| Name | Biography | Website |
| Bob Belston | No Bio available | No website provided |
| John Filandro | John "Just" Filandro -I started my interest in art in High School during the 1950s. I won a scholarship to Pratt Institute in New York. Instead I went to Farmingdale A&T on Long Island. I left College before I earned a Degree. This was the extent of my formal training. I then pursued a career in Lithography. I was creating a printing Hi-Quality Lithography in New York City and Manhattan. I was employed in various printing establishments in this endeavor through the years. I used my knowledge in art to create some advertising within this venture. I continued in this venue until my retirement.
My daughter had pursued Art in both High School and then in South Hampton College. I used my art knowledge to guiding her on her path. Six months before her graduation, by a brain injury. After many years of rehabilitation, she started to take art classes as therapy. It was there I started again. I would sketch her pictures to enable her to paint them. I assisted her to remember her color and brush techniques. Her teacher liked my sketching and challenged me to take some classes with him. He challenged me to show him what I could do. After 45 years I picked up a brush and pencil again. That was in late 2002. I have been a part of Bill Haney's classes trying to improve my skills. Currently I have paintings of lighthouses in the East End Seaport Marine Museum located at the Greenport Dock. These were my second attempt at watercolor. They saw the paintings I had made for the East End Lighthouse Preservation Association.
They asked me if I would do some for them to display. There currently is painting on display at the St. Johnland Nursing center in Smithtown, LI. My works have been in Galleries on the East End, Mattituck, "St James Mills Pond House," The Art League in Dee Park and The Phoenix Fine Arts Gallery. I am in private collections in Cuba, Texas, Arizona, Wisconsin, Washington and Mane, California, NY, NJ and others. The Fire Island Restoration Society had my paintings for their exhibition and has requested I submit three for their next exhibition at the Fire Island Lighthouse. I agreed. The next Exhibition is July 7. I had a private showing, January 06 to April 06 at the Apple Bank in Smithtown. That produced great write up in the press. Thanks to STAC who sponsored it, I gave them two of my paintings. I will be featured artist in July 06. The Hicksville Chamber of commerce, Mill Pond, East End Galleries and Islip Art Museum will have my work in June-July. I am now 66 years old and will stay with watercolor. I try to accomplish this to the best of my ability. It gives me great satisfaction to be able to cerate something that people take pleasure in viewing. Piquing there curiosity to see beauty in other works and life around them. | justjohnfilandro.com |
| Jackie Gannon | Jackie Gannon, former founding partner, is a retired teacher and school administrator. She works with watercolor, pastel and oil. Her medium of choice is usually the one in which she is currently working. She is an extensive traveler, with a large collection of photographs for inspiration. While she does occasionally paint outdoors, she prefers to make quick sketches, and take them as well as the photos, back to her studio. Her work does not precisely replicate, but is rather enhanced by her photos and sketches. She strives for an impression of the scene. | No website provided |
| Holly Gordon | Holly Gordon is a working photographer who merges both, the traditional and digital, into her creativity. She comes from a fine arts background and holds her Master's Degree from New York University. Her studio is the world.
The viewfinder is her canvas and the camera is her paintbrush. She travels to all corners of the earth, from the rain forests of Central and South America and the Galapagos Islands to Easter Island, Australia and New Zealand, from Alaska to Antarctica and most recently to China.
Each time she returns home she is dazzled by the infinite visual bounty she finds right here on Long Island.
Her work has been shown widely in a broad range of venues that include the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and Denise Bibro Fine Art in Chelsea, Manhattan.
Locally, Holly’s art can be seen at Jon’s Village Art and Frame in Babylon, B.J. Spoke Gallery in Huntington and the Phoenix Fine Art Gallery in Bellport….and Kodak has recently proposed to promote her photography.
Holly’s work has also appeared in published form in Shutterbug Magazine, New York Newsday and dozens of other media channels. Holly has two traveling exhibits, Antarctica: Journey to the Extreme and Galapagos: Face to Face, in circulation and is creating a new exhibit covering a recent journey through China. She lives in eastern Long Island, New York.
Photography is an integral part of her being. The camera orchestrates an intuitive dance between her brain and heart. What evolves is the synthesis of her ‘love affair’ with Planet Earth and with life.
Visit her website, www.hollygordonphotographer.com, to continue the visual journey.
| Nature and Wildlife Photographer Holly Gordon |
| Donna Harlow-Moraff | No Bio available | No website provided |
| Carolyn Harrington | Carolyn an Impressionist Artist, originally from New York City, now has her home and art studio in East Islip. Since living on Long Island, she was inspired by the natural beauty surrounding her, and decided to portray these places with her brushes and palette knives. Her paintings express the beauty and subtle nuances of the natural world. They especially capture the spirit and heart of Long Island landscapes, expressing the sense of harmony and quintessence that is to be found there. Carolyn paints the impressionistic landscape, not to represent the exact replica of the scene, but rather to convey its mood. She wants the observer to take away the essence of the place, to feel the quiet of nature and listen to what it is saying to him; to experience the peace and solitude of the place.
Carolyn is proficient in oil, watercolor, collage and woodcuts. She has studied with many well-known and published artists, among who are Skip Lawrence, Charles Sovek, Zoltan Zsabo, Ruth Baderian, Christian White, Betty Lou Schlemm, Janet Walsh, Pat Dews, Lian Quan Zhen and Ross Barbera. The New York Times has favorably reviewed her oils and watercolors through the years. Her work has also appeared in articles in local L.I. papers. Carolyn especially enjoys painting “plein air” with her artist friends, together they have painted up in Rockport, Cape Cod, Upstate NY and all over Long Island.
Carolyn’s most recent pieces are painted using the palette knife. This allows her to express her inner intuition and make the piece her own, not just a reproduction of the particular scene. These paintings have a very special radiance and the intensified colors heighten the emotional impact of the subject matter. Three of her palette knife paintings have been selected for publication in the 2007 and 2008 Bellport Calendar by the Bellport Chamber of Commerce. In May of 2009 her painting “Bellport Regatta” won Best In Show and First Place in the South Bay Members Show. Her painting “Spring comes to NYC” won third place in the above show and was also accepted by the American Impressionist Society’s 9th Annual National Juried Exhibition at the Coda Fine Art Gallery in Palm Desert, Ca.
Carolyn's artworks are in both national and international collections. She is a member of The American Impressionist Society, the Oil Painters of America, the South Bay Artist Association, the Brookhaven Arts and Humanities Council, Wet Paints Studio Group of Sayville, and the Southampton Artists Association. She has also been honored by the Town of Islip for her contributions to the Art World. Carolyn is a member of the New York Plein Air Painters Society and is listed in the current Who's Who of American Women and Who's Who in American Business. Carolyn does accept commissions for both oil and watercolors.
Carolyn's paintings have been exhibited in various New York Galleries such as the National Art Gallery, the Cork Gallery at Lincoln Center, the Watermill Art Museum, the Goodman Gallery of Southampton, Guild Hall in Easthampton and Gallery North of Setauket and have received numerous ribbons and awards in both watercolor and oils. She is the founding partner of both the former Bellport Lane Art Gallery and the Phoenix Fine Art Gallery, both of Bellport, LI. | Art and Jewelry Creations by the Harringtons |
| John G. Huber | As a retired engineer, John Huber’s art training came later in life. He is a former founder of the gallery and an active member of many local art groups. His principal medium is oil. John follows an impressionistic approach to painting , working on large and oversized canvases to enhance his themes. The application of heavy impasto paint applied with a palette knife is used to provide texture and light variation. His portrayal of light and its reflectivness upon surroundings is a primary feeling he tries to deliver in his paintings. | No website provided |
| Julianna Kirk | I have been working as an artist, and teaching art, for most of my adult life. I enjoyed a wonderfully satisfying career as a teacher/artist. During that time I showed my work regularly throughout Long Island. I retired from teaching as an advanced drawing and painting instructor, on the high school level, in January 2005. I am currently a faculty member at the Art League of Long Island in Dix Hills where I teach workshops in fused glass. I present glass workshops in school districts throughout Long Island through the BOCES Arts-In-Education program. I have been a member of the Long Island Craft Guild for 22 years and currently am media chair of the "Glass" group. I am an active member at the Phoenix Gallery in Bellport, New York and Women Sharing Art organization.
My media of choice is glass: both stained and fused. I have also enjoyed drawing and include this medium in works that I present to galleries. For a period of about 7 years, I concentrated with the forms of ponies and carousel motifs in my fused glass designs. Although I am continually moving into new concentrations, I have a persistent fondness for the "carousel series". They are whimsical, joyful, and include in them a playfulness that I do not carry through to my other works.
I also present imagery that depicts my life issues. The content is passionate and personal. As with life, my beliefs may change but they are crystalized in the art representing them at the moment of their creation.
Julianna Kirk
2009 | Julianna Kirk |
| Michael Maas | "It is both an opportunity and a burden to have been born and raised on Long Island. It is where the bountiful natural beauty potentially collides with the highly charged experimental and expressionistic forces of the New York City art scene. While one might be raised in awe of the sort of material nature can provide as subject matter for painting in the traditional sense, one can feel equally drawn away to the excitement of an urban sensibility. Before which, if not both , of these forces does one place one’s loyalty? I choose the risky business of trying to incorporate the two." | No website provided |
| Sandra Maler | Retired Art Teacher, Sandra Maler has been exhibiting her work at The Phoenix Gallery since 2007. Until then , as a member of the Bell Street Artists group, she exhibited locally several times a year. Her favorite themes stem from the local Long Island beaches. She uses strong color contrasts in acrylics on canvas. Most recently she has added shore birds, painted on birch plywood. She successfully uses the beautiful patterns in the wood as the sand and water. | No website provided |
| Lilian Masten | Lilian Masten is a founding partner in the Phoenix Arts Gallery. Upon retiring from her career as an Art Teacher, she began to actively explore her own view of art, as well as studying with many nationally known teachers. As an evolving artist, Lilian’s work is not limited to her earlier, literal representations, rendered in watercolor. She now incorporates collage, and mixed media in her paintings. This results in a successful manipulation of shapes, colors, and textures , to produce somewhat abstract, yet recognizable essence of reality. Her source of inspiration remains the mountains and the sea, giving the viewer her unique insite to the landscape. Her work has gained the positive attention of jurors, resulting in numerous awards. | Lilian Masters Originals |
| Aram Mirzadeh | I view photography as an art of bending the light and conveying a truth. Though originally trained and still working in the Computer industry, I have been involved in photography for the past 10 years. I have experienced renewed enthusian and appreciation for the art of photography in the past 4 years and have gotten more involved with varous projects. With an emphasis in commercial and sports photography, I have expanded my portfolio to include Macro, Landscapes and Wildlife. Today I license images for all manner of commercial and real estate uses as well as Sports Teams. | Tranquilphotos.com |
| Lester Sprague | After retiring from a successful career in advertising and industrial design, as an artist and graphic designer, Lester has concentrated on the fine arts, his life-long interest. As a multi media artist his work is very unique, experimental, and downright quirky. Along with collage, his current media of choice, he is an experienced printmaker, working in woodcut, linoleum, silk screen and solar etching. His art philosophy, is to always be adventurous, daring, and always give the public a good show! | No website provided |
| Ted Stamatelos | Ted Stamatelos became involved in creating art at the High of Music and Art. It has always been his passion and bliss. His work in primarily two dimensional mixed media. Throughout the eighties and nineties he used photography as a starting point to enhance the impact of the image in his total work. The current art returns to the roots of abstract expressionism, exploring the micro and macrocosmic realities. | No website provided |
| Mary Jane Stevens | No Bio available | www.maryjanestevens.com |