Jeffrey Gorrell Jeffrey Gorrell I began painting about 24 years ago, first in watercolor and then oils and acrylics. In the last 8 years I have painted mostly with watercolor on synthetic paper, called Yupo, focusing mostly on landscapes and non-objective abstracts. I am a member of the Vienna Arts Society and the Potomac Valley […]

Artist Statement of Rosemary Gallick As a child growing up in the bleak hills of the steel town of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, I sought inspiration with paper, pencil and found joy in a treasure box called Crayola! Small jars of tempera paint opened other venues of the imagination. Once the magic of creating figures began, I […]

Anita K. Epstein Ms. Epstein began painting with watercolors in 1980 when she enrolled in the George Washington University Art Therapy Program. Bernard Levy, the director of the program, required all art therapy students to enroll in a fine arts class. Dr. Levy taught watercolor classes at the Washington DC Recreation Center and Ms. Epstein […]

Ruth Ensley Ruth graduated from Fairleigh Dickenson University in 1965 with a Bachelor in Fine Arts majoring in Art and a certification to teach Art K through 12. During that time she also attended the Cleveland Institute of Art in Cleveland, Ohio and Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ruth taught Art for three years in […]

Patricia Deege Born in Singapore, grew up in England and loved photography from an early age– Patricia began serious work in this medium after retirement.  A member of several area clubs dedicated to the arts, Vienna Photographic Society, Northern Virginia Photographic Society, League of Reston Artists, the Art League and Vienna Arts Society; Patricia’s work […]

Leo Deege Painting has been a lifelong hobby. I studied painting with some of the best local artists including Danny Dawson, Rick Weaver and Rob Liberace. I am also a graduate of Nelson Shank’s advanced painting course. Most of my landscape paintings have been done on location and I have done several portrait commissions of […]

Davi D’Agostino I began drawing and painting as a child and continued through my graduate studies.  After following a completely different career path for the next 33 years, I retired and began taking studio and oil painting classes at Virginia’s Lorton Arts Center and then privately. I studied with Suzanne Clark, Diane Frykman, Marni Maree, […]

Michael Colby Michael E. Colby Michael Colby began making photographs at the age of seventeen (17), motivated by his plans to spend a semester between high school and college studying animal behavior and African cultures in Kenya, East Africa. His first “models” were his sister’s horses and his brother’s racecars. His knack for “panning” on […]

Ahmed Ansari Ahmed Ansari Ahmed Ansari was born and raised in Mumbai. While in college, he worked doing textile, jewelry and commercial design including Arabic calligraphy. Mr. Ansari left India and worked for nine years as a graphic designer and art director in advertising agencies in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. In 1990, […]