Susan's art is narrative in style, representational in nature, combining personal events, whimsical imagery, and landscapes. The work she creates often juxtaposes historical and humorous elements within a piece. Her inspiration comes from primitive art, colorful illuminated manuscripts, landscapes anchoring Surrealist art and the flat perspective of medieval painting. Susan likes working in a wide range of media that can include shadow boxes with found objects, acrylic paint, oil paint on canvas and gouache on printmaking paper. 

Larry works almost exclusively in acrylics or watercolor. His subject matter includes landscapes, wildlife, and pet portraits in realistic style.

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Texas Hoover is a fine woodworker and artist working out of Asbury Park, NJ. Texas makes one-of-a-kind portraits out of intricately cut pieces of wood to depict people and scenes. The beauty of the medium can shine while bringing the image to life with the depth and movement of the wood grain.

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Ramona begins her drawing focusing on the intrigue of the horizon, that distant point where the ephemeral caresses solidity. Time of day is essential. She is absorbed not only by the ambiance of dawn and dusk, but the subliminal emotional associations in the beginning or ending another day.  She works generally from memory and works primarily in pastel presented in a small square format. The equilateral element of a square implies containment, reinforcing a personal snapshot of a memory.

Dawn Eckman is a longtime member of The Manasquan River Group of Artists and the Laurelton Art Society. Dawn works with oils, acrylics, watercolors, and pastels to create still life, floral, seascape and portrait paintings. She will have originals, prints and greeting cards for sale.

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Carol's work ranges from Impressionism to Abstraction. She uses various mediums including watercolor, acrylic inks, oil, pastel, pastela and acrylics. Sometimes each painting includes several of these mediums in combination. She also uses canvas, paper, and wool as a substrate. Whatever she paints she does so intuitively and from her heart.  The medium speaks to her, and she allows it to be an integral part of the final creation. Her hope is that her art connects deeply to those who see it and it brings them joy.

Wood Sculptures; Figurative/Portraits, Relief/Wall-hangings; Painted.

Inside clam shells collected from our Ocean Grove beaches, Laura V. Hall hand paints detailed scenes; miniature replicas of OG Victorian homes, an ever-hopeful fisherman on the beach, plus replicas of our Tents. Each Tenter decorates uniquely every summer and Laura's paintings capture their originality. Additionally, Laura uses very old boards from the Ocean Grove Tents as her canvas to paint her miniature replicas of Victorian homes that you see around town. Her acrylic paintings capture the architecture and historic colors in her own style. 

Beach inspired artwork; paintings in acrylics and oils on canvas with reclaimed beach furniture frames. Seaglass artwork with local seaglass.

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"Green tube"  34"x28" acrylic on canvas.

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Kelly’s current favorite medium is watercolor and pen. She enjoys painting expressively and exploring the meditative qualities of watercolor and repetitive patterns. It is her favorite way to unwind. Kelly is inspired by patterns and color palettes in nature, especially the beach, and abstract floral design.

Pamela Valentine - aka- "T-Shirt Guy" - has been a resident of Ocean Grove since 2006, and it's here that her creative spirit has flourished. Pam is a mixed media artist, combining her unique graphic style with items found on the beach and around town.

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"Summer of the Rays and Salps" 

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Betsy creates whimsical, colorful collages that radiate joyful messages to the world. Playful angels, moons, animals, and flowers often reside in her work. Each piece carries a soulful vibe using acrylics, watercolors, print, ink pens and pastels. 

Julia Rivera is a Mixed Media Fine Artist, she primarily works in acrylic on canvas and panel board. 

The visual production of Julia Rivera art is characterized by capturing that framework that evokes her passion for the human being. Rather than placing ourselves in front of work, when approaching her paintings, we approach fundamentally an original attitude that consists in having cultivated the gift of painting and innovation, transgressing against the movements of life.

Carl is drawn to painting landscapes and Victorian homes and strives for an impressionist style. Oil and acrylics are his favorite mediums.

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"Field of Flowers"

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Esta took her first photograph with a Samsung cell phone. The photo made friends open their eyes wide, and say “Wow, this is amazing.” Esta had ventured out into the blizzard of 2010 into 4ft of snow and gusty winds on the beach in Ocean Grove. It was extraordinary watching the snow blanket, the rush of sand, and the turbulent ocean waves. “I just had to capture that moment, and all I had was a cell phone ~ so I took the shots. My journey in photography began that day.”

​Robbin Tick Art focuses on original hand painted artwork and photography. She learned how to draw and paint in a traditional way but advanced to abstract art, utilizing acrylic paint on canvas as it provided freedom to move, explore different shapes, forms, colors, and creativity. Inspiration for her painting and photography comes from New York City, the Jersey Shore, daily life, and her many travels to various parts of the world. What she loves about abstract art is the movement in paint, the colors blending and creations that happen on canvas which work together to draw out a connection with the viewer. 

Animal inspired, brightly colored, sandy, and drippy glazed, durable, microwavable, dishwasher safe, functional stoneware pottery to help you celebrate life! Allie has been selling her handmade pottery and custom tiles since 1998. Custom requests are always encouraged.

Bespoke, handmade artisan brooms and brushes, meant to be used but often just displayed. Primarily made with broomcorn or African grass along with found sticks. Bob's brooms also incorporate other items into the handles such as twine, rope, leather, fabric, wire, and decoupage.

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Demonstrations throughout the day.

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. 

Angelina Penev is an award-winning artist who loves to capture the beauty she finds throughout her travels here and abroad. She works in pastels, oils, and watercolors often alla prima and en plein air. Angelina recently retired from a career in nursing and pharmaceutical sales and is focusing on growing her artistic endeavors. She utilizes her skills from teaching nursing to make learning fun and accessible. Her interest in artwork started at a young age and she continues to sharpen her skills and broaden her scope of practice through lessons from others. She is known for capturing translucency of waves, light in landscapes, and the personality of dogs.

Plamen Penev's works are primarily peaceful landscapes. He uses soft pastel in most of his latest work as he loves the immediacy and brilliance of this medium. Plamen also enjoys working in oil and watercolor. He writes, "I am fascinated by the light we live in and try to capture it in my works."

​Plamen Penev and his wife Angelina are sharing a porch to exhibit their work together.

Cynthia uses oils for encaustic/monotype paintings. The ebb & flow of the sea is similar to her painting process. She often allows the brush to take her along while she builds up the paint in layers, scraping it off in places, not knowing what will remain.

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​Cynthia will be DEMONSTRATING her encaustic work throughout the day.  

Paul Goldfinger has been a photographer for over 50 years, first working with film and now all digital.   His work has been shown widely including galleries, museums, magazines, advertisements and two book covers.  In recent years he has presented his work mostly on his web site Blogfinger.net , where his photographs are published with a musical soundtrack, an original idea for still images.   

 His gallery is linked below where you can click once on some images to enlarge them.

Donna is an emerging artist exploring her love for watercolor painting. She is particularly fond of seascapes, landscapes and floral subjects inspired by her love of travel and living near the ocean on the Jersey Shore.

Ashley’s whimsical Sea glass artwork and coastal decor contain real pieces of sea glass collected by both she and her son along the beaches of the Jersey Shore. The ocean is her inspiration!

Heather works as an art instructor and freelance artist under the moniker "Hescher".  Her classes emphasize various methodologies and technical aspects of drawing all while having fun, and creating art that is eye-catching and visually pleasing without sacrificing creativity.  Her personal work is informed by symbolism, mythology, and psychology while exploring collage and surrealism. In addition, she loves to photograph the beauty of nature on her adventures with her dog Echer.

Annette Juliano is an award-winning artist with a degree in Fine Arts. She is known for her work in the field of portraits. Annette loves to paint people and children and is fascinated by capturing the fleeting moment of their expressions. Her use of color is strong and bold. While portraits are her forte, she is also accomplished in painting still life and landscapes.

Jack Green is known about the town for his building of fine homes, but his talent extends to fine art as well.  His Modern Mixed Media paintings are impressionistic in style; portraits and local beach scenes among other themes are sure to leave a good impression on this gallery tour! 

Harriet will display her series of dream-like water paintings, Visual Journal Process Books and her Functional Art Bowls with layers and images peeking through and covered up by another image's which lets the visual unfold into a story.

​In addition to practicing her skills as an artist, Harriet is a board certified Art Therapist and believes "that art as a therapy is about the process, which takes place in the form of a personal journey". 

Harriet will be exhibiting ONLY; her work is not for sale.

Yvonne creates mosaics using stained glass, old dishware and found objects from beachcombing. She also makes her own ceramic tiles to enhance her pieces. Commissions of your own pets are welcome!