ArtWalk 2018 Artists

Patricia Ahern Inventive paintings, 2 & 3-D media work
Gregory Amaral Signs of positivity, t shirts, mini canvas signs of positivity
Tony Attardo Sense of place photography
Debbie Auclair Abstract art
Casey Batten Watercolor with pen and ink
Racy Bennet Photography
Jessica Bond Original mixed media fine art and photography
Diana Boyle Gourd art using multimedia techniques from wearable art to whimsy
Martha Brooks Original pen & ink illustrations, note-cards; Zentangle inspired art
Olivia Burtsell Photography; nature, portrait, wedding, urban, and much much more!
Billie Jo Campbell Abstract expressionism, realism
Sid Ceaser Professional photography
Adam Chouinard Pottery and various pieces of mixed medium paintings, sketches and drawings
Lisa Ciacci Paintings with instant coffee and acrylics
Rachel Cochran Oil paintings of regional landscapes-natural scenes and country scenes
Katie Conmy Resin, stained glass, and ink mixed media jewelry
Kristen Deibele Wheel thrown and hand built functional and decorative pottery
Nick DePasquale Travel & fine art photography
Tim Devincenzo Mixed media abstract expressionism
Peter Dixon Color field and glazed multi-media paintings
Janice Donnelly Expressionistic oil paintings from life and also from photographs, using brush and/or pallet knife
Maureen Donovan Oil paintings
Claire Dumond Acrylic on canvas inspired by nature
Ken Fiery Oil paintings
Casey Fitzgerald Various mediums with subjects including body positivity, the human form, and fantasy
Timothy Michael Foley Oil, acrylic and drawings along with mixed media creations
Mark Frank Custom stained glass, restoration and repairs, classes, supplies, retail gallery
Cindy Goodman Quilts and quilted gifts
Michael Greene Digital & traditional techniques, utilizing a design oriented approach to create crisp, vivid pieces
Bonnie Guercio Mixed media collages
Heidi Harris Mixed medium abstracts, animals, character illustrations, landscapes, still life, zen-doodle drawings
Tracy Hayes Mixed media
Don Higgins Freelance illustration for the advertising, game, concept art, and literary industries; specializing in
character concepts and wildlife.
Douglas Huntley Mixed media and abstract paintings
Tammy Jann Nature Photography
Daryl D. Johnson Original oil paintings
Lois Kilberg watercolor paintings, handcrafted 3D interactive topographic maps, prints, cards,etc.
Susan King Acrylic and mixed media paintings of New England waterscapes, landscapes and floral
Jennifer Lamerand Artistic photography landscapes on canvas and mixed media
Madeleine LaRose Acrylic and pastel medium
Kimberly Leach Cloth and papier-mâché creatures
Elizabeth LeBlanc Abstract watercolor paintings on printmaking paper
Christine Lehmkuhl Fine artisan jewelry
Donna Levine Abstract mixed media, figurative paintings
Autumn Lewis Acrylic paintings done through meditation combining people with their connecting animal
Christen Lydia Popsurreal Artist
Sandy Machell Oil and pastel contemporary realism still life
Catherine McDonah Photography
Kathleen Meighan Painted glassware, mixed media prints, handmade, hand-decorated papier-mâché bowls
Craig Michaud Photography
Teresa Moler Paintings, cards, prints, puppet-shows
Gail Moriarty Custom jewelry designer
Carolyne Nakakeeto Mixed media, jewelry, oil and canvas paintings
Merlinna Navarro Creative reflection
Seth Panousis Mxed media, oil paintings, portraiture and fashion
Betty Paradis Mandalas & poured acrylic paintings on canvas and other substrates. Prints on stickers, etc
Tanya Prather Hand-dyed art on silk and fibers; eco-prints with relational pottery
Cathy Roberts Expressionism & realism
Katie Roberts Pop art
Darold Rorabacher Hand-crafted custom furniture
Monique Sakellarios Impressionism and abstract oil paintings, jewelry, pottery, blown glass
J.J. Sawicki Pyrography, wood burning
Michaila Sheehan Oil and acrylic paintings and charcoal drawings
Pat Silva Landscapes/seascapes-in oil, pastel, watercolor originals, prints, cards, miniatures
Sugitha Srinivasan Paintings and jewelry
Stephen Topia Nature Photography
Albert Wilkinson Photography, photo restoration, engraving, digital art. Promotional items
Harriet Winchester Oil paintings, landscape and still life, realism
Liz Winchester Still-Life and landscape subjects, drawing media and also linoleum block print making

Nashua Area Artists Association Members Various mediums, 2D and 3D art, jewelry, sculptures
New Hampshire Institute of Art Photo Club Photography

Artist Statements

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/

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

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/

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/

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

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/

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. 

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. 

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/

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