Exhibiting Artists
Barbara Ackerman
Mixed Media Artist
Barbara Ackerman’s recent work includes explorations in mixed media in addition to her studies in pastel. Her subject matter comes from her love of the outdoors and her painting technique is both representational and interpretive. She creates en plein air and also enjoys exploring abstractions of her observations in her studio. Color choices and composition are both visual and emotional responses to her surroundings.
barbaraackermanstudio.com
Kristen Blaker
Sculptor Former Harwood Hill Artist in Residence
Kristen creates artwork that thoroughly reflects her personality: a silly, down-to-earth veggie lover, who tries to find a way to laugh even in the worst of times. Inspired by homegrown vegetables, flower gardens, interesting animals (people included), and vintage botanical drawings, KristenBstudio’s latest collection is entirely accessible and is sure to give you a giggle (sometimes it takes a minute). As one of our artists in residence, Kristen maintains a workshop at The Harwood Hill, where she hosts crafting events, classes, and children’s day camps. Check out her website for upcoming listings.
kristenbstudio.com
970.217.6838
Amanda Bouquet
Painter
Primarily a portrait painter, Amanda combines a keen insight to her subjects with a love of pattern, color, and humor. Inspired by artists such as Klimt and Vuillard, her paintings use pattern and a flattened perspective with the figures portrayed. She has also been exploring childhood and media nostalgia with a series called Commercial Art, focusing on commercial images of the 1970s. For The The Harwood Hill, she has created a series of portraits of the animals of Vermont.
amandabouquet.com
Cheryl Brock
Mixed Media Artist
As Cheryl grew up, drawing became the way she made sense of the world and internalized abstract ideas like excellence, affectation, discipline, ambition, mediocrity, and hypocrisy. Now drawing has become her window for seeing how someone else thinks. Her work is found in private, university, and corporate collections throughout the U.S., Canada, England, Israel, and Spain. Currently, her home and studio are both in lower Manhattan.
212.243.5378
wintersand18@yahoo.com
Fred X Brownstein
Sculptor
Fred creates contemporary figurative sculpture with traditional techniques. He lived and worked in Italy for 16 years prior to moving to Vermont. During that time, he apprenticed at the marble carving studio of Enzo Pasquini in Querceta and worked in the bronze foundries of Pietrasanta. Fred is a Fellow member of the National Sculpture Society and Professional member of the Stone Carvers Guild. His artwork has been exhibited in the U.S., Canada, and Italy and is available on commission.
802.442.7174
fxsculpt@comcast.net
Caroline Bugby
Sculptor
Originally from London, England, Caroline currently lives in Greensbor0, North Carolina, where she is completing an MFA in studio arts at UNCG. She graduated from Brighton University with a BA in Fine Art Sculpture in 2011. Since then, she has been participating in residency programs in the U.S., first at Franconia Sculpture Park, Minnesota, and then at Salem Art Works, New York. She has also been a Visiting Artist speaker at Union College Schenectady and has exhibited her work in New York, Massachusetts, and Vermont. Her work has received comment in the New England publication Artscope.
carolinebugby.co.uk
Gina Carlucci
Metalsmith
A native of southern Vermont, Gina creates hand-crafted objects, primarily in silver. Brass is often mixed in; gold, copper, and bronze are occasionally incorporated into pieces as well. She draws inspiration from the material, the process, functionality, form, the Universe, and simple beauty.
ginacarlucci.com
Joe Chirchirillo
Sculptor
Joe is a large scale, outdoor sculptor who has been working in the field for over 30 years. His work has been shown all over the east coast of the U.S. and in Europe in shows, sculpture centers, and private venues.
joechirchirillo.com
Amy Cloud
Painter
Saving the earth one painting at a time is the upcycling artist Amy Cloud, using reclaimed architectural salvage as her canvas. The whimsy of her paintings captures the personalities of simple farm critters. She hopes her paintings will bring lasting enjoyment to her collectors.
acloudstudio@yahoo.co
Stella Ehrich
Painter
The most profound influence on Stella’s work came from the 16 years that she lived and painted in Italy. During that time, she studied for 7 years in Florence in the studio of Nerina Simi. She paints a variety of subjects, including landscape and still life, and travels across the U.S. to execute portrait commissions. She teaches summer workshops in landscape painting in both Tuscany and Vermont.
stellaehrich.com
J.T. Gibson
Sculptor
J.T.’s practice as a contemporary sculptor and artist investigates cultural symbols and motifs to create work that inhabits the gray area between abstraction and purpose. He is uninterested in any agenda or dogma, but rather in a pared-down aesthetic of instinctual artistic pursuit. The sculptures reference the figure, signage, or fragments of tools and machinery, and thus have a familiar yet unique and unidentifiable presence, evoking some ancient memory. They are self-sufficient objects that rely on the singular form, without adornment, to convey their power.
jtgibson.net
Kirk Larsen
Painter
Kirk is a nationally known and award-winning plein air painter. His works are featured in the permanent collection of The Museum of America and the Sea at Mystic Seaport and the 15th and 16th “Contemporary American Marine Art” national exhibitions, curated by the American Society of Marine Artists. Kirk loves doing demos and workshops and is also a professor at Parsons New School University, a film and television actor (SAG-AFTRA), a motivational speaker, and an award-winning writer recently nominated for Nassau County Poet Laureate.
kirklarsenfineart.com
Mandalika Manjusri
Painter Former Harwood Hill Artist in Residence
As a child, Mandalika was trained in documenting Buddhist temple paintings by her father, who pioneered the process of documenting 2,000 year old traditional Buddhist art in Sri Lanka. In her original works today, she infuses complexity into minimalist ideas. She’s exhibited in over 35 shows (including Yale and Columbia Universities, the United Nations, and most recently, Shanghai, China) and has been commissioned to carry out many prestigious projects in the fields of art, archaeology, and the conservation of paintings. Mandalika was born in Sri Lanka and now lives in Queens, New York.
mandalikamanjusri@hotmail.com
Angus McCullough
Mixed Media Artist and Photographer
Angus’s work illuminates and dissects contemporary ideologies through a research-driven, multidisciplinary practice. Each project begins with a central concept and works outward towards expression, changing as it grows. Since he produce works in an artisanal way, he likes to expose the action of making itself – objects that reveal their material processes, video documentation of his own activity, photographs that exhibit the action of taking the photograph, etc. – to stay close to the core thought and display his subjectivity. Angus was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and currently lives and works in North Bennington.
angusmccullough.com
Andrew Hamilton Reiss
Sculptor Former Harwood Hill Artist in Residence
Working for the earth: sustainable artisan furniture, installations, and land sculpting.
Originally from the East Coast, artisan Andrew works primarily in metal and wood, using salvaged materials exclusively and bringing a crazy wisdom in sculptural beauty to the world that bridges form and function. Andy has a background in landscape design, bilingual studies, business, and education. His love of the natural world and eye for unbridled form led him to begin creating sculpture and artisan furniture, a true artist evolving out of a practical life in the trades.
andrewhamiltonreiss@gmail.com
Lucy Rollins
Mixed Media Artist
Lucy’s drawings are inspired by the boundless detail in the natural world and her affinity for repetitive work. She hopes to create landscates, either sourced from real places or her imagination, into which viewers can slip without much thought for a little while. During the spring, summer, and fall, she is a small-scale vegetable farmer. In the winter months, she’s a full-time artist and part-time woodland creature. Williamstown, Massachusetts, is her home.
lucyrollins.com
Bob Turan
Sculptor
Bob strongly believes in and supports sponsored public art that provides both attractions for visitors and opportunities for artists. He has been a filmmaker, artist, and sculptor and has gravitated toward public art since moving to upstate New York from the Washington, DC, area. With a cinematic eye and a welder’s arc, Bob brings light, motion, and mass to his work. He often works in four dimensions, allowing time to show the kinetic aspects of a piece. The processes of welding have allowed his visions to soar. He enjoys the fabrication as much as the design, and usually refines the concept during construction.
bobturan.com
Mark Wells
Painter Harwood Hill Artist in Residence
Mark’s artistic goal is to capture the essence and mood of the New England landscape. His paintings are started outdoors in all of our seasons, and then completed in his studio, where he makes sublte compositional changes, strengthens the details, establishing color relationships and highlighting the lights and darks. His hope is that the viewer can share his love of the landscapes of the Northeast states and enjoy his attempts to bring some of that beauty to canvas.
Sadelle Wiltshire
Mixed Media and Fiber Artist
Sadelle loves the intersects of spirit-led art. She enjoys teaching as much as she enjoys creating and leads workshops in New England and beyond. She is a certified Zentangle Teacher, CZT, a Veriditas-trained labyrinth facilitator, as well as a website designer from Putney, Vermont.
pumpkinspun.com
thetangledlabyrinth.com
Jenny Wren
Illustrator, Fiber and Craft Artist
Jenny specializes in miniature sculptures and finely detailed illustrations and paintings that celebrate the natural and imaginary worlds she explores. Working in Wrenhouse, her studio and workshop, she offers responsibly produced, affordably priced Vermont-made items that include her line of illustrated cards and prints, handcrafted jewelry, and artisanal all-natural lip balms.
wrenhouse.com