Artists

Elliott Anderson was born and raised in Portland, OR.

Elliott picked up his Dad's old Nikon FG20 as a kid and did some wholly unremarkable things with it. At a younger age, he preferred drawing and painting to other "normal" activities. Elliott discovered photoshop in 2004 and began learning the interface and pretending to make digital art. It wasn't until around 2006 that he picked up his first digital camera, a couple lenses and began his journey with digital photography.

At around this point he began attending every photography course that his university offered, and eventually assisted a few weddings here or there. In 2008 he secured his first studio job, assisting regularly and spending a significant amount of time mastering various Adobe programs.

He eventually went on to dabble in Architectural photography and began working at Revolution, Imaging and Design (now Evolve, Inc.) as a post-production specialist in 2010.

In late 2012, Elliott and his Wife moved to Vieques, Puerto Rico and in 2013 began a small photography studio.

My wife Barbara Hyland and I have been residents of Vieques during the last 17 years. I am interested in the traditions, the culture and the history of the people. It is the environment that draws me.

The paintings are inspired by my feelings about the vegetation, the birds, the environment.

What draws me to Vieques? The colors, the warmth, the people, the soft air interrupted by violent winds, the sounds of the humming birds, the woodpeckers and doves; and the seasons and flowers that are always changing. I love the boulders, the turpentine trees, the plants and the rapid growth and change.

It's a discovery process. The paintings are impressions -- impressions of my feelings and emotions and moods. My work is done in a free liberated way. I create the feeling of movement and passage.

Anne Burkholder, who was born in the Nebraska Sandhills, has had her paintings accepted in many national and regional juried shows, winning first place awards for both her oils and watercolors.

Her works are included in many private, public and corporate collections in the United States, England, Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland and Morocco.

She is the designer and developer of the Burkholder Project at 719 "P" Street in Lincoln's Historic Haymarket District, where she also has her studio.

See Anne's work at the following websites: www.anburkholder.com and www.SailorsValentinesofVieques.com

Since my childhood, I have enjoyed the plastic and dramatic arts.

Over the years, my vocation and passion for the arts and graphic communications became more evident, so much so that I graduated as Graphic Designer and I worked at Grupo Últimas Noticias winning the Award of the Best Infographic in 2010. Then, I moved to Miami; looking forward to finding new projects that would allow me to test my talent and also to nourish myself from those experiences. I started as a photographic producer for the globally recognized campaign, "Got Milk?-Hispanics" and the Miami City Ballet; then as an art director for South Floridian companies such as Visit Florida and Simply Healthcare among others.

Apart from dedicating part of my professional career to the world of advertising and entertaining industry, I have also tried to make my way in the visual arts. In August 2016, a Venezuelan producer took my pictures and career to be a source of inspiration for "Sala Marco Caridad," this play premiered in Miami in 2016 counting my life and using my paintings as part of it.

I love to paint as therapy because with my paintings I am free, I can abstract from my reality and give myself completely freedom to the work and feelings. While some executives seek to relax with a glass of wine or whiskey, I do it with acrylics and canvas. My technique is mixed media; but in my compositions, I can not miss coffee (in any of its forms) and candle's paraffin. Since art is love, I use these elements because I think that the purest love in the universe is mother's love; so these items are what characterizes my mom. As Antonio Berni said, "Art is a response to life."

Donna Cisneros arrived in Vieques in 2003 via Pensacola, Florida. Her love of the ocean and its survival is apparent in her underwater collection of photographs and the educational settings in which they appear.

Authoring three children's books, focused on providing local Viequense children experiences to preserve their island environment, has been her passion.

Her underwater photographs easily create fish characters for exciting adventure stories of reef protection, turtle nesting preservation, and Bioluminescent Bay conservation. Her identification book, A Collection of Creatures By La Doña, and a trilogy of adventures of Shimmer, a Blue-Striped Grunt, can be purchased at VCHT. Additionally, these educational resources have been donated to local public schools and several after school programs.

Mrs. Cisneros' vast community involvement provides crucial resources designed to conserve and expand the beauty of Vieques Island Underwater for young and old, local and tourist alike.

"Need a Job? Head to Alaska for summer money." the headlines read. In 1992 I traveled across the US from Texas to Alaska with a friend who was a photographer. I purchased a manual Pentax K1000 and learned to use it on our road trip to "The Last Frontier". I fell in love with the landscape and took pleasure in trying to capture it on film. For me, photography opened up a door to a whole new way of seeing and appreciating nature and its surrounding landscapes. It helped me focus and take time out to really notice the beauty of the world we live in. Alaska was an amazing experience that evoked my interest in photography.

It was a later adventure to Vieques when my one week vacation turned into a 13 year residency. The raw beauty of the island instantly drew me in and kept me here.

Whether it's a sunset after a great beach day or taking photos while touring around on my paddle board, I always try and take the time to snap a picture or two.

I find inspiration through photographs and through my photography I hope to contribute uplifting imagery and a unique perspective of the beautiful world we live in.

Judith de Zanger has fallen in love with both sculpting and the philosophy of the Tao. The Tao is all about finding your "Way" or "Path" through listening to yourself, paying attention to your intuition and becoming "one with". Judith combines this philosophy in her work as well as in her teaching and is the author of "Getting Stoned: The Tao of Sculpting" as well as "The Tao of Creativity" and "The Tao of Living on Purpose". Her work is represented by Gallery 71 in NYC, Arts in the Square in Watertown, NY, and the Wheelhorse Gallery in Westchester, NY. Judith is a member of the American Society of Contemporary Artists. She has been in many juried and group shows and has had solo shows at the Southern Vermont Center, the Beside - Myself Gallery and the Mari Gallery. She has won awards at the Pen and Brush Club, NYC, the Salamagundi Club, NYC and the Mari Gallery in Westchester. Her sculpture aims to express the life force, the Chi (Energy), of the form. The best work is when the spirit or energy of the stone or wood comes alive. "Form exists in order to express spirit" (Gu Kaizh), is a kind of mantra for her.

"When I sculpt I am listening to both myself and to the stone, collaborating with it and, at times, allowing it to guide me. The stone contains surprises, the unknown, and I move into uncertainty--letting go of the known or planned. When you become one with the stone, you begin to feel the energy of the stone – it's Chi – it's life force and suddenly the stone is open and speaking. The process is a dialogue and one of allowing a form to emerge, rather than forcing one onto the stone. It is a very meditative and, for me, spiritual practice. It is all about the journey, not the destination."

Although based in NYC, Judith has spent the last 26 years coming to Vieques in the winter. She can often be found under a palm tree working on a stone or giving a class. The sculptures on display in the gallery are inspired by Vieques.

Her sculptures can be seen at flickr.com/photos/taosculpting.

Karen Elizabeth Edelstein has been making art since, at the age of 8, her grandfather (a professional photographer) taught her composition through the art of collage. In her twenties she became interested in painting while working at Stones Gallery in Kauai, Hawaii and often uses photo-reference for her studio artwork. With an assoc. degree in fine art and photography she has shown her work in Hawaii, Maine and Vieques, Puerto Rico. Always drawn to the sea she has created paintings, jewelry design and photography that reflect the interest that water holds. Viewing the world with gentle irony she reflects on color, light and movement.

Karen is the successful owner of Seamark Silver. She designs sea motif/color jewelry and travels to Bali, Indonesia where she works closely with a a family of silversmiths. Through this collaboration they share their creativity and diverse cultures.

For the last 17 years Karen has found herself on Vieques Island and over these years has painted murals for the Trade Winds Restaurant and Guest House and Hacienda Tamarindo Hotel as well as many residences. She has forged lifelong friendships with local folks, businesses and home owners alike, always drawn back to the Island and the Sea.

Karen, along with her husband Monte, a specialty woodworker, spend their days between Midcoast Maine, Bali, Indonesia and Vieques, Puerto Rico. Continuing to explore the sea, warm friendships, tropical colors and the long walk on Sun Bay.

I am currently based in Charlottesville, Virginia, where I work as an engineer in a neuroscience lab.

I am also an oil painter; I am inspired by the beautiful, fluid colors of oil paint (specifically I love alizarin crimson). I am currently working out of a box of paints given to me by my Aunt Marion that originally belonged to my grandfather.

My mother, Karen, is an amazing artist and I grew up in an incredibly talented and inspirational household that I am very grateful for.

My paintings are based in realism, but mostly I attempt to work with the natural capabilities of the oil paint and how the colors mix and move. I try not to be too analytical or precise.

"Growing up with horses is one of my greatest gifts. To gallop the land, to swim in the lakes. While riding bareback and gliding in and out of the forest...those are the visions I have of the Magical Horse, in all of it's glory!""

Barrie was raised in New York City and in the Berkshires, South Egremont, Massachusetts. Her parents founded two ski areas, Jiminy Peak and Catamount. Growing up in NYC and in the mountains, gave Barrie the opportunity to be raised in an athletic and social environment. Which made it a natural progression for Barrie to be comfortable in many situations, which later in life proved to be helpful.

Her interest in photography came when she was given a camera by her father at the age of 10. While going away to high school she observed human nature more closely and found that her camera was an extension of what she witnessed. It was evident that her eyes and heart felt what her camera captured so naturally.

Barrie pursued her interest in photography while studying at The School of Visual Arts in NYC, The Academy of Arts in San Franciso and The New England School of Photography in Boston. She also studied Graphic Arts at The New England School of Art and Design in Boston.

After College Barrie opened Barrie Fisher Photographers and taught photography for four years at The Berkshire School in Sheffield, Mass. She also taught at The Palm Beach Photographic Centre in Palm Beach, Fla.

Barrie persued her love of ski racing, and photography, and combined her skills together. She worked with the US Ski and Snowboard World Cup Teams traveling the world with camera in hand, for many years.

Barrie has been a top professional in her field for over 20 years. Working with many magazines and organizations throughout her career along with creating art, family portraits and social occasions.

I was born and bred in NYC. I attended Hunter College where I received my MFA.

Cutting out paper dolls as a young child, was the start of my cutting/collage career. The Art Students League, where I studied for several years, proved to be invaluable. The Feminist Art Institute, in NYC, was a source of inspiration, deepening my "out of the box" art.

I was Artist in Residence for several summers in Venice, Italy, as well as working at the Hambidge Center for Art, in Rabun Gap, Georgia. I have had numerous shows, solo as well as group, in NYC, Woodstock, NY, and Deer Isle, Maine.

In 1997, I first visited Vieques, PR. where I created, inspired by my visits to Seagate Hotel. "Show of Fools", a two-person show, April 1, 2014, on Vieques, consisted of 24 of my collages on paper; intricately cut images incorporated in story telling scenes. They are highly erotic, whimsical, unlikely and bringing smiles to viewers. Watercolor pencils, pastel, pen and ink are my media.

My art has always been an integral part of my life, memories, fantasies, dreams that pour forth. I have been living and working on Vieques since my retirement, four years ago, where I have the time and freedom to let my visual stories unfold.

Milisa Galazzi is best known for her three dimensional shadow drawings, printed works on paper, as well as her richly layered abstract paintings. Her artwork highlights the interrelated forces of the physical world, particularly when these connections are punctuated by physical distance or separation by time. Through subtle visual layering, Galazzi acknowledges the passage of time as well as celebrates the power of human connections over generations. Her work is held in international private collections as well as private and public collections in the United States such as Women and Infants Hospital and the Women's Medicine Collaborative in Rhode Island. She exhibits nationally in solo and group shows in both galleries and museums.

Galazzi presents talks at national and international conferences such as the International Encaustic Conference and the National Art Education Association Conference in New York City. Her artwork has been featured and reviewed in Surface Design, FiberArts and ArtScope magazines as well as in books such as, "Contemporary Cape Cod Artist: On Abstraction," and "Paper + Wax, Techniques in Handmade Paper and Encaustic” as wells as, "Encaustic Art in the Twenty First Century." Galazzi was 'boat schooled' while she and her family traveled and lived aboard their thirty-one foot trimaran sail boat hand built by her father.

She received an MA with Honors from the Rhode Island School of Design were she extensively researched the educational effectiveness of community-based art education settings and her findings are published by Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Project Zero Press, 1999. In addition, Galazzi holds a BA from Brown University where she studied Studio Art with minors in Women’s Studies and Cultural Anthropology - and she graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover - all of which directly informs the content of her art making.

She works full time in her studio in Providence, Rhode Island and on Cape Cod in the summer months.

My newest body of work is part of an ongoing series of hand drawn encaustic monotypes on paper called, "Mitosis." Like this biological term for cell division, these colorful images visually reference the connections we inherently have with one another. Looking through the lens of a scientist's microscope, or peering into the cells in a Petrie dish, these images force the viewer to contemplate the ways in which we are bound and linked to our biological heritage both past, present, and future.

Enrique Flores-Galbis is a painter, teacher, lecturer and novelist. Born in Havana, Cuba, he emigrated to the United States at the age of 9.

Currently he lives and works in New York City. A portrait and landscape painter, his work can be found in corporate, university, and private collections throughout the country.

His paintings have been accepted into the top annual national juried exhibitions and been exhibited in numerous group and one man shows.

He has been commissioned to paint the portraits of diplomats and deans, loved ones, children and graduates, indoors and outdoors in formal and casual settings, according to the sensibilities of the patron.

Richard Giglio, an American born artist, was raised in New Rochelle, New York, and graduated from Pratt Institute. In his early years as a young artist living in Manhattan, he worked as assistant to Gene Moore, Display Director of Tiffany & Co. and Bonwit Teller, and the undisputed original master of elegant and avant-garde New York high-end store display. Giglio created background art for Bonwit Teller's fashion windows as well as original artwork for both Bloomingdales and Tiffany & Co.

Giglio spent many years covering the couture collections in Paris, London and Milan, contributing his fashion illustrations to Glamour, Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, Harpers-Queen, and The New York Times.

During the following years, Giglio participated in group and one-man shows at Donghia Inc. in New York City, White Walls Gallery in New York City, Lucky Street Gallery in Key West, Florida, Harrison Gallery in Boca Raton, Florida, Brown Gallagher Gallery in New York City, and Youngblood Gallery in Sag Harbor, New York. He continued his commercial art career as well with Henri Bendel, Donghia Inc., and Seventh on Sixth, among others.

In 1999, Giglio created and directed the exhibition décor for Theater de la Mode at the New York Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has also created original artwork, both large scale installations and more intimate pieces, for public spaces such as the Brea Mall in Los Angeles, Lenox Square in Atlanta, the Russian Tea Room in New York City, the Bath and Body Works owned by the Limited, and the Gilly Hicks Shops owned by Abercrombie & Fitch.

Giglio says there have been three major influences in his life and art from the very beginning--Henri Matisse, Billie Holiday and Maria Callas – and his paintings and collages, ranging from pure black and white pieces to full out explosions of color, reflect these influences. Many of the pieces depicted in the selection of work shown on his website, www.richardgiglio.com, and on display in this gallery, were created by Giglio while the voices of Callas and Holiday alternately filled his studios. He calls Key West, Florida, his main base of operation now, but keeps a working studio on Manhattan's Upper West Side for when he feels the need to flee the azure blue water and amazing light of the lower Florida Keys and get a fix of New York City's energy and contemporary art scene.

Many of the black and white works seen on his website and in Giglio's 2008 one-man show on 7 at Bergdorf Goodman in New York City suggest Giglio's accomplishment in 2003 at Manhattan's super-chic City Club Hotel on 44th Street. Giglio created a large thirty foot long black and white collage for the City Club's lobby and also created original black and white artwork for every guest room.

While Giglio loves to draw, paint and collage with color, as evidenced by his artwork and calligraphy done for famed photographer Bruce Weber's publication celebrating the beauty and sensuality of Brazil, "O Rio", he particularly enjoys working in black and white. In Key West or New York, Giglio's favorite way to pass an evening is to curl up in front of the television and watch Turner Classic Movies. Whether it's Barbara Stanwyck in "Double Indemnity" or Roberto Rosselini's "Open City", Giglio believes nothing captures the emotional depth and complexity of life more than black and white, and he loves to reflect this in his work.

But, as stated above, Giglio does not limit himself to black and white. Spending so much time in Key West and living amidst such a palette of natural, beautiful color is clearly reflected in his many signature red pieces as well as those creations bursting with every hue imaginable. Even in some of his largely black and white pieces one sees hints of color, strategically placed blues, yellows, purples, and pinks.

Giglio also loves to create artwork incorporating letters, words and graffiti. A sunny springtime outing to the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn introduced him to the old spice factory there, the exterior walls of which are adorned with graffiti that Giglio felt was some of the most spectacular public artwork he had seen in ages. His "graffiti" pieces, including DUMBO I, II and III reflect what he saw during this excursion. His Neruda and Frost pieces show his love of language and how that language can be reinterpreted and experienced in a new way.

Carla Golembe is an award winning painter, hands on illustrator, and teacher. Shehas received artist residencies from the Hambidge Center in Rabun Gap, GA; Altos de Chavon in the Dominican Republic and Kalani Honua in Hawaii. As an artist in residence in these places she presented her work to the community by giving talks, demonstrations and exhibitions.

Carla's paintings have been shown widely throughout the United States. She is currently represented by galleries in Massachusetts, and Puerto Rico. Collections include Hyatt, Marriot, Pan Pacific Hotels, Fuller Art Museum, Boston Public Library, Academy Art Museum, University College (University of Maryland, Shepherd Pratt Hospital, Medical College of Virginia, Worcester Art Museum, The JFK Library, Montgomery County (MD) Art in Public Places, Chico's and other corporate and private collections. An image of her painting "Moonflowers III" was licensed by Icon shoes for their Spring 2012 collection. She recently completed a painting for Dos Puentes Vineyard in Mendoza Argentina that will be used for a wine label for their 2011 blend. She was a chosen artist for "Keys to the Cities" for which she painted a piano that will spend 2 weeks in a public place in Palm Beach County where all inclined will be able to play it after which it be donated to a children's charity.

As an illustrator Carla works in gouache. She has illustrated nineteen picture books, twelve of which she wrote. Her other illustration work includes greeting cards, fine art illustration stock images for Artville/Getty Images and Imagezoo, educational and medical projects for children and magazine work. She has received awards for her children's books from the New York Times, Parent's Choice, The American Folklore Society and PMA, the Independent Book Publishers Association as well as others.

Carla has taught fine art and illustration courses at Maryland College of Art and Design and the Maryland Institute College of Art, and Lighthouse Center for the Arts. She currently teaches painting, the model as inspiration, and color and design at Delray Beach Center for the Arts and the Art School of the Boca Museum of Art. She has been doing presentations and workshops for children, teens and adults in schools, libraries, museums and other community based venues for over 20 years. Carla has been an artist for five Animals on Parade Public Art Projects including Washington DC's Party Animals and Pandamania, Ocean City Maryland's OC Beach Birds, Prince George's County, Maryland's Birds-I-View and Palm Beach County's Wild Things. Her paintings reflect her life, her travels and her imagination.

edward l. gomez came to Vieques 5 years ago especially attracted to the island's vivid light above and below the sea.

His work combines his love of organic design with an awe and concern for the fantastic life that dwells below the surface.

What do you get when you combine a metal fabricator from Mississsippi, a lighthouse keeper in Puerto Rico and a passion for art?....the sculptures of Brooke Grant.

For the last six years this self-taught artist has dotted the landscape of Vieques, PR with his sculpture and ornamental iron work.

Traveling down the streets of Vieques, you would be hard pressed to find an area not touched by the beauty of Brooke's work.

With subjects ranging from political to whimsical, his works reflects both island life and the true essences of Vieques.

I've been living in Brooklyn New York for 15 years and haven't lost my New Zealand accent. Suppose it makes sense that even though I live in such a urban setting it is wild landscapes that continue to inspire me. Usually these are remote areas I loved as a child and which inhabit my dreams - but Coney Island and Red Hook can be equally compelling when seen on the right day.

In the last year or so I have painted many storm scenes - the dramatic skies and wild waters which transform familiar settings can be metaphors for internal struggles or representations of the tumultous external events around us all, especially at present.

For a long time I have been carefully painting and thinking about the surface I'm creating but part way through this year I decided to explore revealing some of the underpainting.

Probably doesn't seem like much, but even just a tiny hint of a scarlet below-ground seems to significantly affect the liveliness of the interactions between the colours above.

This process is having an effect on my memory, bringing new layers of thoughts and appreciation to the surface. My landscapes are expressive and realistic and part of an autobiographical exploration of my lives both at home and abroad

Sarah Holl is an innovative mixed media painter and sculptor who has numerous works displayed in public spaces around the Cape and is currently responsible for spearheading the art scene in Hyannis Massachusetts.

She has really developed her niche at Scargo Pottery in her work with large scale ceramic installations which can be found at places like Cape Cod Hospital and the restaurant the Naked Oyster in Hyannis.

Sarah spent a brief amount of time at the Art institute of Boston, however her major influence was time spent as an apprentice with artists such as Sam Feinstein, Cynthia Packard, and of course her father Harry Holl.

She shares her passion for the arts on a daily basis by being a mentor for numerous interns of the Cape Cod Museum of Art in her studio and also spending time at the Hyannis Harbor Art Center in Hyannis.

Sarah's remarkable work continues to transform as she blurs the worlds of canvas and clay.

Born in 1978, in Baltimore MD to a Puerto Rican father and Polish, English, Irish, German mother,

Alba Hollister-Ruiz grew up with one bare foot in the food co-op her parents ran and the other in E.B.L.O the non-profit organization for low-income hispanic families that her father started in 1980. Despite the passion she shared with her parents, she decided with their full support, that she would try to make a living as an artist.......gasp.

A graduate of Baltimore School for the Arts and Maryland Institute College of Art, Alba followed her passion to New York to work as an art director for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia where she would remain for 7 years. After being laid off from her corporate job she decided to follow her dream to travel the world. Not knowing anyone else with as much time on their hands as she had, she went much of it alone.

Always having a passion for photography she set off with a backpack and her camera. Alba traveled to Thailand, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, India, Nepal, Mt Everest Base Camp, and Tibet capturing life around her.

Alba is currently a freelance designer/photographer who divides her time between New York and Vieques, PR.

Graduated from Northern Illinois and Parsons School of Design with a BFA in Visual Communications and Photography.

Award winning Creative Director workinging all aspects of advertising, marketing and fashion in New York.

Most recently opened Galerie Gris in Hudson, NY.

Photographs reflect a romantic yet graphic view of his travels.

River Karmen Born Waterbury Ct April 3, 1953

Attended Wells College, Aurora, NY BA in Biology and Photography 1975 and the New England School of Photography, Boston, MA graduated with honors 1982

I have been living in Vieques since 1991 and have been working in photography and exhibiting since the early 80's.

For my fine art work I use almost exclusively a Diana camera as my image maker of choice. The Diana is a plastic camera with all plastic optics and takes 120 film.

Javier was born in Puerto Rico in 1965.

During his childhood and adolescence he showed an inclination for art, the natural world and inventing things.

In his college years he started working with welding steel as an art. After quitting college he started a small organic farming operation that lasted for 15 years.

In that period he combined farming with functional art made of found and sought after metal parts.

In Vieques he works chiefly with iron for art purposes and for any other household and commercial needs ( doors, gates, etc.)

Gary McCracken has developed a passion for working in wood - producing furniture, sculptures and bowls. The mosaics are done in a "pique assiette" style to produce decorative vessels.



"While living in the Virgin Islands and Florida , I collected all types of wood from trees blown over by violent hurricanes. The pottery shards for the mosaic work would wash up on the beaches after the storms as well, so the raw materials were right there for me," he says.

Repurposing these materials after storms became important to the work.

The sculptural quality of the bowls is derived from organic shapes found in nature as well as inspiration from artists like Jean Arp, Alexandre Noll and Russel Wright.

The mosaic vessels are often inspired by the very object that the broken pieces encase. Their outcome is always a pleasant surprise after much tedious work- Imagine a 3-D jigsaw puzzle.

Gary's goal has been to produce the wood bowls and mosaic vessels as objets d'art - utilitarian in nature but also highly decorative.

He is currently working as a photographer for the Pensacola Blue Wahoos minor league baseball team - after a 30-year career as a photojournalist.

Gary is married, has two teenage children, a labrador retriever and a Cruzan rescue cat- all of whom tolerate his creative endeavors.

Colin McGuire is an award-winning graduate of Montserrat College of Art.

Colin grew up on the shores of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where he developed his love for the ocean. Both a surfer and an artist, Colin has traveled across America, Mexico, and even Indonesia. His passion for the sea has inspired many of his paintings, a subject of which he will not soon tire.

Colin enjoys the thrill of painting plein-air, and spends many hours in the landscape, studying the ever-changing light of the day. "It forces me to make changes, to react, and keep fluid", says McGuire. Paintings done on location may be finished or used as a study, but the process is essential to his development as an artist. "I learn more about my world and myself every time I go out and paint."

Colin continues to gain momentum as an emerging artist and is thrilled to be showing here in Vieques, Puerto Rico.

My art has always evolved from my imagination.

The paintings depict places and things that are a compilation of places I have been to or seen. Visible are the contours of Truro and Provincetown with their ocean views, but I also see the colors and shapes of Isla Mujeres, Mexico, where I visit often.

After formal training in sculpture, I began to feel the need for more color in my work. I paint primarily in the same manner I sculpted in. I like to build up the surface with layers of paint, applying it mostly with knives. This gives me the same feeling I get building with clay or plaster, but adding the dimension of color. I prefer to mold and mix the paint directly on the canvas.

While I have always enjoyed working with the figure, the use of houses, boats and landscapes, allows me to experiment with contrasting colors and planes of light.

Hopefully the finished painting evokes a sense of time, place, and emotion that the viewer can identify with. These paintings have taken on an almost abstract quality to me, where the shape and contrasting colors become more of the driving force than the literal meanings of the landscapes.

Lindsey Molyneux's love for horses was immediate starting as early as age 2.

Her parents supported her by getting her a pony as soon as she could hold herself in the saddle. In many ways her childhood was defined on the backs of all the wonderful equine spirits that came into her life.

Art was also an early childhood passion, and Lindsey spent a lot of time painting or drawing horses. As time went on, her two interests for horses and art became more intertwined.

Creating horses in different media was a way to express Lindsey's pure love for the horse, and at Bennington College, she focused specifically in sculpture to improve her craft. After college, Lindsey stayed in Vermont, where by luck the rivers and the driftwood were abundant.

Lindsey was working for a horse farm at the time when the blend of art and horses took shape in the first driftwood forms. After many years of enthusiastic trial and re-building, Lindsey developed a system to combine strength and freedom in her driftwood sculptures.

Clare Mowbray was a photographer from her early childhood, carrying her beloved Brownie camera everywhere, trying to capture the beauty she saw in the world around her. She became a teacher and guidance counselor, married, had a son, but never stopped taking pictures. In the 1970's she earned a MAFA in Photography from the University of New Mexico.

She and her family moved to New Hampshire, where they settled into a converted stone church. The NH winters made her long for warm Caribbean waters, so she began exploring every island she could. Snorkeling became her passion and photographing the underwater world was a natural offshoot of that.

In 2004 she and her husband, Larry, bought a house on Vieques. Soon she was spending all winter on the island, snorkeling and shooting photos every day.

Everything changed in 2009, when she was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, an incurable blood cancer. Her treatments only allowed her to return to the island for a few months at a time. In 2010, however, just down the road from her NH home, she discovered the incredible beauty of water lilies in a local pond. The beauty she recorded became her new passion that she had to share. In 2013, just weeks before her death, she published "Under White Oak Pond", a collection of these images.

I am a light-writer.

Growing up in a small town in Western Maine I spent my summers at the lake and winters in the mountains. Nature was very much engrained in my life. We didn't watch TV and certainly didn't have cable. After graduating with a BA in Communications from University of New Hampshire, I found myself craving more culture and worked for WIRED Magazine in San Francisco for almost 8 years.

Upon returning to the North East in 2006 I once again immersed myself in project management for about a year before we welcomed our first child into the world. After 3 years at home with 2 small children I recognized I needed more personal growth and launched my photography company. I specialize in portraits but find passion in documenting life around me.

Whether it's studio lighting or natural lighting I'm always looking for my visual expression and light is my tool for storytelling. I prefer natural settings and casual sessions and am always looking for new ways to convey inner beauty and personality.

In September 2014, a mother commissioned me to document her stunning daughter at age 13 to showcase at her bat mitzvah. The horse images for this show came from this session photographed at a horse farm in Rye, New Hampshire.

Tania Puell has dabbled in many careers.

She's worked as a blacksmith, a math teacher, a Web designer and developer and--most recently--a dive operator.

But from that first time she got to spread finger paints all over her parents' white carpet, she's been in love with art.

She wants to do more of it.

Sandra Reyes is a painter, sculptor and poet.

Born in Utuado, Puerto Rico, she studied Natural Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras campus.

She is essentially self-taught in the arts and has diversified her expertise in several artistic areas such as: painting in oil, acrylic, pastel, watercolor, carbon, etc; fused glass, ceramic, jewelry, engraving on metal, as well as poetry.

She has participated in several individual and collective exhibits and published several writings in newspapers and local magazines.

Jade Robertson is a print textile designer. She works by hand on silk screens, whilst large pieces of art are usually done digitally. These are limited edition pieces. Influenced by nature, textures and tones, flowers, leaves, the sea, landscapes, people in motion, cityscapes, birds in flight and animals. To explore vibrant color and composition are very important to her and her work, and by creating fluidity and movement they come to life.

Jade Robertson was born in the UK, January 1976. Since she was a little girl Jade has been intrigued by anything very beautiful or she sees beauty in what others may view as incredibly ugly! At the age of three, Jade made regular early morning visits to study the drain outside her parents Victorian house. She would kneel for hours fascinated by its patterns, lost in her own world. Little has changed and pattern, texture, form and color are still major influences in her life and work.

Completing her degree in London and shortly afterwards moving to New York to pursue a print textile design career. Jade lived there for eleven years and designed for many textile design print studios, she continues to do so. Jade has a commercial eye and yet maintains a very individual look which has sold her work to fashion houses ranging from Armani and Calvin Klein to Victoria's Secret, Kmart, Billabong, Jupa and Esprit to name a few.

Jade continues to design for clients, her greatest joy is to develop huge print pieces on canvas or digitally printed sheer fabrics and to experiment with various painting styles for murals. This is where she can really go to town and exploit her unique and much loved style, exploring vibrant colors and form, using the fusion of the million ideas that buzz around her head. To date she has had three shows in New York and Brooklyn, all of which were received very well, selling work to local and international collectors alike.

I studied photography at Rochester Institute of Technology and then graphic design at Penn State University. After graduating, I began what was to become an 8 year love affair with traveling, taking the oddest jobs in order to travel to 48 of the states, Europe, northern Africa, and Australia.

Settling down in upstate New York, I took a job as the creative director for an advertising agency which lasted four years. I came to Vieques on vacation in 2003 with a broken heart. Vieques mended it and i've been here ever since working as a graphic designer for clients here and retaining clients from the states.

Travel photography is a way to capture a moment and take it home with you. To document a world so foreign from your own.

I still feel like I am traveling in Vieques. I still find things every day that challenge me or capture my eye. Now having lived on Vieques for almost ten years I am finding myself drawn to the things that have become somewhat familiar. Things that i see everyday take on new meaning when looked at from a "design" standpoint. The shape, texture, pattern... the contrast of an old car door against a bed of dried leaves becomes so fascinating to me.

I'm very grateful for that.

Valerie Twomey opes her work brings joy and delight. She is particularly inspired by the movement in and of the ocean. An outdoor beach yoga practice of many years adds to her flow.

The Caribbean touch is the vibration of Vieques, Puerto Rico. Her roots are in the sand dunes of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Valerie works primarily with oil on canvas, representational abstract. Loved teachers include the late Marie Griffin of Chatham, Megan Hinton of Wellfleet and Ellie Harold of Vieques.

Customized paintings can be created from favorite photographs, loved yoga poses and underwater beings.