Meet regional artists and view their work here.
Please return frequently to see the many additions to the gallery as it grows.

If you are signed on as an Artist in the Sakonnet Arts Network, this is the place for you to exhibit your work! Your donation allows you to submit up to 3 images, along with a brief artist's statement/bio to be displayed on a "wall" in our gallery, at no additional charge.

Click here to read our submission guidelines.

For an added fee, Artists in the Sakonnet Arts Network may display more work in a gallery "room." Please contact info@SakonnetArts.org for more information.

All images are copyright of the artist and may not be used without their permission. A SAN watermark will appear on images at the request of the artist.

Helen Sturges Nadler is the first Artist exhibiting her paintings in our Artists' Gallery. Please continue reading to learn about Helen and to view her luminous watercolors.

Helen Sturges Nadler states that watercolor "allows me to paint the light behind and through everything, to express the fluidity of experience and the sensuousness of the material world." Her work reflects a love for the great spaces of the ocean and the landscape of New Mexico. She resides in Tiverton, RI and Taos, NM. Helen has taught painting for many years including classes at the University of New Mexico and the RISD Continuing Education program.

Leslie Lindeman states: I have been taking photographs since I was very young – sometimes for income, always for pleasure. I prefer to shoot the paintings Mother Nature creates – the antics of creatures, the beauty of flora and fauna, and the ever-changing splendor of the seasons. I also put my photographic skills to work for my business, Effective Marketing Strategies, where I plan, direct, write, and edit for public relations campaigns, direct mail programs, newsletters, brochures, web sites, videos and other promotional materials. For more information, please e-mail Leslie at GoodPR@cox.net.

Judy Erickson studied classical drawing and Russian impressionist oil painting for eight years with Patricia Raab, a Seattle artist and teacher who studied with Ron Lucas, who apprenticed with Nicolai Fechin for many years. She participated in group art shows at the Arts Umbrella, Bothell, Washington and exhibited her paintings at Framewright Gallery (formerly Kaewyn Gallery) in Bothell.  She is a member of EAFA (Eastside Association of Fine Arts, Bellevue, Washington) and the Westport Art Group.

“Many things inspire me to paint. Travel, the surroundings of the place I live, a passion for food, and the simple humor found in people and animals, spark my creative vision. The light, texture and repetition of patterns in the land, and city streets, the taste and the smell of local markets, they are the core of my art. My goal is to infuse my personal experience on paper, to interpret the memory and create a visual space for it to exist in. "

Milukas is a fine artist working in both pastels and watercolors. She studied at the University of Southern Maine and earned a BA in Arts with a concentration in sculpture. While primarily a studio painter she also works "Plein Air". Her extensive travel experiences throughout the United States, Europe, Morocco, the South Pacific, Iceland, Asia and the Caribbean, provide her with much of her creative inspiration. Her artistic vision is expressed in her vibrant seascapes and landscapes, rural town scenes, and studies of markets filled with indigenous foods and local color.
Email: kellymilukas@cox.net


Heather Frymark

Freelance photographer and graphic designer, that attended RISD for graphic design. I enjoy using Adobe Photoshop, Daz Studio, Zbrush, Vue and Corel Painter X to create my art pieces. I currently reside in Tiverton.
E-mail: frymarkdesign@cox.net

Caryl Sickul

Caryl Sickul, MA, DMT, Dance Movement Specialist, Wellness Consultant,
Yoga Instructor, Dance Soloist/Choreographer/Professor

Yoga, creative movement and meditation, nurture enlightenment, compassion and joy through unity of body~mind~spirit. Small classes in Gentle Restorative Yoga, Mellow Introductory, and Vinyasa Yoga are offered. Private personalized sessions can be designed for all ages and abilities for physical training, creative expression, or recovery from injuries or health issues, with an experienced artistic wellness professional. Classes and private sessions located in the serene Rivers of Light studio in Tiverton Four Corner's area, your home, or location.

Gift Certificates designed for you, family, and friends.

Start where you are. Let go, the ocean wave of breath will carry you to
unknown shores.
E-mail: csickul@cox.net
(Photo Credit: Alexandria Mauck)


Heide Hallemeier

Heide Hallemeier is passionate about the medium of watercolor, she loves it’s fluidity and spontaneity. She savors the joy of painting outdoors with it’s unexpected discoveries, especially in the New England Coastal landscape and boating scene.

Having received her art education in Austria and Germany, she is now a signature member of the Rhode Island Watercolor Society and active in the Westport Art Group and the Marion Art Center. Her paintings have won numerous awards and were accepted in many national competitions.
She teaches drawing and watercolor painting and juries competitions.
E-mail: hhallemeier@comcast.net


Nancy Shand

"My particular interest in making paintings and drawings is to invite the viewer into an emotional or spiritual relationship with the landscape. I draw the viewer into the scene to be surrounded by it and then lost in it.

I’m also attracted to a view that is filled with sharp contrasts of lights and darks. The surface interplay of patterns and the calligraphic sense of line in the landscape are also extremely important to me.

I like to play with the dichotomy of the landscape as realistic and abstract at the same time.


Susan Mocarski

Susan started as a graphic designer for a couple of magazines in
NYC and worked as a decorative painter and then art teacher.



Kris Donovan

Kris Donovan of Little Compton, RI, popular painter and teacher, majored in Art Education at Roger Williams University and has studied with many of America’s finest teachers in oil, watercolor, and pastel. Now retired from the gallery business after 26 years, Kris is working and teaching in her waterfront studio in Little Compton. She continues to explore new and exciting ways to translate the delightful world around her through her paintings.

Kris is an Artist Member of the Rhode Island Water Color Society and the Westport (MA) Art Group. Her work is in numerous collections throughout the US and abroad. Recent work can be found at the Donovan Gallery in Tiverton, Sticks, Stones, & Stars in Westport, MA or at Donovan Studio.
Email: krisdonovan (at) cox.net



Lisa Granata

“The purpose of my paintings is to communicate to the viewer and have them participate by personally interpreting the artwork with an emotional, spiritual or intellectual response. One of the themes in my work is nature specifically: climate change, loss of habitat, deforestation, the loss of species and vilifying types of animal classes…”

Lisa Granata holds BFA in General Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art and MFA degree in Painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a year’s study in Florence Italy at Studio Arts Center International. She instructs classes in Introduction to Visual Arts and Introduction to Drawing in the Art Department at Dean College. Lisa has been teaching a variety of Studio Art classes at the Attleboro Arts Museum School and teaches studio art classes through Four Corners Art Center in Tiverton Rhode Island. She enjoys presenting lectures, demonstrations and workshops throughout southern New England. Her art exhibitions include galleries and museums on the east coast in the mid west and in Italy.
Email: lisawithag (at) cox.net


Bryson Dean

BA, Kenyon College, 1975; MFA in Visual Arts, The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, 2007.

I have been an artist since childhood and have worked in the graphic design field since 1985. I've taught graphic design courses for over ten years and am currently with RISD’s Continuing Ed. Division, New England Institute of Technology, and The Art Institute of Pittsburgh’s Online Division.

My current creative work explores photography, digital manipulation, artist’s books and box constructions that spring from the intersections of fine art, design and technology. I may be reached at brysondean@comcast.net.


Wilbert "Bill" Brisk

I live in Fall River, MA. If anyone would like info on how my work is accomplished please contact me at bbrisk@juno.com.

About my work. The pictures are all photographs taken by myself and digitally enhanced with Photoshop, Corel Painter, enormous amounts of plug ins, actions and patience.

If you have any questions on how this is done or would like lessons please contact me at bbrisk@juno.com. Please use subject matter as Artist question! Thank You and I hope all of you enjoy my work. Anything pleasing to the eyes is pleasing to the soul and mind!



Jennifer Jones Rashleigh

Wildlife inspires me: the curve in a feather, the veins of a leaf, the iridescent colors in a fish. My latest work focuses on local flora and fauna: striper, blue, lobster, crab, lily, hydrangea, heron, chickadee… Using fabric paints I apply multiple layers of paint to raw, washed and ironed canvas. Then, I turn the painting into a pillow, tapestry, carpet or the like; infusing practical things with unexpected splendor.

My artistic development in the studio is informed by my training as an art historian. I hold a BA and MA in Art History from the University of Colorado. There I studied Italian Renaissance art theory and the science of Leonardo’s art. I pursued my doctoral studies at Brown University. Awarded a US Fulbright Scholarship in 1995-96, I examined Spanish Golden Age Painting in Madrid and Seville. While always intrigued by researching, writing and teaching I love to paint.

I can be contacted at:
(508) 951-0696
www.cedianpainting.com
jenniferrashleigh@msn.com

Denise Zompa has been painting for more than 25 years and in the last 10 years has focused on plein air oil painting. Her paintings of marshes, fields, and harbors are serene uninhabited landscapes that invite the viewer to enjoy their tranquility.