Carolyn began working in glass after she retired from teaching. She studied at Corning studio of glass in Corning, NY. Her inspiration comes from her long history of living as close to nature as possible. She tries to inspire others to love the natural world and use it as a way to find serenity amongst the hustle of modern life

Visit her website:

www.carolynsglassflowers.com 

Inquiries and Purchases:

 pbaumc@aol.com 

Studio Hours: Open by appointment 

Marcia Cole is a multimedia artist who retired from teaching to devote her time to painting. For the past 15 years she specialized in encaustic painting and encaustic monotype. Marcia has a studio in Gardiner, N.Y. and is a member of G.O.S.T, Roost Gallery in New Paltz, N.Y. and The Wallkill River School. During this year’s Gardiner Open Studio Tour many pieces from her popular Chant Series and her Hudson River Series, called Put Ins will be available for viewing and sale.

Chants 

This series is inspired by mediation and visual expressions of energy. Paper pulled through melted wax forms layers of color, and combined with watercolor and oil paint suggests a polychromatic strata, resonating cyclic hymns, fluxing landscapes. The work is intuitive and contemporary, suggesting a sense of natural progression and environmental awareness. Surprising palettes and finite detail delight the viewer while the sense of myriad meaning provokes deeper thought and emotional connection. 

Hudson River Put Ins

Impressionistic moments on the river, these are landscapes seen from the water.  The water itself is the feature here, offering a privileged view of reflected sky and land, a moving, patterned field of reflections, and depths. We enter the flow, return, look back and dream on. Such is life.

Inquiries and Purchases:

Email: marciacoleart@gmail.com

Hours:
By Appointment Only

To create is to dance with the Universe, to serve and to become a positive affirmation of our own magnificence.

This work is about reclaiming my Spirit and turning towards the light and truth within my own heart. Three years ago, I moved out of the chaos of Brooklyn and into the forest to heal, create artwork and reclaim a beautiful part of my spirit that had been forgotten. I began a body of artwork and writing to express this experience.

Today, I live in sync with the seasons and stars. I assemble sculpture from natural found objects to honor the earth and the Spirit in all things. Crystals, branches, feathers and the bones used are all in praise of life, in celebration of earth, in honor of transformation and spiritual awakening. These pieces are primarily wall hangings and altars, creating sacred spaces within the home. I write poems to accompany each piece to illuminate the meaning held in each creation. The bone pieces are made with the deepest reverence for the animal spirit, and I write about the medicine of each animal as a way to honor the relics and learn from their teachings.

The healing and wisdom found through the process of art making in these woods has reconnected me to my truth, my femininity, my center... and has brought immense beauty and meaning back into my life.

Let it be known.

I did not fall from grace.

I leapt to freedom.

-Ansel Elkins

View website: 
http://www.thefreedomlodge.com

Inquiries and Purchases: 
anna@annadavisfilms.com

Etsy: www.etsy.com/shop/TheFreedomLodge

Hours:
By Appointment Only

Tiffany Dyckman has been working as an artist in a variety of mediums for the past 25 years.  Her pottery studio is located right on the GOST trail in an old barn nestled into the Shawangunk mountain ridge in Wallkill, NY. Her Pottery is high fired functional stoneware. While she is working primarily with wheel thrown ceramic pieces at this time, her work in Painting and Photography is a constant pulse in her life and journey as an artist.

Tiffany studied art at the undergraduate level at SUNY Potsdam and at Ripon and York St. John’s University in York, England. She earned her Master’s in darkroom photography from Long Island University. She has spent the past 25 years working as Art Faculty at Lakeland High School in Westchester County, NY where she runs a popular darkroom photography program and teaches painting and studio in art. It is a great joy to share her love and passion for the fine arts with her students.

Tiffany’s Photography has been in numerous exhibits and sales over the years including juried exhibits at local arts councils and in England, Italy, Budapest and Berlin. Her extended work in Infrared Photography enabled her to create unique images that resemble glowing pencil drawings. Most of the images represent places in the Hudson Valley and NYC area.

You can visit Tiffany’s Pottery studio where she loves creating functional pottery that is meant to be used and enjoyed on a daily basis. 

Inquiries and Purchases:

TNTBUTTERY@GMAIL.com

Hours: By appointment 

Alexa Ginsburg’s felted soft sculpture animals and wearable art are inspired by the patterns, textures and hues of the natural world which she seeks to distill into form and line, expressed through the language of color and play.  

Felt-making is an ancient art, earthy and meditative. Alexa builds up layers of wool fiber that are saturated with soapy water that she rolls in a textured mat hundreds of times until the loose wool becomes a soft but strong, resilient textile that can take many forms.

Making artful toys and playful art is where she finds herself. With a degree in fine art from Cooper Union and a former life as a graphic designer and children's book illustrator it's the place she’s most at home. Her work lives in a world of delight in form and color—a world that's both imaginary and whimsical as well as functional.

Welcome to Alexa’s world!

Visit her Website:

alexaginsburg.com

naturallyfelt.net

Inquiries and Purchases: alexa.ginsburg@gmail.com

Etsy: www.etsy.com/shop/NaturallyFeltStudio

Hours:
By Appointment Only
845 419-2117

 I have been a visual artist since the ’60’s, and have primarily worked as a painter. My paintings and my sculptures were exhibited at galleries in New York City and were placed in corporate collections both in the United States and Canada.  Additionally, my artwork was included in the “virtual corporation “ run by Gordon Gecko in the movie Wall Street.

It was serendipitous  that through my experiences teaching art in the Department of Education in New York City, I was reintroduced to ceramics.  I found working with clay extremely pleasurable and much different than creating a painting.  I found myself spending more and more time making a body of work with clay as the medium.

 I have been working in clay seriously for the last 20 years.  Wheel work was a skill I began to develop about 12 years ago.

Shortly after moving to Pine Bush in the Hudson Valley of New York State in 2007, I built a studio building on the property and established New Prospect Pottery. The pottery built two kilns thereafter. The pottery holds group firings in the 40 cubic foot gas reduction kiln and the salt kiln. Potters from all around the tri-state area come together to glaze and fire their work. I mix and experiment with glazes and slips and make all the glazes that the pottery uses.  Glaze experimentation is an ongoing process, as there is much to learn when making glazes that are specifically  made for each different type of firing.

These glazes and slips are available for the ceramic artists who come to glaze and fire their pots here and for my students who study at the studio. Please feel free to contact the pottery directly for information about firings and classes.

View Website: 
www.newprospectpottery.com

Inquiries and Purchases:
Phone: 845.744.6787
Email: newprospectpottery@gmail.com

Purchase:
Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/shop/newprospectpottery

Hours:
By Appointment Only

Leonie Lacouette manages to strike a balance between concepts and influences that otherwise might seem like polar opposites-her elegant clocks successfully reconcile the strict geometries of Minimalism with a warm, approachable palette of colored patinas on the copper and nickel that predominate her designs. Created from a basic language of circles, squares, ovals, and rectangles, the clocks are not only beautiful, but often playful as well. In one design, the otherwise hidden movement of the pendulum swings gently back and forth, revealed by a perfectly circular hole punched through the face of the piece to create a dynamic (and unexpected) game of 'hide-and-seek'.

Over 25 years ago, Lacouette started making clocks, as a practical way to make a living while using the aesthetic training she'd received in art school. It all began when she needed a clock for her studio, and noticed an ad in a magazine for a company selling clock mechanisms. Ordering five, she used one to make her own timepiece, and then made four more to sell. They sold out immediately, and she's been making clocks ever since.

View website:
http://www.leonietime.com

Inquiries and Purchases:
leonie@leonietime.com

Hours:
By Appointment Only

 "I see the world through an emotional lens, and I use the medium of oil paint to share what I experience:  movement of light, texture, and color."  

Marsha Massih is an award-winning oil painter, exhibiting her landscapes and still life oil paintings throughout the Northeast and abroad for over 20 years.  In 2012, she received a cash award at the prestigious Chelsea International Fine Art Competition.  In 2013, Marsha had a solo show of Hudson Valley regional landscapes and was invited to exhibit at  ‘Art Along the Hudson’ sponsored by the Dutchess County Arts Council.   The Allied Artists of America, Audubon Artists,  the National Association of Women Artists, Artists Fellowship, and the Hudson Valley Artists Association have presented her paintings throughout the years.  In the Spring of 2015, Marsha was included among a select group of regional artists invited to exhibit figurative work in ‘Being Human’, a show at the Art Society of Kingston.  As a plein air painter, Marsha is regularly invited to the annual 'Plein-Air Paint Out' at the Mohonk Mountain House sponsored by Wired Gallery as well as at the Historic Huguenot Street 'Artists On The Street'  Event.  In July 2017 Marsha, along with four other distinguished artists, was chosen to be part of Mavericks at Lace Mill Galleries in Kingston, NY, and in October 2017 she had a successful two-person show at FRED in High Falls NY.  In March 2018 Unison Arts Center in New Paltz NY displayed Marsha's most recent seascapes in a 4-person group show, and her flower still life paintings were featured in the 'Flowers in February' show at Mark Gruber Gallery.

Marsha and her artwork have been featured in several publications over the years, including  the Chronogram, Art Times, Kingston Times and Almanac, New Paltz Times, and  Lines from the League, an Art Students League of New York publication.  In 2015 her biography and work were featured in the New Paltz Times and the Gardiner Gazette .

Marsha is a founding member of the Gardiner Artists Open Studio Tours (GOSTartists.org)  and sells work out of her studio. She is a member of the Allied Artists of America, Audubon Artists, and the Artists Fellowship in NYC.  Marsha's work can be seen on her Facebook page and on Instagram.

Represented by Mark Gruber Gallery in New Paltz, New York and FRED in High Falls.

View Website:
http://marshamassih.com

Inquiries and Purchases:
Email: mmmassih@gmail.com
Phone: 845.532.3548

Gallery Viewings:
Mark Gruber Gallery

Bannerman Island Gallery

Hours:
By Appointment Only

Why I Draw

For most of my adult life I focused more on music than on visual arts, but in my late forties a wrist injury interfered with my ability to play my instrument. My creativity needed a new outlet, so I started drawing, and soon became obsessed. Drawing became the focus of my life. After my 2013 move from Oregon to Gardiner, NY I discovered the rugged ecosystem of the Shawangunks. The natural world is my passion and my refuge. In my work I try to recreate a hiker’s perspective of landscapes as potential journeys that can draw us out of our usual tired circle of thoughts into a more spacious place. I hope to simply convey the inherently generous, fluid and mysterious nature of the world that I see.

Background

I am mainly self taught, having no formal art instruction other than one college class in drawing. But as the child of a painter and a photographer who towed me from one museum to the next, art was a consistent presence. We also travelled and camped all over the West, so the outdoor world was always a big part of my life. In middle age I developed the patience to immerse myself in an image, and the confidence to return to the mind of the child who explored freely in redwood forests, open fields, and on mountain trails.

Visit her Website:
http://andreamcfarland.com

Inquiries and Purchases:
Email: amfar@andreamcfarland.com
Phone: 971.409.2125

Hours:
By Appointment Only

Meadow’s work is constantly redefining and refining intimacy and emotional relationships between herself, her materials and her visual language. She strives to remain vulnerable and experimental while including a graceful marriage of symbolic and ancient references.

In order to maintain freshness in her work, she produces art in a variety of media and metaphors; as a sculptor, jeweler, painter, printmaker, product designer and children’s book author and illustrator. She has an MFA degree from George Washington University, in Washington DC, in Ceramics and Design and an MFA degree from The University of Wisconsin-Madison, in Sculpture and Jewelry. Her undergraduate degree is from The Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, in Ceramics.

Meadow’s international exhibition history is long and distinguished. Her art can be found in numerous private and public collections including; Smithsonian Institute, and Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington, DC, the Science Museum, San Francisco, and DiRosa Collection, in Napa, CA. Her large installation sculptures were shown at the Samuel Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY, and galleries and museums in NYC.

Inquiries and Purchases:
Email: woodrockstudios@yahoo.com

Hours:
By Appointment Only

As an artist there is variety in her work, though her love of Mexican folk motifs appears no matter the medium she's working in. This folk art flavoring gives her painting and pottery a delightful playfulness that is the perfect antidote for people who feel intimidated by more formal styles of artistic expression. 

Annie herself can also be vigorously irreverent which serves her well in her work. If you see any of her #GOSTdoors you will recognize them right away.

View her work:
Click Here

Woman’s Studio Workshop Honoree: http://bit.ly/annie-oneill

Inquiries and Purchases:
Phone: 845.255.5508
Email: annieohoh@earthlink.net

Hours:
By Appointment Only

In dreams, images evoke responses that we don't quite comprehend. They contain figures, faces, and suggestions of things whose exact meaning often remains both elusive and provocative. It is that kind of provocation that I'm striving to capture in my abstract photographic images.

The most important part of the creative act for me is the mysterious journey of discovery as I explore the consequences of 'tampering' with my own source image photographs. I think of it as tampering because it is a sort of illicit alteration of the "truthfulness" of photography.

My work starts out with my own photographs of landscapes, architectural details or colorful scenes and other unusual views. These are the source photos for my images and also my inspiration. In their photographic transfor-mation into an entirely new work, the influence of the source images remains. My process simultaneously alters and obscures their initial forms but utilizes them as my palette and brush. I mix color, shape, mood and texture from their original essence.

Ultimately I convert these realistic photos into my abstract images. My work uses bold, saturated, and intense colors both because they appeal to me and also to make clear that the images that result are not photos of a rational observable reality but instead represent vistas of my own idiosyncratic landscape of abstraction.

I believe that by stripping away the obvious narrative content and context of a photo-graph and creating an abstract image from it, that the viewer is freed to view the image through their own emotional imagination. I am intentionally divorcing my work from the abundance of everyday photography that pervades our modern hyper-visual life on the internet, on TV and in print. I am challenging the truth of photography; the expectation that photography is only for accurately capturing and depicting an external observable reality.

I am removing both the narrative and historical context that ordinarily establishes the photographer’s intention. I am cloaking the photograph’s purpose so that the viewer is left to their own devices, to interact more honestly with the image, and to engage in their own personal search for meaning.

View Website:
http://www.pazer.com

Inquiries and Purchases:
Phone: 862.236.5348
Email: JP@pazer.com

Hours:
By Appointment Only

Marilyn Perry’s love of art has deep roots in Italy, where she lived, wrote, and taught about Italian art during the 1970s.  Thereafter, she served as President of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation (1984-2007) and Chairman of the World Monuments Fund (1990-2007) in New York City.   Exploring the creation of art in the early 2000s sparked a new passion, and on retiring from art history and cultural heritage preservation she declared herself an artist and opened a studio in her country home in the Hudson River Valley.      

She is fascinated by the evanescence of the natural world in its constantly changing patterns -- seascapes, water vistas, moonlight, lava, forests, the sky, flowers in the wind – which she paints, with semi-abstract abandon, in acrylics and encaustics.   

Her work has been on view in New York City, and has been purchased by strangers as well as friends, a great encouragement.   The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, and the Gardiner Gazette have written about her life as an artist.

View Website:
http://www.marilynperryart.com

Inquiries and Purchases:
Email: mp@marilynperryart.com

Hours:
By Appointment Only

Bruce Pileggi received his BFA from SUNY New Paltz in 1971. Pileggi's work modulates between the abstract and the representational, but is always anchored in exploring the relationship between shape, color and line. This relationship can at times feel isolated and solitary, even austere but there is an undercurrent of energetic movement and vibrancy that connects the pieces back to a larger narrative about our place as artists in society. His pieces solicit the viewer to engage and question art in society as well; is this art or decoration, landscape or abstraction.

"I've always felt that art and the making of art are part of a conversation the artist has with himself and the world, where the artist offers to the world his ideas, his thoughts, his feelings in a way that creates a dialogue, a give and take, a comparing of notes... but to what end? Back when I was a student I read a book by Gregory Bateson: Steps to an Ecology of Mind, in it he states that 'art is to keep life from being too purposive.' Makes sense to me, art as process and not product, therefore rather than trying to arrive at some point of accomplishment, some achievement, some conclusion, I just want to enjoy the journey of creating wherever it may lead me. "

Visit his Website: brucepileggi.com

Inquiries and Purchases:  bpileggi@hvc.rr.com

HOURS:  By appointment except for the studio tour

Michelle Rhodes has studied ceramics at the Boston Museum School and the Brooklyn Museum School, Haystack Crafts School, Penland Crafts School, Greenwich House Pottery and the Banff Center for the Arts. In 1978-79 Michelle was apprenticed in Japan studying wood-firing and traditional methods of pottery-making with the renowned Fujiwara family of Bizen, and with then emerging master Shige Morioka of Amano near Osaka. She has also studied Tea Ceremony. Her Tea utensils, including various bowls, water jars, and other containers have been used by the Urasenke Tea Ceremony Society schools in Kyoto and New York City.

Michelle Rhodes first had a studio in NYC's SOHO from 1969 to 1971. She came north to Gardiner in 1971 to create a larger studio where she could build kilns, make pots and teach. Michelle's work can be purchased through her online store as well as at her Gardiner showroom, which is open by appointment year-round.

Michelle continues to share her love of clay with others through teaching and art therapy. As an art therapist/expressive psychotherapist she practices an approach to therapy based in both studio work and inner process. Her faith in universal creative potential is at the core of her work with people of all ages and abilities. In addition to working individually with students and those seeking art-based psychotherapy, she leads a women's clay group called Dreamfigures in her Gardiner Studio.

Website: Michellerhodespottery.com

Contact info:  email deepclay@mac.com

Phone (land line) 845-255-8039

All works pictured are Ceramics: Wood-fired Stoneware

Ron Schaefer was born in New York City and currently resides in the Hudson Valley of New York State. He studied painting with David Lax, St. Julian Fishburne and learned frame making under the tutelage of the late Robert Kulicke.

He worked for over forty years as an Oil Painting Conservator serving museums, galleries and private collections. Prior to conservation training, Ron worked in the engineering field.  

Utilizing an1830’s one room school house as a studio, Ron paints with a propensity for vernacular styles of architecture, industrial subjects, landscapes and still life.

Representation has included art galleries in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and New York City. He has had many gallery shows and three " one man " museum exhibitions beginning with the Museum of the Hudson Highlands , Cornwall , NY  the Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, PA and the Roberson Museum, Binghamton, NY. 

His work is included in numerous corporate and private collections including United States Steel Corp., AK Steel Corp., Weirton Steel Corp, Allegheny General Hospital , Federated Investment Corp. Frisk and Borodin Art Appraisers and many others.

View Website:
ronschaeferpaintings.com

Inquiries and Purchases:
http://www.ronschaeferpaintings.com/contact.html

Hours:
Friday, Saturday & Sunday: 12:00PM - 8:00PM
Also By Appointment

Artist Statement

Jean Tansey is an artist who has worked in a variety of mediums, her choices driven by the purpose of the project which she is currently engaged in, through Jean is primarily a painter. In her Snap Shot series she addresses topics which are part of the national discourse. Jean can be found creating live art paintings in public venues, such as this piece titled "Witness". In this life size painting the young woman is using her phone to record an event in order to document what actually happened as opposed to what was reported to have occurred.

View her Website:
http://jeantansey.com

Inquiries and Purchases:

845.255.4385

Hours:
By Appointment Only

I've been inspired by living in the Hudson Valley for many years. My photos  reflect my varied interests, responses and moods. 

Inquiries and purchases:

gregoryt18@gmail.com

Hours:
By Appointment Only

John A. Varriano has been a respected representational and accomplished portrait artist for over 20 years. As an artist and instructor, John focuses on how to observe nature and effectively translate the language of light into the language of paint .  Exhibiting extensively in juried shows and galleries throughout the country, John has won various awards for his oil paintings, including the 2016 American Artists Professional League ‘Alden Bryan Memorial Award for Traditional Landscape’, the 2015 Allied Artists of America ‘Florence and Ernest Thorne Memorial Award’ for Portraiture, Best in Show at the UCJF’s 14th Annual Fall for Art Show in Kingston in 2010, the Sanford Grumbacher Gold Medal, the Alfred and Mary Crimi Award, and the Guilia Palermo Award at the Audubon Artists Exhibits.  In 2011, John was awarded ‘Best in Show’ at the National Art League’s Annual Exhibit in New York and First Place at Gardiner Plein Air Show in June.  In August 2012, John was one of 20 artists chosen out of thousands to participate in the International Fine Art Exhibition at Agora Galley in Chelsea.  

 John served on the Board of Directors of the Art Students League for several years and was its President in 2005 and 2006.  John is a member of the Allied Artists of America, the Audubon Artists Society, the Artists’ Fellowship, and he currently sits on the Board of the Hudson Valley Artists Association.  He is a founding member of the Gardiner Artists Open Studio Tour.  John teaches figure drawing at the Art Students League of NYC, and portrait painting and drawing at the Art Center of Northern New Jersey. He conducts landscape painting workshops in New York and New Jersey.  John’s portrait commissions are In numerous private and public collections.

View his Workshops:
Click Here

Inquiries and Purchases:
johnvarriano@yahoo.com

Hours:
By Appointment Only

At over 3,000 square feet, the DM Weil Gallery may be the largest modern art gallery in New York’s Hudson Valley.  Just a short drive from the center of picturesque New Paltz, the DM Weil Gallery offers the look and vibe of an exclusive Soho style exhibition space, but with the majestic Shawangunk mountains as a backdrop.

While the art on the walls — the eye-popping abstract creations of acclaimed painter DM Weil — has been praised by critics and collectors alike, the gallery’s mission statement remains, “Why Can’t Fine Art Be Fun?”.

Our goal, therefore, is to provide a total entertainment experience, to stimulate all of your senses, and to help you have as much fun as possible during your visit.

Best of all, ADMISSION IS ALWAYS FREE!

Visitors to the DM Weil Gallery are rewarded not only with walls exploding with colorful contemporary paintings, but also with complimentary wine, espresso and other goodies. The gallery even boasts a carefully restored 1911 Grotrian Steinweg grand piano, which provides the basis for many of our free mini-concerts.

You will have the opportunity to spend time with the artist herself, DM Weil, and to learn the story behind each painting.

View Website:
http://dmweilgallery.com

Inquiries and Purchases:
http://dmweilgallery.com/contact/

Hours:
Fri-Sun: 10AM-6PM