Ann Coleman, an accomplished watercolorist and photographer, presently focuses on pastels. Her passion for vibrant color shows up in a wide array of Vermont scenes and other various subjects of joy. Her works include Vermont landscapes, garden images and an impressive array of finely detailed portraitures done in pastel. Ann is always open to discussing new ideas for commissioned works when it comes to your favorite scene.

Ann's commissioned portraits also grace the walls of homes across many countries. She has been a resident and painter of the Mount Snow Valley for over 34 years.

Ann has always felt that art is her calling. As she states, "God must have painted my genes - the artist in me has always been there."

Lee is a local Folk Artist, who grew up in a small rural town on a family farm in Western, Massachusetts. She would often be found painting with her Grandmother. Most of Lee’s artwork reflects her childhood and family adventures.

Carolina Alvarado is a visual artist, educator, entrepreneur, and graphic designer with more than 20 years of creative experience. She is the founder of Caroship Designs, LLC and has built a career spanning fine art, education, graphic design, and creative direction. She also serves as Creative Director and Research Assistant for Capacity Building and Policy Experts, LLC, contributing to socially conscious initiatives.

Carolina earned a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts. She is a recipient of the Guggenheim Foundation's Learning Through Art grant and currently serves as Artist-in-Residence and instructor at Mount Snow Academy in Southern Vermont.

Her work has been featured in exhibitions and publications, including Divergents Magazine, and she is known for her expressive portraits, original paintings, and immersive art installations. Carolina continues to exhibit her work, accept commissions, and create original pieces and fine art prints for collectors.

Ely ‘El Gomoriso’ Porter is a self-taught artist primarily focusing on dark, surreal, and psychedelic illustrations in pen and ink. Heavily influenced by music, philosophy, psychedelic culture, geometry, esoteric languages and symbols (both sacred and profane); his signature is always done in the runes of JRR Tolkien.

Ely was born in 1981 in Manitoba, Canada and has been drawing since he could hold a pencil. He has settled in Wardsboro, Vermont with his partner and their two children. Ely has created album artwork, poetry illustrations, craft beer labels, private commissions, playing cards, hot sauce labels, and murals.

Ely’s work can be found in local art shows and private collections around the world.

Hope is a local Artist who has been teaching art and painting in the Deerfield Valley for almost a decade. Hope studied at Washington University in St. Louis. After graduating with her BFA in 2010, she moved to Boston and began freelance painting and teaching art. Hope and her husband relocated to Halifax, VT after she found a teaching job in the area.

Besides painting, Hope has always had a passion for running and being immersed in nature through physical activity. After running track and cross country in college, she went on to run marathons, completing in the Boson Marathon four times, and winning the Brooklyn marathon in 2015. You may have seen her running around the valley with her giant hound dog, who was the inspiration for her book Bandit Runs Boston.

Hope started combining her passion for art and running as a therapeutic outlet after the Boson Marathon bombing in 2013. Hope’s paintings were then featured by AT&T on the Boston Marathon social media alerts and finish line display in 2016. Recently, Hope has been turning her attention to the mountains, celebrating the ski & snowboard culture of Southern Vermont.

Kate Follett is a seventh-generation Vermonter whose work is deeply inspired by the landscapes of her home state. Raised in Proctor, Vermont, she developed a lifelong connection to the natural world before leaving to attend college and work in the Boston area. While living in Salem, Massachusetts, she discovered painting through classes with artist Debra Highberger, an experience that set her on a lifelong artistic path.

Kate eventually returned to Vermont, where she purchased a sugar house with a purpose-built studio. Working primarily in oils, she creates expressive landscapes that capture the spirit and wildness of nature. Influenced by artists including Rockwell Kent, Georgia O'Keeffe, and the Canadian Group of Seven, her paintings use bold color, dramatic composition, and simplified forms to convey emotion and a sense of place. Today, the mountains, forests, rivers, and waterways of the Deerfield Valley remain at the heart of her work.

Leslie lives on beautiful Sanibel Island. She can often be seen brush in hand with plein air groups, painting the fabulous local scenes.  The inspiration is endless.  It is all about capturing the light, whether it is a sunny, tropical beach, the vibrant colors of the plants and birds of the area or the fantastic skies. The color combinations in nature are endless and unbelievably rewarding.  

Leslie is a current member of Sanibel Captiva Art League and Fort Myers Beach Art Association.  She is a veteran of training with renowned professional artists from across the county and abroad, her work can be found in private and corporate collections.

Melissa has lived at the Jersey Shore for most of her life. Now she spends much of her time painting at her Wilmington cabin. She has a deep appreciation for the Old Masters artwork and technique.

Traveling on plein air trips with other Artists has been a recent passion of hers. She has painted in South Africa, New Zealand, and recently Japan. Melissa also paints in many locations across the United States. She enjoys painting landscapes, seascapes, and still life. Melissa has taken tutorials with Master Artist Alan Kingwell, Master Artist Daniel Edmonson, and Master Tonalist Dennis Sheehan.

Richard Gombar is a Vermont painter whose work is inspired by the landscapes and quiet beauty of the Northeast. Raised in the industrial city of Bridgeport, Connecticut, he found early inspiration in both its factories and nearby shoreline. He studied at Pratt Institute before spending more than 25 years in the New York City area, where he balanced a career in the arts—including serving as Exhibitions Manager for Construction at the Guggenheim Museum—with his own painting practice.

Working primarily in oils, charcoal, and pastel, Richard creates evocative landscapes and nature studies that explore light, atmosphere, and a sense of place. More recently, he has developed a series of bird nest paintings and drawings that celebrate the intricate beauty of the natural world. His work has been featured in private and public collections and recognized in publications including Art New England and The New York Times. Richard now paints and teaches art full time in Vermont.

Skip Morrow first won international acclaim as a cartoonist with his best selling I HATE CATS BOOK series in 1980 that sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide. He has since published a over a dozen books, sold millions of greeting cards throughout North America and Australia, and has been commissioned by major corporations to apply his warped sense of humor to numerous advertising campaigns.  He lived in Wilmington, Vermont from 1974 to 2019.

It was 1980 that Skip's cartoons first gained national acclaim.  Prior to then, music was his full time profession.  Skip performed professionally as a singer / guitarist / pianist since 1974. Professional bookings, which go as far back as 1970, include New York City, the Caribbean, Bermuda, Boston, Cape Cod, Nantucket, the Berkshires, Florida and others. One of Skip's more notable individual showcases was a performance for the New England Emmy Awards at Boston's prestigious Wang Center.  Despite the demands of his illustration career Skip maintained a consistent professional schedule of performances, both solo and with his wife Laraine.

Corinne Rhodes is an artist-printmaker and runs Cherry Press Printmaking located inside of Arthouse. Corinne has been immersed in developing techniques and materials for non-toxic lithography, which she teaches at Cherry Press and other printmaking workshops, colleges, universities and art schools/ institutions.

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Kris Stanton is a mixed-media artist specializing in immersive paper collage, creating richly layered works filled with depth, texture, and whimsical details that invite closer exploration. She also transforms reclaimed guitars into one-of-a-kind works of art, using bold colors and intricate patterns to give each instrument a unique new life.

A lifelong artist with a background in graphic design and fine arts, Kris has explored a wide range of mediums before finding her passion for paper collage and painted guitars. Her handcrafted works combine creativity, craftsmanship, and playfulness, resulting in distinctive pieces that celebrate imagination and reuse.

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Based in Southern Vermont, Tara is a painter and educator who translates the natural world into captivating art. Through her unique lens, familiar landscapes become extraordinary visual stories.

Maria is a watercolor painter who draws inspiration from her summer home in the beautiful hills of Southern Vermont. Maria's family has a long history in Vermont going back generations. She enjoys exploring the woods and brooks, trying to capture their magic in her landscapes. She is happy to have inherited her mother Cornelia Humphreys Rea's love for oil painting, and also is inspired by her great great grandfather James Wells Champney; who was a portraitist and landscape painter in New York City and Deerfield MA. Maria recently retired from a career in wildlife conservation and now spends her time studying painting in both Vermont and California.