Ron Dean
One of my favorite things is to open up the kiln to see what spectacular things have occurred during the firing process. Each time I feel like a kid on Christmas morning, so anxious to open it up to see what marvelous gift is inside."
Ron has been making pottery since 1969. He began working and teaching at the Clay Art Center in Port Chester, New York. He moved to Cape Cod in the early 80's and set up a studio and gallery at his present location.
He produces a variety of forms in stoneware, porcelain and raku by hand, on the potters wheel or by hand-building. He also makes nonfunctional form oriented pots using primitive firing techniques. His functional pots are lead free, dishwasher safe, and microwave and oven proof.
Karen North Wells
Karen North Wells, an award-winning artist based in Cape Cod, paints in all three media:watercolor ,oil and acrylic. She considers herself an impressionistic painter, neither painting absolute realism, nor abstraction but somewhere in the middle.
Karen regularly paints florals, boats, still lifes, landscapes and seascapes, but bringing buildings and water views to life for special commissions are Karen's specialties.
"My goal now in life is to be a healer through my painting. I can't paint sad pictures," says Karen. "[My work has] to reveal the happiness that I feel. I want people to smile when they look at my paintings."
In addition to her commissioned original paintings, Karen has an extensive line of dozens of limited-edition prints and cards, making her work affordable to all. She also teaches painting workshops for The Cape Cod Art Association in Barnstable, MA, the Council on Aging in Orleans, MA and The Creative Arts Centers in Chatham, MA and at her Underground Art Gallery.
Karen loves to paint on location. She hopes to do paintings of landmarks in each Cape Cod town
Maryalice Eizenberg
Maryalice Eizenberg is an award-winning artist, raised surrounded by a family of musicians supportive of her interest in the visual arts. She has been drawing and painting all of her life. She completed coursework at the Worcester and Springfield Fine Arts museums, earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree at Clark University, and studied with painters John Cosby, Donald Demers, Kim English,Daniel Keys, Gregg Kreutz, Joseph Paquet, and Charles Sovek. Dramatic patterns of light and color are what attract her most to a subject. It is her emotional response to these elements that she strives to share with the viewer.
Eizenberg has been featured in Cape Cod Life and Chatham magazines and "The Creative Spirit, Art in Chatham's Old Village.” Her work also appears in Contemporary Cape Cod Artists: People and Places by Deborah Forman.
She teaches at the Creative Arts Center in Chatham, and is a member of Oil Painters of America, and Twenty One in Truro. Her work has been shown in museums on and off the Cape. Her work is held in private collections in the United States, Europe and Japan.
Artist's Statement
Realism that excites has a foundation in abstraction of design. A pattern of light that makes form, saturates color and creates mood holds it together and tells a story. It is the story that is the bond between the artist and the audience
Eileen Casey
Nature has always been a source of artistic inspiration for me, ever since I began drawing plants, birds, and animals as a child. It continues to spark my imagination now as I paint and draw nests, trees and landscapes. Six years ago, one of the first pastels I painted was a bird’s nest, which developed into of a series and a subject that I still explore. I aspire to create each nest as a safe and a sacred space, as well as construct order out of seeming chaos in order to depict the strength of even the most delicate nest.
I am a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America, the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod, the Pastel Painters Society of Maine, and I am in the International Association of Pastel Societies’ “Master Circle”. I am the PPSCC Recording Secretary. I was awarded First Place in the Pastel Journal’s“2012 Pastel 100” Still Life Category, as well an Honorable Mention in the Landscape Category in the “2013 Pastel 100”. My other Artist Memberships include the Cape Cod & Islands Art Educators Association, Cape Cod Art Association, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, North River Arts Society, and Connecticut Pastel Society
Robert Mesrop
Robert Mesrop has been an artist and painter for over 45 years. He is a Signature Member of the New England Watercolor Society and the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society and is currently a painting and drawing instructor at the Cape Cod Art Association and the Creative Art Center in Chatham Mass, He has also conducted painting workshops in Maine and Massachusetts.
Robert's Primary medium is watercolor although he also works in oil and drawing media. Robert is fascinated by changing lights and shadows. He paints to capture these moments in time. The freshness and luminosity of watercolor make it the perfect medium.
Robert received his Bachelor of Professional Arts degree from the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. For 22 years he was an Art Director at J Walter Thompson and at Kenyon and Eckhardt Ad agencies in New York. He is a Master Artist member of the Cape Cod Art Association, and a member of the Creative Art Center, Chatham, the Transparent Watercolor Society and the Salmagundi Club
