Connect with your local Granby artists at the annual Granby Artists Open Studio weekend on Oct. 19 and 20 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Open Studio tour invites visitors to artists’ studios to meet the artists, watch demonstrations and find art and gifts. The Open Studio tour map showing all different artists’ locations is inserted in this Granby Drummer issue. Visitors can read more detailed information and download a map from granbyartists.org Thank you to all our generous supporters and donors whose financial support makes this annual event possible!
This following exhibiting artists are participating in the 2024 tour:
Avis Cherichetti and Linda Yurasevecz will display their pottery art at Avis’s studio, Honey Hill Pottery. Avis has some new baking dishes as well as raku fairy doors. Linda will have miniature bird houses, berry bowls and yarn bowls. Ongoing demos will feature bowls to be given to the GMHS Honor Society for its Empty Bowls event to be held in March 2025.
Jane Furca will be displaying wheel-thrown and slab-built stoneware pottery. She will have several in-process pieces to demonstrate how pottery goes from raw clay to finished product.
Sally Sargent-Markey will have watercolor paintings, handmade soft animals, fimo jewelry, and small decorative items.
Alex Anisimov will be in his gallery at 2 Park Place. Check out his new art work. Alex will gladly answer questions about art, artists, philosophy of life and the creative process.
Susan Canavan will be at Lost Acres Vineyard showing her crepe paper botanicals. She will have a variety of paper flowers, foliage and mushrooms for sale and will be showing how she constructs these paper sculptures.
Douglas N. Williams is an impressionist oil painter who works en plein air (outdoors) and in the studio (DNWilliamsArtist.com). Customers report that his painterly eye creates compositions and personalized commissions that evoke sentimental feelings and memories. Please stop by Lost Acres Vineyard to watch a live demonstration of color layering techniques and for a chance to win the Open Studio demo.
Matthew Mikalonis is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in print media and papermaking. He enjoys engaging with craft by making handmade paper with natural fibers and linoleum cut prints to create narratives. His work is inspired by his interests in folk art, antiques, and mythology.
Alexander Sogliero will be showing his photography at Lost Acres Vineyard. His work includes portraits, wildlife photography and landscapes.
Don Shaw Jr. focuses his photography on capturing the beauty of nature and our environment. He will display photographs of birds, blossoms, butterflies and local Granby scenes and landscapes.
William Bentley will be showing watercolor paintings and some Sketch Notebook Studies. The paintings, some of which were developed during lessons with Laura Eden, include flowers and still-life subjects. The sketches flow from workshops taught by Doug Williams, that started as ideas for future paintings, but took on a purpose of their own over the summer with places and people in the Northwest and British Columbia.
Michael Bentley developed his photographic skills while working in graphic design where he produced album covers, print publications and eventually websites. Besides an overriding effort to capture light, color and shape, Michael’s most recent work has found painterly detail in the garden that is Granby.
Pam Jones will be showing framed landscape paintings done in oil and some prints.
Carolyn Dittes is celebrating 50 years of making pottery with a retrospective display, as well as showing her current utensil holders, bowls, mugs, vases and platters. She would love to hear how you feel about the new glazes.
George Mattingly is drawn to the natural world, and that has been the focus of his paintings to date. “New way of life—learn and paint, paint and learn—reveals that there is still much more ground to cover.”
Emma Smith’s art consists of acrylic paintings of places she has visited in Europe, Asia and Iceland. She also has paintings of New England scenes. She enjoys traveling and then putting effort into designing and painting a memorable scene.
Rita Law-McConaughy will be in her studio starting a new painting so visitors will be able to watch and ask questions about her painting process and techniques.
Submitted by Granby Artists Association