Paul's fine art combines a 19th century approach to painting with contemporary subject matter. Working in oils, pastel, watercolor or pencil Paul chooses a medium and approach that best suits what he is depicting. Whether painting Plein Air, from life or in a studio setting each picture is handled in a manner that is tailored to the subject, he considers the piece of art as a whole, the surface quality as well as the image. Paul's work has been displayed in numerous group shows and juried exhibitions and he has received awards for both his portraiture and landscape painting. His paintings are held in both corporate and private collections. Paul has conducted demonstrations and workshops for a number of art organizations.

Paul is a member of The Westfield Art Association, The Somerset Art Association, The Guild of Creative Arts, The Ridgewood Art Institute and The Plein Air Painters of The Jersey Coast.

Sharon Pitts, Biography

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Sharon Pitts holds a B.A. in Plastic and Graphic Arts from The University of Illinois - Chicago and has studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Barnes Foundation and Montclair State University. She is an avid reader and traveler and has lived in the metropolitan New York area since 1980. She concentrates on painting in watercolor.

Chris Lynardakis, Biography

Chris's interest in stained glass began as a young art student. While completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute, he began an apprenticeship in the decorative glass arts. For the last seventeen years he has worked in the decorative glass arts including stained, etched, carved, and acid etched glass. After honing his skills at Sunburst Glass Studio in Brooklyn, New York., Chris worked for many shops and studios in the New York metropolitan area. In addition to new work, Chris has also participated in many stained glass window restorations in New York and New Jersey. Projects have included many historic churches and synagogues as well as Tiffany works for Sotheby's and Christie's auction houses. He has been an instructor at the Newark Museum Arts Workshop for five years and continues to teach the craft to eager students.

Studied painting the Art Students League , She works in oils as well as pastels. Her work is in many private and Corporate collections throughout the United States and has been pulished in American Artist Magazine, Artist Magazine, and is in several books including the best of Pastel and Pastel painting, by Guy Rodden she is also a full member of the Pastel Society of America.

I have worked in the jewelry industry for 12 years doing everything from basic fabrication as a bench jeweler, to special wax working in mass production casting, a caster, an assistant plant manager, a master craftswoman for Mary Ann Scherr, until I had had enough - most industry has been outsourced and off-shored for years. I studied forging with Ronald Hayes Pearson at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, the kind of place where craftspeople feel they have died and gone to heaven. I have been associated with the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey for the past 10 years, mainly taking classes just to have time and a place in which to work. I have taught there as well, having developed a teen jewelry course for them. I have also taught at the Newark Museum, the Morris Museum, the Arts Association of Rahway and the Somerset Art Association.