While as an artist I am known as Elizabeth Leone Holmes, just about everyone knows me as Betsy.  I am an outdoor/plein air oil painter with a passion for nature – the seasons, weather, light… all of it is inspiration for my work. Recognizing that we are often too busy to notice the beauty around us, I'm inspired to create paintings to remind us of the splendor that is our environment.

The Impressionist and Expressionist painters of Europe, the US and Canada are my continual inspiration.  Take a look at the works of the Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler, California artist William Wendt, and the Canadian "Group of Seven" and you will recognize how their view of  nature inspires my work.   For me, painting is the joy of color, making expressive marks, and sharing the beauty I see in the world.

Education and teaching is another passion; I recently retired as Library Director at New Hampshire Institute of Art and continue to teach art history and plein air painting at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI).  I never stop learning when I teach!

When I'm not painting or planning classes,  I work in a variety of conservation initiatives including as a land steward and invasive species monitor.  And, I'm very lucky to live on Deering Lake with my husband Ralph, the loons, herons, kingfishers, bald eagles, et al!

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Mary Iselin’s paintings are luminous and filled with light. She paints draft horses, sheep, cattle and landscapes the way some artists would paint a bowl of fruit: to explore light, color, and atmosphere—especially spiritual atmosphere.

A professional painter in oil, Iselin is represented by several fine art galleries, including 3 Pears in Dorset, VT; Vermont Artisans in Brattleboro, VT; and Hannah Grimes in Keene, NH. She is the recipient of numerous awards, has been featured on Rural Heritage TV, and is collected both in this country and abroad. She is a former faculty member of the NH Institute of Art. And, on a light note, last year she received the Gold Award for “Best Artist” in both local newspapers!

“The longer I paint, the more I feel that the point is to just keep painting. Techniques can be learned, but it is my job as an artist to be standing there with a paint brush in my hand when Inspiration comes through. And painting is all I really want to do.”

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I am an oil and watercolor painter living in the Connecticut River Valley. My studio is in Enfield,NH.  I attended Carleton College where I took many studio arts classes.  During college I spent one summer working as an illustrator for the US Forest Service in Monongahela National Forest. I went on to receive my doctorate in clinical psychology, which was my profession.  I returned to painting more actively 23 years ago and am currently painting full time. I have taken watercolor classes from Joe Mayer and Marge Laurie and oil classes from Paul Leveille, Fred Hines, Aline Ordman, and David Leffel. In 2001 I had an artist's residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT.

I taught “Psychology of the Arts and the Artist” at VCU and have given painting demonstrations at the Troy Arts Guild, the Schenectady Art Association, and the Bethlehem Art Association. I taught a watercolor class at the Capital District Arts Center in Troy, NY, painting classes for home-schooled children grades 2-11, and watercolor classes for seniors.  I have had many solo shows in Vermont and New York .  I had an oil of the Bog River accepted in the widely distributed Brooks calendar of 2003.

Some of my paintings can be seen at the Long River Gallery in White River Junction, Vermont and AVA Gallery.  I am currently a member of the Center for the Arts NH and AVA Gallery in Lebanon, NH.

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Liane Whittum was born in Phoenix AZ in 1977 and was raised in a small rural town in New Hampshire.  For as long as she can remember she has been painting and drawing and from a very early age she knew that she wanted to be a professional artist. Liane spent a great deal of time outdoors as a child and fostered a love of nature from her Mother who would take her on long camping trips deep into the wilderness of Maine and Canada. The rugged New Hampshire landscape with thick impenetrable walls of forest, bogs, rocky seacoast and the tallest peak in the Northeast would become her lifelong inspiration.

Liane focused primarily on still life painting for most of her early career but really longed to be able to translate the emotional experience of nature into landscape paintings.  Liane traveled back out west and settled in CO but ended up moving back to NH where she returned to school and received her Bachelor of Arts with a Concentration in Painting from New England College.  It was at NEC where Liane discovered plein air painting, and it changed her life.  Painting en plein air has been an integral part of her process and has re-defined her approach to painting. She now divides her time between still life painting, studio landscape painting and painting en plein air.

 "I have always loved landscape painting and I feel so fortunate to have found my passion in life, one that combines my love of nature and painting. I hope to be able to spend many more years studying nature and all of its beauty.”

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My aim is to create sculptures and art objects that feel both contemporary and universal. Often I play with opposites: abstract/representational, rustic/refined, whimsical/thoughtful. Some of my sensibilities (in no particular order): beauty, contemplativeness, societal awareness, humor.

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By day, welding is the skill I have used to earn a living. My welds must conform to the straight lines and right angles of I-beams and concrete. Often I am so focused on the fierce tip of the electrode that I fail to notice the magnificent human and mechanical symphony of the jobsite happening all around me.

At night in my studio, I can weld figures that express the complex curves and stances of daily life. Using literally the same materials as on the jobsite (scrap pieces of steel reinforcing bars), I can work my gas torch to create musculature, instruments, and motion. Essentially, I layer beads of molten steel in the same way that clay is built up in modeling sculpture. Later I use a series of grinders to carve, shape, and finish each piece.

Over the past 35 years I have tried other mediums, but I enjoy working in steel and bronze the best. The internal strength of these materials allows me to capture that instant when a musician is bent over backwards to reach a high note in the “midnight ramble” or a gymnast swerving and twisting on the pommel horse.

I also continue to work in steel and bronze because I really enjoy the welding. I like the “arcing and sparking” of the grinders and electrodes, and the smooth patterns of the orange liquid metal as it follows the blue tip of my torch.

I began welding steel sculptures as a teenager, and my works include dancers, musicians, construction workers, athletes, and Judaica. Many pieces are now available as limited edition bronze castings.

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I don't think there is time in my life when I wasn't dreaming of creating something. I started very young making things out of whatever I could find, wood, metal and clay. Growing up along the banks of the Mississippi river, (my potters mark is a catfish), I moved to New Hampshire after finishing graduate school around 1996. I joined the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen shortly afterward. I have a real love for understanding how things work. I love to build kilns and have A number of them at my home studio including the wood kiln in this picture. While in essence I consider myself a sculptor I love to make functional work and sculptural vessel forms. I truly believe in the power of craft to influence our lives for the better.

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Designing and producing artistic metalwork since1971, Dimitri Gerakaris seeks a harmonious and resonating relationship with the architectural environment for corporate, residential and public art.

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David Hayes enjoyed a robust six-decade career in Paris and Connecticut.

Early in life he knew and learned from David Smith and Alexander Calder then showed at MoMA and the Guggenheim before age 30. Explore the life and work of David Hayes through biography, exhibitions, catalogs, public collections, archival materials, and ongoing initiatives dedicated to preserving and extending the legacy of one of America’s distinguished modern sculptors.

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The imagery that pervades my work reflects a lifelong fascination with animals. To make the large scale sculptures I search scrap yards for industrial refuse ravaged by usage and demolition. Bent and twisted, such pieces contain energy and potential new life. My welding process is a kind of three dimensional gesture drawing. A network of steel lines builds a skeletal form containing both presence and absence.  I investigate the body language of animals to express a feeling or state of being, with motion conveying emotion. Focusing on the animal realm seems no less important to me than on that of humans- observing the continuity between all forms of life on earth.

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My work begins with animals—not as specimens or symbols, but as beings whose presence anchors us to the earth and to the stories we tell about ourselves. I sculpt to capture the essence of an animal’s spirit: the way a hare pauses mid-motion, the quiet weight of a seal at rest, the flicker of a bird’s wings frozen in clay or bronze. Each gesture is both intimate and mythic, rooted in close observation yet reaching toward something timeless.

I draw deeply from my background as a farmer, equestrian, and naturalist, where animals were not abstractions but daily companions. These lived experiences—watching a foal stand for the first time, the rhythm of livestock in the fields—inform every curve and surface of my sculptures. Clay, bronze, glass, and encaustic are not simply materials, but extensions of those encounters: tactile, imperfect, alive.

My work is also shaped by mythology, folklore, and the divine feminine. Animals have always carried our collective imagination—guides, guardians, companions at thresholds. By embedding them in sculptural form, I aim to honor that long lineage of reverence, while inviting viewers to encounter them anew.

Underlying it all is a commitment to ecological connection. These sculptures are not decorative trophies of nature but reminders of our entanglement with it—objects meant to stir empathy and wonder. In creating them, I hope to spark recognition: that animals are not apart from us, but part of our shared, breathing world.

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"My work is all about a reinterpretation of nature..." says Winnipesaukee Forge's David Little. It was inevitable that forged metal and the natural world would blend seamlessly for Dave. Exposed early on to beautiful antique metal work in his grandparents' home, David was fascinated. His lifelong love of the outdoors also began in childhood with summers spent at his great grandfather's lake property in New Hampshire. In his adolescence, it was at summer camp where he not only first encountered blacksmithing, but was introduced to it in his preferred setting – the outdoors. "I was hooked..." and he was also thrilled to discover and fire – his great grandfather's forge on the lake property where he had summered for years. He immediately connected to family history as this Silversmith great grandfather had also been quite a blacksmith in his work building boats.

David's journey melding the historic with the new and the forged with the natural began. In the early years he gave demonstrations and worked educating visitors at the New Hampshire's Squam Lakes Science Center. He attended Marlborough College in Vermont where he opened his first solo business. At Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine, he attended classes including one workshop taught by Peter Ross, whom was the Master Blacksmith for Colonial Williamsburg at the time. A visit to Colonial Williamsburg followed–the opportunity to hone historic techniques and interact with the public was no to be missed. Shows and commissions after this time focused on restoration hardware and home deéor. As Davie puts it, "I was so happy that people were seeking me out to buy my work, and I was ready to try something fresh and new." His first pieces "reinterpreting nature" were created in collaboration with his wife (design partner at the time) Heidi Little. "These designs from nature just felt right and have inspired everything I have done since."

The designs David creates today have continued to evolve. Years of work crafting historic reproductions now blend with his signature organic motifs. Oak, birch, ginkgo, and maple leaves as well as grape vines and clusters are just some of the designs in the extensive line of home furnishings and architectural elements for purchase here. But David does not limit himself– he collaborates with other artisans; he designs and creates donor recognition art for non–profit organizations and custom orders are welcomed. "I pride myself on being able to listen to your ideas and to create what we design together."

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Ronn has been exhibiting his sculpture in galleries since the early 2000s, and has been represented across the US from New Hampshire to Florida to Arizona.

He was born and raised in Staten Island, NY, and currently resides in Glens Falls, NY with his wife, Stephanie.

In 1989, Ronn graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree with an Art Emphasis in sculpture /design from State University of New York,  Cortland, NY.

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I was drawn to artistic pursuits during the upheaval of the early pandemic days in 2020. Unable to go to work during the shutdown and having just moved to a new house, I turned my attention to landscaping my new yard and, in the process, encountered a dead cherry tree with a small burl that sparked my interest. I knew this piece of gnarled wood was worth saving, and it became the impetus to explore woodturning. Fast forward two years, and with my mentor, Steve Wiseman, I salvaged that cherry burl and transformed it into one of my most cherished pieces and the second I ever turned. With a warm grain studded with eyes, color shifts, and undulating curves, cherry burl remains my favorite wood to turn.

As the pandemic thankfully waned, my exploration into diverse artistic disciplines increased. In 2023, I immersed myself in the art of MIG welding under Walter Clark's tutelage at Stonybrook Metal Arts. The interplay of metal and flame introduced me to a new realm of expression, providing a sharp counterpoint to the organic nature of woodturning. Later that year, I delved into the art of throwing clay with Andrew Jacoff of Rokuro Pottery. This added discipline allowed me to balance the intensity of metalwork with the responsive and meditative qualities inherent in shaping form from raw earth.

In an era marked by ceaseless distractions, the focused dedication demanded by each artistic discipline acts as a grounding force in my life. Wood, steel, and clay serve as conduits for my creative expression, offering a welcome respite from the relentless noise of the external world.

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As a metal artist, I am passionate about creating unique pieces using reclaimed materials. My background in theater design inspires me to think outside the box and create art that is not only beautiful but also functional. Each creation is one-of-a-kind and tells its own story.

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