Trinity Conroy
Trinity is a self-taught oil painter and works as a tattoo artist at Black Orchid Tattoo in quarryville, Pa. Although she didn’t begin oil painting until 2022, her passion for creating began at a very young age and she has years of experience in multiple art mediums. In her senior year of high sch ...
Adam Bunting
"Growing up in the rural, Lancaster county I have always been drawn to nature and especially wildlife. As a result, I gravitate towards animals and landscape as my primary vehicle for experimenting with textures, unconventional color choices, composition, line, and rhythm in the medium of watercolor ...
Kelsey Showalter
Kelsey is originally from Lancaster but now resides in Morgantown, PA. Her current work focuses on layering various dry and wet acrylic media playing with transparent layers, gritty texture, and chunky paint. It's a mixed media process that she founds both intriguing and challenging. The end result ...
Kristin Blanck
Kristin Blanck lives in Lancaster, PA. After graduating from West Chester University with a degree in Anthropology/Archaeology and a minor in Art History, she received a Masters in Fashion Design at Drexel University. Working in oils, she finds herself drawn to still life compositions. As with many ...
Janet Smedley
Janet Smedley is both the mother of and daughter of an artist. For Smedley, that meant growing up with the smell of oil paint and an early trip to Florence with her mother to see the masterpieces of the Uffizi Gallery. Janet continued to expand her exposure to the great masters by traveling to F ...
Peg Belcastro
Peg studied ceramics at Bloomsburg University and enjoyed creating pottery and sculpture for a number of years. Although she was born and raised in south-central PA, living in Alaska for 10 years deeply influenced her approach to art making. It was during her time in Alaska that she returned to her ...
Rhoda Kahler
Rhoda is a ceramic artist living in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and received her BFA from Wester Chester University in 1995. Her clay tile work is inspired by nature. Each piece embodies the emotion felt by a relationship to the source of inspiration. "I have found that most of my art manifests ...
Steve R. Coffey
Capturing the atmosphere from the immensity and grandeur of the plains to the human mark etched upon it, Steve's plaintive and expressive palette of light and movement draw both from his past and from the present day of all that surrounds him. He received an MFA from U of Regina in Canada in 1990. ...
Carol Fastuca
Carol received a BFA in printmaking from Penn State and an MFA in painting from Queens College in NY. Her teaching jobs include Syracuse University, the University of Maryland Baltimore County and Albright College, where she taught Painting and Drawing. She returned to southwestern Pennsylvania tw ...
Kim Smith
Kim is a Lancaster County native. She earned her BFA in Communication Design from Kutztown University and has owned TCG Design in East Petersburg for more than 27 years. Although she is in a creative business, Kim decided to pursue her love for painting and has become an accomplished artist, develo ...
Gaylen Bray
My inspiration comes from the beauty I find in nature, at once ephemeral and eternal, transcendent. I feel a deep connection to my subject matter and the intimation of something greater than yet part of myself, as I seek to interpret and re-create the natural world. What moves me to paint or piece t ...
Jill Peckelun
Jill grew up on a farm in Lebanon County, PA. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Albright College, Reading and moved to Allentown where she studied drawing and painting at local art schools. She took private classes in painting with John N. Booth for over eight years while employed by the City ...
Stuart Dunkel
Stuart was born in Fair Lawn New Jersey in 1952 and currently lives in Boston. He began painting and playing classical music at age five and went on to a long career with top orchestras in Boston, New York, and Hong Kong. In 1994 he transitioned from music to fine art where he received his classic ...
Marilene Sawaf
Marilene is a New Hampshire artist, born in Egypt, grew up in Italy and the Middle East. After Marilene's arrival in the USA in 1980, her first paintings were inspired by her education in Interior Design and Architecture and her taste for enigmatic, colorful images. Although she started with l ...
Jerry Brown
Jerry is a watercolorist, enthralled and under the spell of the medium. Most people in Lancaster would remember Jerry as The Monkey Man. For 52 years, he traveled the nation, performing in theaters, schools, churches, fairs, festivals, and community events as a variety entertainer, and for 30 of ...
Matt Johanning
Matt Johanning is a contemporary artist living in Lancaster, PA. His carefully considered compositions are a playful celebration of environments and communities. Simple and innocent, the intention of the images is to convey a sense of peace.
Lynn Davison
LYNN DAVISON resides in Naples, FL. Davison, a graduate of the Ringling School of Art and Design, is a figurative painter who hopes to provoke introspection through her work. Intending to reveal a universal truth of what it means to be human – sometimes disconnected and vulnerable. "I strive f ...
Scott Harbison
Scott Harbison is a highly regarded self-taught artist, originally from New Jersey. Scott's artwork has been een exhibited in several galleries, including Ivy Brown Gallery in Manhattan, Barsky Gallery in Hoboken and several other galleries in New Jersey. In 2022 he completed a residency at ESKF ...
Kristen T. Woodward
Kristen received a BFA in Printmaking from Syracuse University, and an MFA from Clemson University. Her mixed media works combine painting and printmaking, and encaustic. Kristen is currently a Professor of Art and Department Chair at Albright College. "Contradictions between the destructive a ...
Dennis Martin
Dennis Martin is a native Lancastrian. His interest in art developed as a child and continued through graduation when he would doodle, sketch and draw on school supplied tablets while his teachers lectured at the head of the class. After college and business school, he spent 25 years as a mana ...
Christine Mercer-Vernon
Christine Mercer-Vernon is a contemporary American painter living and working in south central Pennsylvania. Born outside Philadelphia, her family relocated to the mountains of northern Pennsylvania when she was ten. Surrounded by woods and streams, she spent her time exploring nature on her ter ...
Michelle Spiziri
Michelle's art is characteristic of Abstract Expressionism. However, she has an uncanny ability to bring out unique and evocative imagery while revealing unexpected visual stories. Inside the core of Michelle's art there exist layers of complexities which pulls the viewer in close to explore the jo ...
Terry Wise
Terry lives in Berkshire County, western MA. Her paintings are filled with the printed patterns and lively colors of textiles, and celebrate home, family and community. Terry has evolved into being a painter by way of a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Textile Design from Indiana University, studies ...
Beth Bathe
Beth Bathe is a Plein Air painter. A Virginia Commonwealth University graduate, Beth is highly influenced by American Regionalist painter Andrew Wyeth. She refers to much of her subject matter as “the vanishing landscape.” Her representational paintings have been described by art critics as ...
Katherine Horst
Katherine Horst, a graduate of Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, lives in Manheim, PA. Katherine has developed a refined skill as a collage artist-incorporating various materials such as layered paper and paint to convey a sense of space, dimension and beauty. Her knowledge and experienc ...
Scott Cantrell
Scott Cantrell currently teaches drawing and painting at Lampeter-Strasburg High School. He earned his Masters in Art Education from Millersville University in 2007 and his Masters in Fine Arts from Vermont College of Fine Art in 2011. Since graduating with his MFA, Scott has exhibited in sever ...
Jenny Germann
Born in Hutchinson, KS, Jenny now lives in Lancaster, PA. She holds a BFA from the University of Kansas and is earning her MS from Eastern University. Jenny Germann’s work is based on locations that hold significance in her life. She uses landscapes to convey experiences, often drawing influ ...
J. Stephen Davis
J. Stephen Davis is a self-employed graphic designer, artist, musician, and guitar instructor and has lived most of his life in Lancaster, PA. Creatively, he is pulled with equal drive and compulsion between art and music; when not working on graphics or art he is playing music professionally. ...
Sheri Bare
Sheri Bare a Lancaster County native has a passion for working with clay. Primarily self taught she draws on her professional experience as an interior designer and love of color pattern and texture when working on her pieces. Sheri owns Room with a View in Mount Joy for more than 27 years. After ...
Lisa Muller
“I approach each painting with the same curiosity I have for any new place I visit. Through layering of collage, paint, charcoal, and marks made with various implements, I first build an abstract surface which could probably stand as a finished painting. The figurative imagery that I work into the ...
Justin Johnson
Justin is from Lancaster and graduated from the PA Academy of Fine Arts. He works in both oil and metal point. As an artist and avid reader, literature has always played a major role in Justin's life and work. The appealing narratives that he explores in books have taken on a new fascination th ...
Blair Atherholt
Blair Atherholt is an award-winning contemporary realist oil painter whose creative focus and interest primarily lie in the Still Life genre. His love for painting is inspired and informed by his atelier-style training, received during his completion of the four-year graduate program at the Schuler ...
MaryAnn Weselyk
MaryAnn is inspired by form and color. Her still life paintings are leaning into a more abstract direction while still maintaining thoughtful integrity for the subject matter. She uses strong lines, texture and saturated color to create a vibrant canvas of playfullness and joy. MaryAnn stu ...
Susan Gottlieb
Susan's art celebrates the colors and depths of life. Her paintings are a layered response to the strata of time, the experiences and stories she discovers on her travels. Susan lives and works in Lancaster, PA. "Much of my painting is prompted by evoked sensations elicited from journeys that ha ...
Robert Patierno
Robert Patierno is an internationally renowned printmaker, draftsman and painter whose strongly graphic and powerful works have been exhibited throughout the United States and across Europe. Patierno's prints, paintings and drawings reside in the permanent collections of the Frans Masereel Centr ...
Molly Sanger Carpenter
“Exquisite”and “Magical” are two of the descriptions used for the unique work of classically-trained and internationally-collected artist Molly Sanger Carpenter’s intricate and precious objets d’art. Her work has been widely exhibited in galleries and shows, and is in private collection ...
Angie Shope
"My ceramic vessels are a combination of thrown, altered and hand-built sections of porcelain. These sections or parts are made separately and then assembled. When the clay is leather hard, I begin drawing and painting with underglazes and stains on the unfired clay. I also use many different ...
Lynnette Shelley
Lynnette Shelley is an award-winning Pennsylvania artist specializing in contemporary mixed media animal and nature paintings. Having a great love of wildlife, patterns and archetypes, Shelley fuses these influences into her striking artworks. Her highly detailed and complex compositions are created ...
Sherri Trial
Sherri lives and works in Pennsylvania. She has garnered many awards in national and international juried exhibits, combining lettering with detailed imaging. Materials used are watercolor, acrylic gouache, 23K gold leaf, calf- or goatskin, and paper. “I interpret text to create a visual mood, ...
Theresa Heidig Rooney
Theresa is a Philadelphia-based artist, born and raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Her artistic journey began at a very young age; she won a scholarship to attend an adult painting program at the Everhart Museum when she was only nine. She earned her BFA and teaching certification from Temple Univer ...
Kathe Umlauf
Kathe Umlauf began sculpting as a child having had the good fortune to have been raised in an artistic climate. Her father was a Bauhaus architect from whom she learned the importance of “Form Follows Function” in nature. Her mother was a studio potter and clay became a ready medium for Kathe. ...
Mark Dennis
Mark A. Dennis, a native of York County, has a BA in Technical Theatre from Mansfield State College. Sculpture has been an integral part of his life for over thirty years after taking an intro to sculpting class in college. During this class he fell in love with metal casting and, following graduati ...
Brad Stroman
Growing up in Central Pennsylvania, son to a successful sign painter, Brad must have inherited the creative gene. His grandfather was a stonemason whose decorative stone carvings can be found on the facades of New York City brownstones and public buildings in Washington, DC and an ancestor was recor ...
Richard Ressel
Richard is both painter and sculptor. Known for his earthenware striped bowls, he is also proficient with egg tempura, watercolor, and casein. He is a member of the National Watercolor Society and several of his pieces have won at the national level. "It is difficult for me to come up with a ...
Jeff Schaller
Jeff Schaller graduated at Beaver College. His pop art paintings tie together his love of silk screen, encaustic, and acrylic. His work has been on the hit TV show 'Friends'. He has done murals for all 21 Iron Hill Breweries. His work is in collections both here and abroad. Jeff received his B ...
Gay Cox
Gay P. Cox, who was born and raised in England. She studied at what is now Leeds Beckett University, Yorkshire England, with a double major in education and art. Continuing her education at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA), Boston. Influenced by artists such as: Wassily Kandinsky, Van G ...
Kimiko Benjamin
“Kimiko Benjamin is a kirié artist who brings the enchanting world of Japanese paper-cutting to life. Using an X-ACTO knife, she carefully cuts intricate designs into black paper, adding a touch of magic with the delicate hues of washi origami. Originally from Japan, Kimiko has happily resided ...
Pat Caulfield
Over the past few years, Pat's direction has shifted from realistic to abstracted realism. Working intuitively, she combines collage, acrylic paint, oil pastel, vine charcoal, pencil, sanding, and distressing on birch wood cradle boards. While working intuitively, Pat layers her paintings and oft ...
Jan Wier
Jan was born in Texas, raised in Arkansas, and has a business degree from the University of Arkansas. As a child, she fell in love with art, and took lessons and classes right through high school. Even though she changed tracks to study business in college, the love of the creative field has s ...
Katheryn Stott Buxton
Katheryn received her BFA from Brigham Young University, UT in 1993. Katheryn's work balance color and light to create peaceful environments; a quiet visual escape. She refers to her enclosed intimate spaces as "nature's cathedral". "The light in my paintings has an underlying composition, the ...
Carol Lesher
Carol resides in Kennett Square, PA. She received her BFA in painting from the University of Delaware in 1985. Carol is known for her expressionistic landscapes and her works are represented in many public and private collections. "My work interrogates the balance between representation and abstr ...
Teresa Haag
Teresa resides in Phoenixville, PA. She works in oils on top of newspaper covered board. She sketches her subject directly with paint and works in thin layers allowing areas of the newspaper to show through, creating noise and adding depth to each piece. "Art has been the constant in my life. ...
Dave Krantz
Dave Krantz has a B.S. in Art Education from Kutztown University. He is a native Lancastrian who spent his childhood on his family’s dairy farm in the southern end of the county. Memories of growing up surrounded by farmland and his love of the way natural light plays against buildings and o ...
Melissa Bryant
I paint quiet moments and places. Collectively, they are my response to my need for silence and reflection in a contemporary culture that is often excessive and loud. The act of painting reminds me to tread softly through life and observe fleeting experiences. When I do, they are ordinary moments th ...
Jordana Saunders
Jordana is a portrait artist based in Lancaster Pennsylvania. She studied architecture and design at Washington University in St. Louis, and continues to practice residential architecture professionally. In addition to her creative studies as an architect, Jordana has loved painting since she was a ...
Eric Fowler
When not teaching at the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Fowler works as the Collections Manager for the Society of Illustrators Museum in New York City, curating, conserving and installing great works by the world’s best artists.
Jacqui Fehl
Jacqui Fehl is a mostly self taught mixed media artist residing in Asheville, NC. Her bold recognizable style can best be described as a modern blend of abstracted whimsy and grunge. Influenced by music, lyrics, feelings, stories, other artists, and the materials themselves, Jacqui’s art is as ...
Roger Dorsey
A life-long resident of Lancaster County, Roger received his BA in Geology from Franklin and Marshall College and worked 30 years as a geologist for the Commonwealth of PA. Following retirement, Roger has renewed his enduring interest in art, concentrating on creating sculptures from found metal. ...
Samantha Barlett
Samantha currently resides in Lancaster City, PA. Her interest in ceramics became ignited after helping fire the wood kiln at Wheaton Arts in Millville, NJ. She began learning to throw in several small studios around Philadelphia and continued her journey after moving to Fairbanks, Alaska. While s ...
Elizabeth Staz
Elizabeth's paintings are an expression of life filtered through the spirit of one human being. Her feelings about the excitement of living are visually translated via interactions with friends and family, moments in nature, and ideas from books or current events.
Terri Amig
erri Amig attended The Corcoran School of Art and California Institute of Art. Having grown up in central Pennsylvania, she is now based on the coast of southern New Jersey. Her work addresses the laws of nature that bind us all, primarily through animal imagery.
Roberta Little
Whacky Wooden Whimsical Wall Sculptures created from found objects and intricately painted surfaces! "Being a survivor of Hurricane Katrina that blew apart households on the Coast of Mississippi, I understand tiny pieces from a life’s past become an integral positive part of the future, elevat ...