Artists
Thank you for your interest in our New England artists. We try to be timely in updating what is available. All art is only available for purchase in-store. We suggest calling ahead to check availability of the piece(s) you are interested in. If it's still available, we will hold it for a short time.
While every artist uses tools, viewers and collectors usually prefer to focus on objects, images and ideas, leaving tool talk to practicing artists and various specialists. Meeting a painter, few ask, first off anyway, "tell us about your brushes." But as tools go, the computer stands alone in the whole history of art---for some, the computer can even do work that, a generation ago, would have required big teams of collaborators and assistants.
Between hardware and artist comes software, and some software products constitute complex human achievements that rival or exceed in complexity most works of art. Thus a skeptic today may meet a work of digital art and reasonably ask "who actually made this? the artist? the computer? the software engineer?"
Well, despite certain spectacular achievements (and a great deal of hype), no artificial intelligence yet possesses artistic agency and arguably none ever will: works of art should always redound to human creativity even as the relation between maker and made continues to grow ever more subtle and complex.
And my work does not lean on any sophisticated software anyway. I always create my images by coding from the ground up, all just using a general purpose computer language. I generally build new and unique soft tools specific to each project (where a single project may comprise one final image or an interrelated series). Most of my work amounts to acts of pure synthesis -- that means everything you see flowed out of pure imagination. On the rare occasion that I do work with source photographs (and you can see one example here), I have invented and coded the transforming filter.
My pieces result from mindwork not handwork, a challenge perhaps to received notions of style and artistic personality.
I make images. Later they become objects thanks to a variety of screen and printing technologies. I had the pieces printed on metal (mostly), one on paper, and I do also print on fabric.
As printmakers and photographers do, I limit editions by fiat, and offer the works here each as one-of-a-kind.
David Victor Feldman shows regularly at Point.B Studio http://memory.org/point.b/ in Port Orford, Oregon, and at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. When he's not making art, or composing music (http://soundcloud.com/david-victor-feldman), he does mathematical research and teaches mathematics at the University of New Hampshire (including his course, Pathways between Mathematics and the Arts).
Between hardware and artist comes software, and some software products constitute complex human achievements that rival or exceed in complexity most works of art. Thus a skeptic today may meet a work of digital art and reasonably ask "who actually made this? the artist? the computer? the software engineer?"
Well, despite certain spectacular achievements (and a great deal of hype), no artificial intelligence yet possesses artistic agency and arguably none ever will: works of art should always redound to human creativity even as the relation between maker and made continues to grow ever more subtle and complex.
And my work does not lean on any sophisticated software anyway. I always create my images by coding from the ground up, all just using a general purpose computer language. I generally build new and unique soft tools specific to each project (where a single project may comprise one final image or an interrelated series). Most of my work amounts to acts of pure synthesis -- that means everything you see flowed out of pure imagination. On the rare occasion that I do work with source photographs (and you can see one example here), I have invented and coded the transforming filter.
My pieces result from mindwork not handwork, a challenge perhaps to received notions of style and artistic personality.
I make images. Later they become objects thanks to a variety of screen and printing technologies. I had the pieces printed on metal (mostly), one on paper, and I do also print on fabric.
As printmakers and photographers do, I limit editions by fiat, and offer the works here each as one-of-a-kind.
David Victor Feldman shows regularly at Point.B Studio http://memory.org/point.b/ in Port Orford, Oregon, and at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. When he's not making art, or composing music (http://soundcloud.com/david-victor-feldman), he does mathematical research and teaches mathematics at the University of New Hampshire (including his course, Pathways between Mathematics and the Arts).
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Brian Wagoner of Dover, NH started making art in his free time about two four years ago after reading Subway Art by Martha Cooper. He was immediately drawn to the rebellious side of art, the self taught artists, the weirdos, the risk takers. His main influences are Basquiat, Huma Bhabha and George Condo, but also finds continued inspiration in punk rock. His other interests include guitar, old time banjo, baseball and his kids. He makes his art from his home studio in Dover. More of his work can be seen at The Art Center.
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Amara Goldwalker is a Seacoast-based queer artist. She mainly works in UV-fluorescent acrylic paint and ink. All of these pieces were made using watercolor paper, India ink, white calligraphy ink, and various amounts of water. Amara uses only two brushes to complete all of her works. Her technique borrows from a variety of disciplines, including Chinese brush painting, watercolor, Japanese calligraphy, traditional landscape painting, and several techniques of Amara's own development, specifically created for these materials. Amara likes to use her ink-based art to explore feelings of finding a place in an enormous wide universe, existential terror and dread, and the interplay between positive and negative emotions.
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Paul Corgan is a 26 year old travel photographer based out of Portsmouth, NH. His love of travel led him to take two solo cross country road trips in 2018, where he created the images in this collection. Inspired by his Grandfather’s work establishing National Parks (including some photographed as part of this collection), Paul’s work aims to inspire others to take more adventures while protecting the beauty of these incredible places. More of Paul’s work can be found on Instagram at @PaulCorgan or on his travel blog www.PaulCorgan.com
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Sarah Fenerty is a New Hampshire artist who is constantly inspired by the beauty of her home state. She has spent the past four years dividing her time between teaching high school English and growing her art business. She enjoys working with a number of mediums, but has found a special stride with watercolors and ink, creating pieces focused on wildlife, nature, and the human body. In 2018 she began creating the label designs for Northwoods Brewing Co. out of Northwood, New Hampshire. She recently had the opportunity to design a New Hampshire themed snowboard for Gilson in Pennsylvania. Her work can be purchased at several New Hampshire stores and on Etsy. You can keep up with Sarah on Instagram, @s.fenertyart, or her shop, S. Fenerty Art, on Etsy.
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Terry Fitzpatrick is from Alton, NH. During her high school years, she drew and painted a lot. As an adult, life became to full and busy for artistic projects. But then in her thirties, she started to create jewelry. Now, after a 30+ year leave of absence, she has taken up the joy of painting once again. Terry likes to share that joy by directing Paint Night classes here at A Freethinker's Corner, and places around the area. She has also picked up numerous crafting skills along the way, to add to her portfolio. Terry hopes that her works bring happiness to your hearts and homes.
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Danielle (Losier) Lehoux of Maine was born and raised in Cape Neddick. Her passion is creating digital artwork (she uses a mouse or stylus as her “paintbrush” and her computer screen as her “canvas”) similar to a block print style that is loosely inspired by the vintage “See America” posters of the National Parks. Being a native Mainer (8th generation), Danielle loves her home state and enjoys creating artwork that reflects the beauty of her surroundings. Her favorite subjects are birds and lighthouses.
Visit Danielle at her website for more information.
Visit Danielle at her website for more information.
Renee Mallett from Windham, NH is the author of several books. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in many online and print literary journals. She has published articles on topics ranging from travel essays and celebrity interviews to fashion reporting. When not writing she makes art, keeps bees, and runs Amaranth & Rue, a artisan line of bath, body, and beauty products.
You can visit the author in studio A302 the first Saturday of the month from noon to 5:00 during Open Studios at Western Avenue Studios, the largest artist's community of it's kind on the east coast, located in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Visit Renee at her website for more information.
You can visit the author in studio A302 the first Saturday of the month from noon to 5:00 during Open Studios at Western Avenue Studios, the largest artist's community of it's kind on the east coast, located in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Visit Renee at her website for more information.
Assorted Art (call if interested, in-store pickup only)
Megan Miller, from Dover, NH is a prolific artist, drawing dancers and cityscapes, and expressions of her feelings, the Far East. Creatures of the sea continue to be a major interests. The most absorbing interest of all, however, is in her diagnosis, Asperger’s Syndrome (AS).
AS is a form of autism, a neurological phenomenon that reveals itself in intense interests in things and subjects that fill the mind and become obsessions from a very young age. Motor skills are often deficient, but it is the lack of ability to understand social rules and language that causes the most difficulty.
After she was diagnosed, that became her new consuming interest. Gradually over the next few years, Megan’s art, writing and interest in AS evolved into one goal: to educate the public about Asperger’s Syndrome. She wrote letters to newspapers about the abuse kids with AS endure. She lobbied for construction signs to give people warning about loud noise. Currently, Megan is working on a series of drawings of Dover, New Hampshire. Her work has been shown in many libraries, state houses and art galleries. Visit Megan's website for more information.
AS is a form of autism, a neurological phenomenon that reveals itself in intense interests in things and subjects that fill the mind and become obsessions from a very young age. Motor skills are often deficient, but it is the lack of ability to understand social rules and language that causes the most difficulty.
After she was diagnosed, that became her new consuming interest. Gradually over the next few years, Megan’s art, writing and interest in AS evolved into one goal: to educate the public about Asperger’s Syndrome. She wrote letters to newspapers about the abuse kids with AS endure. She lobbied for construction signs to give people warning about loud noise. Currently, Megan is working on a series of drawings of Dover, New Hampshire. Her work has been shown in many libraries, state houses and art galleries. Visit Megan's website for more information.
(All originals are fine art colored pencil on black paper)
New Hampshire artist, Sherry Palmer, prefers to paint outside, on site, in oils and watercolor. The gestures of the land, not the fine detail, interests her. Painting for her is a process of selection and simplification, a reduction to essentials. On the Isle of Skye, Scotland, Sherry found the perfect catalyst for how she enjoys painting. The island landscape made her a better painter. Having traveled to Skye for over thirty years to paint its vast vistas, where theatrical light and moving mist continually redefine the structure of the land, Nature remains her teacher.
Like Skye, the shore here provides similar inspiration. It's from these paintings that Sherry has assembled two groups of work for us: a series of watercolors of frozen tidal pools, and paintings created from designs she's seen in rocks. Sherry often sees landscape forms within a single rock. The cracks, color changes, and breaks in layers, like the shale found along Great Bay, all begin to look like a landscape in miniature. The rock provides the design and she provides the landscape colors known from Skye. Visit Sherri's website at www.sherryskye.com
Like Skye, the shore here provides similar inspiration. It's from these paintings that Sherry has assembled two groups of work for us: a series of watercolors of frozen tidal pools, and paintings created from designs she's seen in rocks. Sherry often sees landscape forms within a single rock. The cracks, color changes, and breaks in layers, like the shale found along Great Bay, all begin to look like a landscape in miniature. The rock provides the design and she provides the landscape colors known from Skye. Visit Sherri's website at www.sherryskye.com
Author, artist and musician Ross Alan Bachelder has been active as a musician in Seacoast New Hampshire and Southern Maine— and elsewhere in northern New England—for more than 40 years. He’s performed solo recitals, played in musical theatre, and appeared at art exhibit openings, assisted living facilities and a wide range of special events as The Flute Guy.
He’s exhibited his drawings, paintings, found object assemblages and photographs in galleries in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. In 2016, Bachelder published his first book, Happy Dawg Walks The Sad Man: The Remarkably Varied Adventures of a Confirmed Arts Multiple. He’s now working on his second book—a collection of 12 short stories entitled Weird Anomalies: Tales Best Read in the Twilight Hours—scheduled for publication in 2019.
Bachelder travels frequently to perform as a musician, paint and photograph what he sees, then write and speak publicly about his longtime immersion in the Arts.
He’s exhibited his drawings, paintings, found object assemblages and photographs in galleries in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. In 2016, Bachelder published his first book, Happy Dawg Walks The Sad Man: The Remarkably Varied Adventures of a Confirmed Arts Multiple. He’s now working on his second book—a collection of 12 short stories entitled Weird Anomalies: Tales Best Read in the Twilight Hours—scheduled for publication in 2019.
Bachelder travels frequently to perform as a musician, paint and photograph what he sees, then write and speak publicly about his longtime immersion in the Arts.
Chloe Feldman Emison from Lee, NH has shown her drawings and animations widely in the United States and Europe, while working also as an illustrator. She studied fine art at Williams College and at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University, and animation at Forkbeard Fantasy in Devon. She was a visiting artist at Wasps Studios in Glasgow, and completed residencies at the Contemporary Artists Center in Woodside, N.Y., at The Old School Art House in Iceland, at the Vermont Studio Center, and at Can Serrat, near Barcelona. Chloe has shown her drawings and animations widely in the United States and Europe, while working also as an illustrator. She has worked with writers in both prose and poetry, and has independently published three illustrated books.
Sarah Mays from Dover, NH is an eclectic artist/creator settled in Dover, N.H. Her path to becoming who she is today has been full of diverse experiences and careers but the constants have been a joy in learning, creating and encouraging others. These three constants continue in her paintings and mixed media pieces.
Sarah's last career was as a K – 12 art teacher. After 15 years of teaching, Sarah never found the time and energy to launch her own business or find time to create; so she quit teaching and enjoyed setting up Present Being Art and getting in her home studio several days a week.
Sarah's focus is on abstract painting in either oil with cold wax or acrylics. It just depends on how quickly she wants to work. Because of teaching so many grades for so many years, she truly loves all mediums and will often have sculptures drying next to her paintings while working on a bit of embroidery, quilting or simply crochet a new hat. No matter what, creating gives a peaceful sense of being present when she is focused on her work.
Sarah's last career was as a K – 12 art teacher. After 15 years of teaching, Sarah never found the time and energy to launch her own business or find time to create; so she quit teaching and enjoyed setting up Present Being Art and getting in her home studio several days a week.
Sarah's focus is on abstract painting in either oil with cold wax or acrylics. It just depends on how quickly she wants to work. Because of teaching so many grades for so many years, she truly loves all mediums and will often have sculptures drying next to her paintings while working on a bit of embroidery, quilting or simply crochet a new hat. No matter what, creating gives a peaceful sense of being present when she is focused on her work.
Stephanie Russell - Candia, New Hampshire. She has been painting for over 20 years and works with various mediums but most commonly watercolor. Her subject matter ranges from portraits of people, animals, and landscapes, to homes that are memorable to her clients. She has painted a collection of firearms. Her real love is painting cars and motorcycles with incredibly realistic details.
Her artwork has been featured in various places around New Hampshire. She has also had features on bikernet.com and can be seen in Road Runner magazine as well as NY Intrigue Magazine. Prints and original works are available through her website at https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/4-stephanie-russell. You can view her work on Instagram, @stefr85 or on her Facebook page, www.facebook.com/StephanieRArt
Her artwork has been featured in various places around New Hampshire. She has also had features on bikernet.com and can be seen in Road Runner magazine as well as NY Intrigue Magazine. Prints and original works are available through her website at https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/4-stephanie-russell. You can view her work on Instagram, @stefr85 or on her Facebook page, www.facebook.com/StephanieRArt
Paintings
Various prints (8" x 10" and 4" x 6"), bookmarks, and notebooks also available