Welcome the Online Gallery

Graduating from the Art Institute of Boston, after a stint in the Navey, Russell Aharonian has exhibited throughout New England and beyond since 1970. Influenced by Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky and fellow – Armenian Ashile Gorky, his original work invites the viewer into an open ended story-telling circle, spanning Aharonian’s 70 year ecstatic celebration of love, color, life, curiosity, and play. 

Annette Brennan specializes in landscape photography.  She is originally from Chicago and lived for a long time in Ireland, where she had the opportunity to concentrate on her first love which is landscape photography. When Annette returned to the states, she opened her own gallery in Kennebunkport, Maine in 2008 where she sold her photography of Maine’s coast on canvases in large format.  She focuses on seaside themes and continues to study in depth coastal images. Annette studied art at the Maine College of Art in Portland, and continues to explore capturing light in magical moments.

Bess Cutler’s work combines a masterful, dynamic formalism with lush, expressive mark-making to probe Western tropes of figurative art and raw psycho-emotional states fraught with tension and strain. Even at its most explicitly figurative, her work’s complex spatial dynamics, push-pull of forces, shifting, abstracted shapes, translucent underlayers of high-contrast, gestural paint, charcoal, and ghostly abstract lines lift her work away from mere political or sentimental narrative and into the realm of visual poetry. A veteran of New York City’s downtown art scene of the 1980s and ‘90s, Cutler has returned to her New England roots (she’s a graduate of the Museum School) to refocus her energies on the core principles that have driven her most personal creative work. Writing credit: Christopher Volpe  

Denise Driscoll is a contemporary American painter who works from the premise that all living things are connected in an intricate mesh of being, yet each occupies the center of their own world. These simultaneous centers of lived experience swirl within and around us, piercing, enveloping, and permeating with or without our notice. Driscoll was included in the inaugural AREA CODE Art Fair in 2020. Her work has been reviewed in Artscope magazine and featured in The Boston Globe. Driscoll is a SOLO2017 winner at Bromfield Gallery with “Geometries of Inner Space” and a Curatorial Opportunity Grant winner with “Material Meditation” at the New Art Center in Newton in 2008. Her paintings and collaborative projects have been shown throughout New England. Driscoll holds an MFA in Visual Arts from Lesley Art + Design (2007) where she currently teaches.

Darlene Furbush Ouellett is an impressionistic painter and print artist. She received her B.F.A. from the University of New Hampshire in 1996, with concentrations in drawing and painting. She is the recipient of the Corinne Trippetti Scholarship for Artistic Merit, and numerous awards from juried art exhibits. Darlene has been painting and printmaking since 1996, exhibits and demonstrates her techniques widely in New England, and teaches from her Button Factory Studio in Portsmouth.

A fascination with the beauty and complexity of the microscopic world fuels Kay Hartung’s paintings. Working in encaustic and mixed media, she contemplates the potential impact of cellular activity on the visible universe and the human species. The growth, multiplication, and movement of these biological forms is essential to her creative process, as they travel freely or are captured and tangled in sinuous webs.  The imagery, loosely based on observation of biological structures, explores the interconnections of these cellular forms. The process builds layer upon layer suggesting growth, development and movement. Some of the pieces are in more of a static or restful stage whereas others explode with activity. The order and chaos of these biological processes are captured in the imagery. 

 Hartung received a BFA from Philadelphia College of Art, and an MFA from Syracuse University. She has been awarded grants from the Somerville Arts Council, Malden Arts Council and the Ford Foundation.

 A Boston native, Mary began painting with oils at age eleven. Having discovered her passion at this early age, Mary has been making art for many years. Her formal training took place at The Art Institute of Boston, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Lesley University. Among Mary’s many professional memberships are Core Member of Fountain Street Gallery, SOWA Boston, The National Association of Women Artists, The Collage Association, and The International Encaustic Institute. Her pieces have appeared in galleries in major cities throughout the United States and are in private collections throughout the world. Mary’s work is renowned for its technique and innovation.    

  Marcia Wise’s paintings of abstracted landscapes, as well as her other bodies of work, evoke the powerful emotional reactions that aspects of nature stir within her. She describes her work as honest peeks into her inner relationship with the world. Her process is a passionate trial of color placement, color relationships, light effects, introspection, form and pattern manipulation, and textural play.  Wise received formal training from L’Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Beaux-Arts, France, Art Institute of Boston, MA, and Boston University, MA. She has lived and worked across the US, in Europe and the Middle East.

 Rosalind Fedeli has been creating diverse and engaging art on the Maine Coast for 30 years in assemblage, collage and mixed media. Her works are relatively small but powerful. "Making art is a solitary endeavor; sharing it connects me to people." Fedeli is totally immersed in her art.....working daily....producing many pieces. She offers her work though River Currents Gallery of York, and at other local galleries and exhibits.

 Dustan Knight is a professional artist (MFA/Pratt Institute & MA/Boston University in Art History)(UCLA-Summer)(TA Academy Rome/Pratt)  Knight works in an intuitive, process style that pushes her materials and depends on her many years of visual study and creative experience to achieve her signature looseness and dramatic color exchanges. Lyrical movement and elegant composition are consistent elements of her artistic vocabulary. 

Pete Ruokis is a New Hampshire-based photographer with over 12 years of professional photography experience. After graduating from Fitchburg State University with a B.S. in Photography, Pete spent over a decade working in the studio and commercial photography industries. In 2020, during quarantine, Pete began to focus his work on Lego and toy photography, bringing his two biggest passions together into one artistic medium.   His toy photography has since grown into multiple artistic disciplines including the 3D printing of his own photography props and meticulously hand-building every diorama you see in his work today.   

 Steve Thornley is a Maine print artist. Primarily self-taught, his art journey includes graphic design work, work in linocut print and an abstract art workshop with Dean Nimmer at the Montserrat College of Art which expanded his visual vocabulary and approach to architectural and environmental themes.  Steve's current work is focused on limited edition digital prints and digitally enhanced photographs.  He has exhibited at Boston's Bromfield Gallery, and offers his work through his Blueberry Hill Studio and other New England fine art shops.  

Anita Loomis is a painter who works in Watercolor and oils. She has a background in architectural glass which informs her expressionistic work. A bit of a chameleon, she paints in a wide range of distinctive styles, and her artwork has exhibited internationally. Now making her home and studio in Kittery Maine, she is the founder of Loomis Gallery. Anita is a member of various art associations and exhibits in the New England area. Loomis earned her BA in Studio Art, an MA in Arts Management and Grad Certificate in Public Administration. She creates prolifically and works to support other artists.