ART Annual 2025

In Kate Pelletier’s Nantucket studio, art begins not with a sketch or a plan but with a feeling. Her process, much like the island itself, is organic and atmospheric—guided more by intuition than intention, more by sensation than structure. “I start with color,” she …

There is a picturesque quality to John Ricciardi’s paintings that invites the viewer to step into them, to spend time on his colorful beaches, his quaint streets, and his sweeping cat boats. Through this, they might just learn a bit more about the beauty of…

For Janine Robertson, the path from trompe l’oeil muralist to contemporary landscape painter was both a natural evolution and a conscious departure. A classically trained artist who began her career painting directly onto walls—sometimes perched on scaffolding, arms outs…

The journey along life’s unexpected twists and turns has brought Andi Sawyer to a place where she’s still happily mystified to have arrived. Even though her childhood in Maine was spent organizing boxes of crayons by color, coveting paint by number kits, and being elated…

“Cape Cod is a mirror,” says gifted watercolor and oil painting artist Lee Surette, reflecting the stunning beauty of natural light echoing off the ocean. There are few places, says Surrette, where natural light is so majestic and constantly changing. The artist who enjo…

Like an absentminded connection between your brain and your creative side, the act of doodling is effortless and playful. It sparks ideas, helps us with concentration, provides stress relief and in the case of artist Richard Vecchione, it even served as a springboard for mor…