Category: Artist

Ellen Hurley has studied drawing, water color and oil painting. Oil is her primary medium; she appreciates its lushness and the ability to produce both dynamic and subtle effects with it. She strives to produce a representational expression of beauty by presenting her interpretation of landscapes and still life with flowers and antique pieces of brass, copper, silver, pewter and porcelain that have histories of their own.

Ellen’s still life and landscape paintings are in private collections across the United States.. Her work has been juried into national and regional exhibitions. She is represented currently by the Artful Heart Gallery in Arlington, MA and the Handworks Gallery in Acton, MA.

To contact Ellen: www.ellenhurley.com

I’m an artist who specializes in painting using acrylic mediums. Back in my high school years during the 80’s, I watched “The Joy of Painting” on PBS, and Bob Ross served as an inspiration to pursue my passion. Learning his techniques, but also developing my own in the process, I’ve made many of my works that are mostly landscapes but have included some fantasy elements in them.  My classmates voted me Most Artistic in our Senior Superlatives yearbook.  After I graduated high school in 1989, I served four years in the US Navy.

2014 was the year that I came out of my 20 year hiatus from painting, and have been painting nonstop since. Using acrylics as my primary medium, and also self-taught from books and other sources, I have developed skills and techniques to create other types of work other than landscapes, such as portraits, still life, etc. I also have been asked from many of my friends and family to create paintings for them for many uses such as book illustrations, murals outside a place of business, or just simply home decorating.
I joined the Chelmsford Art Society to express my artwork and meet with other fellow artists who share the same passion, and learn a thing or two from them.

To contact David go to:
Facebook: David Kelly Acrylic Art
E-mail:  dsk_acrylic.art@yahoo.com

Maryanne Peterson, a Westford resident, is an artist continually exploring various mediums, usually in acrylics, gouache, oil pastel and marker. She also applies printmaking and collage in her art. “I haven’t established a particular style or genre; I just let the medium take me on a journey. I also enjoy working digitally as the options are endless, and there’s no hesitation to change or modify.”

As a public school art teacher for two decades, she employed this method to engage students whose ages ranged from preschool to middle school.

Maryanne holds a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and a Masters Degree in Studio Teaching from Boston University. Her early career began in visual merchandising for the Jordan Marsh Company, as well as a freelance artist who painted murals, faux finishes and custom furniture for private and commercial commissions. Her work has been exhibited in juried shows in Cohasset, MA.

Jim Ricca is happy to be back painting after a 30-year hiatus! I have worked and taught digitally for several years but it just never matched the satisfaction of sloshing wet paint around!

Debra Ciccone-O’Connell is a visual storyteller, painter, illustrator and art educator who spent much of her early life living in the beautiful Lakes Region of New Hampshire. In the fall of 2007 she moved to Chelmsford where she now resides with her husband and two children. In her work she uses soft pastel, acrylic paint, foam plate printing, cut paper collage and a wide variety of other drawing and sculptural media. She holds a BFA degree in studio and M.A.T. in Art Education respectively from Plymouth State University in N.H.

During her professional career she has had much of her work exhibited in solo, juried and group shows. Her paintings are held in private and public collections throughout New England as well as in other areas of the United States. In addition to her studio work she has also taught art to children and young adults in both public and private school settings as well as in her own studio for over 16 years.

“As an artist my work continues to evolve as I explore variations in portraiture, landscape, abstract painting and mixed media sculpture. In my process I use color, gesture, representational imagery, abstraction and movement in ways that are both intuitive and intentional. This allows me the freedom to speak freely in a language that does not need words in order to communicate ideas and experiences that are both personal and meaningful to me at any given time and place..”

For more information about my work please visit:
www.debraoconnellartist.com
Facebook: @debraoconnellstudio
Instagram: @oconnell.debra

My love of art began as soon as I was old enough to hold a pencil. As a child, I always had a paintbrush and sketchbook in hand and during my teen years, saved for college by painting the storefront windows downtown in my hometown of Hudson, Massachusetts for the holidays each year. I received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Graphic Design and worked as a designer for several Boston area advertising and design firms and educational publishing houses.

An observer of nature and people, my oil and gouache paintings are a translation of my feelings and experiences, carefully placed on canvas. My work awakens the senses, and tells the story of joyful moments in time, and invites my audience to join me in my world and respond to these experiences. My love of the beach and my time spent kayaking, cycling, hiking, and camping throughout New England inspires my work. I am especially intrigued by the colors of natural sunlight bouncing off a white building. The kaleidoscope of color that appears within light and shadow continues to amaze me and plays a crucial role in my work. I am in constant awe of all the beauty nature offers and I enjoy traveling to different destinations throughout New England with my painting gear to paint.

My work has been included in the Places I Remember en Plein Air Show at the Bolton Library, the Winter Member Show at the Chelmsford Art Society, the Postcard show at Concord Art, and Nature’s Kaleidoscope exhibit with the Newburyport Art Association.

Judith-Grace Miller
www.judymillerartist.com

Instagram: @judymillerartist
Jmillerdzine@gmail.com

Learning to draw and paint has been on my bucket list since childhood.  Watercolors is my preferred medium, but I have also done some art work in acrylics.

I started by doing my pets pictures, which I am told look like photographs. However. I find landscapes challenging, and would like to learn how to do impressionist style paintings. For a number of years I have continued to work toward expanding by art knowledge by taking classes with Denise Rainis, Rita Lipman and Stella Pappas.

I am a retired software engineer who took up photography as a hobby a few years ago. Some of my favorite places to photograph are Heart Pond, the Chelmsford/Carlisle Cranberry Bog and Great Brook Farm Reservation. Fall and Winter are the seasons I enjoy most for capturing landscapes. I like exploring the natural juxtaposition of light and shade.