Showing through April 2010

Patty Toth (oil)
Attention to detail plays a large part in my artwork. I think the tiniest details give a painting a very realistic look. Once I started oil painting, it truly opened my eyes to the beauty of nature. I began looking at everything in a different way. I find it fascinating how light touches an object at different times of day or how the water reflects its surroundings.

Ann Fitzpatrick (watercolor)
Fitzpatrick works primarily in watercolor but also in oils and acrylics. To Fitzpatrick, the actual subject matter is not really as important as the
excitement stirred by the first vision.

Al Holliday (photography)
Al has lived with his family in Camp Hill since 1968, and has been in public relations and publication work for more than 40 years. He started Pennsylvania Magazine in 1981, and now works as its publisher. In the past six years, he has concentrated on photography as a visual art, and exhibits regularly in the midstate. He specializes in candid and street photography. Mr. Holliday shoots primarily with digital, but also shoots in 35 mm and BW formats. He takes assignments for business and/or individual and family work on occasion. A critic of Al Holliday said “he likes to shoot on the shiny side of life.”

Showing through April 2010

Skip Hardy (photography)
After 20 years of government in the Washington, DC area I retired and moved to Newport in 2005. Throughout my life I have lived in, worked in and visited many places in the US and the world. Since 1962 I have had a great interest in photography. In my travels I take many tourist photos but I am always looking for that special view. To me, good photography is capturing the profound impressions made by shadow and light (sometimes color) and the designs of nature.

Steve Dowell (photography)
Steve Dowell is a professional photographer with over 21 years of experience in a wide variety of formats. He has been operating his studio since 1989.

Showing through April 2010

Marie Morrison (watercolor)
Marie developed an interest in watercolor painting after retiring from a career as a speech and language therapist. She paints in a realistic style. Her work has been shown in juried shows at the York Art Association, the Art Center School and Galleries in Mechanicsburg, the Baltimore Watercolor Society and Pennsylvania Watercolor Society. She holds signature membership in the BWS and PWS. Her favorite paintings show people engaged in everyday events, taken from photographs depicting both local and foreign cultures. Most have a personal meaning to the artist and convey the
character of each subject.

Showing through April 2010

Claire Beadon Carnell (oils)
Claire received a B.A. with honors in Art/English from Shippensburg University and now resides in Cumberland County. She has been painting representational oil landscapes, florals, portraits and still-lifes for the past twenty-five years. Her style is best described as 'impressionistic realism'. Claire says, “I have always found nature to be an endless source of renewal and inspiration, and each piece of art that I create involves my own spiritual search for the beauty and serenity in an ever-changing, ever-stressful world. I feel I have succeeded with my work if the viewer is able to connect with my painting and experience the light, colors and mystery of life's journey.”

Showing through April 2010

Lawrence von Knorr
(digital giclees)
Photography has been a lifelong passion. As a young child, I received my first camera as a gift. Soon I realized there was a completely different way to look at the world – focusing on what seemed important – at least visually. As I have progressed through the years, I developed a sense of composition, light, color and texture. In more recent years, utilizing software to enhance my photographs has opened a whole new window on the world – one which permits the introduction of fantasy and imagination to the reality of conventional photography.

Showing through April 2010

Jim Renner (oils)
Seven years ago, I took up oil painting as a response to an unplanned early retirement. My friends were still working so oil painting helped fill the gap.  Since then I’ve completed over 300 paintings, 30 hand painted blue bird boxes, and a dozen or so watercolors, much of which has been donated to various charities. 

I selected oil painting because it to me is the most forgiving in that it takes 3 to 4 days to dry, which is ample time to change and re-change your mind, but it is also I feel the most demanding medium as you have to be patient when working a new canvas and know which of 25 or so liquids to mix with the paint to achieve the results you want.

I grew up in Selinsgrove, so the Susquehanna river basin has long been part of my life, and what is more natural to that than ducks.  I’ve always loved taking photographs of ducks, so painting is just another step. 

This interest in oil painting has led me to teaching a class for beginners through the Penn Twp. Parks and Recreation Board.  It is amazing how much I learned and I am looking forward to teaching again this fall or winter.