Karen Jenkins - After earning a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Jenkins studied at the New York Studio School. Her work has been on exhibit numerous times with Susan Eley Fine Art and other galleries in New York City and the Hudson Valley.   Jenkins says:  “My work combines architectural elements with contrasting interiors. The paintings explore color, texture, and light, and the interplay between inside and outside.  The architectural structure has a “conversation” with the more free-flowing, organic or ephemeral elements – the shifting patterns of light inside, or snippets of landscape glimpsed through a window or door.  In addition to the formal concerns in my work, there is a psychological goal. I intend the contrasts between inside and outside; light and dark to function as metaphors for our human experience – the inner and outer self.  Windows and doors can open on new and hopeful horizons or to the murkier unknown; panes of glass can reveal, obscure, alter or restrict vision.”

Kay King - As an artist, King tries to live the quote by the Persian poet Rumi: “Let the beauty you love be what you do...” Experiencing visual stimulation as a visceral entity, the artist translates this experience into work that dances with lush brushstrokes, color and light. The result is that we are transported by this journey of evanescent lightness and depth. After earning a degree in art education from Kutztown State College, King continued her graduate studies at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, Trenton State College in New Jersey, Maryland Institute, the Institute at San Miguel de Allende in Mexico and Florence Academy of Art in Florence Italy. She has participated in juried exhibitions in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and had several solo and group exhibitions throughout those states and in Maine.