Ellen Kaiden:

Saturday, Aug 15, 1 - 4 pm

"I am drawn to watercolor as a medium because it is spontaneous and Uncontrollable. The thought that you can capture motion and color in water adds to the mediums excitement. My Paintings are full of life and movement; they have an architectural but vitreous quality. Every time I pick a subject to paint, I enjoy finding its form and ultimately its sensuality."

  Ellen attended Philadelphia College of Art and studied painting with Will Barnet. Additional education included private study with Herbie Rose in Sarasota, Florida and Johanna Salomon in Bergen County, New Jersey. Ellen also has studied at Beaux Arts, Paris, France, the Interlaken School in Lenox, Massachusetts, and the Art Students League and the New School in N.Y.C..She  is a full time painter, with studios in Sarasota, Florida and the Berkshires.

MaryAnn Charmoz

Saturday August 22. 1-5 PM

Chicago native and Rhode Island School of Design Graduate, MaryEllen Charmoz is an oil painter, creating on canvas what she sees, feels, visualizes.. that which she can transpose to media in her own style.   Her work includes beautiful renderings of nature, cities, people, pets, but mostly the ever-changing, ever evolving charm of the Berkshires from her nearby studio.

In 2006 nationwide contest sponsored by the AARP,  her "Winter Birches" were selected to grace their Annual Calendar which was distributed to some 600,000 sponsors.  The same piece was also selected for the AARP Annual Holiday Card.  Her work has been featured in newspapers, magazines  other publications.

"When it conmes to landscapes, trees and animals, they already have a life of their own.  I shape their lives into my self-expression.  That's what makes every artist's work unique."  -- MaryEllen Charmoz