#48 Robert Abele
#48 on the BrochureArtist showing at: 25 Robert St, Dartmouth, MA 02747Robert Abele BOTH TOURSOIL: Plein air landscapes capturing New England architecture in oilrobertabele@rocketmail.comhttps://robertabele.com/home.html914-573-2962Find us on Instagram!Robert Abele is a fine artist residing in Dartmouth MA & was born in Bronxville, NY in 1969. His passion for art began at an early age, leading him to pursue a formal education in the field. Abele attended the School of Visual Arts, earning his BFA in 1993, and honed his skills at the prestigious Art Students League in New York City from 1990 to 2010. Furthering his artistic journey, he completed his MFA at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 2018. Abele's artwork focuses on the intricate relationship between New England architecture and its surrounding landscape. His paintings capture the essence of the region, reflecting both the beauty of its structures and the natural environment that envelops them. Through his work, Abele invites viewers to explore the dialogue between built and natural spaces, emphasizing the harmony and tension that can exist in these interactions. In addition to his artistic pursuits, Abele is dedicated to nurturing the next generation of creatives as an applied and fine arts teacher in a high school collaborative in Plymouth, MA. He is passionate about sharing his knowledge and experiences, inspiring his students to discover their own artistic voices.Abele lives in Dartmouth with his wife, Lisa, and their two children, Oliver and Amelia. Through his work and teaching, Robert Abele continues to make a significant impact on the art community, celebrating the beauty of New England while fostering creativity in the young minds of tomorrow.
#49 Bruce Bailey and Eric C Lintala
#49 on the BrochureArtists showing at: 800 Division Rd, Dartmouth, MA 02748Bruce BaileyBOTH TOURSMIXED: Works inspired by dreams, nightmares, imaginings, and discoveriesbruce.el.bailey@gmail.comhttps://www.brucce.com/610-675-9110Bruce Bailey is a retired software engineer residing on New England’s south coast who has returned to his original passions of painting, printmaking, and sculpture.He has worked in a variety of mediums, including oil, acrylic, charcoal, and wood. In recent years he has reconnected with and extended work he had done in the 1960s and 70s, often employing digital tools such as Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop but preserving the original gestural elements of drawing.Inspirational sources of his work are ancient cultures, history, science, music, and literature, as well as the work of other artists. The thematic or narrative content of his work is usually not planned but emerges as the work develops. “I now have technology, tools, space, and time not previously available to me. I have been very fortunate in that this has resulted in an intense creative engagement.”Long driveway, studio and parking behind house.______Eric C LintalaBOTH TOURSSTEEL/CAST BRONZE, ALUMINUM: Visual interpretations, in metal, of man's historical and cultural pastelintala@umassd.edu508-743-5224Prehistoric rock art, petroglyphs and pictographs, has had a profound influence on my work. Sheltered in caves or under vast cliffs, these images of human kind, animals and nature were inscribed, pecked and painted onto stone. The early inhabitants who made them, their knowledge, lost to the ages. The sculptures I create have become a narrative involving the interaction of human, cultural and natural events from the past and present. The shapes and marks that I make, the symbols created are echoes from the prehistoric past, they tell of my observations, experiences and events that have affected me. The challenge before me is to carry on, to re-investigate, to renew this tradition of communication utilizing contemporary materials and methods and through my visual interpretations I hope there spirits can live on.
#50 Robyn Borges
#50 on the BrochureArtist showing at: Bippity Bop Design 16 Stillman St, Dartmouth, MA 02748Robyn BorgesBOTH TOURSFIBER ARTS: Botanically printed silk scarves and fabricsRLborges@comcast.net508-961-9876Find us on Instagram!Will provide ongoing demonstrations throughout the Tour weekend.Robyn Borges of Bippity Bop Design creates unique, Botanically Printed silk scarves and fabrics. No synthetic dyes or paints are used in her process, only locally foraged leaves & blossoms. Robyn's unusual process is Eco-friendly and produces a one-of-a-kind wearable piece of art. Each scarf is made individually by wrapping the fabric and leaves around a dowel and then tying it tightly to create a bundle. She then uses steam, water and patience to coax the natural pigments and tannins from each leaf and blossom.She has successfully combined her love of gardening with over 20 years of designing printed and woven fabrics for the commercial textile industry. Robyn earned a BFA in Textile Design from UMass Dartmouth as well as training at RISD. In later years, she earned a Certificate of Interior Design at RISD and worked for Ethan Allen as well as other local design firms.Robyn has taught workshops in Botanical Printing as well as Natural Dyeing and the Art of Papermaking. She truly enjoys inspiring others to discover their own creative spirit. She has given presentations on the History of Natural Dyes, and Botanical Printing. Recently, she created a “Dyer’s Garden” at her home studio to use in her fiber artwork. Plants such as marigolds, wild geraniums, coreopsis and peonies are frequently used in her silk scarves and fabrics. The artist has stated “there is something truly amazing in planting a flower, helping it grow, and then incorporating it in the design my fabrics”.The artist will demonstrate how she creates her one-of-a-kind Botanical Printed Silk Scarves. She does not use any synthetic dyes or paints in her art process, only locally foraged leaves & blossoms. Mother Natural provides color through naturally occurring tannins & pigments within the leaves. This unusual process is Eco-friendly and produces a unique wearable art piece.
#51 Marianne Boucher
#51 on the BrochureArtist showing at: The Vintage Barn Art Studio 4 Paquette Dr, Dartmouth, MA 02747Marianne BoucherBOTH TOURSOILS: Vibrant colored paintings of landscapesbritmm@juno.com508-990-3910Find us on Facebook and Instagram!Marianne Boucher is an oil painter known for her landscape and scenic compositions that capture the beauty and essence of nature. Through rich and bold color palettes, she brings depth and movement to her work, inviting the viewers to experience the serenity and grandeur of the natural world.White barn with front porch on right side of gravel road.
#52 Susan Cabral
#52 on the BrochureArtist showing at: 31 Utica Ln, Dartmouth, MA 02748Susan Cabral BOTH TOURSOILS & ACRYLICS: Boats and landscapes on large and medium canvasessuecabral@yahoo.com774-400-2138Find us on Facebook and Instagram!Will provide ongoing demonstrations throughout the Tour weekend.Susan Cabral is a native of Dartmouth, Ma. She presently works and resides in Dartmouth with her husband.“Art is creativity of colors and shapes”. With every object or scene, there is a mood or feeling: a story just waiting to be told. Boats, landscapes, wildlife, still life, rusty hammers, and even doorknobs can become a panting. Shadow, light and color can all create an illusion of depth and mood. She is inspired by the reflections produced by water, glassware and metal. Susan's desire to create a story through her art is more exciting to her than the end result.Susan's paintings are more than paint on canvas; they hold the energy of the moment and the love she has for art! Susan enjoys painting with oils, watercolors, acrylic and mixed media.I will be painting live in my studio during the tour & am happy to provide demonstrations on how I create my work.
#53 Joan DeCollibus
#53 on the BrochureArtist Showing at: 889 Rock ODundee Rd, Dartmouth, MA 02748Joan DeCollibusBOTH TOURSTEXTILES: Quilts that are colorful and modernjoan@littlevillagestudio.comhttps://littlevillagestudio.com917-499-7888Find us on Instagram!Joan DeCollibus is a lifelong maker whose quilts beautifully capture her love of the vivid colors found in her gardens and the surrounding coastal landscapes. After a career in graphic design and digital marketing, she started quilting to get off the computer and back to hand made work. Quilting allows Joan to work big and explore patterns and geometry found in nature. Her creative process begins with designing patterns and selecting or hand-dyeing fabrics to achieve the right hues and textures. The cutting phase, a daytime task due to the sharp blades involved, leads to careful piecing and pressing—equal parts sewing and ironing. Completing the quilt involves crafting the back, machine quilting the layers together, and finishing with a binding, a step she compares to framing a painting. Joan is constantly innovating as she incorporates hand quilting, applique, embroidery, and hand-dyed fabrics into her designs. Her work reflects a deep connection to the natural beauty that inspires her.Little Village Studio is located in the old firehouse right behind Davoll's.
#54 Iria DeValles-Vieira
#54 on the BrochureArtist showing at: 33 Bridge Art 33 Bridge St, Dartmouth, MA 02748Iria DeValles-VieiraBOTH TOURSACRYLIC: Acrylic mixed media abstract seascapes, landscapes and figurativeiracnor@comcast.net508-951-2191Find us on Instagram!Iria DeValles-Vieira sees her work as a way to get a reaction from herself and the viewer. She wants to encourage a dialogue. When Iria paints, she thinks of nothing else except what she is doing at that point in time with the paint. It gives her the same calmness as when she is working in her garden. She thinks about color, value, composition and textures just like gardening. The majority of the time she works with acrylic paints. Her paintings can be abstract , semi realistic landscapes, seascapes, and mixed media. She also draws and paints with watercolors.
#55 Barbara Edlund Healy
#55 on the BrochureArtist showing at: 61 White Oak Run, Dartmouth, MA 02747Barbara Edlund HealyBOTH TOURSOIL/ACRYLIC: Paintings that reflect the beauty of the New England coastedlundhealy@gmail.comhttps://barbarahealypainter.com/508-717-2096Will provide ongoing demonstrations throughout the Tour weekend.Find us on Instagram!Barbara Healy’s paintings are inspired by the diverse colors of light in the beautiful coastal landscape where she lives. She frequently paints plein air, using all her senses to share her vision. Paintings capture that feeling of peace and joy that comes from nature. She looks for what is unique to convey a sense of place. Although often evoked by a fleeting moment, she translates in paint to transcend time. Brushstrokes over glimpses of color intentionally reveal some of the painting process and layering enables her to create luminous color.Barbara Healy will have an ongoing demo of painting in oils, layering paint to create glowing color.
#56 Genevieve Hunt and Kim M Barry
#56 on the BrochureArtists showing at: Genevieve Hunt Art 8 Sunset Ln, Dartmouth, MA 02747Genevieve HuntBOTH TOURSWATERCOLOR PAINTINGS: Watercolor seascapes and landscapes of Dartmouth and New England regionghunt10888@gmail.com508-542-5203Will provide ongoing demonstrations throughout the Tour weekend.Find us on Instagram!My watercolor paintings reflect my desire to capture the feeling of a moment in time at one of the southeastern Massachusetts coastal locations that I treasure. I want to share with the viewer the feeling of the wind as it moves the clouds, the waves, and the beach grasses, as well as the texture of the sand, rocks, and broken shells beneath our feet. We are experiencing, as the seasons change annually, stronger storms, warmer ocean water, extended droughts, increased temperatures, salt water intrusions, and rising seas. These impacts destroy beaches, wetlands, gardens, farmland and summer houses. How will these losses impact memory and future experiences? As we feel our local climate change in these ways both intimate and immense, my paintings remind us that we must protect our natural beauty fiercely.Each day at noon and 3:00 pm, Genevieve Hunt will demonstrate how to build up washes used in value studies to create dynamic interplays of light and color. She will start with a monotone value study and move on to a study showing how to connect shapes and colors so that they direct the viewer's eye to the focal point. These value studies will illustrate the transparent and flowing nature that is unique to watercolor as a medium.Genevieve Hunt's studio is air-conditioned and will have seating and water/snacks for visitors to rest and refresh. There is plenty of parking, please follow the signs and park on the opposite side of the street as indicated._________Kim M Barry BOTH TOURSOIL PAINTING, CLAY POTS & TILES: Oil paintings inspired by nature, pottery and tileclaytroutpottery@gmail.comhttps://www.kimbarrypainting.com508-397-6405Find us on Instagram!Will provide ongoing demonstrations throughout the Tour weekends!Kim Barry is a painter, potter, sculptor, and art educator. She graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Sculpture and from University of Massachusetts/Dartmouth with an MFA in Painting. Kim has lived in the south coast of Massachusetts most of her life and is a member of Hatch Street Studios in New Bedford, South Coast Artists, an exhibiting and teaching member of the Providence Art Club, Rogers Gallery in Mattapoisett, The Drawing Room in New Bedford, Westport Art Group, Marion Art Center, Kettle Black Gallery in New Bedford, and owner of Clay Trout Pottery in Mattapoisett. Her work is informed by the beautiful, south coast environment and the natural objects she encounters. Ms. Barry also creates a line of sculpted and glazed tile which can be hung or installed. Her designs consist of coastal, floral, fruit, veggie, and critters such as octopus, crab and frogs.
#57 Andrew Peppard
#57 on the BrochureArtist showing at: Peppard Woodworking 66 Stoneledge Rd, Dartmouth, MA 02748Andrew PeppardBOTH TOURSWOOD FURNITURE: Hand-crafted furniture, charcuterie and cutting boardsabpeppard@gmail.comThe artist works with a variety of beautiful hardwoods, crafting unique tables, benches, charcuterie boards, as well as other one-of-a kind, functional artworks, If you don't see exactly what you want, he welcomes commissions.
#58 JP Powel and Dianne W Burns
#58 on the BrochureArtists showing at: 1167 Russells Mills Rd, Dartmouth, MA 02748JP PowelBOTH TOURSOIL PAINTING: Imaginative realismjp@yellowboatstudio.comhttp://www.yellowboatstudio.com/508-951-7911Will provide ongoing demonstrations throughout the Tour weekend.Find us on Facebook and Instagram!JP's paintings are the visions of a bemused old man, always struggling, learning to paint, intensely fond of the mundane: women (especially Betsy), children, dogs, cats, and the saltmarsh, woods, lakes, and mountains, infinitesimal points in the vastness of the cosmos and the immensity of time. As time scythes ever closer to his hurrying heels, he seeks to touch the enigma beyond the seen, and the universe in a rotting stump. If he holds your attention for a moment, causes you to reflect, he has done his job with his daubs of color.I will have works in progress on the easel and will happily discuss an demonstrate my techniques and materials.Ample parking, restrooms, close to street._____________Dianne W BurnsBOTH TOURSOIL: Seascapes and landscapes painted on locationdburns54@comcst.nethttps://www.seekonkartistnetwork.com/508-336-9933Will provide ongoing demonstrations throughout the Tour weekend.Dianne is a plein air painter, painting on location in all types of weather. Painting more often, she challenges herself. A more confident expressive style is emerging. This can be seen in her brush strokes and coloration. She is delving into scenes with various effects of light, dawn or dusk and changes of weather. Her appreciation of our Earth and the views she portrays of it show forth in her execution of style and technique. Her work has a new sense of vibrancy, while still maintaining her familiar representational flair. She paints everyday scenes of coastal living, but adds her own fresh vision.Dianne feels right at home doing demonstrations of her painting style. She paints often and also teaches adults and children. This gives her the opportunity to share her knowledge and experience. Being a plein air painter, she can paint quickly and capture the essence of the scene as she discusses her materials and techniques.New this year! Same building at 1167 Russells Mills Road, but different studio - # 11. Drive around to the back of the building. It is downstairs from where I was previously. I’m now on the ground-level, more accessible from the back of the building, only 1 step up and more parking too. Bathrooms available.
#59 Melynda Schudrich
#59 on the BrochureArtist showing at: SultryGlass 131 Clarendon St, Dartmouth, MA 02747Melynda SchudrichBOTH TOURSGLASS: Glass torchwork, fused and sandblastedschudrichm@gmail.comhttp://www.sultryglass.com508-525-9819Will provide ongoing demonstrations throughout the Tour weekend.Find us on Instagram!Glass is an incredibly versatile material that can be shaped in many ways using different techniques. In this studio, visitors can see a variety of glassworking methods in action, including demonstrations of lampworking, fusing, and sandblasting. Lampworking is a technique that uses a torch to melt and shape glass. Once the glass reaches a molten state, it’s formed through blowing, shaping with tools, and manipulating it by hand. This method is also known as flameworking.Another technique used in the studio is glass fusing, which involves layering pieces of glass and then melting them together in a kiln. This method is perfect for creating small jewelry pieces, like earrings, or slumping the glass into bowls and other 3D shapes. The artist also enjoys making suncatchers that beautifully capture and reflect light.Sandblasting glass is a fun technique with amazing results. The artist enjoys designing glasses, vases, and personalizing wine bottles. Some favorite projects include creating custom glasses for newly engaged couples, personalizing keepsake boxes, and designing individualized drinking glasses based on clients' unique ideas.When attending a demonstration at the studio, visitors are provided with special glasses that filter out harmful wavelengths and intensities, protecting the eyes from radiation and bright light that may make it difficult to see the work being done. Demonstrations may include bead making, glass sandblasting, and the creation of unique pendants, such as mushroom, flower, or jellyfish implosions.The studio is conveniently located in a garage, easily accessible with plenty of parking. Clear signs will guide visitors to the entrance.
#60 Amy Thurber
#60 on the BrochureArtist showing at: Doves Foot Pottery 219 Horseneck Rd, Dartmouth, MA 02748Amy ThurberJULY 19 & 20 OnlyCERAMICS: One-of-a-kind pottery from the gardenDovesFoot@yahoo.comhttps://dovesfootpottery.com/774-301-6845I am willing to provide ongoing demonstrations throughout the Tour weekend.Find us on Facebook and Instagram!Amy Thurber produces one of a kind functional pottery using leaves she grows in her extensive gardens. She is inspired by the natural world, and incorporates, colorful beetles, snails and other critters into her designs. Intrigued by natural forms, textures and colors, Amy gardens for her pottery. When she begins a piece, she lets the leaves direct the form. Many times the results are more organic than her original intentions. She attempts to work in harmony with natural objects to bring functionality to the leaves she nurtures. Amy Thurber has a BFA in illustration from Rhode Island School of Design. She also exhibits her illustrations and book designs.Watch as Amy rolls freshly picked leaves into slabs of stoneware clay, then transforms them into functional or sculptural pieces. Underglaze painting demonstrations are also offered.The studio of Doves Foot Pottery is at the top of the hill on the right across from the house. Limited parking on the grass is available on the right just as you enter the wooden gate near the road. Plenty of parking along the road, but please use caution when exiting your vehicle. You are welcome to explore the gardens on the way to the studio. Two handicapped parking spaces are available next to the studio.
