Artists

Ever since a very young age, painting has been the most natural and exciting form of expression for me, and in the last few years I have experimented in, and developed my style of collage.

Alan Fein is an unbelievable father and a loving husband. He is an award-winning physician, a tennis devotee, a historian, an optimist- and an exhibited photographer.

August 2014

From the Ground Up
“I came to live on Long Island only five years ago- from almost 15 years in Massachusetts followed by almost 10 years in Florida. 

Since my retirement in late 2003 I have focused upon developing my artistic interests and skills, something I had less time to do while I was busy developing those things in others during my career as an art instructor.

The naturalist John Burroughs wrote: “…the student and lover of nature has this advantage over people that gad up and down seeking novelty or excitement; he has only to stay at home and see the procession pass.”

 

“My connection to making art began early.  As a young child, I would sit at the kitchen table and draw while my mother worked at her dressmaking.  As much as I wished to, I never pursued my desire to follow art as a career choice.  Instead, my life path led to college, marriage, family and teaching.  To nourish my creative side during this phase of my life, I created quilts, stained glass, and handmade books which could all be done whenever I had time.

I have embarked on this journey of image making to discover what can be transformed from the conscious eye to the mind’s eye.

 “After 60 years of making black & white pictures & processing them in my darkroom I went digital

I have a disability. It has manifested differently throughout my life, I have felt differently about it in various stages of my life, and people have treated me differently my whole life because of it. I could walk when I was a child, and I transitioned to using a wheelchair over my teenage years. Now, I’m an adult (or so they tell me), and soon I will have spent more of my life with a wheelchair than without one. It’s funny—as my disability became more pronounced, I became more comfortable with it. That has been my journey.
Now I want to bring others on that journey. I want to bring you on that journey. My disability is not all of me, but I would not be who I am without it. It’s not bad. It’s different. It’s notable. In fact, it’s even…no, could it be? Dare I say it? Beautiful.
What is beauty, but the quality that beholders’ minds decide? Behold me. I am temporary flesh and durable machine. I am an index for the progression of society. I am a creator of art, ideas, and dreams. I am a glimpse of your future. I am a person whom friends and family love no less. I am a case study in the possible. I am one who can behold the world and treasure it. And I am not the only one.
So when you think of disability, I want you to think of the beauty in it.
Disability. Beauty. Disability. Beauty.

Before I discovered the pure joy and exhilaration of creating digital images, I first loved writing fiction and poetry. Now my thoughts more frequently demand a graphic representation.

“In this exhibit I present watercolors with a principle focus on my observations during travel in the United States.

“Candlelight Vigil”

My painting was taken from a Newsweek photograph of a candlelight vigil called “Young Glory”, honoring the victims of 9/11.  

Art has always been part of my life.  Shortly after graduating with a B.F.A. from Rochester Institute of Technology, I started working in colored pencils.  Primarily a colored pencil artist, I have enjoyed extending my artistry into other mediums.  Several of my botanicals have been created with water colors. 

Bold vibrant colors combined with a strong geometric sensibility dominate much of Charlotte Sear’s work.

David Wilson is a self taught artist who for the past forty three years, has endeavored to depict on a two dimensional support a three dimensional image. He strives to project an alternative reality in an effort to portray a dimension beyond our traditional perception of three dimensional space, paradoxically within our three dimensional terrestrial space.

David creates or interprets recognizable and plausible images and project therein a hitherto unseen alternative reality that is mutually inclusive, coexists with and is congruent with a recognizable and realistic source image.

Featured in:
“Long Island Black Artists Association” exhibition
February – March 2018

David Wollin is a resident of Port Washington and has been an avid photographer since he was a teenager with a basement darkroom. 

“The process of creation lies in the delicate balance between the intellectual and the intuitive.

“Botanical”- part of Designing Women an Exhibition of Paintings by Art Department of Manhasset Community Club

I am an accomplished watercolorist and taught fine arts in the secondary school system in New York City for 32 years. 

“Raindrops”  “I am Galina Lampert, a freelance artist, member of the National Association of Women Artists, and The Art Students League of New York.

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