I have been one of the Six female artists for King Features’ “Six Chix” since 2000. On Mondays, I create silly drawings about every day life with a twist. I use pen and ink and a tablet and stylus. I also like to paint landscapes around the Rivertowns using watercolors.
Combining found elements with those fashioned by my own hand, my work encompasses two- and three-dimensional collage as well as sculptural objects. Infused with a rich sense of history, the essence of my work lies in the age-old struggle between nature and the man-made industrial world. My challenge is to convey this in a way […]
Walking is so enjoyable, the slow pace of it, the many colors and many shapes of nature all dancing in the same slow movement. Painting, I try to communicate this peaceful feeling and I hope someone else can enjoy it as much as I do by looking at it.
Art gives me the canvas … the voice, the potential and possibilities to speak my truth … to write it … to paint it … to draw it … to move with it and beyond it. Perhaps … that which is my vision can make some difference in the larger world of our common humanity. To create is to heal. Mixed-Media Paintings, Encaustics. Drawings, Poetry Books, Jewelry
Monica Carrier primarily works in drawing with ink on paper, moving between the figurative and abstraction. She is a founding director of PeepSpace Contemporary Art Project Space in Tarrytown, NY and holds a BFA from Tyler School of Art and an MFA from Hunter College. Her work is regularly exhibited in the NYC area, the wider US and abroad.
My paintings, drawings and collages are made using a quasi logical process balancing simple shape, form, color and texture. A leftover cut out shape becomes a skirt, the skirt becomes the head of a proud tulip and the conversation keeps going. The work is quirky and graphic and longs for an audience so, hope you can come by.
Nature delights and inspires me. Botanical Illustration demands observation and accuracy. Watercolors allow me to capture the translucency of a flower’s petals and the magic of light on the leaves. I paint plants that I love. They could be red roses or blue chrysanthemums that capture my attention, but they could be simply weeds or dried autumn leaves.
I find inspiration for my work in the garden and familiar landscapes. Ideas and images develop in reverie and on the page. I am moved by color and light, organic composition and growth – and by surprises of medium and process. Sharing studio space (Collective Art Space) adds a rich dynamic to work and life. […]
Exploring personal relationships through the lens of pop culture imagery, distorted memory and vicarious nostalgia, my work encompasses collage, mixed media, and printmaking. Current pieces use transparent layers of color in acrylic and image transfers to create depth and complexity, enhancing the sense of memory altered, distorted and rewritten through the passage of time.
My work takes inspiration from the human figure, the natural world, and the written word. I create mixed media pieces incorporating pen and ink, pastel, watercolor and acrylic. I paint and teach privately out of Main Street Atelier in Tarrytown, New York.
EB Gregor has painted since she was a child and chose to become an architect because of her appreciation of art. Her source of inspiration and favorite subject is landscape. Immersion in the landscape is essential to journeys towards happy places and moments of peace. Including works inspired by walks through near and far places, EB reflects on our surroundings.
My art is shaped by curiosity, wonder, and the beauty found in the ordinary. Composing art is a contemplative practice. I live in that reflective process. It is the action of making that feeds me, and the finished work forms a tangible result of the process. I intend for the viewer to find a peaceful meditative calm through my work.
Jane Kang Lawrence received her BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Following painting residences in Italy she continued to dovetail art making with teaching by pursuing her Masters from the School of Visual Arts. Jane is a founding director of Peep Space (Tarrytown, NY) and maintains a studio in New York.
A deep love of color, pattern and nature are the foundation of Jennifer’s work as an artist, illustrator, author. Her joyful gouache paintings of flowers, random objects, people and occasional meditative abstract musings open a colorful and enticing window onto a detail of the day one might ordinarily overlook. She recently has been exploring abstract […]
A graduate of Parsons School of Design, I had a long career in advertising as an art director. In 2000 I moved to Westchester County where I started a small garden. Since then I have been cultivating and studying flowers. After taking botanical illustration courses at the NYBG, I am now deeply committed “to represent beauty in nature”.
Catrin Perih’s paintings are based on the idea of memory. Much of her work is inspired by old family photographs growing up in Wales. The images she creates are mostly figurative, however they include elements of abstraction and ethereal components with more detailed images of shapes or figures, alluding to the fact that memories can be vague or surprisingly clear.
Madge Scott is an international award-winning folk and portrait artist working in oils and mixed media, including wood carvings, drawings and fabrics. She is of Jamaican heritage and creates historical paintings and drawings in various media, especially inks.
My work in all mediums is shaped by love of natural forms, surfaces with history, creating windows of remembered experience, weather, and light. I earned a BFA Rhode Island School of Design, worked Fresco Decorative Painting in NYC. Currently I balance nurturing my family and growing my studio art practice here in Westchester.
My artist statement is simple. I paint what I love, what I find beautiful, what intrigues me and what makes me laugh. And then I hope for the best.
This is one of the works that was in my recent show at Gallery Halmetoja in Helsinki, Finland. Like many of the works in that exhibition, this image is based on a local spot, in this case in Yonkers.
Nancy Zallo is an artist residing in Tarrytown, New York. Her photographs, paintings, and drawings are often inspired by textures found in nature, architectural curiosities and urban landscapes with hidden stories to tell. Her work has been exhibited throughout the New York area, as well as privately collected. Her interests include music, birdwatching, corvids, books, old maps, and poetry.
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