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JUNE 8th, 2024
11am - 4pm
A Walkable Gallery of Art on the
Porches of Historic Ocean Grove
Exhibiting 80 Local Artists
Rain Date June 9th
2024 Logo Art by Kelly Duane
Our Mission
Art On The Porch is a free, town-wide, walkable gallery of visual art by local artists, utilizing Ocean Grove’s charmed front porches as the gallery walls.
Art on the Porch is a grassroots effort by resident artists and art enthusiasts motivated to showcase and promote a community of fine artists while highlighting the beauty of Ocean Grove's historic neighborhoods.
Thank you to our generous sponsors:
Self-Guided Walkable Gallery of ART
Use this map to find Art on the Porch Exhibits throughout Ocean Grove!
Printed maps will be available at two locations on event day:
REMAX/Gateway 45 Main Ave - OG
The Great American Porch Co. 62 Main Ave - OG
Drop by and pick one up or you can print your own below:
Art on the Porch 2024 Recap Video
Produced by Paul Kaplan
Art on the Porch Artists & Their Porch Location
Evan Zodl
1
99 1/2 Stockton Avenue
Origami and Photography
Evan has been folding paper and designing his own unique models for over 15 years. In that time, he has also taught origami to millions of people around the globe through his "EZ Origami" YouTube channel. In addition to his original origami designs, Evan will be exhibiting his Surf Photography prints which are available in a variety of sizes on paper, glass, and metals.
Jackie Massa & Christopher English
2
95 Stockton Avenue
Fiber: Wearable Art
Starting in Turkey, Jackie and Christopher have explored the fascinating, strange, and frustrating world of felt and silk. From raw materials they dye, paint and Eco print, to make hats, dresses, coats, shawls and wraps to size that explore Boho, geometrics, and sacred images.
Tom Parr
3
67 Stockton Avenue
Porch Host: Cynthia Solar
Painting: Oil, Mixed Media
Tom likes Edward Hopper and has always loved and taken inspiration from Maxfield Parrish’s skies. There is something to the juxtaposition between the detailed skies and the simple man-made forms in the lower thirds of many of the works that he really loves. Tom paints in oils and as often as possible. During the pandemic Tom spent much of that time at Gateway National Park at Sandy Hook NJ. He became fascinated with the ancient, abandoned officers’ quarters that quietly face Sandy Hook Bay; the calming and poetic nature of the stoic yellow homes lined up like sculptures against and un-interrupted foreground and background. He has also painted other monuments on the Jersey Shore.
Mary Laudise
4
55 Stockton Avenue
Photography
Mary likes to capture the essence of our local towns with her photography on metal. Having spent time in Europe nowhere near the beach, her passion for beach living grew - as did her passion for photography.
Ninetta Nappi
5
56 Franklin Avenue
Porch Host: Mary Laudise
Painting: Watercolor
Ninetta creates watercolors from subject matter painted from plein aire; whether it be Venice, Italy, large floral still life, or autumn scenes of Tom's River "at the stream", each piece is painted impressionistically transcending that one moment in time of romantic beauty.
Michelle Renee Bernard
6
66 Franklin Avenue
Painting & Illustrations: Mixed Media
Michelle's mixed media paintings bring vintage themes and iconography into a quirky modern narrative, using untamed layers and a sticky sweet color palette. Michelle's style was influenced by her career in graphic design and inspired by her childhood memories of the boardwalk, her fondness for local landmarks, old carnival rides, vintage games and toys, roadside Americana, as well as street art and tattoos.
MaryLou Shipman
7
125 1/2 Franklin Avenue
Painting: Watercolor
MaryLou is a watercolor artist. She also creates small, repurposed art pieces with clay, jars and chalk paint and refinished small pieces of furniture.
Donna Bruton
8
114 Clark Avenue
Porch Host: John Gentile
Painting: Watercolor
Fun and whimsical flora and fauna. Donna is inspired by nature and personality alike. All her work is original watercolor, framed and unframed. Notecards printed from original work are also available. After retiring from the beauty Industry, watercolor became her passion and creative outlet. Commission works available upon request.
Susan Kauffman
9
117 Clark Avenue
Porch Host: Candy & Art James
Painting: Acrylic, Watercolor, Mixed Media
Inspired by the beauty of the natural world, Susan creates art utilizing varied media including acrylics, watercolors, and handmade papers to capture the individual nature of the subject chosen. Animals, flowers, landscapes, and buildings with character are her favored subjects. Her hope is to make the viewer smile.
Melanie Rose Rothwell (Gargano)
10
110 Clark Avenue
Porch Host: Carlos Garcia & Michael Ancharski
Photography, Mixed Media
Dive into the surreal world of MDAX, where surreal dreamscapes, oceans capes, and fantastical creatures come to life in mesmerizing mixed-media creations. Melanie Rose Rothwell (Gargano), AKA MDAX, is an artist and an award-winning advertising creative director. Her unique style seamlessly blends digital painting, photography, and generative design to push the boundaries of what is possible in digital art. With recent exhibitions at prestigious events like the New York Art Expo, MDAX invites art lovers to take a unique journey into the depths of imagination with her captivating artworks.
Eileen Kornbluh & Cindy Joyce
11
83 Clark Avenue
Porch Host: Colleen & Greg Meyer
Ceramics
Together Eileen & Cindy create one of a kind, unique ceramic art pieces to add color, interest, and beauty to a garden or outdoor space. Using many colors and textures, they assemble beaded totems, mushrooms on live birch stakes, and garden gnomes. Their goal is to provide a Zen atmosphere, where you can take a moment, sit, and relax, and smile in your outdoor space.
Robbin Tick
12
83 Clark Avenue
Porch Host: Colleen & Greg Meyer
Painting: Acrylic
As an artist, you inspire change, make people feel certain ways that they have never felt before, and can also beautify our world. Robbin's artwork focuses on abstract paintings. Inspiration comes from the world around her, colorful geometric shapes of NYC, nature, and the Jersey Shore beaches. She works with acrylic paints along with alcohol ink of all colors, on canvas and boards, finished with varnish or Art Resin. She will paint with a brush but also her hands, a mop and any household items that enhance her work! She has fun with her art and loves to listen to music while working; Bon Jovi, Springsteen Taylor Swift, and music from the 80's and 90's.
Stephanie Boffice
16
67 Clark Avenue
Porch Host: Jeannine Dresch & Ellen Albrect
Painting: Watercolor, Pastel & Ink
Stephanie's work is in celebration of nature, taking its energy and interpreting and coaxing its essence onto paper. It is her play and meditation practice to place light and color onto matter.
Julia Rivera
18
107 Pilgrim Pathway
Porch Host: Rohnda Einhorn
Painting, Sculpture
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world"
Joe Borzotta
19
66 Cookman Avenue
Porch Host: Katy & Randy Roessle
Painting: Acrylic, Oil, Watercolor, Encaustic
Joe has two bodies of work; one is offbeat compositions with the figure; real, surreal, with pop elements. The other is still life; old signs, birds, iceboxes, etc.
Judy Alberta
20
69 Cookman Avenue
Painting: Acrylic, Mixed Media, Wood Sculpure
Judy is inspired by the magical glitter globe that is Ocean Grove. She personally creates each item using wood, clay and/or paint. Every item is unique! Her artwork features images of Ocean Grove Tents, Victorian architecture, beach scenes and her love for mermaids.
Vicki Gershwin
21
71 Broadway
Painting: Acrylic
Vicki is inspired by the beauty of the Natural world. The pattern of tree limbs and foliage against the changing sky; cloud formations over the ocean; colors and shapes of objects juxtaposed against each other. “Surrounded by an ever-changing landscape that is my daily inspiration if I take the time to simply look.” Vicki creates paintings from photographs she takes on her daily walks in Ocean Grove.
Ron Burman
22
52 Abbott Avenue
Painting: Acrylic, Oil, Mixed Media
Ron creates primitive Neo Expressionist, bright and bold paintings that are informed by his daily life experiences and dreams.
Tim Aanensen
23
51 Abbott Avenue
Painting: Acrylic, Oil, watercolor, Encaustic & Mixed Media
Tim loves to create joyful works, especially with birds. Color abstraction, and flowing composition are his foundations.
Theresa Troise Heidel
24
17 Abbott Avenue
Porch Host: Kurt Cavano
Painting: Watercolor
The inspiration for Theresa's art comes mainly from the play of light and shadow on the subject matter. A unique play of light can make the plainest subject beautiful. She strives to capture such fleeting moments with watercolor. Its capricious nature lends itself to spontaneous expression with thin, luminous glazes and rich, velvety opaque passages.
Cathy Klisiewicz
25
37 Abbott Avenue
Porch Host: Jackie & Jim Murphy
Mosaics and Alcohol Ink
Cathy is a self-taught artist who gets great satisfaction from taking an old piece of furniture and some broken china and turning them into a piece of art. Or something as simple as an eggshell and creating a unique pair of earrings. Recently she began experimenting with alcohol ink paintings; some abstract and others stylized impressions of elements in nature.
Mia Mutascio
26
1 Abbott Avenue
Porch Host: Nita & Richard Williams
Photography
Mia is inspired by capturing scenes in nature, the beautiful light at daybreak or the beauty cast over the earth - even on a cloudy day. By sharing her vision, she hopes others may feel these moments and embrace their own inspiration.
Philla Barkhorn
27
17 Webb Avenue
Painting: Watercolor
Philla will be showing her floral and abstract watercolor pieces. She enjoys the use of color to convey a sense of beauty and excitement.
Jim Twerell
28
46 Webb Avenue
Porch Host: Lyndell O'Hara
Painting: Acrylic, Oil,Watercolor, Encasutic & Mixed Media
Jim paints because he doesn't have the words. After graduating from the School of Visual Arts, he spent 10 years in the music industry writing scores and songs, but it was in painting that he found the words. Inspired by the meditative nature that follows Japanese art, he creates paintings that disarm and relax the viewer. Deliberately simplistic, yet emotionally complex.
Alix Baldwin
29
77 Pilgram Pathway
Porch Host: John & Ariana Wiley
Painting: Acrylic, Oil, Watercolor, Mixed Media
Alix is a self-taught abstract painter. Her aim is to create bold, elevated, and impactful work to offer a moment of collectedness to the viewer. She hopes you find the message in her work to feel at peace and courageous.
Eva Krause
30
71-73 Webb Avenue
Porch Host: Suzy Pietras
Photography
Eva's work is abstract and experimental photography. Her goal is to bend reality as much as she can!
Deborah Fennelly
31
71-73 Webb Avenue
Porch Host: Suzy Pietras
Painting: Acrylic, Watercolor
Deb's paintings are visual memories of the beauty of nature, the delights of travel, vacation, exploration, and the joy of relationships with those she meets on those journeys. Her hope is that you, the viewer, might feel the same joy and delight through her images.
Kristin Matteo
32
111 Embury Avenue
Porch Host: Jane Johnson
Photography
Original photographs of the local beaches and surrounding areas mounted and sealed on 4x4 inch canvases. "It’s what I see, by the sea around me."
JP Thompson
33
75 Embury Avenue
Wearable Art: Jewelry
Jewelry is adornment, wearable art that reflects our sensibilities. Each piece celebrates our connection to the earth, the source. JP collects semi-precious gems and fossilized stones then cuts, hammers, manipulates and coaxes the silver or gold to wrap each with its proper frame. The star of each piece is always the stone. These are small batch collections that are sculpted and hand-fabricated with great attention to detail.
David Dziemian
34
65 Pilgrim Pathway
Porch Host: Carolyn & John Campbell
Painting: Acryllic, Oil, Watercolor
Dave's art is about the mundane and the surreal in original oils, watercolor, and acrylics as well as a variety of drawing media.
Debbi Silvestri
35
47 Embury Avenue
Porch Host: Nancy Clarke
Painting: Acrylic, Encaustic & Mixed Media
Debbi enjoys working in an assortment of mediums, striving always to evolve creatively. Her work ranges from ocean inspired, shell encrusted acrylics with resin overlay, seashell wave art with resin - including ocean wave ornamental pieces, hand painted word art on canvas, encaustic wax art, 3D alcohol Ink designs on wood, and cradle boards with resin overlay. She is currently embarking on a new study of design in encaustic and resin.
Steve Miller
36
51 Beach Avenue
Photography
At its most basic level, photography is about light, shadow, subject and composition. It's the photographer's job to bring these elements together to preserve a moment in time, and when successful, draw the viewer into the captured image. Photographers don’t start with a blank canvas. We’re observers. We view a scene and wait for the elements to align. Most of the time we fail. But when we succeed, it makes all those misfires seem irrelevant. They say it’s all about the journey, not the destination and I couldn’t agree more.
Rosie Rounds
37
97 Heck Avenue
Porch Host: Joyce & Mike Adace
Wearable Art: Jewelry
Rosie got hooked on making jewelry at the 92nd St Y in NYC over 20 years ago. She was drawn into enameling early on and fell in love with all the beautiful colors and the technique used in creating enamel pieces. She is influenced by nature, colors, shapes, humor and fun. During the pandemic Rosie did not have access to an enameling studio and began obsessively creating her work with polymer clay, again seduced by the color and form.
Robin E. Dabler
38
100 Heck Avenue
Painting: Acrylic, Watercolor, Mixed Media. Fiber: Wearable Art
Art has always played a big role in Robin's life. In the 90's she started her own decorative painting business, creating faux finishes; suede, venetian plaster, glazing, metal finishes, marbling, and murals for commissioned work. Currently Mixed Media, Collage, Watercolor and Embroidery are among her favorite mediums. Her art reflects her journey which is bold, bright, and full of beauty and love.
Diane Reh
39
102 Heck Avenue
Porch Host: Kathleen Zebrowski & Michael McGraw
Mixed Media
Diane never thought she could be an artist because she can't draw. About 15 years ago she attended a collage workshop taught by Alexandra Sheldon at an art camp for grownups called Snow Farm in Northampton, Mass. She found her medium there! She enjoys working with paper and glue and likes putting images, colors, and textures together to make something new; something perhaps unexpected. About 10 years ago she took a card making class in Ocean Grove taught by Robin Dabler (another artist in AOTP '24). Robin introduced her to Ocean Grove, and she returns here regularly now. Her work is shown regularly at Odyssey Coffee Shop!
Paul Goldfinger
41
113 Mt Hermon Way
Photography
"There has been a recent digital explosion in photography, and I participate to some extent. But I keep my attention focused on my work and methods of the master’s from the last two centuries". Paul is a seasoned photographer and photojournalist. His older images are black and white dark room prints. His newer works are digital and displayed online on his blog www.blogfinger.net and are presented in a unique multimedia format or in the "photo gallery" in gallery style.
Allie Hall Westerside
42
105 Mt Hermon Way
Porch Host: Joyce Klein
Ceramics
Allie is an animal lover, potter and public school pottery teacher. She has enjoyed making, selling and teaching pottery professionally since receiving her BFA in ceramics from UMASS Dartmouth in 1998. All pottery is wheel thrown on my potter's wheel with stoneware clay, and painted with underglaze, fired and glazed, refired to cone 6 in her electric kiln.
Annette Juliano
44
28 Pitman Avenue
Painting: Acrylic, Oil, Watercolor, and mixed media
Annette loves painting people, landscape, still life, or whatever is screaming for her to paint in the moment!
Janis Bonavito
45
14 Pitman Avenue
Porch Host: Madeline Hoffer
Painting: Oil, Watercolor, Pen, Pastels
Janis is an emerging artist who loves to work in mixed media. She enjoys working in pastel, oil, and ink with watercolor wash. She is inspired by doing city, land, and seascapes; capturing the beauty in all of them. Her style never has a straight edge, it’s all done freehand.
Harriet Ellner
46
14 Pitman Avenue
Porch Host: Madeline Hoffer
Painting: Watercolor, Mixed Media
Harriet loves layers and images peeking through or partially covered up by another image, letting the visual unfold into a story. Recently one of Harriet’s watercolor paintings blew off her porch and was discovered by a neighbor months later… at first it seemed familiar, yet she was not certain it was hers. It was warped, wet, and dirty and parts of it in tiny pieces’; a mystery at first glance. Like some crazy puzzle she had been collaging weather worn pieces of her work into a new story. In the same way that she discovers patterns from broken and worn shells, feathers, broken beach toys, mixed foot/paw prints as she walks the beach inspired. Harriet is a licensed certified creative Art Therapist.
Michael Andrew Carrigan
47
13 Pitman Avenue
Porch Host: Sue & Greg Lotz
Painting: Mixed Media, Charcoal
Michael is a trained artist whose work focuses on Portraiture, using watercolor, ink, pastel, and mixed media, but mainly charcoal. He enjoys sketching cartoon portraits highlighting the subject’s best feature in a playful manner. Note: MAC will be drawing portraits LIVE throughout the day... maybe yours?
Heather Bennett
48
68 Mt Tabor Way
Photography, Painting, Acrylic, Charcoal, Pencil, Pastels, Collage & Mixed Media, Sculpture, Wearable Art
Heather enjoys exploring different mediums and finding new ways to express herself. Her art contains images of animals and nature. She hopes her art gives people a feeling of deep calm and inner strength.
Donna Emrich Gioello
49
98 Mt Tabor Way
Porch Host: Felicia & Andy Levine
Painting: Watercolor
A self-described amateur photographer, Donna finds inspiration for her painting from the photos she takes. The simple beauty of nature and her travels to interesting places, both near and far, are revisited in her watercolor paintings.
MaryBeth Kosciow
50
100 Mt Tabor Way
Porch Host: Felicia & Andy Levine
Fiber
A long-time jewelry designer, Mary Beth found a new calling in weaving. She uses various fibres woven by hand on a wooden loom. All pieces hang on driftwood from our local beaches. She incorporates elements of nature, such as seashells, vintage chandelier crystals, buttons, and other elements. She loves working with fibres in all colors and textures. Mary Beth has recently added smaller weavings on canvas as well.
Michael White
51
102 Mt Carmel Way
Porch Host: Ginger Monarch
Painting: Watercolor and Ink
Michael makes ink and watercolor paintings of architectural structures, usually bridges under construction or abandoned buildings. He is drawn to subjects with dramatic parallelism, perspective, and detail. He aims to bring out the poetic life within each structure, beyond its function. A bridge can be like a dream, a forgotten temple, heroic or tragic.
Angelina Penev
52
138 Mt Hermon Way
Porch Host: Shane Martins
Painting: Oil and Pastel
Angelina is an award winning artist who loves to capture the essence of the beauty around her; to capture a beautiful moment that will live forever; to engage others by touching their emotions; to share unique visions of her perspectives caught in pastels and oil.
Plemen Penev
53
138 Mt Tabor Way
Porch Host: Shane Martins
Painting: Oil and Pastel
Plamen is fascinated by the light we live in and tries to capture the light in pastels and oils. He and his wife travel and paint together to capture the beauty around them.
James Rokosny
54
132 Lake Avenue
Photography
James is a longtime Ocean Grove resident. His photographs feature Ocean Grove sunrises, beach crosses and Wesley Lake.
Carol Kaplan
55
125 Mt Tabor Way
Photography
Ocean Grove is a town of contrasts: from bustling summers to quiet waters. Carol's work is also one of the contrasts. While she is particularly drawn to the subtle hues of crowdless beaches and grays/blues of winter's ocean, she is also inspired by the vibrant gardens of spring and summer, a credit to Ocean Grove's mini gardens. Her work captures the various facets of Ocean Grove life.
Lisa Festa
56
123 Mt Tabor Way
Porch Host: Bob Ellis
Mixed Media
Lisa is a multi-dimensional artist who plays across mediums. Fabric, paint and found nature objects weave together stories of self-love and oneness with the earth. Organic shapes and playful colors offer a sense of ease and innocence. Her work is a feeling journey through soft textures and round shapes. Play and process are her guide. The fluidity of Lisa's work reflects our shared supple nature to meet life with an open heart.
Tom Biradi
57
123 Mt Tabor Way
Porch Host: Bob Ellis
Photography
Tom explores with his camera to find the beautiful and odd in New Jersey. He turns the places and nature sujects into coasters and wood photos.
David Fobair
58
93 Mt Carmel Way
Painting: Acrylic
David has a long history with art as an art lover and collector. He has returned to his artistic roots as a contemporary painter. His recent works, which are mostly abstract, feature vivid colors and shapes, sometimes inspired by street art, graffiti, landscapes and nature. David's work always follows positive feelings and hopes to elicit them as well.
Carla Valentino
59
93 Mt Carmel Way
Porch Host: David Fobair
Painting: Mixed Media
Carla Valentino is a New Jersey Shore area mixed media artist and art educator. Originally a painter, her work now incorporates a variety of media including paper, ink, graphite, acrylics as well as recycled materials such as cardboard and plastic and found objects. She is primarily influenced by nature, the beach and ocean in particular, the passage of time, moon phases and her own personal history. Carla has taught high school art for 24 years and also teaches adult mixed media classes. Art is her everything.
Jennifer Kirsh
60
27 New York Avenue
Porch Host: Denise D'Alberti
Mosaics, Wearable Art
Jennifer's journey with art began with collecting sea glass and creating wire-wrapped pieces into pendants to raise funds for a local horse rescue. Wanting a more artistic expression, so she enrolled in metal smithing classes and discovered the Japanese art of metal clay which while wet can be shaped and molded, and after drying can be refined and carved by hand. Working in pure, fine silver, Jennifer seeks to capture the beauty of the ocean and coastal life in wearable art.
Mary Ellen Doyle
61
90 Mt Zion Way
Painting: Acrylic, Oil, Watercolor, Mixed Media
Mary Ellen's work draws from life, photographs and memories of people, places, and things that spark her emotions and stir her creativity. She tries to bring out something that she sees within the subject matter, whether it be color, shape, movement or the ever popular undefined. "Pushing the paint around brings me joy as I try to capture the story of the object, and angst as I try to work more freely then my brush takes me. The struggle is real".
Kelan Doyle
62
90 Mt Zion Way
Porch Host: Mary Ellen Doyle
Painting: Oil, Mixed Media
With a background in street art and graffiti, Kelan attempts to blend the world of fine art with subject matter ranging from mental health to nature, he allows his brush and gravity to create the works in his head.
Chelsea Doyle
63
90 Mt Zion Way
Porch Host: Mary Ellen Doyle
Photography
Chelsea captures emotions through the lens. Her moody abstract photography seeks to unravel the unseen narrative hidden within shadows and hues inviting viewers to explore the mysterious beauty that exists beyond the obvious.
Carl Swensen
65
87 Mt Zion Way
Porch Host: Colleen & Brian Schubel
Painting: Acrylic, Oil, Watercolor, Encaustic, Mixed Media
"My big day. Several years ago I was approached by the owners of a local B&B. They were looking for seaside artwork. They said they liked my work. Little did I know how much. They were looking for prints and paintings for their guest rooms. They bought seven full sized prints and one original painting; one for each room. It gave me a huge boost to continue my craft." Carl makes Impressionist paintings, seascapes, and landscapes. He also has prints.
Betsy Kaplan
66
81 Mt Zion Way
Mixed Media: Driftwood Mosaics
Magic happens when driftwood and mosaics collide! Betsy finds driftwood treasures along the Jersey Shore and creates unique wall pieces that radiate joy. Colored glass, beads, heartfelt symbols, and charms are placed like puzzle pieces on each work of art. Rusted wire, twisted just right, serves as a funky handle for hanging. Every driftwood mosaic has a soulful message, sure to warm your heart.
Nick Pazinko
68
15 New York Avenue
Porch Host: Nan & Doug MacMorris
Painting: Acrylic, Oil, Mixed Media
Nick's paintings are inspired by "Beach Life" in oils and acrylics, incorporating mixed media and reclaimed materials
Kelly Duane
69
15 New York Avenue
Painting: Watercolor, Mixed Media
Kelly is a Mixed Media artist inspired by patterns and colors she observes in nature, particularly the beach and floral gardens. Using watercolor, monotype gel prints and collage, she creates colorful, abstract scenes that capture the essence of these natural elements.
Melanie Wollek
70
85 Asbury Avenue
Porch Host: Katrina & Todd Stoner
Painting: Watercolor
Melanie loves to play with paint! She enjoys working with watercolors because they are the most challenging and unpredictable of mediums. Living by the shore provides her with a bounty of inspiration and appreciation for nature's beauty.
Laura V Hall
71
3 Mt Pisgah Way (TENT)
Painting: Acrylic
Laura paints ocean scenes of ships, tugboats, sailboats plus carousel horses, our OG fox, and tents. Her paintings are uniquely painted on original tent boards, Victorian-era boards, canvas, and inside clam shells, capturing summer in Ocean Grove and memories of Asbury Park.
Jean Galle
72
12 Mt Zion Way (TENT)
Porch Host: Gail Hutton
Painting: Watercolor, Graphite
Jean's love of flowers shows through in her botanical watercolors. Capturing the flower's personality, her work is photorealistic with an artistic flair. She paints fun leaves and fruits and veggies too! On the whimsical side, she offers magical garden paintings with butterflies, bees, and willowy plant creatures in black and white or color.
Carol Bicknell
73
2 Mt Zion Way (TENT)
Painting: Acrylic, Oil, Watercolor, Encaustic and Mixed Media
Carol works intuitively, resulting in what she calls abstract impressions informed by a lifetime of visual experiences. She is drawn to the beauty of nature, the sky, weather, clouds, ocean, trees, and flowers. Carol enjoys exploring different mediums such as charcoal, watercolor, acrylics, acrylic ink, pen and ink, oil pastel, and soft pastel. She likes to work with these media separately and in combination and also experiments with different papers.
Ramona Bannayan
74
14 Ocean Pathway
Painting: Pastel, Drawing
Ramona begins her small square drawings from memory. Her explorations of place and time through the landscape are made to be human in scale-the width of your open hand or the space between your ears. Each piece has an atmospheric presence and a keen sense of weather with an ephemeral sky balanced against a strong horizon line using pastels, watercolor and charcoal. She is absorbed by the light of dawn and dusk and our subliminal emotions with the beginning or ending of another day.
Linda Kopp
75
3 Ocean Pathway
Porch Host: Mary & Dave Zuidema
Painting: Acrylic, Watercolor, Mixed Media
Linda's pen and ink drawings depict primarily Mother Nature. Birds, trees, floral subject matter are her focus. She enjoys the creative process and hopes that those that view her work see something unique and take the message that it conveys.
Texas Hoover
76
9 Ocean Pathway
Porch Host: Sue & Greg Lotz
Wood
Texas Hoover is a woodworker and artist working out of Asbury Park, NJ. He makes one-of-a-kind portraits from intricately cut pieces of wood. Using wood to depict people and scenes, the beauty of the medium can shine while bringing the image to life with the grain of the wood itself.
Sarah Cohen
79
11 Surf Avenue
Glass Jewelry, Mosaics
PetalVision Glass transforms flora and fauna into different designs you can wear and gift proudly. The glass necklaces and earrings are often layered with gold leaf. As a glass artist, Sarah also focuses on glass mosaic. Nature is celebrated in every piece.
2024 Art on the Porch was another HUGE Success! Thank you to all who participated!
Ocean Grove is indeed filled with great talent, and we would love to include you for Art on the Porch 2025!
Please send us an email in the CONTACT section below with your name, email, phone #, medium and your website if you have one.
Please also specifiy if you live in Ocean Grove or know someone who here who has a porch to offer you.
We will be happy to put you on the list to be contacted for next year!
Questions? Comments... Send us a message!
AOTP Founding Board Members
Betsy Kaplan – Founder & Chair
Katy Roessle – Co Chair
Bob Ellis
Doug Donaldson