ART Annual 2021

You can blame the bright hot yellows and oranges in some of Michael McGuire’s more recent works at least in part on a flight snafu. He was supposed to travel to Mexico, as he did for 25 winters, when one year the airline overbooked and…

Route 6A is in many respects Cape Cod’s version of northern California’s 101—the scenic highway along the coast—and Jonathan McPhillips’ painting, “Heading Into Town,” perfectly captures the road’s conclusion in a way that tells the story of anyone who has ev…

It was only 11 years ago that Curtis Speer’s boss laughed at him when he told her he was leaving the corporate world to pursue life full time as an artist, moving from Portland, Oregon, to Los Angeles. For a while it looked like her…

A native New Yorker, Ann Sullivan made her way to Cape Cod permanently in her 30s, after having spent time here earlier, when she fell in love with the Bass River area—which remains a constant subject for her, even today. A self-taught artist, she didn’t…

For one family of artisan goldsmiths, their Chatham store and gallery “was inevitable,” says owner Steve Wardle. His wife, Barb, had always come to Pleasant Bay in the summer, and his grandparents had built a home in South Chatham where Wardle would visit. In 1994,&helli…

When Trevor Watson first spilled his personal secret to the gallery owner down the street from his South Boston home, he was promptly turned away with an apathetic smile. His crime?  “I’m self-taught,” he says with a laugh.   Watson’s journey into the art s…

Every year, as we compile our list of potential artists that we will feature in our annual issue of Cape Cod ART, we apply a small list of criteria to initially determine whether someone is potentially a good candidate for coverage. At the core is…