Featured Artist: Judith Hand

Now You See It, watercolor
Watercolor is my first love, although I devote a large portion of my creative time to drawing and have made occasional forays into oils, acrylics, printmaking
and collage.

I believe with Delacroix that “The first merit of a painting is to be a feast for the eye.” That is my goal in painting – nothing more or less.

Trillium Triumvirate, watercolor
My subject matter and style are eclectic. I am partial to images incorporating flowers and plants. My style ranges from representational to abstract and geometric often playing geometric shapes against natural forms. I am veering more and more into abstraction and non-objective painting, because I enjoy the challenge of working without subject matter.

Amaryllis, watercolor
Recently, I have been having fun with "Yupo" which is a synthetic "paper" providing a very slick painting surface which paradoxically produces exciting visual textures. "Sunny Flowers" and "Mayan Memories" are painted on Yupo.

Judith Hand





L-R: Mayan Memories watercolor; Crossings, acrylic collage








L-R: Something Fishy, watercolor; Moose Marsh, watercolor; North Woods, watercolor









L-R: Raina in Repose, drawing; Briana, drawing

Featured Artist: Joan Back

Zinnias, oil
"Art is part of my everyday life. Design, color,
and interesting subject matter are all around
my environment and inspire me to paint. The
brilliant colors of nature and the changing light
of the atmosphere inspire me to paint outdoors
and still life, and flowers challenge me to paint
indoors.
I enjoy watercolors, pastels and oils depending
on what I paint and where I paint. " Joan Back


Fanfair, watercolor
Sunflowers, watercolor













Vase of Flowers, mixed media


Sanibel Shells, watercolor

Featured Artist: Carolyn Coit

Portrait of a Man
"I have always been fascinated by the human figure and what a painting or drawing can tell you about the subject and the artist. I have worked in all media since I taught art to Art majors in high school and needed to stay at least one step ahead of them. Recently I have gone back to my first love, OILS. "




L-R: Andrea Smith, Back, Portrait of Another Man

OAG Spring Show and Sale

Garden Lilies, Barbara Bickford

Our 3rd Annual Spring Show and Sale is this weekend!

Emmanuel Episcopal Church
400 W. Yates Ave.
East Syracuse NY 13057

Saturday April 30th: 10:00AM - 4:00PM
Sunday May 1st: Noon - 4:00PM

Come and support the arts.

You might find something that will make a good Mother's Day present.

Forgotten by Time, Helga Guilbert


Ogunquit, Marge Hill
Autumn, Linda Abbey

Featured Artist: Mary B. Touchette

Ode to Red

Painter of watercolor and mixed media for about 30 years.
Studied under:

Caroline Berry - Skylark Studios
Carl Wenzel - Syracuse University
Barbara Kellogg - local artist
Gretchen Ness - local artist

• Showed multiple times in On My Own Time - University Hospital
• Showed work at Edgewood Gallery
• Commissions to MacKenzie Hughes Law and other private personage
• Sold recently to MacKenzie-Childs
• Member of Onondaga Art Guild and Cazenovia Watercolor Society

"I love the challenge with every painting. Watercolor's unpredictability and surprises always fascinates me. I just love to paint."


L-R: Splendor; Lemons Up; Let's Bloom

Featured Artist: Dee Gage

After retiring from a career in commercial art, I returned to
painting. I was born in Michigan. I studied at the Detroit Society
of Arts and Crafts and later at the Art Students League of NYC. I
continue to attend workshops.
My watercolors and acrylics have won awards consistently at the
Canastota Canal Town Museum, Rome Community Art Center Show, our annual Onondaga Art Guild shows, and others. I have had one-woman shows at the Old Forge Library, and in Syracuse at the Paine Branch Library and Betts Branch Library.
In my paintings I try to project beauty and serenity as a counter force to the stresses we all experience.

L-R: Early Spring Pond, Farmhouse in Winter











L-R: Autumn Walk, Frozen Stream













L-R : Black-Eyed Susans, Windowbox

Featured Artist: Maria Rizzo

Human Nature #1
Artist Statement:
My current work is about portraying our human condition symbolized as a tree. The tree has three main parts: the roots, the trunk and the branches. The roots can be seen as our past, our childhood, and the experiences which help form the person that we are now. The solidity and the immobility of the tree come from the roots. I can see the roots, also, as our "inferno", our unconscious part, which is full of desires and irrational memories. Then we have the trunk which I see as the perception of our present, the image of what we have become through our experiences. I also can see the trunk as our armor, the walls that we create to protect our self from what is painful for us. The last part of the tree are the branches. I see them as a representation of our future of great potential and unsure possibilities. As an artist I want to portray our condition through cryptic images and I want to share them with whoever quests life.



Left to right: Human Nature #7, Human Nature #3, Human Nature #6














Left to right: Human Nature #10, Human Nature #11, Human Nature #12, Human Nature #2