Art & Entertainment
Artist Profile: Joe Diggs
The complexities of race in America perplex, anger and sometimes even amuse Osterville painter Joe Diggs. “I want to be known simply as a painter,” Diggs says. “Not a black…
Artist Profile: Jonathan Earle
Jonathan Earle always enjoyed drawing. He studied landscape architecture in college and so enjoyed the art classes he had to take that he considered becoming an artist. He decided against…
Artist Profile: Julija Mostykanova Feeney
When people ask Julija Mostykanova Feeney what she does for a living, she doesn’t tell them she’s an artist. “I tell them I’m a painter,” she says. “Then they usually…
Artist Profile: Kay Ritter
Kay Ritter feels very fortunate that she started “living the artist’s dream” soon after graduating as a sculpture major from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1971. She began…
Artist Profile: Kenneth Vincent
Landscape artists living and working on Martha’s Vineyard are often thought to be born with a quiet reverence for a dramatic tree line, with paintbrush in hand. Not so for…
Artist Profile: Lois Castellana
From the first day she took a class in pastel painting at the library, Lois Castellana was hooked. She was so moved by the intensity of the colors that she…
Artist Profile: Maralyn Menghini
The pride a parent possesses for a child is not a rare thing, but the reverse, the pride a child has as it relates to their parents and the gifts…
Artist Profile: Matthew Bielen
“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure… Consider all…
Artist Profile: Maurine Sutter
Maurine Sutter first traversed the Province Lands dunes in 1998, embarking from the tiny lot opposite Snail Road, trudging up and clearing that first big dune, lugging her cameras along…
Artist Profile: Michael Shaw
As far back as he can remember, Michael Shaw loved looking at realistic landscape paintings, so engrossed by their beauty. “Exactly when and how I went from strictly being an…
Artist Profile: Michele Usibelli
Twenty years ago, Michele Usibelli’s husband gave her the best Christmas present. It was a gift certificate for an oil painting class just down the street from where they lived…
Artist Profile: Russell Gordon
There are some pieces art of that are immediately evocative of a bygone era—in other words, timeless. It’s more than just subject matter. It’s the light, it’s the color palette,…
Artist Profile: Ryan Young
Ryan Young loved to draw and paint, even before grade school. Fortunately, his talent was nurtured at Falmouth High School by teachers who took him under their wings and expanded…
Artist Profile: Stephen Knight
Stephen Knight’s travels have taken his talents all over the world. He’s painted in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and France. But he settled down on the Cape, where his…
Emerging Artists: Masters in the Making
Four local artists creatively celebrate the Cape and its artistic future From sand dunes to marshes, bustling beaches to still winter mornings, storm-riled seas to quiet wooded paths, the Cape…
Emerging Artist: Daniel Michael Dobbins
“I’ve always been very mathematical, and that comes into play in my art,” says Daniel Michael Dobbins, whose preferred medium is watercolor. “A lot of people see watercolor as a…
Emerging Artist: Margot Keil
“I feel a lot of romanticism toward the land,” says painter Margot Keil, “and that comes in many different factions—I feel sorrow but also comfort. It’s like poetry. It’s profound…
Emerging Artist: Nick Heaney
For Nick Heaney, verbal communication doesn’t come naturally. With dyslexia, words don’t always come so easily. For the stumbling block that it is, dyslexia has actually been a building block…
