People & Businesses

It’s difficult to find a swath of scenery on Nantucket that hasn’t met a photographer’s lens. Garth Grimmer knows this challenge well, having lived on the island for the last…

Photographer Julie Tremblay never dreamed she’d own a successful gallery in Provincetown right in the middle of Commercial Street. After earning a passel of fine art degrees from the University…

There is so much to keep up with when talking to Thanassi. He is a Provincetown bon vivant of the first order. Like Beyoncé, or Rihanna, he only goes by…

The concept of living an artistic life—one that encourages creativity and exploration, a life that greets each day as a blank canvas, a path that pursues new and exciting challenges…

“It’s like falling in love,” Michael Helfen says of the moment when his paintings finally begin to match the vision in his head. Helfen met his wife in college when…

Diane Slater remembers the day just over two years ago when she decided to become an encaustic artist. “It’s like it was whispered to me,” she says. Since then, she’s…

When is a painting of a landscape not a landscape? Perhaps when the painting is really a memory of your childhood. And when is a painting of a boat not…

Over the course of a career in painting spanning more than 40 years, Deborah Quinn-Munson says she continues to enjoy pursuing the “spirited execution of a painting that conveys the…

From the initial scene she chooses to paint, to the actual act of painting, to the experience she hopes the viewer will have, artist Ruth Odile does everything within her…

Every morning, Jane Lincoln wakes up and completes her “color calendar”—a project of her own invention where each day she selects the arrangement of colors from three hues of Sherwin-Williams…

There’s a lot going on at Grainger Pottery in Sandwich. Simply walking through the door is an experience. Every inch of wall space is decorated, and it might take the…

When Amy tells Sheldon that their friends Leonard and Penny’s relationship is complicated in “The Big Bang Theory” episode “The Decoupling Fluctuation,” the quirky physicist rebuffs the notion, matter-of-factly replying,…

The desire to paint was always there, even during his career as an engineer in high-tech plastics molding. After work, Larry Folding would come home and paint. He even remembers…

It’s a busy time in Ramon Alcolea’s studio. Already a high-energy person who works on several projects at once, he now has one more significant undertaking added to his schedule.…

It seems that for most of his life, Paul Baldassini has lived in two worlds—the modern world, where he founded and ran a successful boutique design firm in Boston’s Back…

“I like people to be able to see a story in my art,” says sculptor Neil Grant. “I’m happy to tell someone what inspired me to make a piece, but…

As if floating in another dimension of time and space, Ronalee Crocker’s still life paintings seem to have the power to paradoxically ground the space in which they are displayed.…