Participants in the annual Open Studio Tour give you a sneak peek at some of their work in the own words
Susan Barker, Westport Susan K. Barker created this necklace using a high heat process to reform the silver into these lily pad shapes. This process gives each piece a unique distorted edge pattern resulting in a one-of-a-kind necklace. Susan is best known for her asymmetric necklaces constructed of lampwork beads and semi-precious stones. All of Susan's jewelry is inspired by her surroundings - summers by the sea and winters in the mountains. Website
Wayne Fuerst, Westport Wayne is a potter, papermaker and painter. Within the last five years of working, he has discovered a love for using his pots as canvas for drawing and painting. The 3-D surface makes a very complex painting because the viewer can only see one half of the painting at a time. The joy that comes from all the work is when someone picks up a piece and rolls it around in their hand and views the whole painting and pot. Website
Kelly Milukas, Tiverton Milukas often explores rural places on native and distant travel adventures. Her pastels are a color charged interpretation of the experience. Lavender Field shows the foreground fields of New Zealand mountains in full violet bloom. Website
Trintje Jansen, Westport Acrylic on porcelain relief. Jansen likes maps and aerial views. Often she makes aerial views of places she knows and translates them into porcelain relief paintings. This is an aerial view of a place Jansen doesn’t know. Because she didn’t know that place, she felt more freedom to respond as she pleased. Website
Don Cadoret, Tiverton Branching Out Together is a new painting blending the peaceful relationship of doves and the elegant details of Cadoret's hand-painted gold frame. The painting is like an illuminated manuscript. As a self-taught artist, Cadoret enjoys utilizing vivid colors, rich details and familiar stories. He has been creating story paintings since the 1970s. Website
Barbara Healy, North Dartmouth Summer Sail. Healy loves to be on the ocean. This painting of a sailboat off Penikese Island on a beautiful summer afternoon captures the vastness of the sky that goes all the way to the horizon. Layers of color and brushstrokes evoke a feeling of the breeze and the grandeur of nature. Website
Karen Raus, Westport The Beach Walker Series is intended to express how we relate to a timeless atmosphere. Raus combines encaustic with her photographic images using an image transfer process. This process provides a transparent effect, allowing the encaustic surface design to show through and give a distressed image appearance due to the natural imperfections of the process. Website
Travis Davison Snow, Little Compton Addicted to the found object, photographer Travis Davison Snow travels around the USA and abroad in search of the next visual treasure to share. Growing up in Little Compton has kept beauty in his backyard for 26 years, but when lifeguard season is over, he's off to find the next adventure and the next bit of ocular gold. Website
Peter Morse, Little Compton A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), the sculptor and artist Peter Morse started his career as assistant to Donald Lipski in New York City. From there he fine-tuned his sculpting talent and honed his exceptional expertise with patinas as an enlargement technician at Tallix Foundry in Beacon, New York where he worked with artists Nancy Graves, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtensein and Peter Haines. Website
Amy Thurber, South Dartmouth Thurber's art echoes her close relationship to nature. She admires the ephemeral quality of leaves, their uniqueness, texture and the life that pulses through their veins. Thurber captures their moment in time, as a fossil might, but adds a useful quality that allows us to embrace their essence in a new way. Website
Barbara Chadwick, Westport Sailors' Valentines are shell mosaics created in octagonal glass fronted shadow boxes. This valentine echoes the old designs by using a pink woven shell heart topped with a white rose as the central motif and a star surround picked out in green nerites. Barbara Chadwick created this artwork in preparation for her upcoming one-woman show in August at the Sturgis Library in Barnstable, MA. Website
Jennifer Jones Rashleigh, Tiverton Hand painted pillows and tapestries. Rashleigh loves taking paintings off the wall and placing them in the hands of art lovers. When you hold a work of art, you can see iridescence in an eye or the vein in a fin. You may ponder over brushstrokes where the artist played with chaotic flowing paint then controlled pigment with exquisite detail. Fabric paint on all cotton canvas. Fancy trims for framing. Cotton velvet backing to provide plush soft huggable side. Rashleigh specializes in local wildlife: fish, flowers, birds, shells and nautical themes. Website
Dennis Broadbent, Westport Looking Forward Looking Back is a pivotal painting in Broadbent's oeuvre. The eyes in the mirror are a self portrait of an emerging artist after many years of searching for his true artistic voice. Website
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