Debra Claffey is an accomplished artist whose work focuses on plant and foliage forms as a means of exploring the human condition. She uses her scientific knowledge of horticulture to inform her aesthetic appreciation of the natural world. Her paintings are created using oil, encaustic, and mixed media, and she employs direct observation of nature…

Laura Harper Lake is an interdisciplinary artist and designer who works under the moniker Artful Harper Studios at the Exeter Stations Studios in Exeter, New Hampshire. She has been creatively driven her whole life and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Studio Art from Chester College of New England in 2007. Laura has…

Alicia Sampson Ethridge is a contemplative artist and mother of two, living in coastal Maine. Born in New Jersey in 1984, she moved to Maine in 2008. Ethridge worked as a grief counselor employing expressive art therapies for six years before she was initiated into the Interspiritual Order of Art Monastics in 2014. She studied…

Michelle Peterson is a visual artist, receiving her BFA from New Hampshire Institute of Art in 2011, and her MFA from the Institute of Art and Design at New England College in 2020. She works in multiple mediums, including painting, photography, and fiber art. She is a mother of two and resides in southern New…

Julie Hamel is a multidisciplinary maker working with photographic media that speaks of loss and memory. Frequently using what’s found in nature to highlight the distance in human interactions, she marks the importance of connections and the emotional effects of separation. Reflecting on the broader context of exposure, time, and sensitivity, her work simultaneously represents…

Spenser Macleod is an artist based out of Portland, Maine, where he lives with his fiancé and daughter. Spenser earned a BFA in Illustration from Maine College of Art and currently creates murals, paintings, and commissioned design and illustrative works all over New England. “My work is heavily inspired by an array of vintage pop…

Jeff Fitzgerald is a York, Maine-based artist who works primarily in acrylic, graphite, and charcoal. Fitzgerald studied painting at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and has exhibited all around New England and New York. “The artwork is driven by color and its movement across the canvas. Brushstrokes build, conjure and connect to the other half…

Adam O’Day is a painter based in Abington, MA. O’Day received a BFA in Illustration/Design from The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University and has exhibited his work in Boston, New York City, Atlanta, London, and New London, CT.  In the past, O’Day has approached representational paintings with a more dreamlike feel. In this series,…

Michael Joseph is a Boston, MA based photographer who documents subculture through street portraiture. Raised just outside of New York City, his inspirations are drawn from interactions with strangers on city streets and aims to afford his audience the same experience through his photographs. His portraits are made unplanned and up close to allow the…