Madeleine LaRose
A native of Nashua, NH and lifelong resident, I attended local schools and graduated from Rivier College with a BA in English Literature. Although my professional life centered on teaching English in local junior high schools, I devoted as much of my spare time as possible throughout my life to artistic pursuits. Over the years, I took instruction at various times from many local artists, including Kay Kandra and James Aponovich, and practiced my artistic skills in different media: pencil, pen and ink, watercolor, oil pastels, collage, and acrylic paints. I also devoted a good deal of time and study to the art of photography, which, I believe, has enhanced my skills in painting and composition. Retirement has provided me an opportunity to express myself artistically with greater intensity and concentration. My most recent work is in acrylics and pastels. I am enjoying expressing myself in both media, and have become particularly fond of pastels. I love the tactile qualities and the rich colors. I have taken instruction from pastel artist Mary Ellen Brown, participated in workshops in floral pastel and seascape pastel painting with internationally known pastel artist Lyn Diefenbach. I exhibit my work at a few local galleries such as the Art Hub in Nashua and Wild Salamander in Hollis, NH. I frequently enter local art shows, such as the Beaver Brook Fall Festival and the ArtWalk. I have also had my work juried into five recent Grace Chapel Art Gallery exhibits in Lexington, MA. Most recently, I was one of 10 lead artists for the City Arts Nashua public art project, Comeback Kitchen Tables. I am a member of the Hollis Arts Society, Nashua Area Artists Association and the Art League of Lowell.

pmlarose@comcast.net
http://facebook.com/ExpresslyM/

ArtWalk 2017 Location:
30 Temple Street

Susan King
I have always been creative, and art has always been a big part of my life. Whether it was teaching art in school or to my children at home, I have always felt a strong connection to the fine arts. New England is full of beautiful scenes that are just waiting to be painted. With the changing of season we have so many opportunities to view beauty everywhere ... the mountains, the seas, the lakes, and farmland. I grew up in Massachusetts but have been a resident of New Hampshire for over 23 years, and I am proud to be a New Englander; I would never want to live anywhere else. As mainly a realism landscape and seascape painter, I love to work with acrylics on canvas or gouache on watercolor paper. Both provide the same rich pigments that I love in my paintings. They allow great flow, as I work each painting. It is important for me to show details and to make each painting as realistic as I possibly can. The beauty of each scene is in the truthful, realistic beauty of its simplicity. I do not enhance what I see by painting anything imagined...no perfect grass, maybe a broken fence post, possibly a water line on a sea wall. To me, the beauty is in what is actually seen, and that’s what makes each piece truly realistic. I am a member of the Nashua Area Artists’ Association where I exhibit at their ArtHub Gallery on an ongoing basis.  I have exhibited at the Beaver Brook Association’s Fall Festival in Hollis, at ArtWalk, at the NAAA exhibit at Rodgers Memorial Library, in Hudson, the “Flower Power” exhibition at Grace Chapel’s Art Gallery in Lexington, MA, and the “Everything Small” exhibition at Amherst Town Library. I recently, took part in City Arts Nashua’s “Comeback Kitchen Tables” project for the NAAA, by painting a chair for the NAAA table and by a painting of Greeley Park’s Stone House, which was part of the table top. Recently, I was delighted to be City Hall’s “Artist of the Month” for August with my “Summer Time in New England” theme.

Susan_k_king@hotmail.com
http://facebook.com/susankkingart

ArtWalk 2017 Location:
30 Temple Street

Diana Boyle
I have always been aware of gourds and one day a few years back, I was curious as to whether or not I could grow a good gourd in the northeast.  I have a hot sunny yard so I thought it might be worth a try.  Well, it was, who would have thought I could grow such lovely gourds with our short growing season?  Okay, now that I have gourds, what do I do with them?  I scrubbed and dried and had serval beautiful organic objects, and now what?  Experiment!!  I’ve always experimented with arts and crafts, and work in more than one medium, so I began learning new techniques, combining them with techniques already know.  I don’t want to cover gourds in paint.  I want to retain their tactile, organic quality.  So pyrography and leather dyes seemed the way to go.  Now I include watercolors, stains and alcohol ink and am developing a new technique to use on ornaments.  Using polymer clay is an interesting juxtaposition and handmade paper seems natural.  I plan to use fused glass in the future.  I also have discovered the fun of combining different gourd pieces together to make teapots, containers and even jewelry.  Whimsy reared its head and along came fairy houses and figures.  I have worked with textiles, knitting and crochet, quilting, fused glass, polymer clay, handmade paper, doll making, and probably a few things I’ve forgotten about.  My work resides in private collections around the world and across the US.  I also have consecutively won Best of Category at the Brunswick (ME) Outdoor Art Festival, was nominated for the Martha Steward Made in America Contest in 2013, and was featured in a segment on NH Chronicle.

https://www.facebook.com/Gourd-in-Hand-with-Diana-Boyle-218663334836020/

ArtWalk 2017 Location:
30 Temple Street

Mandy Halford
I am a visual artist currently working out of my studio in New Hampshire. Born and raised in Oxford, Mississippi, I was introduced to the colorful southern arts at a young age. I then lived and practiced art in St. Louis, Chicago and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, drawing influence from urban art culture.  My work ranges from contemporary realism in the forms of painting, sculpture, and drawing, to commercial murals and chalk art. 

http://mandyhalford.wixsite.com/portfolio

ArtWalk 2017 Location:
Studio Z Living

Shannon Elizabeth Gramitt
I create paintings, photos, drawings and mixed media artwork.  By experimenting with aleatoric processes, I formalize the coincidental and emphasize the conscious process of composition that is behind seemingly random work. My thought processes, which are supposedly private, highly subjective and unfiltered in their references to dram worlds, are frequently revealed as assemblages. My work is based on formal associations which open a unique poetic vein.  Multilayered images arise in which this fragility and instability of our seemingly certain reality is questioned.  The natural beauty that surrounds me is my greatest influence, the human form, the facial structure, the arch of a tree branch.  I long to push these elements to their limits and to bring my subconscious to life through pain, combined with a plethora of other mediums. The human form is captured with a somber sense of whimsy that is unlike that of our world.  What begins as an attempt to achieve beauty and distinction is distorted into a protest against stands of any kind as I allow the paint to do as it pleases on the canvas.  I strive to follow these seams of hidden layers and connections to take me from simple portraits to exploring the aspects of the human condition.  By coupling the standard idealization of beauty with a deep, haunting melancholy, I depict the torments that can lie just below the surface of what appears to be a shallow subject matter. I mainly use monochromatic color schemes with the occasional splash of metallic and earth tones within my pieces in order to take the focus out of the details and create a simplified journey for the viewer to search for individuality. My work is made to bring up the emotions, ideas, and opinions of the viewer by forcing self-exploration and internal dialogue.

http://www.facebook.com/ShannonElizabethArt

http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/shannon-elizabeth.html

ArtWalk 2017 Location:
30 Temple Street

Gail Moriarty
I am a silversmith who enjoys creating one-of-a-kind pieces of wearable art.  My specialty is designing and crafting custom pieces of jewelry commissioned by customers here in NH and across the country. I worked for the nine years in my studio in the Picker Building and now my studio is part of the Picker Collaborative Artists.

http://www.colibridesigns.com/

ArtWalk 2017 Location:
Picker Collaborative Artists

Peter Dixon
“Mystical”... “Spiritual”... are some of the responses to my work. But, I am not a mysterious person. For me the work is about the edges of seeing and the way an image appears or reappears on the periphery of an edge. In my paintings I use oil paint and transparent glazes because of the sensitive quality of the medium and the nuances of value I can achieve. My work is color, light and shadow, and value relationships that are in and about the square. Focusing on the square eliminates any vertical or horizontal elements or narrative suggestions. The subject is deceptively simple. One shape diffuses into its background allowing another to move to the foreground in a soft shift of color and value. I like the subtle way the relationship of foreground and background changes as one looks at the painting. The “atmospheric,” “mystical” movement is created by the eyes’ optical journey through the work.

 www.peterdixonartist.com

ArtWalk 2017 Location:
Pompanoosuc Mills

Sugitha Srinivasan
My childhood interest in art matured into a love of painting natural landscapes by my late twenties. I draw inspiration by carefully observing the simple and beautiful characteristics of nature and then creatively express them in many ways using varied media – acrylic, watercolors, oil, paper, clay, wood, etc. I am largely a self-taught artist, with a passion and joy for travel and photography that inspires creative expression in my artwork.

I am an active member of many Southern NH & Greater Boston area art associations, inspiring and getting inspired by other co-artists.

https://www.facebook.com/artisticallysugitha/

ArtWalk 2017 Location:
30 Temple Street

Teresa Moler
I became fascinated with marionettes at age six when I saw one in a toy store window. For my seventh birthday I received a marionette stage and a marionette and learned how to manipulate the string puppet by instructions on the box. I began performing for neighbors then expanded to performing at a plaza, classes, day care centers, libraries, events, parks, parties, nursing homes, and so forth. Over the years I received more and more marionettes as gifts, then as an adolescent learned how to make marionettes myself, having created about a dozen. I used my own and marionettes made by others in my performances, with all original content and live voices in the shows. About five years ago I incorporated some hand puppetry as well. I sometimes work with an assistant, and recently consulted with Lois Amidon and Judith O’Hare about my shows. In 1990 I became interested in painting, starting with acrylics then studying watercolors under Suzanne Binnie for several years. I now create with acrylics, watercolor and mixed media and study with Marilene Sawaf. Many of my paintings have been in art exhibits and some have won awards. Many are available as prints and cards. To summarize, I use color, creativity, variety, and originality in my puppetry and painting to lift people up. 

ArtWalk 2017 Location:
30 Temple Street

Ken Gidge
As the discoverer of a process, a new form of 3D Art that generates color projections off a flat canvas when 3D glasses are worn, I have been creating art professionally for more than decade. Under the business name of Gidgeworld.com, the brilliant pallets in my on line art gallery can be enjoyed. 

I am also a NH state legislator and have introduced Bill 279 to study the Economic Impact of the Arts and culture.  Bill 279 will give documentation to help to convince the public that when they celebrate, attend, invest in the arts and artists, it’s not just their hearts that are enriched, it has a significant impact on New Hampshire’s economy.

http://www.gidgeworld.com/

ArtWalk 2017 Location:
ArtHub Gallery 30 Temple Street

Dominique Boutaud
I was born and raised in Nice, France. Since my childhood I have always been involved in creative works of all kinds, beginning with drawings which I often made in the company of my father. In my life and through my painting, I gained technical familiarity with expressive works in many medias. I moved to the United States in 1996 and since have continued to develop my artistic talent.  I have exhibited around the world from USA, Spain, Monaco, France, Germany, Switzerland, to China, Japan and Italy.  I have been recognized and have won awards from many different countries; among them are the Gold Canvas award from France, Academical Knight from Italy, Excellent Art Prize from Japan, Master from New York, Trophy of Peace and recently Apollo, Francesco il frate di Assisi and Maestro d’Arte awards from Italy. “When paintings call out to us and challenge us, they fulfill their function, which is to transcend indifference.” 

http://www.healingincolor.com/

ArtWalk 2017 Location:
Healing in Color Studio and Gallery

Celeste Guidice
When visiting my studio and gallery at Studio C in the new location at 115 Main Street, Suite 302 you will find a diverse collection of award-winning photography including abstract imagery, travel, night sky, sea and cityscapes and more. In addition to my commercial advertising and fine art photography, I teach photography and conduct several workshops annually.

www.Instudioc.com

www.facebook.com/instudioc

ArtWalk 2017 Location:
Studio C
115 Main Street Suite 302

Sandy Machell
Primarily still life paintings in the style of contemporary realism, I paint in both oil and pastel. I also have a selection of plein air paintings I have done out and about locally. 

ArtWalk 2017 Location:
Studio C
115 Main Street Suite 302

Kimberly Leach
I am a sculptor of cloth and paper mache. I enjoy creating and bringing to life fantasy creatures. Many of the materials I use are simple or recycled items: cloth, newspapers, and wire hangers. I sculpt the piece of paper mache and give it a cloth skin, then use an airbrush to add color. You’d be surprised how strong my critters are!  This is my third year at the Art Walk and I was pleased to be selected to do the Venetian Mask sculptures in front of the Hunt Memorial Building. Come find me at 30 Temple Street and adopt one of my creatures for your very own!

http://kimberlyscreatures.weebly.com/

ArtWalk 2017 Location:
30 Temple Street

Lotus Lien
I am a visual artist working intuitively in acrylic, oil, encaustic, and clay. I am inspired by the everyday things I see around me . . .  memories of passing moments . . .  feelings that cannot be conveyed by words. Somehow they are translated into the nuances of my work through color, form, composition, and marks.

http://lotuslien.com/

ArtWalk 2017 Location:
Riverwalk Café

Tracy Hayes
Executed on canvas, but playing with semi-transparent surfaces like matte Dura-lar, my media explorations include ink, graphite, carbon dust, gouache, watercolor, acrylic, pastel, pen and color pencils to press layering ideas and push images as far as possible.  My work stands on its own singly but can be combined, multiplied and/or layered.  I believe much of my work is best considered in multiples, and it is my vision to install “like” works on entire walls to create large-scale interpretations.  Organic both in genesis and in resultant effect, my work is born of years of obsessive mark-making exploration.

www.tracyhayesartists.com

ArtWalk 2017 Location:
Pompanoosuc Mills