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.
Danielle (Losier) Lehoux of Maine was born and raised in Cape Neddick. Her passion is creating digital artwork 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.
Danielle always loved to create art and spent many hours of her youth drawing with markers and pastels, shaping clay into pots, dabbling in printmaking, and painting. During college, she started exploring graphic design and found that working on a computer really spoke to her for many reasons. This medium quickly became her favorite way to create art.
Danielle uses a mouse or stylus as her “paintbrush” and her computer screen as her “canvas” as she creates her digital artwork. Similar to traditional painting, she works in layers, starting with the background then moving forward, creating shapes that, when viewed together make up the entire finished piece.
Visit Danielle at her website for more information.
Danielle always loved to create art and spent many hours of her youth drawing with markers and pastels, shaping clay into pots, dabbling in printmaking, and painting. During college, she started exploring graphic design and found that working on a computer really spoke to her for many reasons. This medium quickly became her favorite way to create art.
Danielle uses a mouse or stylus as her “paintbrush” and her computer screen as her “canvas” as she creates her digital artwork. Similar to traditional painting, she works in layers, starting with the background then moving forward, creating shapes that, when viewed together make up the entire finished piece.
Visit Danielle at her website for more information.
Photographer Katherine MacDonald, Berwick, ME , grew up in Newfields, NH. She spent some time living on Guam as a teen where she continued her education and explorations of outdoor environments. She later attended The University of Southern Maine for education as well as attending McIntosh college to study photography.
Katherine has done many things, such as marketing, event management, race management and timing, working in schools in various roles as well as outdoor recreation. She has always had a love of the natural world, and enjoys hiking and anything outdoor related.
Katherine currently encourages health and wellness promoting Shaklee products through Katherine’s Natural Health Options. She also works for Olde York Historical Society as an interpreter and is a Marine Docent through UNH Sea Grant and Katherine also volunteers on Mount Washington at the Observatory.
Katherine has done many things, such as marketing, event management, race management and timing, working in schools in various roles as well as outdoor recreation. She has always had a love of the natural world, and enjoys hiking and anything outdoor related.
Katherine currently encourages health and wellness promoting Shaklee products through Katherine’s Natural Health Options. She also works for Olde York Historical Society as an interpreter and is a Marine Docent through UNH Sea Grant and Katherine also volunteers on Mount Washington at the Observatory.
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)
Assorted Books (click on the picture to purchase, pick up or shipping available)
A series of life-changing events and traumas planted the seeds for Alisa Marie Milewski of Dover, NH , owner of Alisa's True Colors. In 2012, Alisa sustained two devastating concussions along with going through personal matters. Much of what happened was lost, as the brain injury wasn't diagnosed until the following fall of 2013. Memory loss and depression were becoming a way of life.
She began her artistic journey after being shown by her younger daughter how to apply melted crayons to the canvas with a blow dryer and a fork. Concussions, neurotoxicity, chronic illnesses, and a lifetime of pain has brought intense expression from her struggles. Evolution of her work grew with each setback as her inner voice screamed beauty during these storms.
Alisa's work has appeared in fashion shows, at the Art Center in Dover, NH at the Washington Street Mills (where she is a member), and in local stores and other locations around the area. In May of 2018, Alisa's True Colors was born. Below are examples of what is available for purchase at A Freethinker's Corner.
She began her artistic journey after being shown by her younger daughter how to apply melted crayons to the canvas with a blow dryer and a fork. Concussions, neurotoxicity, chronic illnesses, and a lifetime of pain has brought intense expression from her struggles. Evolution of her work grew with each setback as her inner voice screamed beauty during these storms.
Alisa's work has appeared in fashion shows, at the Art Center in Dover, NH at the Washington Street Mills (where she is a member), and in local stores and other locations around the area. In May of 2018, Alisa's True Colors was born. Below are examples of what is available for purchase at A Freethinker's Corner.
Visit Alisa's website for more information.
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