HCA Member Show 2025

Dimensions: 8 x 8
Medium: Assorted papers
Year created: 2023
Artwork Description for Gallery Label: This image represents assorted decorative and textured papers that are cut, folded and arranged into an interesting design that resembles the camera lens iris, the area around the pupil that controls the amount of light that enters . The technique is believed to have originated by craft workers in Holland in the early 20th century.

Dimensions: 11 x 14 x 1
Medium: photography
Year created: 2024
Artwork Description for Gallery Label: On a recent trip to France, a visit to The Louvre was on the agenda. Amongst the beautiful art in the museum, I glanced outside to observe a distinguished courtyard with a dramatic sky. The scene outside was as amazing as the art within. My wish would be to visit Paris, stroll around the perimeter of the museum, and enjoy the wonderful architecture that encompasses the breathtaking art.

Honorable Mention

Dimensions: 32 x 26 x 1.5
Medium: Color photograph on fine art paper
Year created: 2023
Artwork Description for Gallery Label: This is not your typical fairytale. Flip the switch—no Prince Charming to the rescue. This goddess's aura is magnetic; her courage, strength, and fight for change make her relatable and admirable. Envision strength and potential in real life.Through their inspiring journeys, these fairytale princesses continue to influence generations of girls, encouraging them to embrace their inner strength.

Dimensions: 12 x 16 x 1.5
Medium: oil
Year created: 2024
Artwork Description for Gallery Label: Snow and winter? I still have mixed feelings about it. I'm from France, where winters are mostly rainy and mild. But then I moved to New England, where snowstorms are like something out of a fairy tale. Even after two decades, I still get giddy when it snows! Now, winter sports? not my thing. I find the cold and wet conditions too uncomfortable. Unlike those folks with nostalgic tales of snowball fights and sledding, I missed out on all that fun. As an artist who loves painting outdoors in the mild weather of the Loire Valley, snow poses a bit of a problem. I mean, I'd love to capture its beauty on canvas, but let's be real, I'm not exactly a snow whisperer. But there was one special moment when my husband was driving, and I was in the passenger seat. The morning after a snowfall, the sunlight was just perfect. I whipped out my phone and I quickly snapped several photos with my phone. That very evening, I started painting like there was no tomorrow. Talk about a thrilling artistic adventure!

Dimensions: 16 x 20
Medium: acrylic paint on canvas
Year created: 2024
Artwork Description for Gallery Label: This is a painting of Church Street in Hopkinton, prepared in acrylic paint on treated canvas. I wanted to capture the feeling of the quiet steet in high summer with the trees in full foliage. I live just a few streets away from here and often make my way under the trees on my daily walk.

Dimensions: 24 x 6 x 2
Medium: Mixed Media Mosaic Art
Year created: 2024
Artwork Description for Gallery Label: This artwork embodies the journey of recovery, capturing the resilience of the body and the process of healing. The slate represents the muscle, strong yet vulnerable, while the delicate seed beads symbolize the plasma injection—integral to the restoration. The vibrant rainbow colors weave through the piece, illustrating the stages of healing as they gradually bring balance, strength, and renewal to the injured body. This piece is a tribute to the quiet power of recovery and the transformation from injury to healing.

Dimensions: 11 x 14 x 1
Medium: oil on canvas board
Year created: 2024
Artwork Description for Gallery Label: It is late afternoon. The cup is smooth, sitting on the table cloth that is a bit rumpled. It is quiet at this table, and we are waiting to see who will touch the cup and take the bread. 0000000000000

Dimensions: 14 x 11 x 2
Medium: Stained glass mosaic
Year created: 2024
Artwork Description for Gallery Label: Though I did not grow up in a rural community, I was always interested in my father’s stories of spending summers with relatives on their farms in Prince Edward Island, Canada. It was at county fairs that I learned about farm animals. As a photographer and mosaic artist, I am drawn to old barns and farm animals. In recent years, there seems to be a resurgence in local farming. I now know people raising chickens and buying produce through farmers' markets and shares in local farms. Visiting farms, now called agritourism, also became a popular outdoor activity for families during and after the COVID pandemic and is now the fastest-growing agricultural sector in Massachusetts. These trends inspired me to develop a mosaic series on local farming.

Dimensions: 10.5 x 8
Medium: ink and colored pencil
Year created: 2024
Artwork Description for Gallery Label: These are two original characters of mine that I created for a comic/story I am working on called Devil's Hand. Their names are Devil's Hand (the guy on the left) and Khristina (the girl on the right). The story that revolves around them is one of romance, supernatural, and self-discovery. I have been drawing comics for a few years now, and I also love to write novel length stories. Drawing is my passion that I have been doing as far back as I can remember. I have yet to complete a writing project/whole book yet, but I am still optimistic and the support I get from readers keeps me motivated.

Dimensions: 14 x 11 x 1.5
Medium: Monotype with collage/acrylic ink
Year created: 2024
Artwork Description for Gallery Label: Abstract art has been a passion for several years. I started changing my style and by adding collage has made a difference on how I feel about a piece of work. I generally use translucent inks but this one I made opaque for a change.

Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 1.5
Medium: Mixed Media: Recycled cardboard, recycled paper, spackling and acrylic paint
Year created: 2024
Artwork Description for Gallery Label: This piece is based on a poem I wrote while thinking about losing someone close to me. I was thinking about the many happy winters together and the long shadows we cast in the snow, and the colors that live in those shadows. Shadow and memory are both such ephemeral things, but with so much texture and depth. The art and the poem came together in my mind, I couldn't have made one without the other. Shadows on snow this crystal morning I didn't want to write this or think about the last snowfall breaking down every color into deep blue grey the sun has moved and so have you into a storm I cannot follow the shadow remains cast against the white through every winter of my life

Dimensions: 9 x 12
Medium: pastel
Year created: 2024
Artwork Description for Gallery Label: The triangulation of neon colors inspired me to recreate this worksite scene in pastel. Although I do a lot of landscapes, it was a fun switch to do a painting about landscaping. When a tree removal company came to take care of some dead trees in my neighborhood, I was fascinated by all the machinery, prep and execution and took tons of pictures. Then I looked them over and was drawn to the safety orange of the cone, lime green of the safety jacket and the bright spot of the blue-raspberry Coolatta. I think the Dunkin Donuts drink makes this a quintessential New England scene even if not a typical "landscape" painting.

Dimensions: 21 x 28
Medium: OIL
Year created: 2015
Artwork Description for Gallery Label: I was born and raised in Michigan, and coming to New England I was stunned by the beauty of the mountains. I have since traveled in several parts of the world with even greater mountains. This is one of many mountain scenes I have painted. I started it in 2015 then left it until very recently. it makes me think of the greatness of God, and how my life should reflect something of his15 character.

Dimensions: 19 x 19 x 3
Medium: Clock
Year created: 2024
Artwork Description for Gallery Label: This piece of art, It's About Time! is a tribute to my wife at every age. The time that delineates each stage in her life bears witness to a new set of dreams, prospective and challenges. Her beauty remains constant at every single age but is also transformed. Time affects all things!

Dimensions: 9 x 12 x 1
Medium: Oil
Year created: 2024
Artwork Description for Gallery Label: This painting was inspired by Edgar Payne's Eucalyptus Grove, Laguna Beach. I was drawn to the artist's use of atmospheric perspective and expressive brush strokes, which I tried to emulate in my piece.

Dimensions: 20 x 24 x 1
Medium: Oil
Year created: 2024
Artwork Description for Gallery Label: While visiting Marty’s Vineyard a few years ago with my brother and sister-in-law we rented a Jeep and drove around the island. This was a new adventure for us. I loved the scenery at the cliffs in Aquinnha and snapped a photo of them. Last year, I felt I was ready to try painting those cliffs. For me, the fun part of the painting was doing the flowers in the foreground. I probably spent the most time on them.

Dimensions: 24 x 18 x 1
Medium: acrylic on linen
Year created: 2024
Artwork Description for Gallery Label: I love to "hunt" with my camera. I search for inspiring compositions that then take on a life of their own when painting. This is from a blossoming tree in the spring. The colors, textures, pattern, and rhythm were just right.

Dimensions: 18 x 22 x 1
Medium: Watercolor
Year created: 2024
Artwork Description for Gallery Label: The Bunny Dune is a tiny cottage in South Wellfleet, Massachusetts, Cape Cod. Built roughly seven decades ago, it has remained in the same family. The front porch overlooks the bay leading out to Lieutenant Island. The design is a simple box, standing in very weathered shingles. Its interior, four rooms, two up-two down, and one tiny closet of a bathroom, looks just as weathered. What seems like paper thin walls makes for "no secrets", and lots of laughs. To date, there have been few changes to this old place. Still, it stands. As the cottage has endured the test of time, so have my memories, and there are many. Happy thoughts of summer fun with friends and family, hot weather, (once, a hurricane), sunsets from the porch, scary jumps off the dock, walks through a scrub pine woods to the general store to get a Coke in a green bottle, board games in the evenings, cooking out, and so much laughing, has prompted me to "put to paint" this house, as a pleasant reminder. Although my time there was during the summer season, I have painted Bunny Dune in late autumn, showing its age. Even now, it stands proudly on its sandy lot, ready for another generation of happy times.

Dimensions: 16 x 12 x 0.5
Medium: acrylic
Year created: 2024
Artwork Description for Gallery Label: This work was inspired by another painting I saw online. I found the contrast of the blue sky and the greens found in Spring, inspiring. The road represents a journey with an abundance of beauty on the way.

Dimensions: 16 x 12 x 1
Medium: Photograph on canvas
Year created: 2023
Artwork Description for Gallery Label: It was a bucket list experience to spend time in Havana, Cuba on an educational & humanitarian trip. One of the most notable things in a place of great need are people full of comraderies, joy, art, music and vibrant colors everywhere you wander.