Kirsten Benfield
Originally from New Zealand, Kirsten Benfield has lived, worked and shown in East Hampton since the 1990s. Her practice in watercolor was inspired in childhood, after seeing a family members watercolor sketches in their travel journal. Plein air is a large part of her practice, going between the ocean and the bays, recording the seasons and sunsets, by hand. She explains: “Painting has been my soul food, largely self-taught, its my nature to really dive in and study the techniques and lives of past masters in the medium, Cezanne, Turner and Homer. From there I apply what I have learned, and push the medium further.”
Kirsten is the “in house painter” for the Honest Man Restaurant Group, which includes Nick & Tonis, where she works as a dining room manager. She is also a founding member of the water+color+works group who paint and show together. Her teaching experience includes workshops at The Springs School with Project Most and the Visiting Artist Program, and at Golden Eagle Art Store. Her work is included in collections around the US, Europe and New Zealand.
Jim Bergesen
Jim Bergesen is a photographer and painter who embraces the possibilities rendered by digital technologies to create an area of synthesis between mediums, in which the representational is abstracted and abstraction made to represent. By re-focusing and re-framing images – and utilizing color in both pixelated and solid forms, Bergesen filters the static of the everyday to reveal the unseen nature and spirit of these images. Life Member of the Art Students League of New York, with a MFA in Studio Art and a MA in Contemporary Art History and Criticism from SUNY, Purchase College, Jim was raised in the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland and loves to share his passion for the history and uses of art materials in his role as an Educational Advisor for artist color company, Winsor & Newton, and consults with the international Artist Outreach Program of Liquitex. His works have been acquired for several corporate and private collections and latest works may be viewed at he Pierogi Galleries flat files in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Darlene Blaurock
Darlene is a Mixed Media Artist/Visual Artist and Art Educator living in Wantagh, New York. She has a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in NYC and an MFA from LIU CW Post. She has shown her artwork both locally and nationally. She won an AWARD of MERIT for 3 of her paintings that were in the LI Biennial at The Heckscher Museum of Long Island in 2023. Darlene was also selected to be a resident artist at The Art League of Long Island for 2024. Darlenes Mixed Media Paintings are a combination of the real and the imagined. The artist is also known as @artalatte on Instagram and her website www.artalatte.com
Perry Burns
Perry Burns received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and Masters degree from Columbia University in 1994. He has lived and worked on the east end of Long Island for the past 30 years working as a professional painter, photographer and teacher for both children and adults.
Inspired by travels to many different countries around the world, Burns paintings are influenced by Middle Eastern, Far Eastern and Indian sensibilities of color and pattern. He brings this sensibility to both abstract and representational painting often alluding to aspects of the east end landscape and seascape.
Burns has had more than thirty solo exhibitions nationally and internationally, including fellowships and residencies at Yaddo, the Vermont Studio Center, the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. His work is held in many private and public collections, including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Knight Foundation, and the Brant Foundation, among others. He has exhibited locally for many years at the Sara Nightingale Gallery as well as the Parrish Art Museum, Guild Hall Museum, The Islip Art Museum and the Heckscher Museum.
Linda Capello
Linda Capello is a master of figure drawing. A graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology, she worked in the NYC fashion industry for over 20 years. She is listed in Who's Who of American Women, and received the Miriam Russo Enders Award: For Works on Paper, from the National Association of Woman Artists (May 2009), for her red conte drawing, So Inclined.
She explains: "All I have ever wanted to do was draw, and all I have ever wanted to draw were people. I am a classically trained anatomist, but instead of the rigid, mechanical representation of muscle, bone and flesh, I look for the subtlety of the line; the strength and sensuality of the thick, thin and lost line. The curve of the neck and arch of the spine speak volumes."
She teaches extensively on the East End at Guild Hall, the Veterans Hall in Southampton, The Art Barge, the Southampton Cultural Center and is a member of Southampton Artists and the Artists Alliance of East Hampton. – Text from the Local Art Rag.
Amy Conway
Amy Conway is a multi-disciplinary artist whose mission is to help women explore what lays hidden behind the masks society, overtly and covertly, requires them to wear to be accepted and safe. Her practice combines painting, drawing, intuitive mark making, sculpture, collage, sewing and sound. The resulting images are both impersonal and deeply personal as they touch on collective and individual experiences and traumas.
Conway was brought up by the ocean in southern California, raised her family in the high desert of New Mexico and now divides her time between Springs on the East End of Long Island and Manhattan where she works in her studio writing, painting, sculpting, and drawing. She has a BA in English from the University of Santa Clara, CA and an MFA from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. Her work is in private collections and is currently shown at 180 the Gallery In NYC.
Heather Corbett
Heather Corbett is a Brooklyn based artist and educator who has worked in most media across multiple careers. She is inspired by the layering and interplay of various materials to highlight the natural interactions of each and the drama created by manipulating light and scale. Through her decade of work in film and television she has mastered the transformation of surfaces to give the illusion of age and depth. After working in film, she worked for over 10 years as a designer, muralist and sign painter for a variety of New York City restaurants, hotels and music venues. She is currently raising two teens and finishing a second masters in art education.
When she is not teaching or raising her children, she is helping to support youth arts education, co-chairing the Red Hook Art Project and Developing Artists, a youth theater organization. She received her BA from Tufts University and her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston where she was first introduced to glass as an artistic medium. From there she went on to take glass blowing and casting classes at Mass Art and Corning Glassworks where she assisted with the cast glass workshops. She holds a masters degree in art education from Teachers College and has taught K-12 studio art for 3 years in Red Hook Brooklyn.
Jennifer Cross
Jennifer Cross is an artist who lives full time in Springs. She earned her BFA degree from the University of Minnesota and later received her MFA degree in Painting from Pratt Institute. She is the recipient of a number of awards including a Ford Foundation Grant, a Jerome Foundation Grant, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant in Painting.
From 1985-1990, she was the Director of the non-profit East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art where she curated over 30 exhibitions. Her teaching career includes positions at the University of Minnesota, Suffolk Community College, and Long Island University, and the Ross School where she served as Dean of Visual Art from 1996-2021.
Jennifer began exhibiting her work in Soho and the East Village in the 1980s before relocating to East Hampton. Over the years, she has shown her work in numerous galleries and museums in New York and on the East End, including in group exhibitions at Tripoli Gallery, Ille Arts, and the Southampton Art Center, and in recent solo shows at MM Fine Arts in Southampton and Duck Creek Arts in East Hampton.
Robin Gianis
Robin explores the patterns in nature in ceramic arts. She did her undergraduate studies at Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Michigan in Florence, Italy, and later received her teaching degree from Long Island University. A native of Massachusetts, Robin has lived in East Hampton for over thirty years and been the Visual Art teacher at the Bridgehampton School teaching kindergarten through twelfth grade for more than twenty years.
Kimberly Gonzalez
Trained in many disciplines, Kimberly Gonzalez is a freelance artist with a focus in painting, sculpture, and drawing mediums. Inspired by the natural world, much of her work encompasses surrealism, portraiture, and imaginative landscapes, primarily composed of organic materials. Born and raised in Suffolk county Long Island, she graduated Summa Cum Laude from Long Island University (Post Campus) with a B.F.A. in Art Education and Art History, and a Master of Arts in Creative Arts Education from the University of Exeter. She has taught locally, both privately and in public institutions. With a passion for travel and humanitarian service, she has devoted much time and practice to international educational service programs; including Circle K service trips to South America, and abroad programs in Europe. Inspired by the teachings and legacy of Victor and Mabel DAmico, her aim is to promote a meaningful creative education experience for all students, encouraging them to find their artistic passions, and to engage them in the art-making process.
Sue Ferguson Gussow
Sue Ferguson Gussow is a figurative painter working in a wide range of drawing and painting media. She is Professor Emerita of The Cooper Union School of Architecture where she continues to conduct the Advanced Drawing Seminar. She has taught, lectured or served as visiting critic at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Bennington, Maryland Art Institute, Pratt Institute, RISD, Parsons School of Design, Tulane University, New York University, Alfred University, the Frick Collection, the Royal Academy of Art, School of Architecture in Copenhagen, Denmark, the Aarhus School of Architecture in Aarhus, Denmark and the EPFL. Ecole DArchitecture in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Leslie Harris
When Leslie Harris was a child, she would visit her grandfather's hardware store, where she was given model clay with the hope that she would stay out of trouble. It worked, and she was hooked. Harris has studied with notable ceramicists Ellen Shankin, Malcolm Davis, Cynthia Bringle, and others. She worked for many years in the studios at Eastern Market Pottery in Washington D.C., and exhibited at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, Virginia. Her pots are available locally at LongHouse INStore at LongHouse Reserve. Leslie’s practice is focused on functional pottery and the way its beauty, practicality, and uniqueness enhance daily life. Leslie found her way to the East End in the early 1970s. She was co-owner of the art film house The Old Post Office Cinema and had a career in social work at a South Fork social services agency. She lives in East Hampton, where she has been making pots for 50+ years. Leslie’s practice is focused on functional pottery and the way its beauty, practicality, and uniqueness enhance daily life. For her, working with clay is a grounding experience full of joy and sensuality.
Eva Iacono
Eva Iacono was born and raised on Long Island and has been living on the South Fork for the last 22 years. She has an advanced degree in Education in TESOL and is certified in New York State as an ESL and Spanish instructor. She was an English language teacher for almost three decades, six years of which she taught English in Barcelona, Spain. Most recently, she taught English as a Second Language and Spanish Language Arts in the East Hampton School District. Apart from teaching languages, making art has been essential and constant for her throughout her life. Most of her pieces delve into portrait and landscape photography as well as portrait drawing using oil pastels and mixed media. She has participated in many juried, open and invitational group shows throughout the East End and New York State and she had a one woman show at the Ammerman Library of Suffolk County Community College. She has been a studio assistant, administrative assistant, grant writer, artist, and most recently an instructor at the VDIA for over six years.
David Joel
Shortly after graduating from the School of Visual Arts in 1986 with a BFA, David began a 16-year affiliation with artist, Larry Rivers. Since Rivers passing in 2002 David has served as chief archivist for the Rivers Estate and was instrumental in organizing the efforts of the Larry Rivers Foundation. In August of 2006 David was elected to serve as Executive Director for the Larry Rivers Foundation and has been working in that capacity to the present day. While working with Rivers, David continued to produce his own art, exhibiting works in SoHo at Gallery 13 and at Fischbach Gallery on 57th street. In 1993 he painted the popular mural for the Grange Hall restaurant in Manhattan and has since completed numerous additional murals. While David dedicates the bulk of his time to serving the interests of the Larry Rivers Foundation, he continues to pursue his own art and writing.
Alia Knowlan
Alia Knowlan is a Montauk, New York-based artist, educator, and designer exploring the interconnections found within our living world. Her work weaves together art, ecology, and research into earth-based practices spanning natural color-making, collage, printmaking, land art, painting, regenerative planting, and multispecies community-building. In her research on natural color, Alia ethically forages and cultivates plants and earth pigments to create an array of colors and artistic tools through low-waste, non-chemical, and regenerative processes.
Her work has been shown across the United States and Europe in spaces such as The Arnolfini Museum, The Paris Collage Collective, and The Centre for Print Research. She has designed for a wide range of organizations such as Brightside Health and Frog Design and has facilitated art and ecology gatherings globally. She has a B.F.A. in Graphic Design, a Masters in Multidisciplinary Printmaking, and is a lifelong student of the earth and her stewards.
Teresa Lawler
Teresa Lawler writes in her artist statement: “As an artist and an educator, Ive worked vigorously to gain knowledge of expertise in all mediums to develop and appreciate all modalities of art. Ive also created watercolor paintings that appreciate nature and the aesthetic beauty that exists in our surroundings. In my current glass fusing artwork, my goal is a complete piece of art that begins with the sketch, watercolor painting, photograph or research, then continues with color, design and innovations of glass painting and fusing glass within a frame that captures and reflects an image. As a self-defined “craftsman of color and glass,” Ive explored that realm where desire meets imagination, and therefore discover those special moments when reality intermingles with fantasy. Painting with glass creates misty-toned color, grain, amorphous shapes, and transparency of medium, with continuous variations of light and texture.
Kate Liebman
Kate Liebman is a Brooklyn-based visual artist. She received her MFA from Columbia University in 2019 and her BA from Yale University in 2013. Her work emerges from a process of meaning-making that weaves together a layered visual tapestry with elements of astronomical charts, symbolism, old master paintings of myths, and personal memories. Intelligible despite their complexity, Liebman's paintings are a bridge between our most confounding mysteries and the defining moments of the human experience. Liebmans exhibition history includes solo exhibitions at Management (2025) and D.D.D.D. (2024) in New York, and participation in exhibitions at NADA Miami, the Jewish Museum, Lower East Side Printshop, 15 Orient, Ortega y Gasset, and venues in Italy, South Korea, and Serbia. Her work has been featured in publications including Artforum, White Hot Magazine, Two Coats of Paint, The Yale Review, Hyperallergic, and Ursula.
She has taught printmaking, drawing, and painting at Sussex County Community College, University of Connecticut at Stamford, Columbia University, and Manhattan Graphics Center. She has participated in residencies at Art Cake, Works on Water, Lower East Side Printshop, AZ West, and the Vermont Studio Center, and has received awards and support from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Columbia University, and The First Ten.
Serina Mayer
Serina Mayer is a self-taught artist from New York. After a career in the entertainment industry, Mayer discovered her love of clay during a class at The Art Barge in 2017. Her hands have been in clay ever since. Mayers current series “Assembly Theory” is influenced by the idea that life forms from the layered remnants and experiences which previously existed. She lives in East Hampton.
Michele Mott
East Hampton native, Michele Mott received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Long Island University, Southampton, and her Master of Science in Arts Education from Long Island University, C.W. Post. She has lived and worked on Long Island for decades as a professional artist, illustrator and educator.
Deeply influenced by the landscapes and coastal environments of the East End, her work reflects an ongoing engagement with nature, observation, and place. She collaborated with Peconic Land Trust for two years, where she developed “Farmscapes” exhibition, an initiative highlighting the region’s agricultural heritage and protected land.
In addition to her studio practice, she works as a book illustrator, contributing to children’s publications including “The Adventures of Scurry the Squirrel” and “The Great Barrier Beach Field Guide”. Her work has been exhibited locally and is held in private collections.
Michele has over eight years experience as a visual arts educator, teaching students from elementary through high school in both public and private settings. An active participant in the local arts community, she is a visiting instructor at the South Fork Natural History Museum and a long time instructor at the former Golden Eagle in East Hampton.
Bill Nagle
Bill Nagle was born on February 21,1948 in Mineola, New York. He Attended Hobart College from1966-1970 Received a BA in Sociology with minor in Studio Art. In 1970 Attended New York University where he received his Masters in Art Education with focus on studio painting. He became the Head of art department at Hampton Day School in Bridgehampton, New York from 1971-1973 and 1986-2001. There, Nagle designed and implemented art curriculum and taught classes from pre-K through 12th. Nagle has been an Instructor at The Art Barge since 2003. He teaches adult classes in studio painting, collage and sculpture.
Kimberly Newman Norris
Kimberly Newman Norris is a passionate fine arts educator and accomplished pastel artist based on Long Island. With a degree in art and art history and two master's degrees, she brings a deep understanding of artistic techniques and historical context to her teaching. Specializing in pastel painting, she captures the beauty of the East End's landscapes and seascapes with a keen eye for light, atmosphere and emotion. Through both instruction and personal practice, Kimberly inspires others to appreciate and explore the expressive potential of fine art. She has enjoyed working at The Barge since 2003.
Nicole Parcher
Nicole Parcher is an abstract artist who creates large scale mixed media installations, works on paper, and abstract oil paintings on canvas. Her compositions are playful and often have a great deal of movement. The colors, lines, shapes, and materials push against one another trying to create a balance between the elements of chaos and order, fragility and endurance. Nicole has a love of materials and often creates work from everyday household items and materials from 99 cent stores. Nicole has been a Teaching Artist and educator for over 30 years, working with youth in New York City. She has a B.A. from Skidmore College and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has exhibited her work in New York City and in Eastern Long Island. Nicole was encouraged by her mother, a long-time artist at the Art Barge, to create, explore, and to become an artist.
Lorraine Pepper
Lorraine Pepper is a local artist and crafts person. She works in a variety of mediums, mostly concentrating in glass and fiber arts. After a career as a Special Education Teacher, Lorraine now devotes her energies to creating purposeful and artistic handmade crafts that are inspired by the beauty of nature here on East End of Long Island.
Sally Richardson
Sally Richardson grew up in a small coastal village in East Anglia, England where the sea shaped the rhythm of daily life. The maritime folklore of the region, the landscape of the mysterious marshes and mud flats where mythical creatures roam captured Sallys imagination and shaped her strong connection to the sea and its traditions.
Sally has been carving wood and stone sculptures for 35 years. In her sculpture practice she explores her deep-rooted connection to the natural world and maritime environments. Using only hand tools - mallets, chisels, and rasps - she carves wood and stone into human and plant-like forms, approaching each piece of wood and block of stone respectful of its character and uniqueness, and during the subtractive carving process she imagines an inner life emerging from within. In the early 90s Sally began visiting Montauk and has lived and worked fulltime there for 20 years where she continues to be inspired by the landscape and a familiar coastal history. Her work has been exhibited at Guild Hall, Ashawagh Hall, DAmico Studio and Archive, a solo show at Duck Creek Arts Center. In 2022 and in 2023 she was the recipient of the Huntingdon Arts Council/NYSCA grant for a community based solo exhibition. Her Sculptures are in many private collections in the US, Europe and New Zealand.
Lee Rywkin
Lee Rywkin is a South African contemporary fashion designer. She has a deep love of textiles and a desire to create beautiful objects that began in childhood with an emphasis in fiber art, weaving, textiles, embroidery, crochet, fabric dying, printing & construction using found and natural materials, reworking and creating fabrics, and sustainable art.
After earning a Bachelor of Arts (With Honors) in Fashion Design at the renowned Central Saint Martins, College of Art & Design in London, she later worked as a Design Director in the New York City fashion industry for 28 years. Her extensive industry related travel to textile mills in Europe, India, Africa, and Asia has been an inspiration in her work and she is passionate about artisanal, handmade materials.She is currently developing her own locally crafted luxury South African lifestyle shoe brand Pantoffel, and consciously designed artisanal products. She is based in Sag Harbor.
Isabel Santos
Isabel Santos is an animation artist, director and educator from Queens, New York. Through character based, hand-drawn animation, Isabel translates her experience of her own embodiment and self-perception into unusual and dramatic bodily movements whose tension affects the surrounding environment, bringing objects to life. Her films focus on the perspective of an individual in relationships with others, experiencing a surreal internal life seeping into their mundane reality. Isabels films have screened in festivals internationally, including New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival, BITBANG and San Diego Underground Film Festival. She holds an MFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute for the Arts and a BFA in Film/Animation/Video from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Kerry Sharkey-Miller
Kerry Sharkey-Miller is a multidiscipline artist from Sag Harbor, New York with an extensive background in fine art and media production. She received her BFA in Photography from LIU. For 10 years she owned and operated a successful fine art gallery in Southampton, NY that featured the work of renowned contemporary Native American artists. For the next 14 years she had a career as an educator specializing in media arts and traveled extensively with her students on annual trips that combined photography with humanitarian service, to locations across the globe. Her artistic practice encompasses experimental and alternative process photography which is reflective of her passion for the beauty and fragility of our natural environment. Recently she has been exploring fiber arts including handmade felt, smocking, slow stitch embroidery and soft sculpture. Her artwork has been featured in museums and galleries throughout the country and has earned her numerous awards.
Idee Simon
Idee Simon graduated with a BA in fine art from Mason Gross school of fine arts, and an MA from Columbia University. Originally from New York City she now lives in Springs Her artistic practice varies from designing and fabricating jewelry to hand-built ceramics and has landed in glass fusing.
The allure of fusing glass in the kiln: the colors and transparency of glass, its ability to change shape, thickness, and color are endlessly fascinating. Each piece is unique, capturing a material transformation in the form of an object, functional or otherwise or wearable jewelry.
Andy Stenerson
Andy Stenersons first experience with hot glass came as a student at the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1983. He was immediately drawn to the materials fluidity and physical intensity, and that initial awe has sustained a glass practice spanning more than four decades.
After earning a BFA in Fine Art, Andy moved to Oakland, California, where he worked in the glass foundry of John Lewis. He later relocated to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where he co-ran a glass studio with Kim Petro from 1994 to 2002.
Andy has studied with master glass artists Lino Tagliapietra and Pino Signoretto, and has taught at Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington, as well as at Urban Glass in Brooklyn, New York.
Now based in Amagansett, NY, Andy creates one-of-a-kind sculptures, lighting elements, and vessels. He also collaborates closely with architects and designers, bringing a deep sensitivity to material, form, and process into each project.
Linda Sirow
Linda Sirow has demonstrated a life-long commitment to art education and the importance of creativity in all people. After earning a dual degree in sculpture from Tufts University and the Museum School in Boston, Linda completed graduate work in art therapy and creativity development. Her teaching career has focused on using the concepts of art therapy in her teaching with children and adults. For the past thirty years, Linda has taught in an academic setting, focusing on middle school art at The Dalton School in New York. She is an adjunct professor of graduate art education at The Hunter School. Linda has nurtured hundreds of individuals, helping each student find her unique voice through visual expression. Linda has developed a following as an abstract painter in oil and encaustic wax. Her work can be seen in various galleries and venues, primarily in New York City and Eastern Long Island. Linda's expressive paintings explore the relationships of color, shapes, and imagery. She forms intriguing, mysterious, and enchanting visual worlds by applying rich surfaces and colors in veiled, translucent layers of wax and oil. Linda's signature square format images give structure and form to these otherwise atmospheric and ethereal spaces. Linda's career might be seen as a creative engine, constantly refueling itself as her roles as both artist and teacher continually overlap, influencing and driving each other.
Laura Lyn Stern
Laura Lyn Stern is an artist and art educator who resides and maintains a studio in Philadelphia, Pa. She received a BFA in Textile Design from Moore College of Art, an MA in Ceramics from Purdue University and an MFA in Ceramic Sculpture from Louisiana State University. Ongoing intensive studies in kiln formed glass at Bullseye Resource Center, Pittsburgh Glass Center and Urban Glass, in addition to her natural curiosity, fuels a vibrant studio practice. Sterns mixed media mosaic artwork takes several forms including commissioned residential and commercial installations, freeform panels and sculptures. Always searching for new ways to express timeless concepts, experimentation with new and unusual materials and processes are her passion and ongoing artistic journey.
Laura Lyn holds several Artist in Residence/Teaching Artist positions on an ongoing basis in schools and art centers creating site specific, permanent, large scale mosaic murals. She has led adult workshops focusing on mosaic tile making and sculptural practices at Fleisher Art Memorial, Center on the Hill, Peters Valley and Touchstone Center for the Arts.
Barbara Thomas
Barbara is a lifelong artist, best known for her illustrations of the iconic children’s book Amelia Bedelia, originally illustrated by her father Fritz Siebel.
Barbara attended Pratt Institute and has her MFA degree from Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. For over 20 years she has taught drawing, painting, and all kinds of art making at The Metropolitan Museum in New York, and locally The Parrish Art Museum, Longhouse Reserve, Third House Nature Center, and Golden Eagle, among others. Barbara is Co-Chair of the East Hampton Town Arts Council.
In addition, Barbara engages in art making practice that focuses on environmental and nature themes. Primarily known as a landscape painter, she’s been painting the East End landscape for 45 years. Her work includes abstract observation, video and music conceptual work, and installation. In 2023 Barbara designed her studio as a working artist studio gallery called ArtSprings Studio, in Springs, East Hampton, where she occasionally shows other artists.
Aurelio Torres
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, to a family of artists, Aurelio Torres was raised in New York City. His father, Horacio Torres, was an accomplished classically trained artist who died when Aurelio was a young teen in New York. His artistic training was in Barcelona, Spain, where he studied for several years with his uncle, Augusto Torres, another classically trained painter in the family and his fathers eldest brother. Aurelios grandfather, was the acclaimed Modernist, Joaquin Torres-Garcia.
Aurelios work infuses the aesthetic principles of classicism within contemporary settings. His painting typically depicts scenes from nature or portraits, and his sculptures most often interpret the simple, clean lines of wooden ships.
From a young age, Aurelio has travelled extensively around the world. This has inspired his determination to create much of his work in natural, outdoor settings. His aesthetic sensibility, as evidenced in his work, is one of essential simplicity and natural, uncontrived beauty.
He currently works and resides in East Hampton, New York.
Daniel Hughes Vernola
Daniel Hughes Vernola is a painter from New York City where he is a member of the Art Students League and maintains a studio in East Hampton, Long Island.
A state and city certified arts educator, Mr. Vernola has taught '3 and Pre-Kindergarten through 8th grade (regular, special needs, and E.S.L. learners) for 25 years in East Harlem and the South Bronx.