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Artist Open Studios features eleven wonderful artists in the Northern RI area.
Each is looking forward to sharing their craft with you.
Interested in being a participating artist for 2012 Artist Open Studios?
Click HereOur featured artists for 2011 are:
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Neal Drobnis
102 Pole Bridge Road
North Scituate, RI 02857
401.678.6464
ndrobnis@verizon.net
www.nealdrobnis.comCast and blown glass sculptures and wall pieces
Neal is drawn to the glass medium because the fluidity makes it an expressionist art form, transparency brings the colors to life, and the contrasts between textures enhances the perception of rough and
smooth surfaces. These are the qualities he feels within his being and the artistic process is the way to share his appreciation of the human drama of this our short time on earth. Neal received his MFA from
Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art. His work is present in numerous public and private collections and is shown in galleries worldwide. |
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Christine Wendel Farrugia
641 Snake Meadow Hill Road
Sterling, CT (Foster, RI) 06377
401.397.6501
www.myfarmart.comCharcoals and color pastels of my life of goats, chickens, and cows
My drawings reveal the daily conversations between our animals and me. We all live here on the farm, the animals owning me rather than I them. They know me as the food goddess. I know
their personalities, character, habits, foibles and follies. It's all fuel for the art. All my work is done in charcoal so as to focus your eye on their personality without the distraction of fabulous
colors. Charcoal allows me to work quickly — catching the moment without getting too hung up on the process. I will be demonstrating my process, from start to finish, over the course of the day. |
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Tom Grabbert
380 Seven Mile Road
Hope (Scituate), RI 02831
401.821.5238
grabbertt@aol.comDecorative, functional, high fire porcelain Tom Grabbert is a ceramic artist who creates elegant
porcelain tableware and decorative items in a studio overlooking beautiful farmland in Hope, a village in Scituate, RI. He began working with clay at the age of 15. For the past 30 years, Tom has developed a
unique palette of natural, rich-toned glazes that complement the forms of his work -- a complete line of tableware, vases, and other vessels -- and suggest both movement and tranquility. Tom studied at Rhode
Island School of Design. Locally he exhibits at the popular RISD alumni sales, and his studio in Hope, RI. |
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Tracy Mahaffey
142 Howard Hill Road
Foster, RI 02825
401.397.7714
www.tracymahaffey.comHand Carved Works in Stone Tracy Mahaffey is a professional stone carver who works
within the traditional craft of hand lettering and sculpture. She infuses this ancient craft with a modern sensibility and often a little philosophy and humor. To see examples of her work, including
everything from gravestones to garden fountains, visit her website. |
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Sarah Mutton
220 Hartford Pike (Rt. 101)
Foster, RI 02825
401.647.2608
sarahmutton@yahoo.comOil paintings of animals I am a resident of Foster and have been involved in Artist
Open Studio since it's creation. My painting space is in the hay loft of a large barn surrounded by the wilds of rural Rhode Island. Deer, coyote, owls, foxes, hawks, turkeys, an army of frogs and a pot
bellied pig have passed by at one time or another. Occasionally my chickens will visit scratching and pecking their way around the barn. It is neat to see the animals move below the window. The barn has
housed horses, pigs and once an ornery goat. Now, it has an artist ... |
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Ann Rozhon
88 Old Quarry Road
Harmony (Glocester), RI 02857
401.934.9879
annrozhon@cox.net
New England landscape painting and figurative sculpture Ann has been a professional artist for over 25 years. She graduated
from the Rhode Island School of Design and has since had both group and solo shows throughout New England. Her work is included in many private and corporate collections in the United States and Canada, and
is also represented in the books, "American Artists-An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporaries" and "Contemporary American Women Sculptors", as well as having been reviewed many times in The Providence
Journal, The Phoenix, The New Paper, and U.R.I. Magazine. It was the subject of two feature articles in the Observer. Ann was commissioned by The Marriot Corporation to create a sculptural frieze for Women
and Infants Hospital and has worked restoring architectural sculpture for building facades and as an assistant exhibit designer at Roger Williams Park Zoo. |
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Sherri Snyder Watercolors
25A Mount Hygeia Road
Foster, RI 02825
401.533.0983
info@HattiesCountryStore.com
www.SherriSnyderWatercolors.com
www.HattiesCountryStore.comPaintings rich in color and design with remnants of artistic influences Sherri
has been painting professionally and exhibiting her watercolor paintings since 1989 throughout New England. Her paintings are gentle yet bold, quiet yet lively. Themes include primarily landscapes and
florals. Her greatest passion in life is nature, and so she shares this passion with her viewers. She brings her mini-paintbox with her often painting on site especially when she travels to foreign locations
(England, Greece, and France to name a few). She was accepted into the Rhode Island Watercolor Society in 2008 and won 2nd place at the Rhode Island Flower Show in 2009. She has expanded her "artistic
palette" and has been weaving rugs, painting on gourds, collages, and creating other "colorful" hand-made items. She has joined with another local crafts-person to create "Hattie's
Country Store", a gallery, studio and shop filled with their hand crafted items. |
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Karin Sprague Stone Carvers LLC
904 Tourtellot Hill Road
Scituate, RI 02857
401.934.3105
www.karinsprague.comCompassionately designed hand carved gravestones
My vision is that I will remain good and true to the work I have been called to do. Our team of expert artisans use and pursue their gifts and talents by listening compassionately, then designing and hand
carving memorials, fostering lasting relationships and shared healing through the "ART OF REMEMBERING." |
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Bev Thomas
16 Rocky Road
Chepachet, RI 02814
401.568.8166
www.bevthomasonline.comAbstracted paintings based on the natural world A sense of place. As a life long
painter I want to share what I feel around me. Always an explorer I feel transformed by the light and wind on water, sky and earth. Color, line shades of paint are wonderful tools of expressing the intuitive
and real properties of this space. My paintings exist as a tribute to a day in the woods, beach, marsh or city. I will be demonstrating the process of oil painting, using rough drawings and photos.
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Earle Thurber
228 Ide Road
North Scituate, RI 02857
401.647.7214
www.thurberstudio.comAbstract acrylic and mixed media paintings and prints My paintings grow from a life long fascination with art, psychology, and design, and in many ways are an integration of all three areas of interest. My technique is highly process oriented, a
discovery process through which I'm drawn by color associations, relationships of forms that evolve, and a building sense of complexity of visual interaction. The work is constructed of layers of color and
form, "free associations" that are subsequently refined through a more conscious design process. My work is heavily influenced, and frequently totally driven, by music, from a wide range of interest, but
especially jazz. I frequently think of the work as the visual equivalent of jazz improvisation. |
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Valery Thurber
228 Ide Road
North Scituate, RI 02857
401.647.7214
www.valerygallery.comPaintings that walk the line between figuration and abstraction When I paint the figure I feel
a rush to capture the essence of a fleeting moment. I work on paintings and drawings inspired by direct observation; conceptual themes include intimate space and solitude. Through a fluid creative
process, I push inventive renderings and walk the line between figuration and abstraction. |
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