Flameworking glass is my real job and love-lift is my career. Air, oxygen, propane, and I work together to meld raw glass materials into wearable works of art. The work that I create, including inspiring jewelry (Drops of Positivity), mindfulness tools (Fidget Widgets), fundraising jewelry (Live to Uplift) and so much more are now offered through retailers across North America, and at AAOTE Gallery in Bucks County, PA.   See more at AAOTE.com  

Louise Fiore is a fine art/documentary photographer who believes there are infinite ways to see, endless emotions to express and countless stories to tell. Throughout her career she has loved photographing the beauty of the natural world, as well as architecture, signage, even quirky slice of life vignettes. Louise began making photographs during college while studying with the renowned photographer Arthur Leipzig. At that time she was introduced to the work of the FSA photographers and Robert Frank; and continues to count them as primary influences on her work.

Louise’s photographs are in numerous private collections and have been juried into many national and international exhibitions at contemporary photography galleries. Local career highlights include the 2025, 2024 and 2021 Ellarslie Open, as well as the 2022 Phillips’ Mill Photographic Exhibition, and Brush & Lens: The Female Perspective; a 2020 five-artist exhibit at Gallery on Fourth, Easton, PA.

See more of her work on her website here and on Instagram @louisefiorephoto

Gene Underwood pursues the irony of rendering commonplace items that are not usually featured in still lifes—bubble wrap, Post-its, paper coffee cups, Ziploc bags—in traditional oil paint. The paintings stop time and ask viewers to look more closely at the overlooked items around them. Maybe viewers can find beauty there – and can acknowledge a bit of ecological anxiety. When viewers encounter the portrait of a hand-painted machine-made, object, they may reconsider how our lives look now.

My formal artistic journey began at Marywood University, where I was honored with the Excellence in Art award, and continued through formative studies at the Art Students League, NYC and in Florence, Italy. These experiences not only shaped my technical foundation but expanded on the way I see and respond to the world through art. Over time, I!ve explored oil, watercolor, pastel, and figurativework, with my approach deeply influenced by study with master artists: CharlesReid, Wolf Kahn, and Daniel Green.

Sharing that passion has long been an essential part of my life. I!ve served as an adjunct professor of studio arts at the University of Scranton and founded an arts school for gifted children. These experiences continued to inform and enrich my own creative practice. I’ve remained actively connected to the broader arts community through organizations as the Philadelphia Watercolor Society, where I

am a Signature Member and the Salmagundi Club as an elected Exhibiting Artist Member.

My work has taken many forms over the years—from collaborating with interior designers on murals to creating hand-painted furniture items exhibited in galleries and boutiques across the country. Recently, I’ve returned to my primary focus: oil painting, drawing daily inspiration from the quiet beauty and changing landscape of Bucks County.

My current work draws me to a balance between observation and abstraction—capturing not just what is seen, but what is felt. I continue to teach adult classes and exhibit in juried shows both regionally and nationally, including the Historic Yellow Springs Annual Juried Show and the Phillips"Mill Annual Exhibition. I am an active member of the Peace Valley Plein Air Painters and the Painters  Alliance.

I am often asked concerning my paintings of the source of my subjects. In reply I should say they are portraits of us. We as travelers on new journeys and seen with a more than a touch of whimsy. We as saints and sinners, as fools, in love and out. The subjects are familiar and the journey is discovery.

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 I like to take my paintings to a quieter place that reflect a more organic aesthetic, evoking a sense of peace. My medium of choice is oil, and my tools are the painting knife and big brushes.  My subjects often include landscapes, farms and still life, and are most often inspired by the colors and textures of my subjects. When I approach the creation of a new work, I am guided by an inner visceral response to the lyrical quality unfolding within the work. See more of my work at www.cindyroesingerfineart.com, on my instagram page here and on my facebook page here.

I spent 15 happy years as an elementary art teacher. I am primarily self-taught in oils. My style and skill set are still evolving. I do love the indirect method of painting and chiaroscuro, capturing the interplay of strong light and deep shadows.  My paintings are inspired by vintage items, nature,and the shore, all things I love. I often try to suggest a narrative in my still life’s.  I hope my art makes you smile.

The lino cut is my medium of choice for the images assembled. I relish these many dogs and the variety of creative response they inspire. I am impelled by the subject to employ a host of technical choices to portray what each  individual brings to the sitting. Sometimes surprises sometimes  poetry , all  to the end of portraiture, an art piece that is decisive and familiar a reward in itself to everyone who  has a heart  to share with one of these captivating spirits.

Jas is a life-long resident of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. For over forty years Jas’ work has been exhibited in regional galleries and he has participated in countless juried shows and competitions on the regional and national levels. He has won a significant number of awards and prizes for his paintings both in oil and watercolors and has been featured in various newspapers and magazines. His originals in watercolor and oil and limited edition prints are featured throughout the Delaware Valley region. He is graduate of both Hussian School of Art and Arcadia University.  Jas was also an adjunct professor at Hussian School of Art and at Arcadia University. Jas’ talents have been commissioned by private and corporate clients. He is proud to be a committee member of Annual Traditional Artists Show, a yearly art show that helps raise funds for not-for-profit organizations.

deb hoeffner is a professional artist working in oils, pencil and her own unique mix of watercolor and pastel. Her work has been widely published over her long career. Her favorite subjects are animals and people with a focus on capturing the special spark that lives behind the eyes in pencil and paint. Her sensitive animal drawings have been featured in the book series “Strokes of Genius: The Best of Drawing” and in “Art Journey Animals”, a best of animal artwork compendium published by North Light Books. deb has illustrated a number of children’s books and her work is in the collection of the Mazza Museum of Picture Book Art. deb's signed illustrated books are available. More of her work, her books and process can be seen at www.debhoeffner.com and her facebook page www.facebook.com/debhoeffnerart. 

Beth Schoenleber PWCS  is an award winning watercolorist and signature member in the Philadelphia Watercolor Society and Garden State Watercolor Society. Known for her sharp focus and detailed representation of her subjects, Beth enjoys exploring ordinary objects found in her everyday environment. “When I find an interesting subject I paint it. My subjects reflect something that is a flicker of a memory or an emotion, and I try not to let that go by. I prefer watercolor; there is a magic with this medium. But, sometimes, my ideas sing out for painting with oils.”

Sue Ann Rainey is a lifelong artist from Bucks County, Pa. She studied graphic design and photography at Tyler School of Art. She searches Bucks County and beyond finding historic buildings, farms, and landscapes and captures them in photography and watercolor. She has exhibited in many solo, group and juried exhibits. She captured 1st Place in Photography at the 2017 Tinicum Arts Festival and numerous honors in other exhibits. Her work has been in the Juried Phillips’ Mill Photographic Exhibition and Ellarslie – The Trenton City Museum among other prestigious art exhibitions. She will do commission photography and watercolor pieces. Follow her on Instagram at sa_raineyphoto 

My journey with ceramics began when my youngest child started first grade. What started out as a hobby gradually grew into a passion that has only intensified over the years. Despite a side trip into casting bronzes, or perhaps because of the experience of pouting molten bronze into ceramic molds I fell in love with the alchemy of alternative firings. There is a kind of magic to the process of pulling red hot pots out of the kiln and plunging them into a bucket with combustibles to smoke them. And then pulling them out a few minutes later to spray the surface with water so that the slip resist comes off to create a surprising end result that never fails to delight me. And then there is the art of applying horsehair, feathers and other organic material to a pot heated to 1100 degrees to leave a carbon imprint which captures the ephemeral beauty of these objects. These are but a few of the processes I employ to make my unique and one of a kind pots.

Horsehair pottery

Horse hair pottery is created using a unique firing process. No two pots are ever exactly alike. Each hand made piece is burnished multiple times at different stages of dryness, and when bone dry they are burnished again, and a thin sheen of vegetable oil is applied before the final burnishing leaving a high gloss on the surface. The piece is then bisque fired followed by a second firing to 1100 degrees. Once they reach temperature the incandescent pots are immediately pulled from the kiln and horse hair, feathers or other organic materials are placed upon the surface.  These items ignite, leaving their carbon imprint on the surface of the pot.  Finally, a buffing with wax enhances the luminous glow of the vessel.

Naked Raku

Naked Raku is a multi-stage process. After throwing pots on the wheel they are sanded to  a perfectly smooth surface before being burnished multiple times to a soft  sheen.  After the bisque firing I apply a masque  and sacrificial sliip and glaze  and refire them to around 1400 degrees.  Once I see the glaze had taken on an orange peel surface I remove the pots from the kiln and plunge them into a reduction chamber with combustible material to smoke  for 10 minutes.  Smoke will enter into voids where  they were masqued and the glaze  cracked to create dramatic patterning.  While pots are still very hot I pull them from the chamber and spray them with water to help release the saacrificial slip/glaze layer.  The final step is to completely remove the residual slip/glaze by scraping with a credit card and scrubbing to get the surface back to the original sheen and then they are given a final coating of non yellowing wax and buffed to help protect the surface.

Elissa Goldberg started drawing with pastels approximately 20 years ago. Some of her pieces have been inspired by her many travels and wondrous explorations through her native Bucks County, while others come from her vivid imagination. Spending countless hours refining her technique and compositions, she hopes the viewer will share her appreciation of the combination of light, movement and color that makes each piece so alive. Her artwork has been selected for inclusion in individual and group exhibitions throughout Bucks County, Pennsylvania and Lambertville, New Jersey. She is also a member of the Pastel Society of America. 

My love of drawing began as a child with a sketchbook in hand walking the canal towpath where I grew up in Lumberville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Later, I discovered watercolor painting and its lovely translucent, expressive qualities. The tactile quality of working on beautiful papers and the integration of my pencil drawings with the paints is a perfect fit for telling my stories. The rural farm community of Upper Bucks County is a major focus of my work and I return frequently to my favorite farms to paint and draw. The changing seasons with their colors and textures offer new discoveries. Stories are revealed and I am compelled to capture them. Peoples’ stories have always engaged my love of history and personal life experiences. Old working farms and pastoral vistas beckon me to stop. They pull at my heart. Painting outdoors has led to meeting wonderful people, hearing their stories and forming new friendships. Plein air painting affords peaceful moments of observation and opportunities to discover the extraordinary in what, might at first, appear ordinary.

Addie Hocynec enjoys the challenge of working in a variety of media including photography, dyes on silk, pastels, oils, acrylics and digital fractals. Whether it’s photography, painting or digital fractals, the process of discovery is quite exhilarating-  a willingness to take chances and explore what each medium has to offer. Fascination with color and all its nuances is a driving force for her work.  Known for her vibrant, richly colored landscapes and her abstracts that evoke the moods of nature, Addie’s style is both free flowing and imaginative, charged with spontaneity and energy.  Her landscapes are meditations on the subtler aspects of nature and the seductive power of light, color and texture.  Her fractal works are graphical representations of mathematical formulas where she controls the image by manipulating their parameters.  Size, form, texture, lighting, and color can all be altered by adjusting the math equations.   www.addie-hocynec.pixels.com

Don Schoenleber thinks of photography as an accumulative experience, a never ending journey of refinement. The more he works at it the more he sees the world around him.  It makes him slow down and appreciate the subtleties, the time of day and the color of the light. Early morning is his first choice. It’s warm, soft directional light helps bring out the form and texture of the landscape. Don’s focus runs from Landscape to the Abstract and both can be found in his photographs of Bucks County, Hunterdon County and the surrounding area. In many cases it’s the less obvious bits of nature and man-made form that he finds most appealing. It’s a combination of camera and imagination; Nature, Form, Light, Lines, Texture, Shapes and Shadows.

Denise is an award winning Bucks County oil painter who comes from four generations of artists. She is a landscape and genre painter working both in plein aire and studio painting. Paul Cézanne said, “ Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.” Denise finds that when painting in nature you interpret the reality around you.  While painting a scene, one must constantly adjust to changes caused by the variations in light and wind and glean from the surroundings the elements that capture the experience. "Through plein air painting I find that a personal, meditative experience is created when responding directly to the natural environment. It is my hope that a remnant of that experience can be found in my paintings."  

Lynda K. Boardman is fascinated by the challenge of creating art with fabric and thread, rather than paint, and this medium has allowed her to combine two loves, art and fabric, in a unique way.  She enjoys the collage aspect of her art, and she believes that fabric adds a dimensional quality and a depth to her work.  In addition, working with fabric allows her to create “outside the box,” and many of her pieces are anything but rectangular, with shapes dictated by the subject or the overall design of the art quilt. The artist’s love of nature, color, and design, as well as her intense interest in the world around her, are vividly reflected in her work.  She has worked with clients to create commissioned pieces, one of which was specifically created to be donated to the Pennsylvania Ballet.  Seven of her wildlife art quilts are featured in the book, Contemporary Wildlife Art, a curated collection of wildlife art in a wide variety of media by 74 international artists, published by Schiffer Publishing in 2015.  Lynda’s fabric collage art quilts are painting-size wall hangings.  Each quilt is one of a kind, with a hidden rod pocket and custom cut wood hanging device on the back. Prints of Lynda's art quilts are available on her website here.