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. 

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. 

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.

"Creating a painting requires so much more than the mechanics of working a brush on paper...talents given or developed, to go beyond the simple illustrating of a subject or an idea. You have to draw from all available resources, one's emotions, dreams, environmental influences, bringing all parts to fruition in a concrete form without losing the passion that compelled you to create in the first place.
Most often the settings of my paintings are purely fictional, props to set the desired mood, yet highly reflective of the people, places and experiences that have most influenced my work. Each painting creates a new challenge, new discoveries in my mediums, rekindling a spirit within that makes art more than a rewarding, satisfying profession...it makes art a way of life."

"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".

Born in 1957, Antonia grew up in a creative household and was encouraged by her mother, a painter, and her father, a photographer, to pursue painting; she started taking lessons from local artists in her home state of Connecticut at the age of ten. She continued her studies after high school at Eastern Connecticut State University and Silvermine Guild Art Center in New Canaan, Connecticut.

To quote Antonia:

“Water is a never ending source of inspiration for me. Each day, one painting after another, I seek an ever deepening understanding of its essence. The more I observe, the more it seems there is to discover. The surface designs, deep waters and shore breaks offer an infinite array of beautiful complexity. Ever changing and omnipresent, the ocean is such a universal part of our existence. There is a certain feeling of connectedness when sitting by its shores. The endless rhythm, power and mystery of the sea course through our very veins. Choosing to explore water and its visual language through my paintings has been an enlightening  and uplifting gift that I enjoy sharing. Thank you for taking the journey with me.

Hodges had a successful illustration career which lasted twenty five years. His art graced the covers of more than three hundred book covers. He worked for most of the major publishing houses in New York. Hodges was a twenty three year member of the prestigious Society of Illustrators in New York. During this time, he received many citations of merit for work exhibited in annual shows. He was selected to do the painting for the twenty ninth call for entries and chaired the thirty fifth annual exhibition. After years of executing ideas and concepts of others, he now paints subjects that are of personal interest. He has had numerous one man shows, and has participated in group shows throughout the United States.  He was a finalist in the 2001 and 2002 Artists Magazine Competition. He received an award of excellence in the 2004 Oil Painters of America Eastern Regional Exhibition. He received an award of excellence in the 2006 Oil Painters of America National Exhibition, and received a 2007 Certificate of excellence award in the International Portrait Competition hosted by the Portrait Society of America. Most recently, Hodges was awarded Signature membership status by Oil Painters of America in December 2008. He also won first place in the category, Portraits of Women, in the Members showcase of the Portrait Society of America 2009.

"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".

Peter Card was born NH, received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Ohio State University, then studied post-doctoral at Harvard University. After a 30 year successful career as a pharmaceutical executive in nuclear medicine, Peter redirected his life-long passion to photography and oil painting. He spent four years studying painting techniques of the old masters in the studio of Leah Kristen Dahlgren. Peter later studied under Todd Bonita, Tom Hughes, Donald Jurney, David Lussier, and Dennis Sheehan.

Today, Peter and his wife reside in NH where he enjoys painting full time.

"I paint what interests me. I find inspiration in the beauty of simple things; utilizing them as elements to carry light across the painting. After years of working as a pharmaceutical executive which tended to fold, spindle and mutilate my soul....painting reminds me that I have one!"

~Peter Card

Mark H. Brown was born in 1974.  His love for art was evident as a young child, spending many hours in his bedroom drawing cars, animals and things of his imagination.  Through the years, he studied the paintings of the masters through books and visits to museums and held a continual fascination for the realism of the dutch masters.  While enjoying a wide spectrum of styles and subject matter, Mark found that his temperament and passion took him in the direction of classical realism.  In the pursuit of that goal, he furthered his studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, in Philadelphia, PA.  After his studies were complete, he and his wife, Elizabeth, moved to Carlisle, PA where they now reside with their three children, Luke, Eliana and Aliya.  

Mark has been enjoying painting full time as an artist since 2000, while he and his family travel throughout the US exhibiting in outdoor art shows, gallery shows and group shows.  Mark has received numerous awards at outdoor shows;  including three best in shows, several 1st Place in oils and numerous other awards.  He has also been selected as a finalist in the Artists Magazine Annual Contest during two different years.  He was pleased to be included in the 2009 Oil Painters of America National Competition with his painting of "The Chocolate Pot."  Mark's painting "Bananas" was included in the 2011 National Oil Painters of America Competition, being selected as one of 168 paintings chosen from 2100 applications.

Craig was born and raised in the New York City Metro area. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Studio Art from Middlebury College and did additional coursework at Dartmouth College and The New Hampshire Institute of Art, studying under Christopher Pothier. After receiving his degree from Middlebury, Craig found himself in the world of professional photography and moved away from painting for many years. Wherever he traveled throughout the United States, he always took his camera and captured thousands of images, gathering source material for paintings. Over the past twenty five years he has rediscovered painting, and the photographs he created have come to life in his rich, evocative pieces. Using the classic painting technique of underpainting and glazing, Craig’s work is moody and thoughtful. Among others, painters Edward Hopper and Robert Bechtle have influenced his work.

“The source material for my paintings originate exclusively from my own photography. For approximately every fifty images captured, I will select five to ten that are made into 12” x 18”prints. From those prints I may choose one or two that are satisfactory sources. All my recent paintings are on wood panels that I prepare with a dark, burnt umber ground. I begin with a pencil line drawing and follow with an underpainting that is monochromatic, using only burnt umber and white. The dark ground and burnt umber underpainting create a warmth that finds its way through the colors in the final work. I will add a glaze created by mixing pigment with a transparent medium which brings the color to the paintings. The final color glaze may vary in transparency and may be from one to ten layers deep. Throughout over 40 years as a professional photographer, I have captured a wide variety of manmade and natural landscapes. In recent years, many of these images have been the inspiration for paintings, where the hand and eye create the light more powerfully than camera and lens.”

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

“I first became interested in photography when I moved to Rhode Island in 2006. I would go for a bike ride along the ocean every day around sunset, when the light was golden and beautiful, and I felt compelled to start photographing what I saw. My work has since taken me to many places outside of Rhode Island, but the coast of New England still remains my very favorite place. In my images I try to capture a sense of wonder that I feel when I am discovering a location for the first time. Many of my images are long exposures, ranging from one second to seven minutes. These images emphasize the interaction of stationary and moving elements, capturing the accumulation of time in a single frame. I also frequently experiment with intentional camera movement, deliberately moving the camera during an exposure to create a painterly effect and distilling the scene into a wash of color.”

—-Katherine Gendreau