I love the deep windowsills at the Hopewell Train Station and the north light that pours through them.  Train station artists and I set up several still life scenes in these windowsills. During these sessions trains would zoom by.   I never captured the train, but I included a silvery track in the background of each painting.

  Heather Barros holds classes for children, teens and adults at her school, Art Collaborations, in Princeton.

http://www.artcollaborations.net

Creating and appreciating art has played a significant role in my life since I was very young. I work in both oil and watercolor and have recently been focusing on small oil still lifes where color, light and economy of big strokes are used to compose my paintings. Composing mostly 10 x10 still lifes and creating pleasing colors in the correct value and temperature, and placing them on the canvas in a single stroke is the challenge Julie faces with each one of her paintings. It is this challenge that intrigues her and inspires her to solve it. I also paint more traditional watercolors, focusing on florals and plein air. Making art takes me to another world where my thoughts are completely focused on observing and painting from life.

mailto:juliecavallaro7@gmail.com

BIO

Ilene Dube is a writer, artist and filmmaker. Her short stories have been published in more than a dozen literary journals. Her non-fiction appears at Huffington Post, WHYY/Philadelphia Public Media, Hyperallergic, Princeton Magazine, U.S. 1 and many others. 

As an artist she won a Mercer County Purchase Award in 2014. Her artwork has been exhibited at Grounds For Sculpture, Monmouth Museum, the Gallery at Mercer County Community College, Ellarslie Open, Arts Council of Princeton, ArtJam, West Windsor Arts Council, Plainsboro Public Library, Dangerous Women, Art All Night  and more. Her short documentary about generations of artists in Roosevelt, N.J. screened at the New Jersey International Film Festival and other venues, and she is nearing completion on a documentary about Trenton’s Cadwalader Park. 

STATEMENT

In these trying times, I find myself thinking more about utopias and other imaginary places with gently rolling hills, pink and purple skies, sheep dotting the hillside, and tangerine moons. Worlds in which the owls' song dominates the night, air is scented with lavender and jasmine and ylangylang, and everywhere there is color and pattern. 

Painting with the Artists at the Station is a utopia.

After having worked in a wonderful career as an elementary art teacher for 30 years, I am now able to enjoy playing in my three favorite art mediums ... basketry, pottery and oil painting.  Come visit my studio to enjoy them with me on the Tour Des Arts.

 Lynn

lynnebeling@comcast.net

I am inspired by Nature, human nature, myth and dreamtime. I view art as a language available for all to discover, express and reveal ourselves. Talent and skill isn't the real measure of an artist, but Truth, Commitment, and Passion. Emotion and experience flow into a creative practice when we get fear out of the way. We are all capable of creativity when we trust ourselves and stop judging our process.

Behind the Curtain

An experiential show of ‘theatre-on-paper.’ Of art made from the alchemy of the sun, the body of a man and the fabric of a house by the sea. Paired with poetry that speaks to, converses with the imagery. 

Show times are 12:30 and 3:00, each approximately one hour.

Changing shadow-plays, from the heroic to the erotic, the playful to the sensual and soulful; mysterious, lyrical. Full of (water)colorful characters.

The stagecrafted show opened in New York (Spring 2018); appearing since in Brooklyn, Washington, D.C. and Park City, Utah; soon to begin touring cross-country.

Colin Goedecke, aka The Floating Poet, is a multiversed artist~storyteller in visual, written & spoken poetry. Including commissioned poetorials for leading events like the 2018 Winter Olympics and the 2017 America's Cup.

www.thepoetorialist.com 

www.pleinairpoetry.com

http://www.instagram.com/colingoedecke/

My woodworking focuses on utilitarian pieces, for example boxes, bowls, and peppermills. I like the idea that a user will not just admire a piece, but use it daily in their lives. A piece being used daily is always in the user's consciousness, whether by sight or by touch. I put the highest priority on purity of form. My work is meant to be simple but expressive, to work well, and last forever

https://www.sourlandwoodcraft.com

Beth’s organic and contemporary designs join natural textures to the irregularities and asymmetries that animate the world of nature. She is also drawn to colorful and unusual stones which she turns into limited production and one-of-a-kind pieces by melding traditional and nontraditional materials.

Beth creates her jewelry with traditional metalsmithing methods that include sawing, soldering, fusing, forging, wax carving and casting. When needed, she also employs various stone setting techniques. Surface treatment, such as sandblasting, brushed or high polish, is the final element that adds dimension and contrast to her work.

Beth has a BFA in Metals, cum laude, from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, PA. Continuing her studies in design at The Fashion Institute of Technology, NY. She is a Graduate Gemologist, Gemological Institute of America CA. She specialized in custom design in the retail area for many years.  Most recently has taken courses on enameling at Newark Museum and Peters Valley, NJ.

www.bethannjudge.com

Shirley Kern is an abstract painter residing in Princeton, New Jersey who creates works in her nearby studio at Highland Design Farm in Hopewell, New Jersey. She received her Master of Fine Arts Degree from Northern Vermont University.
Kern has exhibited her work in universities, museums and galleries on the East Coast and the Mid-West. She is represented by the Muse Gallery in Philadelphia.

“I am interested in creating an art work that is alive with emotional interest but has no fixed meaning open to interpretation by all similar to works of music and poetry."

shirleykernstudio.com

Contemporary poetic landscape constructions in two and three dimensions by Joy Kreves featuring modern nature-inspired imagery expressed in ceramics, mixed media, painting, poetry and assemblage.

www.joykreves.com

https://www.facebook.com/JoyKrevesArtStudio

https://www.facebook.com/CravingNatureTheFeastProject

My art is like a house with many rooms. There are places for drawing, painting, sculpture, and printmaking. I like to feel I can visit these rooms freely as necessity or whim dictates.I work with representation and abstraction. This tendency toward inclusiveness invites an eclectic mix.Sheep graze in one area backed by a flotilla of wall hung wood kayak shapes. From these forms emerge wiggling wires topped with colorful ovals, which have a tendency to bounce in the breeze.
My newest work asks the question, what would happen if a book was unbound and set free to flow down the wall like a cataract?

Come and see.

Susan Macqueen

https://susanmacqueen.weebly.com/store/c1/Featured_Products.html

Elegant design, refined thought thru innovation.

Head of a creative think tank with Benetton for 9 years. "I think in pencil and paper where I am free to discover. I never wanted to specialize I learn so much from the diversity of my projects. I have created sneakers to Aircraft carrier control systems, museum instalations to furniture. I work in Wood, metal, plastic, glass 3D or pencil.”

Founder of the Hopewel tour Des Arts. He maintains an artist colony of sculpture’s painters, photographers, musicians and film makers.

Helene is an emerging artist. Inspired by fresh air and the ever-changing views and energizing sensations of the outdoors, Helene has fallen for the total immersion and intense pleasure of layering texture, light and color onto a canvas. As a business coach and strategic planning facilitator, Helene helps to combine the art of possibility with focused action to engage and align leaders towards meaningful goals.

www.helenemazurart.com

Charles McCollough has been sculpting for 40 years while pursuing his vocation as minister, activist, author, and teacher. He works in ceramic, bronze, wood, and stone and frequently lectures on art, theology, and social justice issues. He is the author of eight books and has served as Artist in Residence at five seminaries. He says, “The joy of creativity requires more than words to express the mysterious depths of joy and sorrow in human experience.” 

Frances Melvin, of Hopewell, NJ, was born and raised in NYC.  She attended LaGuardia H.S. of Music and the Arts, Hampshire College (BA, Studio Art), and School of Visual Arts (MFA) in NYC. Melvin taught art for several years, pursued a career in multi-media design, and then returned to painting meditative landscapes. “A work of art can bring stillness to a space; through meditation, I discover the art that calls to me to be revealed.

http://francesmelvin.com

Greg Merkle is a guitar virtuoso who performs his own 
remarkable compositions. His dizzying finger-tapping style is 
intricately technical yet intrinsically beautiful. Greg enjoys a cult-like 
following in his native New Jersey, and has also opened for 
musicians like Taj Mahal, John Hammond Jr., Iris Dement and 
Johnny Cash.

https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/gregmerkle

My focus on the automobile, landscape, and nostalgia subject matter evolved naturally - it is has been my life-long passion for cars, the outdoors and reverence for the past that drives my creativity.  It all began while attending antique car shows as a young boy in my Dad’s Model B pickup and spending summers on Cape Cod.

After graduating from the Paier College of Art my career in Illustration began as a sketch artist in New York City, after which I decided to go free lance.  In spring of 2004 I completed a BFA in painting, and art history minor from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of The Arts.  I have been published and exhibited with The Society of Illustrators in New York, and my illustrations and paintings hang in corporate collections and the galleries of private collectors throughout the United States and Europe.  I have also been the featured artist at the Ferrari-Maserati Racing Days at Lime Rock Park in 2004, the 2000 Castle Hill Concours d’Elegance, and Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix for 1998 and 1999.

http://montanaristudio.com

As an architect, the pursuit of balance and meaning led me to the oldest form of representational art: stone carving. Representing a state of permanence in an ever changing world, stone is the canvas used to tell a story to engage and resonate with the viewer. Iconography, symbiology, abstraction and meaning inform my artistic expression, which is literally “carved in stone”. I strive to invite interaction and reflection, offering an experiential journey of discovery and learning.

http://karmicstone.houzz.com

He changed the landscape of photography.

 ~ Thomas Donnelly, President of American Society Of Media Photographers. 

A quarter-century as a still-life photographer. Whose teachers and mentors were Peter Bunnell, Lisette Model, Philippe Halsman and George Tice.  He taught digital photography and printing along with Graham Nash, at Kodak’s Center for Creative Imaging in Camden, Maine.

Photo District News crowned him “The Sun King.” 

“Grant Peterson, shooting for Brides Magazine in his studio near Broome Street and Broadway, turned his 4X5 view camera toward the burning tower,” wrote Garrison Keillor in The New York Times Book Review. Paul Goldberger called the images “epic.”  The work was shown in 2002 at the Sky Scraper museum show “W.T.C.”at the New York Historical Society. They are largest film shot of that day printed in a series of four 5 X 10 foot prints.

 “There are two chapters in still-life photography,” Thomas Donnelly said: “before and after Grant Peterson.” “He’s just stating the obvious,” commented noted photographer Greg Heisler. 

There is so much beauty in this world.

I am fascinated by colors and patterns...I find them everywhere and take pictures of them. These might be things that you walk by every day. My hope is to bring a sense of quietness into our busy lives.  Contact me regarding prints or other ways that we can work together.

www.cydperske-photography.com

I often go to Cape Cod where my partner, Bob Cary, and I have a second home.  For me, it is a place for reflection and replenishment.  On exhibit here are the waters and marshes, the beaches, flats and clam beds of Cape Cod, and a few images of the Jesey shore and the Maine coastline as well.  
        Also on display are portraits of flowers--a blossom filling the entire canvas, a segment as might be seen by an insect lighting on a petal, a bouquet that someone has lovingly picked, or others blooming freely in the sunlight as did those in my mother's garden as I was growing up.  She loved roses, especially the Peace Rose, and every now and then I find I just have to paint a rose.
       More than representations of seascapes or flowers, however, I feel my subject matter is mood translated by light and color.  I welcome you to step into my world and see it through my eyes --- through my spirit.

                                                       ~~~Jan.

www.janpurcellart.com­­

Artist Armando Sosa’s hand-woven, brilliantly colored tapestries and other textiles present themes and images of Guatemala, where he grew up. In them, he employs symbols and images derived from dreams and memories of traditional icons and figures, both religious and secular – some dating back to his native Mayan or pre-Columbian heritage, others to actual memories of a Central American childhood. Additional visual influences incorporated into his designs include African textiles, European Jacquard patterns and Renaissance tapestry details.
Armando Sosa was born in rural Salcaja, in the Guatemalan Highlands, in 1953. His father was a weaver, and, as a young boy, he was given the task of guarding newly dyed threads drying on the grass of the riverbank. His task was to protect the threads from being trampled by cows! At the age of eight, he began spinning and dyeing thread. At fifteen, he was apprenticed to an uncle, and began weaving shawls and other items of clothing on a simple 4-harness loom. At sixteen, he moved to Guatemala City where he first worked with a compound-harness loom.

https://www.armandososaweaver.com

 Simply being in nature, I find inspiration and energy while working abstractly or representationally—the style and materials depending upon the voice I wish to express. Often I don’t know how I will respond until I begin the process of creating. What if this? What if that? What if I glue anti-pipeline newspaper articles to canvas or paper and then develop the work from there? What if I apply rice paper, dirt, acrylic paint and acrylic medium to my work and develop this? What if I use as subject matter my husband’s nature-worn, wood and stone assemblages that grace our property? Risk-taking, reflection, development, and surprise are aspects of my process and keep me highly engaged.  Along with the natural world, the magic of creativity is my guide.

www.AurellePurdySprout.com

I've always been a wood guy. I've been building things since I was a kid, became an apprentice to a cabinetmaker when I was 16 and have spent 50 years as a professional carpenter and fine woodworker. I started turning wood on the lathe back in 1978, when I hollowed out some rustic dried weed pots. It was a humble beginning, but my passion grew and by 1986, I was president of the Bucks Turners, a chapter of the American Association of Woodturners, in Bucks County, Pa. and later a founding member of the New Jersey Woodturners. Currently, my work has evolved to include attached pedestals made of found metal, which lifts the trays and platters for better display.
The joy for me in turning is seeing the potential in a piece of wood and, with a lot of delicate care and shaping, creating a touchable object of beauty and function.

Pressed flora and fauna collages
I make botanical collages of petals, leaves, stems, pods and the occasional insect wing and feather. Nature has created the shapes and colors, I'm just doing some flat flower arranging! The composition is not planned ahead, although I think it is like a jigsaw puzzle. I select, then lay down the biggest pieces, build a bit of the outer edges, then find more pieces that nestle into each other. Then, at the end, I add little whimsical flourishes like tendrils, or teenie flowers to fill in the empty spots. 
Note: The butterflies that I use are farmed or collected by indigenous people. The marketing of these and other renewable rainforest resources plays an important role in halting the rapid destruction of the tropical rainforest by providing economic incentives to preserve those forest habitats. The more we love and appreciate these things, the more we want to preserve them.

Please don’t call them HATS….

 They’re Fastenators:  my riff on the fantastic hairpieces popularized by British Royals. 

 More precisely, they’re FASTENATURALS : unique works of wearable art, fashioned of organic materials . . .  Bark and berries; mosses and mushrooms; feathers and fronds; grasses, reeds, seeds, pods, lichens, leaves, twigs, vines.  Mostly gathered on Van Dyke Farm in the Sourlands, although I’m always looking for natural prizes to add flourish, like Japanese fantailed pussy willows, or bumblebees and birds who have conveniently giving up the ghost in plain sight…offering their lovely bodies for art’s sake!

 I’ve plucked delicate tree-moss on remote islands in Maine; exotic ball-bromeliads in Texas; and smuggled vines, moss, and leaves from the deep south, all to create this bespoke millinery for extraordinary occasions.  

 Call them silly or frivolous… but please don’t call them HATS! 

mailto:elvickers2@gmail.com

Ivia Sky Yavelow

Artist Bio

Yavelow is a mixed media artist currently based in Lambertville, NJ. She has

shown throughout NJ, PA, and NY since 2010, and received a BA from Bard

College in 2014. Yavelow has also studied at the New York Studio School. She

was awarded a Visual Artist Fellowship from the Edward F. Albee Foundation in

2015. Her work centers on conceptual and process based drawings, sculptures,

and installations that explore creation, destruction, context, process, and form,

with inspiration from astro-physics and metaphysics.