Members Show 2026

Arthur Alpert, Photograph. My photography is a reflection of what I see as beauty. The world is full of beautiful things, both natural and man made. I photograph that which is pleasing to my eye.

Cheryl Binder, oil and cold wax. Cheryl Binder has been living in Tolland Massachusetts, with her husband, since 2007. Cheryl has a BFA in Fine Arts from S.U.N.Y, Stonybrook, a Masters in Art Education from S.U.N.Y New Paltz in Art Education and she taught Elementary Art for 33 years in the City of Poughkeepsie, New York State. After moving to The Berkshires, she focused her artistic energy on jewelry making, watercolors and more recently, Cold Wax and Oils, emphasizing inspirations from nature. Cheryl tries to do something creative each day of her life!

Barbara Patton, Ceramic. As a visual arts educator for over 25 years, I was always looking for new ways to approach the art experience. After taking a workshop on alternative firing ceramic techniques, I was hooked. I find it both captivating and challenging to perfect this elusive ideal in a finished piece. My work is fired quickly with a rush of flame, smoke and excitement. The fiery chaos of smoke-firing, using natural and chemical materials combined with elements of form and surface, create both fragile yet hardened objects from the earth.

Judith Kamm, Chalk Pastel. Painting is Kamm's second career and challenges her to keep learning and trying new subjects, media, and styles. "Scapes," including land-, garden- and sky-, based on photographs she takes with her Iphone, are favorite subjects, often inspired by Berkshire scenes. Chalk pastel, oil, and watercolor are favorite media. Her style is varied, extending from the realism of botanical rendering to pure abstraction. Her art invites escape to beauty and has appeared in many shows. It has been sold and commissioned over the past 15 years.

Scott Strader, Aluminum and stainless. All of my work is fabricated to look as though it was cast.

Lori Bradley, oil on panel. I'm a contemporary painter working in oil, acrylic, charcoal and pastel on canvas and wood panels. I call my style "alternative realism. I'm inspired by traditional realist painters past and present but I also incorporate elements of expressionism, modernism, conceptual art, graphic design and illustration. Most of my paintings are inspired by forms found in the natural world that I use as jumping off points for storytelling. I'm most interested in the ways humans interact with nature: using it as inspiration to create visual mythologies and relational stories.

Jude Kallok, Watercolor. Often painting is an opportunity to express what you struggle to articulate with words. Each of these works reflect moments when memories, amateur philosophy, and yearning all merged in ways I couldn’t have expressed otherwise.

Judy Eddy, Mixed Media Collage. Judy Eddy creates mixed media collage, prints, and fiber art. She draws from the beauty and mystery of nature as well as artifacts of human culture. Her work incorporates elements of photography, printmaking, textile art, and painting. She works intuitively, seeking balance and expression with shapes, colors, and textures.

Sally Baumer, Mixed media, collage. It is typically COLOR for me that begins a new piece. As a collage-artist, a chosen starter - often a scrap - will suggest a palette path. After a (often neutral toned) foundation is begun upon the chosen substrate, and as other pieces are added, I insert through placement of other paper and various mixed-media additions, an invitation toward MOTION. My hope is that as the viewer’s eyes move across the whole, CURIOSITY will lead them to interpret and intuit all that is there for them in that moment. Subsequent views may offer new experiences and insights of color and motion in the relationship among forms within the piece.

Terrence Hanlon, Photography

Larry Frankel, Photography

Julian Craker, watercolor on paper. I have lived here for a decade and the natural beauty of the area still takes my breath away. I try to capture it in watercolor.

Allan Seppa, photography. I started being serious about photography in the late 1960's, when I bought my first 35mm SLR film camera and signed up for the comprehensive correspondence course offered by the former Famous Photographers School of Westport, Connecticut. Soon after moving to the Berkshires in Massachusetts, I joined the venerable Berkshire Museum Camera Club. During the many years that I was a member, I won many awards for my color slides in competitions within the club and ones sponsored by the New England Camera Club Council (NECCC). I attended many of the annual NECCC conferences, gaining addition knowledge and inspiration from their numerous and varied lecture programs. My photographic vision is eclectic and includes landscapes, seashorescapes, cityscapes, still life, and street photography.

John Huffaker, Epoxy Resin

Anna Poirier, Graphite. My work in graphite is inspired by the ordinary and intimate moments in the lives of birds and animals. Admiration and respect for these special beings, combined with the meditative act of drawing, brings me great joy. I love the soft sound of pencil on paper, the slow buildup of layers, the play of light, and the life-like emergence of a creature's eyes. I hope to capture their essence and share it with others, so they too can feel a connection.  I really enjoy rendering shorebirds and wading birds in water, creating ripples and reflections with my pencils. Another favorite is drawing birds on hands. I’ve hand-fed chickadees and others in their mixed flocks. The feeling of tiny bird feet touching down on palm or finger is magical. To watch them blink at close range, tilt their heads, choose their desired seed - or two, if they’re going to cache for later - is bliss.

Robert Watroba, Color photo on metal. Nature photography is one of my favorite genres. These are three examples of my work.

Lear Levin, Archival Inkjet Print. I am a Fine Art Photographer who likes to travel and photograph the places and people that I find most interesting.

Judith Koppel, Ceramic Clay and Glaze. “Surprise yourself” is a mantra that I try to follow. This encourages spontaneity and experimentation.

Lorraine Klagsbrun, Paper collage. Collage allows me great freedom of expression. I love the forgiving nature of it and the possibilities of using mixed media. My latest work are a series of female faces in collage and mixed media, connecting to the timelessness of beauty.

Harriet Pollack, acrylic paint in cool colors. I have been called THE WIZARD OF VASE because I transform existing vases into unique "one of a kind" creations. I select vases that have unusual shapes or textures and add my own colors and surface enhancements. I aim to create beauty on the outside and inside of the vase if the form allows this.

Sara Markel Altman, acrylic on board. Inner Space and Outer Space - Where Memory Meets Abstraction Color, angles, curves have become my alphabet of memory. My paintings are attempts to integrate my life experience - ideas, memories and emotions - with what I see around me.

Carolyn Abrams, oil and cold wax. Drawing from the essence of nature I layer, construct, deconstruct and scratch back into the oils and cold wax medium to discover the beauty beneath and beyond.

Raynor Warner, colored pencil on paper. Due to a terminal lung condition, I am now creating my sculptures with computer-aided cutting machines. The “Hearts and Souls” series consists of more than 100 pieces and groupings reflecting a theme of love through anthropomorphic figures in poses of movement and whimsey. “Dancer” was created as part of “homage to Trisha Brown” inspired by a performance at Jacob’s Pillow years ago.

Abby DuBow, Monoprint. As an artist I deal with relationships. Relationships that I have to the world, community, environment, family, and friends. I also deal with the relationship I have with myself at any given time. My art, whether I’m painting, drawing, printing, or sculpting reflects these relationships. I use my environment and my observations in my work. It is therefore, inevitably, autobiographic. I feel that my art is about life and its contradictions. I look for objects that talk to me and either use them as is, or transform them in my work. For me art is not an end but a constant beginning, a path that continues to lead to new places with doors that have to be opened. It is a process that creates joy, that demands hard work, and can be filled with both frustration as well as satisfaction. I enjoy working with a wide variety of two and three-dimensional materials, which include oils, acrylics, pastels, inks, encaustics and a wide variety of, found objects. I am currently very focused on the spontaneity and variety that monoprinting affords. It allows me to draw, collage, and build up layers in the creation of one of a kind prints.

Wendy Allen, Oil on canvas. My work inspired by the many things I used to take for granted before I became a painter. A moment in time, a screenshot of something beautiful, a poem on canvas. Capturing a feeling or an emotion that is evoked by a visual experience. I hope to provide a pleasant alternative to the hard news thrown at us on a daily basis!

Peter Heller, watercolor. Aged 80, Peter Heller’s artistic roots are deep and rich, beginning with a grandmother who was a watercolorist in the 1920’s and a mother who was a noted sculpturist in her retirement years between 1980-2017. Nurtured in an aesthetic environment, Heller’s artistic inspirations draw on a lifetime of travel in the context of working as a well-known economist and author for the International Monetary Fund. This allowed him to visit almost all the world’s great museums in the United States, Europe, China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Africa and South America, and to collect pottery and art in these diverse worlds. His sensitivity to color was furthered by a lifetime of gardening in Washington DC and the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts. Heller’s watercolor painting career began at age 70 in his retirement years, studying at the famed 92nd Street Y in Manhattan with well-known New York watercolorists and teachers including Bonnie Steinsnyder, Melanie Kozol and Wennie Huang. A lifetime of international travel has provided him with a wealth of imagery to draw upon from such diverse worlds as Iceland, Norway, Argentina, Japan, Bhutan, Maine, Costa Rica, Scotland and Manhattan. Heller is drawn to vivid landscapes, quirky characters and scenes, and sensitive moments with his grandchildren. “My photography has always sought to capture those fleeting moments of light and contrast, as well as rich mixes of color and harmony, and these are the fertile ground for inspiring my watercolor paintings.”

Mark Millstein, drypoint and engraving intaglio print. My prints juxtapose organic forms with the geometry and textures of the industrial world, reflecting my enduring fascination with the relationship between nature and the built environment. Using layers of line, shape, and pattern, I investigate the ways natural and geometric forms echo one another, building and revealing images that are both intricately connected and visually complex. My non-toxic process employs an etching needle and engraving burin on PET plastic plates, printed with soy-based inks.

Susan Colgan, oil on canvas. It is the color in my world and how the light falls, it is the interior, looking across a room, over the kitchen table or the garden, through the windows, that quickens my senses. Sometimes these ingredients might coalesce around a zinnia in a turquoise glass, or a figure reading by a window. I will try my best to capture the moment with a sketch or a photograph to create a painting or a monoprint, or to hold on for a moment to make a cyanotype with the sun. My work is varied, intimate, and what I often say: recognizable.

Roberta Pantal Rhodes, Watercolor. I first started painting watercolors 20 years ago, never having picked up a paintbrush before. Initially, I was concerned because I didn’t know how to draw, but somehow that thought subsided when I saw how the paint flowed so easily on the paper and I became seduced by color. I am mesmerized by the process, always amazed at the finished painting. Roberta’s portfolio is a combination of landscapes, still life and now she is venturing toward abstraction. The Berkshires where I have lived part time for 30 years have captured my imagination. I strive to recreate the landscape that I love.

Carolyn Newberger, Watercolor and pastel. I have lived in the Berkshires for the past twenty years, in a cabin nestled in the woods. The forest has been an endless source of discovery, insight, delight and comfort. Over the years I have frequently entered these nearby woods with watercolor paints and a notebook in my fanny pack and a folding stool on my back. I work in situ, recording in images the hidden treasures that I find. I hope that my paintings convey my sense of rootedness in this mossy, buzzing, messy and majestic world.

Richard Tancrati, Arcrylic

Paula Stern, Bronze Patina Resin. My art is the tangible manifestation of a deeply conscious effort to capture personality, corporal existence, and human vigor with my hands. I shape sculptures of the human form that my mind’s eye sees.

Alvin Ouellet, Oil on Canvas. My paintings, prints, drawings and digital collages result from close observations of light, value, color and form. By exploring the interactions and juxtapositions of the built and natural environments I seek to create imagery that envelops the viewer. I peer into, behind, above, around and through changing scenarios to reveal their exterior and interior life. Utilizing curvilinear perspective I attempt to “take it all in” creating imagery as if I were floating through space to capture the dynamics of time, change, motion and meaning. By painting, printmaking, and digitally collaging cityscapes and landscapes from various vantage points, I intend my works to invite viewers to perceive the built environment as natural manifestations of our ideas about home, shelter, community, collective enterprise and our values about each other. Far from being opposite, the built and natural environments are part of a continuum of life in which a skyscraper is no less a part of nature than a cocoon created by a moth.

Barbara Chasen, Oil on Canvas. I studied at the Arts Students League and I am delighted to be a member of the Berkshire Artists Guild.

Dr Nicholas Rockoff, Metal Sculpture. My art tends toward the eclectic. I work in oil,acrylic, and metal (bronze brazing of steel,copper,brass)

Joan L. Davidson, Oil on canvas. Hip Hop originated in the African American economically depressed South Bronx in New York City in the late seventies. My reference for the expressive gestures and rhythms was a Dorrance Dance Production at Jacobs Pillow, “The Center Will Not Hold”. Using oil paint on canvas, I translated the loud music and moves of the multi-cultural dancers into a visual composition. When the painting began to talk to me, I listened and made revisions. My creative process resulted in a patterned rhythmic image, alive with sound, fast movements and high energy.

Jay Tobin, acrylic on canvas. My abstract work investigates the convergence of sensory observation, memory and the subconscious, translating these fluid states into unified compositions of shape and color. I approach the canvas not as a static surface, but as a living site of ongoing transformation. through a continuous, intuitive process of addition, subtraction, and modification, a single painting evolves over weeks, months, even years. Because my practice is rooted in revision, my pieces remain open to change as long as they reside within my studio environment, embracing the unpredictable nature of an artwork's life cycle.

Troy Sherman, White Stoneware. I am a potter and ceramic artist whose work is informed by the natural world, and most recently the shifting rhythms and subtle forces of the sea. Rooted in functional ceramics, my practice has evolved toward sculptural, organic forms that reflect natural movement, texture, and growth. Each piece is hand-built through an intuitive process that embraces the dialogue between material and maker, allowing the inherent qualities of the clay to guide the final form. Through this approach, my work reflects a sustained connection with nature and the quiet, tactile language of clay.

S.R. Aiken, Oil and Cold Wax on board. Offering a sense of quiet and peace is a significant intention for my work in art. These paintings follow my work in tonalism, which imparts the presence of the artist, and the scene.

Cindy Mathias, Photography. My photography draws inspiration from nature, as I transform the beauty of botanicals into an ethereal expression using light and color. I am a photographer who is driven to capture the abstract in nature and its compositional possibilities.

Kristine Topor, oil on panel inside an antique drawer. Art is in my soul. I like to call myself a Creative Junky. I paint, create with found objects and love working with paper clay. Life inspires me.

Joan Rooks, Reduction woodblock print, ink. During a figure drawing session the model’s pet cat wandered in to pose with them. I imagined that the cat was attempting to hide behind the orchids.

Pat Gilhooly, Photography on matte paper. Simple shapes , silhouettes, geometric intricacies and elegant lines flaunted by nature or created by humans always get my attention. I seek beauty and I confront decay. The spectrum between fascinates. Wandering through beloved forests, cities, and deserts, I travel as a world citizen with eyes open. What stirs my emotions; what evokes a reaction?

Katie Malone-Smith, Assemblage/Collage. My practice spans photography, Polaroid transfers, painting, watercolor, drawing, printmaking, collage, and assemblage. Across these mediums, I am interested in layering of materials, images, color, and time. I work intuitively, combining handmade and found elements to create vibrant, densely composed pieces that feel playful, nostalgic, and visually busy. Color is central to my work. Bright, saturated palettes act as both structure and energy, guiding the viewer through overlapping imagery and textures. I am drawn to ephemera, everyday imagery, and imperfect processes. I like to think I approach my art by allowing chance, experimentation, and material history to shape the final work. Whether working with photographs, paper, or paint, I treat each piece as a site of accumulation and revision, sometimes revisiting a piece years after they are "finished".

Barbara Roth, Clay on Found Bark with Acrylic Paint. Barbara Roth is a mixed media artist creating sculptures from found bark, clay, and acrylic paint as well as ceramic pottery and sculpture. All of her work is created to reflect the natural beauty of her surroundings. As she walks through the woods, her pieces are love letters to the trees, mirroring a sense of calm and connectedness found only in nature.

Michele Ridgeway, acrylic on canvas. Painting landscape through gesture and color, my work is autobiographical in that it explores impressions of light, and a reinterpretation of moments in time. My work tells the story of where I've been and what I've seen. Through acrylic painting and abstraction of line and landscapeI I explore the intersection of dreams and my own spirituality with the visual experience of walking in the woods. Trees tell the story to me; I use trees as an abstract metaphor for faith and dreams. The existence of trees reminds us of the strong grounding of our beings and childhood beliefs, while the change and growth of the trees reminds us of our aspirations and changing natures.

Julie Wosk, Giclee Photographic Print on German Engraving Paper. I am a painter, photographer, museum curator, and author of several books, and I enjoy creating images of both the artificial and the natural world. My photographs frequently depict life-like mannequins, dolls, sculptures, and my mixed-media paintings such as Lady Fortune With Feathers incorporate digital photographic images along with natural materials like peacock feathers, stones, moss, and shells. My books are often about art and technology, and female robots, but my art celebrates the beauty of nature too. My photograph Ammonite Medley reveals my fascination with fossils, a fascination that started long ago when I was a student at Washington University in St. Louis and would go with my geology class on field trips to the Ozarks where there were fossil sea creature dating from the period when that part of the world was under the sea. The photograph depicts an actual specimen of an ammonite along with silk flowers, placed on top of a section of one of my paintings in gold encaustic paint. Not all is ancient: I also enjoy creating images of people ecstatically enjoying themselves, seen in my monotype print Joy in Pink,

Valerie Thomas, Oil on panel. I have always been drawn to the landscape, whether in city or country. I simply love to be outside, and painting what I see. My goal is to catch the feeling of that particular day (through composition and color). I work in oil, pastel, and ink/pencil.

Caryn King, mono print on paper. Since earning my BFA with Honors from Massachusetts College of Art, art has carried me through many creative lives. From clay artist, art teacher, and painter—with frequent returns to each along the way. Throughout this journey, painting has remained my deepest source of fulfillment. I find myself increasingly drawn to what lies beneath the surface, those places where memory, feeling, and experience intersect. Rather than painting what can be photographed, I explore what can only be felt. Through expressive color, intuitive shapes, and layered textures, I seek to create work that speaks to emotion and invites personal interpretation. My paintings are part of an ongoing search for meaning, connection, and a deeper understanding of both art and life.

Iva Kalikow, Stained Glass. I create custom designed stained glass art panels for interior design. My panels are created in the traditional lead technique seen for centuries in churches and cathedrals. Using a wide array of colors and textures, I meticulously hand-cut each individual piece of glass, grind the edges and wrap it in malleable lead strips, then solder the joints and cement the piece to create my original custom designed panels. My recent collection is inspired by the Masters in Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism and Cubism. With glass as my palette, I combine fine art and light to create unique glass art. I have been a glass artist for more than three decades. My glass art pieces grace homes in NYC, Miami, Palm Springs, Los Angeles, Knoxville, West Palm Beach, The Berkshires, Scottsdale

Mary Davidson, Acrylic on canvas. In my work I explore the interplay between colour, form, and pattern, creating a vibrant tapestry that invites viewers into a world of abstraction.

Marilyn Orner, oil on cradled wood panel. Landscape has been my predominant subject matter for years. I work from photos that I take, not in an effort to reproduce the image I have taken, but to infuse the painting with the feeling that captured my interest and made me snap that picture. I am drawn to painting light, shadows, color and often, water.

Hillary Holmes, acrylic and gesso on board. The Hanging Garden is a suite of works exploring immersive and atmospheric approaches to floral painting. The collection draws influence from ancient stone carvings, decorative pattern work, and the late paintings of Claude Monet— particularly his water lilies and wisteria, flowers that appear to float and hang suspended in space. Throughout the collection, florals dissolve into movement, layered color, and expressive brushwork. The influence of Vincent van Gogh can also be felt in the dark punctuation of form and energetic organic mark-making woven throughout the works.

Susan Rostan, oil on canvas. Nature is my inspiration in these abstracted landscapes. The world around me, in Becket / Washington / Middlefield and on the North Shore of Long Island, evokes empathy for color, shape, and movement. And I play.

Olwen Dowling, Intaglio copper etching. “Afternoon Lunch” is a two plate intaglio copper etching . It is a still life work. Olwen works in printmaking , watercolors and oil. Recently her focus has been printmaking in many different forms . Olwen O’Herlihy Dowling was born in Dublin, Ireland and emigrated with her family to the United States. She grew up in Malibu, California and Dublin, Ireland. Her primary inspirations in art are Richard Diebenkorn, Turner, Homer, and Joaquin Sorolla. Olwen paints images in oil and watercolor of the West of Ireland, as well as North Chester, where she lives in the Berkshire mountains. She is also a printmaker in intaglio, drypoint/monotype, and is a member of the Zea Mays Printmaking Studio and the Monotype Guild of New England. Olwen has been a member of the National Association of Women Artists and is currently a member of the California Society of Printmakers, The Boston Printmakers, and the Hilltown Arts Alliance.

Kathy Garren, Pencil on Watercolor Paper. I love to do whimsical art that can be amusing or peculiar, depending on the eye of the beholder.

Michael Coyne, Oil. This painting, "The Aria", is meant to evoke and celebrate the joy and beauty of both dance and music.

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