With a degree form the Rhode Island School of design and after work experience as a graphic designer in New York City, Stephen G. Maka made a major career change thirty years ago and became a full-time nature photographer.
Since then he has been able to travel to many undeveloped locations around the world. These remote, vast and fragile ecosystems have not only inspired his imagery but have had a profound influence on his personal philosophy and outlook on life.
Reviewing his work produced over long periods of time, Steve found reoccurring themes. These themes have led to the development of personal projects that, at times, are philosophically driven while others are based on the interrelationship of images or subject matter. Most of the images are fairly spontaneous, allowing nature to dictate time, light, and subject. More conceptual images may take months or even years to create.
His images reflect a strong sense of his fine art background producing statements with a bold graphic impact evoking an emotional response.
Steve's photography is published internationally and has been used in most print forms including books, magazines, billboards, cards, calendars and posters. In addition to publishing, Steve¹s professional commitment has led to teaching, instructing workshops, leading field trips, guiding, consulting, slide presentation, gallery exhibitions and fine-art prints.
As a charter member of the North American Nature Photographers Association (NANPA) Steve now serves as treasurer.

Millions of people have seen Michael Kahn's stunning seascape and sailing photographs exhibited in art galleries and museums throughout the world. His art has been featured in over 30 national and international magazines. Michael's sailing images have been collected in his second book titled The Spirit of Sailing -- Courage Books, 2004. Michael's handmade photographs are held in private and corporate collections worldwide, including the Yacht Club de Monaco and the American embassy in Katmandu.

With his 1950's designed camera, Michael travels extensively to photograph the world's finest boats and pristine seascapes. He collects his images on traditional black and white film; then, he produces his luminous silver gelatin photographs in his darkroom using skills that he has refined over the years.

Michael Kahn’s traditional technique united with his distinctive sense of form, composition, vision and technical mastery has helped him to become one of the most collected photographers of our time.

The artist always had a strong interest in the arts and showed a desire and a keen ability to draw at a very young age. Matti has attended numerous drawing and painting courses, taken private lessons, workshops, and demonstrations throughout the years.

Matti's interest is in still life, seascape and landscape painting. His style is representational and realist with a quiet and pleasing view of his subject. Among his favorite painters are Chardin, Degas, Caravaggio and Henri Fantin-Latour.

His paintings are in private collections in the New England, Asia and Europe.

Greg Currier is a Camden resident who has had a decades’ long interest in photography, beginning with a developing and printing business for the neighbors at age 10. He has studied both the technology of image making and the art of capturing light. He discovered the rich and varied landscape of Maine when he attended college here. His interest in nature and landscape photography developed over many years as he traveled and hiked throughout the country recording images from the expanse of the Rockies to the reflections in a single drop of dew. He kept coming back to Maine and in 1974 moved here, where the scenery captivated him the most. He settled in Camden in 1989. His work has appeared in exhibitions, competitions, magazines, books, and advertising campaigns and he has also exhibited at numerous juried art shows. His work is carried by several galleries here in Maine and he is the author of three photographic books: The Colors of Lobstering, Camden at Its Best, and Reflections of Maine. 

Jill is a self-taught painter with a love for the architecture and style of New England. Though now a studio painter, she has also worked extensively with photography. The viewer can see that influence in how she captures lighting and character in her intimate portraits of rural and coastal details of New England life. Jill is working deliberately with contrast and color to create pieces which engage the viewer and invite quiet nostalgia. Her work preserves moments of captured time, and the time she spends on her paintings is a meditation on each moment. 

"Dry brush is the technique I use in most of my watercolor paintings. I lightly draw my composition on either 140 lb. or 300 lb. cold press Arches paper and begin painting thin layers, creating the desired balance of lights and darks.  I often feel that I'm drawing with the brush rather than painting.  Using less water allows me greater control of the medium making it easier to reach the level of detail I like". 

-Jack Standish

After 25 years as a graphic designer and illustrator, Dan began painting full-time in 2008. The majority of his work is produced on-site at locations near his home in Hanover County, Virginia. He typically works for 1-2 hours on location, and then applies the finishing touches in the studio.  

"My approach to painting involves hundreds of scumbled strokes and marks of pigment, organized into patterns of shape and value, the result is a representation of reality. These arrangements of pastel marks go beyond the mechanical process of building, they are orchestrated to try and capture the elusive qualities of light and atmosphere that display the extraordinary characteristics of common subject matter."

-Dan Michael

Harry Thompson graduated from the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida in 1971 and, after touring North America, worked as an architectural renderer and then creative designer. He ended his commercial career compelled by a strong desire of freedom to pursue his artistic expression. He has received many awards for his work, which has been exhibited throughout the eastern United States and has been purchased by numerous private and corporate collectors. 

"As an artist, I believe in practicing the sound principals of painting that I have learned and currently teach, but I also believe that an artist should strive for something more than just the technical skill in their work.  There is a feeling, or reaction, that one gets when standing in front of a painting or a piece of art.  Sometimes, it`s not an easy thing to describe. It might be the sense of place in a landscape, the light on the subject, or a fleeting expression in a portrait.  These are the types of reactions that one hopes are communicated in his or her paintings.  The best scenario is when the technical and the emotional part of painting is inseparable".

-Hodges Soileau

Ann is an award winning artist living in upstate New York's Adirondack Mountains.  Born in Louisivlle, KY, Ann began traveling and living throughout the United States at the age of 18.   After completing a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Central Oklahoma, she and her family moved to Denver, CO where Ann began to focus on her painting and fell in love with the western landscape.   Even though she lives in a beautiful part of the country, where plein air painting is a challenge almost any time of year, Ann also spends time painting on the coast of Maine and throughout the Southwest.   

Ann's approach to the landscape is to simplify as much as possible in order to create the strongest paintings.  "I want my viewers to know how I felt about a place when I painted it.  I'm not trying to copy what I see nor am I interested in lots of detail.  I want to suggest a subject with the buildup of paint and exciting brushstrokes."

Museum Exhibitions

Rockwell Museum, Perspectives of the American Experience, American Women Artists, Corning, NY 2018

Artists for the New Century, Invitational, Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT 2017

Tucson Desert Art Museum, Tucson, AZ 2017 American Women Artists, Under A Vast Sky

National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, OKC, OK 2014, Small Works Great Wonders

Booth Museum of Western Art, Cartersville, GA 2014 American Women Artists, Prevailing Winds

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ 2013  American Women Artists, Visions of the West

Frederick Remington Museum, Ogdensburg, NY 2013

Events and Awards (selected)

Oil Painters of America, 27th Annual National Exhibition, Steamboat Art Museum, Steamboat Springs, CO

Oil Painters of America, 26th Annual National Exhibition, Eisele Gallery, Cincinnati, Oh 2017

American Impressionist Society, 17th Annual National Exhibition, Howard/Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA 2016

Oil Painters of America, 25th Annual National Exhibition, Southwest Gallery, Dallas 2016

Outstanding Landscape, American Women Artists National Members & Juried Show, Bennington, VT 2016

Award of Excellence, Oil Painters of America Eastern Regional, Eisele Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 2016

Award of Merit, OPS Southwest Salon, Southwest Gallery, Dallas given by Marc Hanson, Juror, 2016

Silver Medal, Master Signature, American Women Artists National Exhibition, Bonner-David Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ 2015

Award of Excellence given by Quang Ho, Paso Robles Signature Invitational 2014

Award of Merit, OPS Southwest Salon, Southwest Gallery, Dallas given by Marc Hanson 2016

Award of Merit, OPS Southwest Salon, Southwest Gallery, Dallas given by Phil Starke, 2015

Award of Merit, OPS Southwest Salon, Southwest Gallery, Dallas given by Jill Carver, 2014

Award, Randy Higbee 6" Squared, Costa Mesa, CA 2013

Honorable Mention, Light on the Land, Davis & Blevins Gallery, Saint Jo, TX 2013

Honorable Mention, Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters, Teton National Park 2013

First Place, Masters Division, Central Adirondack Art Show, Old Forge, NY

First Place, Lake Placid Center for the Arts, Adirondack Juried Show

Second Place, Finger Lakes Plein Air Festival, Canandaigua, NY 2013 

Honorable Mention, Oil Painters of America Spring & Summer Online Showcase, 2013

Second Place, Outdoor Painters Society Online Show

Oil Painters of America Salon Show, Petosky, MI 2013

Oil Painters of America Eastern Regional, Annapolis, MD 2016, 2013

Randy Higbee 6x6 Gallery Show, Costa Mesa, CA 2013, 2012

American Women Artists, K. Newby Gallery, Tubec, AZ 2012

American Women Artists, R S Hanna Gallery, Fredericksburg, TX 2013

Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters National Paint Out and Show, Wild Spirit Gallery,  Pagosa Springs CO 2011

Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters National Paint Out and Show, Grand Teton National Park 2016,2015,2014,2013, 2012

American Impressionist Society, 12th, 13th & 14th National Exhibits 2016, 2015,2013, 2012, 2011

Outdoor Painters Society, Dallas, TX 2016,2015,2014,2013, 2012

Sedona Plein Air Festival, Sedona, AZ 2011, 2010

Grand Canyon Plein Air on the Rim, Grand Canyon, AZ 2010

Affiliations 

Master Signature Member, American Women Artists and Past President

Signature Member, Oil Painters of America

Signature Member, Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters

Signature Member, American Impressionist Society

Signature Member, Outdoor Painters Society

American Society of Marine Artists

Jim Karlovich lives, paints and sculpts in Amesbury, Massachusetts. He has taken art instruction at the University of Minnesota and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and sculpture classes at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He also lived in Italy for three years during which time he completed more than forty paintings inspired by his travels throughout Europe. Until mid 2006, however his pursuit of art took second place behind a successful professional career in finance, law and consulting. Once it became clear to him that he would only thrive as an artist if he pursued it full time he made the commitment to become a professional painter and sculptor. 

His body of work spans a very wide range of subject matter influenced by his extensive travel, his interest in the human form, nature and his desire to interpret as well as to record what he sees.  

His work is in or has been displayed in the following collections:

Coopers & Lybrand , Boston, Minneapolis, New York and Philadelphia
Dorsey & Whitney, LLP
Fidelity Management and Research, Boston
The Hebrew Rehabilitation Center, Boston
McLane Law Firm PA, Manchester, N.H.
Robinson, Boesch & Sennott, Portsmouth, N.H.

It can also be found in over fifty private collections in Italy, Great Britain, Bermuda, and the United States. His work has recently appeared on the cover of Artscope magazine.

Charles Gatewood is an American visual artist who was born in 1942. Charles has had several gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the Mitchell Algus Gallery. Several works by the artist have been sold at auction including "New York" sold at InnAuction 'Modern Contemporary Art & Photography' in 2016. There have been many articles about Charles Gatewood, including 'Rainin Foundation presenting Symposium on Public Art' written by Charles Desmarais for San Francisco Chronicle in 2016.