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 has over 20 years of experience as an artist and is an entrepreneur of multiple interests. She has worked in the education field, as a professional visual artist, graphic designer, and social media expert. Her eye for detail and commitment to excellence have also led her to work as the Creative Director and Research Assistant for Capacity Building and Policy Experts, LLC on socially conscious projects that allow her to blend her various interests and skills.

Carolina is the founder and owner of Caroship Designs, LLC and does not limit herself to a singular creative outlet, living a true artist’s lifestyle by exploring various disciplines enables her to create art with all of life's experiences in mind. Carolina is currently showing her work locally, expanding her portfolio, is the artist in residence at Mount Snow Academy, and offering commissions that produce outstanding digital assets and original paintings transforming her client’s visions into reality. Selling both original pieces and prints of her artwork, makes it easy for collectors to enjoy her work in whatever format suits them best.

Carolina received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from Mason Gross School of Art at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She is also the recipient of the esteemed Guggenheim grant for "Learning Through Art" – a testament to her accomplishments in visual arts instruction. Carolina has also enjoyed a fulfilling career as an instructor. She is currently teaching at Mount Snow Academy in Southern Vermont, where she deploys both passion for human development along with her technical artistic skills, while continuing to inspire young artists.

Carolina's art has been published in various periodicals, with her latest addition to these accomplishments being some of her paintings from the series "Serendipity" featured in "Divergents Magazine". This pertinent live editorial was an excellent showcase of her talent and display of creative expression. Throughout her career, she has developed into a masterful artist celebrated for her captivating portraits and art installations. 

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 was born and raised in Vermont. She is a seventh generation Vermonter from Proctor, the center of the state’s marble quarrying industry. Kate’s ancestors labored in the bones of the Green Mountains and she grew up free to roam in the woods and fields in a town where everyone knew each other. Kate began painting while living in Salem, Massachusetts after she left Vermont to attend college and work in Boston. Kate took classes with local artist Debra Highberger and, through these experiences, realized she would be painting for the rest of her life. Kate came back to Vermont to be in the mountains again, purchasing a sugar house with a purpose-built artist studio.

Kate works to capture the wildness of the landscape in her painting. She seeks inspiration from mid-20th century expressionist landscape painters, such as Rockwell Kent’s New England works; Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings of Lake George and in the Southwest; and especially the Group of Seven and Emily Caar - artists who first planted the flag of modernism in the wilds of Canada. Kate’s oil paintings represent the timelessness of the natural world. Within her paintings, bright colors, extreme angles, flattened forms, and distorted views express her inner feelings and ideas to the viewer. Kate’s work is influenced by the wilderness she inhabits. Her travels through the American West can be seen in her desert, prairie, and mountain landscapes. Since moving to the Deerfield Valley, kayaking drew Kate to the water, which has become a common theme in her work.

Although Kate enjoyed her time outside of Vermont, she states “Though, I enjoyed working and living in a city, surrounded by friends and nightlife, I never felt at home outside Vermont, even a state right nextdoor. I always planned to return to the Green Mountains, though it didn’t end up happening for twenty years”.

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 an artist, but prefers the moniker ‘painter’ much better. He grew up in the very industrial city of Bridgeport, Connecticut. When he was young, in that environment there seemed to be little to do with the visual arts, but he knew from an early age that being an visual artist was what he wanted to be.

“I wanted to paint pictures. Surrounded by industry in many forms, I took solace at the local beaches, marveling at the play of light, and how elements so simple as sky, water, and land could be so beautiful. I also found inspiration in the red brick factories, the railroad, the hard light and toughness of the city streets, anything that caught my eye, something that could be translated into a painting.

My uncle—a dentist who liked playing banjo and the arts in general—gifted me with a set of Grumbacher Soft Pastels, a big set in wooden box, that I have used for years and still have. And when walking around downtown Bridgeport, I found an art supply store that offered art classes in the back room. This is where I met Frank Covino, a portrait artist and teacher. He had a traditional approach to painting, and I learned in a very classical way how to mix color, do underpainting, block out a painting and, most importantly, how to finish it. It was a lesson on learning to be disciplined, to paint or draw every day. He also made it fun, and related stories of his own life growing up in Brooklyn, which was very much like mine.

I applied to Frank’s alma mater, Pratt Institute, was accepted and really started on my journey. After graduating, I spent more than 25 years in New York City working a variety of jobs to support my art making, from teaching to being named Exhibitions Manager for Construction at the Guggenheim Museum. Throughout those years, and after a move to New Jersey, I traveled throughout the region painting industrial landscapes, and to upstate Connecticut and New York, where I took to painting barns and landscapes.” 

Richard now lives in Vermont, where there is never a lack of beautiful places to paint. Working mainly in oils, charcoal and pastel, he strives to create images that will evoke deep emotions in the viewer. The sense of belonging, of being a part of nature can draw the viewer deeper into the painting, fostering a heartfelt understanding of our world. The landscape of the northeast, especially in the midst of winter where colors are muted and quiet—is subtle and hides itself with ever-changing weather. It’s moody and fleeting. This is where you’ll find Richard, forever searching his surroundings to find something that catches his eye—a clump of trees, a fallow field, or a view of distant hills under gray autumn skies—so that what moves him can become a painting.

Recently, Richard started a series of charcoal drawings and oil paintings of bird nests, exploring the architecture and structure, as well as the varied forms and colors of these miracles of nature. His work has been described as Romantic, Transcendental, and beautiful. It can be found in many private and public collections, and Richard has been mentioned in Art New England, The New York Times and other publications. He is currently teaching art and enjoying painting full time.

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.