Sharon (Shroon) Seidl has never been afraid to take chances. She takes pleasure in the uncertainty of each piece as it reveals itself through color, composition and texture. Somewhere in the curious chaos lie familiar, beautiful, comforting forms. She has designed for well known musicians, album art, souvenir brochures, well-known magazines, fashion design features, mobile applications famous logos and much more.
Sleepy Coffee Too, 110 Beekman Avenue, Sleepy Hollow, NY
Kersten Harries, an architect by training, engages in creative placemaking and community building in her current home of Sleepy Hollow. She’s passionate about installation art, enjoying its temporal, transformative, and spatial qualities and utilizes photography to document pieces and process. Seeking to nurture her own daily art making habit, Kersten shares her latest creative works in progress.
18 Anderson Avenue, Sleepy Hollow, NY
Jan Rozene, a resident of Tarrytown, enjoys painting en plein air in the Hudson Valley and in New York City. She hopes the viewer will share the emotional high she feels observing the beauty of nature.
1 Central Avenue, Studio 302
Hudson Ceramics is a local, female-owned collection of modern, handmade porcelain jewelry by Lindsay Mortimer. Each piece is a work of art, lovingly made in her Hastings-on-Hudson studio. She is inspired by the beauty of nature and draws on her BFA and 20 years experience in NYC fashion and textiles to create jewelry as unique as you are!
145 Palisade Street, Studio TBD, Dobbs Ferry
Peggie Blizard is a realist painter, currently fascinated with painting flowers in water. She has spent the majority of her career representing objects as well and enjoys the trompe l’oeil challenge.
12 Chestnut Street, Dobbs Ferry
Ariella Toeman is a classically trained Chef, turned potter. After many years in the kitchen and raising kids, she now focuses her time making pottery- bringing together her love of food, travel, and entertaining. Based in Irvington NY, Ariella creates one-of-a-kind tableware made of stoneware, thrown, altered and hand made, her pieces inspire home chefs and foodies.
You can find more of her work on Instagram (@ariella_ceramics) and on her website (www.ariellaceramics.com)
145 Palisade Street, Studio 215, Dobbs Ferry
Naomi Gilbert’s work is inspired by the fundamental oneness of the universe and the patterns and particles that run throughout the cosmos. Nature repeats itself: images of microscopic life resemble galaxies which resemble deep sea environments. Atoms flow through everything. It is these energies, and a sense of connectivity, that inspire her to create.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 335D, Dobbs Ferry
Jess Blaustein is a conceptual artist/maker who takes so-called ordinary things and projects them into other
dimensions
145 Palisade Street, Studio 406, Dobbs Ferry
Improvisation is key to creating the paintings Tim Duch makes. He starts with a mark that has no intention, a random starting point. That mark inspires others, a shape becomes a figure, and eventually an interplay of figures populates the field. The results are far reaching, allowing the viewer’s eyes to roam over the painting, while suggestions of a narrative unfold.
114 North Washington Street, Suite #1, Tarrytown
Originally from the UK, Helen has been living and painting in the Rivertowns for over 25 years. She works as an artist and educator in her studio in Dobbs Ferry. “When I paint I enjoy the process, the movement and the stillness. I try to communicate the inherent beauty of our natural world, albeit in the form of 3 pears.”
145 Palisade Street, Studio 402, Dobbs Ferry
Raine finds inspiration for her work in the garden and familiar landscapes. Ideas and images develop in reverie and on the page. She is moved by color and light, organic composition and growth – and by surprises of medium and process.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 318F, Dobbs Ferry
Kristin Javier began as a self-taught artist who eventually sought courses in both Classical and Modern Mosaic Techniques. A former teacher and translator of Spanish and Italian, in 2018 she turned a former weekend hobby into an artistic path forward. She cuts or shapes all materials by hand before placing the tiny pieces directly into cement tinted with earthen pigments.
385 Warburton Ave, Studio 1, Hastings-on-Hudson (through left gate, down stairs to patio)
With fluid lines, and visible brushstrokes Jen Moore Smith depicts the whimsy of chickens, and the weather and light of nature’s edges: coastal marshes, tidal wrack lines, roadside weeds, tangled gardens. Her compositions often convey the viewpoint of a child suggesting viewers share her sense of wonder and delight in quiet discovery. Rhode Island School of Design (’90 BFA Illustration)
145 Palisade Street, Studio 318F, Dobbs Ferry
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RiverArts’ programs are made possible, in part, by support from The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. RiverArts’ programs are made possible, in part, by ArtsWestchester with support from Westchester County Government.
