Painting Events October 9-13th 2023
MONTGOMERY, NY, 2023- The 8th Annual Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival (HVPAF) is scheduled for October 9th to 14th, 2023, presented by Wallkill River Center for the Arts (WRCA) in Montgomery, NY, the event attracts artists from across the United States to the outdoor, week-long plein air painting festival.
Keep watch for artists standing along scenic roadways or over-looks painting the beautiful fall vistas before them! Stop and chat with the artists and learn all about the challenges and pleasures of plein air painting. The breathtaking scenery of the Hudson Valley has been a joy for plein air artists and art collectors, dating back centuries. HVPAF is committed to the community’s participation in this event and has introduced a line-up of events for adults and children alike.
Reception October 14th 2023 12pm – 3pm
The festival’s reception – free to the public – kicks off at 12 p.m. on Saturday, October 14th at the Wallkill River Center for the Arts. The reception begins with a painting demonstration by our juror of awards. Following the one-hour demonstration, prizes will be awarded to the artists with the best plein air paintings completed during the festival week. In addition, the gallery will be open for viewing and sale of the paintings until 5 p.m.. Exhibition and sale of the festival paintings will continue on Sunday, October 15th through Sunday, November 5th, 2022. The Gallery is open 12-5 p.m. every Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Gallery Exhibit October 14th – November 5th 2023
Wallkill River Center for the Arts, 232 Ward Street, Montgomery, NY 12549 Open to the public Friday, Saturday and Sundays 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
EVENT CALENDAR (subject to change):
Festival Week:
Mon., October 9: 8am – 10am Check-in/Canvas Stamping at the Railroad Green in Warwick NY
Mon., October 9: 10a-1p Quick Draw at Railroad Green in Warwick NY
Tues., October 10: 9a-12p Optional Group Paintout at Seligmann Center in Sugarloaf NY
Wed., October 11: 9-12 or 1-4 Optional Group PaintOut Bashakill Wildlife Management Area
Wed., October 11: 6-8pm Nocturne Demo at City Winery Montgomery NY
Thurs., October 12: 9-12 Artist Demonstration by Andrew Lattimore and Optional Group PaintOut at Dockside Park in Cold Springs NY
Fri., October 13: 9am-12pm Optional Group PaintOut at All for One One for All Farm in Goshen NY
Friday, October 13: 2-4pm Artwork Drop Off at Wallkill River Center for the Arts
Sat., October 14: 12-1pm Juror of Awards Demonstration; 1-3pm Exhibit Opening and Reception (awards announced at 2pm)
Sun., November 5: End of Exhibit. All artwork will be left at the Gallery in order for it to remain for sale online until Dec. 31 or for inclusion in the Traveling Exhibit.
Pick Up Artwork
Fri.-Sun., January 5-7: 12-5p
QUICK DRAW COMPETITION ( Oct. 9, 10:30am-1pm, Railroad Green Park in Warwick NY )
Ready, Set, Paint! The Quick Draw Competition is a 2-hour painting competition with prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Places. You must check in and bring your canvas for stamping between 10- 10:30a on Oct. 10 and paint between 10:30a and 12:30p. Judging of framed artwork begins at 1pm. Juried Artists and Painter’s Pass Artists are both eligible for prizes in this event. Open to all others for a fee of $15. Kids 17 and under paint free (there will be special prizes for kids). For more information, please click the link for Quick Draw Competition.
NOCTURNE DEMO WITH FRED JACKSON
Wednesday October 11th at City Winery Hudson Valley
Demo begins at 6pm
Artist will allow questions and answers. Please note that this is not a painting workshop, just a demonstration.
People in the Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival that present their badge will receive a discount on dining.
Cost: Free, just a demonstration to watch
WORKSHOP WITH ANDREW LATTIMORE
Thursday, October 12th at Dockside Park in Cold Spring NY
From 9-10am, Andrew will be doing a plein air demonstration. After the demonstration participating artists will do their own paintings at the park. He will drop in with the artists as they are working on their paintings.
Cost: Included in fee for accepted Juried Artists and for Painter’s Pass Artists. Additional fee collected for general public wishing to take part.
Andrew Lattimore (www.andrewlattimore.com)
Artist Andrew Lattimore has been teaching fine art for over 25 years. At the age of 17, he went to the National Academy of Fine Arts in NY, completing his studies in 3 years. Afterwards, he went to Florence for 2 years, and then moved to UK to study landscape painting. Upon his return to the US, he quickly attracted the attention of galleries and collectors. His paintings hang in collections in the US, Italy, France, UK and Hong Kong. Andrew deeply observes color, value, texture, form and atmosphere within the landscape which contributes to the harmony and overall design of his paintings. He returns to Europe and the UK frequently to teach plein air workshops.
JUROR OF AWARDS
Garin Baker
Born in 1961 in New York City, Garin Baker was raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. With a strong focus on working from life, his realism combines an expressive nature showing a passionate engagement with a variety of contemporary subjects, including large New York cityscapes filled with bustling people to spacious rural landscapes reminiscent of the Hudson River School of Painting. To his credits are numerous gallery exhibitions and national awards. He’s also an instructor, teaching life painting and drawing at the prestigious and world renowned Art Students League in New York City.
In addition, Garin Baker runs a Public Art Mural Company, which offers apprenticeships and workshops to students and artist an opportunities to work professionally and improve their craft. Completed Public Art Projects include Murals in Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, DC, New York and Helsingor, Denmark.
His work has been a featured in American Artist, Fine Art Connoisseur & Plein Air Magazine as well as many other national and international publications in print and online.
Garin Baker’s Studio Gallery offers collectors and art connoisseurs alike an opportunity to visit and purchase in person or online from a wide selection of small plein air studies, figurative works and large studio paintings as well as prints and drawings.
As relevant then as it is today. “The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.” Baudelaire “On the Heroism of Modern Life”, The Salon of 1846.
https://www.garinbaker.com/
2023 Accepted Juried Artists
Adam Adkison
Working from life gives energy and immediacy to art. The sun moving across the sky, the smell of autumn leaves, running water, dogs and kids playing, all these elements add to the work. I work from life as much as possible, the ability to incorporate the energy of my surroundings into art is energizing and fun. When looking at my work it’s my hope that these traces of life shine through the paint. I’ve been incredibly influenced by the art, music, and writing of others. It’s my hope that my work is inspiring and helps others carry this excitement into creative projects of their own, into their own life. To be part of this flow of creativity is one of the most humbling experiences of my life and I am ever grateful.
Stefan Allen
Stefan was born in San Diego California in 1997 and then moved to upstate New York where he lives to this day. He has always been a visual artist, with a start into the arts at the age of 3, a childhood of filling sketchbooks and a high school experience spent primarily in the school’s art department. This led to a few semesters at the Maryland Institute College of Art which opened up to doorway to eventually landing at the Vienna Academy of Visionary Art (VAVA) for 5 year in Vienna, Austria. Throughout this time period Stefan became completely immersed and influenced by both the long standing traditional art which defines Vienna and a dynamic roster of Visionary Artist teachers through his studies at VAVA. Eventually becoming an essential member of the VAVA team as the studio monitor and figure drawing instructor. Currently Stefan makes comic books, paints en plein air, studies anatomy, and teaches art out of his studio space in the Lower Mill building in Honeoye Falls, NY.
Elisabeth Barnett
I took up oil painting as a way to deeply connect with nature and the outdoors, seeking to capture images with resonance or beauty. I find it a joyful practice and am especially happy when I can create a painting that connects with others.
In the summer, I generally paint in plein air, but turn to photographs for inspiration in the winter. Rhinebeck and environs are often the focus of my work, but I also love painting in new settings.”
Christina Boyd is an artist based in Schuylerville, NY. Though trained in digital forms of art, she was introduced to plein air painting as an extension of her love for the natural world. Working in all kinds of outdoor settings, and allowing her work to be shaped by the light, sounds, and textures around her bring balance to her corporate career.
Maryann Burton
NJWCS, NEWS Maryann studied Advertising and Watercolor at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art. Her corporate career began at Ziff Davis Publications, Park Avenue, New York in their Advertising Department. She has attained signature status in the North East Watercolor Society, New Jersey Water Color Society, and Hudson Valley Art Association, is an elected member of the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Inc.(serving as a board member), a fellow with the American Artists Professional League, The Pennsylvania Watercolor Society. Maryann teaches traditional watercolor, watercolor on yupo, at MBurtonArt Studio&Gallery in Moonachie, NJ, and Plein Aire watercolor, as well as hosts other artists’ workshops. Maryann has shown her paintings and won awards in various art venues. Her work is part of collections worldwide.
www.MaryannBurton.com www.MBurtonArt.com
Monica Cohen
Monica Cohen was born in the Coquimbo Region of northern Chile. She began studying design
as a teenager and refined her craft at the University of Chile.
She continued her education in the United States studying computer graphic design and
traditional oil painting. In 2006, Monica was commissioned to create a pen and ink drawing of
the first post office in Ellenville, New York. This would be the first of many historical drawings
of the region. The drawings, based on old post cards and photographs, unlocked a new facet of Monica’s
creativity. In 2008, she created another series of pen and ink drawings of the Village of New
Paltz and has since captured the spirit of many other towns in the Catskills and Hudson Valley in
this way. Over the past three years, Monica focused on oil painting through plein air and still life projects. She is an active member of the Wallkill River Center for the Arts. Monica is dedicated to perfecting her technique as a multimedia artist.
Cathy Copeland
Cathy Copeland is an award winning pastel painter. Copeland grew up in New Paltz, NY where she still lives and paints. Copeland is a member of the Pastel Society of America and the Connecticut Pastel Society. Combining her love of a good hike and her need to create, led her to plein air painting. Copeland strives to capture the radiance and subtleties of light and shadow in the landscape while evoking emotional response from the viewer. CathyCopelandFineArt.com
Patricia Cummins
Born in NY, Patricia Cummins completed her undergraduate studies at CUNY. Upon graduation, she moved to Florida, intrigued by the color and light of the subtropics. She continued her post-graduate studies at Florida International University. She has taught art for 36 years at Miami-Dade County Public Schools and Barry University. She has served residencies at 15 US National Park Artist-in-Residence programs. For 12 years, Pat has exhibited her work and presented seminars at Walt Disney World’s International Festival of the Arts, and Flower and Garden Festival. Her work is featured in collections throughout the US. In 2015, her national park paintings traveled to Africa and exhibited at the American Embassy in Niamey, Niger. Her paintings were included in a National Park Exhibition, at the Smithsonian in Washington, D. C. Pat was awarded Elementary Art Educator of the Year in 2015 by the Florida Art Ed Association. Pat currently is painting at her studios in FL and Ulster County,NY.
Daisy de Puthod
Born in Paris, France to a family of artists Daisy knew from a very young age, she would be an artist. Believing in the value of a strong drawing foundation, Daisy works in all mediums, oils, pastels, watercolors, gouaches, acrylics, pencils, or charcoal. Her work is representational, leaning towards Impressionism. Early on Daisy de Puthod drew fashion illustration for magazines and books, advertising design & architectural renderings, coloring for Marvel comics, pastel portraits and home portraits in watercolor done on location. In 2000, Daisy found her passion in plein-air painting in oils, she was juried in 25 Plein Air shows across the country, the artist is a signature member of the American Impressionist Society and the New York Plein-Air Painters, featured in multiple shows in the Northeast and in NYC at the Grand Central Station, the National Arts Club, the Salmagundi Club and the Pen & Brush Club.
www.daisydeputhod.com.
daisydeputhod@gmail.com
Catherine deCesare
An Illustrator who enjoys plein air painting. She attended school in Connecticut and Massachusetts and then settled in NYC where she received a BFA in illustration from School of Visual Arts. With a love for drawing and form, De Cesare translates her unique vision into paintings. De Cesare lives and paints in the Hudson Valley in Warwick, New York. catherinedecesare.com
Calina Franzosa
Calina Franzosa lives and paints in Alexandria, VA. She paints both outside and in studio 340 at The Torpedo Factory. In 2023 Calina earned her Masters in Art from the Academy of art university. Calina states, “I love being outdoors and experiencing nature, but the moments are fleeting; painting is how I can stop time, freeze a moment, and preserve it. My paintings focus on creating a sense of space, tranquility, and nostalgia.” Calina loves to travel and it affords her the opportunity to experience different cultures and landscapes. She enjoys bringing these experiences to her studio practice, painting from studies done on location. Calina explains, “As a traveler I find myself attracted to the everyday scenes that make places both unique and familiar. My oil paintings capture the scapes: land, sea, city, and sky. Whether it be an intimate landscape or an epic vista; give me the great outdoors!
Amy Galinko
Amy Galinko is deeply inspired by colors and patterns found in nature. Her watercolor paintings emphasize the energy and light that she observes throughout the continuously changing seasons. She enjoys painting landscapes in the Lower Hudson Valley region where she lives and is often commissioned to paint portraits of private homes and other local landmarks. Amy creates watercolor collage illustrations by cutting her painted papers and recycling them into something new and beautiful. She draws inspiration for her collages from the wonder and awe through which her three young children experience the world. Amy lives in Cortlandt Manor, NY with her husband, their three young children and a flock of rebellious chickens.
Seana Gahhagher
Seana Gallagher is an artist from Alexandria, VA. She received BA and teaching certificate in Art Education at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and an MS at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. A longtime student at the Art League of Alexandria she studies portrait, figure, and landscape. She participates in plein air art competitions, art shows, and art fairs including The Art League of Alexandria, Friends of the Yellow Barn, and Art on the Avenue and was a featured artist in Elan Magazine. Seana is a Copyist at The National Gallery of Art and a member of the Master Art Copyists. She has a permanent exhibition of aviation-related paintings at the FAA’s Air Traffic Control System Command Center. She maintains a studio and teaches classes and workshops in Alexandria, VA.
Regina Gelfer
Regina is a graphic designer, illustrator and painter residing in the Hudson Valley. She began her career as a studio artist for Archie Comic Publications; and later became editor of “Jughead’s Pal Hot Dog” comic. She also did a brief stint with Marvel Comics pencilling their Barbie comic.
Regina currently works as a graphic designer/illustrator for a non-profit organization.
Memberships include the Garrison Art Center, Putnam Arts Council, Hudson Highland Plein Air Painters Club and the Fest for Beatles Fan Artists Club. She was thrilled to receive the award for Best Nocturne painting, “Leave the Light on For Me” at the 2021 Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival. She also received First Place for her illustration, “Compassion in Action” for the 2021 Nation Anti-Vivisection Society’s Art for Animals Competition.
Her paintings and illustrations reside in private collections, libraries and corporations.
She is a graduate of SUNY Purchase School of Art & Design with a BFA in visual arts.
Jennifer Gibson
Jennifer Gibson is an artist and illustrator based in Trumansburg, NY, in the Finger Lakes region. Gibson works in watercolor, gouache, and oils. For the past several years she has participated in various plein air festivals where she enjoys the challenge of painting on location and meeting other artists. Gibson teaches painting at the Community School of Music and Art in Ithaca, NY. Her work may be viewed at www.jgibsonillustration.com
Keith Gunderson
Keith Gunderson studied at the Art Students League under the renowned painters Frank Mason, David Leffel, Nelson Shanks, Harvey Dinnerstein and Gustav Rehberger. Exhibited widely, his drawings and paintings are in numerous private and corporate collections and his work has been featured in international publications and media. Recent awards include 2023 Best in Show Elting memorial library exhibition, New Paltz, NY, Best In Show at the Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival in both 2018 and 2017, and Best in Show in the 2018 “Frank Mason and his Legacy Exhibition” at the Bryan Gallery in Cambridge, Vermont, n 2016 he was selected as one of 22 artists to exhibit in the Art Students League of New York Centennial Exhibition. He has participated in numerous plein air painting competitions and events throughout the northeast and in Florida. He currently teaches popular studio and online classes in figure drawing at the Woodstock School of Art in Woodstock, NY
Hema Gupta
I am a self-taught artist working primarily in watercolors. I enjoy watercolors for their spontaneity and challenge. My artwork has been exhibited in many shows and purchased by several art patrons. A house portrait commissioned by the Freehold Heritage society is on permanent display at the Oakley farmstead museum in Freehold, NJ. I have won several awards in plein air contests.
Signature member of the Northeast watercolor society , associate member of the Garden State Watercolor Society.
Cynthia Harris-Pagano
Cynthia Harris-Pagano specializes in portraits, still-life and landscapes in oil and pastel. She works out of her north light studio in Otisville, NY, one hour northwest of NYC. Her paintings are in public and private collections in the USA, Canada and Europe.
George Hayes
George is an award winning, international artist who was represented by the Wallkill River Center for the Arts. He was one of the founding members of the school. George taught palette knife techniques, and perspective at the school. He has exhibited in many venues throughout the New York region. His paintings hang in many private home collections throughout several states and in Ireland, as well as in private homes in Maine. George paints in plein air and studio and enjoys the Maine outdoors where he currently lives. Mediums used are oil, pastel, charcoal and acrylic – to create various works.
Susan Lais Hostetler
I am new to the plein air festival circuit, have only participated in one to date. I get an adrenaline rush from plein air painting and life figure painting. Largely self taught, my style has been described as: loose and fresh in figure studies & fast-sketch art, and lovely in landscapes and vintage barns. A long-time resident of Hudson Valley and NYC, I often find subject matter during hikes along the Hudson River.
I was accepted at the 123rd Annual Open Exhibition at the National Art Club, NYC, Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, and was the recipient of their highest watercolor honor: The Edgar A. Whitney Memorial 2020 Prize. I was juried into permanent signature membership to the Nat’l Assn of Women Artists (NAWA) in NYC in 2021. I was exhibited at NYC’s Tribeca gallery, OneArtSpace, in late 2022 where I won the Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation Award. I’ve taught watercolor classes and hold plein air painting sessions at my home. Instagram/Facebook/Website: SusanLaisHostetler
Fred Jackson
Fred Jackson has sketched the outdoor landscape since a young age with his father, an artist; “Some dads play catch with their sons, my dad took me outdoors to draw”. Fred’s interest in art and nature guided him to the design field of landscape architecture, were for 30 years he practiced as a landscape architect designing public spaces.
Fred began oil painting the landscape about 8 years ago with a desire to explore a personal expression of nature. In 2022, Fred was an award-winning juried artist at eight prestigious national plein air events. Fred’s paintings express his perceptions and emotional response to the variety of patterns and moods evoked from observations of a place.
Tami Louco
Tami Louco was introduced to plein air painting in high school, painting garages in an alley behind her art teacher’s house in western Pennsylvania. She continued practicing art making at Geneva College and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, majoring in both Studio Art and English Literature. Having worked in many different fields (interior designer, high school English teacher, executive assistant, to name a few) Tami transitioned from painting murals and faux finishes to “fine art”. Preferring to paint from life, her subjects include landscapes, interiors, portraits, and the figure. In recent years Tami has participated in many plein air events, allowing intense focus on and appreciation of unique American landscapes.
Alison Lusardi
Alison Lusardi is a Fine Art Painter based in the Hudson Valley, capturing local landscapes and those from her travels. She also loves still life, particularly gorgeous blooms and capturing their beauty and texture brings her joy. Most Recently her painting was part of the Garrison Art Centers “”59 Views of the Hudson Valley””, she also is part of the Cornwall on Hudson Art Walk.
William Martin
William Martin is an artist residing in New Jersey with a great love for plein air painting and reportorial drawing and illustration. He holds a BFA in illustration from Pratt Institute, and studied with the David Passalacqua School of Drawing and Illustration and the Dalvero Academy. His designs and illustrations have been featured on album covers, tour books, posters, first day cover prints, in local galleries, and at the Mystic Seaport Museum. When he isn’t at work, painting or drawing, he can be found spending time with his wife and two children, and Lily, the family west highland terrier.
Helene Mazur
Inspired by fresh air and the ever-changing views of the outdoors, I have fallen for the total immersion and intense pleasure of trying to layer texture, light and color onto a canvas to capture the essence of place. During the past 10 years new worlds have opened for Helene into the exciting world of plein air painting. For the first 50 years of her life Helene never picked up a paintbrush, and now she can’t put it down. Her work is energetic and filled with lyrical brush work. “It is all about transforming my emotions onto a canvas to convey an experience.” Despite the fact Helene does not have a traditional art school background, it has not stopped her from diving headfirst into painting competitions, outdoor art shows and a wide variety of art workshops. “Nothing is easy about painting outdoors, but it makes me come alive in ways that are impossible to put back in the bottle.”
Karen Meneghin
Karen Meneghin (BFA Painting/Printmaking) is a contemporary impressionist painter of plein-air landscapes and studio portraits.
RESIDENCIES
Met Copyist Program, 2019, “Fontainebleau: Oak Trees at Bas-Bréau,” Camille Corot, Met Museum, NYC
Catskill Fly Fishing Center & Museum, 2020, The Landscape Sketch Workshop (based on Camille Corot)
TEACHING + WORKSHOPS
Zane Grey Plein Air, 2018–2023, NY/NJ/PA Host of Live and Hybrid Programs
Debra Moffitt
I am a representational artist whose favorite medium is oil, I also enjoy small studies in gouache. I paint ‘en plein air’; winters are usually spent in the studio further developing plein air studies and creating still life and figurative paintings.
David Munford
David Munford is a painter and printmaker whose work deals primarily with the landscape as subject. Originally from Colorado, he studied painting and printmaking at the Art Institute of Boston, later relocating to the Catskill Mountains of New York State, where he currently lives and works. Inspired by the natural beauty of the Catskills and Hudson Valley region, he often paints on location, “en plein air,” preferring to work directly from nature as much as possible. Munford is a member of the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, and current member and president emeritus of the Wurtsboro Art Alliance. He holds a B.A. from Empire State College and an MFA from the State University of New York in New Paltz.
Chrissy Pahucki
Chrissy is a New York artist known for her plein air landscape paintings. Her awards include Best of Show at: Sloatsburg Plein Air and Morristown Plein Air. Other plein air awards include: People’s Choice at Morristown, Second Place at Hudson Valley Plein Air festival and Best Depiction of Nature at Ellicott City. She is a member of the National Oil & Acrylic Painters Society and Plein Air Artists Colorado. Chrissy is a founder of the Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival and PlenAir.Store.
Jeanne Plekon
I paint plein air landscapes in the Hudson Valley and in Borrego Springs, California. I have trained in workshops with John C. Traynor in New Hampshire, Saim Caglayan in Borrego Springs, CA, Kate McGloughlin in Woodstock, NY, Bill Gallen, from Santa Fe, and Thomas Jefferson Kitts from Portland, OR. I have a BS degree in studio art and art history, a Masters in Art History and Museum Studies, and I completed all but my dissertation for a PhD, specializing in landscape painting in the 18th century. This focus was foundational for my painting today. Creating art was my first love, and now – after a 35 year detour in the corporate world – I am back at it. I paint with various local Plein Air groups in the Hudson Valley and Southern California. In the Hudson valley, I exhibit in the artEast Open Studio Tour, various farmers markets, and at occasional group shows, and in California at the Borrego Art Institute, at a community arts festival, and at the Borrego Soroptimists Art Studio Tour.
Heather Prasch
Heather Prasch is a lifelong New Jersey resident. Heather gravitated to art at an early age and never stopped creating . Over the last several years Heather has focused on expanding her art
knowledge and skills through classes and workshops, and making art a daily part of life. Growing as an artist is a journey and Heather’s unique style is still evolving Heather works in watercolor, gouache and oil. Heather has focused primarily on landscapes but also enjoys painting birds, still life and florals. Plein Air painting is a new passion and Heather can be found outside with paint and an easel in a wide range of locations during the warmer months, and occasionally even in the cold of winter.
Heather is a member of the American Impressionist Society, NJ Art Association; Center for Contemporary Art, Garden State Watercolor Society and Morris County Art Association.
She has had her work displayed in several local art shows and Plein Air events.
Stephanie Reiter
Stephanie Reiter earned a BFA from Boston University in 1981. She also studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, Art Students League and New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology and is a current member of the Salmagundi Club in NYC. Her work has been displayed in numerous galleries and exhibitions. Stephanie’s work encompasses painting, sculpture, collage, poetry, jewelry and ceramics. Her website is stephaniereiter.com
Tatiana Rhinevault
Tatiana Rhinevault was born in Moscow Russia. After completing her study at the Moscow Art Institute, she was hired to illustrate the ‘Moscow Map in English’ in 1990 for the U.S., British, Canadian and Australian embassies in Moscow. In 1991 she moved to the U.S. Between 1998-2002 she was one of the permanent artists at SOHO’s Gallery Revel, in Manhattan. Her work is in collections in Japan, Italy, U.S, France, Irag, and Yugoslavia. Now she is resides in Hyde Park,NY. She won The Fenimore Art Museum 14th annual ‘Art by the Lake’ juried art ‘Best of the show’. ‘Best of the Bashakill’ award at the 2022 HVPAF Painting ‘Kayaking at the BashaKill’, ‘ Vassar Views’ James W. Palmer Gallery at Vassar College from June 1- August, 2023. www.tatianarhinevault.com
Susan Roth
Susan Roth has a Bachelors of Art from the University of Oklahoma and has been painting in the Hudson Valley Region for about 8 years. Roth is active with local arts events. Her preferred medium is oil, and paints using impressionistic and realism techniques. Her website is www.susanroth.art
Margaret Ryan
I have been painting plein-aire for the last 10 years, I have shown in many local juried and non juried shows in the Hudson Valley, my work was in River winds galleries Beacon, and Oak and oil in Katonah NY. I went to Art College in London, and worked as a Scenic artist at The Royal Opera House Covent Gardens, John Campbell Design Studios London, and since coming to the USA have worked as a scenic artist for the last 38 years as a member of the Scenic artist union Local 829; working in theater and movie productions, and being Charge Scenic of “”Sesame st”” for 15years.
Mitchell Saler
Mitchell Saler is a fine artist who primarily paints realistic landscapes in oil. In his works, he enjoys conveying vastness, dramatic lighting, and atmospheric effects. He exhibits his art in a number of venues and participates in plein air painting events. He is a member of the Salmagundi Club in NYC, Wallkill River Center for the Arts, Goshen Art League, Orange County Arts Council, and Middletown Art Group. He has received awards in various art exhibits including two awards from the Salmagundi Club. He received a BFA in Painting and Drawing, summa cum laude, from SUNY New Paltz. He lives in Middletown, NY, and teaches art classes, including private lessons. His website is mitchellsaler.com. He can be found on Facebook at www.facebook.com/mitchellsalerartist and on Instagram at https://instagram.com/mitchellsaler
Mary Mugele Sealfon
Entranced by the Hudson Valley, award winning artist Mary Mugele Sealfon, enjoys pleinair landscape painting, portrait and still life in pastel and oil. After receiving her BA painting, UCSB and MA printmaking, NYU, she pursued a graphic design career in NYC and taught at SUNY Orange and The Wallkill River School. She is represented by the Wallkill River Art Gallery, Montgomery, NY, and a member of the Garrison Art Center and several local art organizations. Recently, she participated in the Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival, the Tuxedo Plein Air and Painting Warwick Gradens. Though I grew up amidst the amazing beauty of the San Francisco bay area and the Sierra Mountains of California, I find the Hudson Valley equally inspiring. Whether portrait or landscape, I prefer to work from life. Paintings are more alive when painted on location. Perhaps the joy of the experience is somehow transferred to the painting.
Vaune Sherin
Vaune Sherin studied art at SUNY Orange and Binghamton University. She works primarily in pastel. She is inspired by the natural beauty of the Hudson Valley. Vaune is a member of the Wallkill River Center for the Arts, the Goshen Art League, and the Middletown Art Group. Plein air painting is her passion, but she also enjoys working on stillife studies.
Raymond Smith
Raymond Smith is a self-taught painter, illustrator, and graphic designer, specializing in figurative art.
He has a wide range of artistic interests and skills in both traditional and non-traditional media. He has been the art instructor for the Hoboken Homeless Shelter, and is a popular children’s art teacher in Hoboken. His ‘Hoboken Children’s Memorial Flag’ can be seen on permanent display at Hoboken City Hall, and it was Hoboken’s first public 9/11 memorial. His ”Greetings from Hoboken New Jersey” merchandise is available online at hobokenpostcard.com, at the Hoboken Historical Museum and other retail outlets in Hoboken.
Joseph Sundwall
Joseph Sundwall is an accomplished painter of portraits and figures, landscapes with animals and birds, and equestrian sporting art (polo, fox hunting, and flat track racing). He was trained at the Kansas City Art Institute, the Art Students League (NYC), and St. Oswald’s Studios in London, and is a member of the Oil Painters of America, The Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists, and The National Oil and Acrylic Painters Association. His studio is in the Regal Bag Building in Newburgh, New York, and he is represented by the J. M. Stringer Gallery in Vero Beach, Florida, and Design Domaine Gallery in Spring Lake, NJ.
Patricia Valens
Artist, Patricia Valens, has dedicated much of her life to teaching middle and high school art students in New York’s beautiful Hudson Valley. As she looks ahead she is placing emphasis on her own artistic journey. Patricia mainly paints landscapes and still lifes from life. She is especially interested in painting the world around her en plein air.
Patricia states, “In painting en plein air there is an immediacy and connection to my surroundings at that moment that I find hard to capture in any other pursuit.”
Woodie Webber
Woodie Webber is a working artist who has been exploring the medium of painting for over two decades. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions throughout the United States. Woodie’s paintings have also been the subject of multiple solo exhibitions in New York, NY and Savannah, GA and are included in private and public collections on five continents and fifty states.
Throughout his career, Woodie has utilized a wide range of materials and techniques both traditional and innovative in the creation of his work. While his working process and subject matter have evolved over the years, his objective has remained constant and unwavering. In the role of creator, Woodie’s intention has always been to create artwork that speaks truth. Woodie is in constant pursuit of “honest painting.”
Woodie earned his BA in Art from Seattle Pacific University and earned his MFA (in Painting) from the Savannah College of Art and Design.
Nancy Woogen
Nancy Woogen loves observing landscapes dance with light, shadows and color. Through various painting mediums, such as watercolor, pastels, oil and acrylic, Woogen tries to capture what she sees and experiences when painting in the Hudson Valley, with its rich history, river and landmarks. Her love of plant life and gardening can also be seen in the watercolor botanicals Woogen paints. Woogen holds a Bachelors in Art Studio from SUNY Geneseo and a Masters in Art Education from SUNY New Paltz. A retired public school art teacher, Woogen spends her time painting outdoors and in the studio as well as teaching at a local center in her area. Woogen is a member of the New York Plein Air Painters, Lower Hudson Valley Plein air Painters, and the Howland art center. Visit Woogen-art.com
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Rebecca Leer
Leer graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1982 with a BFA in Medical Illustration, began freelancing, and started studying editorial illustration at the Art Academy of San Francisco in 1983. She has received honors and awards for both her paintings and illustrations from Oil Painters of America, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, the Society of Illustrators of New York, Los Angeles Society of Illustrators and the Hudson Valley Artists Association to name a few. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Franklin Institute Museum in Philadelphia and she won the Land of Enchantment Book Award. She teaches oil painting and drawing at the Ridgewood Art Institute, New Jersey, where she is a member of the Board of Trustees.https://www.rebeccaleer.com/
Janet Campbell
Janet Campbell has always had a love of art and nature. Her initial art education was in the Botanical Illustration Program at the Bronx Botanical Garden. In the 1990s she fell in love with watercolor. She has had many inspiring teachers and among them found Mel Stabin most helpful in her evolution. Her paintings reflect a transparent and loose style. Early watercolor experiences and plein air painting classes focused her on landscape painting. Living on the Shawangunk Ridge and close to the Bashakill Wetlands in Sullivan County NY offers her rich subject material. Along the way she expanded into figure work and the painting of shelter animals. She developed a passion for color pouring with watercolors. Most recently she has been focused on plein air painting. In previous years, Janet was the chair of the Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival. She is currently the president of the Northeast Watercolor Society. https://jcamp2.wixsite.com/janet-campbell-art
Contact Information:
Susan Roth, Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival Committee Chair
email: hvpleinair@gmail.com www.hvpleinair.com
Wallkill River Center for the Arts, 232 Ward Street, Montgomery, NY 12549
845-457-2787 email: info@wallkill.art www.wallkill.art
Sarah Fortner Pierson, Exec. Dir., Wallkill River Center for the Arts spierson@wallkill.art