Sara Eyestone
Stephen Harrington
Dawn Hotaling
Paula Kolojeski
Dick LaBonte
Sheila Mickle
Virginia Perle
Muriel Rogers
Ludlow Thorston
Margaret Tourison Berndt
Theresa Troise Heidel
Sara
Eyestone
American artist Sara Eyestone is known for her choice of
beautiful subjects painted with unusual combinations of glorious
colors. Art lovers and private collectors commission her
paintings that later become the subject of her international art
posters, calendars, lithographs, and Caspari notecards. This
published work is available in over 500 museum shops and
specialty stores worldwide. In 1986, when Sara’s “The
Golden Lady” was chosen as the official Statue of
Liberty Commemorative Plate, the New Jersey State Museum
celebrated her work with a large retrospective featuring
paintings and drawings from her private collectors. It was the
artist’s fiftieth solo exhibition. Today Sara has moved her
studio from the Jersey Shore to the famous Riverwalk in San
Antonio, Texas. She welcomes all art lovers to visit while she is
painting. A website of her work is located at www.saraeyestone.com.
Stephen
Harrington
Stephen Harrington
established his business, Coastal Guardians, in 1994 for the sole
purpose of presenting our nation’s lighthouses from an
historic perspective. Each light is visited, photographed, and
researched for historical accuracy. Working in cooperation with
the light’s historian/director, a time period reflecting the
lighthouse’s peak operation is selected, and the details are
refined to present a rendition that is as historically accurate
as possible. Each print is accompanied by a one or two page
history. Stephen resides in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Dawn
Hotaling
Dawn Hotaling is a
watercolor artist who captures not only the likeness of the
places she paints but also their spirit. She has been
commissioned to paint over 200 homes, inns, historical buildings,
and other sites across the country. Her paintings have received
many respected awards and have been selected for use in
publications, books, and greeting cards. During the summer of
1999, Dawn will see the fulfillment of a dream in an extensive
hiking trip across Iceland—an adventure full of artistic
possibilities! Dawn resides in Long Branch, New Jersey. A website
of her work is located at www.dawnhotaling.netmegs.com.
Paula
Kolojeski
Paula Kolojeski
has been painting the New Jersey Shore in pastels for over twenty
years. Working on location, she enjoys capturing the effects of
light on sand and sea. Her work has won awards in many juried
shows and is found in collections throughout the United States as
well as Canada, Europe, Saudi Arabia, and Japan. She is
represented by Main Street Gallery in Manasquan, New Jersey where
originals and limited edition reproductions of her work are
available. Paula resides in Princeton, New Jersey.
Dick
LaBonte
Dick LaBontÈ
began to paint professionally in his fifties after he took early
retirement from Business Week magazine in New York. His
neo-primitive acrylic scenes of bygone days at the New Jersey
Shore caught on quickly. These and other prints are sold along
the eastern seaboard, from Virginia to Cape Cod. One of them,
“Cocktails at the White House,” depicting a
gathering of all the Presidents and First Ladies, hangs in the
executive mansion. He is represented by the family-owned Anchor
& Palette Gallery in Bay Head, New Jersey where the artist
resides as well. A website of his work is located at www.flatdisk.com/gallery.
Sheila
Mickle
Sheila Mickle, an
artist and art teacher, is a native of the Point Pleasant area in
New Jersey. She is a graduate of Millersville University in
Pennsylvania and teaches art in Point Pleasant Borough High
School. Sheila specializes in pen and ink drawings and
calligraphy, but also works in acrylics, watercolors, and mixed
media. Her work has been displayed in local and regional juried
art exhibitions, as well as many retail outlets. Her drawings and
calligraphy have been featured in COAST Magazine, Notecards
of the Jersey Shore, cookbooks, calendars, brochures, and in
the local history book, “The People of Ocean County”
by David Oxenford.
Virginia
Perle
Virginia Perle has
been painting and drawing since early childhood. She went on to
study Fine Arts at Montclair State College in New Jersey and with
renowned watercolor artists as well. She has exhibited
extensively throughout the Northeast, especially in New York and
Pennsylvania. Her paintings can be found in private and corporate
collections, a United States congressional office, and
twenty-nine foreign countries. She recently exhibited some of her
work in the Rotunda of the House Of Representatives Office
Building in Washington, D.C., and at the Statehouse in Trenton in
a summer-long, single-artist exhibit. Her watercolors cover a
wide range of subjects including landscapes, seascapes, city
scenes, still lifes, and portraits. Virginia resides in Island
Heights, New Jersey.
Muriel
Rogers
Muriel Rogers'
paintings reflect her passion for color—particularly the
colors found in nature. She is widely recognized for her masterly
blending and mingling of pigment to capture the fleeting effects
of light and atmosphere. Her work, rendered in a combined
realistic-impressionistic style, often focuses on the
ever-changing colors of the sky. A native of New Jersey, Muriel
spent summers with herfamily at the Jersey Shore and began her
love of the ocean at an early age. A graduate of Georgian Court
College in New Jersey, she developed her painting technique
through many years of private instruction and workshops led by
nationally known artists. A prolific painter, her work is
collected nationally and has been featured on cable TV and in the
watercolor magazine, American Artist. Muriel resides in
Colts Neck, New Jersey.
Ludlow
Thorston
Ludlow Thorston
describes himself as a “truly American watercolorist,”
a man whose technique and individual interpretation reflect
sincerity and dedication to his art. His medium is aquarelle, a
transparent technique in which the white of the paper is used for
light. Bold strokes, washes, and subtle dashes of color are added
to produce fresh, vibrant paintings. Ludlow Thorston is a member
and past president of the New Jersey Watercolor Society. A
graduate of Newark School Of Fine Art in New Jersey and New York
University, he is recognized as a major talent in the medium of
watercolor painting. Ludlow and his wife, Nell, reside in Island
Heights, New Jersey, where his gallery is located.
Margaret
Tourison Berndt
Margaret travels
the globe gathering reference material for paintings of unique
and interesting boats indigenous to specific areas. Experiencing
the moment and depicting her personal vision has become a
signature element in her work and brought her acclaim as the only
fine artist allowed access by the America3 Foundation to depict
the first all-women team to vie for the prestigious
America’s Cup. It is that same spirit which has taken her to
a small island in the San Blas region of the Caribbean, where she
lived in a thatched hut among the Kuna Indians studying their
watercraft. A published artist, her work hangs in many corporate,
municipal, and private collections. Margaret has summered at the
Jersey Shore since she was a child and currently resides in Grand
Haven, Michigan. A website of her work is located at www.tillerandtide.com.
Theresa
Troise Heidel
Primarily painted
on location, Theresa’s water-colors reflect a love of
architecture and keen understanding of light and atmosphere. She
is a graduate of St. Peter’s College in Jersey City, New
Jersey and undertook postgraduate studies at the Accademia delle
Belle Arti in Florence, Italy. She also studied under Ferdinand
Petrie at the Ridgewood Art Institute in Ridgewood, New Jersey,
where she later taught watercolor painting. Theresa’s
paintings have been featured in Jersey Shore Vacation
Magazine, The Jersey Shore Guide Book, Jersey Shore Home
& Garden, Eclectic Magazine, and on the cover of the 1995
Monmouth County Cancer Society Ad Book Journal, as well as
in advertisements for the Monmouth County Tourism Board. Her
watercolors were featured in the December, 1989 “Watercolor
Page” of American Artist magazine. Theresa is
represented by Oceanside Gallery in Belmar, New Jersey and
Northridge Gallery in Ridgefield, Connecticut. She resides in
Ridgefield Park, New Jersey.