Events: Featured Artist
Sign Up for Consideration as a Featured Artist
After a year of resounding success, Seacoast Artist Association is continuing the opportunity for SAA members to have their own dedicated mini-gallery and increase exposure for a larger representation of your work. For more information on our Featured Artist Program, and to download an application, please visit the Featured Artist Program area of our Membership section.
Now Featuring: Ann R. Howland - June through July 2010
Welcome to Annie Land
For me, art is about mystery, discovery, tension, passion and soul. In my studio, canvas, music and images playfully co-mingle. I dance as I work. I sing.
It is my nature to explore, discover and adapt. I believe that we are compelled to venture ever-deeper if our work is to remain fresh and true.
Ann's child-like mind, is innocent and reflexive. Her intuition rules her brush and palette. Ann's work appears in private collections throughout the United States.
A reception will be held on Thursday, June 17, from 4:30-7PM, at the Seacoast Artists Association at 225 Water Street, Exeter, NH.
Title of above painting is "Bright Meadow." For a sampling of what you'll see at our gallery, launch the Photo Browser below:
Past Featured Artists
Missed a featured artist program from the past? Take a look at what you missed. If you find something you like, contact the gallery to see if the works are still available in the gallery, or how to contact the artist to obtain them.
Natalie Rotman Cote - April through May 2010
Natalie Rotman Cote is a Software Engineer by day and an artist by night. She began pursuing art when she enrolled in a drawing class at the Sharon Arts Center, where her goal was to learn how to draw her Greyhound Heidi.
While Heidi has made a beautiful model for many paintings, Natalie continues to search for her artistic niche by experimenting with landscape, still life, and floral paintings using pastels, watercolors, oils, and acrylics. She also captures unique images of Nature with her digital camera.
Natalie is excited to be the SAA Featured Artist for April and May 2010. For this show, she'll be featuring her photography from all around NH and from trips around the world that she's taken with her husband Stephen, with whome she shares a deep appreciation of nature and animals and all of this world's natural beauty.
Natalie hopes that you find the same peace and beauty when you look at her pictures as what inspired her. Enjoy!
For a sampling of what you'll see at our gallery, launch the Photo Browser below:
Pat Boyd-Robertson - February through March 2010
My Name is Pat Boyd-Robertson and I love to take pictures. Since the age of 18, and after seeing a man working on the Tobin Bridge in Boston, I realized that I wanted to capture his face. He face was black with tar, grit and dirt his black bib overalls barely evidencing the blue that they once were. But I was helpless - no camera.
At the time, I could afford no more than a Polaroid and I knew that what I wanted to capture forever on film was not going to happen.
The need to take pictures has remained with me and as 1 grew older I was fortunate enough to be provided with a new camera every year, each year bringing on a new and better way to fulfill my need to obtain more of life with deeper details. I finally opened my own little business with taking wedding pictures, family pictures and sittings and was very much involved with producing real and honest photographs. However, a strange need remained inside of me which was pushing me to find more and more and making me realize that I wasn't truly satisfied with what I had been doing.
Two years ago, after a trip to Bar Harbor, I began taking my 35mm pictures and placing them on my computer. I would sit and look at a picture for what seemed like an eternity. It was then that I realized that my inner emotions were dictating what I wanted and my new pictures (with a flair) is what I truly enjoy as it allows me to see things around me more ˜ emotionally than with a critical eye for perfection. This is what satisfies me. What is even more exciting for me is the fact that there are people, strangers that view my work. Some of them look at pictures of mine and I can see their expression when they "get it".
I watched some people as they look at my work and some have identified my art as "dark". That's exciting too because they are appraising my work through their own emotional core. Either way, there is great satisfaction. I will never stop taking pictures that touch my inner most feelings: the good, the bad, the ugly but mostly good and, best of ail satisfaction of accomplishing what my soul sees and feels!!!!!
During all of this process, I worked in the legal business for 25 years, as a plaintiff's paralegal. sat as a Marital Master and was certified as a Casa volunteer. I have raised 4 children which, in today's society is quite the accomplishment in itself. Now that I have been able to "retire" from office work early, I can devote myself to more exciting adventures and have time to explore my inner most feelings when I generate a picture that has touched my soul.
I live with my husband in Exeter and our two bulldogs, entertain grandchildren and when we can, escape to another part of the country to enjoy ourselves and to find more different ways of life.
For a sampling of what you'll see at our gallery, launch the Photo Browser below:
Pam Libby - December 2009
The Seacoast Artist Association is proud to exhibit the works of Pam Libby upstairs in our downtown Exeter gallery. Pam's work is expressive, full of color, and has a whimsical feeling. Pam is well versed and is comfortable working with multiple media.
Pam's painting experience covers 20 years. She exhibits throughout the Seacoast area. Pam is also a noted freelance illustrator. Her studio is located in Madbury, NH.
An artist reception will be held at the SAA Gallery at 167 Water Street in Exeter on Saturday, December 5th from 2 PM to 4 PM.
Barbara Cowan - October through November 2009
The art work of Exeter artist Barbara Cowan will be on display at the Seacoast Art
Gallery at 167 Water Street in Exeter during the months of October and November, 2009 as the gallery's featured artist.
Barbara's work is expressive, full of color, and a unique response to the world around her. Her paintings of Exeter, initially done in preparation for the Exeter Ornament series are a mix of the Exeter we know today and the Exeter of years gone by.
She works from her studio at home yet is comfortable as a plain air painter working at a variety of locations. She works with watercolor as a principal medium yet / enjoys working with pastels and the monotype printmaking process. She continues to be an exhibitor with the Exeter Arts Committee displays at the Exeter Town Hall Gallery, The Seacoast Artist Association, and other regional shows.
Maria Simms - August through September 2009
My inspirations come from the world around me, a walk in the woods, the flowers in my garden, the fruits in the kitchen or wherever I am at the moment. I love to walk, either at home in the woods around my house or slowly through the garden. I will come back to the studio full of ideas. When I am abroad in Brittany I always start the day with a long walk along the shores, very often starting before sunrise. This connects me with my surroundings. There is so much to see.
Exploring the many and varied aspects of the sacred feminine has been a primary inspiration for my creative work in recent years my paintings and drawings, my writing and my spiritual practice.
In all scenes and seasons of Mother Nature, earth and water, fire and air, by sunlight or at night during all phases of Moon, I visualize feminine energy and form, celebrate it and enjoy abstracting it into landscape motifs, sometimes subtly, sometimes dramatically.
I was first an artist fine arts degree, then taught art and exhibited widely when I was younger, but grew away from it during years when an interest in astrology morphed first into writing, then to computer graphic design for a publishing company. At the beginning of the 21st century, after my move to New Hampshire, I began painting in oils again, and am so glad that I did. I have written about Goddess spirituality, too, since then. My most recent book, Moon Tides, Soul Passages, includes several of my recent paintings. Undoubtedly, painting is my most purely intuitive form of expression.
For a sampling of what you'll see at our gallery, launch the Photo Browser below:
Annick Bouvron-Gromek - June through July 2009
My inspirations come from the world around me, a walk in the woods, the flowers in my garden, the fruits in the kitchen or wherever I am at the moment. I love to walk, either at home in the woods around my house or slowly through the garden. I will come back to the studio full of ideas. When I am abroad in Brittany I always start the day with a long walk along the shores, very often starting before sunrise. This connects me with my surroundings. There is so much to see.
I usually work in watercolor when on location but prefer the monotype medium back in my studio.
Monotype is a hybrid among printing techniques. It is neither a print nor a painting, but a combination of both. The method is named because it is one image (mono), painted or drawn directly on a plate and then transferred to paper. The printing of an image from a clean, un-worked surface results in a quality that is open and free. The monotype is a singular image and cannot be replicated.
For a sampling of what you'll see at our gallery, launch the Photo Browser below:
John Hauschildt - April through May 2009
Our current featured artist is John Hauschildt of Rum Doodle Studios. Check this website's gallery and come by our Water Street gallery to see John's display of framed and unframed photographs along Black & White, Landscape, and Abstract themes. His work will be displayed through April and May.
For a sampling of what you'll see at our gallery, launch the Photo Browser below:
