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The paintings of Daniel Ambrose are notable for their extraordinary luminosity and serenity. A master of the rare 15th-century Renaissance technique of egg-tempera painting, the artist is equally proficient in oil and drybrush watercolor. Sea Light is an egg tempera painting.
Throughout his career, the artist has garnered awards and participated in many successful solo gallery shows and museum exhibitions. Ambrose’s paintings reside in important private and public collections, including Advent Health, Bank of America, BPA Canada, City of Orlando, and the Museum of Arts and Sciences Permanent Collection. Media that has featured his art includes American Art Collector, Fine Art Connoisseur, FOX 13 Morning News, Outdoor Painter, Charleston Style and Design, Art Impressions Magazine Canada and various press articles and books.
Ambrose is a Co-Founder of the American Tonalist Society and a Signature Member of The American Society of Marine Artists. He is represented by Hughes Gallery (Boca Grande, FL), Lily Pad Gallery (Watch Hill, RI), Floyd Fine Art (Pawleys Island, SC), Palm Avenue Fine Art (Sarasota, FL), and Crossnore Fine Arts Gallery (Crossnore, NC). -
As a former editorial cartoonist for Navy Times, Richard Allison brings to his alkyd paintings a fluid style that can be either serious, accurate and detailed or unexpectedly humorous.
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"Steve's paintings are the work of an artist who thinks beyond just lighting and composition – someone who has an affinity for staging drama. He should be working in movies!" — Sir Peter Jackson
The artistic achievements of Steve Anderson span huge dimensions. He has created and supervised visual effects for film and television, winning a Primetime Emmy Award for “Outstanding Achievement in Special Visual Effects” for ABC’s War and Remembrance in 1989. As Senior Concept/Show Designer for Walt Disney Imagineering, he designed Walt Disney World’s New Tomorrowland Astro-Orbiter. His many works depicting Naval Aviation are among the 13 awards for aviation art from Aviation Week and Space Technology, the American Society of Aviation Artists (ASAA) and five individual awards from the National Naval Aviation Museum including 2013’s R.G. Smith Award for Excellence in Naval Aviation Art. He is an Artist Fellow of ASAA. -
Born in 1977 and a fifth-generation native of Santa Barbara, California. Rebecca diligently honed her skills by attending classes and workshops facilitated by renowned artists. Associations.
Associations
S.C.A.P.E. Southern California Artists Painting for the Environment
Laguna Plein Air Painting Association
California Art Club
American Society of Marine Artists
Oil Painters of America Galleries
Representation
Del Monte Gallery
San Carlos St. Carmel by the Sea 93921
Waterhouse Gallery
La Arcada 1114 State Street, Suite 9, Santa Barbara, CA 93101Awards
2024
PleinAir Salon /Top 100/King Tides/June 2024
PleinAir Salon /Top 100/Moonlight Reflection/June 2024
2023
Slopoke 2023/Best Painting/Garrapata/Sept
2023
California Art Club 112th Gold Medal Exhibition/The Irvine Award/Break of Dawn/July 2023
LPAPA Less is More/People's Choice/Afternoon Glow/July 2023
California Dreaming California Art Club/1st Place/Whalers Cove/Feb 2023
PleinAir Salon /Top 100/Headlands at Point Lobos/Dec 2023
Plein air Salon/Top 100/Whaler’s Cove/ Dec 20232022
24th Annual Laguna Beach Invitational/Kinsman Family Foundation Award/Lights at Crescent Bay/Oct 2022
24th Annual Laguna Beach Invitational/American Art Collector Award/Top of The World/Oct 2022
California Art Club Biennale Celebrating California/Award Of Excellence/Headlands at Point Lobos/Sept 2022
PleinAir Salon/Best Water/California Sunshine/June 2022
Boldbrush Painting Competition/Jury’s Fav/ Moonlight at Ledbetter/May 2022
2021
Boldbrush Painting Competition/ Honorable Mention Semi Pro/ Breaker's at Indian Beach/Sept 2021
Randy Higbee Gallery Atmospheric Impressions/Artists Choice/Aug 2021
California Art Club Excellence in Traditional Fine Art/2nd Place/Breaker's at Indian Beach/March 2021 -
Bach is a contemporary realist whose paintings have over 300 awards in regional, national and international competition. He is represented by galleries up and the east coast, and is a Master, Fellow or Signature or Elected Artist Member of quite a few art organizations, including ASMA, Artists for Conservation, Allied Artists, American Artists Professional League (Fellow), Salmagundi Club (45 years), Copley Society (Copley Master), National Oil and Acrylic Painters (Master), Audubon Artists, among others. Mainly a studio painter, he works mostly in acrylic. His work is inspired by the beauty and power of nature and our fragile relationship with it, with many of his painting dealing with the sea and the life in and around it.
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Jane Lawton Baldridge is a Signature member of the American Society of Marine Artists and the National Association of Women Artists. Her passion is creating artworks about her life on the water. Jane’s art resonates advocacy for the water on our planet and promotes protection of watersheds to the ocean. Her “Sea Stories” paintings heighten the awareness of the sea’s importance, beauty, and fragility.
Recent solo exhibits include, 2024 Oceana Phenomena: Sea Stories, Sea Level Chronicles & Wisdom of the Waves, Cornell Art Museum, Delray FL; 2023 Navigation Oceana, in Lake Worth, FL; 2022 Oceana Phenomena: Keys Sea Level Stories, The Studios of Key West, Key West, FL, 2022; Oceana Phenomena: Chesapeake Sea Level Stories, Annapolis Maritime Museum, Annapolis, MD and 2021 Portfolios: Jane Lawton Baldridge, A Sea Story Girl, Elliott Museum (June-October 31st), curated by Alicia Weber, Hutchinson Island, FL.
Her short documentary film Wisdom of the Waves is an official selection in 33 International Film Festival and has won 13 Awards and 9 semi-finalist designations.
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As a child of eight or nine years old, Serena Bates started her journey of exploration and interpretation of the world around her through art. Beginning with pencil and paper sketches, Serena went on to explore a variety of media, including charcoal, pastel, and oil and acrylic paint, as she depicted landscapes, flowers, and animals. As a young adult, she studied traditional figure painting and anatomy at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts and the Rhode Island School of Design.
Upon discovering the joy of working with clay, Serena found her passion for sculpting portraits – busts and full figures, both serious and whimsical – and all sorts of critters with lots of personality: barnyard animals, domestic ones, and increasingly over time, marine animals. She added working with bronze and stone to her repertoire. Many years of observing animals in nature, at home, and in her job at the Mystic Aquarium, helped Serena develop her non-traditional approach to sculpting. Rather than taking measurements, Serena trusts her observations, intuition and connection to the stories of the people and animals she portrays, producing a “Wabi-Sabi” effect, Japanese for perfectly imperfect.
“Stories are what define my work, what drive my vision, what inspire my hands...my life,” she says. The stories-turned-sculptures range from a clay White Rabbit staring down to the bottom of a log, looking for Alice; to bronze Three Stooges fountainheads squirting water from pursed lips; to alabaster octopi and mermaids at play and at rest.
This approach has proven successful, with Serena’s sculptures shown in nationally-known exhibitions and galleries across the United States and Canada. She has won more than 70 awards and honors during her career. In the last five years alone, she has won more than 20 prestigious awards from the American Artists Professional League, Allied Artists of America, the Salmagundi Club, the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Club, the Academic Artist Association, and Mystic Museum of Art, to name a few. The artist is also a member of the American Society of Marine Artists, Allied Artists of America, American Artists Professional League, and the Salmagundi Club.
“Survivor,” winner of the Environmental Statement Award, presented in 2019 at the Artists for Conservation’s International Juried Exhibition in Vancouver, is a wonderful case. The ceramic work cracked in the heat of being pit-fired. Serena recalled a Japanese approach of filling cracks with gold and used that method, making the harbor seal look scarred from being caught in a fishing net. Wabi Sabi, indeed.
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Robert Beck’s work has been presented in 70 juried and 35 solo shows, and three solo Museum exhibitions, including his recent retrospective at the Michener Art Museum. His career has included instructing, writing essays and regular magazine columns, hosting a radio show, lecturing, and curating art exhibitions.
Beck is a representational painter with cultural focus on our here and now, with extensive bodies of work addressing Bucks County, New York, Maine, and the Contemporary Western United States. He is known for painting from life in active situations. This work has also taken him to Europe and Africa, painting people and their occupations. His writing is presently being published in ICON Magazine, The West Side Rag, and Art New England.
Robert Beck attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Among his significant awards is the Philadelphia Sketch Club Medal for Contribution to the Arts, and recognition as the New Hope Arts Legacy Artist and Phillips Mill Artist of the Year. -
Straightforward and welcoming, bold and realistic…David Belling’s watercolor style captures the spirit of the timeless beauty he finds in nature and living history.
He is one with his subjects… It’s been said that his structures lean from the paper, yearning to tell their tales. “When I see something that retains a link with the past, I’m drawn to it. My aim is to open the viewer’s eye to history that is still in use in some fashion, and stir memories.”
Belling’s art career started in Wisconsin, first as a freelance designer, and later as creative director and advertising agency partner. He always painted in his free time, and his watercolors can be found in many corporate and private Midwest collections.
A signature member of the American Society of Marine Artists, Florida Watercolor Society, and the Mid-Southern Watercolorist. -
Luc is a French realistic painter based in Lisbon, signature member of the American Society of Marine Artists. He studied art in Paris, London and New Jersey and is affiliated to the Sociedade de Belas Artes in Lisbon. Luc traveled in 2017 in Antarctica, which greatly influenced his vision of space and light. Keen on the Impressionists teachings, he practises and teaches plein air painting.
In October 2023 he joined the quick draw event at Cape Ann Plein Air Festival, Gloucester MA, and was awarded the first Prize. Some of his works are presented in Rockport, MA Folly Cove Fine Art and Gallery B in Castine ME. -
Linda Besse was drawn deeper in to the outdoors through her geology bachelor’s degree from Colgate University, followed with a geology M.S degree from Eastern Washington University. Growing up in Rhode Island, Linda also spent time surrounded by water when each summer she’d spend a month at Martha’s Vineyard.
Water, whether dramatic seas, estuaries, rivers, or streams, often makes its way in to her paintings.
Linda’s search for inspiration has taken her to every U.S. state, 48 countries, and all seven continents. She has canoed above the Arctic Circle 459 miles to see muskox, snorkeled in Hudson Bay with wild beluga whales, and crossed the Drake Passage to Antarctica in 48-foot seas.Oil Painters of America National Exhibit, Animal Award of Excellence 2021
OPA Western Regional Exhibit, Animal Award of Excellence 2018
Coos Art Museum, 28th Annual Maritime Exhibit, Director’s Choice Award 2022
Challenges of Climate Change by Science Art-nature, 3rd Place 2021
National Oil & Acrylic Painters Society, Spring Online Show Best in Show 2020
Small Works - BIA Award of Merit 2024
Birds in Art, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, accepted 11 times
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Jay Brooks started his journey in painting with his mentor, Charles Movalli back in 1982. Soon after, Brooks received a BFA from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1988 and also an MFA from Columbia University in 1990. Jay Brooks participated in several Plein air competitions between 2017 and 2019, which included Cape Ann Plein Air, Plein Air Easton and the Adirondack Plein Air Festival. Brooks won an honorable mention at the Plein Air Easton quick draw in 2018, and won first place at the Adirondack Plein Air Festival also in 2018. Jay Brooks is currently showing at The River Gallery in Narrowsburg, NY and the Camden Falls Gallery in Camden, ME. Brooks was recently accepted into the 41st Schaefer International Marine Art Exhibition and Sale at The Sailing Museum in Newport, RI. Jay Brooks is a current member of The Salmagundi Club, Oil Painters of America, American Impressionist Society and American Society of Marine Artists.
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Julian Bruere is the current President of the Australian Society of Marine Artists. His Marine painting is generally of Sea Battles from 15th to 18th century. Working drawings based on research are worked up into illustrative watercolours, where his interest in the narrative behind the research is painted in a realist manner. He has won the Best Traditional Work in the Mission to Seafarers ANL Maritime Awards 2009 and 2016. As an Aust.S.M.A member he exhibited in the 1st International Online Marine Art Exhibition 2021. He is a member of The Australian Watercolour Institute and travelled and painted in Europe (2011), New Zealand (2014), China 2016 and England (2017).
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John is an award winning Elected/Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society, American Society of Marine Artists, National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society, and the Salmagundi Club, as well as Academic Artists, Hudson Valley Art, Lyme Art, Northshore Arts, Rockport Art – Associations. Some recent awards are the Texas Ranchland and Best Architecture Awards – En Plein Air Texas, Best in Show - Outdoor Painters Society, Best Artist Over 65 - Plein Air Salon - PleinAir Magazine, Life on the Farm Award – Plein Air Easton, and Best of Show/Stobart Foundation Award – Mystic International. He has been featured in twenty-four editorial features in PleinAir and Fine Art Connoisseur Magazines. John exhibits in a number of galleries including his own in Rockport, Massachusetts. His “Impressionistic-Realism” oil paintings may also be found online at JohnCaggiano.com and on Facebook.
Most Recent Honors:
Charles Movalli Gold Medal/Excellence in Painting, “Land and Light” Show, Bryan Gallery, VT Top 100 Finalists, May 2024, Plein Air Salon Competition – Plein Air Magazine
Featured Artist: The Poetry of Glass, Wood, and Steel, editorial feature, PleinAir Magazine, September, 2024
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When painting I try to portray my sense of wonder at the color, grace, infinite changeability, harmonies, and contrasts found in the country side around me. I now split my time between New Hampshire and our home in Blue Hill Maine, where I observe with great concern the ever dwindling fields, farms, marshes, and forests that I grew up loving and taking for granted.
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Christine started her art education at age four when she was enrolled in private art classes. She studied with many teachers en route to the Rhode Island School of Design and the Syracuse University School of Art. Her work can be found in private, corporate, and government collections including those of the family of the late actress Kirsty Alley, actor Parker Stevenson, former owner of Maine Times and world circumnavigator Dodge Morgan, as well as noted corporate and international art collectors.
Christine’s paintings have received top awards in national and international shows of the American Watercolor Society, the New England Watercolor Society. She is currently represented by galleries in New Hampshire and Maine. Her work was recently featured in the 19th National Exhibition of the American Society of Marine Artists of which she is a signature member.
Living on an island off the coast of Maine, part time and full-time, for nearly thirty years, Christine’s paintings reflect her great love for the maritime subjects and scenery of the New England coastline. Her paintings have been featured in and on the covers of several publications including Covey Rise Magazine, Artist Magazine, Down East Books, and Upland Almanac. -
Born and raised in South Louisiana, Laura Cooper has always been drawn water. Her paintings demonstrate the relationship between water, wind, and light. The most recent awards she has won include the Bronze Medal in the 2023 New England Regional and Juried Exhibition at the Guild of Boston Artists, the Alden Bryan Memorial Award for Best Landscape at the American Artists Professional League 94th Grand National Exhibition 2022 and Award of Merit in the 2022 New England Regional Juried Exhibition at the Guild of Boston Artists. She also won prestigious awards at the the International Marine Art Exhibition, Mystic Seaport – Maritime Gallery: Rudolph J. Schaefer III Emerging Artists Award in 2015, Yachting Award in 2016, and the Thomas M Hoyne III Award in 2017. Laura has been in numerous shows across the country and her works are in private collections nationally and internationally. Her major influences in art are John Singer Sargent, John Stobart, and Richard Loud. She served as Past-Treasurer of the American Society of Marine Artists (ASMA) and is currently a Signature Member in the ASMA. She resides in Quincy, MA.
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Priscilla is a lifelong artist and surrounded by boats large and small, for work and for play. A Florida Keys resident for nearly thirty years, she now summers in far Downeast Maine. She is a Signature Member and immediate past Vice President of the American Society of Marine Artists, has exhibited nationally in galleries and museums, and is featured in many publications and on Netflix and HGTV. She is represented by galleries in Key West, Nantucket, Maine and Nantes, France.
Priscilla has taken awards in plein air competitions up to the international level. Highlighted exhibitions include The American Society of Marine Artists' national exhibitions, Channel Islands Museum, CA; Visual Arts Center's Biennial; Coos Bay, WA Maritime Museum; and Mystic Maritime Museum.
She is known for painting water, especially the transparency and reflections of the water’s edge. A lifelong artist, she paints primarily in oils and gouache. She has built an amphibious easel and taken it to several locations to develop a series of "from the water" studies. -
Donald Curran`s career as an artist never had any one defining point. Art has always been a focal part of his life. His drive to draw and paint always pushed him to pursue a career in art.
After graduating from high school, he studied at the Kansas City Art Institute. In 1975 Donald began a career as a successful illustrator. As an illustrator he is best known for designing and illustrating high end collectable steins for Anheuser- Busch, Inc. After twenty years of working for hundreds of major national and international companies, he decided to devote himself to his first love of fine art painting.
ASSOCIATIONS:
-SIGNATURE MEMBER, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MARINE ARTISTS
-SIGNATURE MEMBER, OIL PAINTERS OF AMERICA
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American artist Matthew Cutter aims to capture the beauty and solitude of the landscape; adept with both oil and acrylic, he paints his surroundings with sensitivity and poetic expression. While a simple color harmony or pattern in nature is often the source of inspiration, employing a variety of techniques and tools keeps Matthew’s work fresh and exciting.
In 2019, Matthew won the Best of Show award in the National Oil & Acrylic Painters' Society Best of America Juried Exhibition with his painting "Seasoned". He is a Signature Member of both NOAPS and ASMA, and he is represented at Cutter & Cutter Fine Art Gallery in St. Augustine, FL. Matthew has work in several corporate collections and has built a loyal following among private collectors. -
Mark Daly's artwork is in distinguished private, corporate, and university collections, worldwide. He is represented by Rehs Contemporary Galleries, Cincinnati Art Galleries, and Folly Cove Fine Art. He has won First Place/Gold Medal and other prominent awards in national juried art exhibitions and has had nine solo shows. He has a studio on the coast of Maine and travels worldwide to paint on location.
Mark is Signature Member and an elected Board Member of the American Impressionist Society. He is also Signature Member of Oil Painters of America, American Society of Marine Artists, Cincinnati Art Club, a Juried Artist Member of the Rockport Art Association & Museum, and an elected Shareholder of the Cincinnati Art Museum. Mark graduated from Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences and has a master’s degree from The University of Pennsylvania. More information at www.MarkDaly.com -
Anthony Davis is a self-taught artist known mostly for his award-winning maritime scenes and seascapes in pastel and oil. He is a Signature member of the American Society of Marine Artists and artist member of both the Salmagundi Club and Lyme Art Association. Anthony’s seascape themed artwork has been shown nationally in multiple ASMA exhibitions, and his work has been featured on the cover of Pastel Journal, as well as International Artist. His paintings have received more than twenty awards, including the gold and silver medals for pastel at The Salmagundi Club’s Annual Members show, multiple times. He has also taught his approach to seascape painting and given numerous demonstrations across the country, and currently teaches plein air painting during the summer. Anthony is represented by numerous galleries on Long Island, New York, Connecticut and Martha’s Vineyard.
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Mike is a Signature member of the American Society of Marine Artist, a juried artist member of the Rockport Art Association and Museum. He served as a member of its Board of Governors. He is a juried artist member of the North Shore Art Association, the Oil Painters of America, and a Master Level member of the Newburyport Art Association. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design, and has won numerous nation and regional awards. He is collected in the U.S., Canada and Europe. He is represented by Sadoti Gallery, Rockport, Ma, Zenobia, Ipswich, MA and Roux and Cyr Gallery, Portland ME.
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Vlad Milan Duchev was born in 1965 in the small town of Pokrov (former Ordzhonikidze) in Ukraine. Growing up, he was impressed by the art of Russian-Ukrainian impressionists. At the age of 8, he entered an art school in the small town of Bila-Tserkov and started his journey as an artist to join the Art Academy of Ukraine. At the age of 14, being under pressure from his musical family, he decided to take a musical path. He studied at the Music College of Zhytomyr, the Music Academy of Kharkiv, and the National Conservatory of Ukraine in Kyiv with the principal in classical performance - double bass. But at the same time, he continued studying painting. In 1994, he moved his family to the United States due to the unstable situation in Ukraine. He resides and works in Baltimore, MD.
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Primarily self-taught, Lawless has experimented with various media, including acrylics, water colors, oils, pencil & ink and snow and sand sculpture. While living on Martha’s Vineyard he concentrated on painting the land and seascapes that make this island oasis so alluring to the artist seeking luminosity. He studied under the late contemporary realist Dominique Rickard and renowned marine artist Don Demers and is strongly influenced by the works of John Stobart and Richard Schmid. His acrylic painting of the historic vessel "Nantucket Lightship" won honorable mention in the Sea Heritage Marine Art Contest in 1988 and was exhibited at South Street Seaport, and two years later, "Moonlight on Nantucket-1901" took third prize and was on exhibit at Smith Gallery on Madison Ave in New York. In 2005, the oil "Naples-Morning Arrival" was voted “The Peoples Choice” in the Naples, FL Wet Paint Auction. He has been represented by galleries throughout New England including The Granary and John Stobart Galleries on Martha's Vineyard. His works have appeared in 3 ASMA Nationals. American Artist Magazine featured Lawless' artistic development and philosophy in a May 2006 article titled "Transitioning Into Fine Art" written by Editor-in-Chief M. Stephen Doherty.
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John has been painting since he was a teenager. John attended the Kansas City Art Institute and the Maryland Institute College of Art – graduating Magna Cum Laude in 1981. John’s paintings have won numerous awards and have been accepted into many exhibitions regionally and nationally. John’s work has recently been accepted into the national juried exhibitions of the Oil Painters of America (OPA), American Impressionist Society (AIS) and the National Oil and Acrylic Painter’s Society (NOAPS). Recently, in the June 2022 Plein Air Salon Magazine - John was awarded the "best Plein Air Landscape". He is a member of the prestigious, historic Washington Society of Landscape Painters. John also writes narratives of his plein air adventures and has been published in Plein Air Magazine. A complete list of John’s exhibitions, awards and representations can be found on his website: www.johnteiseman.com
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Raised along the New England coast in Connecticut, conservationist Mary Erickson has been painting since childhood. Erickson studied at the University of Bridgeport and Sacred Heart University, and initially followed a career in business management. A move to Florida in 1986 stirred the desire to pursue her love of art. She began an intense, self-directed study of nature and painting, supplemented with weeklong painting workshops with contemporary artists. Through dedication and hard work, she realized a long held dream, and in 1993 Mary began painting professionally. Since 1998 Erickson has maintained studios in Marshville, NC and Venice, FL. Preferring to work on location, she portrays the shoreline with commitment to the subject and captures the essence of the coastal landscape. In the tradition of Roger Tory Peterson and James Audubon, Mary's devotion to the marine environs and shorebirds that inhabit it pay homage to her lifelong passion and respect for her subjects.
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Sara Beth has been painting since 2003. Her background in the sciences, with a Ph.D. in optics, along with her love for the study of nature allows her to have a technical as well as artistic understanding of light and color. She has taught classes around the country and in Europe and has exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the Southeast. She has participated in many plein air events including Cape Ann Plein Air Invitational, the Forgotten Coast Plein Air Invitational and Art in the Open, Ireland. Best Vehicle, PleinAir Salon Art Competition from PleinAir Magazine, July 2024
The Almenera Art Prize 2024, 4 paintings in the exhibition
Salmagundi Club, New York City, NY, Member
Semi- Finalist, 13th Annual Plein Air Salon Competition,
Top 100 Finalist Plein Air Salon art Competition, July 2024,
Honorable Mention, Carnegie Visual Arts "Embracing Art XXII Showcase"
Best Drawing, PleinAir Salon Art Competition from PleinAir Magazine, December 2023,
Top 100 finalist PleinAir Salon Art Competition from PleinAir Magazine, December 2023
American Impressionist Society
Oil Painters of America
Portrait Society of America
American Society of Marine Artists
Cape Ann Plein Air Artist 2024
4th Annual Associate American Impressionist Society Member Online Exhibition
Carnegie Visual Art Center, Embracing Art XXII Exhibition, Decatur Alabama April 2024
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Christopher returned to art 2019 after a 30 year business career. Prior: multiple degrees engineering, 10 years commissioned service in the Army (Vietnam, command and operations, ranger & airborne), and 10 years full time artist focusing on original lithography & intaglio. Signature member Society of Animal Artists, juried member International Guild of Realism, elected artist American Artist Professional League, also exhibited multiple times with ASMA, NOAPS, & OPA. Articles or works have been published in Hyperrealism Mag, American Art Collector, ASMA Journal, Southwest Art, Plein Air Mag etc.
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Roger is an American Society of Marine Artists Signature Artist member and also an Artist member in the Rockport Art Association. He is a 5th generation Mariner with (20) years Maritime service installing and repairing international fiber-optic cable systems world-wide aboard AT &T’s cable ships. Rising to the rank of Chief Engineer, Roger is now an Associate Professor at his Alma-Mater, the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, where is the student Adviser for the Society of naval Architects and Marine Engineers as well as being SNAME’s 2022 Faculty Adviser of the year. Roger is a member of the Steamship Historical Society of America and has assisted with their educational website. Roger is a 3rd generation artist.
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Driven by a fascination with ships and ship design, I attended the S.U.N.Y Maritime College, graduating with a BE in Naval Architecture, and an additional unlimited horsepower USCG Merchant Marine Engineering license.
I am an elected Signature Member and Board Member of the American Society of Marine Artists, a member of the Art League of Long Island, National Art League, Art League of Hilton Head, and a juried member of the International Guild of Realism. I am also a member of the National Maritime Historical Society, Steamship Historical Society of America, and an elected member of the American Bureau of Shipping. -
Jim Griffiths is a Signature member in ASMA whose main marine interests are the clipper ships of the mid-to-late 19th Century and U.S. Navy ships, primarily from 1900 to the modern day. All his paintings are done in gouache on Arches 300 lb. watercolor paper. He is represented by the Russell Jinishian Gallery in Stonington, Ct, and has his own website at www.jimgriffithsart.com where many of his paintings can be viewed.
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Mike Grygiel' is a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His fine art skills are self-acquired. His interest in maritime art stems from an assignment in the Panama Canal Zone in the 1970's. HIs work has been included in the Arts for The Parks Program, The Foss Maritime Calendar and aboard the USCG Barque Eagle.
As a member of the Corps of Engineers he has traveled over the world. He currently resides with his wife in Richland, Washington where he draws on the diverse natural beauty and rich maritime heritage of the Pacific Northwest for inspiration for his work.. Mike is a member of ASMA, the Pacific Rim Institute of Marine Artists and the Coast Guard Art Program.
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Artist Representation: West End Gallery, Corning NY and Sherwood's Gallery, Houston TX
Permant Collection ff Rockwell Museum of Western Art
National Shows: Arts for the Parks Top !00: 1995, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004 Paint the Parks 2015
Awards: Paint The Parks Jurors award Winner 2015, Art for the Parks Historical Art Award 1998
7 limited and open editions, National Park academy of the Arts and Mill Pond Press
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Anne Brodie Hill is a Signature member of ASMA, Georgia Watercolor Society (GWS), and the Coast Guard Artist Program. She is self-taught, and received awards from Atlanta Artist Center, GA Marble Festival, GWS, and the Quinlan Visual Arts Center. Her paintings have been included in Mystic Maritime Exhibitions, COGAP Exhibitions, Knickerbocker Artist Exhibition, and many ASMA National Exhibitions. She is represented by Gallery on the Square, Gainesville, GA. Her painting "Brilliant" was included in the North Light Books Splash 7, and Splash Retrospective, 20 years of Contemporary Watercolor Excellence.
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Obtaining a scuba certification when young, a fascination with the sea has been my passion. Curiosity for nature drove me to a deeper understanding, completing advanced degrees in biology. My art has since been driven by this love for the natural world and the dynamics of surf. Art is another way I interact with nature. I spent many years on the New Hampshire seacoast, where my love for rough and rocky coastlines became a dominant presence in my art. My work has been exhibited in many national shows and gallery exhibitions. I am a signature member in the American Society of Marine Artists. My work has won many awards, including the Schaefer Award at the 37th International Marine Art Exhibition at Mystic Seaport Museum. In 2022, I was Artist in Residence at the Weir Farm National Historic Site in Connecticut. Currently, examples of my art are on exhibit at the Simie Maryles Gallery in Provincetown MA, as well as Sheldon Fine Art in Newport RI and Naples Fl. My art is included in a wide range of collections throughout the United States and Europe.
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BFA RIT/CCSU Elected Artist: Lyme Art Assoc,Rockport,North Shore. Signature Artist: Hudson Valley Art,
My main interest is in the field of Plein Air painting. I travel extensively to juried and invitational events throughout the year. Some Events include painting Telluride Plein Air and Easton Plein Air 2015; Internationally I’ve participated in Art in the Open: a juried plein air event held in Wexford, Irelandwinning one of the 3 First prizes. I was awarded the top award in Connecticut Plein Air Painters Annual Show, By jurist Don Demers. Top Award in
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North Carolina artist Paula Holtzclaw has gained a national reputation for her ability to capture the drama of nature on canvas. She is most widely known for her landscapes, where her fascination with light and atmosphere is most evident.
In addition to numerous solo shows, Holtzclaw’s paintings have been included in international, national and museum exhibitions. Paula has been the recipient of notable awards including: Seascape Award of Excellence Oil Painters of America Salon 2024, Award of Excellence Oil Painters Of America Eastern Regional 2023, Award of Excellence American Women Artists National 2023, 2019, Judges Award NOAPS Small Works Show 2024, Award of Excellence and Award of Merit NOAPS 2023, Fine Art Connoisseur Award WAOW 2023, "President's Award " Women Artists of the West 51st National Exhibition, Third Place- Master's Division Women Artists of the West National 2021, 2020, The F & M Bank Purchase Award, American Women Artists National 2018, First Place, Nautical Show, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY, 2024 & 2017. As a well published artist, Holtzclaw is represented by fine art galleries along the East Coast as well as CO and MT. -
Aflatun Israilov is a self-taught seascape and landscape painter who first picked up a brush at the age of 40. Born and raised in a picturesque region between the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus Mountains, his art is deeply inspired by the natural beauty surrounding him. In addition to his artistic pursuits, Aflatun founded the martial arts style 'Su-Yolu' (meaning "water flow" in Azeri), a system of unarmed combat based on the movement of water. This unique style reflects his appreciation for the dynamic and fluid nature of the world. Aflatun has taught this martial art to many students across Azerbaijan, blending his passions for both art and movement into a harmonious whole.
Aflatun is a member of Azerbaijani Artists Association, The International Guild of Realism, The American Society of Marine artists, The Eurasian Artists Association. He is represented by QGallery in Baku. He has been a part of numerous shows in the USA and Europe. -
My earliest memories from my Northern Irish homeland tell me I have always been an artist at heart. So why landscapes and the creatures that inhabit them? Surely it was a childhood spent roaming the fields, woodlands and coasts of that beautiful and diverse country. Combine that with a born desire to draw and paint and there it is. However refining my vision and skills have taken many more years and miles of canvas, countless brushes, pencils, bundles of sketchbooks and of course travel.
After emigrating to North America in 1972, I began taking my easel and paint outside where I soaked up the moods, subtleties and characteristics of differing landscapes, our Rocky mountains being a particular favorite.
I love the qualities and effects of light on my chosen subjects, be it a meadow, an ocean beach, a Teton peak or on the coat of an elk in the early dawn. My paintings are on canvas board and I use all manner of brushes and painting knives. In 1993, and opened up Ivan Kelly Signature Studio-Gallery in Toledo, Oregon.
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David Kizziar started drawing at the age of five and, despite having no formal art education progressed naturally from pencil to ink and then oils. Moved by lighting, composition, and his love for the techniques of the Master’s, David is inspired to create pieces which build from his natural artistic gift of portraying life-like movement and capturing tonal values to give perspective. Growing up on the California Coast, it is not a surprise to see that much of David’s work has been inspired by the ocean through his highly detailed seascape drawings. Kizziar’s original drawings in monochromatic colored pencil, graphite or ink can take hundreds of hours to complete with no room for mistakes. Recently, David began to create using an ancient technique used by the Renaissance Masters - the method of Silverpoint drawing – dating back to the 12th Century.
Collectors often are surprised by the gentleness and realistic interpretations of a subject that David creates which makes them feel like they are right there in the moment as the artist himself was oftentimes, eliciting an unexpected outward emotional and sometimes tearful response. -
From early childhood I drew and painted. At age eight I won second place in a national contest sponsored by Kellogg. My career in art began after retirement in 2008. My paintings have received numerous awards.
In 2010 I studied portraiture at the Florence Academy of Art. In 2013, Scottsdale Artist’s School awarded me a scholarship. That same year I took a portrait workshop with Michale Shane Neal.
In 2016, ASMA honored my work with Signature membership status and in 2020, my artwork was included in the Art Renewal Center’s Living Artists Gallery, and I was honored as an ARC Associate Living Master™ (A.R.C.A.L.M.)
My work focuses on 'the moment.' Life presents moments that catch my eye - an event, a personality revealed, an emotion/experience shared, a memory recalled. That moment is what I paint. Each painting conveys the story of a moment - even the portraits that I paint. My style of painting is best described as romantic realism. It falls between impressionism and realism. -
Born, raised and classically trained in China, Shuang Li received her BA Degree in Graphic Design and Master's Degree in Art History. After moving to the United States, Shuang then received her MFA (Master of Fine Art) Degree from The Department of Art, University of Oregon in 1991.
Committed to continuing the “En Plein Air” Impressionism approach, Shuang paints watercolor both on locations and in her studio, portrays the extraordinary variety of life with her unique perspective. With masterful classic and contemporary techniques, Shuang recreates nature’s beauty capturing moods and moments, light and colors with her singular poetic visual expression in her paintings.
signature member of the National Watercolor Society, American Impressionist Society, American Society of Marine Artists, Laguna Plein Air Painters Association, San Diego Watercolor Society, Watercolor West, and an Elected Artist Member of California Art Club and American Professional League, Shuang Li’s watercolor paintings have long been favored by collectors, also regularly exhibited in national and international galleries and group shows, with many honorable awards. -
Patsy Lindamood is a Texas-based self-taught graphite artist whose focus has evolved in recent years from wildlife-only to a passion for ‘scapes featuring work boats to wading birds, grain silos to abandoned homesteads, and courthouses to cathedrals. She also works full-time as a credit union chief financial officer/Chief Technology Officer. Juggling finance and technology on her “day job” with a relentless passion for creating highly representational 2-D works of art with graphite, she has produced a burgeoning body of work that has earned her signature membership in the International Guild of Realism, American Artists Professional League, Allied Artists of America, American Plains Artists, Artists for Conservation, Society of Animal Artists, and the Salmagundi Club, NYC.
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My career as an artist began in the field of Graphic Design. While employed at a Design studio in Toronto, I decided to take another course at the Ontario College of Art. After several years as a studio artist, I finally made the decision to leave and become a freelance illustrator. Over the next 30 years I would create art for clients such as National Geographic, Harlequin books and many other publishers as well as working for several Advertising agencies and few magazines.
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A native Kansan, Susan Lynn earned her BFA from Kansas State University in 1985. The early part of her career was spent working as an architectural illustrator, then shifted to focus entirely on fine art. Susan’s work has now been featured over twenty times in national art publications, including Plein Air Magazine, Fine Art Connoisseur, and International Artist Magazine.
Accomplished in both watercolor and oil, she has earned signature membership status in the American Society of Marine Artists, American Women Artists, National Watercolor Society, Outdoor Painters Society, and is a past elected Artist Member of the historic Salmagundi Club. Her extensive list of awards include 3rd Place in the American Tonalist Society's Best in Tonalism 2024, the Elta Joyce Murphey Grand Prize at En Plein Air Texas, the Michael Willing Memorial Award from the National Watercolor Society, and the American Women Artists’s Award for Distinguished Achievement in Landscape Painting.
In 2018, Susan moved from her native Midwest to Rockport, Massachusetts, and in 2019 she opened her own gallery, the Susan Lynn Gallery & Studio on Main Street. Susan currently serves on the Board of Governors of the Rockport Art Association & Museum. -
Don Maitz has been painting professionally since graduation from the Paier School of Art in 1975. He’s produced over four hundred published imaginative illustrations, including works from authors; Stephen King, Isaac Asimov, Michael Moorcock, Ray Bradbury, and George R.R. Martin. Maitz was a concept artist for animated feature films, “Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius” and “Ant Bully”.
Maitz originated the iconic Captain Morgan Original Spiced Rum character and provided paintings for six advertising campaigns propelling the product to the second largest selling rum in the world. Maitz has been commissioned by the National Geographic Society, and New York Publishing Houses. The History Channel, and art magazines have featured his maritime art. His work has been in numerous museum exhibitions.
Maitz received a Silver Medal from the Society of Illustrators, two Hugo awards and a Howard Award for Best Professional Artist, an Inkpot award (from the San Diego ComicCon), Ten Chesley awards, and an Award of Excellence from the 24th International Marine Exhibition at the Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport. His works are in museum and private collections. -
Carolyn is a fine artist based in Honolulu, Hawaii. Currently a member of the American Impressionist Society and Honolulu Watercolor Society. Carolyn has won numerous awards and has had her work juried into many local, regional, and national exhibitions. She has also shown her work in multiple solo and group shows. Most recently:
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Kirk (b.1952) developed an interest in American painting as a young man when he first saw the work of Edward Hopper and Winslow Homer. The images they painted depicted life in our country during their times and led him to make paintings of people, places and moments that he experiences today. Exposure to the work of masterful painters, Emile Gruppe, Edgar Payne, N.C. Wyeth and Frederick Mulhaupt inspired Kirk to develop a style of reduced realism in his oil paintings that emphasizes the masses, light and mood more than the details. He has studied with modern day American masters, Ken Auster, Kim English and Randall Sexton. He is a signature member of MAPAPA and ASMA. McBride is represented by eight fine galleries from South Carolina to Maine.
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While I have no formal training, I have studied with John Salminen, Stan Miller, Suzanna Winton, Don Taylor and others.
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Before retiring from the USCG, Don made his living saving lives in the most difficult and dangerous conditions that the Pacific ocean has to offer. His superior knowledge and skills as a lifeboat coxswain has awarded him the certification of a USCG surfman #108.
Don has spent many years developing his unique style of art. He is able to achieve this style by researching and viewing his subjects in their own environment, then blending his subjects in a perspective that most people never see, as in the above and below views. -
Jan Min is driven by the pleasure he finds in creating atmosphere and lights found in the lands and seascapes around him.
Using different tones and shadings, he commits the beauty, that inhabits the places he visits, giving them a sensitivity that is doubled with a latent poetry, which he strives with the viewer. Most of them are places he visit sand captivated his attention
He loves travelling and come across beautiful places, and only paints subjects he has a strong connection with.
Since 2015 he is a co founder of IWS Holland and is since 2022 the President of it.
He shows his works world around, did win numerous awards (latest :Fabriano International Watercolor certificate of Merit and a Merit Award in the NWS/RWS Exhibition in Edinburgh)), is an international jury member, gives many workshops live and online, is a respectful teacher ,has many publications in well known magazines and just published his book: Catch the Light.
Since 2023 he is a signature member of the Pittsburgh Watercolor Society
President IWS Holland
Signature Member PWSA
Master Member IWS World
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I grew up in Massachusetts, and moved to Maine in the early 1970’s. My husband and I spent many summers exploring the coast on a 36 foot wooden cruiser, and now enjoy time with family and friends on a 10 1/2 acre island in Casco Bay. I’m a Signature Member of the American Society of Marine Artists, and have exhibited in museums across the United States including the Mystic Seaport Museum, The Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary, the Coos Art Museum, and the Minnesota Marine Art Museum. I’ve been honored to participate in the Center for Maine Contemporary Art’s Biennial on two occasions, in 2011 and 2016. I have also exhibited at Bowdoin College, the Maine College of Art (now the Maine College of Art & Design), and The Pace Galleries of Art at Fryeburg Academy. I am a graduate of Smith College and the University of Maine School of Law.
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Brechin Morgan hitc-hiked across the country at sixteen. Rode freight trains. Crewed on ships in the Caribbean. Attended Silvermine College of Art. Married and raised two children. Became a sign-writer, started and ran a sign company for 23 years. Hiked the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal. Sailed solo around the world on a 27 foot cutter rigged sailboat. Solo circumnavigation awards from the Joshua Slocum Society and the Cruising Club of America. Opened his studio, painting mostly marine subjects for the last 21 years. Signature Member American Society of Marine Artists. Member of Lyme Art Association. Artist in Residence two years at Mystic Seaport Museum. Represented by Russell Jinishian Gallery, Arnould Gallery, Sheldon Gallery, Thames River Gallery.
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Debra Nadelhoffer’s work is an intuitive reaction to what she sees. She paints plein air and in the studio to create artwork recognizable through her painterly approach and palette. Recreating the feeling or movement and atmosphere she sees brings beauty and excitement to her paintings. Debra has exhibited in several prestigious exhibitions including museum shows with the American Society of Marine Artists (ASMA signature member), American Impressionist Society (AIS signature member), Oil Painters of American (OPA Signature Member) and Southeastern Pastel Society (SPS signature member). She is currently represented by Frameworks Gallery in Marietta, GA, River Gallery in Chattanooga TN, and Mackinacs Little Gallery on Mackinacs Island, WI. She is currently exhibiting her work in a one man show at the City Gallery in Sandy Springs GA. Debra taught oils and pastels at Chastain Art Center in Atlanta for 13 years and now teaches classes at Abernathy Art Center. She teaches several workshops around the country during the year.
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Rich O'Donnell is a painter of seascapes, landscapes, historic scenes, urban scenes and wildlife. He is the Vice President of the Associated Artists of Southport who operate the Franklin Square Gallery in Southport, NC. He has received awards for his paintings in regional shows throughout the Cape Fear area. He is also a member of the American Society of Marine Artists, the Wilmington Art Association and the Brunswick Arts Council.
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Ed Parker's paintings are influenced and informed by 19th century era graphics, early American paintings, historical photographs and Maritime traditions. Parker’s Yankee sensibilities combined with a deep respect for history and a sophisticated sense of design, proportion, and color all contribute to Parker’s unique position as a maritime artist with a sense of humor. He is a graduate of MassArt, and is represented by Gleason Fine Art and The J.Russell Jinishian Gallery. His work has been shown in numerous museums and private collections in the U.S. and Europe. His recent painting reflect concern for the environment and global warming.
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Joel Popadics’ paintings have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums across the United States, including the National Academy of Design in NYC; the San Francisco and the Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT.
His paintings are in public and private collections most notably, the Art for Healing Program at University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro, NJ and the United Methodist Church in Ridgewood, NJ.
Mr. Popadics is the recipient of numerous national awards and has been featured many times in AMERICAN ARTIST, THE ARTIST'S MAGAZINE, WATERCOLOR ARTIST, and WATERCOLOR MAGIC MAGAZINES.
Popadics is an advocate of watercolor and has dedicated his career to the advancement and appreciation of the medium. He is Vice-President and Treasurer of the prestigious American Watercolor Society (AWS) in New York City and a Past-President of the New Jersey Water Color Society.
He received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. He is represented in some of the finest galleries in the Northeast. He resides in Wayne, NJ with his wife Patricia and their two sons. -
Kendall School of Design 1973-75 Illustration
Aquinas College 1975-78, 1988, 1991 Fine Arts, Painting, Printmaking, and Art History
Workshops through the years.
"Seascapes, Rivers and Lakes" 3rd prize Winner International Artist Magazine June/July 2010
American Artist Emerging Artist Award 1995
Shaw Walker Award, Muskegon Museum of Art, 1982
Who's Who in American Art 2008
Signature member American Society of Marine Artists
Signature member of the International Society of Experimental Artists
Signature member of the Pastel Society of America
J Petter Galleries, Douglas MI
Main Branch Gallery, Grayling, MI
Synchronicity Gallery, Glen Arbor MI
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My artistic, and scientific life with the British Antarctic Survey, revolves around the sea: the coast, the open ocean and the polar regions. In my career as a scientist I have spent a substantial amount of time aboard ships and on the ice in the Antarctic as well as in warmer climes. In my spare time I am often at sea under sail. This is my inspiration. My subjects range from seascapes, landscapes, ships and yachts to wildlife and still life.
Membership of societies
Cambridge drawing Society (admitted 2011; President 2021 - 20124) http://cambridgedrawingsociety.org/
American Society of Marine Artists (2019 – present)
Exhibitions
2005 – 2011: Cambridge Open Studios Annual Exhibition
2007 – 2009: Nullius: Discovering Antarctica. Portuguese exhibition marking International Polar Year which travelled to Lisbon, Faro, Estremoz, Provençia-a-Nova, Bragança, Porto and Aveiro
2011 - present: Cambridge Drawing Society spring and winter exhibitions
2012 February: Landscapes of Exploration, Peninsula Arts Gallery, Plymouth UK. Demonstration 24 February
2012 Summer: Exhibition of Antarctic paintings at Gilbert White’s House and the Oates Collection, Selborne, Hampshire, UK
2019 One of twelve winners of the Inaugural Cambridge Invitational Art Contest and Exhibition: https://www.camartcontest.com/
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I’ve always been connected to the sea. Since my very first painting classes, I concentrated on painting fish and other ocean life. Within a few years, I relocated from land-locked Dallas, TX, to Atlantic side Florida, and then to the Abacos in the Bahamas, where I spend eight months a year painting in my studio there.
I have evolved from fish, to other sea life, to Bahamian fauna, to Bahamian life. I also “paint where I am” – mountain landscapes in Asheville, NC, blue crabs on the Chesapeake in Maryland, and plein aire paintings when I visit Europe.
My first approach to my subject matter was to accurately depict the anatomy of sea life. Then I was compelled to paint those creatures in relationship to each other (schools, flocks, groups). After twenty years of painting, I’m finding myself concentrating on the actual act of applying paint onto the canvas, “filling in the holes” and “finding the colors that belong with each other” rather than painting fish fins and turtle shells. I’m currently struggling with painting “unified” paintings using my favorite subject matter and focusing on contrast of light/dark, color composition and drama on the canvas. -
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Manon studied oil painting from 2007 – 2011 at the atelier-style Marin Art School, Novato, CA, and has taken numerous workshops with masters like Ken Auster, Camille Przewodek, Jove Wang, Derek Penix, Cedric Egeli e.o. Awards won in the past three years include an Award of Merit at National Oil & Acrylic Painters' Society's Best of America Small Works Show, Honorable Mention for "Best Local Hot Spot", 11th Annual Plein Air Festival at Lighthouse ArtCenter, Tequesta, FL, 1st place, Modern Impressionist Magazine Cover, 2nd place, Plein Air Event at Deerfield Beach Historical Society, Deerfield Beach, FL, the Randy Higbee Award, "Just Plein Fun" paint out, Balboa Island, CA, 3rd place, Airport Mesa Quick Draw, Sedona Paint Out, AZ, an Honorable Mention, L'Auberge Quick Draw, Sedona Paint Out, AZ, 1. Place at St. George Island Paint Out, St. George Island, FL, "Award of Excellence", National Oil & Acrylic Painters' Society "Best of America" national juried exhibition, Dana Gallery, Missoula, MT, 3. Place at Sedona Plein Air Festival, 3. Place at Sedona Quick Draw.
Manon has signature status with NOAPS, ASMA, and LPAPA. Her work is represented by galleries in St. Augustine, Naples, Tallahasse, FL, and Balboa Island, CA. -
In 1950, when I was only 5 years old, my family moved from my home town of Baton Rouge, Louisiana to the island of Aruba. It was then and there, surrounded by all that tropical beauty and intensity, and unique Caribbean culture, that I first began to express it through art. I drew and worked with modeling clay.
Throughout school back in Baton Rouge and into college, I drew and learned pastels. A tour in the Navy allowed me to experience some exotic places in the Pacific.
After the Navy, I attended Ringling School of Art & Design in Sarasota, Florida. I remained in Sarasota, and for the next 25 years or so, I worked in advertising art, as an architectural renderer and a mural painter. I have done work for U.S. Homes, Harcourt-Brace, Taylor-Woodrow, Cunard Lines, Chris Craft, and Disney. All throughout those years I continued to paint after hours and on weekends. I glaze with acrylics on panels, which enables me to achieve effects not possible on canvas.
Today, retired from the advertising world, I am able to paint full time and travel. My work has been shown by galleries in Florida, the -
Robert J. Simone's most meaningful education came through workshops with top artists in the fields of plein air painting and life drawing including Scott L. Christensen, Mary Erickson and Anthony Ryder. He is a veteran of the national plein air circuit. He received the Grand Prize at Plein Air Easton 2024 for his painting the "Shipwright's Apprentice". He also received the Award For Best Landscape at NOAPS Best of America 2023 for his painting "Joined At The Hip". And he received the Award For Best Seascape at OPA Eastern Regional 2023 also for "Joined At The Hip". Robert shows his work at I. Pinckney Simons Gallery in Beaufort, SC., Studio B Gallery in Easton, MD and Finer Line Gallery in Mystic, CT. Simone is a Signature Member in American Society of Marine Artists (ASMA), National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society (NOAPS) and Outdoor Painters Society (OPS).
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Barbara “Berne” Smith is a professional artist sculptor who creates award winning Porcelain works of traditional realism which express relationships, behavior and perspective of animals interacting with their daily environment. Ms. Smith’s insights are gained from a lifetime of working with and observing animals. Owning and living on a farm in central Virginia, along with extensive international travel, provides Ms. Smith a constant window on the personalities and activities of animals in their natural surroundings that inspire her creative works. Ms. Smith is an Elected Artist Member of the Salmagundi Art Club (SCNY), Signature Member of The American Artists Professional League Inc. (AAPL), Elected Member of Audubon Artists Inc.(AA), Member of the National Sculpture Society (NSS), and Member of The American Society of Marine Artists (ASMA). Ms. Smith's wildlife sculptures have won major awards including the Marilyn Newmark Memorial Award (AAPL Grand National Exhibition), Award of Outstanding Merit for Sculpture (SCNY), and Ester M. Bjeldames Memorial Award for Sculpture (NAWA).
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Jeanne Rosier Smith is a Master Pastelist with the Pastel Society of America, a Copley Society Master Artist, and a designated Eminent Pastelist with the International Association of Pastel. She is also a signature member of the American Society of Marine Artists and the American Impressionist Society and a fellow at the St Botolph club in Boston. She has served as an invited speaker and demonstrator at Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
She is currently represented by six galleries (Powers Gallery, MA, Black River Gallery, ME, Susan Powell Fine Art, CT, Sandpiper and Dare Galleries, SC, Anderson Fine Art, GA) and her work is in collections on six continents. After teaching nationally and internationally for almost two decades, Jeanne now offers workshops and videos on demand via subscription through EpiphanyFineArt.com, with over 160 hours of professionally edited instructional videos.
She has won many top national awards, has both written for and been featured in numerous national art publications. Her work is in the permanent collections at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Salmagundi Club of New York, and has been shown in museums around the United States. -
Indiana artist, Jerry Smith, has had a life-long interest in art, although opting for a business degree in college. He began oil painting as a hobby in the early 1970’s, switching to watercolor shortly thereafter. Primarily through self-training and workshop study he left his business career behind and has been a full-time artist since the mid-seventies. Jerry was introduced to plein-air painting in a 1976 workshop taught by Don Stone in Rockport, MA. This trip also inspired a fascination with the painting opportunities offered by the New England coastline and has had a major impact on his work. Annual painting trips to the Maine coast complement his Indiana landscape painting. Jerry traveled to China the summer of 2023 with other international artists to paint with Chinese Watercolor artists and to participate in the Qingdao International watercolor show and other exhibitions, plein air painting, and watercolor demonstrations.He is currently a Dolphin Fellow of the American Watercolor Society (Gold Medal of 2023), a Master Signature member of the National Watercolor Society (top award 2020), and maintains signature status in the Rocky Mountain National Watermedia, the American Society of Marine Artist, and the Transparent Watercolor Society of America
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As an artist, I try to paint as honestly as I can. I believe in practicing the sound principals of painting that I have learned and currently teach, but I also believe that an artist should strive for something more than just the technical skill in their work. There is a feeling, or reaction, that one gets when standing in front of a painting or a piece of art. Sometimes, it’s not an easy thing to describe. It might be the sense of place in a landscape, the light on the subject, or a fleeting expression in a portrait. This is the kind of reaction that one hopes is communicated in his or her painting. The best scenario is when the technical and the emotional aspects of painting are inseparable.
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Simone Steiff is a contemporary pastel artist who resides in Sarasota Florida. I have recently closed my decade long , deeply loved cafe. Now I can dedicate more time to my passion for waterscapes! My favorite medium is soft pastel and I feel a deep connection to nature and the color palette that the water of Florida provides. Either in the ocean or the fresh water springs scattered throughout I have had the pleasure and desire to photograph this subject for years. I am also a member of AIS. My website is currently being designed. You can find me on Instagram user name Simonesteiffallistair.
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After graduating from the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship in 1976 and working aboard a US flag container ship, Ken decided to pursue a career in art. He majored in Pictorial Illustration at the Spectrum Institute for the Advertising Arts, graduating in 1981. Following his time at sea and his formal art education, Ken settled down in the heart of the NJ shore and began his pursuit of a career as an artist.
His oil paintings "Surf Patrol" and "Surf Rescue" were juried into the American Society of Marine Artists 18th and 19th National Exhibitions.
Ken's painting “The Watermen”, has been published in a special July 2024 issue of Artists Magazine “Splash 25: The Best of Watercolor”.
His painting “Sunrise Over Assateague” was selected in 2021 to be a part of the 1st International Online Exhibition of Contemporary Marine Art. He is a signature member of the ASMA and a contributing member of COGAP (Coast Guard Art Program).
On July 11, 2024 Ken received the prestigious “George Gray Award” for outstanding artistic achievement from the U.S. Coast Guard for his painting “Absorbing the Roll”, now part of the Coast Guard’s permanent collection. -
I am a 27 year old freelance artist with a decorated background in a variety of artistic mediums with 15 years of experience.
Education/ programs:
Nasher Sculptur Center Summer Institute for Teens 2015
Rockwall high school AP Art Department
Accomplishments:
Texas A&M University-Commerce Sculpture Art Scholarship 1st place
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A watercolour artist with more than twenty years of experience in painting watercolour landscapes. A Signature Member of the Canadian Society for Painters in Water Color and an Elected Member of the American Artists Professional League with a track record of having exhibited his work in several countries across the world in solo and juried exhibitions including the Transparent Watercolor Society, Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Watercolour Art Society.- Houston, Watercolor Society of Alabama. California Watercolor Association etc.
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Yan Sun is Art Professor at Muskingum University. He got MFA from Texas A&M University-Commerce and MA in Art History
in Xian Art Institute, China. He is the Signature artist of Oil Painters of American, Signature artist of National Oil & Acrylic Painters Society, and Signature artist of ASMA. He had many solo exhibitions and attended many national and international lever exhibitions and got some awards. Yan Sun Art Museum is located in Zanesville, Ohio. -
Member OPA, ASMA, LPAPA. A professional artist since 1986, Tom's oil paintings are in collections worldwide including many private and corporate collections. Previously based in Laguna Beach, Califonia; he now works out of his studio in east Hampton, CT. He is the recipient of the California Gold Award, Laguna Beach Lifetime Acheivement Award, as well as numerous awards in Art Associations across the country. His work is currently on exhibit at galleries in California and Connecticut.
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A Graduate of the American Academy of Fine Art, Chicago
David is a professional Fine Art artist for over 50 years.
Received numerous awards, including the RAA Gold Medal award. The National Park Academy bronze medal award, and numerous others.
Several works in the Collection of George Lucas, Skywalker Ranch Ca.
The Joffrey Ballet Corp.
Pepsi Cola Co.
Selected representations; Argosy Gallery, Bar Harbor Me., The Rockport Art Association, Sodati Gallery, Rockport Ma. and Landmark Gallery Kennebunkport Me. -
Sam Vokey is an oil painter who specializes in landscapes and commissioned custom paintings.
Sam has been painting for more than 30 years. He is an elected member of The Guild Of Boston Artists and has won the designation of Copley Master from the Copley Society of Boston. He is a graduate of Bowdoin College in Maine and Middlesex School in Concord, MA.
He attended the R.H.Ives Gammell Atelier in Boston where he won a four year scholarship. This was a European style atelier program that only admitted 5 students at a time. Those students worked closely with a master painter to learn the fundamentals of painting still life, landscape, portrait and figurative work.
His painting style is most closely associated with the Boston School tradition of painting which crosses Realism with some of the softer edges and painterly qualities of Impressionism. Vokey’s landscapes and still life’s demonstrate a strong consideration for creating balance between the overall composition and the light and dark values in his paintings.
Sam has had many one-man and group shows at different galleries: see list on website www.samvokey.com
In 2023, Sam won the Alden Bryan Award for Best landscape at the Guild of Boston Artists and the Aldro Hibbard Award for Best landscape at the RAA&M. In 2022 Sam won the Montanaro Award for Best Seascape at the RAA&M. In 2012, Sam received the Frank Benson Award at The Guild of Boston Artists for the second time. He has also won the R.H.Ives Gammell Award, and in 2009, he won the prestigious Edmund Tarbell Award, an honor given to first prize in painting at the annual All Members event held each spring. At the Copley Society of Boston, he has won numerous awards, including the status of Copley Master; In 2007, Sam was awarded the Copley's John Singleton Copley Award, the highest honor given by the Copley Society.Mr Vokey’s paintings have been included in many books and magazines including the cover of the book The Boston School published by Blue Tree Press. He was also the cover artist of the 2005 issue of American Artist magazine.
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Raised on Long Island, NY I got my first glimpse of Marine Paintings from an old Prestons' ships and sea catalog and from there i had a dream to be a marine artist. I spent a career as a technical illustrator working for Semiconductor and Aerospace companies from 1981 - 2000. I always had a knack for detail and i was awarded the more complex illustrations because nobody could do it. I am gratefull for that as that is very important when painting structures etc. I worked for Thomas Kinkade 2022-2023 created 5 paintings for their catalog. I also paint auto racing scenes, city scapes, landscapes but my real passion is the open ocean. Always learning every painting i do. The sea is a complex array of waves that always challenges me and my designing the ocean for paint.
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Painter and sculptor Frank Walsh was born and raised in San Francisco, California. Frank acquired his knowledge and skill through years of self-directed independent study. Throughout much of his art career, he has worked in the two dimensions, drawing and painting with pen and ink, acrylics and oils. Recently, Frank has added sculptures to his portfolio. Working with clay and casting with the lost wax method provides the high level of detail Frank requires for his bronze pieces. Instead of finishing with a chemical patina, Frank developed a painting style that enables him to give the impression of refracted light and depth of color. Even after forty years as a professional artist Frank will tell you he’s still a work in progress and likes to say “I’m on a journey without a compass, just following where the heart will lead me.”
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Marilyn was born in San Francisco and graduated from California's San Jose State University, receiving a B.A. in Graphic Design in 1974. She changed careers in 2023 to pursue her dream of becoming a full time professional fine artist, painting her favorite subjects; wildlife and dramatic landscapes. Her award winning paintings have been exhibited and sold at museums and galleries both nationally and internationally, including Birds in Art in Wassau Wisconsin, The Nature in Art museum in Twigworth, Gloucester England, The Royal Scottish Society of Painters of Watercolour, Edinburgh, Scotland and the California Art Club's annual Gold Medal exhibitions in Southern California. She holds signature memberships with the National Watercolor Society, The California Watercolor Association, The American Society of Marine Artists, the Society of Animal Artists, and Master Signature in Watercolor West. She is also an active member of the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association and is regularly juried into their gallery shows. Her style is realistic with an emphasis on capturing the light, color and mood of her chosen subject.
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Megan Whitfield is a self-taught representational painter living in San Diego, California. Her award-winning work has been published in Plein Air Magazine, Artist’s Magazine and Modern Impressionist Magazine. Megan has developed a love for coastal scenes, wetlands, and maritime skies, which has been inspired by having lived surrounded by oceans, waterways and seascapes. While she grew up along the banks of the Susquehanna River in Central Pennsylvania, as the spouse of a Naval Officer, she has lived and traveled throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Pacific Seaboard for the last 16 years. Her paintings reflect a deep understanding of maritime environments and portray emotionally driven scenes of the shorelines of the rivers, harbors, and bays, which serve as the arterial waterways that give life to America. Since she began exhibiting her art in 2021, Megan has been accepted into numerous juried shows and won several awards in international fine art competitions. She is a member of the American Society of Marine Artists, the American Impressionists Society, the Maryland Federation of Art, and the National Oil and Acrylic Painters’ Society.
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Rick was born in 1955 in Edinburgh, Indiana and discovered very early he had an interest in art. After High School, Rick entered the work force, working 29 years in the architectural aluminum industry and pursuing art at a hobby level. Upon retirement in 2003, Rick made fine art his new vocation and sought instruction from Indiana artists Ronald Mack and C.W. Mundy as well as art business workshops with Bill Bush of the Fredericksburg Artists School.As a professional artist, Rick has honed his skills through workshops and many years of practice and has developed into a very collectable artist. Some of Rick’s influences include John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, Thomas Cole, Frederick Church, Alfred T. Bricher, Asher B. Durand and Albert Bierstadt, Barbizon artists Charles F. Daubigny, Jules Dupre & Theoadore Rousseau. His works are included in many private and corporate collections across the country. Included among his corporate & public collectors are…
Congressman Greg Pence - Congressional Office - Washington DC.
Plein Air Magazine (Streamline Publishing)
Indiana Governor’s Mansion Permanent Collection
Indiana Governor, Greg Holcomb (Personal collection)
Aisin Holdings Corporation of North America
Hendricks Regional Health
OneAmerica
Richmond Art Museum
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James Wolford was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1958 and took a keen interest in drawing at an early age. He was inspired to draw by his father and began painting in oil by the age of 16.
James is primarily a landscape painter but also drawn to architectural and marine subjects. After graduating from The Kansas City Art Institute in 1981, James attended Boston University, where he was offered a scholarship and graduate teaching assistantship while completing his MFA.
In 1984 James moved from the east coast to Colorado to pursue his desire to paint scenes of the modern West. In 1991, his innovative use of color was recognized by an award from the Colorado Federation for the Arts. In 1996, he relocated to the coast of Maine, which has traditionally drawn artists to its rocky shores and historical villages. His work is featured on the cover of The Art of Monhegan Island, published in 2004. James now resides in the Boston area, which provides him with wide range of subject matter from a broad swath of New England.
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Fay Wyles is a professional artist with over 20 years of experience in the industry. Born and raised in New Mexico, she developed a passion for painting at a young age, thanks to her father's influence as an artist. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of New Mexico before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area to explore the art world.
Throughout her career, Wyles has had a diverse range of experiences in various aspects of the art industry, including gallery management, sales, and commercial and fine art commissions. She has also had the opportunity to work with well-known companies such as Disney and Universal Studios, which brought her to Orange County, California.
Through Fay Wyles Fine Art, she shares her love of painting, surfing, teaching, and the outdoors by showcasing a diverse collection of her artworks. Wyles is a member of LPAPA, California Art Club, American Impressionist Society, and American Society of Marine Artists. Wyles loves the wild outdoor experience of plein air painting for smaller studies, combined with studio painting for larger works.