BILL ATHERTON

Born in India, raised and educated in England he studied fine art and design and had a successful career in advertising winning numerous awards as an art director,

After retiring, Bill has pursued his first love, drawing and painting where he has exhibited at the Northern Westchester Center for the Arts and at many horse and dog shows in the Northeast.

Bill Atherton was a passionate foxhunter in England where he hunted with the South and West Wilts, the oldest pack of foxhounds in England. Now living in Ridgefield, CT he rides on occasion but is more likely to be seen following hounds on foot with my camera capturing ideas for his painting and commission art.

CLAIRE CONANT

Ms. Conant has a passion for painting New England landscapes. She works on location to capture the essence of various seasons, and the special moments of light throughout the day. Her own gardens sometime provide abundant material to inspire her floral still lifes executed in oil. Ms. Conant studied art history at Miami University where she earned her B.A. and M.A. Her success has led to exhibitions in galleries and museums from Maine to New Jersey.

KIMBERLY DAWN

I paint because I am fascinated with color. I create artwork of varying sizes, hues and textures. What is consistent in my paintings is that in each one I try to capture motion and explore original, contemporary possibilities with the traditional mediums of oil paint and canvas.

My palette ranges from lush earth tones to bold, multilayered primary hues. My inspiration comes from the colors of the world around me: from the pastels of the French impressionists, the invigorating blues of the ocean, to the deep crimson red of a dozen roses. I simply try to create paintings that are visually pleasing, evoke an emotion, feeling or memory and/or bring my energy into a room.

SUSAN DORAZIO

Susan has gained a reputation for bringing a startling liveliness to her work that evokes mood, energy and atmosphere. Her work, praised for its blending of light and color and capturing of the spirit of the moment.

Susan has had a fascination with drawing animals, and horses in particular, since she was a young girl in Mt. Kisco, New York, a skill she translated into a career that has spanned three decades. Her work has been shown in numerous museums including the International Museum of the Horse at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky, and the Wildlife Experience Museum in Parker, Colorado, as well as in galleries and on magazine covers nationwide.

LINDA GEORGE

For many years, I have explored the landscape and still-life as vehicles for my interest in color, shape and spatial relationships. The work has ranged from realism to impressionism. However color has always been my primary concern – finding that “right” color that makes the others relate, sometimes in harmony and sometimes with tension. The joy is in finding the color that modifies the colors around it with its luminosity, weight, and distance or proximity to the others. Major influences have been Bonnard, Diebenkorn and DeKooning.

For the last several years, my work has been exclusively non-representational, allowing me more freedom to express my own emotions and to explore the canvas surface and the plasticity of oil paint. Shapes are always present, perhaps subconsciously drawn from years of landscape experience. My present concern is how to preserve the dynamic quality of paint applied with some abandon, yet to construct the work as a cohesive whole.

DANA GOODFELLOW

Ms. Goodfellow studied art at Marymount College, The School of Visual Arts, and The Silvermine Guild. Another Connecticut resident, she has painted many familiar scenes. She prefers landscapes and seascapes on location. She is a member of the Rowayton Arts Center, The Greenwich Art Society, The New Canaan Society of the Arts, and the Darien Arts Society.

SUE GRESS

At age 59 Sue Gress discovered her real passion in life, sculpture! “It would seem that all previous years had been preparation for this magical explosion that occurred when I attended my first sculpture class.” In the years that followed, Sue followed her star, studying her craft in 3 different States, exhibiting in one-woman and juried shows resulting in a permanent collection at the prestigious Union League Club in New York and in many private collections.

NING LEE

Ning Lee worked as a visiting artist at various art centers both in the United States and Canada in the early 1990s and finally settled down in New York metro area in 1996.  He has exhibited in China, Canada and the United States and has works in corporate and private collections in the US and abroad. Currently, Ning is creating art work in his studio in Livingston NJ for exhibitions, private collectors and commissions as well as teaching art students.

THOMAS LOCKER

“Hudson River School” artist Thomas Locker, recent landscapes have a quality all their own. His
years of experimentation and research into the glazing techniques and paint chemistry of traditional European painting have enabled him to achieve a new vision.

STEPHEN LYONS

Inspired by his mother's artwork, Stephen Lyons began drawing and painting at an early age. "My first real success was when Sister Finbar did not make me erase a drawing I did on my school desk".

"My main influences are the American impressionists working in New England and California during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, particularly, Frederick Mulhaupt, Wilson Irvine, Chauncey Ryder, Edgar Payne and Maurice Braun. I also greatly admire the Russian impressionists, Fechin, Levithan, etc". Stephen's paintings are in collections throughout the United States and Canada.

HUNTER MALLORY

A former architect and graphic designer, Hunter studied fine art in Europe. He works in many disciplines including landscapes, seascapes, and still life. His distinguished portraiture includes US presidents George Bush and William Clinton. With studios in Connecticut and until recently, California, Mr. Mallory has exhibited nationally and internationally and is represented in exhibitions worldwide.

PATRICE MARCHAL (France)

Widely collected throughout France, Marchal’s detailed paintings of the natural fields of the French countryside are highly desired. Paintings of vast meadows in Provence dotted with bright poppies, simple daisies and profusions of various wildflowers are a testament to his love of nature.

ANDREA MARSCHALK

A graduate of The Boston school of Fine Arts, Andrea paints in the “plein air” tradition, focusing on country scenes and landscapes. Ms. Marschalk aspires to transform a physical phenomenon and mood such as "morning" on to her canvas. Morning mist rising from a country barn roof shows such an example.

JOAN MIRO ( (1893-1983)

Joan Miro ranks among the most important artists of the 20th century. An inventive and imaginative painter, sculptor, ceramicist and printmaker, he changed forever the course of modern art. Although he derived his own visual vocabulary from nature, his works are frequently viewed as interesting abstract compositions, an effect that is enhanced by his vivid palette.

DEAN NICYPER

Dean Nicyper studied art at Marlboro College in Vermont and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.  He played jazz saxophone professionally for nearly ten years and now, in addition to his creative art work, is a practicing lawyer focusing extensively in the area of art law.

Drawing upon his intimacy with the jazz world, many of his charcoal and oil works depict some of the great jazz artists and smoky late-night jazz club environs. In sharp contrast, a large number of his paintings reflect the open airiness of the world out of doors, including large broad-view landscapes and wildlife subjects, revealing a unique vision of the natural world in a style derived in part from more traditional plein air techniques. 

LEIF NILSSON

An eastern Connecticut resident, Leif is a graduate of classical studies at the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts in Old Lyme, CT. Leif’s oil paintings depict world travels and scenes of the Connecticut River Valley. His passions include French Impressionism in the late 19th and early 20th century. His impressionist paintings have been exhibited in numerous galleries, and corporate and private collections.

PAUL OESTREICHER

A gifted sculptor celebrated for his skill as a master of detail, he shows great versatility ranging from a life-sized swimming alligator to a field mouse. His talents also encompass native Americans and free form dancers. Paul has had many successful exhibitions in New York and Connecticut, including joint shows with several of today’s leading artists, among them, Louise Nevelson, Robert Indiana, and Saint Claire Cemin.

JIM PASCUCCI

Mr. Pascucci is an artist stimulated by the relationships between mood, color, and light of Impressionism. He is a Fine Art graduate of The Whitney School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1949. Thereafter, he spent ten year periods with playhouse theater painting and set design and creating works for his gallery, The Art Alcove. All of this was accomplished while working with Perkin Elmer Corporation for more than 30 years as an artist/supervisor.

VIRGINIA PEAKE

Virginia Peake is a multiple award winning, published Connecticut artist whose oil paintings are characterized by their rich color and are filled with light. She is frequently sought after for her commissioned portraits of people and animals.

Virginia undertook an extensive apprenticeship with Ken Walkeen. She continues her studies of art in workshops, including those taught by established artists Franklin Jones, Jack Flynn, and Louise Denmore.

Caracas born, she has lived in Darien, Connecticut and presently resides outside Farmington, CT. She is a graduate of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY.

LESLIE PRIGGEN

After a successful career as a New York fashion photographer, Leslie turned her talents to painting in oil the fox hunting, horses and dogs that have been her lifelong interests . While residing on her Hudson Valley, NY, farm, she has painted race horses, polo ponies and dogs for a national and international cliental.

CLAUDIA SEYMOUR

My paintings are a personal expression of my lifelong fascination with the visual effects of color as revealed by the play of light across an array of objects or elements of the landscape. My goal as a representational painter is to attempt to portray the infinite beauty of color not only in every object itself but also in the interaction between objects, their shadows, and the surrounding space as light travels over and amongst them. C.S.

ANTONIA WALKER

Known for her Virginia countryside and Italian and French scenes, Ms. Walker has her work represented in many private and corporate collections. In 1977 Ms. Walker was invited to be visiting artist at The American Academy in Rome and has painted extensively in Tuscany & Provence. Her impressionist style paintings play with the “enigma of light & memory.”

LESLIE WILCOX (British) 1904 - 1982

Mr. Wilcox was an eminent British artist known mainly as a painter of marine subjects in oils. He was also a watercolourist, illustrator, poster artist, marine model-maker and author. He was for some years Honorary Secretary of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. His works are in many collections around the world, including the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, and the Royal Collection.

SANFORD "SANDY" ZIMELIS

Sanford Zimelis work is primarily based on variations of the human figure and its expressive possibilities. Sandy’s sculpture collection is about the fluidity of line and the artistic challenge of translating ideas into form.

Sandy studied at the Art Student League a nd the Silvermine Art Center as well as with noted sculptors in the tri-state area. In addition, Sandy honed his skills in the famous Carrara and Pietrasanta areas in Italy.

Sandy’s works adorn many private collections and have received numerous awards in regional exhibitions.

SCOTT ZUCKERMAN

Scott Zuckerman’s attention in “capturing in paint the essential rightness of wildlife in their natural habitat” has been fine tuned in his own lifestyle living in, and raising his family in a rustic New England cottage amongst the sights and scenes featured in his paintings. His natural style harkens back to master artists such as George Browne and Carl Rungius a particular favorite of Zuckermans.

Scott Zuckerman has been a featured illustrator and cover artist on LL Bean catalogs and has exhibited in significant national museums and galleries throughout the country.