ART Annual 2019

Four local artists creatively celebrate the Cape and its artistic future From sand dunes to marshes, bustling beaches to still winter mornings, storm-riled seas to quiet wooded paths, the Cape is a work of art in itself—one that has inspired generations of artists across t…

“I’ve always been very mathematical, and that comes into play in my art,” says Daniel Michael Dobbins, whose preferred medium is watercolor. “A lot of people see watercolor as a very fluid, difficult to control medium, but for me, I’ve been able to hone my…

“I feel a lot of romanticism toward the land,” says painter Margot Keil, “and that comes in many different factions—I feel sorrow but also comfort. It’s like poetry. It’s profound and instinctual and contemplative, and painting is a way of synthesizing all of it….

For Nick Heaney, verbal communication doesn’t come naturally. With dyslexia, words don’t always come so easily. For the stumbling block that it is, dyslexia has actually been a building block for Heaney, too, cultivating in him the deft ability to communicate visually. �…

As a guidance counselor at Barnstable High School, Ted Skirvan is visiting art classrooms almost every day. “Watching students be creative,” he says, “it’s neat to see it through their eyes and think back to where I was in high school.” At Dennis-Yarmouth Regional …