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Jerilynn
Babroff - I
have worked with clay for many years-selling my work to stores and
galleries all over the world. I've been sold in Nordstroms and Marshall
Fields to name a few.
I love bringing out the fun and joyful side of life, being very influenced
by music and contemporary art. I have been working on some acrylic
paintings on canvas with the same fun feeling as my ceramics. babroffstudio@aol.com
Barneche
- Stephanie Barnes and David Seche Discover Barneche. In
the hamlet of Chichester, designers Stephanie Barnes and David Seche
co-create an enchanted shop inspired by the air, the light, the water
and the wood of the Catskill Mountains. Located in a 100-year old
barn a bit crooked, a bit whimsical, Barneche embraces a philosophy
of recycling and making sure things are made the old fashioned way,
by hand and really well. Stephanie’s custom clothing line feature
sumptuous fabrics, many of them vintage kimono and obi. Colors vibrate.
Textures resonate and clothing transforms into wearable works of art.
David crafts armoires, tables and other furniture from reclaimed wood,
some of it rescued from Stony Clove Stream just within babbling distance.
He hunts for the antique screws and hinges too.
Joel
Benton I have always had a love of the natural world and
after receiving my first camera as a gift at age fourteen, I gravitated
toward a photographic style that reflected this strong affinity to
nature. I feel the power of my photography is its capacity to show
people what they might otherwise overlook, bringing to life things
often considered by many to be mundane. I normally do not search out
subjects to photograph, and I very often have the distinct feeling
that my subjects find me. I am fascinated by natural light. Not only
in the many ways it serves us by illumination, but just the beauty
of light itself. It very often becomes the subject of my photographs.
I am a self-taught photographer, learning mainly through the experience
of just getting outside with the camera. Visit: www.sansho-photography.com
Durga
Bernhard- Durga Bernhard's artwork explores both personal
and archetypal imagery through contemporary techniques. Her themes
include birth and mothering, healing and transformation, animals and
nature, family and community, myth and dream, ritual, prayer . . .
and our beautiful Catskill mountains. Durga is the illustrator of
numerous children's books, and brings a variety of influences to her
work, including a strong grounding in rhythm and design, and a deep
love of African culture and Eastern and Western religion. Her experience
mothering three children has also shaped some of her most notable
works, which have been published in a variety of parenting venues.
www.durgabernhard.com
Harper
Blanchet -
Blue Barn
- Faye Storms
I work in pastel and oil. Commissions accepted.Realism with a soft
edge .potraits and landscapes.started 30 years ago as an artist in
NYC and wandered into photography and set design and styling which
led me to interior design which led me back full circle to painting
and drawing.
Kurt
Boyer Design Kurt Boyer has been a commercial
artist (graphic design and sign maker) working in the Hudson
Valley for over twenty years. Ten years ago he decided he wanted
to become a painter and studied under various teachers at the
Woodstock School of Art. Kurt works mainly in oil. Over the
last two years he has been working on satirical animal paintings
that display his cynicism and dry sense of humor. He paints,
works and spends most of his time renovating their 150 year
farmhouse on 11 beautiful acres on the Esopus Creek with his
wife and his six year old daughter.
Michael
Boyer I have been teaching ceramics for many
years at Greenwich House Pottery and Queens College and occasionally
at City College in New York City. In recent years I've been teaching
a weekend workshop at Sugar Maples in Maple Shade, N.Y. (outside
of Hunter) My studio is in the back of my barn in Pine Hill. My
work is mostly high-fired functional stoneware and porcelain to
be used in the kitchen and on the table. My other occupation is
organic gardening.
Rosemary
and Douglas Brooks
Douglas
Brooks- As a ceramist, I’m simply guided by what I
like - which often changes from day to day. I find inspiration in
the simplicity and depth of the Japanese ceramic tradition. And the
abstract expressionist ceramics of the American raku pioneers has
never failed to amaze me. I prefer full forms and those that reveal
the creation process. I strive to create pieces pushed close to the
breaking point.
Most of my pieces originate on the potters wheel. I then knock them
around a bit until I find a form that seems to work. My work often
has an obvious physical function (bowl, vase, etc.), but just as often
lacks one. I like to think that they all fulfill some aesthetic or
spiritual purpose.
Rosemary
Brooks- As a painter I am very interested in the decorative
arts, which for me means that my images tend to lie on the surface
of the work visually, instead of creating the illusion of deep space
or of mood. I work with traditional subjects, especially flowers and
woodlands, using landscape or still life formats executed in acrylics
on stretched canvas.
“My” flowers and woodlands come from my imagination but
resemble actual blooms and trees found in nature. The colors I use
tend to be vivid and strong without much modulation or gradation.
I love the immediate impact of color, so if there’s a sense
of mood in my work, I would call it bright or joyful.
My primary influences as an artist and painter come from my experiences
as a woman and my background in art history. I am very attracted to
images on textiles, glassware, ceramics and porcelains and to the
shapes, colors and forms of jewelry. Like most artists I find inspiration
in the formal settings of museums and galleries, but also when I shop
for clothes or go to antique stores, flea markets and yard sales.
Susan
Brownwoods
(Susie Brown) is a sculptor, writer and performance installation artist.
Currently she has just finished Meditation on Mourning,an installation
comprised of 9 life size sculptures of women wrapped in cloth marble
dust and ash.They can be seen in person at her studio or on her website
www.sbwoods.com.
She is also working on 'Cocoon' a performance in which the life of
a silkworm spinning its cocoon and becoming a moth with seven foot
wings is portrayed.
Susan continues to work with encaustics ( which will be on view in
the studio as well.)
John
Byer Hello, I'm John Byer, a local artist and carpenter.
I am native to Phoenicia. I began my art training at Onteora Central
School when grades K thru 12 were housed at the now Middle-High School
building. The Woodstock artist community had a major influence on
the art program at Onteora. I continued my education at SUNY New Paltz,
graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Art Ed. My early work
was mainly in ceramic sculpture. My long career as a carpenter has
made wood the primary material in my sculpture. I also incorporate
bone, beads, antlers and most recently stone in my work. I look forward
to the 2009 artist tour and welcome all to view my works-in-progress
as well as my completed sculptures.
