Maryalice Eizenberg is an award-winning artist and Massachusetts native. Born in 1948, she was surrounded by a family of musicians who naturally were supportive of her interest in the visual arts. She has been drawing and painting all of her life and has found her passion in plein air landscapes. Her art education includes course study at the Worcester and Springfield Fine Arts Museums. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Clark University and has studied with accomplished plein air painters John Cosby, Donald Demers, Joseph Paquet and Charles Sovek. She credits Charles Sovek with inspiring the confidence she must have to continue painting while people stop to watch and sometimes chat.

Maryalice has been featured in Cape Cod Life and Chatham magazines and "The Creative Spirit, Art in Chatham's Old Village." She 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, Cape Cod Plein Air Painters and 21 in Truro. 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. This is especially true in landscape paintings. A willingness to move the elements around to create an impression of the place that is rhythmic and pleasing is essential. The pattern of light that makes form, saturates color and creates mood holds it together. To capture the sense of a place at a specific moment in time is the reward given to the dedicated plein air painter.

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.

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.

my designs~ The inspiration for my designs comes from a fascination with, and detailed observation of the shapes, patterns and gestures of all living creatures and vegetation. I revel in capturing the tilt of a mermaid’s head as she turns her face to the sun or the twisting character of a grape vine tendril.

Fossils , sea glass, beach stones are as valuable a source of color and expression in the pieces as are amethyst, lapis lazuli, turquoise, ruby, sapphire and all the other traditional precious rocks and minerals. All my designs are fabricated in my studio.

I prefer to work with silver and gold. Any design can be created in 18 Kt or 14 Kt gold, sterling silver or the newest material-- Argentium sterling silver which is a new easy care, tarnish-resistant silver.

"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.

Michael is the Curator of Exhibitions at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, since 2003. He was the Chief Art Preparator at the Gregg Museum of Art and Design for 10 years at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. He has taught art at Pope John Paul II High School in Hyannis, and presently teaches acrylic painting for adults at the Cape Cod Museum of Art; He has held workshops at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, the Truro Center for the Arts, Truro, MA and at the Weny Education Center at the CCMOA.

Artist Statement: Art has been a big part of my life for over 50 years, from the first time I saw Salvador Dali’s “Persistence of Memory” I knew what my future will be as an artist.
From drawing and 3d assemblages to decorative painted furniture and always acrylic painting, my life has been full of making art. I continue to be amazed, never really expecting what lies ahead, starting with the first idea and brush stroke.The challenges are always there that pushes me to create.

After graduation in 1976 from the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in Early Education my creative career has taken various paths including pottery, graphic design & photography, fiber arts, and in the recent past, innkeeping, which called upon many skills. Now, I am very lucky to have the opportunity to focus on painting, working every day to improve as a watercolorist and to take on subject matter that I once categorized as "too hard".

The transparent approach to watercolor requires planning and that is part of the process that I embrace. Each piece is a problem to solve- the technical and interpretive decisions that I make work in tandem. A truly good painting both surprises me and is exactly what I had in mind at the outset. So a "better good painting" is always waiting on the next blank sheet of beautiful paper! My hope is that my paintings invite you, the viewer, into the scene to look more closely. And to draw you back after the image has become familiar.

I create art and always have because I am most engaged with a piece on the go. I am likely, upon quitting for the day, to be back in the studio every half hour to look at the day's work- evaluating, celebrating, regretting perhaps, thinking about the next step. For me, this is joyous.

I am a member of the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, Philadelphia Watercolor Society, Master Artist Member of the Cape Cod Art Center and Signature Member of both the Transparent Watercolor Society of America and the New England Watercolor Society. I have won numerous awards at the national and local level and am represented by Gallery Antonia, Chatham, MA. www.galleryantonia.com or www.annhartsart.com

Steve Kennedy is a painter working in the tradition of outdoor, or "plein air" painting. ... His paintings reflect the brilliant light of the Cape with both an intensity and softness. Kennedy has been living and working on Cape Cod since 1981. His work has been exhibited extensively in the Northeast.

In 1997 I took a course in oil painting and was immediately taken by the medium. I loved the way the paint made my drawings come to life. I found that my work has an emotional impact and presents a sensuous awareness of form and the way that light lies on surfaces. In 2006 I became extremely sensitive to all forms of solvents used in oil painting and needed to change my technique. After some experimentation, I found my way back to oil painting using a palette knife rather than brushes in order to avoid solvents. In the process, I also began to paint outdoors. My work became more sculptural with the use of the palette knife, and my color ideas developed more strongly with the plein air experience.

In 2008, my husband and I moved from upstate New York to Cape Cod. Once here, I became enchanted with the stark landscape of the dunes in Truro and Provincetown. I was fascinated by the way the wind shapes the sand and I created a series of paintings of that subject attempting to express the forms as well as the sense of serene solitude one gets when waling in the dunes. I have since begun a series called "Beach Dogs". Early in the morning, people bring their dogs to the beach to let them run. The combination of dogs, water and sand is very painterly and expressive. Though not human, dogs are very gestural and emotional. Because of the wonderful and vibrant artist community here on the Cape, I have now returned to the human figure with renewed vigor and a whole new, more atmospheric and emotional approach.

Marian Strangfeld graduated from Rutgers University with a BA in Studio Art, and from Cambridge College with a M.Ed in Art Education. She studied painting in the MFA program at UMass Amherst, as well as in various workshops and classes at other art institutions.

Her interest in art and education led to a career as high school Studio Art teacher and K-12 Art Director in Hopkinton MA. Under her leadership, Hopkinton High School was named a School of Excellence in the Arts, and represented Massachusetts in the Kennedy Center Creative Schools of Distinction competition. While teaching in Hopkinton, she also served on the Educators Advisory Board for the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

In her own work, Marian explores the atmosphere and mood of the landscape. Her style is influenced by traditions of Asian Art, evident in her abstracted compositions and calligraphic brushwork. Her paintings have been recognized in exhibits at the Danforth Museum, Newton Open Studios, and the Beacon Hill Art Walk, earning numerous Juror awards, and other honors.

Marian's work is exhibited locally at the Chatham Creative Arts Center, where she is a member of the faculty, teaching both Painting 101and Sumi-e ink painting. Her paintings can also seen at the Ray Wiggs Gallery in Provincetown MA.

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