People & Businesses
Artist Profile: Robin Wessman, oil painter
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…
Artist Profile: Tina Trites, scratchboard artist
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…
Artist Profile: Tom Stringe, watercolorist
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…
Artist Profile: Sherry Rhyno, painter
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…
Artist Profile: Susan O’Brien McLean, oil painter
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…
Artist Profile: McDermott Glass Studio, glassmakers
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…
Artist Profile: Danielle Mailer, mixed-media artist
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…
Artist Profile: Nella Lush, painter
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…
Artist Profile: Jenny Kelley, oil painter
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…
Artist Profile: Larry Horowitz, oil painter
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…
Artist Profile: Adam M. Graham, painter
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…
Artist Profile: Anne Garton, oil painter
“I’m not a plein air artist,” Anne Garton says. “I have this incredible storage capacity of images in my head, and when I paint, I think of all of the…
Artist Profile: Margaret Dunn Furness, oil painter
“Pleasant Bay Boats” – 8″ x 10″ – oil For Margaret Dunn Furness, life is an adventure. Sailing off the Indiana shores of Lake Michigan, hitchhiking through Central America, and…
Artist Profile: John Fragassi, oil painter
Sometimes no matter what path a life takes, natural talent emerges and makes itself known. For Sandwich native John Fragassi, who balances painting with a full-time career in high-tech sales,…
Artist Profile: Julie DeMello, photographer
“Leaves – Heading to the Abyss” – 18″x 24″ – photograph Falmouth photographer Julie DeMello does not seek out pristine beachscapes or exotic locales to shoot. Instead, she is drawn…
Artist Profile: Jody Craven, jewelry maker
How does an English major end up becoming a jewelry maker? For Wellfleet resident Jody Craven, it was quite the happy accident. The 49-year-old Craven admits that the arts were…
Artist Profile: Frank M. Costantino, watercolorist
For more than 40 years, Frank M. Costantino has translated his ability to see structure and detail into architectural illustrations. The highly acclaimed artist has taught seminars at the Rhode…
Artist Profile: Elizabeth Congdon, oil painter
Elizabeth Congdon recalls always being “that kid, drawing constantly.” An art major in college, Congdon went to Florence for her junior year to learn how to draw and paint well.…
