" I sell my work under the business name of Blue Moon Designs and joined AIR as a charter member four years ago. Lately, I have been working with more abstract versions of my clothing with random tying and dyeing methods as well as trying to nail down the method for creating more intricate mandala-style clothing and wall hangings. "
" 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 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. I strive to make my prints come alive as much as possible without manipulating them on a computer, though I certainly appreciate those who do it well. I create art inside the camera on one frame. What you see is what I saw, not an illusion. "
Pat Murphy is an artist who has been involved with the AIR gallery since its beginning. Pat studied both in America and England, and works in primarily oils. The new works use ideas, songs, stories, and memories of people and places to create paintings that we might feel but not necessarily see. "It's a new approach for me. One that I've been trying to get at for years. I want to use personal and collective memories of small town America as a springboard for talking about our lives." 
Tess Beemer's paintings feature local Vermont architecture, as well as native plant life and trees. "I have lived in the Montgomery area since the 60's and traveled to many other places. This last spring, I was thinking about putting in the garden --and am still thinking about it. I have done many landscapes of the mountain area and local scenes. Recently, it's more of an abstracted sketch. "
