CLAUDIA CAMERON’s exuberant work is back at the Lodge at Woodloch Gallery for the third time. The artist, who lives in Maryland, received masters’ degrees in Art Therapy and Clinical Social Work and has practiced clinical social work and art therapy with children, families, and adults for fifty years. Claudia’s lifelong passion for art shifted in the past twenty years from photography to painting. She has studied with various nationally known painters including Tamara Sigler and Ruth Pettus. Her work has been exhibited in juried and non-juried shows, including Sotheby’s of Ruxton, Broadmeade of Lutherville, NIH, The Myerberg Center, The Waldorf School, The Hoffberger Gallery, The Gordon Center, The Towson Arts Collective, The Women’s Artists’ Forum, the Unicorn, the Charles Theater, and at the Lodge at Woodloch Gallery. Claudia’s paintings are in private collections throughout the United States. Acrylics are her primary media on canvas and paper. For her mixed media work, she uses Japanese paper with acrylic paint. Her work is done in nature, where landscape never fails to inspire and open the door to her spirit.

The artist’s powerful work portrays an expressive freedom, an interplay of decisive, colorful forms in both abstract and figurative imagery. The artist says: "My paintings are about inner spirit and how it is reflected through color, shape, light, and nature. I am exploring how the playfulness of my inner soul can be expressed as I am inspired by the outside world, nature and abstract shapes.”

NANCY CAMPBELL  

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Nancy grew up in Saugerties, where she still lives with her husband Michael. They have three grown sons and a granddaughter. Recently Nancy exhibited at the Arts Society in Kingston, NY, with her son Jon, an artist and musician who lives in Berlin, Germany. While painting, Jon is a consistent voice in Nancy’s head, always reminding her to "stop!" The elusive key to good painting is to know when a work is finished. In this Lodge at Woodloch winter ’22 exhibit we are excited to show Nancy Campbell for the third time and to include one of Jon’s large winter paintings here.

During the early 1980s Nancy studied watercolor with Staats Fasoldt. “It was during that time that the long process/challenge of learning to simplify painting began. In the early 90s, while living in Europe with my family, I discovered the "Nabis"...Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis… and have never turned back.” Nancy, who works in watercolor, oils and monotype printing, considers herself primarily a landscape painter influenced by her daily surroundings — Overlook Mountain, and the village streets of Saugerties

Currently vice president of the Board of Directors at the Woodstock School of Art, the artist has also served at WSA on other board positions, as instructor and as their Executive Director. A former proprietor of the Half Moon Studio Art Gallery in Saugerties, Since 2012 Nancy has organized art workshops in Italy, primarily in Lazio. Aside from many exhibits in New York and Italy, Nancy has been featured in juried art exhibits from Cape Cod to Georgia to Arkansas. She has earned various awards, such as the Mary Wilson Award for Excellence in Landscape Painting from the Woodstock Art Association, First place in the National All Media show at the Chico Art Center in California and the Hannah Lee Stokes Memorial Prize from the Cooperstown Art Association. She has been awarded residencies from the Cill Rialiaig Arts Center in Ballinskelligs, Ireland.