinotti is a perceptual painter based in Brooklyn. She received her BFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where she was awarded numerous awards including the Lewis S. Ware Memorial Travel Scholarship, Daniel Garber Prize for excellence in Drawing, and the Frances D. Bergman Memorial Prize. She later attended the New York Academy of Art, earning her MFA in 2018, and stayed on in New York City to work, teach, and paint.
Victoria has a special interest in perspective, human perception, drawing, and color theory, all of which she is passionate about teaching to others. She looks forward to sharing her enthusiasm for learning with all of her students, and strives to make these often intimidating subjects fun and accessible for all fellow learners.
Megan Marden, Painting
MEGAN MARDEN is a painter based in Connecticut. After receiving her BA and MFA in painting from Western Connecticut State University, Megan continued her studies in painting and drawing at the New York Studio School. She has received grants and awards from the State of Connecticut Office of the Arts, the Washington Art Association, and Western Connecticut State University. In 2019 she was a Four Pillars artist in residence at the Mount Gretna School of Art. Megan exhibits her work at the Oxbow Gallery in East Hampton, Massachusetts. Her paintings were in recent group exhibitions at the Joyce Goldstein Gallery, the University of Connecticut, The Bowery Gallery, and The Painting Center.
Susan McManamen, Painting
Susan McManamen is an award winning artist living in Snohomish, Washington. She received her B.A. in Graphic Design and Illustration from Western Washington University. She has continued studying the art of painting over the years with many wonderful instructors.
Susan has been practicing daily painting for ten years and has reaped considerable rewards from the experience. Her work is collected internationally and often exhibited locally. She has been teaching oil painting for six years through her own studio as well as more recently through Cloud 9 Art School.
Misha, Drawing
Misha is a contemporary figurative artist with a degree in Chemical Engineering that he received from Politecnico di Milano. His technical background has a strong influence on the way the space, lines, values, and shapes are manipulated and expressed. Complexity, ambiguity, emotional charge, and realistic appearance are the main aspects of his work.
Misha’s first exposure to art was from 1998 to 2001 when he was receiving private lessons from a designer and applied artist who taught him the fundamentals of the artistic realm.
Nancy Bea Miller, Painting
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Nancy Bea Miller is a painter who works primarily in oil and watercolor. She was born in Manhattan and raised there and in Connecticut. She currently lives and works in Philadelphia and environs.
She received her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in 2014. She has taught painting and drawing at various colleges and art centers in the area including PAFA, Harcum College and the Main Line Art Center. She is represented by F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia; Gallery 222, Malvern, PA; and gWatson Gallery in Stonington, ME.
Miller has received numerous awards including Best Transparent Watercolor, Philadelphia Sketch Club; the Faculty Award, PAFA; The Art & Change Grant, the Leeway Foundation; the Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts; and the Francis Speight Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts, Manayunk Foundation for the Arts.
Amanda Millis, Painting
Amanda Case Millis is a perceptual painter who is inspired by place. She received her MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a BA from Smith College. Her work has been recognized in numerous exhibitions throughout the US and Australia. Amanda lived in Sydney, Australia from 2012-17 where she taught at ArtEst Art School and was a finalist in major national prizes. When she returned to the US, she studied independently with George Nick.
Amanda has been a guest critic and given artist talks at Mount Gretna School of Art and Smith ollege. She has been awarded painting residencies at PLAYA (OR, 2017), Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences (GA, 2018), Monson Arts (ME, 2019), Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VA, 2020), the Eastern Frontier Educational Foundation (ME, 2021) and Mount Gretna School of Art (PA, 2021). In the fall, she will be the Artist in Residence at Kloster Bentlage in Rheine, Germany where she will focus on a series of paintings in the surrounding landscape. This work will be part of a solo show at the Kloster in 2023.
Her work is in private collections worldwide.
Alice Mumford, Painting
Alice Mumford was born in Bogota, Colombia. The family then moved to Norway. She went to Dartington Hall School in Devon in her teens, and then to Camberwell School of Art in 1984. She moved to Cornwall where her mother’s family roots were. She has been exhibiting her paintings for over thirty years, with many sell-out solo shows. She has been teaching at the St Ives School of Painting for twenty-five years and has made a series of short films for YouTube about ideas in painting. She was elected an R.W.A. in 2010.
Previous publication with Sansom, Colour from Coast to Coast 2015
Igor Nekraha, Painting
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Igor Nekraha was born in 1998, Kharkiv, Ukraine. He got his primary art education in Kharkiv Art College with art-teacher major (2013-2017). In 2017 entered Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, design faculty, industrial design major. Since 2013 he has begun his exhibition activities. He takes part in all-Ukrainian and international plein airs regularly. His works are kept in private collections in Ukraine, Russia, the USA, Canada, Great Britain, Greece. “In my works I'm inspired by pristine nature. In my opinion, nature the way it is, is gorgeous. I tempt to use laconic shapes and forms with color harmony in my works.” The artist's work seeks to succinctly and accurately describe the natural motive.
Charles Newman, Painting
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Charles Newman received his Master’s Degree in Fine Art from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2008, focusing on plein-air painting; he earned a BFA in Painting from Rowan University in 2002. In 2001, Charles studied painting and photography at the Scuola Lorenzo de’Medici in Florence, Italy. Charles continues to paint en plein air. He is an accomplished craftsman and currently works at Provenance in Philadelphia, PA, specializing in architectural salvage materials and antiques. He is known for his hand-crafted frames made with salvaged wood and custom home restorations. Charles has received numerous awards at Plein Air Festivals along the East coast, including Second Place at Plein Air Easton 2019, and was featured in the Aug/Sept 2018 issue of Plein Air Magazine. He was awarded Best in Show at the Philadelphia Sketch Club’s 150th Annual Small Oil Painting Exhibition.
Scott Noel, Painting and Pastel
Scott Noel began teaching and exhibiting in Philadelphia in 1980, after completing undergraduate study at Washington University in Saint Louis. Since that time he has mounted over 30 solo exhibitions at galleries, universities and museums as well as many group shows. Solo shows have appeared at the State Museum in Harrisburg, the University of Virginia, the Bowery Gallery, the Painting Center and fifteen exhibitions at the More Gallery, Mangel Art Gallery and Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia.
Noel has curated exhibitions for museums, including The Evidence of the Senses at the Woodmere Art Museum in 1990 and Imaginative Affinities: Echoes of Edwin Dickinson in Contemporary American Painting at PAFA in 2002. He has also written catalog essays for peers and forbears, including Lennart Anderson, Larry Day, Rose Naftulin and Sangram Majumdar. Noel's paintings are included in numerous private, public and corporate collections. He has received grants from the Bader Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Independence Foundation as well as a fellowship to the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. His work has been reviewed in Arts and Art in America and he has twice been profiled in American Artist.
Noel teaches figure drawing and painting in the Certificate/BFA and MFA programs and is a critic in the MFA program.
Chau Nguyen, Painting
Chau Nguyen (b. Hanoi, Vietnam) (they/she) is a Vietnamese immigrant artist and educator based in Philadelphia. They navigate the intersection of art, technology, private/collective memory, Vietnamese histories, and popular culture in their creation of transnational art objects. Nguyen received their BA in Fine Arts and History of Art from Bryn Mawr College and their MFA in painting from Tyler School of Art and Architecture. They were an artist-in-residence at Wassaic Project, Dear Artists, 77Art Center, and Chautauqua Art Instruction. Their work has been in group and solo exhibitions at the National Liberty Museum, The Delaware Contemporary, The Woodmere Art Museum, Pentimenti Gallery, Temple Contemporary, The Visionary Projects, HOT•BED Philly, Automat Collective, The Monmouth Museum, Studio Montclair, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Vincom Center for Contemporary Art Vietnam, Gallery Steinsland Berliner, among others.
Nguyen has received fellowships, grants, and awards from The LoreVa C. Duckworth Scholars Studio at Temple University Libraries, the Woodmere Art Museum, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, The Alternative Art School, The CharloVe W. Newcombe Foundation, Chautauqua Art Institute, Bryn Mawr College, DIS Copenhagen, and FPT-Arena Multimedia.
Mikael Olson, Painting
Born in Denver in 1973, Mikael Olson has been painting for as long as he can remember.
“I paint because it is the most natural way for me to define myself. I prefer to paint ordinary things, and I try to paint them honestly. Painting is my response to the intoxication of my visual experience.”
Mikael is a graduate of Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design and has continued to hone his craft through studies at the Arts Student League of Denver. He has worked alongside such prominent painters as Quang Ho and fellow Coloradan Kevin Wechbach.
Garima Parakh, Painting
Garima Parakh is an American artist living in Andover, MA. She was born in India. She moved to the USA in 1999 and worked in Information Technology for 13 years. Since 2011, Garima has been creating paintings that capture her collectors' hearts.
As a professionally trained engineer, she has a passion for design, evident in her unique work. Her style is inspired by the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist genres of paintings by Monet, Cezanne, Manet, and Matisse. She believes that anyone who understands the principles of design, composition, and color can create beauty. Creating art that brings about an emotional response is one of her key objectives.
She had painted nearly every day for the last 10 years, first in acrylics and then in oils. She is primarily self-taught and has attended workshops by Elizabeth Geiger, Aimee Erickson, Peggy Kroll Roberts, Carol Rabe, Mark Daniel Nelson, and Yer Za Vue to name a few. Garima primarily uses Alla-prima or wet-on-wet technique for Still life and Plein air paintings. This allows her to capture the light quickly and the work stays fresh and painterly.
Nicole Parker, Painting/ Printmaking
Nicole Parker is a representational fine artist specializing in oil painting and copper plate printmaking. She received her BFA and Certificate from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in 2018. During her time at PAFA, she was a recipient of the Richard C. Von Hess Memorial Travel Scholarship, which allowed her a month of travel in Germany, the United Kingdom, and Iceland to explore individual artistic pursuits of her choosing. Since graduating and completing her travel, she has returned to Maryland, where she grew up. She is extremely grateful to have recently enjoyed her second solo exhibition in 2021, titled Thresholds, at Gross McCleaf gallery in Philadelphia, PA. Nicole has also enjoyed making work and learning from other artists at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Hyattsville, Maryland, where she was previously an Artist in Residence, and is now a Printmaking Associate. She has exhibited her paintings and prints in numerous group exhibitions along the East Coast, including in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and New York. She currently works in a small studio in her house, where she lives with her partner and their cat.
Antonin Passemard, Painting
Antonin Passemard started to study painting in the art school in his home town of Auxerre, France. Then he continued his study in the Académie des Beaux Art of Paris France to later study philosophy of art in the Sorbonne. His study took him to different studios in America and Russia at the Academy of Art in St Petersburg. Antonin shows his work international and his work his collected around the globe. Nowadays he spend is time working mostly in Europe.
Barbara Peirson, Painting
Barbara Peirson studied Fine Art at Colchester School of Art in the U.K. after first training as an actor, she has combined a career in theatre and as an artist ever since. Living in the coastal town of Wivenhoe Barbara is inspired primarily by the estuaries and marshlands of Essex, painting from her studio, a stone's throw from the river that washes in and out with the tide.
Perhaps it is because of her roots in the theatre, a sense of implicit narrative pervades Barbara Peirson's works, even though this narrative is elusive. The landscapes and the figures that appear in them evoke something neither real nor imagined, more a world half-remembered.
A member of the esteemed Contemporary British Painting group, Barbara’s work can be seen in galleries all over the country and her work is held in museum collections both at home and internationally.
Keith Pfeiffer, Painting
Keith Pfeiffer (b.1993) grew up in southwestern Virginia and received his BFA in Illustration from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2016. As an Illustrator he won awards for his editorial work and has been included in Society of Illustrators’ International Juried Exhibit. Feeling limited by the focus on creating easily legible narrative imagery with illustration and missing the materiality and process driven work lacking in illustration, Keith has spent the last several years focused on perceptual painting and using the process of painting as the narrative itself. He has won the Anna Steinhouse award for Best Landscape and has had his work shown in Dreams and their Edges, Juried by John Seed for I Like Your Work, as well as The 2021 Annual International Juried Exhibit, Juried by Catherine Kehoe at Blue Mountain Gallery, NYC. He currently lives and works in NYC.
Corey Pitkin, Painting
A predominantly self-taught artist, Pitkin’s award winning work has been featured in The Pastel Journal, Art Renewal Center, Portrait Society of America, Pratique des Arts Magazine, and International Artist Magazine, and is held in collections across the world. He is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America and has achieved Master Circle status with the International Association of Pastel Societies. Pitkin teaches frequently in his local art community and regularly travels for workshops. He currently resides in upstate New York with his wife Esther and children Anastasia and Xavier.
Joseph Podlesnik, Digital Photography, Drawing, Design
Joseph holds a BFA in drawing and painting from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and an MFA in drawing and painting from Cornell University. He is one of the inaugural online facilitators for the Digital Photography Cornell Certificate Program; he also serves as Visual Arts Adjunct Faculty for Stockton University and served as Associate Professor/Lead Faculty of Art Foundations for the Art Institute of Pittsburgh-Online Division. Podlesnik exhibits his photographs, singly and in group shows, nationally and internationally. He resides in Phoenix, AZ.
Edmond Praybe, Painting
Edmond Praybe is a painter concerned with the convergence of perception and abstraction. His work pairs intense direct observation of the motif with abstractions of structure, rhythm, shape and color. He received his BFA from Maryland Institute, College of Art and MFA from the New York Studio School. Edmond’s work has been shown widely at juried and invitational exhibitions. He has been the recipient of the Hohenberg Travel Grant, two Mercedes Matter Awards and was a National Parks Artist-In-Residence at Catoctin Mountain Park. Edmond teaches studio classes and lectures regularly in-person and online. He is a member of Zeuxis: an association of still life painters and is currently represented by Y Art in Baltimore, First Street Gallery in New York City and Peterson Contemporary in Bend, OR.
Carolyn Pyfrom, Drawing
Born in 1971, Carolyn Pyfrom studied painting at the Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy, from 1998 to 2002 and at Troy University in Troy, AL from 1990 to 1995 where she completed majors in both studio art and mathematics. She has been exhibiting and teaching since 2002, dividing her time primarily between studios in rural Alabama and Philadelphia, PA.
Erin Raedeke, Painting
Erin Raedeke received her MFA from American University in 2009 and her BFA in Painting from Indiana University Bloomington in 2000, She also studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2003. Raedeke has exhibited her work extensively in both group and solo shows, nationally as well as internationally. In 2006, her self-portrait was included in the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Along with having solo exhibits in NYC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, among others, in 2019 Raedeke had a solo show at the Crisp- Ellert Art Museum in St. Augustine, FL.
Samir Rakhmanov, Painting
Born in Ukraine and raised in Azerbaijan, Samir Rakhmanov graduated with distinction from the Repin Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in St.Petersburg, Russia in 2020.
Samir participates in national and international exhibitions and his work is collected worldwide. He is a participant of Royal Society of Portrait Painters and Portrait Society of America competition exhibitions. An exquisite colourist and a strong advocate of realistic traditions, Samir creates work that exhibits an effortless and elegant aura. Luminous and fresh, each piece feels as though it has just been completed. Samir internalizes the achievements from great artists of the past, from Diego Velázquez to Édouard Vuillard. He is passionate about advancing the figurative tradition forward, and he has already developed a distinctive voice of his own.
Jessie Rasche, Painting
Jessie is a professional artist who paints groups of animals or people from her South Dakota art studio. Her work is described as painterly and impressionistic, and her collectors and fans enjoy her thoughtful use of color and expressive use of paint. Jessie's paintings expresses a love of the materials as well as the subject matter.
Her work has shown in fine art galleries and museums in the West, Midwest, South, and Eastern United States. She has paintings in several public collections, and has wonderful collectors in over 30 states, Canada, the Isle of Man, and the UK. Jessie teaches online drawing and painting classes for beginning to professional level artists, and is an exhibiting member of Oil Painters of America and an award winning member of the American Impressionist Society.
Jon Redmond, Painting
Jon Redmond is a contemporary American painter known for his light filled landscapes, paintings of architecture and intimate still life.. He is a graduate of the West Chester University, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and earned his Masters of Fine Art from the University of Delaware. Aside from being honored with numerous awards, his paintings are in many selected collections including the Delaware Art Museum, Brandywine Valley Association, Arco Chemical Corporation and Vermont Studio Center. Jon has been teaching for many years throughout the United States and Europe. His work has been featured at the Somerville-Manning gallery in Greenville Delaware since 1991.
Brian Rego, Painting
Brian Rego was born in Santa Clara, CA in 1980. He received his BFA in Painting at the University of South Carolina and was the recipient of the Ed Yaghjian Award for distinguished undergraduate work. He received his MFA in Painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Shortly afterward, he co-founded the painting collective known as Perceptual Painters as a way to establish a community of painters that could offer support to one another.
Within the last decade, Rego has taught at multiple institutions that have varied in mission and scale. These include the University of South Carolina, University of Mississippi, Columbia College, Benedict College, Heathwood Hall Episcopal School, Mt. Gretna School of Art, Art New England, Beverly Street Studio School, and the Jerusalem Studio School. Rego also co-founded and co-operated the Midlands School of Art, his own art school, for three years. He teaches online and works with painters from all over the world in different stages of practice and development. Rego believes in the importance of cultivating artistic communities that exchange information and opportunities with one another to deepen and foster personal growth.
Rego has exhibited nationally through multiple galleries and institutions, including the Columbia Museum of Fine Art, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Art at Kings Oaks, Zeuxis, The College of William and Mary, and John Davis Gallery. His work is currently represented by Nancy Margolis Gallery in New York. He lives and works in Charleston, South Carolina, with his family.
Neil Riley, Painting
Neil Riley was a graduate of The Maryland Institute College of Art and earned an MFA from Boston University. His list of awards include a Fulbright Fellowship to Italy and Klots Residency in Brittany, France. Neil has taught and lectured at diverse colleges and institutions including The Columbus College of Art and The Jerusalem Studio School. His paintings have been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums. He presently resides in Marshfield, Vermont.
Mario Andres Robinson, Painting
Mario Andres Robinson was born in Altus, Oklahoma—where he resided with his family before relocating to New Jersey at the age of twelve. His artistic gift was discovered by a fifth-grade teacher and a creative explosion was sparked in the pre-teen. Robinson studied at the prestigious Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
The work of Mario Andres Robinson fits squarely within the tradition of American painting. Robinson’s finished works bear a close affinity to the masters of the realist tradition, Andrew Wyeth and Thomas Eakins. Containing few references to modern life, Robinson’s work has a timeless and universal quality and exhibits a turn- of- the- century aesthetic. The images he chooses, which refer to a bygone era where solitude and reflection were abundant, also provoke frequent allusions to the paintings of Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper.
Each subject is very personal for the artist in both selection and execution. As the work progresses, his relationship with the sitter develops and a uniquely personal story begins to evolve. Robinson frequently depicts subjects framed within the context of their daily lives. The underlying narrative counters sentimentality and serves as the underpinning for his figurative images.
Mario Andres Robinson is an Exhibiting Artist Member (EAM) of The National Arts Club, The Salmagundi Club, NY and a Signature member of The Pastel Society of America. He is considered a Living Master by The Art Renewal Center. Robinson is the author Lessons in Realistic Watercolor (Monacelli Press). His work has been featured several times in The Artist’s Magazine, The Pastel Journal, Watercolor Artist Magazine, Fine Art Connoisseur, American Art Collector and on the cover of American Artist magazine. Robinson is the author of Lessons in Realistic Watercolor (Penguin Random House). In 2012, Robinson became one of the youngest artists to have their work included in an auction at Sotheby’s Auction House in New York. In the February 2006 issue of The Artist’s Magazine, Mario was selected as one of the top 20 realists under the age of 40. Ranker included Robinson within the top 150 most famous alumni of Pratt Institute. BuzzFeed listed the artist among the top 100 Figurative Painters Working Right Now. In 2014, Robinson was appointed Brand Ambassador for Winsor & Newton.
Public Collections:
Museo Arte Contemporanea Sicilia (Italy)
Arkansas Arts Center
Bank of America
Notable Private Collector:
J.J. Abrams (Director of Star Wars: The Force Awakens)
Gil Robles, Painting
I was privileged to have started learning how to draw and paint from a live model way back at the High School of Art and Design in New York City. I was part of a group that met early every morning before the school day started to paint from the model. The class was taught by Irwin Greenberg and Max Ginsberg and they were later joined by Irv Doktor. After high school I attended Parsons School of Design and then The Art Students League, both in New York City. My main interest has always been painting and drawing people from life. Although I have freelanced as an illustrator for Pacific Press and Bloomberg Market Magazine I couldn’t wait to finish an assignment so that I could get back to what I love to do most.
I have worked in many paint mediums and one of my favorites has been gouache, which I began to do more of when I became a father and didn’t want to have the solvents around my children. Although they are grown now I continue to use gouache not just because it’s safe but because I think it lends itself to both quick studies and finished work and because I have not finished exploring what can be done with this wonderful medium.
Tom Root, Painting
For the last 35 years, Tom Root has been painting, exhibiting and taking portrait commissions. The ongoing focus of his work is the direct experience of working from life. He lives in Northeast Tennessee where he runs a small art school with his wife, artist Peggy Root. He studied at Ringling College of Art & Design (1977-1980) and Lyme Academy of Fine Arts (1984-1987).
Pablo Rubén, Painting
I have been dedicating myself professionally to painting for more than 20 years and since 2007 specialized exclusively in the watercolor technique. I combine exhibitions, festivals and competitions (in which I have obtained around 500 national and international awards) with the teaching of fine arts.
I currently teach watercolor courses all over the world (Los Angeles, Moscow, Seattle, Vancouver, Brazil, Mexico, Florence, France, and more), at the ABC Museum in Madrid and in my studio in Griñón opened in 2010.
My work is shared equally between the studio and the outdoors. When working in the studio, of course, I always use reference photographs that I have previously studied and that I use with photo retouching programs. Outdoors I work directly on the subject but I also rely on a first image, usually taken with my cell phone, which allows me to establish the composition and fix the lights and shadows that will inevitably change throughout the working session. In most cases, the works I do outdoors are in quick painting competitions (as they are called in Spain).
I like that water is the undisputed protagonist of the landscape, for that I lower the horizon line, with a point of view almost at the level of the pond or the river that I am going to paint. With this method, the perspective lines at both ends are more open and the feeling of space is greater. The more space we devote to water, the more we can use multiple remedies as well as reflections.
Konstantin Rudnichenko, Painting
Konstantin Rudnichenko is a Ukrainian artist based in Connecticut. He studied at the Art Students League of New York with various teachers including: Leonid Gervits, Robin Smith and Harvey Dinnerstein. His paintings are represented in numerous public, private and corporate collections. Through his works he depicts the very essence of the subject capturing exquisite likeness and luminosity Konstantin was deeply influenced by the old master’s works serving as both a foundation and source of inspiration for the artist’s distinctive style.
He remains deeply committed to his craft, continually refining his technique while exploring new avenues of artistic expression.
Nick Runge, Painting
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Born in 1985, artist Nick Runge grew up in Colorado. Coming from a creative family of professional artists, he was always interested in drawing and imagining ideas visually. Starting in 2004, he began thinking about art as a career. After 2006, he worked as an illustrator for various comic companies such as IDW, Dark Horse, and many others. While primarily making a living as a cover artist, he began painting more seriously and started exploring the world of film art and traditionally painted projects, doing various official and private commissions. These days he has stepped away from commercial properties, focusing exclusively on fine art and personal work using oils and watercolor.
As a portrait/figurative painter, Nick works from life as well as photography, describing his art as something close to “abstracted realism”, with an objective of expressing as much of the realistic human element of life as possible through a limited and often simplified approach to his rendering or brushwork, giving an illusion of realism while, at the same time, breaking shapes and form down enough to have a close balance with abstraction.
Jay Ryan, Painting
I first remember painting at six: Saturday morning classes at the Civic League in Framingham, Massachusetts. I don’t think I ever begged to go and I’m not sure whether I loved it or not, but I loved paint. My guess is...I must have learned something from the experience.
Oh, and I had coloring books as a kid...all kinds. But I never colored like my friends. I can remember layering color on top of color on top of color...mixing two and three or four shades to make better, brighter greens...or richer, more interesting browns. And deep, deep, dark purple shadows. A toy light box allowed me to use photos and drawings to create my own ‘story paintings’.
Fast forward 52 years and I retired as a public school art teacher and elementary school administrator/principal—17 years of each. Lucky to live at the beach, at the end of a five mile peninsula jutting into Buzzards Bay and across the harbor from New Bedford and its fishing fleet, my first order of business was to jump back into painting and convert my one bay garage into a paint studio. I also began training as a gallery instructor/docent at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston—I could not have asked for better studies in art history and artists as I familiarized myself with their collections and became a painter.
My undergraduate and Masters degrees, at Framingham State and Lesley Universities were focused on Art and incorporating all ‘the arts’ in Education. After retiring, additional graduate studio work at Massachusetts College of Art and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts inspired me to be a daily painter. But it was my studies at the MFA that led me to exploring artists’ palettes and the colors they used. I would devour biographies, autobiographies, magazine articles, and converse with working artists about their color choices. Therein lies my self-awarded MFA and my palette.
I’ve exhibited successfully across the Massachusetts Southcoast in recent years having two solo exhibits at the Marion Art Center (2015), where I also teach, and the Maiato-Fitz Gallery in New Bedford (2021), and been juried into summer fairs and exhibitions, including The Art Drive through Dartmouth and Westport (2021, 2022) and the MAC’s Art in the Park, as well as the New Bedford Art Museum’s annual Members’ Show.
Today, most every day, I paint; people, the occasional still life, landscapes--or, a narrative mix of all three. In watercolor, very occasionally oil, but mainly watercolor...for its puddles, for its light, for its successive approximations of what I see, and for how it allows me to share what I see with others.
Mika Salamon, Painting
Mika Salamon was born in Jerusalem. She graduated from the Jerusalem Studio School Master Class in 2015. In 2012 and 2014 she participated in the Italy Master Class Program instructed by Israel Hershberg, E.M. Saniga, and Vincent Desiderio. She has been teaching painting since 2016. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally.
Manon Sander, Painting
Manon is an award-winning modern impressionist, born and raised in Berlin, Germany, who now resides in Southern Florida, which presents a cornucopia of inspiration for her. The effects of light on a subject and the feeling it evokes are of great importance to Manon as she puts down her impressions in interesting patterns, luminous color, and juicy brush strokes.
During years spent studying oil painting at the atelier-style Marin Art School in California and fine-tuning her skills under the tutelage of nationally known artists, Manon developed her own distinct, recognizable, and collectable contemporary impressionistic style.
Manon participates in invitational and juried nation-wide plein air events as well as in prestigious juried national shows. Her award-winning works are in galleries and private collections on three continents and have been included in publications such as American Art
Collector, Plein Air Magazine, Southwest Art Magazine, Fine Art Connoisseur, and Modern Impressionist Magazine. She has been awarded signature status with National Oil and Acrylics Painters’ Society, American Society of Marine Artists, and Laguna Plein Air Painters Association.
Manon feels strongly about passing on her knowledge in national and international workshops and retreats to a loyal following of students who value her enthusiasm, passion, and ability to clearly convey her process while maintaining a fun and motivating atmosphere.
Ultimately, Manon aims to communicate her joie de vivre through paintings that reflect the color, light, and joy Manon feels surrounded by and is ever so grateful for.
Nicole Santiago, Painting
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Nicole M. Santiago holds a BFA in studio art from Indiana University and an MFA in painting from the University of New Hampshire. She is an Associate Professor of Art at the College of William and Mary, where she teaches life drawing, drawing, color theory, and 2D design.
Santiago has exhibited widely, showing in over 100 group and solo exhibitions during her career. She is affiliated with First Street Gallery in New York City. Her works have been included in many art publications including The Artist’s Magazine, Art New England, INPA (the International Painting Annual), and Fine Art Connoisseur. She is the recipient of awards including as several research grants and full-fellowship residencies to Vermont Studio Center and the Ballinglen Artist Foundation.
Sean Sauer, Painting
Sean Sauer was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. He received his B.F.A. in Painting from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and his M.F.A. in Painting from Indiana University in Bloomington Indiana.
Sean is a representational painter whose work focuses on interior spaces and the landscape. His paintings and drawings are done on site and often take several months to resolve. Returning to a location numerous times enables him to focus on changes of light and activity that become a part of the work.
His work has been featured in numerous gallery exhibitions throughout the United States, including: Prince Street Gallery, Woodmere Art Museum, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Lake County Convention Bureau, the Butchershop Gallery, and is a member of the Cerulean Art Collective in Philadelphia. His work is included in numerous public and private collections.
Sean is an Associate Professor of art and design at The Community College of Philadelphia. His previous teaching experience includes the Delaware College of Art and Design and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has been a visiting critic and lectured on his work at numerous institutions including the New York Studio School, Western Connecticut State University, College of Lake County, Maryland Institute College of Art, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Prior to a career in teaching, Sean worked for many years as a scenic painter creating sets and props for television and film and then as a mural and decorative painter in Chicago.
Piper Schaberg, Painting
Piper Schaberg is a contemporary painter from Charleston, SC and currently lives in San Diego, California. She has studied fine art at both The Florence Academy of Art, NJ, and Grand Central Atelier, NY. Her background focused on the atmospheric and tonal applications of observational figure drawing and painting, combined with an emphasis on anatomy and form. Her most influential experiences were studying and copying master works at various galleries and museums in Paris, including The Louvre, Musée d’Orsay, and The Musée Rodin. Piper's work consists primarily of figurative oil paintings, which explore the nature of visual translation and are used as a means of excavating parts of herself. She currently teaches privately and in workshops throughout the US and Europe.
Jennifer Schelter, Creativity Coach
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Paying attention to yourself is the biggest gift you can give yourself. To be true to yourself, live courageously, and experience your potential though mindfulness, writing, meditation, yoga, one-one-one coaching or retreats is what Jennifer is passionate about and offers. If you have tried everything, you might want to try one of Jennifer’s courses. Participants report life changing results.
For over 25 years, Jennifer Schelter has offered and lead more than 350,000 people, 30 companies, and addressed more than 50,000 people in talks and retreats in Philadelphia, Mid-West and Mexico.
She has studied, researched, written and spoken for 30 years in the fields of creativity, yoga, mind-body connection, healing, psychology, spirituality, performance, mindfulness, meditation, and personal writing.
She works with private students, organizations and corporate teams on the subjects of Mindfulness for Personal and Professional Development. Specifically, the Mind-Body connection, Emotional Intelligence, Self-Acceptance and Memoir writing.
Her inspiring courses - Meditation, Journaling and Writing Memoir – offer life changing insight, transformation and long-term results.
She offers her expertise in 6-week courses and worked on the reality TV show Natural Reboot, at University of Pennsylvania, Wharton Leadership and Management Programs, Morris Arboretum, Kripalu Center, Woodloch Lodge and the Radiant Retreat in Mexico.
A graduate of The University of San Diego/Old Globe Theatre (MFA), who shared the Tony at the Denver Center Theater Company, and a graduate of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, she provides a unique, emotionally intelligent, creative approach to paying attention to one’s self-development. As co-Founder of “Reach and Raise” Fundraiser for Living Beyond Breast Cancer, her spirit and vision contributed to build the brand and success to raise over 5 million dollars.
Prior to founding her company, Jennifer was a successful actress and worked with some of the most talented theatre directors, designers, and actors in the business. She participated in the highest level of work in the American Theatre. As graduate of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Founding Arts Academy in the United States, she benefited from working with seminal artists and professors. Her mastery in yoga, theater, visual arts, meditation, and memoir writing is a rich asset to her student’s growth and happiness.
She had traveled to over 18 countries, working, drawing, painting, writing and creating lasting friendships. She lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia and loves her community.
She is currently writing on a memoir on her relationship to self-acceptance.
She has numerous awards and has been named Best of Philly Mindfulness Instructor multiple times.
Amy Scherer, Painting
Born 1964. Grew up painting a drawing due to an early fascination with it, combined with a lot of positive feedback so, it just kind of stuck. My formal education was under the guidance of a proponent of Le Nabis, which helped me immensely in regard to understanding painting in a far different light than merely “copying” as I learned as a child. My current focus is on observing both my reference and what is on my support in order to make a painting that is hopefully, poetic, compelling and engages the viewer on a visual level. I never think in terms of stories, sentiments or politics etc.
John Seed, Art Criticism
John Seed is a Professor Emeritus at Mt. San Jacinto College who holds degrees in Studio Art from Stanford University and UC Berkeley. During his 35 year teaching career Seed also taught Theory and Criticism in the MFA program of Laguna College of Art and Design. A noted writer and independent curator Seed is the author of Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World as well as numerous blogs and articles.
Isabell Seidel, Painting
Isabell´s work centres on the landscape - both rural and urban. She has a deep love for plein air sketching and painting, unconventional colour palettes and the strong contrast between delicate watercolour and heavily textured acrylic paint.
John Sevcik, Painting
John Sevcik studied painting at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where he received prizes for drawing and painting. His work includes Hanji paper drawings in the Youngdam Hanji Museum in South Korea, oil paintings in numerous private collections and two appearances in the juried periodical New American Paintings. John has over twenty years of experience teaching art at venues including The Delaware Art Museum, The Delaware School of Art and Design, The Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Fleisher Art Memorial and Bucks County Community College.
David Shevlino, Painting
David Shevlino studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (certificate ’84) and the University of Pennsylvania (BFA ’92) and the Art Students’ League of NY. His work has been featured in national publications and he has exhibited his work and teaches workshops throughout North America and Europe. He has also produced a series of instructional videos about his painting methods.
My exposure to art began as a teenager growing up in NJ near NYC. I began making trips to art museums in NYC when I was 15 and developed a love of traditional figurative painting. As a youth I found myself especially drawn to the old masters. Those early trips to the museum instilled in me a love of craft and a sense of where painting comes from. For most of my artistic career I’ve tried to take what I’ve learned about traditional painting and mold it into something I can call my own, which presently means exploring the place between traditional figurative painting and abstraction.
Yair Romero Sikorski, Collage and Printmaking
Yair is a Mexican draftsman and painter based in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He studied Fine arts at the Universidad de Guadalajara. Full of curiosity he went to study abroad for a year in Grenoble, France at ESAD(école supérieure d’art et design). Trying to fill in more gaps of knowledge in 2015 he went to Civita Castellana to study in the Jerusalem Studio School Master Class program under the wing of fantastic painters such as Yael Scalia, Ann Gale, and Israel Hershberg. And also in 2020 he did the seminar program at MGSOA (Mount Gretna School of Art).
Active in his community, he teaches drawing, painting, and collage to professionals and non-professionals. He also works on commissions for people all around the world. As a professional, he focuses his artistic practice on drawing and painting with analog mediums.
Francis Sills, Painting
Francis Sills (born 1974) earned an MFA from Parsons School of Design, New York, NY and a BFA from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. His work has been exhibited widely throughout the United States and he has been included in recent exhibitions at the Gibbes Museum of Art: Charleston, SC, Buckham Gallery: Flint, MI; Dutiot Gallery: Dayton, OH; The Painting Center: New York, NY; Manifest Gallery: Cincinnati, OH; Wright State University: Dayton, OH; Blue Mountain Gallery: New York, NY; and Santa Clara University: Santa Clara, CA. He is represented by Horton Hayes Fine Art in Charleston, SC, Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Kent, CT, and Sugarlift Gallery in New York, NY and is an adjunct professor of Painting and Drawing in the Studio Art department at the College of Charleston.
Francis Sills’ oil paintings are grounded in the perceptual-based, realist tradition. The artist works directly from observation in nature. In dealing with the intricacies and challenges of working from observation and the sustained experience of intense, visual scrutiny, the artist comes to understand and know his world. Sills’ paintings are dense and subtle, revealing specific nuances of color, light, and form. Often, the underlying geometry and architecture of the composition are apparent in the application of paint, the artist’s analytic thinking about structure and his methodology still evident in the finished work. Sills’ most recent series of paintings and drawings depict the evolving landscape of his garden and home in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. The work is at once personal and universal, an observed world of nature, home and family.
Oliver Sin, Drawing
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Oliver Sin is an alumnus of the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA, with a BFA in Illustration. Right after he graduated in 1996, he started his art career as a computer game concept artist in Lucas Arts. Since 2001 until now, Oliver has returned to his own school to be an art professor for the School of Fine Arts and 2D Animation. Oliver has been so drawn to art even as a little boy, he once recalled that he has started drawing at the age of 3. Somehow, portraiture just seem to be his favorite form of expression which he constantly practices, not only as an art professor but as a favorite hobby as well. Since 2011, Oliver has been lucky enough to come across a few distinguished contemporary artists as his mentors, Zhao Ming Wu, Henry Yan, and Chung-Wei Chien. Their tireless guidance has urged him to put greater efforts into capturing fleeting human expressions and paying more attention to precise composition in figurative portraits. Oliver’s first art book, “Drawing the Head for Artists” is scheduled for publication by Rockport publisher on August 6th in summer 2019.
Brian Sindler, Painting
Brian Sindler was born in Chicago in 1957. He received a bachelor of arts from Columbia College in Columbia, Missouri. Working as a musician for years, he did not take up art until he was into his thirties.
Sindler began classes at the American Academy of Art in Chicago in 1996. From 1997 through 2001, he was enrolled at the School of Representational Art, a French-style atelier in Chicago.
After graduation, he turned his attention to landscape painting, especially plein air painting. Much of his earlier work was impressionistic in style and clearly influenced by Monet and other French impressionistic masters with a focus on lighting and color. Many of his early landscape paintings were executed in and around his home in the North Shore of Chicago.
In 2004-2005, while pursuing new opportunities for artistic experimentation and growth, Brian entered into what would be considered a more tonalistic phase of his career. Whether in the studio or plein air, his work became more characterized by the use of subdued palette, the flattening of the pictorial space and a thinner paint application with broad bands of color. Going forward Brian has become very comfortable taking liberties with both form and color.
From 2012 to current, Brian has produced an amazing body of paintings that are clearly influenced by the American Tonalistic movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This work is somewhat more painterly and less abstract, although the forms are still highly simplified. In these paintings, formal considerations take a back seat to contrasting tonalities and color harmonies. The effect is both poetic and sublime.
Brian Sindler has exhibited widely in individual and group shows. In addition to gallery exhibitions, he has been a regular exhibitor at the Salmagundi Club in New York, the Plein Air Festival in Door County, Wisconsin, and the Cedarburg Plein Air Competition. He has been awarded numerous prizes in these competitions.
Hanie Soltani, Painting
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Born in 1992, Iran. Hanie Soltani is an representational figurative painter based in Tehran. She earned an MFA in painting from Tehran University, faculty of fine arts. She pursued her further training on her own, and taking part in many courses under supervision of contemporary figurative painters; Zoey Frank, Vincent Desiderio, and Alex Kanevsky. Hanie has exhibited her works in many shows in UK, and Iran. She is currently teaching anatomy, figurative drawing and painting in her own studio.
Erin Spencer, Painting
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Erin Spencer (1979- ) has spent more than fifteen years discovering and painting landscapes and seascapes from around the country as well as in Europe. She lives and works in Rhode Island with her husband, Peter, their three children. Erin views landscape painting as a lifelong pursuit, and feels she has just started to scratch the surface of possibilities. She has been exhibiting since 2008, and her paintings are included in collections around the world.
Hilla Spitzer, Drawing & Painting
Born 1985, Israel
Lives and works in Tel Aviv
Education
2022-2021 MFA, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
2012-2008 BFA, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
2010 Student exchange program, Rietfeld Academy of Art and Design
2019 Painting lessons with Leonid Balkalav
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Small exhibition, Haneviim gallery, Haifa, Curator: Rotem Amizur
2018 From the kitchen window, Project room, Rosenfeld galley, Tel Aviv, Curator: Maya Frenkel Tene
2017 We are the wilderness that you came to bloom, Minshar gallery, Tel Aviv, curator : Sagie Refael
2017 Paintings from Beer Sheva, The Ben Guryon University art gallery, Beer Sheva, curator: Haim Maor
2017 Artist wall - Folding paintings, Rozin center, curator: Karni Barzilai
2015 An Elephant smile, K collage gallery, Beer Sheva, curator : Israel Rabinovitz
2014 Make yourself at home, Monio gallery, Kibutz Kfar Masrik, curators : Marina Sipher and vered koren
Clyde Steadman, Painting
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Clyde developed his skills by combining years of working from life in figure, landscape, and still life while studying with Quang Ho and Daniel Sprick, among others. He is known for combining technical virtuosity with emotional directness in his oil paintings. He has exhibited in a variety of Denver galleries, and shown in Santa Fe, and Taos, New Mexico; Destin, Florida; and Colorado Springs, Colorado. Presently he is represented by Lovetts Gallery in Tulsa Oklahoma; and Abend Gallery in Denver Colorado. He is collected internationally, and is represented in the collections of Kaiser Permanente, Children's Hospital, St. Joseph’s Hospital Denver, and PNC Bank.
Tom Stevenson, Painting
Tom Stevenson ROI SWAc is based in Devon, England where he works from life to create paintings that follow a path between figurative and abstract styles to explain the light and colour of his surroundings.
In his paintings Tom relies upon the uncontrollability of oil as a medium to build a fresh and organic surface.
He works from life and is drawn to subjects such as the coast, figures and the dramatic skies seen over the surrounding countryside. His work is underpinned by strong composition and is often constructed around a simple compositional idea or collection of colours which form the starting point and focus of the painting.
Tom is an elected member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI) and an Academician of the South West
Academy (SWAc). He studied at Plymouth College of Art and Design, Bath School of Art and holds a degree in Fine Art from Exeter College of Art and Design.
David Stier, Painting
Education
1999-2003 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1994 BA., Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, Fine Art Major
Haidee-Jo Summers, Painting
Haidee-Jo, VPROI RSMA, is a full-time professional artist known for painting landscapes and seascapes 'en plein air’. Vice President of the Royal Institute of Oil painters (ROI) and full member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists (RSMA) her work can be seen each year at the Mall Galleries in London in these prestigious society exhibitions. Haidee-Jo is an editorial consultant for The Artist magazine and author of two books on oil painting with Search Press, ‘Vibrant Oils’ and ‘Plein air painting in oils’. Although oils are very much her preferred medium, in the 1990’s Haidee-Jo produced a large body of work for the Encyclopaedia of Watercolour Techniques and is an avid sketcher. In recent years she has been invited to judge UK and international plein air events, after winning many prizes for her work which features fresh and vibrant brushwork coupled with keen drawing and observational skills.
Haidee-Jo gained a degree in illustration following an art foundation course and graduated in 1994. She has been exhibiting and teaching ever since, in recent years having cut back on teaching commitments to focus on painting and writing. She believes very much in continuing to grow and develop, all the while striving to express her personal voice in paint and to do so more and more succinctly.
Vadim Suvorov, Painting
Vadym Suvorov is a Ukrainian realist painter. Born in 1986 in the Nikolaev region. Studied at the College of Culture. In 2010 he graduated from the Odessa Art College named after Mitrofan Grekov. Then he studied at the Kharkov Academy of Design and Arts. For a long time he took part in the project "Realism without US Borders". Participant of Ukrainian and international exhibitions. Works in the genres of portrait, landscape, still life. In his works he uses the achievements of classical realistic art. Teacher, since 2020 has been teaching online courses in composition and painting based on the French artist Édouard Vuillard.
Abigail Synnestvedt, Painting
Synnestvedt grew up in a small rural town near Kutztown, Pennsylvania. She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts graduating with a BFA and Certificate in Painting in 2015. Abigail has won 2 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grants and currently teaches art in the North East suburbs of Philadelphia.
Tim Tait, Painting
I am an artist and a designer.
The phenomenology of visual perception (the experience of light, color, space, form, and time) is a constant source of intrigue for me. Observing and remembering — these allow me to physically mark what I perceive.
Memory plays a critical role in making sense of the experience of seeing. I’m fascinated by how our eyes and mind process, comprehend, and construct what we see and experience. In the process of painting, what we see may become a place — creating an image that becomes a physically and emotionally significant landmark in our life experience.
Originally from Long Island, NY, Tim Tait earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute. He now lives and paints in the woods of Rhode Island.
Crystal Tan, Painting
Crystal is a self-taught watercolour floral artist born and raised in Singapore, but is now based in Warburton, Victoria, Australia. She is obsessed with painting flowers and is known for her bright, joyful, colourful, loose floral paintings.
She learnt everything she knows about art online. And ironically, was never an arty child. The meditative qualities of painting and be flow state benefits it brings is why she keeps at it. Art making can also bring a side of perfectionism that can be debilitating. So in her classes and art, there is an effortless ease, acceptance, permission and expansiveness that is always present.
Flowers inspire her most as flowers are the like the accents of the natural world. The show stoppers. The "look at me" wow factor. They are also delicate, fragile, and fleeting. The beauty, depth, layers, and variety of flowers make a perfect subject for artists.
She has sold her work online, at art markets in Australia, and is now also teaching simple watercolour tutorials on Youtube www.youtube.com/@crystaltanart and has a growing following on Instagram www.instagram.com/crystaltanart
She has plans to exhibit her art, as well as delve into surface pattern design and textiles.
In her past career, she was an advertising/marketing executive. And now, when she is not painting, she is a busy mum to 2 active boys who are 8 and 10. And she also teaches yoga part-time at her local studio.
Liam Murphy Torres, Painting
Liam Murphy Torres is a perceptual painter, draftsman, and teacher based in West Philadelphia. He has studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Art Students League of New York, and Mt. Gretna School of Art. Torres is fascinated with the practice of observation and the abstraction of form, and is heavily influenced by the work of Edwin Dickinson, Giorgio Morandi, and Piero della Francesca. Like these artists, he attempts to tap into a particular brand of picture-making to create images that encourage and foster empathy; transcending literal representation in order to speak about the unique qualities of the human experience. He has shown in Philadelphia and New York City, and teaches workshops and classes locally, as well as online.
Judith Tummino, Painting
Judith Tummino was born in Washington, D. C. and spent summers at the Chesapeake Bay. Raised in Maryland, she made frequent trips to the Shenandoah Valley on holidays to visit the Civil War home of her mother’s relatives. She later attended Colorado State University. The wetlands of Parkers Creek watershed, the Chesapeake, the mountains of the Shenandoah as well as the beauty of Colorado all contributed to her love of the landscape.
Her early years growing up in Maryland gave her easy access to the vast art collections of the city of Washington, D.C. Exploration of the many galleries and museums culminated in a strong desire to participate in the arts. Love of the art collections as well as the changing landscape cemented her desire to paint plein air throughout her life.
Judith has exhibited in Germany, Rome, New York and many sites in Michigan. Her work is included in the Dennos Museum, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts and Grand Valley State University.
Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco, Painting
Ilaria trained followed classical studies and trained as an illustrator in Italy but soon turned to fine art, particularly after having moved to London with her young family in 1999. She kept developing her work by learning from the old masters and taking part-time courses. She started exhibiting in 2007 and had paintings and prints have been included in prestigious exhibitions such as the BP Portrait Award, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition, the Threadneedle Prize, the Lynn Painters-Stainers Prize and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. She exhibits regularly in UK, Italy and US.
Kathe Umlauf, Sculpture
Born to artistic parents, Kathe Umlauf was given pencils, paper and clay to play with. It was a natural extension of life in her household, with her mother being a studio potter, and her father an architect. Growing up in rural southeastern Pennsylvania, she had much contact with the horses, cows, cats and dogs in her neighboring fields and pastures, where she spent much time exploring the natural elements. She has been drawing, painting and sculpting animals her entire life.
She entered Tyler School of Art in 1975 hoping to learn representational sculpture in the tradition of Boris Blai, the founder of the art school, but found the sculpture department to have been completely revolutionized into a minimalist and performance- based studio. Not finding what she wanted there, she transferred to Millersville University which had a strong art program and offered the balance she was seeking.
Obtaining an art teaching degree, she taught for a few years before deciding to return to art school in 1984 for some in-depth study of the figure. She chose PAFA for this pursuit on the strength of the annual student show. It was the first time she’d seen so much strong and well thought out figure sculpture at an art school. While at PAFA she studied with a large range of instructors but those who left an enduring impression were Anthony Visco, Alex Hromych, Arthur Decosta and Gary Weisman. The community of other committed students were also a contributing factor- the long days working in the studios together fostered friendships built on similar artistic tendencies and healthy competition. She claims it was a rich experience like no other.
At the end of her third year there, she garnered a few drawing and sculpture prizes, and in her fourth, a Cresson Traveling Fellowship which allowed her to visit the great art collections in Europe which she had previously studied in books.
Kathe received an MFA, Sculpture from Edinboro University of PA and now resides in northwest, PA with her husband and many animals.
She maintains a studio where she primarily works in clay, and fires some pieces while casting others in bronze. Her works can be found in numerous public and private collections throughout the east coast.
Currently she is represented by KADA Gallery in Erie and Lancaster Galleries in Lancaster, PA.
Nicolás Uribe, Painting
Nicolás Uribe is a Colombian/American painter born in Madison, WI, currently based in Bogotá, Colombia. He graduated with Honors as an Illustration Major from School of Visual Arts in NY. Nicolás has had numerous solo exhibitions both in the US and South America, and has exhibited his work in Mexico, Spain, Egypt, among other countries. He worked for 12 years as an Instructor at the Visual Arts Faculty of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, where he taught Life Drawing and Foundation Painting. He currently does Painting Workshops all over the world and alongside his partner, Daniela Ocampo, creates content for their YouTube Drawing and Painting Channel, Our Painted Lives.
Laura Vahlberg, Painting
Laura Vahlberg's work has been exhibited around the U.S. (Los Angeles, Alabama, Pennsylvania, New York, and Virginia). She has studied under artists including Israel Hershberg, Elana Hagler, Sarah Rutherfoord, Susan Zurbrigg, Ken Szmagaj, and Susan Jane Walp. She lives in Roanoke, Virginia and received her Bachelors in Fine Arts at James Madison University.
Peter Van Dyck, Painting
Peter Van Dyck was born in Philadelphia in 1978. He studied painting and drawing at the Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy from 1998-2002. He returned to Philadelphia in 2002 and began exhibiting his work in group shows in Philadelphia, New York and San Francisco. He has had solo shows at John Pence Gallery, San Francisco in 2004; Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, New York, 2006; John Pence Gallery, 2008,The Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbor, 2010 and Harrisburg Area Community College in 2020. In 2003 he began teaching at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where he is currently an Associate Professor in the BFA program. In 2012 he was named one of 25 Important Artists of Tomorrow by American Artist Magazine. In 2013 his work was included in the book Painted Landscapes, Contemporary Views by Lauren P. della Monica. His work has also been reproduced in periodicals including, American Artist Magazine, American Arts Quarterly, Art News, American Art Collector, International Artist Magazine, Art and Antiques and Pratique des Arts.
Patti Vincent, Painting
Patti Vincent | Artist
(Wright State University, Dayton, OH. Bachelor of Fine Art, Summa Cum Laude.) Painting began as a means of surrounding myself with oil paintings. Adult education classes and workshops were eye openers, but I was missing the fundamentals. True joy came after being afforded the opportunity to pursue a Bachelor of Fine Art. Never had I worked so hard or enjoyed learning so much. It was so unlike earning my BSN. Drawing became a foundation and daily passion. Oil painting and relief printmaking became studio practices. Earning a BFA sparked a seemingly endless quest to see great art and motivation to create art daily. My studio practice includes oil, gouache, relief printmaking, drawing, and teaching. Gouache is my daily en plein air medium of choice.
Wendy Wagner, Drawing
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Wendy Wagner is an artist who finds truth and inspiration through realism. Her aim is to strive for honesty~ to portray what is sincere or felt. Through portraiture, her goal is to capture the essence of the sitter, either through red chalk, or paint.
She received a BFA from Moore College of Art & Design, and completed the professional program at Studio Incamminati in Philadelphia.
Wendy’s work has been recognized by the Portrait Society of America and the Art Renewal Center. She has shown in New York, Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Florida, and her work hangs in several private collections.
Ted Walsh, Painting
Ted Walsh exhibits paintings in the United States and has pieces in private collections around the world.
He has been awarded two Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grants, and first prize in painting at Art of the State at The State Museum of Pennsylvania. He holds an MFA from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Ted has twice been the artist in residence at Gettysburg National Military Park. He has been the artist in residence at Rocky Neck Artist Colony, and was selected as the inaugural artist in residence at the First State National Historical Park. Ted has also been a professor, visiting artist speaker and critic, and workshop artist at various colleges, and art centers throughout the north east U.S.
In his work, Ted Walsh places importance on elements of place, memory, the environment, and history. His painting style totes the unique line where deep connection to the American realist tradition meets modern influences as felt in contemporary painting.
Jenn Warpole, Painting
Jenn Warpole grew up in the greater Philadelphia region and received both her Certificate and MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. While there, she was honored to be the recipient of the Henry Scheidt Travel Scholarship. Her work has been included in galleries and exhibitions such as B. Sakato Garo, Gross McCleaf, Avery Galleries, Church Street and the Woodmere Art Museum where she received the Coverly-Smith award for painting. She was awarded a residency at Vermont Studio Center in 2015. She currently resides and paints in Philadelphia.
Durre Waseem, Painting
I grew up in a large family that loved to draw and color, with some taking art as a career. My formal art training started when I took Art in college then earned a Masters degree from Punjab university where I taught painting and art history for next seven years and later three at a girls college. It was during my teaching years that I explored myself as an artist with better understanding of seeing and omitting. I enjoy the process of painting in several mediums like oil, water and pastels etc. Like the preferred medium my choice of subject matter also has a wide range. I have always been a plein air painter but now I enjoy studio work as well.
Jeanette Watkins, Painting
At 35 I sold a restaurant I was involved in and moved to Connecticut to start my life as an artist, studying for a Fine Arts Degree at Lyme Academy of Arts.
The course was in a classical atelier form with lots of rigorous drawing from life, and strong foundations in sculpture and painting.
After my first year of studies, I met my now husband and relocated to the UK where I enrolled at City and Guilds London Art School, graduating with a 1st in Fine Arts.
I paint from observation. My primary focus is an attempt to translate what I see and experience in my day-to-day life.
As a painter, it is always my ambition to establish relationships between colour, tone, texture, edges, and proportion with the hope that the viewer can step into my moment.
I try to notice the visual moments in my day that give me pause and capture these in paint. Part of my studio practice is regularly painting from a model.
Over the years I have been a regular exhibitor at the New English Art Club, and Royal Society of British Artists, and was a finalist in 2022 The Holly Bush Emerging Woman Painter Prize.
Mathieu Weemaels, Painting
Mathieu Weemaels, Belgian painter and pastellist, born in 1967. Lives and works in Brussels. Although it is mainly figurative, the work of Mathieu Weemaels has an abstract dimension both in form: search for radical compositions, and in substance: silence, solitude, contemplation. The starting point for most of his paintings is in the closed world of his studio. They are simple, everyday objects. Candles, jacket hanging from a nail, fabrics, tables, papers, fruits, flowers. We very often find mirrors in his compositions. The reality reflected here is like a window towards another possible reality, another world within reach. While most of his paintings and pastels are compositions with various objects, the field of the human figure is also present in a series of nudes that have evolved over time. Landscapes and urban landscapes constitute a third major category.
Michael Weller, Painting
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I’m a British still-life painter. I have a degree in Fine Art and studied portraiture at Lavender Hill Studios and drawing and painting with the New English Art Club. I’m represented by GrandyArt in London.
In 2015 I won the Le Clerc Fowle Medal for a group of outstanding paintings at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters’ annual exhibition, and the Winsor & Newton Award for a painting at the New English Art Club annual exhibition.
I’ve taught oil painting for four years, with the New School of Art in Brighton, the Colour Factory in Winchester, and the Mill Studio in Arundel.
I paint from life. There’s a still life setting. It evolved that way. One painting follows the other painting. One painting is tight, the next one’s looser.
Tabitha Whitley, Printmaking
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Tabitha Whitley is a Brooklyn based artist with a focus in relief printmaking and oil painting. Tabitha received her BFA in Painting from the Fashion Institute of Technology in 2009, then went on to receive MFA in Painting from the New York Academy of Art in 2011. She is the current President of the Alumni Association of the New York Academy of Art and a member of the Board of Trustees. Tabitha has had her work shown in galleries throughout the United States, and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal.
Lea Wight, Painting
Lea Colie Wight was born in Philadelphia, Pa. She earned a BFA from The Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1974. In 2003 Lea discovered Studio Incamminati, an intensive Atelier founded in Philadelphia by renowned artist Nelson Shanks. rising to become one of the foundational teachers at that school. Lea periodically served as teaching assistant to Nelson Shanks at The Art Students League in New York and has She has been awarded numerous awards and recognitions, an Honor Award at the Portrait Society of America’s national competition in 2009 and in 2010 as well as a Certificate of Excellence in 2011. Lea was awarded Signature Status by the Pastel Society of America. In addition to many articles she has published a book and dvd and teaches workshops throughout the US
Lea maintains a studio in Philadelphia as well as New Jersey.
Represented by
Haynes Galleries - Nashville, Tennessee
New Masters Gallery - Carmel, California
Kristin Yeary Gallery - Aspen, Colorado
Main Street Gallery - Manasquan, New Jersey
Jordan Wolfson, Painting
Jordan Wolfson was born and raised in Los Angeles and graduated with an MFA from Yale School of Art in 1991. Exhibiting both nationally and internationally, Jordan’s work is represented in permanent collections worldwide, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the James T. Dyke Collection and the Ballinglen Museum of Contemporary Art in Ireland. Jordan has received numerous awards including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, the Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant and a Purchase Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; he was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, and the Ballinglen Art Foundation in Ireland.
In his recurring explorations of form, space, and light, Jordan has been investigating the relationships between perception, mark, and Consciousness. This has led to his experience of painting as a life-practice and a means for fundamental understanding.
Jordan Wolfson currently lives in Longmont, Colorado, co-parenting his two daughters, and maintains a studio in North Boulder.
Nina Yocom, Painting
Nina Yocom is from the suburban Philadelphia area. Her earliest exposure to fine art was when her mother volunteered in public elementary schools with a program called “Art Goes to School.” Her father, an award-winning photographer, also influenced her own lens. This background, along with a liberal arts education, cultivated an appreciation for how art is a conduit of connection. As an emerging artist in her 50s, Nina feels that she is making a radical re-discovery of self, enhanced by the act of creating. She is greatly inspired by artists such as Romare Bearden, Marc Chagall and Faith Ringgold.
Nina primarily works with alcohol ink, with accents of acrylic and fine liner pen. She allows the flow of the inks to organically form the structure of her paintings, suggesting botanical and landscape subjects. She now resides in southeastern Chester County Pennsylvania along with her husband and senior rescue dog Bella.
Yuval Yosifov, Painting
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2016-2017 studying figurative drawing and painting in the “hatahana” studio, with aram Gershuni , David Nipo and Adam Cohen
2017-2018 hatahana master class with Aram Gershuni, David Nipo, Adam Cohen and Tsuki Garbian
2018- shared exhibition in “shlosh” art gallery in tel aviv.
- taking part at the “DNA Magazine”
- short course of landscape painting workshop with Elder
Farber and Ariel Berlatzky
2018-2021- Jerusalem studio school master class, with Yedidya Hershberg and Deborah Seboun
- landscape painting courses in Civita Castellana with
Israel Hershberg
2021- Pompeii excavation archeological program
2021- Moments vivere group exhibition
2021- Nick Crean exhibition
Treacy Ziegler, Sculpture
Treacy Ziegler is an exhibiting artist with galleries representing her in Canada and United States. She is the recipient of two Puffin Foundation awards for art in social justice, the Constance Saltonstall grant, Community Art Partnership grants, New Hampshire Percent Grant for the Arts and other awards. She is the volunteer art director for the Prisoner Express and has taught art in prisons for the past 10 years. She has had several solo museum exhibitions including the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Cornell University, Ithaca; Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY; Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, California; Massillon Museum, Massillon, Ohio.
Currently, Ziegler has a solo exhibition of animal sculptures at the Erie Art Museum, Erie PA, entitled, “Under a concrete sky,” October 2, 2020 until August 8, 2021. This exhibition expands several galleries within the museum and two floors. In addition, Ziegler is participating in the current exhibition at the MoMA PS1, “Marking Time, Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration which runs until April 4, 2021.
Ziegler received a Certificate of Fine Art from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Phila, PA. Prior to studying at PAFA, Ziegler received a MSW from University of Pennsylvania and a BS in mental health from Drexel University, PA.