Margo was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1958. She always had an interest in art and garden design. Landscape Architecture seemed a perfect combination of those two interests.

Margo moved to the US in the early eighties and earned her degree in Landscape Architecture from Washington State University. After graduation, she worked for a university horticultural department. 

At the time, she developed her interest in design and art by painting floral, landscape, and abstract compositions using oils as her favorite medium.

About 2001 Margo was noticed by one of North Carolina's premier galleries and her career as a professional artist took off.

From then, Margo progressed to exhibit in the best galleries including the most prestigious and oldest gallery in Atlanta - The Lagerquist Gallery.

Margo constantly develops new approaches, color schemes, and styles and enjoys interest from publishers who believe that her work is exceptionally well suited for reproduction.

Margo lives near Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband Roman, her two sons, Lucas and Martin.

She is happy and satisfied because she is able to do what she always wanted—take care of her family, work in the garden, and always work on her new canvases.

Whether painting figurative or abstract pieces, the same issues are significant. The abstract concepts of picture-making (i.e. composition, color, value, light, line, volume and space) are what make for great work. Although I paint from emotion, the emotional impact of what a piece is about becomes secondary.

My beach landscapes are whimsical, often lively with color. All a reflection of my joy for the seaside. People become abstract color shapes.

I do the same with my NYC landscapes, full of windows, patterns, and different shapes of color representing city life.

My work was quite traditional for the first twenty years as an artist. For the past ten years, I have sought to “forget” my training and to simply “create” without the constant barriers of my formal education. My work as a result has simplified yet at the same time become more specific, more about paint usage, color and abstraction, and the tension on the two-dimensional plane. At the same time, there is always a story for the viewer to follow and make their own.

I have been painting for more than forty-five years; I received a BFA from Boston University School for the Arts and an MFA from Cuny Queens College.

Valerie Coursen's mixed-media paintings evoke colors and patterns inspired by childhood summers on the Cape.  Her work is known for tactile surfaces and beautiful color relationships that tap into the magical summers she spends on the Cape and Nantucket. 

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Sandy has been an oil painter and a member of the Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) since 1996. Sandy won the AAN Robert McDougall Award for Promising New Artist in 1998. Her education covers a range: BFA, Colorado State University; Art Center College of Design; School of Visual Arts; Southern Methodist University; Denver Arts Students' League; NY Academy of Fine Art; Caravaggio Studio (NYC); Georgetown University.

"Although I have been studying art for years, interacting with instructors and other artists continues to energize and inspire me."   - Sandra Flavin.

From Caravaggio in the 17th century to the American Luminist painters of the 19th century, artists have struggled to capture and reflect a light source in their works. Translating the details of reflected and refracted light is a talent few truly master. Elle aims to seize that sunshine or five o’clock shade to create a brilliant mid-day horizon or a silent, shady sunset moment. Each work gives you a sense of the place in which the artist immerses herself.

I have watched her work at the Life-Saving Museum and the creek marshes of Monomoy in Nantucket. Elle concentrates and absorbs the essence of the time, tone, and beauty of the natural landscape and shares it with us.

My most recent paintings have evolved from a mostly impressionistic style to a more abstract one. This difference is achieved largely through unusual textural innovations in otherwise uniform surfaces. Unfortunately, these small (website) images do not convey the visual impact and detail of the full-size paintings.

I am continuously inspired by the complex interaction between sky, water, and land…the boundless horizon that provides an intoxicating space for my imagination to roam. My paintings strive to capture the ever-changing moods that light imposes on what I see.

Evocative, suggestive seascapes and landscapes draw people into my paintings...into a timeless space that silences the chaos around us. I want to solicit an emotional response to images drawn from my imagination incessantly fueled by the world around me.

I keep a photo record of each painting's evolution. I look back at some of these pictures and see how a painting changed in interesting ways. I see my struggles to get something out that I didn’t understand at the time. I am often amazed and sometimes appalled by the many attempts it took to arrive at the final solution. Since I never plan a new painting, this documented evolution reflects the emotionally draining exploration of something within me that needed to be expressed.

Since my early mixed-media paintings, I have been experimenting with many different, sometimes nontraditional, approaches. Mixed-media once allowed me the most flexibility and range of expression. However, oil painting is more challenging and has become my most satisfying medium. By incorporating the lessons learned from each medium, including digital, my approach is always exploratory as I develop different techniques to achieve the desired effects. 

Elise Phillips was born in Wayne, Pennsylvania, into a family with an extensive background in the fine arts. Her great-great-grandfather founded Newman Galleries in Philadelphia in 1865, and today, she is the fifth generation of the family involved in the arts. 

A graduate of The Hussian School of Art in 1983, she was an accomplished illustrator and graphic designer with many successful commissions in the business community. With an inherent passion for painting, she enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, emerging well schooled in the tradition of the Academy. 

Elise has for many years maintained a studio in Elverson, Pennsylvania, where the bucolic countryside is a constant source of inspiration for many of her paintings, as is Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, the Chesapeake Bay and the coast of Maine. 

An award winning exhibitor, she is a signature member of the Philadelphia Water Color Society, a member of the Philadelphia Sketch Club, Oil Painters of America, and the Mid Atlantic Plein Air Painters.

I am a figurative painter who paints according to certain traditions—the creation of space (vs. mimicking of space) on a flat picture plane, the use of color and space to create light (vs. mimicking of light), using the principles of abstraction to paint solid forms, composing an entire image (the whole painting), incorporating lines and curves and color and my light coming from within the painting.

I believe that we are here, alive, to be ourselves, to gain wisdom, to give love, not to miss a moment of life if we can help it, and that suffering is a given, but the meaning is built into life. I love life; I love being alive. I love nature, animals, people, shapes, colors, music, dance, Shakespeare, great writing, sex, the human body, biology, poetry, cars, dogs, and the ocean.

The formal elements of painting and abstraction interest me, namely color, form, line, shape, surface and a pleasing yet challenging presence within the painting. Nature is the language I speak in my work. I seek to invent a painted surface through color, an awareness of direct brushstroke, and applying paint to the surface while maintaining a connection to earth and water, the sky, plants and dwellings, a messy yet ordered place of color and natural forms. More recently, the horizon has slipped off the picture plane, yet it will most likely reappear.