Jennie Rathbun is a writer living in Arlington.

My name is Nora Richardson.  I graduated from Montserrat College of Art in 2006 with a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree specializing in printmaking.  This print was pulled in the beginning of 2010, and is one of six portraits of facial-haired gentlemen.   Each portrait is a replication of a photo found in an old magazine, book or newspaper.  The series is entitled “Beards”.

“Mr. Right” is a woodcut printed in both acrylic and oil inks.  It is the 2nd print in a series of 4.

website: rifrakt.com

Mike Ritter is a Boston based freelance photographer specializing in event work and portraits.  He is just as proud of his connections to the greater Boston community as he is of his photographic work.

website: www.ritterbin.com

Signature Member of the New England Watercolor Society, board member & Vice Pres.
Signature Member  of the Rhode Island Watercolor Society.
Artist Member: Concord (MA) Art Assoc. & the New Hampshire Art Assoc.

Since retirement from the practice of architecture in 1990 I have worked principally in watercolor painting and recently have developed an interest in color woodblock prints using the same water based pigments for both disciplines. My work is shown locally in juried exhibitions and art fairs as well as in other juried national competitions.

Lisa Schuchmann (b. 1983) began my artist inquisition at the tender age of 15. Beginning with drawing, painting and printmaking; I found photography to be the most expedient medium for conveying my artistic vision. The venues that I find most photogenic are the gritty undersides of architecture and the most striking personality qualities of my friends. My work is influenced by the surrealist movement. I construct the images within the frame of the camera then create silver gelatin prints in the darkroom.

website: lisaschuchmann.com

George Shaw is an accomplished photographer and sculptor, He is affliliated with Galatea Gallery, Boston and has shown and sold  his work both nationally and internationally. His work is concerned with the relationship between what is known, what is suspected and what is yet unknown and how it relates to our Journey.

website: www.caladangallery.com

Sticks & Stones is part of a series called Recyclables. I tear up my old paintings and use the fragments to create new work, painting them with partially-dried pigments and, at times, adding other interesting stuff such as string, tape, rubber bands, plastic wrap. I spread the thickened pigment on the torn paper with knives creating sculptural effects. This is a process I continually return to during times when I need a break from the work I’ve been focusing on. I use this technique to loosen up my approach to my art.

website: www.janesherrill.com

My art work is full of energy and life…I derive my inspiration from Mother Nature.

My paintings are deeply engrained in my soul; only set free thru the fluid energy found on the strokes of my brush; colorful composition transpose my spirit onto canvas only hoping justice is made for the beauty around us. I beleive the color choices I use in my art creations enhance my outlook on life, as they make me feel happy, warm and alive.

website: guisellesibaja.com

Walter Sickert was born on the sea and has dedicated his life to, and makes his living from, music and visual art. He is the founder of the SteamCrunk band Walter Sickert & the ARmy of BRoken TOys who have been described as:

“Musically sophisticated and immensely talented, wildly unusual and diverse in material and presentation, a Dada-esque circus carnival run amuck, and just plain good ‘not-always-so-clean’ fun” – Boston Survival Guide

Walter’s visual art, which closely matches his sonic art in style, is not restricted to banal materials or any certain medium. “I create with what is on hand even if the medium is stretched Unicorn Skin or Electric Paper” – WS.

Walter’s artistic influences are as diverse as his style and include the likes of: Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, Hieronymus Bosch, The Rat in Mi Kitchen song by UB40, The Tiger Lillies, Érik Satie, Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll, Aleister Crowley, Terry Gilliam, and Alan Moore to name but a few.

website: www.armyoftoys.com

Nature’s symmetry and parallels are reflected in my work, where I blur the lines between the abstract and the realistic. I invite viewers to seek out multiple meanings and expanded visions within any individual painting. My realistic drawings and painting often incorporate abstract qualities; and my abstract paintings typically have an underlying basis or patterns seen in the natural world. In presenting an award, CO!SO, the Copley Society of art, said, “Combining strong abstract qualities with technical proficiency, the artist has incorporated meaning very well. A lot of depth is constructed very succinctly.”

Since the mid 1970’s, my work has focused on nature and texture and whimsey through the photographic image. My photos enable me to capture my travels – both around the world and through my imagination. More recently, I have been experimenting with mixed-media collage and altered boxes and books that tell a story.

I was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After receiving my BA in English Literature from Millersville University, I traveled across the US and worked with horse ranchers in Idaho and studied with a home-birth midwife in Maine; hiked the deserts of New Mexico, traveled by bus across west Texas, explored the wilds of Baja, California and watched the sun set in Key West, Florida. I eventually settled in Massachusetts where I still reside… for now.

website: www.valerie-spain.com

Stephen St. Francis Decky has been creating an ever-evolving group of characters on a perpetually-shifting landscape for many years.  The characters are born in acrylic paintings and drawings then later brought out into the real world as hand-sewn dolls.  The dolls are then placed on sets and either photographed or filmed back into that other world.

website: www.werewolfmovie.net

Inky Stainsworth owns not a single outfit that does not display some spillage of paint, ink, or glue. He works in a variety of mediums, never sticking with one too long to become bored, and creates characters, typefaces, and re-invents popular icons to brand his live music/video project The Serial Krusher.

Further design and artwork can be seen @ www.ianlippincott.com

website: www.serialkrusher.com

Jonathan Stark  traveled to Paris in 1994 and found the visual magic that captured Cartier-Bresson. He has had two major solo shows of his French images, “Visages et Paysages”, and  “Realites et Reves” at the French Library and Cultural Center in 2002 and 2007 respectively.

The consistent theme in his work has been his ability to fall visually in love with the people and places seen through his lens. Jonathan’s recent photographs focus on his unabashed enchantment with the human face and form and evolved into his collection “Skin Deep”.

“All my recent work has been created by my desire to engage each people in a moment of emotional intimacy. For the time I am shooting, my subjects and I are partners in the process of expressing visually the passions that reside within.”

website: www.starkview.com

“I make things, I can’t help it.”

website: www.marcellastasa.com

Karl Stephan is inspired by film, particularly Film Noir as in the double-entendre piece “Special.” Born a U.S. citizen in Morocco in 1958, Karl resumed painting more than 20 years after receiving his BFA. He has participated in numerous independent group shows. His work is represented in private collections from London to San Francisco. Karl Stephan’s work and full biography may be seen at: www.karlstephanart.com.

This Black walnut ink & watercolor drawing is part of a series that I have done on the island of Vinalhaven, Me over the past several years. Exploring a new medium, I have returned to a familiar landscape, the granite quarry where I swim. The specific problem that I set up for myself was how to show the subtle changes of plane as the ledge becomes gradually submerged in water.

website: www.ellenstutman.com

The distinct style of Magdalena Taber’s work is a result of years of experimentation with the photographic medium. She exhibited widely across New England and in Europe and received a number of awards. Her portfolio was published by Eyemazing, a large format international magazine for contemporary photography. Her work was featured in numerous online publications, local press and cable access TV. Magdalena designs and self-publishes books with her collections. Her first art video is a work in progress.

website: www.transartmt.biz

Kate True comes to painting from drawing, portraiture and filmmaking, and elements of all three pursuits inhabit her work. She is interested in maintaining the sensual, graceful, or forceful line of a drawing while also developing a lushly painted surface which creates space and volume. In figures and portraits she distills emotional experiences into barest representation, conveying both a sense of the mood and personality of the subject. She is interested in the way bodies, gestures, and expressions can telegraph meaning so eloquently.

Born in Vermont, True graduated from Wesleyan and received her MFA from NYU. Her work has been included in exhibitions in MA, ME, RI, IL, FL and NY, and featured in Her Mark 2010, published by Woman Made Gallery in Chicago. She received a MA Cultural Council grant for her work as an independent curator in 2007. She has completed more than fifty portrait commissions in the past ten years, and her work is in private collections in the US, UK, Japan, Germany, and the Netherlands. True lives and works in Boston with her three daughters.

website: www.katetrue.com