ALISON DUBILIER

Alison Dubilier…was born and raised in Connecticut. She attended the Paier School of Art in Hamden, CT where she majored in illustration and fine arts with a concentration on the human figure. She continued to draw and work on children’s book illustrations. After moving to Vermont in 1988, she began work in the newspaper industry in which she has continued to be involved for 19 years. Her work today garners an influence from fairy tales and children’s stories, as well as works from modern European artists. The dolls she creates are composed of cloth and clay based from sketches. It is her first foray into 3-dimensional art.

CORLISS BLAKELY

Corliss Blakely…is a seventh generation Vermonter. Born in St. Albans, Vermont where she presently lives, Corliss received her formal art training in Boston where she studied at both Vesper George Art School and the Museum School of Fine Art.

Corliss creates paintings of a uniquely photographic nature. The homes, farms, and antiques of her ancestors in Northern Vermont often are portrayed in her paintings. Corliss is nationally recognized for her work, which hangs on every continent in several media including watercolor, oil, and egg tempera.

KELEE MADDOX

Kelee Maddox…has been playing in the mud as long as she can remember. After studying books in college, she followed her mother and grandmother’s lead and began working in clay. Using stoneware, glass, glazes, and polymer clay, along with a combination of throwing and hand-building, Kelee creates one-of-a-kind pieces that are inspired by the world around her.

MAGGY YOUNG

Maggie Young…has worked with several different mediums over the years, but she always seems to return to photography. She is inspired by nature and finds that her camera is always leading her outdoors.

PETER ARTHUR WEYRAUCH

Peter Arthur Weyrauch
www.peterarthur.com



“Nothing inspires me more than the natural world and I aspire to record the awe of what Nature offers us. I love working in classic black and white. Taking the impact of color away from an image breaks it down to the true tonal range and invokes in me a sense of depth and clarity. I find it intriguing to study a subject to find whether I can remove the color’s emotional impact to achieve that elusive sense of wonder and depth, yet still inspire a profound connection to the viewer by making my prints come alive as much as possible. Often, I trek to a location many times to find that inspiring balance of light and tonal range that is paramount to photography. I was greatly influenced by Helmut Newton and Herb Ritts throughout my commercial career. Even though their work was primarily portrait or still life, the depth and contrast of their black and white images incline me to push the visual envelope further in terms of classic landscape photography. I definitely admire such greats as Ansel Adams, but I strive to create a different feel to classic landscape photography. I create art inside the camera on one frame. What you see is real, not an illusion and I don’t manipulate my photos on a computer.”

For 25 years, Peter worked throughout the US and Europe as a commercial still photographer with numerous clients and was published throughout the world. He followed with an exploration of cinematography, and became a respected director of photography. Over the past six years, Peter has returned to his roots and his love of the natural world, concentrating on fine art BW work by often trekking far or hiking to altitudes of 10,000 feet or more. He has a great love of trees that often figures prominently in his images. Some of his influences include Ansel Adams, Galen Rowell, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, and Weston.

Peter proudly calls central Vermont his home where he lives with his wife, Jacqueline, on 36 forested acres and is always accompanied by his favorite assistant, his dog Snowball. He is an avid naturalist and environmentalist, and also teaches classic photographic technique on a selective basis.

Predominately working in medium format film, his large format prints are custom archival prints signed and numbered in limited edition runs. Black and white prints are silver printed directly in the darkroom and occasionally printed digitally in archival methods. All prints are signed and numbered.
“Peter’s work has a wonderful way of reminding people who have the pleasure of repeated exposure to it that there is a huge, varied, complex world beyond the four walls of our daily existence. I loved coming to work every day and imagining what exactly was happening at that very moment at those places where he took those photos. We get so accustomed to our softer, more mature Vermont landscape. Peter’s stark, sere images, whether of the high desert, the high Sierra, or of a thousand-year-old lodge pine (or was it a Joshua Tree?), effortlessly take one on a journey through space and time. It’s not just the subject matter that calls to mind Ansel Adams’s work. It’s the timeless, limitless clarity of the images themselves that create that sense of awe and humility about the planet we live on. I’m not a reviewer, but it’s what I feel… “
Alexander L. Aldrich, Executive Director, Vermont Arts Council

BOB ELDRIDGE

HEIDI LAGUE

Heidi Lague is an Elementary school art teacher and resides in Montgomery, VT. Her work includes collages, painting (acrylic and oil), and fiber arts. Her content varies between natural representations and abstract playful cacophony. Her hats are knitted of original design and excellent head-warmers for a cold Vermont afternoon. “I am not unlike myself. I am an enigma to those around me. I am a journey of personal grace. My artwork is sentient. It is a reflection of the time that passes through me, in me, and with me. My paintings revolve around the pieces of my being that aspires to be. Just to be…”