Featured Artist: Angela Arrey-Wastavino

I began my art career as a classical painter with oil, watercolor, pastel and charcoal, but I felt compelled to continue learning using a variety of media and techniques:  acrylic, sumi-e, natural pigments and others.  As well, I evolved from working on traditional sizes to murals and billboards and from 2-D to 3-D. I recognize I have become and experimentalist capturing symbolic art forms.  Currently, I am working with recycled materials organic and inorganic, being challenged by contemporary installations. As an artist, most importantly for me is working with the community, and particularly, working with young future artists has become my crusade.

Wings mural 8x12 feet A Arrey-Wastavino, Courtesy CNY Arts Center Fulton

I began my art career as a classical painter with oil, watercolor, pastel and charcoal, but I felt compelled to continue learning using a variety of media and techniques:  acrylic, sumi-e, natural pigments and others.  As well, I evolved from working on traditional sizes to murals and billboards and from 2-D to 3-D. I recognize I have become and experimentalist capturing symbolic art forms.  Currently, I am working with recycled materials organic and inorganic, being challenged by contemporary installations. As an artist, most importantly for me is working with the community, and particularly, working with young future artists has become my crusade.

 Oceana 12x16 oil pastel A Arrey-Wastavino

At The Lab #1 12x14 Charcoal A Arrey-Wastavino,
Courtesy Dr. P. Cid

Woman & Butterfly 12x16 pastel AArrey-Wastavino

The Walker 8x11 watercolor A Arrey-Wastavino 

Courtesy Conceptions Southwest

Featured Artist: Millie St John

  I have been a potter for 44 years mainly producing functional stoneware. Until 2010, I ran a gallery/ teaching space and studio in Baldwinsville. Currently I teach at Clayscapes Pottery in Syracuse. (clayscapes.com) I have an eclectic voice in clay, enjoying simple mugs, bowls and teapots. But, I also create planters and lanterns for the garden. Recently, I have enjoyed making sculptural cats and women with a new direction working in life scale, and the painting? Ten years ago I wanted to quit clay. I needed a change. My youngest daughter was off to college. I took a recreational watercolor class from Elaine Crough. I realized quickly that I needed more. I enrolled in a drawing class at Oswego State. I then proceeded to matriculate and graduated 5 years later with a BFA in painting. I now work in both watercolor and clay and am always looking forward to something new to say.  Millie St John

 

Top: Millie with terracotta sculpture.
Below: Stoneware sculptures (22-23") painted with underglazes and acrylics

 Below: Watercolors

Featured Artist: Jo Ann Von Pless

County Garden, acrylic, 16x20"

 When I was a child I woke up every morning to the view outside my window. The window was right next to my bed at the level of my pillow. The sunrise, the colors of the sky, the trees and the fields
surrounding our yard are still vivid memories of mine. I could see mountains in the distance on a very clear day. The view was the same, yet ever changing. I love the tapestry of colors and textures
of flowers, fields, mountains, water and sky. The vast beauty of nature is my inspiration to paint landscapes.

I am basically a self-taught artist, however I do take workshops and classes whenever I am able. I have worked with Delores Herringshaw and have taken classes at Commercial Art and Rochester Art. I experienced a workshop with Elizabeth Apgar Smith which was wonderful. I also enjoy the webinars from Wet Canvas.

I am a member of the CNY Art Guild and a member of the Cooperstown Art Association as well a new member of the Onondaga Art Guild. I am a part time painter now because of my full time job, but I look forward to painting full time some day.

                                                                                                                    Jo Ann Von Pless

Clockwise from Top:View from the Top, acrylic, 20x16";  White Sentinel, oil, 20x16"; Adirondack Farm, oil, 20x16"

Above: Winter Reflections, acrylic, 11x14"

Below L: Rock Garden, watercolor, 12x9";  Fair Heaven, watercolor and acrylic, 10x8"

Featured Artist: Gale Shuba

It's a Cat Thing, 8x10" color pencil by Gale Shuba

I am retired and spend most of my free time with drawing. I started out with pastels and water soluble oils.  Then, I tried color pencils and fell in love with them.  I still bounce around sometimes, depending on my subject matter.  If I do pastels or oils for awhile, I yearn to get back to my color pencils.

I love to paint animals and will do them on commission.  I also love painting landscapes and flowers.  I work from photos and look for the unusual, like the cat.  I love what I do but still consider myself a work in progress.  

 

Gale Shuba

Green Frog 5x7" pastel

Oh, the Colors,  5x7" color pencil

Horse Play, 8x10" color pencil

 

 

Old Barn

Southwest Landscape 10x8" pastel

Stormy Seas, 16x20" oil

 

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

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: Helga Gilbert

Windblown, watercolor on rice paper


Artist’s Statement I started painting 20 years ago simply to fill some time that was available. Embarking on that new adventure, I was immediately captivated and haven’t looked back.
The years have been spent striving to master the medium and finding my inner artistic voice.
My work is derived from what I see as I tend my gardens and as I walk various paths and trails. Although I take photos for technical reference, I let my inner vision guide me in creating the floral and plant forms. I try to share my enjoyment with the viewer.





















Clockwise from top left: Sunkissed Poppy, watercolor; Morning Glories; October Afternoon, pastel; Forgotten by Time, watercolor; A New Beginning, watercolor; Hollyhocks, watercolor and ink on rice paper; Summer Surf, rice paper collage.

Below:
A Burst of Color, pastel; Chinese Garden, fiber art; Ithaca Tapestry