Sam Lantz was born and raised in a small village in Sweden where he learned to appreciate nature early in life. He first became interested in photography during my military service and soon he purchased his first SLR camera, in a couple of years he found my self being a professional photographer with an increasing client base.

Now days Sam Lantz work as a Graphic Designer/Photographer and uses most of his time off photographing the natural world and its inhabitants. He likes his images to give a sensation of looking at a concealed world and to evoke a sense of wonder and mystery.

To see more of Sam Lantz’s nature photography, please visit his website at http://www.samlantz.com.

New England realist artist, Andrew Gordon Moore operates a studio and gallery in Harhaven, Oak Bluffs, on the Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard. He is a realist painter, working in watercolor, egg tempera and oil. As a hunter, fisherman, sailor, and self-taught naturalist, the world outdoors is the inspiration for his paintings. Andrew’s art reveals this deep involvement in and appreciation of island subjects studied through every season. Occasionally, the artist journeys to coastal Maine and other locations adding these coastal Maine landscapes and other wild life topics  to his predominantly Martha’s Vineyard based subject matter.

While Andrew encounters the subjects of his paintings during excursions on the sea and in the field, he paints the final work in a controlled, slowly-layered manner in the studio. Here, he surrounds himself with objects from the field – rocks, grass, dried plants, fish, birds – and numerous drawings and photo- graphs. Andrew then builds the idea from a small sketch into the intricate final painting, blending studied detail into a strong composition of color, tone, pattern and form.

Andrew’s work is owned by collectors, mostly from New England, often with ties to Martha’s Vineyard. While he has shown on Newbury Street in Boston, at various Vineyard galleries, and had a one man show at the New Britain Museum of American Art, he prefers the direct contact offered by his private gallery. He appeared in American Artist Magazine, June 1998, and New England/ New Talent, an exhibit of seventeen artists chosen from a field of five hundred at the Fitchburg Art Museum.

You can view more New England landscapes and wildlife artwork by Andrew Moore on his website.

Internationally renowned ceramic artist, Chris Gustin, has spent decades devoted to making, and teaching ceramic art.

Of his own work, Mr. Gustin states, “I am interested in pottery that makes connections to the human figure. The figurative analogies used to describe pots throughout history all in some way invite touch. The pots that I respond to all speak of a clear, direct sense of the hand. The hand is celebrated in the work by its maker, whether it is that of a fifteenth century rural potter or a nineteenth century court artisan. And it becomes a necessary tool for the user in understanding the relationship of the object to its function, and subsequently, to how that object informs ones life.

I want my work to provoke image to the viewer, to suggest something that is just on the other side of consciousness. I don’t want my pots to conjure up a singular recollection, but ones that change with each glance, with each change of light. I use surfaces that purposely encourage touch, and by inviting the hand to explore the forms as well as the eye, I hope to provoke numerous memories, recollections that have the potential to change from moment to moment.”

To view more of Chris Gustin’s ceramic vessels visit his website at http://www.gustinceramics.com/

Vineyard Haven artist, Barney Zeitz, has just completed a stainless steel sculpture memorial to honor post-Pilgrim immigrants in the town of Plymouth, Massachusetts.

A specially constituted selection committee chose Zeit’s design for the work last autumn from three finalists, culled from responses to the council’s request for proposals from artists. The dedication ceremony for the sculpture took place early October.

The memorial stands 12 feet high and depicts a cluster of figures in relief above curved panels that suggest the hull of a ship. The base of the piece is inscribed with text by Rev. Peter Gomes, a Plymouth resident and Havard University minister and professor. An eagle at the top symbolizes the American dream. Zeitz describes it as, “adventurous, protective, and a little bit agressive because that’s the way we all are.”

To view more of Barney Zeitz Public Works and Memorials commissioned for exterior spaces.

Movie of Barney Zeitz working on the memorial.

Finished Memorial

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Graduated from the
Academy of Art and Design in St.Petersburg( Russia), Chingiz Abassov is an artist with a background in monumental arts.

On his personal site are images of his works, which have been exhibited in art galleries in the USA and Europe since 1989.
You can see his CV and visuals at: http://www.abassovart.com

Chingiz Abassov writes,(quote)
“My art reflects the three different worlds of which I
am a part.It is a complement of European
Renaissance, Byzantine monumentalism and my own native
Azerbaijan ancient miniature illustration.
My paintings, graphics and murals combine western
classical beauty, eastern religious mysticism and
multi-faceted splendor of Islamic art.
My artwork is inspired by my inner soul to feel;a
colorful expression of the emotion I have for life
melded with the discipline of the Baron Von Stieglitz
School of Art in St.Petersburg(,Russia).”

Abassov lives and works in Finland and USA( Los Angeles), and is a member of International Association of art UNESCO.

Craig Gordon (in his own words)

“I am a New York-based graphic designer and photographer. Through art I attempt to journey into the mind, and retrieve the images we construct there, where our thoughts and dreams arrange recent and distant memory-pictures of the natural and constructed worlds. In uniting the conscious and unconscious realms of experience, “dream” and “reality” become a single, surreality.
To recreate the art of the mind, I implement the camera and computer, combining select scenes and elements; digitally altering the
composition, background, and the play of light according to a specific vision.
The results are images that are unfamiliar as outward objects of our eyes, but which, I hope, will strike a deep inner resonance.. ”

To see more of Craig Gordon’s Surreal Photography and Artworks of Land and See visit his website at: http://www.craiggordon.com

Richard Stone has painted portraits of the Royal Family for nearly three decades. At the age of 22 he became Britain’s youngest royal portrait artist since Sir Thomas Lawrence painted Queen Charlotte in 1790 at the age of 21. Although he has had little formal art training, Richard Stone’s success is a direct result of a natural talent and a strong determination to succeed in the career he has pursued since childhood.

Born in 1951 the son of a Colchester postman, Mr. Stone began cultivating his talent following an accident at the age of four that left him with a fractured skull and permanent deafness in his right ear. The young artist began sketching in a notebook and later painted to communicate with his family and teachers, demonstrating a keen sense of perspective and mixing colors.

When he was fourteen, Richard went to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, where he saw a portrait by Sir Gerald Kelly. With the directness that has subsequently characterized his career, he wrote to Sir Gerald, saying how much he had admired the portrait and asking if he could possibly help and advise him. The result was prompt. Sir Gerald could offer him all the reasons against being a portrait painter, but if he would like to call and see him, and bring his work, he was welcome. Richard took along what work he had done, listened to Sir Gerald’s reasons, and would not be dissuaded. It was the start of a friendship that was to last until Sir Gerald’s death in 1972.

To view more of Richard Stone’s Portraits of Royalty, please visit his website at: www.richardstoneuk.com

In his own words:
“Over the past 20 years, I have been a mechanical designer, home designer/builder, musician, and experimental artist. During the past five years, I have been filling my home and those of friends and family, with my
unique 3-D “Wallscapes”. This past summer I built up a collection of pieces to display at several art fairs in the San Diego area. My work now spans from full wall space and geometric themed “Wallscapes”, to small individual sea life pieces.

These primarily wood and metal sculptures are mostly abstract
representations of my interests intopography, sea life, space, technology, shapes and patterns. My designs come from dreams, life, memories and often, experimentation with shapes. From these ideas I create the basic form of the piece, often using and modifying parts and hardware to add a more abstract edge. Final colors and textures are added and enhanced to obtain the desired depth and character. No two pieces are ever exactly the same. My goal is to share my perspective of our world, the events that shape what we are, inspire thought, and add a little more beauty into our daily lives.”

To see more abstract wall sculptures by Stan Weber, please visit his website.

William Ross Searle was born and raised on Martha’s Vineyard Island. A 10th generation Island native, his early experiences with Island life and changing seasons is strongly etched into his paintings and drawings. He works comfortably with both acrylic and watercolor mediums. He paints New England, especially the perimeter of the seashore, where light, weather and tide unite with human activity in a rich pronouncement of man and his life. He earned his B.F.A. degree in painting and drawing at Massachusetts College of Art and his M.F.A. degree at Rhode Island School of Design. He teaches part time in the Art Department at Thayer Academy when he is not in his studio, in Mashpee, Massachusetts, painting. His paintings span four decades and are included in over five hundred private, corporate, institutional and museum collections throughout the United States and Europe.

View more paintings of Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Coastal New England by William Ross Searle

Heather Goff loves to take photographs, and she loves to design and program websites. She found herself looking at the hundreds of digital images taken  since she bought her first digital camera and decided to make them accessible to the world at large. And thus the site of Martha’s Vineyard digital photographs mvlandscapes.com was born. The island of Martha’s Vineyard where Heather lives is a beautiful backdrop to everyday life, and she hopes through her website mvlandscapes.com to share the island’s many views.

If you are an artist who would like to have a website or to revamp your existing website, please check out the skills that Heather offers. She specializes in custom content management systems and has a package specifically designed for artist websites.