GUEST ARTISTS
Our guest artists cycle through the gallery on a temporary basis.
HARRIET HILL / ABSTRACT DESIGN ARTIST
Harriet Hill’s art is a vibrant tapestry of color and culture, blending her Dutch heritage with the energy of Africa, where she spent much of her life. Each piece is a celebration of joy, drawing viewers into a world where emotion and energy take form through bold, abstract designs.
With over two decades of experience working alongside survivors of war and violence worldwide, Harriet has seen firsthand the power of art to help individuals unblock emotions and find healing. Yet for Harriet, art is far more than recovery—it is a path to flourishing. She believes our creativity reveals our truest selves, enabling us to know ourselves, be fully present in relationships and make our unique contribution to the world around us.
Her art is unapologetically bold—with thick layers of paint, clean lines and fearless colors. Working with oil, gouache, and cold wax, she creates non-representational paintings that increase happiness in young and old alike. The bright colors in balanced designs bring feelings of both energy and calm.
Her paintings do more than fill a space—they transform it.
Http://www.HarrietsPaintings.com
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ANNIE PATRIZI / PAINTER
Annie Patrizi has always been driven to find outlets for her creativity - whether she is creating lush landscapes through her gardening and landscaping business, or covering canvas with elegant oils with her paint brush, she sees and celebrates the beauty of the natural world and enjoys painting the plants and creatures that call it home.
She says, "I am in perpetual awe of the wildlife I encounter, almost daily, while I’m working as a gardener or hiking for pleasure the wooded trails and open fields of my beloved Pennsylvania and Maine." She feels a personal connection with the living beings she finds and is acutely aware of the diversity of life as well as the individuality of each creature she sees. "If I can use my ability as an artist to capture the distinct personality of a particular Barn Owl, Timber Wolf, Red-Winged Blackbird, or Brook Trout and convey the connection I’ve felt with my subject then I’m in Heaven!"
Annie find the perfect outlet for sharing her respect and awe of nature through her art.
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MICHAEL KENNY / IMPRESSIONIST PAINTER
Stemming from work with relief printing, I use water-soluble mediums to create works inspired by nature. Deconstructed images, handmade prints and drawings, hand draw patterns and textures, as well as traditional painting techniques and colored papers are used and reused to explore images rooted in pattern, line, and color, often incorporating floral or vegetative motifs. Heavily influenced by early modernist painting movements, my paintings are slowly developed conversations with snapshot images of my mind’s eye. Similar conversations allowed to develop, exploration and discovery regarding the topic reveals itself during the process, sometimes leading to unexpected or unintended places. This is the essence of painting, to me. The discovery of new, sometimes surprising, conclusions about the world around you, often found in the small details.