George Anderson
To find out more about George Anderson visit his website at www.RockportArtist.com

Artspace

Oliver Balf
Ollie Balf is a Founding Faculty and Professor Emeritus of Montserrat College of Art. He is a retired consulting designer; his clients included Parker Brothers and Educators Publishing Service. Ollie received his BFA at Temple University and has studied at the Art Students League and New School for Social Research in New York City and with Hans Hoffman. Awards include: Rockport Art Association, young Artist's Prize, Carl Butman (Best Watercolor), Ann Fisk Award and an Honorary Doctorate, Montserrat College of Art. Ollie has shown extensively throughout the region including the Rockport Art Association, Botolph Gallery, Wenniger Gallery and Rotenberg Gallery.

Mayor John Bell

Bonnie Bishoff & J.M. Syron
We have been collaborating in the design and making of furniture since 1987. We strive to create objects that continue to reveal their beauty overtime with patterns that engage the eye, forms that are sensual and color that harmonizes throughout. We believe that people have a strong resonance with the basic elements of design found in nature and we try to reflect those lines and patterns in our furniture.

Although our primary mediums are wood, polymer clay and fabric, the forms and surface designs that can be created by combining these mediums have been the main focus of our work. The patterns seen in many of the polymer clay veneers, tiles and vessels are created from the repetition of slices of cross section design. Because repetition plays such a large part in the design element of our polymer clay surfaces, fractal geometry, like that found in things like shells, plant forms and even cells have been an inspiration for us. Bys using techniques from other mediums with the polymer clay such as mokume gane from metal working or millefiori-like canes from glass, we have been able to create surface patterns with the depth and complexity of highly figured wood. We have been intrigued by the effect when the polymer clay elements are seen in conjunction with wooden elements in a piece of furniture.

The unusual combinations of mediums creates many challenges and surprises for us. Polymer clays are commonly not used on such a large scale, but we have found that can be used like wood veneers, lightweight sculpted elements and also as light-filled vessels. We have been so taken by this combination of materials that some of our inspiration has come from the desire to push this mix of media to new limits.

John Caggiano
John Caggiano was born in Brooklyn, New York, where he studied pre-engineering at Brooklyn Technical High School. He received a BA degree from Brooklyn College and an MFA from Pratt Institute, both with honors. His education was supplemented by courses at The Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Studio and Forum of Stage Design in New York.

He relocated to Rockport, Massachusetts in 1980, drawn to the physical beauty and unique quality of Cape Ann's light. He travels extensively, both here and abroad, painting on location. This plein aire approach enables him to capture the essence of the time and place that he interprets into his bright and colorful "Impressionistic-realism" style. The work is further enhanced by his daring use of a palette knife, keeping brushwork to a minimum. "Painting for me is the bold and dynamic use of color that infuses life into the subject of the painting."

An artist member of many organizations, Caggiano has served as President of the Rockport Art Association, and has been a member of its Board of Governors since 1990. Both he and his award-winning paintings have made appearances on nationwide television. His art has also been featured in and graced the covers of numerous books, magazines and newspapers. He is represented worldwide in many private and corporate collections and galleries across the country.

John Caggiano has maintained a gallery on Main Street and a studio on Bearskin Neck in Rockport for the last Twenty-four years. In late summer of 2004, a branch of the John Caggiano Gallery will be making its debut in Newport, Rhode Island.

John Caggiano Gallery
66 Bearskin Neck- 4 Main Street
Rockport, Ma 01966
978-546-2414 or 6222
Email: JCaggianoGallery@aol.com

Kathy Connolly
Kathy Connolly's vibrant portraits in pastel and oil can be found in many North Shore homes. Painting from life and reference photographs, she specializes in finding the spirit of her subject and drawing it out.

A painter and a printmaker, Connolly is best described as a colorist. Current themes for her painting and monotypes are inspired by nature's own canvas: sea life, landscapes, and flowers.

Connolly works and exhibits her work at Beach Street Studios in Manchester, Massachusetts, as well as in group shows throughout the region through her associations with the New England Monotype Guild and the Cambridge Art Association.
www.BeachStreetStudios.com

Charles Crowley and Claire Sanford
Charles Crowley and Claire Sanford live and work together in a former nun's retreat in West Gloucester. Both work in metal and are partners in Top Dog Studio. Charlie's work ranges from architectural ironwork to sterling teapots to carefully rendered 18k gold and steel jewelry. He has recently been exploring the use of Cape Ann granite with steel. Claire's work ranges from jewelry in various materials to patinated copper sculpture. Her recent work involves a production line of jewelry designed by their children, Zander and Maddie, titled Aminal Bug.

Both attended Boston University's Program in Artisanry, have received numerous awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts grant and several grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. They both teach part time and exhibit their work nationally. Locally their work can be found at Side Street Jewelry in Rocky Neck.
www.TopDogStudio.com

Jillian Demeri
To find out more about Jillian Demeri visit her website at www.JillDemeri.com

Bob English

Dennis Flavin

Paul George
To find out more about Paul George visit his website at www.PGeorge.com

Gloucester High School Students:

Paul Cary Goldberg & Susan Erony
Paul Cary Goldberg:
Paul Cary Goldberg has been a photographer since the early 1970"s. His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Boston Public Library, Mellon Bank, Fidelity Investments and many private collectors. In a The New York Times review, Helen A. Harrison wrote that Goldberg's still life photographs of "Ripe fruit, flowers, seed pods and vessels that seem suspended in moments of maximum equilibrium...are flat out gorgeous." He is currently represented by Pucker Gallery on Newbury Street, Boston.

Some of his solo exhibitions include: Boston University, Boston, MA; Giraffics Gallery, East Hampton, Long Island; School House Gallery, Provincetown, MA; The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA; Southern Light Gallery, Amarillo, TX; and in March 2005, the Cape Ann Historical Museum in Gloucester, MA.

Mailing Address: 17R Hale Street Rockport, MA 01966 978-546-7270 pcginc.javanet@rcn.com
Studio: 105 Maplewood Avenue Gloucester, MA 01930

Christopher Gurshin
To find out more about Christopher Gurshin visit his website at www.ChristopherGurshin.com.

Pam Hawkes
Pamela Ellis Hawkes is a self-taught artist living in Rockport. Her work was recently featured at the Danforth Art Museumâ™s 2003 New England Photographers exhibit and at her fourth one-person show in May 2003 at the Pepper Gallery in Boston. This October, she was selected for a Golden Light Award from the Maine Photographic Workshops. Her photographs have been published in Lenswork, Camera & Darkroom and Photography Quarterly among others.

Her work is in the collections of :
* The Addison Gallery of American Art
* Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
* Boston Public Library
* Fidelity Investments
* Polaroid Collection

And other public and private collections. Hawkes is represented by the Pepper Gallery, 38 Newbury Street, Boston.

Mary Hughes & Caro-Gray Bosca
We use the finest quality of unusual stones and metals, handcrafting each piece. With insights gained through blacksmithing and classic training in jewelry-making, we produce bold and energetic pieces. Our passionate interests in gardening, architecture, color and texture emerge naturally, infusing each piece with character and intimacy. Ancient yet contemporary, our jewelry embodies an aesthetic of timeless appeal.

Sharon Lake

Don & Christine Mosher

Robin Paine
To find our more about Robin Paine visit her website at www.RobinPaine.com

Hans Pundt
Images, textures, conflict and harmony are all represented in my work. From my perspective true art comes without restriction from the soul as an expression of the creative spirit. My goal is to evoke a certain emotion within the viewer and engage contemplation of the image. Images or objects which are static unto themselves become a feeling or sensation when combined in a piece. That sense of tension, bewilderment or curiosity is what I strive to draw the viewer to experience.

I have been employed as a horticulturist on an estate in Manchester, MA for most of my adult life. Through my experiences I have come to understand the rhythm of nature first hand. Being a keen observer of the world around me I witness the patterns, colors, interplay and drama that nature provides our senses. I am intrigued with man's creations and hoe the elements of weather and time have tempered objects thrown away and then found. I am inspired constantly by quirky bits and pieces, edgy concepts and ideas that flow in and around my consciousness. They come into my world as gifts and I feel joy in offering them through my work.

I have been creating collage and mixed media for years. My work has been shown at:

Local Colors - Gloucester, MA
Oasis Gallery - Gloucester, MA
Magnolia Art Show - Magnolia, MA
Riverside Gallery - Ipswich, MA
Sovereign Bank solo show - Manchester, MA
Boston Flower Show - Boston, MA

Hans Pundt
181 Summer Street
Manchester, MA 01944

Lynne Sausele
Lynne Sausele was born in New York City, graduated from the Boston Museum School and Tufts University and has since that time lived and worked on the North Shore of Massachusetts. Her early career included teaching art, advertising design, as well as sign design and painting. For many years she painted the names on yachts and fishing boats from Marblehead to Gloucester. Besides freelance work, Lynne has always continued her painting and printmaking. She has enjoyed a successful career as a painter and enjoys painting in both abstract and realist styles.

For the past 14 years Lynne has focused primarily on her own jewelry line that she currently designs and produces out of her Blackburn building studio in downtown Gloucester. There she works on the production of her jewelry and her paintings. Last year, Lynne along with Kate Nordstrom directed the Oasis Gallery on Main Street. She continues to show her fine art wok through her artist reps and galleries. Her fine art work is in numerous private and corporate collections,

If you are interested in seeing more of Lynne's work, paintings or jewelry, her studio is open by appointment.
Phone: 978-317-5424

Kathleen Speranza
Kathleen Speranza received her BFA from Boston University and her MFA from Yale University. She taught for 15 years at the Montserrat College of Art where she was an associate professor in the Painting Department. Kathy's work deals with the physical and emotional qualities of space and form in nature and the evocative power of light. Her work is included in several private and public collections, including Ralph Lauren Company, Meditech Corporation and Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology.
www.GardnerColbyGallery.com

Marilyn Swift
MARILYN SWIFT is known locally and nationally as a watercolor painter. In addition, her pen and ink drawings illustrate "The Taste of Gloucester, A Fisherman's Wife Cooks" as well as "Culinary Motifs of Rockport". Her watercolors are published in "The Best of Watercolor, Vol. 3", "Watercolor Expressions", and "Monhegan, the Artist's Island". Marilyn is an exhibiting artist member of the local North Shore and Rockport Art Associations as well as the New England Watercolor Society, and the Copley Society of Boston,
among others. She has resided in East Gloucester since 1974 and welcomes visitors to her studio and gallery at 20 rear Highland Street.
www.MarilynSwiftStudio.com

Paul Swigart & Aaron Weissblum
Paul Swigart:
Paul was born 1956 in Illinois, and educated at Mass College of Art.

Paul has been a studio artist all his life. Early in his career he concentrated on sculptural ceramics. He spent many years as a fine woodworker and now concentrates on making paintings.

Paul has maintained a studio in Gloucester since 1981, and has worked out of his current East Gloucester studio since 1987.
For ten years Paul was a principal in the art collaborative called Charba, creating installations, custom pieces and a constant stream of paintings and sculptures.

Charba morphed into Charbanova, and Paul is the sole remaining full time maestro. He still collaborates from time to time with former partners.

Paul's current media of choice include painting and digital imagery.

John Terelak
To find out more about John Terelak visit his website at www.greenhousegallery.com

Juni Van Dyke & The Rose Baker Senior Center

Peter Vincent
To find out more about Peter Vincent visit his website at www.PeterFVincent.com.

Jeff Weaver
Jeff Weaver has painted in and around Gloucester since his first year as a student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. For over 30 years he has studied the way light defines the unique landscape, architecture, and life of Cape Ann, and has sought to render it in various mediums. Whether in oil, watercolor, or printmaking, Jeff understands that good draftsmanship is the foundation of his artistic expression. He has painted also many large wall murals, which has helped develop his sense of graphic design. He is a member of the North Shore Arts Association, and his work has been shown in numerous galleries.
Phone: 978-281-9623
Email:jweaverart@hotmail.com.

Brenda Wiberg
My current occupation is a combination of healing work as Polarity Therapist, and working with several different media in the visual arts. As an artist, I primarily do portraits depicting pet animals in pastel. I also explore personal, spiritually symbolic, and healing themes in pastel, and have further branched out to working along these lines in clay to create "spirit masks".

The masks represent different aspects of nature and the human psyche; they are intended to be inspirational talismans. I work intuitively as I create each individual mask, incorporating color, a wide range of found objects, and a love of primitive, tribal style.

Having chosen the path of a healer, as a Polarity Therapist, I find that this is now also the primary focus of my creative work, and that it's all connected.

I am currently available for portrait and commission work at"
The Wiberg Gallery
90 South Street
Rockport, MA 01966

Or for Polarity Therapy at:

The 222 Arts & Wellness Center, 222 Eastern Ave. Gloucester, MA

Margaret Wiberg
I paint using various combinations of water media (acrylic, acrylic-gouache, watercolor, ink). My work is usually focused on two elements - color and line. I'm most always aiming for bold and vigorous effects with the gesture of energized line and color interactions. I like to achieve a sense of otherworldliness, and to inspire the awareness of magical power and beauty in the world around us and within us.

Some of my paintings are meant to be symbols that depict aspects of transformation and cycles of change; other pieces re directly about my own moods, dreams, color obsessions, significant events, nostalgic whims, latest observations.

In my recent animal paintings and murals, I aim to show the inspiration available to humans by observing the traits of particular animals. These portraits also honor their appearance in my dreams and daily life.

My ongoing challenge and adventure is striking a balance between commission work on walls and furniture, painting in my studio, and making jewelry.

Eye Surrender Art & Design
90 South Street
Rockport, MA 01966

Chris Williams