Artist Statement: 
My recent paintings are part of a series of mountain landscapes inspired by memories and daydreams of my home state of Colorado. The mountains are in my mind's eye and I try to capture the beautiful lines of the Rocky Mountains and the colors of Colorado. The work is done from my imagination and my memories of the Colorado mountains. I work in acrylic paint, often on paper.  I enjoy experimenting with techniques and approaches borrowed from watercolor, mixed media, printmaking, and even raku pottery, to create the shapes and textures of the mountains.

I make art every day. Since 2005, I have been posting an image daily on my blog, Randi Art. (randiart.blogspot.com)
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Artist Bio: 
Randa Dubnick was born and raised in Pueblo, Colorado. As a child, she loved to draw and paint, and took art lessons from grade school through high school.

She studied painting at Southern Colorado State University and earned a BFA at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Randa also earned an MA and PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Colorado. Her dissertation on Gertrude Stein and Cubism was published by the University of Illinois Press in 1984. Although Randa left Boulder after college, going back only periodically to visit family and friends, those mountains have stayed with her all this time.
 
Randa had a long career in college teaching and administration and moved frequently, living in Lawrence, Kansas; Chicago, Illinois; and Princeton, New Jersey. In 1997 she moved to Beverly, MA.
 
She has participated in drawing groups, artist’s collectives, art auctions, group shows, and art instruction (formal and informal), whenever possible, including evening classes at Montserrat College of Art, where she was VP of Student Services from 1997 to 2004.  
 
Since 2005, Randa has been a member of Porter Mill Studios in Beverly, MA, where she maintains a studio and participates in events and exhibits.  In 2013, she began exhibiting at Galatea Fine Arts.
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Artist Statement:
Painting en plein air keeps me grounded and observing and finding relationships in the natural world has become a form of meditation for me. I spend countless hours walking along the sea and hiking into the woods photographing and taking in special moments as I move along. Yet, I do have a restless spirit and attribute my constant searching and exploration of how to express the glory and unpredictability of the environment to my being an art educator for many years. The need to explore a variety of approaches has been ever present for me. As a painter, I am not easily satisfied with my work and seek new solutions to showing a spirit, finding an element of surprise and looking beyond the surface. Helen Torr, Lois Dodd, Marsden Hartley, George Bellows are among those whose work inspires me. 
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Artist Bio: 
Yvonne Troxell Lamothe has pursued her interest in painting by both observing the natural world and being immersed in the elements. Learning and unlearning as an art educator and as a life long learner and an art maker has been an engaging process for her. Endlessly challenging her own ability, she has studied painting with many accomplished artists and now is accepting the outside world as her teacher. She has been producing both oil paintings and watercolors mainly completed en plein air. Yvonne embraces her roots in New England. Finding  intrigue with marshlands, woodlands and glorious vistas of Quincy, Massachusetts and the south shore where she now lives and her cabin in Ossipee, New Hampshire and the White Mountains where she finds solitude gives her ample inspiration for painting. Trips to the Maine coast and Vermont offer great additional and endless places to stop and paint.  It is no wonder that such a range of American painters have found their way here to New England. Among her favorites are Marsden Hartley, Lois Dodd and Milton Avery.  Her paintings show close connections to the earth because of the unusual perspectives that she finds to insure a closeness to her subject. Color is of essence to Yvonne and this joy can be felt in her work. And, of course, as the earth becomes more threatened, she hopes her paintings will inspire others to take time to appreciate and celebrate our planet. ​
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Artist Statement: 
​Upstretched branches, linear form, living presence: 
“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”
                 — Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Inspired by landscapes, dreams, and memories, I make paintings incorporating energetic figurative gesture, layered color, organic geometry such as tree branches, triangle or dot patterns, and sometimes digitally manipulated figures or objects via image transfer.
Upstretched arms of tree branches, tracing imperceptible yet undeniable growth and linear form, have been a recurring theme in landscape and abstraction. Working outside painting directly from the subject allows particular, distinct “personalities” to emerge. Trees affect our quality of life, yet are overlooked and underappreciated: unsung climate change heroes, property value anchors, intelligent elders, and constant, gracious companions. My paintings have been transitioning to more powerful massing of tree forms in silhouette, framed against bright, constrasting skies. I look forward to seeing where this shift in palette and tone takes me.

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Artist Bio: 
I’m a practicing artist and graphic designer, earned my BA and MFA in fine art, and have taught classes in both fine art and graphic design at the deCordova Museum, Worcester Museum of Art, Greenfield Community College, and University of Southern Maine. I have lived in New England for the past quarter-century, and am staying for the foreseeable future, for love of the trees, seasons, and compelling scenery taken in while driving. I currently reside in Merrimac, MA with my two daughters and one cat.