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For pastel painter Michele Poirier-Mozzone, water is the ultimate muse. It is her gateway to endless explorations of the human figure, color, pattern and line. It is also her physical…

As a 20-something grad student studying painting in Ohio in the 1970s, Robin Wessman missed the ocean so badly that when he drove back home to Massachusetts between semesters, he’d…

When an artist works small, sometimes the goal is a more intimate experience with the artwork. And sometimes, as is the case with Sandwich artist Tina Trites, there are more…

To say that Cape Cod inspires artists does not even begin to explain Tom Stringe. How do you account for a man who, having never touched a paintbrush, moves to…

She waits for the “golden hour,” though sometimes it may last only 60 seconds. It’s that time when nature brings light and shapes and colors together, creating a magical, otherworldly…

Growing up in the 1950s, Susan O’Brien McLean recalls early family connections to working artists—all of whom were male. In New Rochelle, New York, her family lived next door to…

One of the most striking features of the McDermott Glass Studio is the complete lack of ego. The creative process is collaborative among co-owners (and husband and wife), David McDermott…

With the kind of parents she had growing up—pedigreed artists, she calls them—it was inevitable Danielle Mailer would become an artist, she says. Abstract painter Adele Morales and writer Norman…

By training and temperament, Nella Lush is an artist and painter, but she also considers herself a philosopher. For the North Andover resident, art extends beyond the realm of depicting…

Painter Jenny Kelley’s world is full of color and life and blooms—bursting out of vases, tumbling onto tables, reaching beyond the edges of the canvas. Her still-life arrangements are like…

Larry Horowitz considers Joni Mitchell’s 1970 classic “Big Yellow Taxi” his anthem of sorts as an artist. With so much of the country paved and covered with buildings, the 61-year-old…

Noted impressionist painter Henry Hensche once said, “Paintings are to teach man to see the glory of human visual existence.” Provincetown painter Adam M. Graham—whose father, artist Bob Graham, studied…