Your Local Art Gallery

& Third Space

All artists live within an hour of the Gallery, representing a swath of mediums, styles, and influences.

A ten-foot gathering table makes space for classes and intimate conversation. Or easy sharing of art supplies while crafting and creating together.

All the work in the Gallery is 100% local, meaning your money goes right to artists creating in and across the Valley!

CURRENT ARTISTS

Susan Roylance

Athol / Wendell, MA

Inspired by her love of fantasy, Susan’s art combines woodwork with her love of wool. Through the wet felting process, Susan creates fabric from fiber and creates life from the fabrics. These creations are sometimes busy, bright and complicated; sometimes dark, rich, and subdued. Often these whimsical subjects convey both positive and negative feelings and memories.

Melinda Nutter & Jonathan Pierce

Wendell, MA

Melinda and Jonathan enjoy collecting mineral specimens everywhere they travel which are then incorporated into pendants, earrings, rings and sun catchers. All of their pendants are created by hand wrapping sterling silver wire around beautifully shaped natural gemstones, faceted gemstones, cabochons, crystals, minerals, and fossils. With a focus on natural gemstones and one-of-a-kind designs, their jewelry creations will catch your eye at first glance.

Kathleen Anderson

Florence, MA

An award-winning artist, whose work has exhibited on the national scene, Kathleen handcrafts limited edition and one-of-a-kind adornment pieces for women and men, eyeglass boxes, key fobs, kaleidoscopes, and her original HeartBox™ collection. Influenced by Pueblo, Navajo, Chinese, Japanese, and West African art traditions, the process Kathleen uses to create patterns in clay is originally borrowed from the Italian glassmaking traditions of millefiori and murrini cane work, incorporating combinations of only the strongest, most durable translucent and opaque clay.

Jackie Gallo

South Hadley, MA

Jackie’s artwork explores the interconnectivity of the natural world, the spiritual world, and the human world, by combining traditional and modern techniques of image-making. Inspired by ancient folklore, New England heritage, and the branching, growing, layered gifts of the Earth, she strives to stimulate curiosity and inspire a deeper connection to the natural beauty and wonder around us.

Helen M Thelen

Northampton, MA

Always fondly remembering her pottery classes with Ms. Melonis when she was a young child, Helen returned to clay and the joy of working on a wheel six years ago. White clay is her typical medium, though she does enjoy experimenting with other types of clay, such as black porcelain. Helen enjoys learning more each day through her apprenticeship with Joy Friedman.

Brian G. Beaudoin

Westminster, MA

Brian has taught in the Ashburnham/Westminster School District for 33 years. He has centered his educational approach around one of his favorite quotes. “Everyone can be taught how to draw,” he said. “First you need to be able to teach somebody how to see.” With a lifelong passion for art and teaching, he also offers classes at his home studio working with people of all ages from 17-77. Along with teaching Brian has done numerous pieces for private and commercial commissions.
Brian credits his support from his wife, parents, and three children for his ability to successfully pursue his artistic endeavors.

Catherine Lee

Shutesbury, MA

Catherine specializes in shooting farms, barns, and landscape. She exhibits her work in local libraries, galleries, and community centers to inspire visitors to find a greater respect for the influence of our slowly disappearing farms.

Jennifer Ablard

Northampton, MA

Jennifer has been seeing the world through a camera her entire adult life. While she has focused on different subjects at different phases of life, Jennifer’s work always reflects her love of the outdoors, nature, and the abstract found in everyday life. Lately she’s been creating cyanotypes; an alternative photographic process. The source photographs are drawn from Jennifer’s significant body of work, and she enjoys seeing old work in a new light.

Stephen M. Kotfila

Hadley, MA

Stephen specializes in landscape paintings, though he occasionally does portraits. He has recently begun to experiment with other mediums, such as charcoal and pencil, though most of his works are oil paintings that he creates at home while on break from college. Many different things inspire Stephen, but he prefers painting scenes with bright, warm sunsets; he is heavily inspired by contemporary artists such as Layne Johnson and Mark Maggiori.

Stephen is currently studying microbiology at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut.

Macaylla Silver

Leverett, MA

Macaylla Silver has a great love for Nature, Wine, Art and Women. For Silver, life has presented many opportunities to work with people far more talented and intelligent and by osmosis and observation, has achieved a small measure of talent. Whether derived by time spent selling free-range chicken eggs or high-powered camera equipment observing birds, all things have affected the style and substance of the work.

Jen Healy

Sout Deerfield, MA

A lifelong nature-lover, Jen considers photography an exercise in paying attention to the world around her. She first picked up a camera while living in Indiana, looking for a way to capture the rural landscape that was so different from where she grew up in Massachusetts. Whether a sweeping landscape or a tiny bird pecking at the back window, she hopes that her photos bring a little bit of astonishment and appreciation for the critters all around us and the planet that we share.

Josh Berins

Amherst, MA

Although he has been creating jewelry since 1976, Josh has most recently been enamored with making jewelry using Precious Metal Clay®. PMC® is able to be sculpted like clay, yet when fired, the binder burns off and what is left is a beautiful, original silver piece. Josh makes his own fused dichroic glass, which he integrates into his silver jewelry. Nature is his greatest inspiration, which is reflected in his use of leaves, shells, and twigs, as molds for his one-of-a-kind pieces of jewelry.

Susan Panlilio

Shutesbury, MA

I was born and raised in Springfield, Ma and spent my summers at our family cabin in Shutesbury, MA. I recently rebuilt the cabin and moved up there permanently. From a young age I have always loved the art of photography in nature, and being able to share this passion means a great deal to me.

Gretchen Holesovsky

Belchertown, MA

Gretchen Holesovsky is a self-taught artist who has been painting and drawing since childhood. Gretchen was introduced to watercolor in her twenties and fell in love with the medium. Over the years Gretchen has earned memberships into many elite watercolor societies and has earned many awards, and has been published in Splash 10. Now retired, Gretchen pursues new endeavors in multimedia, acrylic, rock painting and many other creative muses.

Mary Walsh Martel

Conway, MA

Inspired by the drama of light and dark, Mary has been on a watercolor journey to convey her fascination with nature, its permanence and decay, through the beautiful transparency of the paint. She believes her job as an artist is to harness the way in which watercolor behaves as it meets the paper, and to further allow the colors to mix and blend as they choose.

Anna Jacke

Belchertown, MA

Anna is a life-long mixed media artist. She is a juried member of the Oil Painters of America and several professional watercolor societies. Her work has been featured in Southwest Art and The Artistic Touch 6.

Diane Nevinsmith

Hadley, MA

Diane Nevinsmith is a New England native currently residing in Hadley, Massachusetts. She received a BFA in painting and printmaking from Syracuse University in 1978. Her artistic career has spanned studies and works in oils, stained glass, paper making and marbling, and more recently, watercolors.

Sarah Adams

Springfield, MA

A Western Massachusetts native, Sarah’s journey to launching her own arts business started in 2020, when she enrolled in the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) for her Master of Professional Studies in the Business of Art & Design. Using her skills in communications, implementation & optimization, and project leadership, she intends to help other creatives in the Pioneer Valley launch the business of their dreams. Primarily an acrylic and oil painter, Sarah also dabbles in linocut printmaking and digital photography.

Anthony Novak

Petersham, MA

Anthony Novak brings his skills on the laser cutter, 3-D printer, and CNC machine to bear in his work - creating everything from wooden display fixtures to beautiful heart dishes. He even captures cultural moments in his work, featuring subjects like Bernie Sanders’ mitten moment at Biden’s inauguration in earrings, magnets, and more. His original designs are fed through these technological machines to create wall hangings, decorative dishes, and so much more. You can find him most days at Launchspace in Orange, MA, where he is happy to show you how to use these advanced machines in your work.

Rosanne Helden

Amherst, MA

Rosanne is a New England-based oil painter who finds inspiration in nature. The sea, mountains, farms, and rivers are her muse. Rosanne’s seascapes were created using oil paint and cold wax – a buttery, thick paste made with beeswax that, when blended with oil, allows the artist to add texture and layers to the composition. While most often used in abstract work, Rosanne brings this process to her land- and seascapes to add movement to the scene. After many, many layers of paint and wax, often as many as ten layers, the image emerges.

Maya Norman

Amherst, MA

Intentionally avoiding trends, Maya offers customers pieces they won't be able to find anywhere else. She holds herself to a high standard of quality, and her prices reflect both her time and effort. Since March 2020, Maya has spent countless days and nights learning how to perfect this craft and strives for her jewelry to be accessible to all. Canopy & Cove donates 10% of monthly proceeds to various social justice and animal rights organizations - check out her website for the monthly recipient.

Thierry Borcy

Gardner, MA

Raised on a farm in the north of France, Thierry would roam around in the woods, fields, and by the rivers, often missing the dinner bell. To this day the streams, the tall trees, the fox den, and the smell of hay capture his whole being. He finds them as essential to his well-being as air is to life. Thierry has found a new home in New England, and hiking Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire has become his most favorite spot.

Lois Barber

Amherst, MA

In 2013, an incidental moment of inspiration led Lois to create a series of joyful and whimsical paintings, called “Birdz of a Feather.” Lois applies the colors first, lets the paint dry, then “finds” and defines each bird with pen and ink. Lois was born and raised in Irvington, New Jersey, received a BA degree in Fine Arts from Indiana University and a MA degree from the University of British Columbia. She divides her time between Amherst, MA and Henderson, CO.

Kaitlin Scutari

Orange, MA

Kaitlin Scutari is a potter living in Orange, MA. She managed the Pinch Gallery in Northampton for many years, where she also sold her popular ceramics, such as her elephant-handle mugs, hanging air plant holders, and more. Her work is in a constant state of evolution, bringing her personal journey into the making. You can find her work online, under the name ‘Wicked Thrown Pottery’ and in galleries around the area.

Zahava Friedman

Pelham, MA

Zahava took her first pottery class at RISD as a kid, studied ceramics at Guilford College, and has been part of clay communities on the East and West Coast. She makes pottery simply because she loves to. Form was her original focus, but then she stumbled onto sgraffito – the process of carving through an outer layer of color to reveal a layer of a different color underneath. She currently lives in Western Massachusetts.

HOW IT WORKS...

1. Rent space monthly per linear foot (side to side)

2. Sell your work!

3. A percentage of your sales goes back into the gallery for events, marketing and other artist-forward opportunities

Your success is our success!

We welcome painting/drawing, digital, ceramics, mixed media, fiber/leather, photography, jewelry, sculpture, metal/wood, more!

Gallery Artist Application

the Front Window Gallery

The front window is a gallery within a gallery. Featuring installations curated by the Gallery team, guest curators, neighbors, local business owners, and other unlikely curators. Stop by every few months to check out the new show in the Front Window Gallery as well as new local artists in the main gallery.

Currently Featuring

Macaylla Silver - Leverett, MA

Since 2015, Silver has watched, photographed and painted various breeds of birds, with each painting standing at 4 feet tall. Silver has always loved to make art, though it hasn’t always been in the traditional sense of the word. With a background in illustration and other arts, Silver's bird paintings came from a moment when he became “thunderstruck” looking through a pair of binoculars.

Each painting features one bird, most of which are birds of prey, photographed by Silver. He also uses paint to mimic photographic elements like bokeh, the out-of-focus background effect created by a camera with a wide aperture. Each painting is on a panel, rather than canvas, and includes combinations of oil and acrylic paint.