Many heart-felt thanks to all the people who made Art-in-the-Woods 2009 a great success… Staff, Artists, Volunteers, Food Vendors, Musicians and Customers… it was a wonderful collaborative effort that brought great results.

Scroll down to see the artists who participated in 2009.  As the 2010 event gets closer, these artist pages will be updated and replaced with the 2010 artist pages.

Mark Your Calendars!
Art-in-the-Woods 2010:  July 17 and 18, 2010.

Debra Eck is a British artist living and working (in her attic studio) in Western New York. In addition to teaching at Jamestown Community College and working in the art department of a local printing company, she is also a wife and mother and consequently engages in all the activities common to such everywhere, including but never limited to, music and voice lessons, track and soccer practices, musical and other theatrical rehearsals, as well as dinner, dishes, laundry etc…

Education

• MA in Visual Culture, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK
• BFA (Painting), University at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA
• AS Studio Art, Jamestown Community College, Jamestown, USA

Website

• http://dryadartstudios.googlepages.com/

Paul, a retired college administrator, started carving in 1990.  His many years in duck blinds provided him with the incentive to start carving.  Desire and carving skill were mutually exclusive so Paul enrolled in a few adult education carving classes at a local high school.  There he learned the basics and has improved over the years to a point where a few commissioned pieces are done each year, as well as sales at decoy and craft shows.

An avid hunter and fisherman, Paul especially enjoys upland bird hunting with his Wirehaired Pointing Griffon.  Midwestern hunting trips each fall have been part of Paul’s travels for many years.  His goal is to hunt every species of North American upland bird.  He is well on his way to meet this goal with trips to Iowa, Nebraska, Montana, and the Dakotas.  Summer finds Paul fishing the Great Lakes (Erie & Ontario) as well as yearly trips to Canadian fisheries in Ontario and Manitoba.

Paul feels it is important to preserve and continue the conservation measures embraced by the many sportsmen and hunting organizations such as Ducks Unlimited, Pheasants Forever, The National Turkey Federation and the National Rifle Assoication.  Membership in these organizations, he believes,  is critical if we want to continue our hunting tradition.  Because he is convinced that it is especially important to involve young boys and girls in these clubs, Paul works with Ducks Unlimited on Green Wing projects.

Paul also has a small collection of antique working decoys.  Some are from unknown carvers; but like most collectors of art, “if I like a piece or if it has some unusual quality, I buy it.”  Paul specializes in collecting working decoys from Nova Scotia and Maritime Canada.  The Nova Scotia connection stems from Paul’s collegiate days at St. Francis Xavier University where he received his bachelor’s degree.  While at St. F.X., Paul played tight end on their 1966 National Championship football team and was named to the All Canadian Team in his junior and senior years.

Patti Greenstein:
I have been interested in everything artsy and creative my entire life.  In recent years, my energy has been devoted to calligraphy, painting, and jewelry making.  I began working at the Mudslinger Studio in Fredonia in 2007.  Though it had been almost 30 years since I had last worked with clay, I took an immediate love for it once again.  I include natural elements in many of my art pieces, as I am a lover of all things natural.  Cassadaga, NY has been my home for over 20 years.

Lucille Bryant:
Playing and being outside have been part of my essence since birth.  Recently, art has taken form in the various adult education classes.  In 2006 I entered Mudslingers in Fredonia, discovering the thrill of hand building.  What comes out of my hands is rather organic.  Nature and I reside in Brocton, NY.

Cynthia Fitzgerald:
I live in Fredonia, NY and have always enjoyed arts and crafts.  I decided over thirty years ago to take pottery lessons and that was the beginning of my love for the craft.  I enjoy working with many different types of clay that I throw on the wheel and also hand-build.  At the present time I rent space at Mudslingers Pottery Studio and formed “Cynthus Stoneware” to market my craft.

Ceramics

Stained Glass

E-mail: bfaulk@brockwaytv.com

Beth Ann Faulk is not a newcomer to painting. For most of her life she has spent with a brush in her hand trying all types of mediums. She is gaining notoriety for her steady hand at painting on turkey feathers. She also uses gourds and leaves for her artistic creations.

Hunters have learned about her skill and are happy to supply the artist with feathers. She has been named a PA Wilds Juried Artist.

Beth Ann lives in Brockway, Pa with her husband and two teenage children. Her one of a kind designs can be found year round at her studio and Cameron County Chamber of Commerce Artisan Center in Emporium, Pa. She also travels to numerous shows through out the year selling her works of art.

Website is in the process of being set up.

Peachie Originals
4744 Berry Rd
Fredonia, NY 14063
Website: www.scrollsawpuzzles.com
Media: Puzzle Art

We started out in 1984.  I was teaching Industrial Arts and June was a new mom.  We wanted a way to supplement or income in the summer when I wasn’t teaching.  June loved to paint and draw.  So with my woodworking experience and my wife’s art background, we combined our passions to create our work.

Working with wood, we designed and made everything from weather vanes to candle sconces and sold them at local shows.  Being as frugal as I am, I cold not throw away even the smallest of left-over scraps.  We designed several small art puzzles utilizing these “scraps” and thus began our puzzle venture.  We enjoy designing our scroll saw puzzles and being unique in our field.

All of our puzzles are both designed and created by us.  The are individually cut on a scroll saw, hand sanded, standed and painted.  This makes each puzzle a unique work of art.

Now, twenty five years later, we are even busier.  We have four children who inspire us daily with their ideas and interests, and we still enjoy exhibiting our work at shows in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.

In addition is our love for the foot-powered machinery that we have collected over the years.  We enjoy bringing machines to shows to demonstrate and share a bit of history and our love of scrolling.

To share our passion of scroll sawing, we have written three books:

• Scroll Saw Art Puzzles
• Scroll Saw Farm Puzzles
• Scroll Saw Holiday Puzzles

Our website (http://www.scrollsawpuzzles.com) is also a way to connect with our patrons for show listings and contact information.

Images copyright 2009 by June Burns.  All rights reserved.

Beaux-Arts Brampton, Studio #4
70 Main St. N., Brampton, Ontario, Canada, L6V 1N7
Phone: 905-454-5677
Website: http://www.kellymcneil.net

Born in St. Catharine’s Ontario, I have travelled and painted across Canada. Having worked in the commercial art field for 10 years, i left and started my fine arts career. In the past 3 years I have added wildlife painting to my portrait painting and scenery. Everywhere I go, I am visiting Zoos, Wildlife Reserves, Wildlife Refuges, or Nature Parks. I am dragging my family around while i sketch the lazy animals, and photograph the active ones. Wildlife Painting is my passion, and being a very prolific painter, in Oil, Batik, Watercolor, or Scrath Board, (working 5 to 7 days a week), I am producing 1 to 5 paintings a week.

Pressed Flower Designs

I enjoy making pictures from pressed flowers. I live on a 15 acre farm in Panama, NY, where I grow most of my flowers. I use many wildflowers and leaves from field and woods also. They are dried and pressed in a plywood press for several days, and then cut and glued into original designs.

I make a wide variety of pictures, greeting cards, candles, and jewelry, but the miniature scenes are the most detailed and time consuming. The love of nature and God’s creation provides endless inspiration.

Email Dorothy: dmpanama@windstream.net

For more than 40 years Charlotte, a largely self-taught artist, has been using her talents to express her philosophy of gleaning.  She has participated in a number of nationally recognized art/craft shows throughout the United States and has been the recipient of numerous awards for her art.

Charlotte believes “the secret to creating something new lies in the past and in common form”. Using what others consider scrap, her artwork serves as a chronicle of our histories; her designs are expressions meant to celebrate life. Her postage stamp art montages often begin with a colored pencil drawing and/or photographic background. She then overlays the design with cut postage stamps. “Collaging with these tiny reflections of culture allows me to capture, express and celebrate the alluring, yet often, simplistic beauty of a life in process.”

Pictures often take several hours, a magnifier, and fine pointed tweezers to complete.  All original artwork is completed on archive quality paper and acid free adhesives are used to secure the miniscule pieces of stamps.  While some pictures may seem to be identical, no two are the same.

Charlotte’s work is also available in note cards and bookmarks.  Each is crafted with archive quality materials.  Special order and custom designs are welcome.

E-mail Charlotte Meddaugh

Daily Rafters Studio
6787 Dugway Road
Conesus, New York 14435
Website: http://www.draftyrafters.com/
Media: Pottery

Hand thrown and hand built pottery items reflecting and utilizing the natural elements around us. Based on the ancient art of Ikebana, “pin~frog’ pots are designed to be a casual, creative, and uniquely handcrafted container for anyone who enjoys the natural beauty of flowers. We also make bird feeders and birdhouses, wind chimes and wall hangings.

Deep Brook Nature Photography
Website: www.deepbrooknature.com
E-mail: deepbrook@windstream.net
Media: Photography

Mark is a local nature photographer currently residing in Montville, Ohio. Although most of his subjects are birds, he photographs many butterflies as well as wild flowers, reptiles and amphibians.
Previously, Mark’s work has been centered in northern Ohio. Now his travels extend as far north as the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, east to the Allegheny Mountains, and south to Florida.
Mark uses all manual cameras and lenses and all photographs are in full frame 35mm format without manipulation of any kind.
Mark exhibits his photography to increase awareness of the wildlife around us and to highlight the need to protect their natural habitats as their existence truly protects our environment

Angus has been involved with outdoor life and fine arts projects for years (music, literature, poetry, public speaking, multi-media in multiple forums) and in recent years has been actively photographing landscapes, birds, beasts and waterscapes. A sampling of his photos can be viewed at: http://photo.net/photos/Angus

E-mail Angus Watkins

Over the years Frank M. Hnat has mastered his pen-and-ink technique to render stunningly beautiful pastel and water color portraits of wildbirds, wildlife, and animals that have won him prominence and an international reputation for wildbird/wildlife artistry. He is one of a handful of American artists who have successfully combined an uncommon technical expertise with a keen eye for color, design, and setting to produce unique drawings that are popular with serious collectors, corporations, institution and residential buyers.

Throughout the years, Frank has licensed his drawings to all types of industries and currently has completed drawings for the Smithsonian Institute of natural History, The National Wildlife Federation, along with many, many others.

Frank is a lifelong resident of the Pittsburgh area. After attending Carnegie Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University and the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, he established a graphic design studio that served clients for many years.

He travels extensively, exhibiting his work and demonstrating his signature artistic techniques at art shows, wildbird shows, and festivals in the United States and Canada.

Website: http://www.wildbirdartist.com/index.php

In the past ten years or so, I have been developing my own unique techniques of manipulating copper sheet and wire, learning along the way through trial & error, to see what I can or cannot make it do, hammering, sanding, filing, stretching, heating, cooling, soldering and much sweating, to have this metal become something that astonishes even me when I have finished the piece.

Many of my ideas might come from shapes I see in nature or my most inspirational pieces come from my daily meditations. As an ordained minister, I see the artistic talent and potential in every individual that is just waiting for its self-discovery. It wants to come out of us and bring joy to those who view it. We are all creative beings being driven and guided by divine power.

Phone Patricia Orbanic: 814-723-7180

Jack Paluh Arts
2869 Old Wattsburg Road
Waterford, PA 16441
Phone: 814-796-4400
Website: http://www.jackpaluh.com
Media: Painting

“My personal goal is to bring the beauty of the outdoors into your home or office.  It is my privilege and quest.  I am truly blessed to be able to share my ideas with you.  All of nature continues to fascinate and inspire me.  The older I become, the more I realize how intricate our natural world is created,” states Jack Paluh.    Jack Paluh, painter, has his field of study to include nature, wildlife and Eastern Woodland Indian scenes.  He is known for his ability to paint places that his collectors believe they have visited.  In 2008 he celebrates his 27^th year of painting the wonders of the great outdoors.  He recognizes that his highest honor is meeting and talking with people who are interested in his artwork.

Sheree Daugherty is an acclaimed wildlife artist and naturalist whose work is in private and public collections across the country. In her more than three-decade career, she has used her keen powers of observation to create spectacular works of wildlife art. Daugherty’s goal as an artist is to both inspire and enrich the lives of those fortunate enough to enjoy her work by re-creating for them the splendor of the natural world. Her realistic and accurate paintings are the result of years of study and observation, which allow her to carefully portray her subjects with a naturalist’s eye for detail.

Website: www.shereedaugherty.com
E-mail: shereedaugherty@gmail.com

Website:www.artgally.com/nancymclean
E-mail: NanMcLe3@aol.com
Media: Painting

Nancy E. McLean is an artist from Warren, Ohio, who specializes in pen and ink and pastel drawings of wildlife and domestic animals. She has a special interest in the big cats, horses and dogs. Her work concentrates on the eyes and the expressions to reveal the character and personality of her subjects.

As a young man, Thoreau’s philosophy of a simple life greatly influenced me.  That’s why I work out of the home I designed and built myself deep in the woodlands of western Pennsylvania. Since 1987, it is here in my home studio that I create, carve, paint and mount my birds.  I bring an attention to detail and a keen sense of observation to every piece that I create.  I select and sculpt each piece of driftwood to reflect the attitude and likeness of each bird.

I love what I do.  I am blessed that my livelihood is to carve and paint birds as a full-time artist.

I hope to share my vision with you–that nature continues to delight, inspire and sustain me.  Beauty is all around us.  It is this passion, this purity of focus that breathes life into my birds.

E-mail Brad Wiley

Bob has been photographing nature’s beauty for over 15 years. He has received awards for his photography in Pennsylvania, New York, Arizona and Canada, as well as an International award from the Nikon Corporation in Japan. Bob’s work has been published in books, catalogs, calendars and greeting cards.

Bob has also published his own book titled “Presque Isle Naturally”, a field guide to Presque Isle State Park’s flora and fauna. Bob has lectured before members of nearby camera clubs, Audubon Society, Sierra Club, Kiwanis, garden clubs and local schools.

E-mail Bob Grubbs

David Earl Miller grew up in a small town in southwestern Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and Indiana University of Pennsylvania and has studied life drawing at the Butera School of Fine Arts in Boston, and has taken workshop studies in Scotland. David has spent the greater portion of his life as an artist working in the pastel medium. Over the past 30 years David has developed and produced the unique program, “Presentations in Pastel.” These memorable events are a treat for the eyes and ears. The programs, designed to honor individuals and organizations, feature David’s creation of a painting accompanied by a custom soundtrack. They have been performed throughout much of the United States and Canada.
 

   In recent years, David has traveled extensively throughout the Southwest capturing the beauty of that part of the United States. He has produced paintings of The Pecos National Historical Park, the Grand Canyon and locations in New Mexico and Arizona. David has also portrayed the beauty of northern Canada in his paintings. He particularly enjoys outdoors at the site of his subject.
 
  David holds landscape painting workshops for art guilds and schools and has taught several years at Chautauqua Institution in western New York. He has a gallery in his home where he displays and sells his paintings. He resides there with his wife Dorothy.

E-mail Dave Miller

Denny Bingaman Wildlife Photography & Printing
5797 Iron Bridge Rd.
Waynesboro, PA
Phone: 717-762-8394
Email: bingamad@pa.net
Media: Photography

Denny Bingaman’s work has been published in national and local wildlife magazines along with the manuscript on wildlife photography methods, and the natural history of the subjects. His photography are used in the Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix, Arizona for educational purposes, and fro wildlife, and bird identification in the desert South West. Several of his images are being used by the United States Fish & Wildlife Service for brochures, internet, and other uses. His prints are also used for permanent displays at the Wildwood Wildlife sanctuary in Harrisburg, PA.
Check Out Denny’s Work!

As an avid outdoorsman, I considermyself fortunate to be able to experience time and time again, the indescribeable beautythat nature holds. Growing up in the small rural town of Ellington, NY, my father introduced me to hunting and fishing as a young boy. He taught me how to love and appreciate nature, as well as the wildlife that thrives there. Whether I find myself seculded at the base of an big old maple in the spring turkey woods, or maybe perched high in a hemlock during the fall archery system, whichever season it may be, I just love to be out there. From over the years, certain sights, sounds and even just a feeling seem to linger my head. It’s from those special moments in time that my art is created.

E-mail Eric Lundsten

An Added Touch

Susan creates unique jewelry pieces for anyone looking for something a little different for an added touch of style. Materials used in Susan’s creations include porcelain, semi-precious gemstones, art glass, natural wooden and bone beads, Swarovski crystals, felted wool, copper, brass, and silver. She loves to mix it up! In her hunt for unique beads and findings, she came across Kazuri beads, made in Africa by talented Kenyan women. Inspired by these wonderful beads and using her own resourcefulness and creativity, Susan has found her niche with her artisan clay beads and pendants. Stoneware and other clay bodies are shaped by hand and then glazed and fired in her little electric kiln. Nothing can compare to the beauty of natural earthen clay with glazes reflecting the vivid or subdued shades of nature.

http://www.susansaddedtouch.com
http://www.anaddedtouch.etsy.com

Media: Birdhouses

I’m a 78 year old retired banker who started building birdhouses about ten years ago as a hobby and a way to pass the time. We purchase our lumber, cut to dimention, from an Amish saw mill that is a neighbor of ours. I assemble the eight or nine basic patterns and go from their with the various configurations. I burn the houses with a torch to bring out the grain. The houses are decorated with grapevine and moss and I do the chimneys in stone. we collect all the material, except the moss. Having grown up in the thirties, I try to stay with that theme, i.e. country churches, schools, stores, outhouses. Last year we juried into the following show: Art in the Wild, Kane PA; WACA at Letchworth Park, NY; the Grape Festival, Naples NY; and A Dickens of a Christmas Wellsboro, PA.

More info to come.

E-mail Mary Wertz

Website: www.pattikramer.com
E-mail: pkramer2@stny.rr.com

When I create my jewelry, I’m thinking about those things that please me, things that make me feel good. Feelings can be so fleeting. Making art lets me preserve some of those feelings; how it feels to see the first flower bloom after a very long winter. Using the color red to remember how warm the sun feels on a crisp, cold fall day,and admire how much detail nature puts into the tiniest creature.

My father was my first art teacher, he urged me to really look at a thing, to draw what I saw. I learned to use form and color to convey what I want to say about how I feel about my subject at hand.

I like working with polymer clay for many reasons; for jewelry, it’s light weight. Polymer is available in many colors, and the possibilities for customizing color are endless. Polymer is often referred to as the great imitator, there are many techniques for creating faux bone, ivory , jade, and many other materials. It’s a wonderful material for an artist who desires to work in three dimension.

It is important to me to create art that is pleasing to the eye. I prefer to focus on the beauty in life wherever I can find it. The repulsive is someone else’s job.

That is not to say that one can not find beauty where others do not. In my work I use only my own original designs, some of the designs I make into molds. I also will pick up and use textures from nature. Each piece is designed, and created by me. Many pieces are one of a kind. Even when creating multiples of one design; each piece is unique, never completely identical to the next.

Nature has always had a magnetic attraction upon my spirit. Twenty-five years ago, I was a landscape painter and used snapshots to reference my nature paintings. A friend noticed the realism of my paintings and suggested that I make the switch to fine art photography. That creative change transformed a hobby into a passionate obsession.

I am never so at peace with myself and the natural world as when I have a camera in my hands. Photography enables me to capture the beauty, mood and power of nature as I experience it. I search for dramatic scenes and each photograph becomes a “frozen moment” in a world filled with incredible beauty. It is that beauty and peace that I attempt to convey in my work.

E-mail Gordon Brumagin

PO Box 216
Nineveh, IN 46164
Phone: 317-933-2645
Website: www.lukebeckart.com
E-mail: luckbuckart@aol.com

Luke Buck, a native born Hoosier, grew up in Indiana with a love for life, art, and nature that is evident in his nostalgic paintings of Americana and American wildlife.

Most of Luke’s art education came from training he received from his artist father, Harold Buck, whom he shared a studio with for many years. He studied figure drawing at the John Heron Art Institute while majoring in art at Arsenal Technical High School, both in Indianapolis, Indiana. Luke began his career as a commercial artist along with the fine arts in 1959. He worked until 1970 when he broke off on his own as a self employed artist. In 1982 he abandoned the commercial art field to devote his time entirely pursuing only the fine arts. Buck works in many mediums including graphite, oils, acrylics, and watercolor and his favorite subject matter to paint is the rural American landscape and American wildlife. He is primarily a studio painter but still occasionally enjoys plein-aire painting, (painting outside on location). One of his life goals, and near reached, is to paint scenes from every state in the USA.

His father had once advised him to paint, not to please others, but to please each artist toughest critic; himself. “Satisfy yourself with a painting, if you’re happy, others will be happy too.” Remembering those words, when Buck is content with a painting, he always adds a personal final touch to it in an inconspicuous place – his fingerprint.

When not at their lakefront home and studio in southern Indiana, Luke and his wife Coleen travel the blue highways and byways capturing the beauty of America with his palette.

Media: Photography

Linda Mason’s first experience with glass (aside from breaking it) was in taking a class creating stained glass window panels. She then taught herself the art of lampworking and through her daughter’s interests began to explore fiber and the various techniques of fabric creation.

Linda is a life long resident of Warren, PA. She has studied art from many local and some well known artists like Abe Schwartz, Carla Colosimo, Ruth Levinson, Dick Nelson (Score and Skive), Harriet Johnson (weaver) and gets important feedback and insight from artists Reg Darling and Terry Darling as well as other friends and family. Linda has studied at the Corning Museum of Glass with Martha Biggar, Loren Stump and Margaret Neher and plans to continue her education at the CMOG.

She is an honors graduate from the Jamestown Business College, black belt in Karate, and has practiced other disciplines such as yoga and pilates. Linda currently works at Curves for Women.

Learn more about Linda’s artwork by clicking:   http://www.lindamasondesigns.com/.

Sun Dance Creations
PO Box 181
Avoca, NY 14809
Phone: 607-566-3587
Website: www.sundancecreations.com
Media: Jewelry

We are always expanding our designs as we are inspired by the natural world which we are so passionate about. With backgrounds in wildlife photography, art & nature illustration, we have incorporated our knowledge and love of nature into our jewelry.

Janet Mandel Art Studio
695 Wsterman Rd
Kennedy, NY 14747
Phone: 716-267-9525
E-mail: janet_mandel@hotmail.com
Media: Painting

Janet Mandel has received both regional and national recognition over the past 25 years for her work including fashion illustration, weavings, portraiture and wildlife paintings. Her exclusive focus since 1995 has been her detailed watercolor portrayals of both wildlife and domestic animals. Her work has been featured since 2001 by the National Geographic Society, the National Audubon Society and the Smithsonian Institution in their greeting card programs. She is a member of several animal and wildlife rescue organizations.

Dawn produces elegant artisan jewelry. She creates unique pieces inspired by people, art, poetry, music, media and nature. Each item is one-of-a-kind and is created from quality materials. Designing custom pieces for special occasions like weddings, recitals or formal parties is something she loves.

Website: www.dawnpierce.com/design

Eagle-Eye Photography
203 Park Avenue
Box 56
Kane, PA 16735
Phone: 814-837-8041
Website: http://www.eagleeyephoto.net/
Media: Photography

I’m now doing work with the “Pennsylvania Wilds”, trying to promote tourism in our area, as well as working with the “Allegheny National Forest Travel Bureau”. I have moved on to digital, where I find much more ways to improve my craft. My photography is still “old school”, which means I still go into the field, spend hours at locations, and do not computer enhance my imagines. What you see in my pictures is really there!

Dr. Sandra Rothenberg is a nature photographer. She grew up in Northwestern PA where she realized her primary interests in psychology and perception. Sandra has her doctorate in clinical psychology and has worked as a psychotherapist and yoga instructor. Recently, she discovered the unique characteristics of photography.

Just as psychology reveals the hidden aspects of the psyche, the unconscious, Sandra believes photography reveals the aspects of nature that might otherwise be missed. She particularly enjoys macro, or close-up photography. Sandra believes the closer you look, the more you see. The observer merges with the lens of the camera to become a witness to unexpected drama, stunning beauty, design, color, form, in relationship to the ever changing light. As a psychotherapist, Sandra has had a long standing interest in dreams. Now that her attention has turned to the medium of photography, she enjoys creating a dream-like quality with her images. While alone in nature, she tries to capture the feeling of tranquility and deep peace. Sandra is known for both her realistic and ethereal images, a world elegantly revealed through her macro lens. Her photographs may be viewed in both private homes and businesses.

70 Main St. N.
Brampton, Ontario L6X 0B4
Website: www.stevesartandimagery.com
E-mail: stevesart@rogers.com
Media: Painting

I am a self-taught artist residing in the Brampton area. I work mainly in acrylic on Masonite, but have experimented in mixed media, recently working in body castings, I have created a unique art form that has been drawing attention in the art community, by combining a 3 dimensional image in a 2 dimensional space I incorporate the human form into my art to represent the human spirit, without the human aspect art would not exist. A love for wildlife has also been a driving factor in my art.

I served on the board at Beaux-Arts Brampton from 2003 to 2007, first as the director of Marketing and the last 2 years as President and previously Vise-President of the Mississauga Arts Society. My work hangs in many private collections throughout the world, at Queens Park, in The Peel Gallery, Brampton City Hall, Mississauga Gallery, other Galleries and at my Studio, I have participated in the Queen West Art Crawl, in several juried shows, including Beaux-Arts Brampton and The Mississauga Juried shows. My life experiences are evident in my works exploring the natural past and present of our environment, also an insight into the fantasy realm is evident in my painting, sculpture and body castings.

Stadtlander Woodcarvings
31 West State St.
Wellsville, NY 14895
Phone: 585-593-6911
E-mail: bobstadtlander@roadrunner.com
Website: stadtlandercarvings.com

Robert, a resident of Wellsville, New York, has been carving since 1990. He is mostly self taught, but has taken several courses offered by other well known carvers. He specializes in relief carving, mostly in wood 2” thick or less. Robert’s fascination for woodcarving started at a very young age, however after being influenced by his family’s participation in the woodcarving world, he started carving as a hobby. After carving for approximately fifteen years, Robert now specializes in scenic relief carving relying on shadow, light, and perspective to give his carvings a life-like feel.

Robert began showing his work in 1992. Robert has numerous awards, exhibits widely in the northeast and midwest and has taught workshops since 1994. Robert has won best of show at the Georgia National Fair, Sunrise Side Woodcarving Show (Oscoda, MI), Wonders in Wood (Dover, Ohio), Art in Wood (Cleveland, Ohio), Mohawk Valley Art and Woodcarving Show (Albany, NY), and the Catatonk Valley Woodcarving Show (Candor, NY.) Robert has taken on a variety of commission work, but also does much freelance work. Many of his carvings are contained in private collections.

Bill Smith Photography
1880 Thorton Road
Cherry Creek, NY 14723
Phone: 1.877.468.5523
Email: bill@bspho.com
Media: Photography

Bill Smith grew up in suburbia Western New York.  This self-taught photographer has always been inclined toward the landscape.  He has spent a lot of time hiking in the outdoors.  He has been and is always in awe of all the beauty in nature — too much beauty not to photograph it.

Bill’s goal in making prints is to bring the viewer in to be an active participant in the composition and let him or her experience what he felt.  He concentrates on individual objects as rocks, grasses, trees and man-made structures which become worlds in their own right within the larger whole of the landscape.  He hopes these photographs bring to those who see them a heightened awareness of our natural world.