External Exhibitions

Nancy Chapman, oil paintings (pictured)

Nancy Chapman’s work is landscape based and stems from memory.  She finds herself aware of nature’s active dialogue, and feels that painting is a way for her to touch what cannot be literally touched. The artists’ work celebrates natural beauty through form, texture, line and color through oil paint on canvas. Chapman’s goal is not to describe a scene for the viewer, but rather to render the setting’s spirit and to reveal the story.

Tessa Holmes, photographic collages

Tessa Holmes loves a slurry of brilliant color and is often feeling pressed for quick gratification. In opposition of her very grounded and organized personality, she seeks an intoxicating mix of joy, beauty, fantasy and familiarity in her art. 

Seeking a safe hyper-reality where details hold little appeal, unless they are found by accident, Holmes finds herself comforted in nature. Utilizing thick layers, the artist prefers to apply her medium in a blur somewhere between impressionism and surrealism.

Kelly O'Neal, photographs (North Concourse)

Kelly O’Neal creates ethereal, painterly photographs that explore the beauty of place.  Unlike most photographers, she seeks to move the camera during exposure, relying on years of practice to create the look she wants using digital film.  Rather than documenting what your eyes directly see, she captures colors and shapes, and seeks to evoke the essence of a locale and its quintessential moments. 

Casey Blanchard (pictured)

Primarily a self-taught artist, Casey explores her experiences through the engaging and often unpredictable print medium of monoprinting. She is most interested in the spiritual aspects that emerge in the image, particularly relating to how we live in the world and how the world lives in us. In the beginning, the work may be a search for answers, but in the end it's more about being here without them.

Casey Blanchard was born in Greenwich, CT in 1953. She lives in Shelburne, VT with her husband, Dan Cox, and their daughter, Julia Cox. Her artwork is found on the walls of health care facilities, private residential collections, corporate offices, the hospitality industry, on web designs, and various published materials.

Johanne Durocher Yordan    

Johanne is a Burlington based artist who works out of her studio on Pine Street. She was born in Quebec, Canada, but has lived most of her life in Vermont. It was not until 1998 that Johanne began committing herself to her artwork and finding her own voice. She studied at the University of Vermont and has since developed a diverse body of work that is a testament to her ability to succeed as an independent artist. Creating work that fits a variety of audiences, while always building upon her unique self-taught style, is the secret to her success. Johanne has always been the type of person who explores on her own, tapping into the unknown and developing her own fashion and techniques. Many of her paintings include found or collected items which add depth and meaning to combine form and function to her work. Her abstract work captures her emotions and represents her unique style and expression. Johanne has exhibited her work extensively throughout Vermont in both solo and group exhibitions over the past 12 years.

Cameron Schmitz

Cameron Schmitz grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut and spent idle time in her youth drawing. Encouraged by two artistic parents, including her mother who is also a painter, she learned at a very early age the joy and satisfaction of participating in the visual arts. 
Schmitz holds a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting & Drawing from the University of New Hampshire, in addition to studying Art and Art History at Studio Arts Center International in Florence, Italy. 

Following a month-long artist residency at the Vermont Studio Center in 2006, Schmitz moved to Vermont after discovering Vermont's rugged landscape to be uniquely inspirational. Now located in the Brattleboro area, Schmitz actively exhibits her work regionally and nationally. Her work has been featured at Fitchburg Art Museum's biannual exhibition, Ne England/New Talent, Green Mountain College, Kyoto Seika University in Japan, Emory University, Northern Arizona University Art Museum, and Rogue Space in Chelsea, New York. Her work is represented by The Drawing Room Art Gallery in Cos Cob, CT and Furchgott Sourdiffe in Shelburne, VT, and she is an artist member of the Copley Society of Art in Boston. In addition to her painting practice, Schmitz is also the Gallery Curator of The Drawing Room Art Gallery and teaches painting at the River Gallery School in Brattleboro, VT.

Carl Rubino
 
I strive to create unique interpretive, impressionistic and abstract images that relate my personal vision of or reaction to the subject matter before me.   Before I even pull out the camera I try to experience all that my subject reveals, or even what it makes illusive – not just the obvious, like the literal view, the colors, texture and patterns - but the less obvious sensual aspects, the energy and the “feeling” that it conveys. Whether in landscape, abstract, street photography, fine art nude or whatever else captures my interest, I seek to find and interpret life’s visual symphonies, one click at a time. 

I feel that to a large extent my photographs consist of three different points of view: the raw material that is the literal subject matter of the image that my camera captures; what I see, sense, and work to portray when I interpret that subject; and what the viewer sees when looking at the image on the wall.  Those may be three very distinct views of what is essentially rooted in the same thing.   That, to me, is stimulating art.  And that is a great part of what draws me to photography.

Jeff Schneiderman 

Jeff Schneiderman works as a wedding, portrait and fine art photographer in Williston, VT.  He has been taking photographs for over 35 years, traveled extensively throughout the U.S. and the world and has made Vermont his home for the last 27 years. Patterns are a major theme in Jeff’s work as he is fascinated with the designs in nature how they are reflected in things manmade.  More of Jeff's work can be seen at: www.jeffschneiderman.com."

Krista Cheney

Krista Cheney is a native Vermonter, currently living in St. George, Vermont. She studied English Literature and Agricultural Economics at the University of Vermont. She has studied photography since 2003, taking classes and workshops at local venues and the Maine Media Workshops in Rockport, Maine.

Carolyn Enz-Hack

Carolyn Enz-Hack's work includes painting, sculpture, and scenery design. While she has spent most of her life on a farm she holds a degree in theatrical design from Rutgers University and has spent years designing for the theatre. Her rural sensibility is informed by themes explored in ancient theatrical and religious literature, and by developments in cross-disciplinary Science. Each piece is an attempt to process the exterior world through an internal lens. Her most recent solo exhibitions have been at the Castleton Downtown Gallery in Rutland, Vermont, and Creare Inc. and the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center both in Lebanon, New Hampshire. She is the recipient of a Vermont Arts Endowment Award, a painting merit award from the Chaffee Center for the Arts, a residency at the Vermont Studio Center, and her work has been selected for exhibition in regional and nationally competitive shows.

Erinn Simon

Erinn Simon is a fiber artist and yarnbomber. She crochets tapestries, toys, baby mobiles, vegetables, baked goods, blankets, scarves for trees, and the occasional bloodthirsty zombie cupcake. Her work has appeared in group shows in Burlington, Seattle, and Australia and she ships her one of a kind creations to customers around the world. She lives in the Old North End of Burlington with her husband and three kids. You can find her on facebook as Callie Callie Jump Jump.

Kate Fetherston, mixed media (Blue Path, Mary Fletcher)

Kate Fetherston’s paintings explore themes of perception and time, and of human experience as one with the natural world. Influenced by the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi, she embraces immediacy, imperfection, and the bittersweet nature of life. Approaching her creative practice with a willingness to experiment, fail, and try again, the artist’s process is intuitive while simultaneously inviting questions and obsessions. Fetherston utilizes a variety of textural elements, incorporating loose shapes and lines drawn from the natural world. She works in layers and texture, with color and the music of color as her guide. Drawing on her experience of a lifelong visual impairment, the artist is fascinated by the interactive and always incomplete nature of seeing. 

James Bartlett, mixed media digital illustrations (Blue path)

James Bartlett’s mixed media work combines digital painting with photography. The artist breathes new life into his photographic work through layering and collaging abstractions, using line work, filters, and digital illustration techniques to enhance and abstract. Exploring themes of nature, passion, community, exploration, and finding inner peace, Bartlett feels that reliving moments, places, or even the idea of the places we have been helps inform how we move forward with our lives and to recognize what is truly important to us. 

Kari Meyer, acrylic paintings (McClure 4)

Kari Meyer views art as a form of communication that has a power beyond that of words. Through imagery, she attempts to portray ideas that words cannot - the archetypal beauty that connects all things. Her inspiration comes from nature and the Japanese ideals of wabi-sabi, a prominent philosophy of Japanese aesthetics in which things we normally view as negative become beautiful.  Meyer explores the idea of the movement of eternity, of everything either coming from or returning to nothingness, of the constant cycle between birth and death, the cyclical rhythm of time and of each moment to the next. Her work urges the viewer to contemplate the relationship between oneself, nature, and the universe.

Michael Couture, photographs (Shepard Patrick Hub 3)

Michael Couture captured this series of photographs during an eight-day National Geographic expedition circumnavigating Iceland in June 2025. Exploring from a ship, he encountered a landscape shaped by continual motion, where land, air, and water meet beyond human scale or time. Rendered in black and white, the images reveal a quiet, introspective beauty—lava, water, ice, and vapor in constant transformation. Though often calm in appearance, the island is alive, powerful, and at times dangerous, reminding us that change is the natural state. 

Francois de Melogue, photographs (Breast Care Center)

Francois de Melogue sees the world not as a static backdrop, but as a living story. Drawn to the characters in the landscape, his work explores the beauty of things that have slipped out of the modern pace yet keep their presence intact. Through the camera, he looks for the dignity in age and the beauty of impermanence. Creating images shaped by time and place, the connection to his past informs his search for moments where life feels grounded and enduring. Through a practice that often moves beyond the visual to capture the full atmosphere of a moment, images are given a second life. His process is a quiet ritual of attention. Meaning isn’t tied to usefulness; his goal is to offer a quiet place to look again, to notice what endures, and to let it stay with us a little longer.

Julia Purinton, oil paintings (Hematology/Oncology) (pictured)

Julia Purinton strives to depict the essence of a place or moment in nature through the evocation of her memories of that place, rather than through the faithful reproduction of specific landmarks. She relies on photographs as a form of note-taking, and along with quick sketches and occasional on-site studies, utilizes these photos to compose each painting in the studio as a composite image. Purinton works in the hope that viewers will be moved by these images and reminded of the importance of a diverse environment to our physical health, our psychological well-being, and our future as humans on this remarkable planet.

Lorraine Manley, acrylic paintings (Breast Imaging)   

Lorraine Manley has long been fascinated by exploring forms of creative expression. As a native Vermonter, she is influenced by the natural beauty of her surroundings, painting the landscapes near her home in Milton, VT. Through her intuitive and energetic use of a palette knife and brush combined with vivid, lush, and intense hues, Manley seeks to capture nature and its seasons through texture and color.