Rebecca Andre

AMR Open Studio Tours 22, Halcottsville, NY, Photography

As owner of Mountain Girl Photography & Design, a company specializing in lifestyle photography and the promotion of local brands and musicians, and a free-lance reporter, Rebecca focus on documenting the real stories of the mountains through her lens and pen. She has written for local news outlets like Watershed Post and is currently the food and lodging writer/photographer for Kaatskill Life. She is best known for telling the stories of Irene survivors, the demise of the Ulster County’s rails and the reconstruction of the Blenheim Covered Bridge.

Patrice Lorenz

AMR Open Studio Tours 22, Margaretville, NY, Painting

As an artist I work in several mediums, drawing, painting, printmaking, painting and collage. These different processes inform each other in my work and sometimes exist side by side.

My work is always based in observation. I am both a plein air artist and a studio artist which means I work on location when I can and otherwise in my studio from my sketches and photographs.

My subject matter is the natural world, which sometimes includes the man made elements that become a part of  the landscape.

Alan Powell

AMR Open Studio Tours 22, Collage, Digital, Painting, Photography

Alan Powell has been a practicing artist for over 40 years. His main body of work consists of single channel videotapes and video installations.

In the 1990s, Alan returned to painting, developing a painted diary in which he painted a picture every day for three years. He has exhibited his work at MOMA, Museum of the Moving Image, Kitchen, Everson Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Sharon Suess

AMR Open Studio Tours 22, Drawing, Halcottsville, NY, Mixed Media, Painting

Sharon Suess, local artist and writer, is known for her playful approach to creativity. Her style varies depending on what inspires her at the moment. She has created intricate pen and ink drawings; watercolor landscapes and trees; fun, colorful mixed media paintings; fine tip marker and colored pencil illustrations, detailed pencil portraits, realistic and imaginative acrylic paintings, and whatever else catches her attention.