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The Breakfast
Club Exhibit
Mary
Ann Ducharme Born and raised in France, Nita attended the famed Ecole des Beaux Arts and went on to the Ecole de Dessin in Paris. She married a young American soldier and went on to travel all over the world with him and their three children. In Italy inspired by all the beauty around her she continued painting primarily in oils. While in Germany she began teaching art in the American community. Nita now lives in New England and devotes her life to painting and teaching watercolors at her gallery/studio in Pepperell, Massachusetts. Nita considers herself very fortunate to live in a beautiful New England town. “The beauty is all around me, from mountains to the seashore and a little bit of the Old World feeling.” For the past 14 years Nita has taken part in an Artist retreat on the coast of Maine where she replenishes her fuel for the rest of the year. "Plein air painting rejuvenates your soul! The beauty and ideas that it yields are endless. The smell of the fresh air and the sounds of wildlife will provide the inner peace needed for the rest of the year." Nita has been represented by the New England
Card Company, Paralyzed Veterans of America, Brick Mill Studio and recently
as a Gibson Freelance Artist. She was also the winner of the annual Christmas
card contest at the Presidential Retreat at Camp David, Maryland. She
has been published in the American Artist Watercolor Winter 98, 2003 American
Artist watercolor Highlights issue and the Tastefully New England magazine.
She has participated in numerous juried shows and her work can be found
in private collections all over the world including banks, corporate collections
and the University College Dublin in Ireland. Her memberships include:
New Hampshire Art Association, NH Sharon Arts Center, Pastel Painters
of Maine, Pastel Society of New Hampshire, and Upcountry Artists in Maine.
She is an associate member of the New England Watercolor Society and Oil
Painters of America.
Joe
Lapiana
No artist statement available.
"I am a life long artist who lives in the
Boston area. Creating art started for me as a very young girl. I've had
formal training at various levels and received my Bachelor of Fine Arts
from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston. My professional accomplishments
are highlighted by my creativity as a painter, marketing consultant, commercial
designer and teacher. While I prefer watercolor as my medium of choice,
I also enjoy oils, pastels and pen and ink. I enjoy painting all types
of subject matter including florals, landscapes, animals portraits and
still life's. I do commission work in all of these areas based on client
preferences. Currently, I belong to a number of Art Association which
provide me with an excellent perspective of today's art environment. Interacting
with fellow artists motivates me to continuously achieve excellence while
challenging my creativity. I will always enjoy studying, learning and
developing my artistic talent."
"My first series of women goes back to 1981, after my recent move to New England. At first "The Ladies" were painted with watercolor or acrylic and inspired by a luminous stained glass window that used to cover an entire wall of my grandmother's home in Egypt. I used to call them the "Stained Glass Ladies." When one of my paintings made it to the juried exhibit of the Currier Museum of Art in 1984, I learned that my fascination with design and colored glass could be shared with a larger public. Slowly I started introducing new elements, like flowers, in the women's dresses. The women would be dreaming in different settings made of tiled landscapes and diffused vegetation. In general I try to create an illusion, painting
women in rich patterned dresses, who make
you wonder who they are and what they are doing. The design, the
position of the women's hands, the intriguing expressions of their faces,
the mystery of their environment, create a surrealistic image. A
product of my past culture, of my present taste for rich colors and enigmatic
effects, my paintings of women are a mysterious reflection of my most
subconscious dreams."
Albine Vermot-Gaud
At present she is working on a series of contemporary style paintings. Albine's choice of media are oils and mixed media. She is a resident of Hollis, NH You
can contact Albine Vermot-Gaud by email at
albine@charter.net
Stephen L Previte
Carolyn Gaudet
Jinghua Gao
Dalia
Bob
Stegmaier
You can read more about the Breakfast Club online
at their blog http://thenashuaartistsbreakfastclub.blogspot.com/
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Peggy
Jungbluth, a resident of Tyngsboro, retired last year and started painting
with Marie Stabile at the Westford Senior Center. She has also taken classes
with Steve Previte of Nashua. Today Peggy studies with Paula Mingolellli
at the Westen Ave. Studios in Lowell. Peggy works with water based oils.
Marie
Stabile
"I
always wanted to be a painter. As a young woman, I was taught the basics
by an aunt who was already an accomplished artist. This fed my deisre
to continue my passion for art. I went on to take courses at Mass College
of Art and studied with the Cape Ann Artists. I now maintain a studio
in Nashua, NH." 
During
her memberships in several art associations over the past 35 years, she
has won awards for her work in oil, pastel and watercolor. Her paintings
have been included in many regional and national juried shows, and are
in private and corporate collections in the U.S. and abroad. Her work
was featured in the summer, 1996 issue of “Watercolor” magazine,
a national publication of “American Artist” magazine. Also,
one of her paintings is included in the book, “How Did You Paint
that? 100 Ways to Paint the Landscape”, published by “International
Artist” magazine”.
Susan
Whitten attended The American Academy of Art in Chicago and graduated
with an Associates Degree in Graphic Arts. She worked as an Illustrator
at Handelen Pederson, a commercial art firm, for four years. She then
became a freelance illustrator in the Chicago area for ten years. After
moving to New Hampshire in 1998 she switched her focus to Fine Art. Susan
joined the Nashua Area Artists Association and became acquainted with
other local artists. She heard about the Breakfast Club and has been going
for about nine years. Susan has worked in graphite, watercolor, pen and
ink, oils and pastels. She started exhibiting graphite and watercolor
botanicals with a show at Sharon Art Center. She took a pastel class from
Harriet Winchester and fell in love with the medium. She has been working
in pastel for seven years and is a signature member of the Pastel Society
of America and the Pastel Society of Maine. She also does pastel miniatures
and is an associate member of the Miniature Painters, Sculptors &
Gravers Society of Washington, DC. She has participated in and won awards
in national and international juried art shows. She also shows her work
at 
Rene Bodner is an artist who loves to create. She has been a master jeweler
for the past 30 years, and is the owner of The Bead Room in Nashua. In
her spare time shes loves to paint. She has taken numerous workshops with
well known teachers around the country. Rene's work covers a variety of
subject matters; she paints still lifes and landscapes in oils and pastels.
Rene interprets the world through her love of color and details. She has
traveled extensively around the world from South America to Russia to
get ideas for her jewelry and her paintings.Rene's work has been shown
in many local shows and at venues around New England. She is a member
of Hollis Art Society of New Hampshire, Pastel Society of New Hampshire
and Nashua Area Artists Association. Contact Rene by email at:
Stephen L Previte was born and raised in East Boston, Massachusetts and
moved to his current residence in Hollis, New Hampshire 30 years ago.
He has an engineering degree in Mechanical Design Technology and worked
in a high tech industry until 1986. It was then that he left corporate
life to pursue a career in fine art. Stephen is a self taught artist working
with the medium of oil paint in a style that he describes as “Representational
Impressionism.” His subject matter is that of light and atmosphere
focused mainly on the rural landscape and its architecture. He also enjoys
the
I
began my art study at the age of nine with my father, Gao Yi-hung, who
was a leading Chinese artist and the calligraphy master to Chiang Kai-shek’s
son, Chiang Ching-guo, the President of the Republic of China. I also
had the unique opportunity to study with some of China’s most outstanding
watercolorists. I received a Fine Arts degree from National Taiwan Normal
University and studied in the graduate art program at the University of
Hawaii. In 1996, Madam Lien, the wife of the Republic of China’s
former Vice-President Dr. Lien Zhan, honored my art exhibition in Taipei,
Taiwan.