K A T I E  R é  S C H E I D T is a contemporary artist whose genres span abstract and nudes to portrait work and landscapes. Scheidt primarily works in acrylics, gouaches, oils and charcoal. A sumptuous palette and an intense approach to painting contribute to the artist’s style. Uplifting and lyrical, her work is often left in a state of dynamic incompletion, allowing room for the viewer to project his/her/their experience onto the canvas with personal connection. 

As witnessed in Springtime, the bucolic setting where she lives in Litchfield County, Connecticut with her husband and two children, serves as a source of constant inspiration. Her work can be found in private collections worldwide and currently hangs at Auberge Resorts and Relais & Chateaux hotels in New England, including The Mayflower Grace Hotel & Spa in Washington, CT and Winvian Farms in Warren, CT.

"Much like improv, my canvases are unscripted and often left in a state of dynamic incompletion. Trusting my inner voice, and putting my ego away, I can flood color, make marks, react honestly and support choices…having no specified goal. It’s about letting ideas flow with the suspension of judgement.”

S U S A N  S T I L L M A N is an American painter who lives and works in White Plains, New York. As seen in Scott’s House, the artist often portrays her neighborhood, inspired by the shapes, colors and angles of houses bathed in crepuscular light and shadows. Stillman holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Brooklyn College, spent a year in Rome studying painting in RISD’s European Honors Program. She has been a faculty member at Parsons School of Design since 1983.

Widely shown in galleries throughout Westchester County, in Connecticut and New York City, Stillman’s work has also been featured in numerous publications, including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. In her early years as an illustrator, her clients included The New York Times, New York Magazine, Scholastic, and others. Stillman was chosen to illustrate a special centennial edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses for The Book of the Month Club, and she worked with writer Pete Hamill to illustrate his book, The Invisible City, a New York Sketchbook.

“…The views from my windows high on the hill, and my daily walks in all seasons feed my preoccupation with light and the way it effects change in color and tonalities…An absence of the figure is deliberate, disallowing any imposition of ‘story’ and leaving the focus entirely on the moment captured and its specific qualities of light, color and tonal saturation. Intensity in the chromatic range brings to mind the hours when the sun is lowest in the sky. The simplicity of the subject is transformed by the moment of illumination and by our unexpected attention.”