Hilary Baldwin, a graduate of Vesper George School of Art, is an artist member of the Copley Society, North Shore Art Assoc., Rockport Art Assoc., Concord Art Assoc., Bryan Memorial Gallery, Vermont and is represented by Renjeau Gallery, Natick and Florentine Gallery in Weston, MA. Her paintings are in many private collections.

As a visual artist, I take my inspiration from the poet Mary Oliver. To lead a full life, one must pay attention, be astonished, and tell about it. While the great poet painted in words, my medium is pixels. Splitting my time between Boston, where I have a full time position in finance, and Plum Island, my work spans  all genres and locations. Street photography, panoramic landscapes and seascapes, environmental portraits, abstracts, and wildlife have all found their way to my lens.

In his early career Bill was a business professional and ultimately an entrepreneur, specializing in health care. He sold his last company to a large New England based HMO in 2005 and turned his attention to his full-time career as an artist with expertise in oil painting. Breidenbach studied under a number of great artists including Mark Boedges in Vermont, Mark Carder in Texas, and George Stricklen in Colorado.

John Caggiano was born in Brooklyn, New York, where he studied pre-engineering at Brooklyn Technical High School. He received a BA from Brooklyn College and an MFA from Pratt Institute, both with honors. His education was supplemented by courses at The Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Studio and Forum of Stage Design in New York City. He begins all work outdoors, en plein air, and applies final details in the studio. This approach enables him to capture the essence of time and place, which he interprets in his “Impressionistic-Realism” style.

Miami Beach resident Katherine Coakley has had a lifelong affinity for art. After retiring, she picked up a paintbrush for the first time experimenting with watercolor and acrylics. Later, she took up oil painting, concentrating on the landscapes of scenic Cape Ann locales. A Colorist at heart and sometimes called a Fauvist she boldly wields her paint and brush.

Steve is a juried artist member in photography at the Rockport Art Association & Museum, an elected artist at the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts and a past juried artist member of the New Hampshire Art Association.  His early work was primarily black and white images produced in his own darkroom.  Street scenes from the 1970s were featured in his early work.  Today, consistent themes of his images connect to transportation, railroads, and landscapes.

For decades, I’ve pulled on my high boots and roamed Cape Ann’s many inlets and marshes. It’s my inspiration. I wait for the spring/summer return of the horseshoe crabs, rebirth of summer’s billions of minnows, revel in the living landscape of shifting tides, the distinctive drumlins, rocky shores, winding rivers worked by fisherman and clammers. Then there’s the long, long shadows of dawn or sunset catching sails and sea birds in the air.

Dave’s passion is painting outdoors in all seasons of the year throughout New England. Dave paints in the tradition of and is inspired by the Boston and Cape Ann painters of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. He grew up in an artistic family, however Dave pursued a career in finance. In 2010 he made the decision to transition from a successful career as a financial advisor to a career as a full-time painter. Dave studied studio painting at the New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester NH under the tutelage of Patrick McCay.

A recent juried member of the Copley Society, Jeff is a signature member of the Pastel Society of America (PSA), and an IAPS (International Association of Pastel Societies) Master Circle member, an Artist Member of the North Shore Art Association (Gloucester, MA) as well as the Newburyport Art Association. Jeff creates images based on his life experiences and that are designed to stimulate the viewer to make an emotional or personal connection to each painting.

Faripour Forouhar L A - ARC is an established American contemporary painter of highest standards who pursues the art of painting with passion beyond avocation. His home is in New England. He travels to the mountains and coastlines for painting. He studied painting with the late Edgar Whitney from Pratt, NYC and completed courses in Grand Central Academy of Fine Arts, New York City and took workshops with various masters. He is an scholar in the field of art and visual perception and has designed and conducted successful courses on this subject in the University of Connecticut.

Robert ( Bob) Frascella has been working almost exclusively in pastel since 1997 focusing mainly on landscape and maritime scenes of New England. Many observers comment on the nearly photographic quality of his images, which is challenging to achieve in pastel. “What I like about pastel is its luminosity and its ability to capture light in an way that brings a scene to life.”

Paul George has been painting watercolor and oils for almost 30 years and has been teaching Painting for more than twenty-five years in the US and Europe. He is also a Marine Master at the Gallery at Mystic Seaport. Paul is a signature member of the New England Watercolor Society, Rockport Art Association & Museum, and the Northshore Arts Association.

Born in New York City, Richard, an award-winning painter and graphic designer moved to Boston to attend the Vesper George School of Art where he was introduced to the Boston School of Painting by Robert Douglas Hunter and Robert Cormier, both former R.H.Ives Gammell students. After graduation he continued to study pastel portrait painting while working as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator in the Boston area and at The Boston Globe newspaper.

Bill Gotha has been painting all his life but began painting professionally in 2014. He specializes in New England landscapes and seascapes. His favorite medium is oil paint. He paints en plein air and in his studio in Andover, MA. Bill is a juried member of North Shore Arts Association.

Larry is an award-winning New England based landscape artist, working both in-studio and en plein air. Wherever sea and land meet the sky in a dramatic way, he will either be painting…or wishing he were. Cape Ann, the Maine coast and islands, Vermont hills, the Pacific headlands and Sierra foothills, and Swiss Alps all figure in his work. Informed by his training as a geographer and mapmaker and inspired by the California impressionists and Swiss alpine painters, Larry strives to capture light, topography, and the forces of nature.

Jeff Halpern is a lifelong photographer. As a teen, he saved money he earned from doing chores to buy his first SLR camera, a Pentax ME Super, which proved to be the beginning of lifelong love for photography. That camera was his first big purchase and he couldn't have been prouder or more excited to own it. With encouragement from his parents and a constant desire to learn from others, he took a number of International Center for Photography courses, which furthered his passion for the photographic art form and led to his 4+ decade (and counting) career in photography.

Strong light and cast shadows can make the most ordinary scenes appear magical for Dave. Late afternoon light breaking through trees, reflecting off water, or falling across an old tractor and casting interesting shadows all inspire hope and happiness in him. Dave hopes to convey that feeling in his art.

“Everyday scenes intrigue me the most; be it a barren landscape, boats in the harbor or city life on a busy day. I observe how the light plays into the scene and reflects off the subjects. I work to capture that light while enhancing my point-of-interest in the painting.”

 “When painting, I have the feeling that all is right with world....” Passionate about drawing & painting since childhood Kirk Larsen is known mostly for his plein air landscapes/seascapes and nautical works. Local collectors say he’s one of the best to ever paint the true colors, feel and essence of the backshore. He seeks to capture the serenity or drama he perceives & the emotional and experiential atmosphere of each location.

A classical opera singer & voice teacher by trade, I have always been interested in art, but never formally trained on it. My favorite subjects are flowers, animals, still life, and more recently, portraits. I’m convinced that art must go far beyond technique to touch people’s hearts. As a performer, with a significant musical theater background I often find myself attracted to the story behind the character.

Dylan McKnight is a Boston-based artist recognized for his impressionistic watercolors that express with depth the essence of the region's landscapes and communities. A 2002 graduate of the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts (Old Lyme, CT) with a BFA, McKnight has cultivated a versatile artistic practice encompassing drawing, oil painting, printmaking, and sculpture.

Painting landscapes connects me deeply to a place, allowing me to translate that experience into visual form. My process begins with being present in the landscape, gazing at a scene that compels me to stop, engage, and understand its essence. From roughing out a drawing to the final strokes of paint, the journey is both challenging and fulfilling as I search for the graceful curves of branches, the sharpness of a cresting wave, or the warmth of sunlight slanting across a frozen river.

KT Morse earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Massachusetts in 1976. She has been painting primarily in oils for the past 18 years and has been accepted as an artist member at the Copley Society of Boston, the Rockport Art Association & Museum, North Shore Art Association, the Hudson Valley Art Association, Lyme Art Association, and the National Association of Women Artists.

Since becoming a serious photographer, I have grown to love viewing the world as if I were looking through a camera’s lens. Seeing the world as an opportunity to compose images, I capture that feeling with my camera. I am most fulfilled documenting these small glimpses of life in the permanent media of photography.

Mary Rose O'Connell, a lifelong resident of Massachusetts, is a classically trained artist and teacher. She is primarily an oil painter with concentrations in portrait, seascape, landscape, and still life painting. Her paintings and commission works are available in both oil and acrylic with a wide range of options from gallery wrap to gilded framing. The paintings are often done from life and may also be done from high quality photographs when desired.

Dianne Panarelli Miller is a world renowned artist painting in Bermuda, Canada and Europe. She is an award-winning Boston based “plain air painter“ of color and light and is a “Copley Master” at the Copley Society and Boston. She is also a member of the Salmagundi Club in New York. Her approach combines the classic atelier training of the “Boston School”, a mastery of technique with her own personal style expressed through the harmony of color and design.

Charles Peer has been a resident of small towns in Arkansas most of his life. In 1987 he assumed a teaching position in the Dept. of Visual Arts at John Brown University in Siloam Springs, AR, a position which he held for 32 years. During those years he both taught full-time at the university and maintained his private studio. Peer earned the Master Circle designation from the International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS). i

I grew up in a small boatyard on the Merrimack River, on Ring’s Island. I did a lot of drawing and developed a love for art, the water, and its natural surroundings. At age 16, I studied oil painting with an award-winning artist in Newburyport. Later I married and did a lot of sailing on the Maine coast, furthering my passion to capture and convey the coastal scenes with my paintings. Now I live on the Florida coast during winters, and in Newbury during summers.

Monique Sakellarios is a juried member of the Rockport Art Association and a Signature Member of the Oil Painters of America and the Oil & Acrylic Painters Society.

 She has been schooled at the Leonardo Da Vinci School of Art and the American University in Cairo. She has won numerous national awards, including the ”NOAPS Founders Award – Best in America”.

Although trained as an art teacher, Janet initially put off her artistic interests to pursue a corporate career. During her lengthy work commutes, she was inspired by the energy and chaos of highway lights and reflections and began painting in earnest in her free time. Today, her work focuses on the variation of light in nature and architecture, remaining drawn to the unexpected beauty of urban landscapes and traffic scenes.

Eric Smith is a fine-art photographer based in Newburyport, Mass. He is also a left-brained engineer who has spent about 30 years wandering around the Northshore and other parts of the globe attempting to use the right side of his brain to crop the world through a lens and viewfinder.

Making a brush stroke that reads as an object or a passage of light. Creating a pleasing design that draws its observer in from across the room. Finding the memorable in the mundane. These are the kinds of addictive challenges that keep Janet coming back to the canvas. A graduate of the Cooper Union School of Art, she began her career illustrating books and record jackets for the Crown Publishing Group and Macmillan Publishers in New York City. She moved to New England over three decades ago, and inspired by its beauty, began to paint the landscape.

Focusing on Sea and City, Anthony’s paintings evoke feelings that touch the viewer’s soulful sensibilities. From his personal experiences, he captures the day, the night, the rain and snow with an awareness of personal place. His places become your places, your memories of that given morning, that evening bursting with light, or the hustle of a busy city. Anthony is a wonderful story teller, and a student of life. In his words we get an understanding of his commitment to Art and understanding our journeys together.

Norma Torti is a New Hampshire seacoast artist specializing in representational oil painting and drawing. She has a combination of over forty years of Classical and Boston School Impressionist painting and drawing experience. Her atmospheric paintings are influenced primarily by her recent experience in the Boston School Atelier. Some of her earliest training was residential workshops in Rockport, MA in the early 1980’s, primarily studying plein air painting.

David Tutwiler holds the honor of having his paintings hang in some of America’s most prestigious collections, both public and private. He began painting at the young age of fourteen, with a scholarship to the Art Institute of Chicago. He went on to study and graduate from the American Academy of Art with an associate in technology Degree with a Major in Fine Art. David has participated in many National Exhibitions such as the Mystic Seaport International, the Oil Painters of America, the Great American Artists exhibitions, Cincinnati, Ohio, The National Park Academy for the Arts, Jackson Wyoming, and numerous others.

Line Tutwiler has devoted her life to the love of family, faith, and her interpretation of the beauty that surrounds and inspires her, especially the beautiful effects of light and shadow to be found in America’s neighborhoods, landscapes, and street scenes. She studied at the American Academy of Art, in Chicago, Illinois.

Born in Plymouth Massachusetts in 1960, Tom Waters is an artist working from his current hometown of Essex Vermont. Art was always a part of his life, including painting lessons while in high school, art classes in college and private exploration. After a mid-life career in technology, Tom took up graphic design, a first step back into artistic endeavor. This lead to painting, at first as a hobby, while working and managing an art gallery for several years. He’s worked with several nationally recognized artists to advance his learning and develop his craft.

McKenzie West (b. 1996) is a Boston-based artist. She creates in her studio at Western Avenue Studios and Lofts in Lowell. She experiences the world through heightened attention to the nuances of human emotion, human-to-object relationships, and human-to-nature relationships. From these lenses she examines themes of vulnerability and innocence, and the convergence of the intimate inner world with the realities of existence.