ANNE CROWLEY was born in Dublin, Ireland. In 1981, she received a Bachelor of Fine Art's degree from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. After receiving her degree she moved to New York City and pursued a career as a painter. In 2001 the artist moved from Manhattan to rural upstate New York. The cottage had an old shed with a wood-burning stove making it an ideal studio space. Surrounded by woodland and nature Crowley soon began a series of paintings on the subject of the natural world, as she saw it. There was a pivotal moment that had a direct impact on her imagination. Listening to the radio a piece of music by Debussy, "Prelude to a Fawn", came on and just by coincidence, a deer happened to be grazing in the woods outside her window. This moment served as a catalyst for the deer painting series. To quote the Irish poet, Patrick Kavanagh,"... some strange thing had happened". The door was open to explore the rest of her backyard: birds, flowers, and insects. The artist's work attempts to articulate the energy and motion of these animals and plants, to give them traction in two-dimensional terms.

DAWN WATSON resides in Hastings, NY and is a longtime resident of the Hudson Valley. Nature serves as her muse, her subject of concern, a source of solace and healing. After a career as a professional dancer/choreographer based in New York City, Watson shifted her artistic practice to photography. Years of moving intuitively through space as a dancer developed a heightened sense of physicality which informs her process of manipulation and intervention with the photographic print. Exploring themes of perception, adaptation, and transformation her work inverts form and content as a response to our changing environment in this era of the Anthropocene.

Watson’s solo exhibitions include the Griffin Museum of Photography, The Los Angeles Center for Photography and Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts. Her photos have been seen in juried exhibitions in the United States and Europe at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum, Center for Fine Art Photography, Davis-Orton Gallery, Foto Forum, Ph21 Gallery, Photographic Center NW, Tilt Gallery, SXSE Gallery and Tang Teaching Museum. Features online and in print include all About Photo, Diffusion X Magazine, Elizabeth Avedon Journal, Griffin Museum of Photography blog, Lenscratch, Shots Magazine, SXSE Magazine, The Hand and What Will You Remember. September 2022 Watson participated in an exhibit in Paris, France, at the Salon des Beaux Arts Fine Arts Show. The artist’s work, held in private collections, also graces the walls in the Lodge’s permanent collection, enhancing the guest experience. Discover the treasure of her ethereal photography in Tree Restaurant, in the spa’s lounges, and in its hallways.