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Alexandra Montgomery

My work focuses on the interpretation of textures and forms found in nature. The work uses a combination of additive and subtractive sculpting techniques to translate microscopic imagery, or forms in nature, into clay. A lot of my work is rooted in material exploration and first experimenting with material boundaries before choosing the process that feels suitable for the piece I am creating.

I primarily create my work using hand-building techniques. Problem-solving and letting the material guide me as I form it often results in an artwork that visually contrasts with my original idea. I present my work both as singular pieces and as installations; which configuration I use is often determined through my explorative process. The intuitive nature of this process leads to work that is fluid and beautifully disturbing.

Ann Rodgers Brown

As a young child, my grandmother and mother taught me to knit. And I knit for many years with fiber. When I discovered an article online about how to knit and crochet jewelry with artist wire, I was hooked!

I am drawn to the simplicity of the wire weave. But when I do embellish the wire, I often strive for a randomness that gives the appearance that surprising little treasures washed ashore accidentally tangled in a shimmering net.

The natural beauty of semiprecious stone and shell chips, the luster of pearls and the shine of glass inspire my designs. I am also exploring repurposed materials and creating my own beads from plant-based materials and hand molded clay.

Annette Debevec

A native of Dayton, Ohio, I received a degree in K-12 Art Education from the University of Dayton. For many years my favorite media have been drawing, painting and printmaking. I have enjoyed teaching art at all levels in Ohio and Pennsylvania and have worked as an early childhood educator as well. Thirteen years ago, after retiring from teaching to care for my husband, I began to re-explore working with clay, focusing on wheel throwing skills; I soon developed a new passion for creating wheel thrown ceramic art. For nine years I worked out of the ceramic studio at the Community Arts Center in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, before moving to Bucks County in 2020. Currently, I work from my home studio in Ivyland. My aim is to bring artistic beauty into the home through my functional stoneware pieces that can be touched and used in everyday living. The forms I make are often decorated with images inspired by nature that I carve and paint on the surfaces, employing sgraffito, mishima, underglaze painting, brushed-on glazes and texture to produce one-of-a-kind pieces with a unique painterly quality.

Avia Petersen

I have been painting all my life. I originally started with water colors and moved on to oils and acrylic. I come from a long line of artist.

Barbara Blandin

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Barbara Konschak

Stained glass artist for 30 years. Teach beginner stained glass and mosaic workshops at TPCA for approximately 2 years. Member of the mosaic society of Philadelphia.

Barbara Neale

Barbara Neale has been working with fused glass for the past 17 years. Fused glass, also known as warm glass, is not glass blowing, it is cutting and overlapping glass that is melted in a kiln into a solid piece. She has attended many workshops of warm glass artists and is a member of The Glass Underground Studio located in Warren, NJ. Upon retiring a few years ago, Barbara has been showing her wares at local fairs and juried shows. Barbara teaches Fused Glass Workshops at Tyler Park Center of the arts.

Barry Hantman

I have a BFA from the Philadelphia College of Art in ceramics/ jewelry making, a MFA from the Tyler School of Art in ceramics/ jewelry making. Taught in the Fine Arts Dept. at Adrian College in Michigan. Have been a practicing artist since the late 1960’s creating mixed nedium assemblages, fused glass and most recently plexiglass assemblages. I try to Think Outside the Box in creating new pieces in various mediums. A few weeks ago I took a workshop in glass blowing, which I loved doing. I have exhibited in numerous juried art exhibits including: Tyler Park, New Hope Arts Center, Grounds for Sculpture, West Windsor Arts Council, Art Council of Princeton, Artworks Trenton.

Basia Andrusko

Ukrainian Pysanky are a part of our traditional Ukrainian Easter celebrations, and i began writing pysanky at a young age. My Ukrainian / Lemko family immigrated to America when I was 7 years old. We would write (decorate) eggs that were then blessed with other food in the Easter Basket. I enjoyed the cultural tradition, and the meditative process that creating Pysanky provided for me. In recent years, I found a renewed interest in the tradition / art, and began writing Pysanky year-round. I’ve learned new techniques and non-traditional approaches to the art (such as making jewelry and mosaics from the decorated eggshells).
For me, writing Pysanky is much more than just a form of art or self-expression. It is my privilege, and my responsibility, to continue and share this ancient folk art. Especially with the horrible war in Ukraine. The best satisfaction is seeing the joy in the eyes of the people with whom I share my Pysanky, and knowing that I am passing on a tradition to future generations.

I really enjoy recreating traditional designs, and modifying them in different variations and color schemes. I find inspiration for creating original non-traditional designs from elements all around me, and I enjoy teaching workshops to introduce others to this wonderful folk art.

I am a Juried Master Craftsman with the PA Guild of Craftsmen and the Bucks Chapter. I am a member of the Red Tulip Gallery in New Hope, PA (www.RedTulipCrafts.com). I also participate in several juried craft shows and art shows through the year.

I enjoy teaching workshops at Tyler Park Center for the Arts (www.tylerparkarts.com/egg-design) and several other venues.

Betty Jacobsen

I enjoy creating a lot of smaller works that can stand alone, yet form a larger visual statement when viewed together. Repetition, relationship among parts, and using all the leftover bits and scraps of clay, when building pieces intuitively, have inspired these recent plates and vases. Just as in life, nothing is wasted.

Cindy DeSau

Cindy DeSau has been a professional photographer all her life, starting out shooting news and features for several newspapers before starting her own successful Bucks County-based wedding photography business and more recently developing a love for landscape photography.
Cindy specialized in feature, portrait and pictorial during her newspaper career, and she infused those strengths into her wedding photography, combining a photojournalist approach with an artistic eye. Her interest in travel to places like Yosemite National Park, Utah, Iceland and Italy
sparked an interest in landscape and nightscape photography, and while she still loves to shoot weddings, her current passion is traveling the world
photographing landscapes and the night-time sky.

Corinne Doyle

I was First introduced to pottery many years ago in high school. I’m now an instructor at ECP where I enjoy teaching and watching the Growth of my many wonderful students. I love working on the wheel as well as hand building. As you can see I have a passion for creating colorful work.

Corinne Hansen

Corinne is a Jill of all trades who finds it hard to choose just one type of artwork to make for her own personal projects but mainly handcrafts ceramic sculpture and pottery. Growing up in the suburbs of Bucks County Pennsylvania, Corinne spent her childhood roaming five miles of forest behind her home and getting lost in fantasy worlds of anime and video games. It’s no surprise that Corinne’s artwork reflects these influences primarily in the balance of mythology between cultures, nature, and the duality of light and shadow. Corinne shares her love of art and handmade objects, hoping to connect with others looking for a whimsical fantasy escape and guide them to be inspired with uplifting positivity.

Corinne graduated from Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia with a B.F.A. in Ceramics and Metals/Jewelry/CADCAM including a Minor in Art History. She now works as a 3D print Shop Tech for Just Play in Newtown, and teaches part-time at Earth Center Pottery. Thank you for supporting her work!

David W Timothy

Provocative to some, evocative to others. My photographs serve as a catalyst for viewers to feel, breathe, savor, and experience their own emotions and desires.

Debra Homa

I started painting again later in life. I seem to like working on larger canvases, and trees as a favorite subject matter.

Diana Contine

I work in Fine Silver (.999) also know as Metal Art Clay Gemstones and Pearls are the colorful accents to my work. All pieces are signed, One of A Kind and done solely by me. Nature is my primary inspiration. Color, unusual textures, movement and symbols are what hallmarks a Dakota Moon design.

Harold Weinstein

Exploring the other side of the brain to see where it might go.

Hoppi Polsky

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Jacques Thierry

Jacques continues to explore the sculptural possibilities of clay, currently through figures expressing different emotions, styles or movement.

Jan Wyatt

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Janice Schroeder

Janice Schroeder has been working with clay for over 25 years. She believes that everything is a vessel. Mixing natural shapes and imagery she finds her practice to be meditative and energizing.

Currently a hand builder, her adventure began by throwing at the wheel. The organic shapes of her artwork’s edges are a trademark of her style. Her background in graphic design gives Janice a good foundation for pattern and repetition, while allowing nature to also have a role in her works.

Jenna Swartz

I started pottery in 2022 and primarily work on the wheel.

Jennifer Wetherbee

Jenn Wetherbee has been creating ceramics for over 20 years. She has been experimenting with marbled clay to create intricate surface decoration for the past few years. The clay is created using mason stains mixed with white stoneware, then wedged to create a marbled pattern, which is always a surprise! Each piece is truly unique due to this process.

John Mathews

I have been a working and exhibiting sculptor in Bucks County for over 40 years. I primary work in steel and glass. Currently I have 3 sculptures on display in the New Hope Public Arts program.

Joseph McManemy

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Karen Paciocco

Member artist Karen Paciocco has had a love for art since she was a little girl. Her grandmother, who was an avid artist and graphic designer, would foster Karen’s love for art. As Karen got older, she began to develop a liking for certain mediums. Pottery was one of them. Karen and her love Joseph McManemy (also a member artist) have their own small pottery business, Sixteenth Day Ceramics. Karen along with Joseph have been TPCA members since 2022.

Katie Barber

Katie Barber, 21 about to be in my final undergrad year at Pratt Institute in the fall to get my degree in Art Education. I’ve lived around the corner from Tyler State Park my entire life, but this is the first time I am fortunate enough to join the wonderful artists here in this community and display my work along side theirs. I use a lot of my life observations and experiences to inspire my art, creating paintings inspired by the people and feelings in my life is a big aspect of my work and I am inspired everyday. Although I love to paint and draw, my passion is teaching others these useful skills and watching them develop their own personal relationships with the mediums.

Loretta Tryon

Loretta Tryon is a contemporary metalsmith based in the Lehigh Valley, Pa. She uses shell forming and anticlastic raising techniques to create unique forms in sterling and bronze. The sculptures are hammer formed bronze with hand engraved details on the surface of the metal. They are held in place with 14kt gf wire.

Marina Fortouna

I was born and raised in Moscow, Russia—a city full of history, beauty, and inspiration. From a young age, I’ve been deeply passionate about creativity and the arts. Whether it’s painting, crafting, or experimenting with new artistic styles, I find joy in bringing ideas to life through visual expression. Art isn’t just a hobby—it’s a part of who I am, and I’m always exploring new ways to create and grow as an artist.

Marla Levy

At a very young age, an amazing camp counselor put some clay in my hands, and I’ve never stopped. She gave me a gift which was a lifelong clay-obsession that I now try to pass onto everyone I now teach. It can be both therapeutic and inspirational as an art form.

I’ve been lucky enough to teach this magic to people of all ages for over 30 years. 1000’s of pounds of clay have traveled through my hands to 100’s of campers from Willow Grove Day Camp & Briarwood Day Camp. Adults and teenagers at Tyler Park Center for the Arts, and elderly seniors in Doylestown at Pine Run Retirement community.

If you want to see some of my work locally, you can visit my totem pole made completely out of clay standing outside the door at Tyler State Park Center for the Arts.

Mary McDermott

The beauty in nature are my inspiration and I aim to capture it at that moment in time.

Nancy Allen

All work is hand crafted one-of-a-kind clay pieces, finished with iron oxide.

Nancy Gibbs

Needle felting (“wool painting”) is a totally dry process in which loose, dyed wool fibers are repeatedly stabbed by hand into a background fabric using special small barbed needles. The constant movement tangles the fibers firmly into position without glue or stitching. Framed without glass to enhance the texture, it requires no special care — simply an occasional flick of a microfiber duster.

Creating painterly detailed and refined images with only wads of wool and a stabby needle is a challenge I relish. Landscapes, botanicals, and birds are my favorite models. My “studio” is my living room, so there are bags and piles of color everywhere!

I am a Master Artisan of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen. My work is available at the Red Tulip Gallery, 19C W. Bridge St., New Hope, PA 18938.

Natalia Levina

My work includes sterling silver, gold, copper, and stones. I also listen to classical music, which helps me achieve harmony, balance, and peace.

When I make my jewelry, I hope it will be wearable art, a conversation, a connection, encouragement and reminder, sparkling memory, and thought-telling spontaneous stories. It is a meditation process that leads a jewelry object to what it means to be.

I appreciate that my jewelry becomes a part of self-expression and a statement of individuality for those who wear it.

I believe my work makes people more beautiful and, therefore, happier.

Also I am very grateful to my husband Ilya. My path in art would not have been successful without his invaluable help and support.

Patricia Kim

Patricia Kim is from Yardley, PA. Leaf imprints inspire her work, and she determined that cabbage leaves make the most interesting imprints. Each piece is made using real leaves, cutting out the imprints and fashioning the design, which captures their intricate texture and organic beauty.

Patrick Budd

Pat Budd has been chasing light in the United States and Europe for the past 30 years. His affair with photography began with a stint as a newspaper photographer between college and law school. He has had a number of solo exhibitions in Bucks County, Philadelphia, Vermont and New Jersey and has been a featured photographer in One Trick Pony, a Philadelphia poetry magazine. Much of this was accomplished as an avocation, playing second fiddle to his career as a Legal Aid lawyer in Trenton. Now retired, he is looking forward to further adventures with his wife, Janice, as time and energy permit. He lives in Bucks County with Janice and Emmma the dog. His son, Ian, lives in Vermont with his wife, Heather and grandchildren Kirra, Grayson and Taliesen. His daughter, Aleta, lives in New Hope.

Renee Egan

As a painter I aim for an impression that is romantic through dynamic lighting, color and texture. I often photograph landscapes at dusk, or wait for early morning light. I am influenced by my travels and often come home and paint their scenes. I am most inspired when working directly outside with nature. This is where my perception of color and light are the keenest! My attempt is not to capture the reality of the space, but nature’s mysteries and wonderment through light, texture and color. “

Renee Pelletier Egan is an award winning artist and a founding member of the AOY Art Center in Yardley, Pa. Renee retired as an art teacher in 2018 from the New Jersey public school system, where she taught middle school and high school students for 20 years.

Renee’s early career was as an art director in New York City, she designed and did lay outs for print ads and TV commercials for a top Ad Agency. She was educated at Paier School of Art in CT and at the School of Visual Arts in NYC.

Currently Renee shows her paintings throughout Bucks County and eastern coast venues in juried and gallery shows. She continues to teach private students through Lessons.com, Teen Drawing and Painting and Adult Painting at Tyler Center for the Arts.

Sandra Uzelmeier

I am a self-taught photographer.
What I truly enjoy is photo post-processing where I consider my computer is an artist’s canvas. A subject may invoke one feeling when taking the picture but yet in viewing during post-processing a portion of the photo might basically jump out and say “try creating with me”. A creation may simply be improving the saturation/brightness or can become more complex by compositing two or more photographs. A portion of the image may stand out and inspire deconstructing the photo to turn it into a piece of art – it could be a hand, a cable, part of a stairway, etc. but it says something & can be used as the basis to create something new and unique.

Shelly Peterson

Shelly Peterson has been pursuing her passion for ceramics for over 15 years. In recent years she has been integrating wood and lighting to enhance her ceramic art and uses nature as inspiration to create unique shapes and textures.

Simone Brisson

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Stacey Zaremba

Stacey has been creating handcrafted original stained-glass art, using the copper foil method, since the 1980’s. Stacey enjoys using natural elements to create pieces for the body/eye, mind and soul. Signature pieces include lotus flowers, feathers, trees, peace signs, hamzas, and moon phases. Stacey’s work has a spiritual and earthy edge, often incorporating decorative solder, wire, agates and crystals into her work. Stacey resides in Doylestown Bucks County with her cat Daisy.

Susanne Pitak Davis

Susanne’s work borrows heavily from fairytales and mythology. She is an artist and art therapist and has won numerous awards.

Suzanne Crawford

I began working with wood and epoxy in 2021 when I lost my job in healthcare informatics. Since then I’ve added my love for flowers, by drying flowers or pressing them, then including them to epoxy.

Vik Friedman

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William Lessa

While spending a majority of his professional life serving as a public school administrator, William has always remained connected to the arts. Over the past two decades, he has been active as an artist and has also been affiliated with local non-profit arts organizations. Most of his current art work is inspired by his travels to Africa, his love for Philadelphia sports teams, and his own whimsical thoughts about life’s occasional bumps in the road. Most of his art work is done in either graphite or colored pencils. A majority of the proceeds from the sale of his art work is donated to charitable organizations in the region that serve the needs of children and families. On a personal note, William shares his life with a wonderful woman. Together, they travel a great deal and spend great times with their children and grandchildren.