FEATURED ARTISTS
EILEEN FRAILEY EDER
Eileen Eder has been an avid painter for over 25 years. Her style is contemporary realist and is she known for her oil paintings of still life and landscapes. Eileen has an MFA from New York Academy of Art and has studied at the NY Studio School, Rhode Island School of Design and JSS in Civita, Italy. Eileen is a member of Salmagundi Club, Oil Painters of America, American Impressionist Society, Signature member of Hudson Valley Art Association, Signature member of CT Academy of Fine Arts, and an Elected Artist of Lyme Art Association. Her paintings are in collections all over the US. Eileen shares her knowledge through teaching and has a large following of students. She is currently teaching at the Lyme Art Association in Old Lyme, CT. A frequent award winner, Eileen exhibits in juried shows locally and nationally. Eileen has been featured in multiple publications including Fine Art Connoisseur, The Artists Magazine and Plein Air Magazine.
MIA ERIKSSON
Mia Eriksson, a self-taught abstract artist from Steneby, Sweden, has seamlessly woven the thread of art throughout her life. Mia began her journey studying drama at Calle Flygare Teaterskola in Stockholm and continued with a noteworthy 12-year career as a Ford fashion model.
Moving from the runway to the canvas, Mia’s passion for abstract art was ignited exploring the Paris art scene, as she immersed herself in the world of influential artists, Mia’s artistic perspective is heavily influenced by her Swedish upbringing and her connection to the ocean. Growing up surrounded by woods and water, her work explores the themes of nature at a microscopic level. Much like the Earth, Mia plays with various textures and mixed media in both her large-scale canvas paintings and her press paper collage pieces, such as acrylic and oil paints, charcoal, wood stains, beach sand, and coffee grounds.
CARLA GOLDBERG
Carla, a distinguished art graduate from the University of Redlands and MICA, moved to New York post her education to focus on an art career involving curation, direction, and creation. Her notable exhibitions span across the United States and globally, with showcases in prestigious locations like the American Embassy in Turkey, The Dorsky Museum SUNY, Cope NYC United Nations Exhibition Program, and various galleries in Taipei, Berlin, and New York. Renowned for her innovative approach, Carla's art centers around non-traditional materials such as resins, enamels, and oil inks on plexiglass to depict a modern take on water themes through drawing, painting, and sculpture, emphasizing the interplay of light and shadow for a captivating 3-dimensional effect. Her intricate process results in art that delicately balances tranquility, boldness, and ethereal qualities. Notably, Carla Goldberg was honored in 2014 as the recipient of the Connecticut Sea Grant for her exceptional Sea Foam Sculptural Drawings.
HELEN GRIMM
Helen Grimm is a painter based in Truro, on outer Cape Cod. Through a visual language evolved from shells, stones, seaweed, bones, moths, lichen, scrubby pines and water she explores the spiral of time, space, who we are in the universe and our connection to place. She investigates cycles of attachment and detachment as she moves paint around the canvas building up color and texture and cutting away form. She is a graduate of Cornell University where she studied painting and art history. Helen is also an herbalist and a nurse. She is currently represented by galleries in Provincetown and on Long Island, and her work is in private collections around the world.
PETE HOCKING
“I’m a visual artist, writer, activist, and educator working in Provincetown, MA. I suspect that the meaning of life is connected with the ways in which we learn and convey knowledge. This journal is preoccupied with that suspicion.
Since 1996 I’ve been a lecturer at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), teaching courses on leadership, art theory, and how contemporary issues can fuel art making. I teach in the Ed.D program at Gratz College, with courses focused on community relations and multicultural leadership. From 2003-2021 I was a faculty member in Goddard College’s MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program. I was director of RISD’s Office of Public Engagement (2007-11), and Associate Dean of the College & Director of the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University (1988-2005). I’m a founding board member of Provincetown Commons, an economic development center for the creative economy. I’m also the author of Fieldguide Provincetown.”
KAREN LESAGE
KAREN LESAGE is an artist based in Salisbury, CT. Originally from eastern CT, she studied at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, lived in New York City for a decade, eventually returning to CT to raise her son there. The expansive environment of the Litchfield Hills inspired the atmospheric, canvases for which she is now known. Her works have been featured in national publications and are collected worldwide. She describes her creative process as “a dance between the seen and unseen.”