Ellen Duarte has been creating a Christmas card almost every year since taking up botanical illustration more than a decade ago, when she began her studies at Wellesley College Botanic Garden. She earned her Certificate of Botanical Illustration in 2015. Ellen grew up in Maine and raised her family on Cape Cod. She currently resides in Centerville and is still frequently visiting Maine. She and her husband enjoy three grown children and many grandchildren.
DEBORAH FOWLER GREENWOOD received her Masters in Art Education at Temple University’s Tyler School as well as graduate study at RISD, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Maryland Institute of Art. She has taught watercolor classes at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod in Yarmouth and at the Main Line Art Center in Haverford, Pa. She presently teaches art at Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School and was recognized as the Arts Educator of the Year in 2011 by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod. She has received numerous exhibition awards and her work can be found in both private and corporate collections. Greenwood maintains a studio at the Harwich Cultural Center. www.deborahfowlergreenwood.com
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Stephen Haines is a photojournalist and worked on the staff of the Cape Cod Times, The Providence Journal and The Boston Globe. Haines worked as a photographer, assignment and photo editor. Presently, Stephen teaches Photography at Boston University, and lives on the Cape as well as freelances in still and video photographer.
Robert received his Bachelor of Professional Arts degree from Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. For 22 years he was an Art Director at J Walter Thompson and at Kenyon and Eckhardt Ad agencies in New York. He is a Signature Member of the New England Watercolor Society and the Penn. Watercolor Society.
Mellissa Morris is an abstract mixed media artist working in traditional and non-traditional
painterly and sculptural processes. A teacher and passionate abstract enthusiast her philosophy
is TO BUILD ARTISTS, SHARE SECRETS, and; TO CHALLENGE CREATIVES TO GROW!
More about Mellissa and her work can be found at: MellissaMorris.com
I am a fine art and portrait photographer and educator, now living on Cape Cod after a long career in the DC Metro area. Published and exhibited regionally and nationally, I currently travel and photograph along the Route 95 corridor.
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ODIN SMITH
Odin Kaeselau Smith is a native Cape Codder who resides in Harwich, MA. She is a professional artist and instructor, as well as a mother of 5 sons, who uses her “spare” moments to capture time, light and emotion through her artwork. Her new thriving Gallery and Studio are in Chatham.
LEE SURETTE
Lee Surette is from a family of artists and spent many years as a commercial artist, illustrator and advertising Creative Director. Since his 20’s he has been devoted to exploring the light and form of the New England landscape through the mediums of watercolor and oils. Lee graduated from Vesper George School of Art and was an instructor there in commercial art and illustration. He studied oil painting at the Cape School of Art in Provincetown under Henry Hensche, the renowned genius of the Cape Cod Style of American Impressionism. His continued study at the Cape School under watercolorist Lee Boynton further developed his watercolor style.“Through Henry [Hensche] and the Cape School of Art I learned the secrets of painting color in the style and legacy of Charles Hawthorne and the French Impressionists. The unique and changing light of the natural landscape of Cape Cod is my continuing inspiration.” –Lee Surette
As a native Californian from San Francisco, Victoria absorbed forms of creative art, always drawing and painting in some form since childhood. She majored in Theater Arts at Loyola Marymount. For over twenty years she was in retail management in the designer fashion industry. Still, she remained drawn to designers and their creative process. She left the industry to pursue fine art. Roger Armstrong, a master California painter and school founder at the Laguna College of Art and Design, took her in as a protégé. From him, she learned to risk failure. “Its only paint and paper” he told her. She studied and worked for him for seven years. Upon his death, the Irvine Fine Art Center asked Victoria to continue his class. Another passion, teaching, emerged. She expanded her weekly classes to the Laguna Beach Susi Q Center and conducted workshops. Her approach, like her mentor, encourages students to lose fear, take risks and view painting as a process. When she moved to Cape Cod in 2015, She put teaching aside and focused on her own artwork. She has studio space at The Old Schoolhouse in Barnstable Village. She is a continuous participant CCAC plein air group and contributed to their second 2019 edition of Plein Air Painting on Cape Cod. She participated in Cape Cod shows and received recognition.
John Tunney is a full-time photographer. He is a frequent exhibitor in New England art shows and festivals, and his award-winning work has been featured in a solo exhibition at the Griffin Museum of Photography and in galleries and other venues His book, The Four Seasons of Cape Cod, was published in 2016. His photographs have appeared in Cape Cod Life, Cape Codder, Fodor’s and other publications. A Master Artist of Cape Cod Art Center, John shares his knowledge of fine-art photography in classes, workshops and seminars for beginning and experienced photographers. More about John
BOB WHEATON
Bob is retired from a 40-year professional career in Environmental Health and Safety in 2018 and moved to Plymouth. Bob’s teaching experience comes form being an adjunct faculty member at Vanderbilt University and conducting hundred’s of training sessions during his professional career. He started Wheaton Images LLC in 2018 to provide commercial photography services and produce fine art for sale at art shows locally. Bob started making images when the first Nikon professional cameras were introduced in 2007. He has also been using Adobe Photoshop for over 25 years (since version 3) and Adobe Lightroom since release in 2007. Bob Initially began using Photoshop to create graphics for health and safety training software development and has used each successive version for creating digital art. Bob has won numerous awards for his photography. Bob is a member on the photo committee and a photography instructor at the Plymouth Center for the Arts. He has also been accepted as a juried artist member at Cape Cod Art Center. www.wheatonimages.com
ROBIN WESSMAN Robin Wessman is a contemporary realist painter from Eastham, MA. He earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Ohio University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts & Education degree from the University of Massachusetts, North Dartmouth. His paintings are a reaction to the environment he lives in on Cape Cod and how he feels about the world around him. As a resident of Eastham, his landscapes are inspired by the natural beauty and light of the dunes and marshes, especially the preserved landscape of the Cape Cod National Seashore. His paintings are fueled by observation and imagination and invite the viewer to experience something beyond an accurate depiction subjects. He employs the indirect method of painting which begins with sketches and studies from life, followed by a combination of direct paint application and layers of transparent paint. One constant in all his work is the exploration of light and how it affects form and creates atmosphere. His work is represented by several galleries and may be found in private collections throughout the US and internationally.