GALLERY ARTISTS

Melanie Levitt

Melanie Barash Levitt graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1990. She currently lives in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and is the owner of Jackson Art Studio. Melanie is an award winning artist who paints in a loose, impressionistic style with a brush or a palette knife. As a plein air painter, Levitt paints on location braving the elements to capture the mood of the scene.
Her favorite subjects are the mountains, rivers and small farms of New Hampshire and the rugged coasts of Maine. Her artwork resides is in the home of many collectors through the US, Canada and Europe. She exhibits her work in galleries and juried shows throughout NH, ME, VT and NY.
She has been featured on Boston Chronicle (WCBV TV ABC), NH Chronicle (WMUR 9) and has been published in various newspapers and magazines. She has received numerous awards for her paintings in regional shows and juried plein air events and is a member of the Salmagundi Club in NYC.

David Ladd

David Ladd is a fine art oil painter whose work focuses primarily on the landscapes of Vermont and New Hampshire, capturing the subtle shifts of light, atmosphere, and seasons that define the New England experience. While best known for his landscapes, he also enjoys the challenge of portrait painting, seeking to capture the distinct presence and character of each sitter.
Working largely from direct observation, his paintings reflect a deep commitment to the traditions of representational painting. A lifelong student of art, David pursued formal studies in college before earning a degree in finance, continuing his artistic education through dedicated study with painters he admires, including Mark Boedges, T.J. Cunningham, and Paul Batch.
His work has been exhibited in numerous juried shows, including the Lyme Art Association. He was awarded Best in Show at the West Hartford Art League. In addition to his studio practice, David teaches painting and serves on the board of the Art School at Fletcher Farm.

Kristen Adams

Kristen earned her MA in Art with concentrations in Painting and Photography from the University of Saint Francis in 2017. She spent over a decade pouring her creative energy into wedding and portrait photography. Over time, her passion for animals and love of the outdoors gradually drew her back to her first artistic love...oil painting.
Kristen’s art features wildlife scenes inspired by her time in nature and the wild animals she’s seen right in her own backyard within the White Mountains of Northern New Hampshire. She works in oil and brings each painting to life with gold, silver, or copper leaf. She uses the metal leaf to depict leaves, light glinting off of water, and other components of nature. Depending on the angle you view each painting at the metal leaf reflects and changes which gives a sense of movement to a piece that represents the feeling of being outside in nature, where everything is constantly moving and ever-changing.

Christy Hughes

Christy, who currently resides in Newmarket New Hampshire, earned a degree in Studio Art and Education from Denison University in 1997. She committed herself to painting with oils after moving to New Hampshire in 2010, and continues to study with other artists on the Seacoast and around the world. She usually paints quickly and loves to fill her canvas with color, but has learned to slow down her process in order to focus on design and mark making.
Christy is most excited when painting from life. The subjects of her work vary from landscapes and seascapes, to figurative paintings, but they all express joy and warmth. What she loves most about painting is that it "gives her a chance to slow down and really focus on the beautiful moments in life that we are often too busy to enjoy."

Cam Sinclair

Cam Sinclair, who resides in Plymouth New Hampshire, retired in 2006 after a thirty-five year career in public education as a guidance counselor, wrestling, and soccer coach. He remained active as a coach and referee in both sports through 2019. He went on to become an inductee of the New England Wrestling Hall of Fame and New Hampshire Coaches Hall of Fame. He was born in Shanghai, China and spent most of his youth growing up in Mumbai, India. His later teen years were spent between Connecticut, Vermont, and Pennsylvania.
He and his wife Sherry, of 50 years, are proud grandparents of three grown grandchildren. Second only to his family, Cam’s true love is painting. After 3+ decades of painting on weekends and summer breaks, retirement has allowed him to devote more time to being an artist. He specializes in landscapes, working in oils and oil pastels. Being self-taught, Sinclair took up painting after he graduated from Springfield College in Massachusetts with a Master’s Degrees in Psychology.
Cam's love of the rural New England landscape is evident in his artwork as he strives to capture the different moods and lighting of the ever changing mountains, fields, streams, and lakes. His paintings have won “Best in Show” awards at numerous art shows over the years. Sinclair’s artwork caught the eye of an art critic from the Boston Globe Newspaper who described his smaller paintings as “Impressionistic Jewels.”

Jean Kennedy

Originally from England, Jean worked in academia in the New York area for many years before retiring to Gilford, New Hampshire. She was attracted by the natural beauty in this state, especially in the Lakes Region where you don't have to go far to be inspired. Her current artwork is primarily in oils, although she originally began painting in watercolor. To improve her skills she has taken many workshops and classes from professional artists over the years in both mediums. Her work covers different topics but she particularly enjoys painting florals.

Jessie Wilmott

Jessie Wilmott is a painter of various mediums and styles for over 27 years, including a background in ceramics and art history. She credits much of her early education and inspiration to the late New Hampshire painter, Murray Loss, who she greatly misses and draws influence from to this day.
While she currently works with some oils and drawing tools, acrylics are her primary medium of choice. Jessie paints a broad range of imagery including subjects ranging from abstract to realism, landscape, wildlife, architecture, and florals. Today she is a full time artist regularly teaching classes for all ages, taking commissions, and participating in various events across New England.

Robbie Muzinich

Robbie is a watercolor artist and the creative force behind Holy Hope Designs. Based in Moultonborough, New Hampshire, Robbie works exclusively in diminutive watercolors, focusing on themes of lakes and landscapes, as well as florals. With a commitment to expressing the beauty of the Lakes Region, Robbie seeks to create unique pieces that combine elements of abstract expressionism with impressionism to showcase the area’s natural wonders.
Through a thoughtful exploration of watercolor techniques including layering, fluid washes, and delicate brushwork, Robbie captures both the stillness and movement found in nature. Each piece reflects a quiet reverence for light, seasonality, and scenery, inviting the viewer into an intimate and contemplative experience.
By working on a small scale, Robbie emphasizes detail and intentionality, encouraging a closer connection between the artwork and its audience. Robbie’s work is rooted in a sense of faith, hope, and reflection, with the goal of sharing beauty and meaning through art.

Tristan MacDonald

Tristan has been painting for as long as he can remember. He has always loved working with and from subjects that he has a personal connection with, ranging from pets, to objects, or nearby scenery. He graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in Studio Art in 2024, concentrating on painting and printmaking. He is continuing his professional career by pursuing an MFA at Boston University.
Tristan is interested in "the act of seeing and its relation to knowing, as his art is a record of his attempts to come to know each subject, using the processes of drawing, painting, and printmaking to arrive at the most essential kernel of the subject."

Norma Torti

Norma Torti is a NH seacoast oil painter in the Boston School Impressionist tradition. Her representational paintings combine inviting compositions and accurate drawing with emphasis on full color and light to create atmosphere in her paintings. Living in New England her whole life and her interest in art history, specifically the Boston School Impressionist painters of the early 1900s, influence her choice of subjects and style of painting. She recently studied with Paul Ingbretson, master teacher of the Boston School Atelier.
Sharing her talents with the community is important to Norma. She created the "Arts for Angels Program" of Annie's Angels Memorial Fund of NH. The program brings customized art projects to people with disabilities in assisted living, hospice, and adult day-out programs.

Linda Sullivan

Linda Sullivan is a modern impressionist artist who studied at the "Art Institute of Boston", and works primarily in oils. Much of her work begins outdoors and depicts various New England scenes such as coasts, woodlands, and lakelands.
Linda’s paintings have been recognized for numerous awards, and have were juried into both national and local shows. She currently resides in Biddeford Pool, Maine where her studio is located.

Janet Sanguedolce

Janet Sanguedolce is an artist living and working in Meredith, NH. Sanguedolce studied art at the University of Wisconsin-Superior, where she developed a love for pottery and Clark College in Dubuque, Iowa, where the visual arts took hold. She completed a masters program in art education and studio art at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, NH.
Her current art focuses on nature and music as a visual themes. Learning and living the music trade has developed an appreciation for the time and practice it takes to become accomplished enough to share this art with the public and thus has blended and infiltrated into her art world.
Hiking ,biking, and kayaking have offered the opportunities for Janet to spend time with mother nature which inspires much of her encaustic work. Recently retired as a professional educator, Sanguedolce is currently working as an artist, musician, and adjunct professor at Plymouth State University.

Richard Canto

Richard has been drawing and painting for as long as he can remember. Mostly self-taught, he attended "The Art Institute of Boston" at the age of 16, the youngest student to be enrolled there at the time. Finding the curriculum too restricting for his personality, he left to pursue his own path.
Not one to be confined to any one medium or subject matter, he also worked in custom automotive painting and pinstriping, winning First Place at the age of 16 for his custom work on a 1962 Pontiac Bonneville at the New York Colosseum. He built his own log cabin in Gilmanton Iron Works, NH, where he currently resides, as well as restoring a Concord Stagecoach, soon to be on exhibit at The Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana.
His mediums of choice include oil, acrylic, spray paint, as well as sculpture in fiberglass. He has recently returned to fine art in acrylics upon retiring, mostly concentrating on landscapes and still life. His work has been shown in Buckhead, Atlanta, Georgia; Arlington Massachusetts, and is currently being shown in galleries in Tilton, NH, Portsmouth, NH, and now the Acacia Coll Gallery.

Josee Severino

Naturally Art by Josee brings the beauty and soul of nature to life through soft, textured pastel paintings. Inspired by the serene landscapes and animals surrounding my home in Candia, New
Hampshire, she creates art that embodies warmth, gentleness and connection to the natural world.
With each pastel stroke, Josee aims to capture the quiet elegance of nature while allowing its
individual spirit to shine through. Whether it is a heartfelt pet portrait, or a tranquil woodland
scene, her work is a reflection of soft colors, rich textures and the peaceful essence of outdoors.

Jaylene Bengtson

Jaylene Bengtson is a retired art educator who’s teaching experience spans middle, high, and college level students. She now produces art full time from her home studio, enjoying the creative process through a variety of media and subject matter, from landscape and portrait to abstract work.
Having earned a Doctorate with a focus in expressive art, she also offers multi-media workshops for those seeking to use art as an expressive language in their journey toward healing and sustained emotional wellness. Her artwork may also be viewed on Instagram at Jaylene k. Bengtson.

Dottie Laughlin

Dottie is an impressionistic oil painter who paints traditional realism of both landscapes and florals. Her work is noted for its soft rendering and beautiful colors. New England’s natural beauty and inspiring artists have encouraged, and given her the opportunity to paint both Plein-air and in the studio.
Originally from the Midwest, her 25
years of enjoying Center Harbor and the Lakes Region have attributed to her painting many of these landscapes. She credits her many years of study to the Boston Guild Artist William Bartlett, of the Danforth Museum School in providing artistic guidance.

Ann L'Italien

Ann, who grew up in Laconia NH, would often turn over her test papers to doodle in early grade school. She would sometimes use drawing paper found in odd places as a child, such as the packaging of undergarments. She went on to study art at U.N.H, as well receiving instruction from her friend and fellow oil painter, Susan MacDonald.
Her desire to pursue art has been life-long, but the trials and responsibilities of life have often gotten in the way. Now that Ann has the freedom to pursue her dreams, she is fully immersed in her passion for art, but has yet to settle on a favorite style.
She feels there is so much to admire and has a lot of learning ahead. She loves nature, beautiful scenery, and animals, but also finds human figure and architecture compelling subjects. She is interested in studying almost everything for her work, and believes we are all here to learn and grow.

Wendy Wilson

Wendy works both en plein air and in the studio in watercolor, oil, ink, and mixed media, each influencing the other. She has allowed her imagination and observations of nature to come together to create some works that are realistic while others are more abstract.
She is never satisfied pursuing one medium, and creates block, eco and mono prints. She also makes books and works with fiber and found objects. Wendy lives in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, and her inspiration comes from the mountains, woodlands, lakes, and beaches of New England.

Sheri Bready

Sheri is a Massachusetts based artist whose lifelong love of drawing has blossomed into a passion for creating expressive animal portraits in pastel pencil. From an early age, she was always sketching. So much so that as a child, she filled her bedroom walls with hand-painted Disney princesses, turning her space into a world of imagination and color.
Today, Sheri channels that same sense of wonder into her artwork, focusing on animals as her primary subject. She is drawn to their personalities, emotions, and unique beauty, capturing them with remarkable softness and detail. Pastel pencils are her medium of choice, allowing her to layer and blend colors effortlessly to achieve rich textures and lifelike depth.
Through her work, Sheri celebrates the spirit of animals and the joy of creativity that has been a constant in her life from the very beginning.
Sheri's work is an intimate exploration of the creative spirit, where curated portfolios reveal a deep-seated passion for diverse styles and mediums. Drawing inspiration from natural textures and modern abstraction, Sheri provides a unique window into her creative sanctuary. Each piece is crafted to provoke reflection, offering a serene yet powerful expression of the artistry that defines her professional journey.

Alexander Rybak

Alexander Rybak’s work ranges from New England landscapes to pop culture imagery, reflecting a wide and varied approach to subject matter. He earned a degree in Art Education from Plymouth State University.
Alex also spent years teaching elementary and middle school art before shifting his focus to his personal work. His paintings are characterized by expressive loose brushwork, and a thoughtful use of light and shadow, bringing energy and life to each composition.

Fred Nold

Fred is a lifelong artist from Hebron, NH and Naples, FL. After graduating from Parsons School of Design and New York University with a degree in Fine art, Fred further honed his skills and style with the surroundings of the Hudson River as his inspiration. He soon became renowned for his Hudson River paintings. He has been a featured artist in multiple galleries and museums, and is in private collections across the United States and Europe.
While in New York, he hosted the “State of the Art” television show, a series dedicated to supporting artists and residents. Fred has
graced the cover of numerous magazines, and has been featured in several news articles.
Presently, Fred draws his inspiration from the boundless beauty of New Hampshire and the
Everglades in Florida.

Pamela Shockey

Pamela Shockey lives in North Yarmouth, Maine. She studied at Savannah College of Art and Design, Massachusetts College of Art and Design and received a BFA degree from Florida Atlantic University. She focuses on painting landscapes and still life in oil. She grew up visiting her grandparents in Maine every year since birth. She has a strong connection to the coast as well as the mountains since those travels brought her to both areas throughout her life.
She is an oil painter who focuses on Maine’s landscape and various scenery throughout New England. She also paints flowers and anything collected through beach combing. She has won several awards at local Maine shows and her work is in many private and public collections. She works out of her studio at home and you can consistently find her painting en plein air (outdoors) at a variety of stunning locations in Maine and throughout New England.

Leigh English

Leigh lives in Epsom, NH where, for over 50 years, she’s been a calligraphic artist,
combining hand-lettered text and watercolor miniatures in her award-winning artwork. As the watercolor imagery have gradually become more intriguing to her than letterforms, her focus has turned to the small paintings she creates today.
Her inspiration has always been the unique beauty of New England. The attempt to capture and convey what she loves about it is endlessly captivating, usually challenging, and always joyful. She works from photographs, as she paints slowly. She continues to work small and loves the intimacy of miniature painting and the potential for it to have a surprisingly large impact.

Nancy Barkman

Nancy's Pottery is a little eclectic. Most of her work is one of a kind, although it often belongs to a “family”. She loves to carve her work, runny glazes that pool in different ways, blues, greens, deep reds, and browns. Sometimes part of the design will be left without a glaze, allowing the toasty brown stoneware to be
seen.
All of my pots are made with glazes that are food safe, microwave safe, and dishwasher safe. When I'm in the studio I am totally immersed in my work. For a little while I forget about the craziness of the world around me.

Diane Maroun

Diane graduated from The "School of The Museum Of Fine Arts" in Boston where traditional painting was her focus. She loves old fashioned antique looking art and has spent time studying artists that work in this style. Animals, still life, and people are her favorites, particularly with strong light sources.
She has been in several shows including The "Guild of Boston Artists" on Newbury Street, local shows in the Merrimack Valley area, the gallery at The "Firehouse Center for the Arts" in Newburyport, MA, and coordinated the "Andover's Artists Guild's" "Art in the Park" show in Andover, MA for 10 years.