Biography:
Biography:
After taking a pottery class in high school, Bridget always wanted to pursue it more seriously, but the busyness of college and graduate school interfered. After completing a double Master?s degree program in Social Work and Divinity in 1996, Bridget finally started taking classes in Chicago. Playing with clay was a creative outlet once a week while she worked multiple jobs. Bridget and her husband moved to Pennsylvania in 1997, and she continued her training more seriously with the Potter?s Guild in Wallingford, PA. Bridget was initially attracted to the wheel and to throwing functional forms. She loved to create bowls, mugs and vases that could find practical uses in daily life. In 2003, a friend suggested they take a hand-building class together. Since Bridget was pregnant with her third child, sitting at the wheel had become more difficult, and she agreed. Since that time, while still keeping her hand in throwing, Bridget has become primarily a hand-builder. Most of her pieces are made by rolling out slabs of clay and then texturing them before creating the form. Her work explores the relationship between form and texture, without losing her initial sense for practical, usable pieces. Bridget lives in Media, PA with her husband and three children. She is currently a Member of the Potters Guild in Wallingford PA. She exhibits and sells her work locally and nationally.
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Jewelry artist, Cathy Darlington, is the founder and owner of Darlington Design in Chicago, Illinois. Over the past 15 years, Cathy taught at the International Academy of Design and Technology in Chicago, specializing in fashion illustration, portfolio development, and beaded, woven, and cold connection jewelry making. She also taught drawing, figure rendering, and design classes.
Education:
International Academy of Design and Technology, Chicago, Illinois 2012
Pursuing: Associates: Fashion Design
Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois 2001
Master of Arts: Interdisciplinary Arts
The Albert P. Weisman Memorial Scholarship Fund, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois
Concordia University, River Forest, Illinois 1993
Bachelor of Arts: Secondary Education, Minor: English
Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois 1989
Bachelor of Arts: Illustration and Jewelry
Biography:
Claire Haik is a painter and printmaker whose work examines the hidden processes that exist beneath the visual exterior of nature. In 2012, Haik received her Certificate of Fine Art in traditional oil painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art where she was awarded the Lois and Charles X Carlson Landscape Residency for her work on regional landscapes from Philadelphia to New York. She shows in galleries throughout the Northeast and recently received a Masters of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York, NY.
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Originally from Bucks County, Claudia taught and exhibited in the San Francisco Bay area for many years. She earned her BFA from Boston University in 2002 (Cum Laude, Dean's List) and her MFA from the Academy of Art University, San Francisco. CA in 2010.
Since returning to Bucks County, where she has family roots, Claudia continues to paint and teach online through the Academy of Art University's Fine Arts Department. Her specialties include Still Life, Figure, and Landscape Painting.
Currently, Claudia is represented by the Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery in San Francisco, CA.
Biography:
Diane Collins is a graduate and adjunct faculty member of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, specializing in sculpture. She has studied extensively in Europe and has had numerous solo exhibits in Philadelphia and the surrounding area. Her work is featured in private collections in the United States, London, Tokyo, Barcelona, and Australia.
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Elise Phillips was born in Wayne, PA into a family with an extensive background in fine arts. A graduate of the Hussian School of Art in 1983, she continued her studies at PAFA, emerging in the well schooled tradition of the Academy. Elise maintains a studio in Elverson, PA where the bucolic countryside is a source of inspiration for many of her paintings. An award winning exhibitor, she is a signature member of the Philadelphia Watercolor Society, a member of the Philadelphia Sketch Club, Oil Painters of America, and the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters.
Biography:
Jimmy Clark
Jimmy Clark is fascinated with the commonality of form found in ancient pottery, regardless of its culture or time of origin. It suggests that certain forms have universal appeal and transcend the circumstances of their creation. He strives to attain this universality in his works.
He is a widely recognized ceramic artist and has written, and been featured in numerous articles in Ceramics Monthly, Studio Potter, and American Craft as well as many publications abroad. He has exhibited and taught workshops all over the world including: China, Germany, Curacao, Switzerland, Canada, Puerto Rico, Anguilla and of course throughout the US.
In recent years he was represented by the Rosenfeld gallery in Philadelphia where he had two solo exhibitions in 2012 and 2013. He remains very active internationally, showing in a solo exhibition in Halle Germany in 2013 at Zeitkunst Gallery, together with his wife Angela at the Burgerhaus in Zella Mehlis 2014, and Maerkische Kuenstlerhof outside Berlin 2015. He recently completed a month long artist residency in Shangyu China, as the first invited international guest artist.
Jimmy Clark was Executive Director of the Clay Studio in Philadelphia for over 16 years. He also served as director of Peters Valley Craft Center in New Jersey. He has curated and juried numerous exhibitions including: Contemporary East European Ceramics 1992, Ceramics Israel 1995, and Cerámica Puertorriqueña Hoy/Today 1998. He was the US representative on the jury of the Ceramics Monthly International Competition in 1999.
Biography:
Mick's award winning paintings strive to capture the mood and atmosphere of a subject, combining the magic of watercolor with reverence for the principles of design to create works of sophisticated simplicity.
Mick is a signature member of the Philadelphia Watercolor Society, the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society (Sylvan Grouse Guild), the Baltimore Watercolor Society and he is an Artist Member of the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association.
Mick has a Watercolor Demonstration feature article published in the June/July 2015 issue of Plein Air Magazine and his painting "Morning in Sitka" has been selected for publication in the 2016 edition of North Light Book's Splash 17: Inspiring Subjects!
Artist?s Statement
I am a passionate painter who believes that time spent painting is precious. My goal is to draw and paint every day and I believe that the fastest way to artistic growth is through the activity of painting.
I enjoy painting outside to take advantage of surroundings, natural light, and the sights and sounds that influence each painter's creative nature. Outside in nature?s studio is where I find the greatest challenge and the greatest reward. I am challenged to capture the moment because light and its effect, reflection and cast shadow changes continuously. I am forced to simplify, to reduce the overwhelming complexity of what?s in front of me into only the most important shapes and values.
My nature is to be spontaneous, so working loose and juicy appeals to me. The magic of watercolor is found in the partnership between artist and medium, of finding a balance between the knowledge, technique and skill of the painter while leaving room for the magic that makes watercolor so distinctive.
Above all, I believe that painting is great fun and when we?re having fun it can be seen by the viewer in our finished work!
Recent Awards & Events
2016:
· Selected for publication North Light Books' Splash 17: Inspiring Subjects!
· Second Prize ? Philadelphia Watercolor Society Member Show
· Howard Pyle Studios invited demonstration artist and workshop leader
· Invited Workshop Leader Berks Art Alliance
· Invited Workshop Leader ? Fairbanks Watercolor Society
· Invited Workshop Leader ? Ocean County Artists Guild
· Mountain Maryland Plein Air Competition
· Solomons Plein Air Festival
2015:
· 148th Annual International Exhibition American Watercolor Society
· Blick Merchandise Award and Sylvan Grouse Guild Medal - 36th Annual International Exhibition Pennsylvania Watercolor Society
· 115th Anniversary International Exhibition Philadelphia Watercolor Society ? Bonnie and Harrison vonDuyke Award for Transparent Watercolor
· Published interview June/July issue Plein Air Magazine
· First Prize, Artists Choice Award and 2nd Place Quick Draw - Mountain Maryland Plein Air
· Invited Demonstration Artist Pennsylvania Watercolor Society International Exhibition
· Invited Workshop Leader Carmen's Gallery in Solomons, MD
· Invited Workshop Leader Ocean County Artist's Guild
· Selected St. Cuthberts Mill Facebook cover image for April
· Juror of selection and awards Greater Norristown Art League's Open Juried Show
· Chester County Studio Tour
· Mountain Maryland Plein Air Competition
· Easels in Frederick Plein Air Competition
· Solomons Plein Air Festival
2014:
· National Watercolor Society Award for Excellence in Water media - Philadelphia Water Color Society Annual Exhibition of Works on Paper
· First Place - Delaware Valley Art League Juried Show at West Chester University
· Robert Guthrie Memorial Award, Third Prize Nocturnal Quick Draw - Solomons Plein Air Festival
· Winsor & Newton Award ? 35th Annual Pennsylvania Watercolor Society Int?l Exhibition
· M. Graham & Co. Award - Baltimore Watercolor Society's Mid-Atlantic Exhibition
· Special Longwood Membership Award - Delaware Valley Art League's Painting the Meadow Plein Air Competition
· Invited Demonstration Artist Mid Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association Annual Meeting
· Invited Workshop Leader Greater Norristown Art League
· Chester County Studio Tour
· Easels in Frederick Plein Air Competition
· Plein Air Telluride Competition
· Painting the Meadow Plein Air at Longwood Gardens
· Solomons Plein Air Festival
Biography:
Glass artist, Paige Lizbeth Morris, holds a BFA (Cum Laude), with a concentration in Glass, from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. She has worked professionally as an Adjunct Professor at Salem Community College, Fabricator for the Artist, Ebony G. Patterson, Art Assistant to Artist and Educator, Anna Boothe, and Instructor at Fleisher Memorial, among many other professional experiences. Paige has exhibited widely in the Philadelphia area, including exhibitions at the Philadelphia Sculpture Gym, MIST Online Gallery, and the Stella Elkins Gallery at the Tyler School of Art.
Biography:
Artistic Statement
My artwork is best described as atmospheric representationalism. Still life, figures in landscape and portraits are my preferred subject matter.
My influences are mostly sixteenth and seventeenth century Italian and Spanish painters; I am perhaps most informed by the use of oil paint as an expressive medium by the Venetian artists of the sixteenth century.
The primary aspiration of my efforts is to paint pictures whose effect of meaning is achieved through a very acute balance of color, light and shadow and scale of forms.
Biography:
Robert Waddington earned his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine, and earned his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia.
Throughout his long career of teaching, he has taught at The School of Visual Arts, Moore College of Art, Art Institute of Philadelphia, Ursinus College, and guest lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. At the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he has taught for more than a decade, he currently teaches a variety of specialized classes including Bookbinding, Anatomy, Renaissance Painting and Drawing, and Printmaking.
He is represented by the Rodger Lapelle Gallery in Philadelphia and his work is in numerous corporate and private collections. His work has also been featured in museum juried shows.
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Scott Noel began teaching and exhibiting in Philadelphia in 1980, after completing undergraduate study at Washington University in Saint Louis. Since that time he has mounted over 30 solo exhibitions at galleries, universities and museums as well as many group shows. Solo shows have appeared at the State Museum in Harrisburg, the University of Virginia, the Bowery Gallery, the Painting Center and fifteen exhibitions at the More Gallery, Mangel Art Gallery and Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia.
Noel has curated exhibitions for museums, including The Evidence of the Senses at the Woodmere Art Museum in 1990 and Imaginative Affinities: Echoes of Edwin Dickinson in Contemporary American Painting at PAFA in 2002. He has also written catalog essays for peers and forbears, including Lennart Anderson, Larry Day, Rose Naftulin and Sangram Majumdar. Noel's paintings are included in numerous private, public and corporate collections. He has received grants from the Bader Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Independence Foundation as well as a fellowship to the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. His work has been reviewed in Arts and Art in America and he has twice been profiled in American Artist.
Noel teaches figure drawing and painting in the Certificate/BFA and MFA programs at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and is a critic in the MFA program.
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V A L R O S S M A N
Val Rossman has been working as a professional artist for over 30 years. During her career she has had more than 21 one-person shows and been in numerous group shows in Philadelphia, Delaware, Vermont, New Jersey, Florida and New York. She has won several prizes, including the Award for Excellence at The State Museum of Pennsylvania, and at the Cheltenhan Art Center Annual Painting Show. In addition, she has been on the faculty of Main Line Art Center for the past 20 years as a teacher of abstract art. She has lectured at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and done a workshop at the River Arts Center in Vermont. Her work has also been seen on Bravo Cable Television.
Rossman?s work has been collected by both individual and corporate clients in the U.S. and abroad. Some of these include Blue Cross of Greater Philadelphia, AT&T, United Pacific Life Insurance, MasterCard International, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Bank, Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania and Hebrew University.
Val Rossman has been creating drawings and paintings in her studio in Philadelphia for the last 25 years. Her work has gone through various stages, however, her wonderful sense of color combined with a lyrical and often whimsical mentality have always infused her drawings with a lush and personal aura. The combination of rich and unexpected hues and gestures with sometimes questioning formats give the work an unforgettable presence.
In addition to her career, Val is married to Louis Rossman, a reknowned Endodontist. They have two children, Lexy, age 32 and Benjamin, age 26 and son-in ?law, Patrick, age 33. The family enjoys many outdoor activities together such as skiing, rock climbing and traveling.
