Meet the Artists

Eloise Beil My tranquil studies of the Vermont landscape are informed by my work in art and natural history museums, and profound respect for the intricate web of nature. Painting landscapes enhances my awareness of the world around me. Daughter of a Vermont schoolteacher and a New York naturalist, after graduate school in museum studies, my involvement with art for many years was as a museum professional. While in charge of collections and exhibits at Shelburne Museum, I attended open studio classes at the Shelburne Craft School and began to make painting a central activity of my life. My work can be seen in regional galleries, juried group and solo exhibitions.

Klara Calitri Speaking with paint and clay, Klara Calitri is a woman of many languages. She was born in Vienna, Austria "at the crossroads of Europe," and learned to speak French, German, Spanish, Latin and English. "Art is a language that you learn," says the artist. "It's a continual learning process."
Klara came to the United States in 1939, received degrees from University of Vermont and Cornell University, and undertook doctoral studies at Columbia University. Klara spent many years teaching languages to college and middle school students, at the same time pursuing her work as a professional artist.
Klara's work in ceramics, pastels, monotypes and oils has been shaped by a variety of influences, including her childhood in Austria, the work of the Wiener Werkstatte, and Impressionism. Her present works reflect the light and mood of beautiful Vermont landscapes, orchards and gardens filtered through her unique cultural background.

Marsha Chase My love of fiber began at a very early age.  I’ve been told at the age of 3, my mother’s sewing basket was like a magnet to me.  At the age of 6 I discovered commercial patterns to make clothes for dolls.  Heaven for me was a shoe box of material pieces, threads, buttons, ribbons and other trimmings.  By the time I was 8, I was making many of my own clothes.  My favorite class in high school was home economics where I learned advanced sewing skills, including tailoring.   My tactile and visual attraction to fiber is what led me to felting.  Felt is an incredible versatile medium to work with.  It can be worked as a fine gossamer fabric or material that is sturdy enough for hats.  Other fibers and fabrics can be encapsulated in the wool during the felting process allowing infinite design possibilities. I do not have a formal education in the arts, but have completed many workshops from other skilled designers and crafters, including clothing design, color theory, and many kinds of felting.  I have also had some training in both oil painting and watercolor. I am always inspired by nature, whether the astounding visual feast of color of the flowers in June, the vibrancy of fall in Vermont or the restful neutrals of our winters. Wool is a gentle fiber from gentle animals that is gently manipulated into many forms.

Daniel Doyle The works presented here were created using 35mm Fuji 200 film and processing. They were printed in Giclee mode on an Epson printer using Epson velveteen paper. No digital modification was made to the original files.I am presently exploring the ability of the camera to capture different aspects of time—long exposures, low light, high speed—exposing not only the camera but myself to experiencing the atmosphere of different times-- early morning, late night-- exploring the realm of contemporary photography. Using light where there appears to be little or none, finding the colors in the night, and the motion of stillness, and realizing the dynamic balance of opposites keep propelling my direction. All of the prints I exhibit appear as shot, without cropping or digital manipulation.

Fiona Cooper Fenwick is a landscape and still life painter in the Impressionist tradition – working primarily in oil and pastel.  Fiona grew up in Upstate New York, the youngest of four children. She attended Bennington College in Vermont, graduating in 1980 with a degree in Visual Art.  In 1982, she moved to northern Vermont, making a full commitment to painting 1990.  Fueled greatly by the New England landscape, as well as her mentors along the way, (Jeneane Lunn and Frank Mason) , she continues to pursue her artistic goals – painting color, light, atmosphere and composition in the landscape – and focusing on the balance of these elements in nature and in art.  Although she primarily paints plein-air, the studio is where she will develop paintings and create additional paintings that push beyond the “on-site” experience. Fiona lives in Hinesburg, Vermont with her husband and cats.  When she is not painting, you can find her in the flower gardens or hooking a rug.

Georgina Forbes states: "Through color, water, light, pattern and shape, I work to integrate landscape images which are at once explicit, symbolic, and expressionistic.  These are unabashedly emotional paintings.  Creation is, by nature, about transformation; birth, and death.  Painting is my way to explore the frontier where risk, intention and conscious use of skill lead to expressing light and elemental forces manifesting spirit.  Earth, air, fire, and water—these elemental forces are all powerful, even as ‘civilization’ puts all at risk. We are connected to all life, and heir to the powerful truths that govern all beings.  We are called to walk through fertile darkness, to walk in light, to find healing, and to allow our feeling selves to breathe consciousness into the acts of living that form our lives on earth."  
Exhibiting since 1972, Georgina Forbes has work in Vermont's Fleming Museum. Her work was featured in Old House Interiors magazine. She studied with James Gahagan, Director of the Hofmann School of Art in Provincetown, teacher at Pratt Institute in New York City, and later at the Vermont Studio Center. She lives in Norwich, VT.

Anne L. Galante:  Beauty Every Day!   Anne sees a way to capture light and otherwise fleeting instants in time as she prepares her images.  “One motivation for my photography is the realization that with a single click, I can capture a moment.  Whether it’s perfect light, mist on a lake, nature unimpeded or the candid expression on a face, photography helps that moment to live forever.  In the day to day grind of life, it becomes so easily possible to miss the simple beauty around us. The camera is a way to literally change my point of view.” An ObGyn by training, Anne initially picked up the camera to help focus her concept of acknowledging “Beauty Every Day”.  From trips to South Dakota where she works on the Lakota Sioux (Rosebud) Reservation, to the local beauty of her home in New Haven, Vermont,  Anne seeks obscure and serendipitous moments to become her images.  In this way she has found a more effective method of communicating that which words never seem able to encompass. Anne’s work has been published in Vermont Life Magazine Online, Vermont Magazine & South Dakota Magazine. Currently, she is working on a photo-documentary of the effects of hopelessness on the lives and health of women -- and through her photographs, will try speak volumes.

Karin Hardy grew up in Europe, experiencing great art at an early age. Drawing and painting were always part of her life and she was inspired by many artists: Van Gogh, Munch, The Bauhaus and the Impressionists, particulary Monet. Having moved to Vermont from New Jersey in 1989 after years of visiting, she explores this beautiful area from her home in Addison County. Pastel and oil are her favorite mediums. Her paintings have been exhibited in numerous shows in the area: the former Artisans Guild in Ferrisburg, the Fine Art Gallery in Stowe, the Southern Vermont Arts Center, several shows at Basin Harbor and most recently, the Quadricentennial Show “Champlain’s Lake Rediscovered.” “The light and landscape of Addison County are an artist’s dream. I paint for the love of painting and for my sanity, showing and selling my work is a morale booster and it keeps me in the necessary materials. For me, painting and grandchildren are the dessert of life”

Judith Rey After majoring in art and art education in college, I taught art in public schools, sold my work at national craft shows and then became an arts administrator. Within a few years, I transitioned to the business world, which left me no time to paint or do my own creative work. Now I have returned to painting and showing my work in Vermont. My work is becoming more abstract, and I use landscape and other subject matter as a point of departure. I have been selected for a number of juried exhibitions in the past few years and was recently awarded a residential fellowship for 2010 to the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT. I live in Ferrisburgh, VT.

Janet Seaburg has been a freelance artist and educator since 1960. She taught in public and private schools in Connecticut until she retired to Button Bay in 1994. There, she started her home business Imaginistics, teaching and selling Art and Crafts. She works in many different media including acrylic, watercolor, pen & ink, photography and natural materials. Her favorite is using wood to produce woodcuts and bird carvings. Janet has had several solo shows and has exhibited in Fairfield and Westport Connecticut, as well as Vergennes and Middlebury. One of her woodcuts won Best in Show at the Poultney Fine Arts Show and her photography has won several first places at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s annual juried photography exhibit.

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