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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cynthia Arieta

Cynthia Arieta is an award-winning artist who lives and paints in a creaky old farmhouse in southern New Hampshire. Her works, which are sensitive, layered, and richly textured, serve as meditations of the relationship between humans and nature.
Born in 1962, Arieta spent decades studying and refining her techniques, both in oils and acrylics, while running a small business with her husband. She has exhibited with the Oil Painters of America and received an Outstanding Acrylic Award from Bold Brush Collectors. Today, she paints full-time in her studio, working with a view of the woods she loves.

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.

Gerri Harvey

Gerri Harvey is a local painter known for her acrylic landscapes. Inspired by the lakes, mountains, and woodlands of New Hampshire’s Lakes Region, her work captures the four seasons, changing light, and quiet character of the northern New England landscape.
Harvey has exhibited her work locally for more than thirty years, and her paintings reflect a deep love of, and familiarity with, the natural beauty that defines the Lakes Region. Her work is held in private collections across the United States.

Acacia Coll (Owner)

Acacia, is a full time painter, fine art instructor, and the owner of the "Acacia Coll Gallery & Art School". She works and teaches in various mediums such as oil, acrylic, watercolor, and charcoal. Her favorite subject is, and always has been wildlife. Conservation and the beauty of nature are her primary inspirations, particularly the local wildlife in New Hampshire where she has spent most of her life. She aims to use her artwork to benefit nature and animal conservation efforts.