ART Annual 2024

Profiles of 25 local artists including 4 emerging artists.

Although Jeff Adams has been creating ceramic works of art for decades, in the last four years he has focused his full attention on establishing ANJL Ceramics in North Scituate Village. ANJL Ceramics is an anagram of his children’s names: Aiden, Noah, Justin, and Lily.&hel…

If Paul Batch’s paintings were compiled into a slide show, sitting in the dark, as the saturated tonal hues of his landscapes progressed from slide to slide, allowing ample time to digest the scenes, one might feel as though they are getting a glimpse into…

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”  – Aristotle People stop to gaze at the piece hanging before them—a red A-Frame house with a kite floating above. It is simple, but they cannot look away.&helli…

When Elizabeth Lazeren Daglio begins a painting, she covers the canvas with a dark ochre wash and begins to rub out spaces she wants to highlight, then begins to compose where the dark areas will be. It’s an abstract piece that begins to take form…

Marie Fischer was born with a passion for art, but it wasn’t until she was in the ninth grade that she got her start. While she spent a month bedridden with illness, drawing provided an outlet for energy. Still, it would take another 50 years…

Life on an island is many things, and for those who live there year-round while raising a family and making a living, restful and recuperative are probably not adjectives that adequately describe their day-to-day activities. Such is the case for artist Lizbet Carroll Fuller….

Justin LaRocca Hansen sat in front of gold-framed watercolors and an unmissable Ms. Pac-Man machine. He held a paintbrush in his left hand while his hair swept to the right side. Balance was everywhere except for his hair, but that’s Justin: a creative juxtaposition of&hel…

If you were to close your eyes and someone were to utter the words ‘Daydream’, ‘Summer Surf’, ‘Drift’ and ‘Running Downwind’ to you, what images would you conjure up? Would they be of lazy ocean waves breaking and rolling in an endless flow, or would…

It could be said that Cape Cod is in Sarah Hinckley’s bones. Born and raised in Cummaquid, she has an ancestral lineage on the Cape dating back to the mid 1630s. She started painting at a young age and never considered a different path, studying…

On the surface, Steve Kennedy is a complete contradiction; and yet then again, he is not. Words like swashbuckling, ruddy, and pioneering are apt descriptions of his physical demeanor. Yet when his whiskey voice describes his art, his process, and the world that inspires him…

Oil painter Jennifer McCalmont’s treatment of the coastal light provides a diffused essence that floats atop her paintings; whether they are landscapes or a still life, they all seem to flourish in a dreamlike suspension. Her vivid colors that she marries in her beautiful …

In the world of the chicken or egg question, is it an artful life or a life lived with art? That question can be pondered from a variety of different angles when it comes to the creative and prolific journey Mary Nolan has experienced. Nolan,…

Merriam-Webster defines frame of reference as a set of ideas, conditions, or assumptions that determine how something will be approached, perceived, or understood. In artist Paul Norwood’s world of evocative landscapes and figures, his points of reference encourage the re-…

Tom Odell’s most recent public artwork, Wind Dance, has the natural effect of oxidation which behaves in some ways like paint, and in some ways like something very much alive, similar to wind. This spring, Wind Dance, a sculpture commissioned and donated to the Town&hellip…

Goldsmith Jennifer Odell’s journey as an artist channels a bit of Circe—the goddess of magic and transformation from Greek mythology. For Odell, Circe is not only a goddess, but also a muse. As Odell has traveled extensively, collecting antiquities along the way, she beg…

Barry O’Neil is the real deal. A Korean War veteran of the Navy with nautical experience, years as a lighthouse keeper, rigorous training in medical illustration, and then as a Coast Guard illustrator, Barry uses carbon pencils, charcoal, and watercolor pigments to depict …

Tom Ouellette’s paintings seem to emerge from a time long ago, an era where modern conveniences weren’t even taking shape in some brilliant inventor’s mind. A time when daylight was precious as the evenings were lit by candles and oil. A time where the daily…