Isabelle Abramson -Isabelle lives and works in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. She is self-taught as an artist and focuses on functional porcelain dinnerware and home decor. Her studio is open by appointment and her work is available for sale online through her website.

Medium: Ceramics


Website:www.isabelleabramson.com

Frann S. Addison -Working with pewter, brass, copper, glass and found objects, I integrate stylish Hebrew calligraphy in my Judaica. I strive to create pieces to be used and treasured in the home today, as well as become family heirlooms of tomorrow.

Medium: Metal and Glass


Website:www.frannaddisonjudaica.com

Constance Bacon - As a kid I made a mean mud pie. Since 2001 I have been throwing high fire stoneware potttery in the Boston area, using sgraffito techniques to make them more unique and interesting. The finished products are food safe, as well as microwave and dishwasher safe.
 
Medium: Pottery

Awarded Second Place, 2008

Website:www.cbacon.com

Jess Barnett -Japanese minimalist painters, Franz Kline, Renaissance paintings of Jesus Christ, Francis Bacon—these are just a few of the influences that are apparent in my artwork. Using acrylic paint, rose petals, and household items such as cotton balls, I try to create a world that is both ethereal and stark.

Medium: Acrylic/mixed media

Website:jessbarnett.carbonmade.com

Steve Barylick - After a 30-year career as an art and creative director, I started painting in 2007. My idea was to combine attributes of design with color, texture and movement to create paintings that have a passionate, energetic appeal, so viewers can interpret, in their own context, what they see and feel..

Medium: Acrylic, Resin Sand, Opaque Flakes


Website:www.stevebarylick.com

Bren Bataclan - "In the summer of 2003, Bren Bataclan began his street art installation, “The Smile Boston Project.” The project involves the artist leaving his cartoon inspired paintings for people to take for “free” all over Boston (park benches, trains, schools, malls, etc.). Attached to each painting is a note saying, “This painting is yours if you promise to smile at random people more often.” Bren has since gone worldwide with his “Smile Boston Project” and has begun to exhibit his paintings across the country."

Medium: Acrylic

Website:www.bataclan.com

Coco Berkman - Finally producing the work I want to produce.  Its still a mystery to me why certain images demand that I step aside and let them through.  There is no logic, no plan, no  reason... only making a daily wide berth for possibility.

Medium: Monoprint and Oil

Awarded Second Place, 2007

Website:www.fattybirdpress.com

Michael Berger - As one of the inventors of Polaroid Corporation's 35 mm instant slide film, Berger blended art and science to create new types of images. Today his artwork begins with photographic images, which are then painted digitally as well as with traditional media such as acrylics and chalk pastels.

Medium: Photography/Mixed Media

Awarded Second Place, 2008

Website:www.bergerart.com

Luisa Bertman specializes in untraditional portraiture of powerful personalities. From Jules Feiffer to Dr. Cornel West, her custom portraits are in private collections worldwide, have graced episodes of TV’s The Gilmore Girls, campaigns for The L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center, covers/contents of magazines and newspapers from Playgirl and GQ to The Village Voice and The LA Times, and her illustrated portrait of Mikhail Gorbachev was featured on The Wall Street Journal's front page. Bertman is working on a signature series of Rock & Art Portraits; signed portraits include Fergie, Ringo Starr, Cyndi Lauper, Chris Isaak, Ziggy Marley, Huey Lewis, Chicago, Keane, Anna Nalick, and Hilary Duff. The Boston Children’s Museum is exhibiting “Life Size Paper Doll,” a sculpture collaboration between Luisa and her father architect/sculptor Richard Bertman, and she was recently assigned to paint the CarTalk guys for the June 2009 NPR calendar.

Medium: Pen Ink Watercolor New Media Original Prints

Website:www.louisabertman.com

Rocco Bittelari -I was born and raised in Watertown, MA.  I am a self taught painter, given my first set of paints for Christmas when I was 11 years old. I graduated from Emerson College in 2000 with a degree in film.  After living in Los Angeles for my last semester of school, I lost my taste for film and returned to the Boston area.  Although I have had varying careers from bartender to office manager, I have always been a painter.  By day I have an office job.  At night I paint.

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Website:www.rpmaximus.com

Meg Black has been working with handmade paper for over 25 years. She creates her work using 100% non-fading pigments, cotton linters and linen pulp. Her representational landscapes, seascapes, and garden views have been collected by corporate, private, educational and health patrons through-out the United States and Europe..

Medium: Handmade paper
Awarded Second Place, 2008

Website:www.megblack.com

Gary A. Blau -Just your everyday, ordinary Boston tax attorney, raised in Arkansas, educated at MIT, who likes insects, flowers and photography, discovering the beauties of nature wherever I go..

Medium: Digital Macro Photography

Awarded First Place, 2008
Awarded Third Place, 2007

Website:www.flickr.com/photos/gab57/

John Borchard - Why does water vapor produce such evocative emotions? Scenes that are so prosaic in the broad light of day take on such mystery in a mist. Mists roll in during the night and hide the world. Come mid-morning they all blow out, exposing the raw sharpness of a noonday sun. There can be much more comfort in the mist.

Medium: Photography


Website:Johnborchard.com

Rita Brace

Awarded First Place, 2006

Medium: oil

Rose Bryant - Bold use of color and simplified imagery are trademarks of Bryant’s paintings. Her work evokes feelings of happiness and calm. Her art ranges from still life and landscape to abstract. Bryant has a BFA in Communication Arts and Design from Virginia Commonwealth University. She exhibits in galleries, cafes and businesses in New England.

Medium: Acrylic

Awarded Third Place, 2008

Website:www.rosebryant.blogspot.com

Jessica Burko has been a working photographer since 1985 and has exhibited her photographic art in shows throughout the United States. Burko is originally from Philadelphia and currently lives in Jamaica Plain. She holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design, and an MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology. 

Medium: Mixed-media & Paper Quilts

Website:www.jessicaburko.com

Barbara A. Busenbark - The landscape, with it’s depth, color, and beauty make up a large portion of my work. New England’s four seasons creates the opportunity for an ever-changing palette. While I strive to represent the landscape in its true form, I do not feel compelled to mirror what I see. Color is my primary tool, for both emphasizing beauty and creating depth.

Medium: Oil and Watercolor

Awarded Third Place, 2008

Website:www.Paintbrushgraphics.com.

Fran Busse -I am a student of color and use it to create drama in my landscape, still life and figurative paintings. It is an important element in all of my work as it is my energizer and I love to push the limit on it! A native of Chicago, I have resided in Acton, MA for over 25 years.

Medium: Acrylic and oil on canvas

Website:www.bussestudio.com

Heidi Caswell Zander - Traditional painting meets functional fun in an eclectic mix all created by Cape Ann artist Heidi Caswell Zander: oil & encaustic landscape based paintings, cyanotype textiles, Heavenly Bliss Bowls (hand painted wood) and more!  Commissions for paintings welcomed. Come be inspired.

Medium: Oil, encaustic, cyanotype, watercolor


Website:TidalEdgeGallery.com

Alla Chekhova-Kennedy is a Russian born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. After immigrating to the US, Alla studied art at the Provincetown International Art Institute under the guidance of distinguished artists Jim Peters and Vicky Tomayko. Alla’s watercolors have caught the attention of the art world. Her works have sold in several galleries and museums on Cape Cod.

Medium: Watercolors

Website:www.allachekhova.blogspot.com

Jim Connelly -The common thread in my work is my interest and curiosity of perspective, lighting and design surrounding the ordinary. A Unique perspective of the everyday. Working with at variety of mediums ranging from paint, glass, photography and design.

Medium: Oil and Watercolor


Website:www.jimconnellypaintings.com

Actor Cordell -

Medium: Oil


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Mariah Daly--Mariah Daly watercolor still life, laqndscapes, seascapes, nature, organic. Some hand painted plates and pottery Style soft.

Medium: watercolors

Meredith N. DeCarlo -I use everyday items in our daily lives and find new and unique ways to view and personalize them. I take pictures of letters from signs, buildings and establishments throughout the Boston, Somerville and Cambridge areas and then spell out words or names with them.

Medium: Photo letter art

Marian Dioguardi - I am a contemporary oil painter. My work is clean, bold, and fresh painted from what I see as true. My work was featured in the Sept. 2008 Italian art journal “Arte In” and appears in Studio Visit Vol. 3 juried by Carl Betz, curator emeritus, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis.

Medium: Oil, gouache, encaustic


Website:www.mariandioguardi.com

Elizabeth Owens Ellis - Liza Ellis is a freelance artist/writer residing in Cambridge, MA. She has done landscapes of the Boston Public Gardens and is currently seeking a new venture with portraiture. Hopefully, at the 2009 BHAW there will be a small mural of the SIX Presidential Candidates.

Medium: Acrylics and Oils

Website:www.LIZAELLIS.FWS1.COM

Glenna Evans -Mixed media frescoes that evoke the mystery and memory of forgotten treasuries,from old encyclopedias and medical books to windows, doors, and screens. Pigment ink, plaster, varnish, & wax to enhance their aged, worn character.

Medium: Mixed Media Frescoes

Awarded Third Place, 2008
Website:www.glennaevans.com

Elaine Farmer has a deep connection to the natural world around her. Enjoying translating natures’ inspirations to canvas, her current body of work focuses on historical settings throughout the New England area. She holds Hudson River Valley Artists in high regard for their valuable studies and classical academic approach to painting .

Medium: Oil

Awarded Second Place, 2008

Website:www.elainefarmer.com

Sean Flood is a young painter who received his BFA from The Art Institute of Boston. Since he has been living in Boston and painting cityscapes as well as other urban subject.Sean is a young painter who received his BFA from The Art Institute of Boston. Since he has been living in Boston and painting cityscapes as well as other urban subject..

Medium: Oil Paintings


Website:www.seanfloodart.com

Margaret Furlong - With an undergraduate BFA, I spent my early career as a graphic designer. I studied Interior Architecture at RISD and completed my masters at New England School of Art and Design. In my paintings, I strive to weave together color, light, form, space and texture into imagery that is simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar.

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas


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Roger Galuska--Roger etches his designs in free-hand. They are adapted from Polish wood-carvings done in a town called Zakopane (Zah-ko-pah-nyeh) in the Tatra Mountains of southern Poland Zakopane happens to be near the town where Roger’s own family comes from, and that is the connection to him and his pottery.

Medium: stoneware clay

Website:www.rockgardenpottery.com

Roger Gill--Roger is a local artist from Rockland, MA who grew up in a family of artists, his Father, John Joseph Gill, being his foremost inspiration. Roger graduated from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, and then sailed on adventurous voyages for 20 years. Roger has always been involved with art and has won many ribbons for his work. Roger is now under the tutelage of Edwina Caci and David Curtis, both tremendously talented artists! Thank you for viewing Roger’s work!

Awarded Second Place, 2006

Medium: Oil

Website: www.artreasure.net , and, www.artbyroger.com

Wanita Gomes - won second place, “2008 best in show”. A new England School of Art Alumni. She paints Oils, watercolor and acrylics as well as mixed media. .

Medium: Oils, watercolor, acrylics, mixed media


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Lisa Goren -I am a Boston artist and have been working in watercolors ever since my journey to Antarctica. I hope to bring a new vision of a place that is often seen as only forbidding and monochromatic. My work focuses on ice, whalebones and the extreme beauty of polar landscapes..

Medium: Watercolors


Website:www.lisagorenpaintings.com

Devon Govoni - Aspects of life that I find interesting and intriguing are reflected within my works of art. There are many different layers to my work, sometimes literally and always figuratively. I have shown nationally and internationally. My next major show is at The Agora Gallery in Chelsea, New York this July.n

Medium: Oil, Acrylic & Mixed Media

Website: www.art-mine.com/artistpage/devon_govoni.aspx

Arlene Greenspan uses a combination of bold colors and lively brushwork to highlight the natural beauty and intensity of her subject matter. Her work is represented in private and corporate collections. She is presently on the Board of Directors of the United South End Artists in Boston.

Medium: Oils and watercolor

Marianne Groszko--Marianne Groszko is a Rhode Island photographer specializing in travel images. She has traveled much of the United States capturing sweeping landscapes and colorful details that have become part of her diverse portfolio. Her love of the water is inherent in many of her photos, but she also finds inspiration in a variety of landscapes from mountains to cornfields. Marianne looks forward to assignments that bring her to new locations to explore.

Medium: Photography

Website:wwwmariannephotography.net

Robert Hahn--Robert Hahn is a resident of Haverhill, MA. His interest in photography began while traveling with his family throughout New England and the Maritime Provinces of Canada. Robert is a self-taught photographer, and is featured regularly in galleries and art shows throughout New England.

Awarded Third Place, 2006

Medium: Photography

Virginia Hartley

Medium: watercolors

Awarded Second Place, 2007

Ian Henderson - Born and raised on U.S. military bases during the final years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Ian Henderson is fighting for his life in a world of chaos and adventure. He maintains a studio in Waltham, where he wavers on the precipice between calculated eccentricity and heroic perversion. His work represents an attempt to treat nebulous, passing, vision as Platonic Ideal; and bring it into manifestation through fierce application of technical virtuosity..

Medium: Sculpture


Website:www.ianhenderson-art.com

Amy Hitchcock -My artwork attempts to tell stories by using vintage found objects and paper ephemera. I believe that these materials can bring forth memories of one’s past and family history, making my work interesting and accessible to the viewer..

Medium: Assemblage and collage


Website:www.amyhitchcock.com

Chris Hoffman has been an artist ever since he was able to hold a pencil (and later a brush). His formal education began in public school in Colorado and continued until he graduated from Bridgewater State College with a degree in Graphic Design. He paints portraits, landscapes, and murals. His current works are close-ups of the face..

Medium: Acrylic

David Holt -I am a self taught artist specializing in photo-realistic watercolors. I'm able to paint any subject desired, which include many landscapes of New England. Once I began entering art shows, working with galleries, and receiving the wonderful feedback that I have, I decided to devote more time and energy to perusing my dream of becoming a full-time artist.

Medium: Watercolors

Website:www.davidholtgallery.com

Ying Hu -Chinese style paintings with calligraphy. Solo exhibition at the International Chinese Poetry Conference. Art published in a U.S. nationwide magazine. Paintings of flowers, birds, sea life, pandas and landscapes. Teacher of art, calligraphy, Chinese language. Several galleries and stores in the Boston Area and Maine are representing her works.

Medium: Chinese water color and ink paintings with brush


Website:HuChineseFineArt.com

Margery Jennings -A lifelong New England resident, Margery lives and works in Amesbury, MA. She is a member of the “Newburyport Ten” plein air group, New Hampshire Plein Air Painters, the Newburyport Art Association and the Greater Haverhill Arts Association.

Medium: Oil

Awarded Third Place, 2008

Website:www.margeryjennings.com

Juleen Jones currently operates a  custom painting business, "The Artist Touch," for the past nine years.  Her business allows her to explore various styles, tools, and methods. Combining her background in painting, Juleen's knowledge
of color and composition and texture adds to her success. This is her 8th year at the artwalk. This year she will be showing new industrial mixed media works as well as florals, and collage.

Medium: Mixed media, abstract floral paintings, lacquered photography

Awarded First Place, 2008

Website:www.juleentheartist.com

Karen Kemp - is a painter and printmaker specializing in etching. She studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, and at the University of New Hampshire. Karen regularly exhibits her artwork and is represented by Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston, Danette Koke Fine Art, New York and the Christopher Gallery, Stony Brook, NY.

Medium: Etching

Website:www.karenkemp.com

Will Kirkpatrick - Realist plein air painter for 30 years, with course work at MFA School and independent study with various local painters. Affiliated with Newton Art Association, Hudson Arts Alliance, and Concord Art Association. Have Exhibited in numerous local venues, Martha’s Vineyard, and Bozeman, Montana. Well versed in Landscape, Seascape, animal art, Still Life and figure work.

Medium: Oil


Website:www.wekpaintings.com www.kirkpatrickdecoys.com

Chris Kursel - Born in Milwaukee, WI, Chris currently lives in Boston and works in advertising. Inspired and influenced by countless family members, friends teachers, and artists such as Egon Schiele, R. Crumb, Francis Bacon and Joan Mitchell.

Medium: Acrylic, Charcoal, Ink


Website:ckursel.carbonmade.com

Annie LaVigne -Annie LaVigne is interested in storytelling in many different forms: illustration, animation, writing and more. She lives in West Newton with her husband and two young daughters. Much like her home, her illustrations are filled with quirky, imaginative characters living out small dramas.

Medium: Ink, gouache, paper


Website:www.harrietandmickey.com

Dominique Lecomte - I spent my early years near Epinal (Vosges, France) a town where I later went to study visual arts. There, I exhibited oils, acrylics and etchings, but in 1994 I came to the United States to teach philosophy in an international school, and I then specialized in linocuts and woodcuts.

Medium: Linocuts & woodcuts


Website:www.lecomtedominique.com

Margette Leanna is a Newburyport artist who has participated in the Beacon Hill Art Walk for the past 10 years, earning several awards during that time. Her work centers on Maine landscapes and figures..

Awarded Second Place, 2006

Medium: Acrylic

Sophie Lowery -Originally from France but a Boston resident for nearly 20 years, Sophie’s paintings focus on New England and French landscapes. Her acrylic paintings illustrate the diversity and capture the warmth and richness in colors of the land.

Medium: Acrylics


Website:www.loweryart.com

Mark Luiggi - With a background in graphic design and illustration Mark creates watercolor paintings that have a distinctive humorous and whimsical accent..

Medium: Watercolor


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John Maciejowski - John graduated from the Museum School and Tufts University, where he received his BFA. Continuing Study : figure drawing - Art Student League, NYC; Dutch still life- ; “ plein air” painting- Rob Dubois at Castle Hill, Turo ; acrylics- Tom Sutherland. Exhibitions: Newburyport Art Association, Beebe Estate, Melrose; SOWA Art Walk Walk, Boston..

Medium: Acrylic

Teri MacMillan-Potters focused on hand thrown crystalline glazed porcelain. This type of glaze is extremely
difficult to produce, and very few potters work with this technique. The results are a combination of specific glaze formulation and firing techniques. Despite meticulous attention to detail, the results are often unpredictable. The attempt to control at high temperatures what so easily occurs in nature is a wonderful challenge with vast possibilities.

Medium: Pottery

Awarded Second Place, 2008

Website:www.surfsideceramics.com

Katrina Majkut - Katrina Majkut is a Boston-based artist who focuses on realistic landscapes in oil and analog photography of the New England area.

Medium: Oil & Analog Photography

Website:www.TheArtisanSquare.com

Em Marquis Brown is a member of the Copley Society of Boston & has achieved the status of Copley Master. She is also a member of: Rockport Art Association, North Shore Art Association & Marblehead Art Association. Her Gallery is located at 123 Tedesco Street, Marblehead, MA. 781-631-4002.

Medium: Water Color


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Jen Matson - Original fine art photographs of Boston and New England, in color and black and white. All are hand printed in the darkroom by the artist.

Medium: Photography


Website:www.jlmimages.com

Eric Mauro makes paintings from diverse local sources, including Battleship Cove, Copley Square, the DCR ice rinks, and the Museum of Fine Arts. He does landscapes, seascapes, portraits and figures. He lives in Brighton Mass., and his studio is in Jamaica Plain.

Medium: Painting and drawing

Website:www.ericmauro.com

Catherine Meeks- -My paintings reflect a love of the landscape. Most of my pictures are of places in New England. I hope to invite reflection and recognition.

Medium: Pastel

Awarded Second Place, 2008
Awarded Second Place, 2007

Website:www.artisticsisters.com

Lois Moore--Degree in Art and Design. Had own art direction business for many years servicing national and local clients. Am now concentrating in the fine arts. Mixed media paintings on enhanced and textured grounds give a feeling of fantasy and movement. This unusual style incorporates ink, watercolor and pastel. Subject matter are florals and landscapes.

Medium: Mixed Media

John Moore

Medium: wood turning

Christopher Murray - I became an artist primarily through my love of music – I was offered the opportunity to make some signs for a record store on which I included an image of Elvis Presley. I developed a method of making iconic portraits using stencils made of wood and airbrushed watercolor, and have used the same approach with pictures of flowers with very satisfying results..

Medium: Airbrushed Watercolor

Website:www.kipchris.com

Keith F. Nelson--Retired after almost 50 years in the computer industry I have turned my efforts to the creation of fine art. After training in watercolors and pastels I have concentrated mostly in the area of Chinese Brush using traditional ink and watercolors to create landscapes and compositions of birds and flowers.

Medium: Chinese Brush

Chen Nguyen

Medium: Fiber Art

Catherine Nolin - Iam a self taught painter, always trying to improve myself and my technique. Over the last 19 years, I have learned the most through my real life experiences, reading and studying the masters. I am all about color and color combining. Room portraits are my subject matter. I love to combine patterns and colors and objects of design. I guess I am a frustrated interior decorator! I have done commissions for private collections and businesses around the world. I donate to local charities as much as possible.

Medium: Acrylics

Ralph Oberlander -Born and raised in the Boston area Ralph Oberlander now resides, with his family, in the N.H. Seacoast region. Widely recognized as an accomplished underwater photographer he has now expanded his portfolio to include a variety of New England subjects. An early adopter of digital photography he uses the “digital darkroom” to.create his own unique vision..

Medium: Photography

Website:www.Lionfish43.com

Jean Marie Paradis These pieces from my hands - My Soul’s Journey - Are meant to balance and coat their viewers with unconditional love and healing. Make the viewers – You - Smile or sigh. Relax you. Give you gentle moments of Life Affirming - Fresh Air in your Lungs - Peace. This is my Art’s Only intention and purpose. This is why I am a maker. This is the Power of Original Art.

Medium: Mixed Media Constructions

Website:www.paradisart.com

Toni Peters - My passion for art was always within me. However, it wasnt until later in life, I had the opportunity in meeting a self-taught artist who could teach As an aspiring artist, Im focusing on a medium that will hopefully bring out the best in me. Right now, I believe it is oils.

Medium: Oil

Heather Pilchard (BFA SMFA ‘95) is a full time painter residing in Wellfleet, MA. Her work is inspired by observations of nature full of textures, patterns, shapes and color. Heather's paintings are represented in Massachusetts by BayOMar studio in Duxbury, and Harmon Gallery in Wellfleet.

Medium: Oil painting


Website:www.heatherpilchard.com

Martin Potter - For a number of years I have worked in oil. Within the last two years I became fascinated with layering and cutting back to previously painted surfaces, Acrylics have allowed me to be more spontaneous.

Medium: Oil and Acrylic


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