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Welcome 2020 artists
Let me introduce you to the 2020 Artists. We are excited to welcome back returning artists and the new artists joining us. We will update this page after each of our jury sessions and new artists are approved and scheduled. Interested in becoming part of our Cottage Community see the Artist Page for the application.
About our artists
Laurel Wilson, Watercolor Painter 7/29-8/2
As a lifelong artist, Laurel Wilson has used drawing and painting as a means of expressing herself and communicating with others in a quiet but powerful way. Her interest in history and preserving the environment is documented in watercolor paintings known for their intricate detail, balance, color, unique subjects, and calming moods. She prefers doing landscapes, seascapes and close-up views of natural subjects like shells, pebbles or beach drift she finds while hiking or kayaking her Cape Cod home. She especially loves the transparency, fluidity, and challenge of watercolors and the way layering and glazing can add both saturated color and mood. Conscious of using the best of materials, she works on Arches Cold Pressed paper with Windsor Newton artist grade watercolors and frames her work carefully.
Educated in art history, painting and design at Mount Holyoke College and Oberlin, Laurel has worked for both the Smithsonian and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum as an art conservator and has taught art history at Alfred University. She uses that background when she paints. She works inside from her own photographs and sketches made while "exploring" her home or traveling. As an award-winning Master Artist at the Cape Cod Art Center in Barnstable, a partner in Eastwind Gallery in Orleans, and a artist member of the Chatham Creative Arts Center and the Yarmouth and Plymouth art guilds, she is busy with year round shows and exhibits both locally and across the United States. She has shown at the Festival of Arts in Chatham each August for the past thirty-nine years. She loves meeting and connecting with people who like her work.
Contact Information
Website: laurelwilsonwatercolors.com
Email: laurwils@comcast.net
Joyce Zavorskas, Plein Air Oil Painter - 8/19-8/23 and 9/11-9/20
The natural world is a sanctuary, a place to breath wind and think and feel undistracted at last. To paint on location is to create portraits of these familiar places, where ocean meets land, where hill meets sky.
The recipient of numerous awards, Joyce Zavorskas has exhibited in London, Paris, New York, California and Cape Cod and Islands. Zavorskas has taught for 38 years at local museums and art centers, including PAAM, Castle Hill, Touchstone, Simmons College, Bridgewater State University and Cape Cod Community College. She holds three university degrees, including an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from MassArt, during which she studied with Michael Mazur, Peik Larsen, and Joel Janowitz. Independent painting studies with Lois Griffel, Don Stone, Skip Whitcomb, Charles Sovek, Joe McGurl, Don Demers, Daniel Keyes, and Joe Pacquet, among others, contributed valuable and lasting inspiration.
Contact Information
Website: joycezavorkas.com
Email: zavorjoyce@gmail.com
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Beverley Roberts - Fabric Artist 9/11-9/20
Beverley Roberts has been working with fabrics for over 25 years, creating much sought after pieces, which incorporate her flair for design, and her photographer’s eye for perspective.
Beverley weaves together her vibrant sense of color and textures with imaginative designs. She prefers to work with natural fibers and pigments. She garners her inspiration from the beautiful vistas of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where she makes her home.
Beverley developed a love for art at a very young age. I was surrounded by the flora, fauna, colorful birds and butterflies of the tropics and the ever changing shades of blue of the Caribbean Sea. My life in the Big Apple added an appreciation for bold structure, architecture and clean flowing lines. Even more, the stark textures of Cape Cod were layered onto my already burgeoning palette. My studies in fine arts and fashion design has caused me to be resolute in my decision to create wearable pieces of art. I love working from my home, where I’m surrounded by shades of green accompanied by a chorus of resident and migrant birds. But creating is only half of my story, sharing the joy and expression art brings me with the many people I encounter and especially with those who take a piece away with them brings me the most fulfillment.
Contact Information
Email: mijizaimages@yahoo.com
Website: www.mijizaimages.com
Facebook:mijizaimages
Ann Judge Forget 8/12-8/16
Ann Judge Forget is a Cape Cod based artist whose business name is Ann Judge Design. Ann’s pieces have a bright, whimsical, abstract feeling expressing color, shape, form and movement. Ann finds inspiration from the natural beauty of landscapes, beachscapes and skyscapes. She looks for shapes and forms in nature. Sometimes, it is a sandy, hilly beach with sand ripples and formations that are left behind when the tide goes out. Other times, it is the rolling hills or a sky with textured clouds and the ever changing elements that add dimension to her work. She likes to play around with the horizon line, as it can sometimes divide the painting into thirds or in half depending on the feel for which she is searching.
Ann also likes to incorporate subtle surprises between forms, adding squiggly lines in opposing colors to bring allure to the piece. She is trying to extract the essence of the image between organic shapes and the negative space. The artist usually works with acrylics but lately has added the element of oil pastel to enhance the color. Most recently, Ann has gone back to earlier themes such as the female body. A woman’s body has been a motivation for artists since the beginning of time. It is the curves, creases and softness of these forms that enliven Ann’s latest paintings. She likes to call these bodyscapes. Her study of art history motivates her to constantly be thinking of and designing her next piece. Ann’s favorite artist’s range from van Gogh, Matisse, O’Keeffe, Thiebauld to Hockney.
Contact Information
Email:
Phone: 857-204-0376
Facebook: AnnJForgetarts
Karen Seidewand, Cape Seas Scapes 7/29-8/9
Karen Seidewand, CapeScape Art, is resident of Chatham for 22 years.
Received a BA on English and Fine Art at St. Michael’s College, Winooski, VT. Owner of the Gallery CapeScape Art 1281 Main Street, Chatham. Love painting an ocean backdrop and creating the iconic shape of the Cape with all types of shells, rocks, sea glass, jewelry and other treasures. Also, my Cape Cod wooden flags in all colors with Starfish stars.
Contact Information
Email: kseidewand@comcast.net
Facebook: Karen Seidewand
Instagram: Capescapeart
Phone: 508-237-5720
Amanda Bortle - Shades of Green 7/22-10/12
I love working in an environment that is full of energy and expression. Being surrounded by other artists and makers will be of utmost enjoyment. I love meeting new people and having conversations with them. I am very excited to develop relationships with the local community and the visitors.
I sell goods that are sustainably and ethically made. All of the items I sell encourage responsible and conscious consumerism. I personally make bags and other fabric items that are constructed from upcycled materials. I also use items like rope that I pick up on the beach for my handmade pieces.
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Email: shadesofgreenecoboutique@gmail.com
Amy Middleton 7/29- 8/9
Influenced by expressionist and impressionist painters, I'm mainly concerned with capturing mood through color, form and brush strokes. I've long been inspired by the landscape of my beloved Cape Cod. I'm drawn to its magical light, expansive skies and ever-changing seas. The bright colors and floral patterns of the seventies and eighties have been influencers in my work. I studied art at Southern Methodist University, where I earned my Bachelor of Arts in Advertising and Studio Art. I continued my studies at Montserrat College of Art, Massachusetts College of Art and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. I am a member of the Creative Arts Center in Chatham and the Provincetown Arts Association and Museum. I show my work at Mark August in Chatham, with the Guild of Chatham Painters, and in regional shows throughout the year.
Contact Information
Email: amydaremiddlton@gmail.com
Aidan Conboy -Woodwork Artist 8/19-8/23
I am a college student who designs and creates furniture and home furnishings from a variety of hardwoods without the use of paints or stains. By doing so, each piece of art is unique, highlighting the beauty that nature created. I started this company 6 years ago, initially as a hobby and a passion in high school. After years of testing, redesigning, and perfecting my methods and skills, I have been able to grow my passion into a business that delivers beautiful high-quality handcrafted products that will last for years to come.
As a Technology and Engineering Education major, I enjoy sharing my passion for woodworking with others. People appreciate the attention to detail in my craftsmanship. Each piece of art is unique. It's exciting to see the wood grain come alive in the finishing process. I use traditional techniques in designing and creating pieces that fit today’s modern lifestyle. My furniture is built to last, with mortise and tenon joinery. All serving boards are finished with a food-safe wood oil.
As a young artist, I am lucky to have guidance and support from my family and my mentors.
Contact Information
Web: globalsawdust.com
Email: support@globalsawdust.com
Phone: 201-693-7232
Instagram: @globalsawdust
Ellen C. Davies - Painter 8/19-8/30 and 9/25-9/27
I am rediscovering an avocation I once enjoyed many years ago. My work has become more abstract, usually with a suggestion of flowers or seascapes. I have been exploring the relationship between abstract and representational. My style is rather unique with its ethereal blend of colors used effectively to subtly portray my favorite subjects. I am more interested in capturing the effects of luminosity than in accurately recording subject seen in light and shadow. By experimenting with new techniques and
products I can break free from some old habits and patterns. And finally I realize, as with all creative work, there are no hard and fast rules except the ones you make for yourself.
I have recently returned to an avocation I last enjoyed many years ago. With the passage of time, I have found myself more interested in the abstract than in the representational, while still exploring the relationship between the two. While still employing my unique style, with its ethereal blend of colors used to portray my favorite flowers and seascapes, I find myself more fascinated with the effects of luminosityon them. By the suggestion rather than the actual. It’s been a fascinating and exciting time for me.
As I experiment with new techniques and products, I find I can break free from old habits and patterns. And realize, as with all creative effort, there are no hard and fast rules except the ones you make for yourself.
Contact Information
Email: eclectic507@icloud.com
Judy Schmitt - Painter 8/19-8/30 and 9/25-9/27
Judy began oil painting in 2007 when she relocated to Cape Cod. Immediately during her first art class, she knew she had found her calling, falling in love with the beauty of the Cape and the challenges of capturing its color and light. As a mentor of plein-air artist Steve Kennedy, Judy has learned to face her subject straight on. She has a distinctive style of using both palette knife and brushwork.
Judy's work has been displayed in multiple juried shows, the Provincetown Art Association Museum and several other galleries on the Cape and beyond. Her exquisite Cityscapes were presented to her solo show at the Hoboken Historical Museum. She has been commissioned by art collectors across the Northeast.
Judy is a member of the Guild of Chatham Painter, PAAM, The Creative Arts Center in Chatham and the Truro Group. She is excited to be showing her work at the Artist Cottages in Orleans after enjoying previous success at her display on MacMillan Pier in Provincetown.
Contact Information
Email: Artist JudySchmitt@gmail.com
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Tina Gagnon 8/26-8/30
Nature & Nostalgia – those are the subjects that I am, pardon the pun, drawn to. I am a hyper-realistic artist and the “devil is in the details” – the more details, the better. The medium of colored pencil affords me the ability to hone in on that aspect. Nature has so many nuances to them that detail is imperative to capture the essence of a living being, whether it is flower or animal. Nostalgia also lends its self to detail. The more detail, the more the image will come alive for the viewer – evoking their own memories attached to that particular object in the drawing.
After choosing what I will draw, I lightly sketch out an outline of my subject. I start by coloring light to dark. Building up the color in light layers, building up and building up until the color “pops”. This is usually accomplished in five to six layers of color. When you think that the piece looks “dull”, keep building – and it will come alive. I will work on one area of the drawing and finish that area before moving onto the next, establishing technique for the rest of the piece to follow.
Patience, is the key to my art. Most pieces I spend about an
hour per square inch. More complex pieces can be twice that time.
It is not uncommon for a piece to have more than one hundred hours
put into it.
Contact Information
Website: tinagagnon.com
Facebook: facebook.com/tinasgagnon
Email: spectbus@aol.com
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Allie Richards 8/19-9/7 and 10/2-10/12
"Allie is a professional photographer specializing in landscape, travel, and wedding photography. She creates vibrant landscape images using various techniques, and is known for printing on metal. She is also an instructor and partner of BlueHour Photo Ventures, a photo workshop and tour company operating across New England, The U.S. and abroad. She is self-taught, and has been photographing since age 13. Photography has taken her to places like Iceland, Norway, The Faroe Islands, across Europe and the United States. She loves exploring her environment through a lens, and that photography has given her vast opportunities to explore. You can view her work at www.allierichards.com"
Contact Information
Website: www.allierichards.com
Email: atrphoto31@gmail.com
Tony Kirman - Painter, Photography 8/12-10/12
Tony Kirman is a Fine Art Photographer and Artist who moved to the Cape in 2017 after 30 years in New York City. He has had four shows at Soho Photographer's Gallery in NYC.
Tony is inspired by the unique light on the Cape and the effects of wind and tides on the land. He uses all kinds of camera, charcoal, pastels and watercolors and then makes limited edition prints with pigment ink on archival paper.
Contact Information
Website: los.org
Email: tony@los.org
Cassandra Guidess 8/5-8/16
Rich, vibrant color and brushwork that evoke a mood, or “moments in time” style paintings define the work of Cassandra S. Guidess.
After thirty years spent in Laboratory medicine and management, Cassandra is finally able to paint full-time!
A lifelong fascination with art, and painting in particular, has led to decades of self-study via observation, reading and instruction by renowned painters on Cape Cod and in Connecticut. Painting primarily in oil and occasionally in acrylic, Cassandra is an award winning artist whose work has been in selected shows in Connecticut and on Cape Cod and whose work may be found in private collections throughout the United States.
Cassandra is currently a member of the Eastwind Gallery in Orleans, MA, the Watertown Art League (WAL) (CT), the Fine Arts Connection of Thomaston, CT featuring the Ten-To One Artists, the Yarmouth Art Guild (YAG) Yarmouth, MA. and the Cape Cod Creative Arts Center (CCCC) in Chatham, MA.
Guidess shows at the Eastwind Gallery and participates in juried and seasonal shows with the WAL, CCCC and YAG as well as at the Crescent Gallery in CT. She will be a returning featured artist at the Artist’s Cottages.
Contact Information
Website: csguidessfineart.com
Facebook: Cassandra Guidess
Email: csguidess@att.net
Phone: 203.592.8066
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Michelle Colletti-Singleton - Woodwork Artist 7/22-10/12
Michelle works in many forms of reclaimed wood, she designs, cuts and hand paints each one of her many signs, birdhouses, and other wooden delights you might want in your home. Each piece is a little different and each make you want another.
Contact Information
Website: capecodlandshark
Facebook: capecodlandshark
Instagram: #capecodlandshark
EMail: collettidesign@gmail.com
Marissa Marvel 8/12-8/16
Marissa Marvel is an abstract artist from Norton, MA. She began painting as a child and has since continued expressing herself throughout her art. She minored in fine art in college and spent a semester abroad in Florence, Italy exploring her interests. She discovered her love for abstraction in the winter of 2017. Since then, she has focused her creativity into fluid painting. Her colorful paintings are inspired by world travel. They feel familiar, yet far away. The power of the ocean and the vast beauty of mountain skies manifest themselves in her tranquil imagery.
Contact Information
Facebook: wildcanvasdesign
Instagram: @wildcanvasdesign
EMail: mmarvel@wildcanvasdesign.com
Etsy: wildcanvasdesign.etsy.com
Irene Lynch - Watercolor Painter 8/5-8/9 and 9/2-10/7
Irene Lynch’s artwork reflects her lifetime spent soaking in the unmatched beauty, charm, and inspiration of home, Cape Cod. In her final year at University of Massachusetts of Amherst, she found herself gravitating toward familiar landscapes when creating paintings. Inspired by the art and techniques she has observed on her many travels worldwide, Irene has developed her own style that captures the essence of her home.
The portability of her watercolor and ink pen have allowed Irene to continue her creative studies and grow her portfolio throughout her travels; but her favorite place to paint is while relaxing in the summer sun on her favorite Cape Cod beaches.
Irene combines a painterly application of watercolor which she details with pen to create a more illustrative approach to Cape Cod landscapes. Her paintings welcome viewers to enter her scenes and relive their favorite narratives attached to the subject. Irene’s paintings have been given a greater depth through the many stories and moments that resonate with viewers. Irene paints from her heart to reach yours.
Irene was featured in Cape Cod Life’s 2018 edition of Emerging Artists.
Contact Information
Facebook:
Website: irenelynchart.com
Instagram: @irenelynchart
EMail: irenelynch2016@gmail.com
Paige Sullivan-Up-cycle Clothing Artist 7/29-10/7
Paige Sullivan is the owner of Wicked Retro Club - a sustainable fashion company based in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Upon graduating college in 2015, Paige began to spend much of her free time in the Outer Cape - mainly in Truro and Provincetown. It was here that she began to have a deep appreciation for not only art and design, but also the most pure form of beauty - nature.
80 billion new pieces of clothing are consumed every year, and the number is only rising. Recognizing the detrimental impact fast fashion has on our earth, Paige created Wicked Retro Club, a new kind of fashion - Slow fashion: handmade and sustainable. Every item in the shop is handpicked by Paige. All items in the shop are redesigned, repurposed; and most importantly; RECYCLED.
Based in and influenced by Massachusetts with an East Coast vibe.
Contact Information
Facebook: wickedretroclub
Website: www.wickedretroclub.com
Instagram: @wickedretroclub
EMail: wickedretroclub@gmail.com
Robert Carter - Painter 7/22-8/2 and back 9/11-10/12
American Impressionist Painter in Oil
Robert Carter is a representational painter in oil and oil pastel in the American Impressionist tradition. His art primarily consists of landscapes and seascapes, based on scenes from Cape Cod and throughout New England. His approach to oil painting was developed from extensive self study and under the tutelage of Copley Master Artist William Maloney, O.P.A., whom he considers his principal artistic mentor. He has also studied with the late Don Stone, N.A., Stapleton Kearns, and other prominent working artists.
For his oil paintings, Bob uses a limited palette composed of the primary colors (red, blue, yellow), orange (a convenience color), and white. He uses no tube purples or greens, preferring to mix these from primaries. His only earth pigment is yellow ochre. As with Monet and his followers, Bob uses no black, and colors are usually laid down with minimal mixing. Brush stroke assumes equal importance with composition, value, and color in rendering the visual and emotional content of the image. Bob is careful to use only those materials and practices that will result in works of maximum longevity. For example, he only uses the most light-fast pigments on primed linen, which he usually stretches or mounts on board himself. Most works are executed alla prima (in one session) to retain spontaneity and to produce the strongest possible paint film. Paintings may be created on site (en plein air), from reference photographs, or from memory.
For his oil pastel paintings, Bob uses the highest quality artist’s pastels, originally developed by the French firm Sennelier at the request of Pablo Picasso. Like his oil pigments, these are completely light-fast. Works in this medium are executed on heavy-weight sanded paper and framed under non-reflecting museum glass.
Robert Carter is a juried Artist Member of the Cape Cod Art Center, and his works often can be seen at the Association’s shows at the gallery on route 6A in Barnstable, MA. He is also a juried Associate Member of Oil Painters of America, an artist member of the Provincetown Art Association, and an artist member of the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod.
Contact Information
Telephone: 617-233-5671
Email: robert.carter@umb.edu
Robert Ryan - Painter 7/22-7/26 and back 9/2-9/7
Robert Ryan grew up in Newton MA and studied art at The Art Institute of Boston. He has been on Cape Cod since 2110, as an artist of oil paint. The work is primarily large and done with brush and palette knife .
His large abstracts are often very personal and emotional and are filled with brilliant color and heavy texture.
Seascapes and interpretive landscapes are somewhat representative, but still done primarily through the mind’s eye and imagination, and all done in studio
Robert has displayed his work in San Diego, La Quinta, and Los Angeles in California, and in Massachusetts, his paintings have adorned many walls of private residences, as well as restaurants and galleries in Newton, Mashpee, Brewster, Orleans, and Provincetown.
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rynoshots on Instagram
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Contact Information
Facebook: Robertryan
Website: rryanart.com
Email: robertryanart@gmail.com
Florence Henderson - Painter 7/22-7/26
Florence is a Graduate of the Boston Art Institute.. She has exhibited throughout the U.S.A. since 1976. Florence has had shown in multiple major cities including New York City, Boston, Atlanta, .Washington D.C, Key West, Dallas and Huston to name a few.
Florence has lived in Truro MA, Cape Cod since 1978.
Her oil paintings on canvas and recyecled materials are stunningly life like. She has worked on several murals
Contact Information
Website: artsbarnstable.com
Email: hendersonstudio@yahoo.com
Kaylynn Govoni - Calligrapher, Muralist - 8/29-9/7 and back 9/25-10/12
"Art has always been an outlet and my saving grace. When I create, I do so intuitively; delving into the creative process I can get lost in the zone for hours.
Kaylyn is the sole owner and artist behind Seaside Arts by KayLynn. She is a calligrapher, muralist and illustrator. She has been exhibiting art since 1977. Her current style incorporates her love of color, patterns and finite details using acrylics, watercolors, pen and inks. Growing up on Cape Cod and living in Gloucester, MA since 1981 she is inspired by all things nature. Her art work cannot be compared to mass produced products as she designs every piece and makes each one, by hand, painting or drawing her varied details. No two pieces are exactly the same. Her individual works are called into their unique formation often taking numerous hours of deliberate pen and brush strokes. Her wood pieces are given several hand coats of indoor-outdoor varnish. The end results are original creations that result in realistic, sophisticated yet whimsical art works that are suitable for all age groups and appropriate for any venue seeking to be uplifted.,
Contact Information
Facebook: seasideartsbykaylynn
Telephone: 978-495-1758