SYLVIA CHAIT

Sylvia is an artist with an international quality. Her work is not bound by her immediate environment. Sylvia's organic sculptures explore universal themes. Some of her work relates to the female form, extracting maternal qualities of love, tenderness and warmth.

Sylvia uses various media, being equally at ease in glasstone, soapstone, clay, alabaster and plaster. The sculptures are then cast into bronze and stainless steel.
Her sculptures can be seen in numerous private and important collections and Art Galleries throughout the United States, England, Australia, South Africa, Canada, and Europe.

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.

MIREILLE DUCHESNE  

Mireille Duchenese was born in Normandy, France. She received a formal education in LeHarve and awarded her Masters Degree at Rouen’s University.

After marrying and years of world travel and informal painting she returned to France to the Beaux Arts to pursue an education in art. There she took advanced classes in drawing and painting. Ms Duchesne then relocated to United States and further developed her skills and studying present and new art forms. Discovering another medium, painting on silk she spent a successful twenty years honing her skills in this delicate medium and achieving great success with wearables and paintings featured in private collections throughout Unites States and Europe.

Mireille then developed arthritis which forced her to change mediums which were less demanding on her hands. She then resumed her painting in oil and pastels. Ms Duchesne is has and is studying portrait painting in North Salem, NY with artist Daniel Greene and classical painting with David Leffel, Richard Pionk, and Greg Kreutz at the Art Student’s League in New York.

“ Painting is my passion, my life. I am talking with my heart in my paintings. If I succeed to give through my works, my joy of life, my goal would be reached”

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.

STEPHEN LYONS

Stephen Lyons was born in 1960 in Mobile, Alabama, the eighth of eleven children. Inspired by his mother's artwork, he 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 studied at the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts in Old Lyme, Connecticut, and at the Art Students League in New York City. His 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

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.

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 OSTERICHER

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.

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.

JEREMY RUGGE-PRICE

Born in England, Jeremy was influenced by the river flats, dunes, and rural settings of his Suffolk youth. His work also depicts rocky shores, dunes, and marshes in the northeast United States and England. Currently living in the Hudson River Valley, Rugge-Price has found new inspiration there for his energetic and light-infused paintings.

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.”

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.