ART Annual 2020

“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it” Terry Pratchett While some fear the dark, others take inspiration and comfort from the…

Cape Cod native Michael Baksa had always known he wanted to become a jeweler and started pursuing his dream at just 17-years-old. After graduating from high school, Baksa worked as an apprentice to a local goldsmith for four years before feeling confident enough to strike…

Teresa Baksa, a traditional media painter based out of South Dennis, has had a long-time passion for art, but a roundabout journey to making it her full time profession. She dreamed of painting as a career after her training at Montserrat College of Art in…

If you happen to see Jill Bates strolling along a Cotuit beach or garden path, don’t be insulted if she doesn’t return your wave. She is likely enraptured with the world at her feet, admiring the intricacies of creatures that go unnoticed to most.  …

Rebecca Bruyn has spent 50 years pursuing her love for capturing photos. “I knew I wanted to start photographing at the age of 12. That’s when the Polaroid Instamatic came out. It’s the photograph that comes out and the picture appears after two minutes. I…

Monet had his garden. Ed Chesnovitch has his marsh.  Each artist fell under the spell of the entrancing environments just outside their windows. A percolating landscape of the natural world that is completely oblivious to the voyeurs that strive to capture its subtleties. And both…

Loretta Feeney dwells in color. Her life is wrought by constant inspiration, saturated by creativity. Her artwork is similarly enrapturing for its layers of shades and free-flowing imagination, and her talent is one that originated at a young age, alongside her penchant for vibrant spontaneity…

Artists through the ages have strived to capture what the forces of nature and the universe have created. Some, like the notable masters from the Hudson River School have succeeded in giving their paintings an other-wordly quality as though they have transcended this world. It…

As a water sign, local artist Patricia Hopkins has always found herself drawn to the water, which is abundantly clear in her artwork. In her childhood years, Hopkins spent weekends and summers on the Cape. “I’ve always loved nature from an early age” says Hopkins.…

Painting has always been a powerful experience for Marjorie Mason, and her work reflects the care and intention she prioritizes and the experiences from which she draws inspiration. Her paintings are bright, gestural, and encapsulate the magic that has captured her attention throughout her career.…

When painter Katherine Downey Miller was growing up, she had a skylight above her bed. “I’d look up at night, and I’d see all the seasons changing,” she says. “When it was raining, the rain would be pelting down, or branches would fall from the…

“It looks so real, I thought it was a photograph.” “I can’t believe this is a painting, there is such detail.” Exclamations such as these are commonplace in response to Julia O’Malley-Keyes’ work. The enigmatic, fine art oil painter depicts landscapes, marine, and portraits in…

Barry Olofsson always had a passion for art. His work—intentional, meticulous and serene oil and pastel paintings, and charcoal sketches—reflects that love of creativity and a desire to explore and relay the stories, moments, and beauty he discovers on Cape Cod.  “The essence of a…

“From the time I was in middle school, art was something I always knew I wanted to do,” says artist Charles Patrick. He went on to attend Parson’s School of Design for illustration and headed in the direction of print making. After college, Patrick got…

Painter Andrea Petitto of Orleans frequently begins her work with a decision about colors. She says, “I usually use some kind of limited palette, for example, two blues, two greens and an orange, or just black, white, red and yellow. There are probably an infinite…

David Riina remembers the day his life took a turn. He remembers the day eight years ago when he decided to step on a path to pursue art as a career, in other words to change the answer when asked on forms or in person…

Amidst the ever-changing outdoors, there are countless, often fleeting, moments of splendor—raindrops resting on a dahlia’s petals, the stillness of Pleasant Bay at dusk, or the chase between a peregrine falcon and a mourning dove in the Cape Cod Canal. From her travels across Nantucket,…

“My family first came from Pennsylvania on vacation to Megansett in 1967,” recalls artist Mimi Schlichter. “Little did I know the lifelong connection for which the foundation was laid—that 53 years later, I would be living here, and painting would be my career.” Schlichter has…