Terry Svat

Terry Svat Terry Svat Artist Statement: Recently I was selected to be a part of the prestigious Columbia University’s Art Cart program where my work was catalogued and saved in their archives and some pieces were selected for exhibition this past year in the Katzen Center Museum. In addition, my works are included in Museum […]

Grace Rooney

Grace Rooney Grace Rooney I have loved art from the time I was a child. I graduated from the Pittsburgh Art Institute and went on to work as an artist for Hallmark Cards in Kansas City Missouri. After moving to Cleveland Ohio, I became the program director for American Greeting Cards. Moving to Virginia my […]

Jan Ponder

Jan Ponder Jan Ponder, Encaustic & Pastel Artist You’re never too old to enhance your life with art. I was 73 when I fell in love with photography and all it’s aspects and for 7 years I went on field trips and took workshops and entered competitions. Three years ago I discovered something new, Encaustics. […]

Alejandra Pineiro

Alejandra Piñeiro “Painting is an outlet to explore feelings we have trapped inside ourselves.” Some of the elements involved in my paintings are nostalgia, wonder, awe, and spirituality, which are symbolized through the effects of light. My paintings are a combination of these elements and the strong feelings and emotions felt while observing nature during […]

Jeffrey Gorrell

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 […]

Rosemary Gallick

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 Epstein

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 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 […]