Present Masters
Thomas C. Adkins
Thomas C. Adkins is a Southbury, Connecticut and Maine resident and a graduate of Paier College of Art of New Haven. Also completing graduate classes at the School of Visual Arts of New York. He has worked as art director and creative director for some of Connecticut’s and New York’s most prestigious advertising agencies.
Garin Baker
Garin was born and raised in New York City. Garin is a realist painter with a strong focus on working from life. His paintings vary from complex multi-figure compositions to simple figure studies.
Harley Bartlett
Harley Bartlett’s paintings are known for their finely crafted compositions and subtle coloring. His brushwork and paint application is evocative of American and European paintings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As well as poetic landscape and coastal paintings, he delves into the allied fields of Sporting and Marine art. In 2018 he won the Alden Bryan Memorial Award for Landscape at the Guild of Boston Artist’s annual members show, among others.
John Caggiano
John Caggiano was born in Brooklyn, New York, where he studied pre-engineering at Brooklyn Technical High School. He received a BA degree from Brooklyn College and an MFA from Pratt Institute, both with honors. His education was supplemented by courses at The Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Studio and Forum of Stage Design in New York.
T.A. Charron
Artist and curator, T. A. Charron is a native New Englander who's great grandparents, on both sides, migrated from Canada to the United States before 1900. Charron was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island and was brought up by his parents, on his grandparents farm, in South Attleboro, Massachusetts.
Ken DeWaard
Ken DeWaard was born in 1962 in Chicago, Illinois and currently lives in Hope Maine.
Ken is strongly inspired by John Singer Sargent, Joaquin Sorolla, William Wendt, Edgar Payne, Nicolai Fechin, and the Russian Impressionists, Ken finds himself painting an array of subject matter from everyday life.
Michel Doucet
Michel John Doucet was born in 1960, in Montreal, Canada. He graduated from the Electrical Engineering Program from the Ecole Polytechnique and completed a Master's degree in Sciences. He found during his engineering studies that arts and sciences must be close in terms of thinking processes.
Michael Graves
Michael Graves is a nationally-recognized landscape artist based in central Massachusetts. As a plein air artist, Graves paints on location, braving the elements, to capture the many moods and temperaments of the natural world. Over a 30 year career, Graves has received over 70 awards and medals, been featured in a variety of books and publications, and inducted into numerous national art associations.
Robert C. Gruppe
Robert Charles Gruppe, in the classic Renaissance tradition, benefited from a twenty year apprenticeship under his father at the Gloucester School of Painting. Robert continues the artistic legacy of his father Emile and grandfather Charles P. Gruppe, in his own evolving personal style which embodies the influences of his heritage and his environment.
Tom Hughes
Tom Hughes was born in Massachusetts. Hughes left university to become a staff artist at the Christian Science Monitor newspaper, specializing in illustration and mastering every media, - ink wash, block print, watercolor, monotype, acrylic, and scratchboard. Once referred to as "a genius" by renowned artist and author Charles Movalli, Hughes has had solo exhibitions in galleries throughout the US and France.
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Stapleton Kearns
Stapleton lives in New Hampshire. He grew up in Minnesota. He went to Minneapolis College of Art & Design and the University of Minnesota. He studied with artist RH Ives Gammell in Boston, MA. He is a member of the Rockport Art Association. He and other Cape Ann artists frequently paint in the Jeffersonville, VT area.
Michael Labiak
Michael Labiak had been painting all his life. He was a student of fine art. He spent many years as a creative/art director in the advertizing field. Now a full time artis. His works in oil and watercolor are in great demand in the US, Canada, Poland and Carribbean. Vermont and New England are two of his favorite places to paint.
Jack Irwin Liberman
Jack lives in Akron, Ohio. He earned a BFA in painting from Kent State University and then studied at the Art Students League of NY with Frank Mason , Everett Raymond Kinstler and Ivan Olinsky. He is a Life Member of the The Art Students League of NY and other societies including The Cuyahoga Valley Art Center where he has been an instructor of portrait and landscape painting for over 30 years.
Annually he paints plein aire in the Jeffersonville, Stowe, VT area.
Neville Logan
Nev Logan first started to pain watercolors when he retired from his position as an Electrical Engineer with the Queensland Electricity Commission in 1987. Prior to retiring, New travelled extensively through Western Europe with his young family in 1976. After retiring, Nev continued with his love of travel in Europe as well as Asia and the US. He now uses the photographs from all of his trips as inspiration in the production if his watercolors.
T.M. Nicholas
T.M. Nicholas was born in Rockport, Massachusetts in 1963. T.M.grew up admiring the rugged beauty of the northeast coastline of the United States as well as the majesty and diversity of the northern New England landscapes. His father, esteemed painter, Tom Nicholas offered advice and encouragement to his son early on. And over the years T.M. developed his own individualistic style to become the plein-air painter he is today.
John Reilly
Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1942 John Reilly received his early art training at the School of Art and Design in Manhattan, where he studied advertising art. By the age of 23 he operated his own mid-town based sales and promotion agency, eventually expanding the business to service such accounts as Bacardi Rum, Johnson and Johnson, Nabisco, and KLM Airlines.
Sergio Roffo
Born in Italy in 1953 and living in coastal Massachusetts, Sergio Roffo has been inspired by the work of such American traditional painters as George Innes and Albert Bierstadt. Roffo's landscapes reveal a luminous quality achieved through the technique of layering and glazing practiced by early American landscape painters.
Eric Tobin
Eric Tobin is a highly regarded and heavily collected landscape painter from Vermont. His style and subject matter have a universal appeal, primarily because of his unique ability to capture the beauty of the moment, the light, and the setting. His love for his native Vermont can be seen in each of his works; they evoke the feelings of the natural setting in which he chooses to paint. All of his work is done outdoors, regardless of time of year, difficult setting, or rapidly changing conditions. Upon viewing his artwork many people find themselves drawn into them and experience the feeling they would have if they were actually present at the time of its painting.
George Van Hook
George Van Hook was born and raised in Abington, Pennsylvania, a northern suburb of Philadelphia. He began painting very early and was able to participate in the vibrant artistic culture of the region. The family owned a farm in Bucks County, home of the Pennsylvania impressionists, and he became heavily influenced by their fine academic training coupled with a love of the prosaic landscape.
Jack and Karen Winslow
Jack and Karen Winslow have been painting side-by-side since 1973, when they began studying oil painting with Frank Mason at the Art Students League of New York and in Frank's landscape workshops in Vermont. In 1979, they moved to Vermont and established the Winslow Art Studio. For the past thirty years, they have been producing and selling their paintings through various galleries, and raising their 5 children.
Peter Yesis
Peter Yesis works from his home studio in Searsport, Maine, painting still lifes and rustic scenes of nature in a soft realistic style. “I enjoy the harmony of color that nature presents to us and I try to enhance that in my work and use color to express my own feelings about a subject.”