Marie Fischer was born with a passion for art, but it wasn’t until she was in the ninth grade that she got her start. While she spent a month bedridden…

Life on an island is many things, and for those who live there year-round while raising a family and making a living, restful and recuperative are probably not adjectives that…

Justin LaRocca Hansen sat in front of gold-framed watercolors and an unmissable Ms. Pac-Man machine. He held a paintbrush in his left hand while his hair swept to the right…

If you were to close your eyes and someone were to utter the words ‘Daydream’, ‘Summer Surf’, ‘Drift’ and ‘Running Downwind’ to you, what images would you conjure up? Would…

It could be said that Cape Cod is in Sarah Hinckley’s bones. Born and raised in Cummaquid, she has an ancestral lineage on the Cape dating back to the mid…

On the surface, Steve Kennedy is a complete contradiction; and yet then again, he is not. Words like swashbuckling, ruddy, and pioneering are apt descriptions of his physical demeanor. Yet…

Oil painter Jennifer McCalmont’s treatment of the coastal light provides a diffused essence that floats atop her paintings; whether they are landscapes or a still life, they all seem to…

In the world of the chicken or egg question, is it an artful life or a life lived with art? That question can be pondered from a variety of different…

Merriam-Webster defines frame of reference as a set of ideas, conditions, or assumptions that determine how something will be approached, perceived, or understood. In artist Paul Norwood’s world of evocative…

Tom Odell’s most recent public artwork, Wind Dance, has the natural effect of oxidation which behaves in some ways like paint, and in some ways like something very much alive,…

Goldsmith Jennifer Odell’s journey as an artist channels a bit of Circe—the goddess of magic and transformation from Greek mythology. For Odell, Circe is not only a goddess, but also…

Barry O’Neil is the real deal. A Korean War veteran of the Navy with nautical experience, years as a lighthouse keeper, rigorous training in medical illustration, and then as a…

Tom Ouellette’s paintings seem to emerge from a time long ago, an era where modern conveniences weren’t even taking shape in some brilliant inventor’s mind. A time when daylight was…

Some artists are identified by the color palette they use, others by the brush strokes or how they make their mark, and even more by their choice of composition. For…

Our childhood experiences are said to have a profound and lasting impact on us—and further, recent studies show that children who spend time outside interacting with nature and being exposed…

There’s a quote often attributed to George Eliot that says, “It’s never too late to be what you might have been,” and Linda Ryder is the quintessential example of this…

When Miriam Voros was growing up in Germany and her parents would plan their family vacations, she used to inquire, “Will there be ocean?”  She had no inkling that the…