David Jacobson makes hand-blown and kiln-formed glass utilizing contemporary designs based on the Venetian tradition. Jacobson makes brightly colored functional objects, such as bowls, glasses, vases and platters, and sculptural forms.

“I employ contemporary colors with classical forms to create a unique expression in each piece. Texture and vibrant color combinations are vital; my pieces are meant to be touched, explored, and viewed. For me, making glass is an honor.”

Trip was drawn to advertising long before he illustrated and eventually painted. After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he worked as an Art Director with ad agencies Leo Burnett, Chicago, and Saatchi & Saatchi, New York. Working with and hiring his favorite illustrators through the help of being an Art Director gave him an intoxicating look into their side of the creative world. He has illustrated many children’s books and helped develop characters for animated features and commercials.

I am a traditional painter rooted in the aesthetic values of the Ashcan school and the French Impressionists. Inspired by light quality, color harmony, and abstract shapes, my paintings are created from direct observation and memory. I enjoy the challenge of painting nontraditional views and subjects and the opinions that make Maine, Maine.

Craig Mooney’s expansive and expressive paintings of dramatic moments and heightened emotionality are known for their dramatic and heightened emotionality. Though a representational painter, the artist incorporates many abstract qualities throughout his paintings. In his figurative work, Mooney romanticizes his subjects and presents them in an atmospheric lens best described as dreamlike. His paintings appear to capture a moment suspended in time. While his work feels familiar, it could be more specific. All paintings are the product of his imagination.

Karen McManus is a watercolor artist who tries to capture the essence of the world around her in ordinary subjects like a simple garden blossom or the exceptional light of a sunset’s afterglow. On occasion, oils are the medium of choice, but each day brings a new sky, vista, or cloud to challenge the artist. Her desire to paint and draw goes back to her earliest memories. Artistic expression has always been there and is a defining part of her inner spirit. Karen participated in art throughout childhood and briefly studied at The Art Student’s League in New York City and Maryland Institute College of Art. The juxtaposition of light inspires Karen’s realistic works. Each painting is an individual mental puzzle to be worked through. Combining realistic detail with the imagery created by color and light gives each painting a life of its own. Her miniatures offer a microscopic view of the broader vision surrounding us.