Simsbury Open Studios

Eileen Anderson

Eileen paints with multiple mediums, landscape painting, pen and ink. Acrylic and oil on canvas.

Rita Bond

Rita paints landscapes, seascapes and abstracts of New England, in oil, acrylic and pastel with vigorous brushwork and exciting color.

Amy Conover

Amy paints landscapes and figurative, drawing on her experience in the New England countryside, and her experience as a clothing designer in New York in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Karyn de Punte'- Sweezy

Karyn is a glass artist using an age old technique called Lampworking. Creating glass beads, jewelry and sculpture in the flame of a torch.

Catherine M. Elliott

Catherine is a contemporary painter whose work is evocative of the American Impressionism style of painting. Capturing the true grace and elegance of the remaining countryside of New England.

Grace Epstein

Grace moves freely to and from paint and clay. "Painting connects me with the real world as I bring special forms to the canvas. Clay allows me to think functional art that transcends into more expressive work."

Renée S. Hughes

Renée prints Monotypes or creates Abstract paintings. The monotype is often described as a painterly form of the printmaking, my paintings could be seen as an extension of my monotype process

Ruth Jacobson

Ruth is known for her pastel depictions of Portugal, prizewinning still life acrylics, and bold figure paintings.

Deborah Leonard

Deborah Leonard enjoys painting en plein air as well in her studio. Her subject matter varies from impressionistic landscapes, to still life to abstracts.

Mike Laiuppa

Mike paints in oil. It can be pushed, prodded, streaked, and steered. But no matter what you do to it, it will remain true to your intent. I find it a fascinating medium with which to create.

Linda Madin

Linda has fallen in love with pastels. Trying to draw the viewer into the painting using color, light, and composition to evoke a response as they reflect on what they see.

Julia Parker Post

Julia works in both watercolor and print making. Nature and flowers are the primary subjects and much work has been influenced by sketches from travels. The work is in a bright pallet in an impressionistic style.

Linda Pearson

Linda's artwork consists of paintings of mixed media colored pencil and alcohol wash and some collaborative woven framed pieces. The subject matter ranges from landscapes, harbors, beach scenes, and abstracts

Ken Picard

Ken is a painter of abstracts, landscapes & portraits and a potter working with clay.

Lori Racicot-Burrous

Lori paints memorable stories using color, line and shape to capture the emotion of her subject matter.

Richard Schlicher

Richard paints almost exclusively with oils. His paintings include landscapes, abstracts and human and animal portraits

Bill Selig

Bill is a fine jeweler working with precious metals and gemstones.