Annual Art 2017

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 reminder of the passage of time. “I started out trying to capture that moment in…

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 stop at the beach before traveling home. “I could never live without the ocean,” Wessman…

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 pragmatic considerations. “I lived on a sailboat for 20 years,” she explains. “I did pen-and-ink…

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 the Cape and within six months is painting pictures people want to buy? That’s precisely…

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 scene. It was during one particularly spectacular “golden hour” in 2002 that Sherry Rhyno, dining…

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 John Sargent, an illustrator for the Saturday Evening Post. By way of her sister’s marriage…

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 and Yukimi Matsumoto, and their assistant, Isabel Green, who has been with the studio for…

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 Mailer lived for their art, their daughter recalls, and art was central to her childhood…

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 details and into the realm of the spiritual. “My being able to express myself in…

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 homages to the past: an antique tablecloth, a decorative bit of porcelain, a tarnished figurine…

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 Wellfleet painter says he aims to showcase the beauty of the natural land in his…

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 with Hensche at the Cape School of Art in the late 1970s and early 1980s—agrees.…

“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 vistas and views I can draw on. Why limit myself to what’s in front of…

“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 excursions—on both land and sea—in the Caribbean are all experiences that have shaped the Orleans…

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, art has been a constant diversion in his life. “I’ve always dabbled in art, drawing,…

“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 to bits and pieces of nature that others might pass right by—decaying flowers, a single…

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 not originally on his radar. At the University of Massachusetts-Boston, Craven studied to be an…