Art & Entertainment
Richard Loud
Maritime painter Richard Loud paints scenes from another era with uncanny ease and insight Painter Richard Loud charts a course to yesterday each day. As he paints, he breathes life…
The Figawi: A note from Brian Shortsleeve
Gunkholing: A note from the publisher The Memorial Day weekend sailing regatta, which began in 1972, was created by a couple of friends challenging each other to a sailboat race…
Picture this!
Each year we receive thousands of stunning photo contest submissions. Choosing the photography contest winners is a time of much excitement and much contention at the Cape Cod Life office—there…
Tony Pasquale and Terra Luna
Tony Pasquale brings a groovy flavor all his own to Terra Luna and the Outer Cape community Terra Luna only seems like a restaurant. It’s really a Truro crossroad where…
Artist Profile: Illya Kagan
The son of a needleworker and a furniture designer, Illya Kagan always knew he wanted art to be a part of his life. His passion carried him from his home…
Artist Profile: Adam Rhude
Adam Rhude’s warm and realistic paintings invite you to share a quiet moment. You just might want to sit down, sip from a glass of cappuccino, and write a letter…
Artist Profile: Dianne Panarelli Miller
If anyone could be referred to as a renaissance woman, it would be appropriate to describe Dianne Panarelli Miller as such. Yet the word “renaissance” literally translates to “rebirth,” and…
Artist Profile: Ginny Nickerson
“I’m really trying to paint the essence of the Cape,” says Ginny Nickerson. “I have a love of wild nature, the oceans and beaches.” It’s no wonder that the love…
Artist Profile: Cecilia Capitanio
Growing up in picturesque Vina del Mar, Chile, Cecilia Capitanio was surrounded by vivid clothing and vibrant gardens, and she expressed her love of color through painting in school. Her…
Artist Profile: Jane Eccles
It’s the 1950s, and Jane Eccles, with a degree in art history from Mt. Holyoke College and graduate work at Columbia University, is on a successful trajectory toward her ambition…
Artist Profile: Jeanne Rosier Smith
So fascinated by the drama of the ocean, Jeanne Rosier Smith has been painting it for 10 years. “The ocean changes constantly,” she says. “I see a clash of opposites—motion…
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…
