ART Annual 2026

Del-Bourree Bach is a jack of all trades—and a master of several. Painter, illustrator, and opera singer, Del is a lifelong artist whose work has captivated audiences from stage, page, and canvas.  It was Del’s grandfather, an artist and vocalist in the U.S. Army Ba…

There is a layered quality to Matt Carrano’s work—both literally and conceptually—that reflects not only his materials, but the way he understands the world around him. Working in acrylic and often incorporating collage, Carrano creates compositions that feel structure…

There are approximately 7,170 known languages in the world today. For artist Lyn Coffey, there are 7,171. “Color has become a language of its own for me,” she says. “It’s something I’m always exploring, always refining.” Coffey’s relationship with art bega…

For nearly five decades, painting has been as natural to Lillia Frantin as breathing. Long before she became a professionally exhibited artist, earned a Master of Fine Arts degree, or found collectors from New York to Palm Beach and Cape Cod, she was simply “the…

Ann Hart has spent a lifetime observing the natural world, but not simply as a spectator. In her paintings, rabbits become personalities, frogs seem poised for conversation, and birds appear to harbor secrets just beyond the viewer’s reach. Working primarily in watercolor …

For more than two decades, photographer David Hills has documented a world that most Cape Cod residents glimpse only from a distance—the working lives of commercial fishermen. His images are not romanticized portraits of life at sea, nor are they exercises in nostalgia. In…

From the time she was five years old, Sharon Lieberwirth knew she wanted to make art. She was the child who was always drawing, always creating. Today, her vibrant acrylic paintings—filled with soulful dogs, elegant birds, luminous florals and landscapes infused with Cape …

For Tracey J. Maroni, the Cape Cod family vacations of her childhood weren’t so much a luxurious seaside escape as they were a time to connect with the natural world. Her summers were defined by trips to the National Seashore and dark nights brightened by…

There is a certain kind of artist who arrives at Provincetown and immediately recognizes it as a place not just to work, but to become. For Simie Maryles, that recognition came decades ago—and never left. Over the years, her life and work have become deeply…

As a child, Michael R. Mills dabbled in art classes and slow weekends spent copying illustrations out of magazines. “Sidewalk chalk was one of my great mediums,” he jokes. But it wasn’t until later in life that he discovered his passion for still life painting.…

Artists have made dramatic use of contrast for centuries, well before the Italians coined the term chiaroscuro to describe the technique. The term combines chiaro—meaning “light” or “clear”—with scuro, or “dark.” It took root formally in the 15th and 16th cen…

In Provincetown, where artistic legacy is as much a part of the landscape as dunes and shifting light, certain figures come to embody that history in a living, breathing way. Hilda Neily is one of them. For more than four decades, Neily has lived and…

For Nancy Nicol, the act of creating is not confined to a single medium or moment. It is, instead, a way of moving through the world—one that began in childhood and continues across painting, sculpture, and assemblage. “I’ve always been drawing and painting,” she say…

As you move through your day—hurrying from work to the grocery store or out to meet friends—it’s easy to miss the quiet, fleeting moments of beauty around you. The way light slips through a window and glints off a glass, or the brief shimmer of…

As a child growing up in Flint, Michigan, David Phillips always looked forward to the annual visit of the oil distributor truck. As it rumbled past, his dusty gravel road transformed into a treasure trove of glossy stones, their patterns enhanced by the slick oil…

Artist Susan Randall approaches her craft with a deep sense of fluidity—after all, she most often works in forgiving mediums like clay and oil. Yet beneath that ease lies remarkable precision and technical mastery. Her work is at once spontaneous and impeccably executed, a…