I’m an artist and Peace Rock spreader. Spreading Peace One Rock at a Time! Mandalas are my fav. It all started on April 1st, 2009. I was having a bad day, so I decided to paint a picture to make it brighter. I took a rock and painted a Peace symbol on it.
My art centers around Peace, Love and Dogs. I love to paint on rocks. I love art that inspires and makes you feel good. I also love to make cards.
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Mark works in laser designs on wood glass and other items. He creates unique gifts such as glassware, kitchen items, coasters, window art. You can purchase through his website, Creative Mark Engraving.
Steve Gerling has been doing relief woodcarving since the mid-1970’s. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from UConn, with a major in sculpture. After school, he was drawn to the additional challenges of relief carving. Not only did an object have to be sculpted but it had to be skillfully distorted
in scale, perspective, and space to create an image convincing to the viewer.
Traditionally, most relief work was intended as decoration or embellishment to works of architecture or fine cabinetry. Steve chooses to make the carving the primary object. While much of the work were objects of fine woodworking, using them as a utilitarian frame, the main focus of attention has always been the carving.
After retiring from a Mechanical Engineering career in 2009, I began my art journey with drawing and painting classes with a number of local instructors. I dabbled in pastel, oil, and colored pencil, but my preferred medium is watercolor, and my works are usually in the traditional realistic style. I belong to a number of art groups and am grateful for the many friends and acquaintances that art has brought my way. Sometimes I do commissions, everything from fighter jets to homesteads to puppy portraits and anything in between. Currently I teach watercolor at the Windsor Locks Senior Center.
“The Vermonter,” traveling northbound over the Warehouse Point railroad bridge.
Medium: Watercolor
Size: 20 x 26
“Wave Watchers,” a scene on a Florida beach.
Medium: Watercolor
Size: 23 x 19
Price: $250
“Somethin’ Fishy,” a work boat returning with the day’s catch.
Medium: Watercolor
Size: 26 x 21
Price: $300
“The Art Show”
Medium: Watercolor
Size: 14 x 18, framed
Price: $270
“Old Dogs,” buddies on Crane Beach in Ipswich MA.
Medium: Colored Pencil & Watercolor
Size: 14 x 17
Price: $500
“The Ocean Calls,”
Medium: Watercolor
Size: 16 x 20, framed
Price: $300
“Glory Days,” a Lockheed Super Constellation in Lufthansa markings.
Medium: Watercolor
Size: 39 x 14
Price: $400
To purchase originals or prints, please contact Joe directly.
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Nancy Cooke Bunnell, an award-winning pastel and acrylic painter. Her work ranges from realism to energetic abstractions. Her time is split between creating paintings and teaching others. She is an experienced artist and certified art teacher for over 18 years teaching to all ages with art trained at SCSU, UConn, and ECSU. She is presently teaching abstraction at the Glastonbury Art Guild and a skill and creative based program for homeschool children at Willington Library. She has also taught art at the Community School of Arts, the Art Center East, West Hartford Art League, and MCC. Her pastels have won first in the state at the CT Pastel Society and has won numerous high -ranking awards at Art Center East, the Munson Art Center. d throughout the state. Nancy has also shown work on Canyon Rd. in New Mexico.
Kathy is working on her 300 year old loom making rugs to sell at the Holiday Artists Market on November 16 and 17 at Knowlton Hall in Ashford, CT. Kathy also will also have her all-time favorites including towels, scarves and mini capes. New this year are firewood carriers made with old clothing. Sturdy nylon straps make carrying easy; they hold at least 40 lbs of wood.
Kathy Weigold has made a career of production weaving. Subcontracting work from designers of handwoven fabrics, she makes their designs become a reality. Spanning 40 years plus, many miles of fabrics have been produced.
Kathy learned production weaving skills at The Marshfield School of Weaving in VT. A lifetime of honing those skills, both in operating the loom and seeing how colors interact. Kathy also developed her own line of woven goods. First with rugs, having a practical bent and using things on hand. What better use for old worn out clothes, sheets, blankets and the like then to make them into something usable again. Dish towels that are 100% cotton and really work.
Scarves that have their own personality; no two alike. Wooly ponchos, soft, light and warm.
Color interactions that simply amaze. These are some of the things that comprise her work and life.
Fiber Artist Joan Blade Johnson of JBJ is a Hampton, CT-based fiber artist who exhibits nationally and internationally.
Joan’s journey took her from a traditional quilter to a contemporary fiber artist who employs several surface designs in her art quilting. She enjoys the creative process involved in composing fiber art pieces using non-traditional methods and materials to achieve her artistic vision, most often inspired by nature and her original nature photography.
The surface design materials that she regularly works with on fabric include paint, foraged natural plant dye, rust, fiber reactive dye, and photos printed onto fabric.
I wrote this poem about the arrival of Spring at my home in Westford upon being named Ashford’s Poet Laureate in March 2021 – Anthony Paticchio
Sometime in March or April,
The Mount Hope, near its headwaters
down below the house, turns river again;
grows loud each day; spills its winter stream
in a full-on cold clear silver river rush;
threads a new watercourse run
across a thick-grown marsh that once was a beaver pond;
pours out through a rock channel carved
in the ruin of an old button mill dam;
and finds its way.
©2021 Anthony Paticchio
For the past 6 years, pottery has been my passion. In addition to creating my own work in my home I share with my wife, Jane, in Ashford, I now teach pottery and stained glass in our winter residence in North Port, Florida. My inspiration comes from the calm lakes we are lucky enough to live on in both places and am currently experimenting with combining blue glazes to get some great effects. My traditional stoneware is oven safe, dishwasher safe and microwave safe as well as being lead free. I have many practical and functional pieces to offer.
Have a look at my website or come see my Pottery Shed display by appointment. I am in Ashford right off Rt. 89, under two miles from I-84.
This free self-guided tour features 11 artists’ gardens displaying the works of 17 area artists. Enjoy paintings, sculpture, ceramics, woodwork, photography and other works of art in gardens in Ashford, Coventry, Mansfield and Willington. The gardens, which vary in style, include a handmade greenhouse, a hydroponic greenhouse, ponds and pools, a stone arch, paths, terraces and an abundance of flowers, shrubs, vegetables, trees and herbs. Artwork will be available for purchase. All current Covid-19 protocols will be followed, including masks.
More information can be found on their Facebook Page or go to their website for a virtual tour.
