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Francisco De la Barra

Francisco De la Barra is a self taught painter with a background in architecture initially. He started painting in 1990 but since 2006 started developing his work to a professional level. "A human face is so rich, it can communicate so much. It carries so many signals of our past, of our culture, of our feelings. Our eyes can act as windows to the world that surround us, and as a door that can lead towards our deepest thoughts and fears."---Francisco De la Barra.

Art Ferrier

Art Ferrier has been working as a professional fine art and commercial photographer since the early 1980’s. During that time his work has appeared in galleries and group exhibitions from Boston to northern Vermont, and has won numerous awards. He is currently associated with Chimera Gallery in Nashua, New Hampshire.

A native of Lowell, MA, Art lived for much of the past 20 years in northern New Hampshire, near the Vermont border. He has travelled and photographed extensively throughout the U.S. and Canada. For the past two years he has lived in Nashua, NH. Art’s work consists mainly of color photographs, although he also works in black & white. Although subject matter varies, all images feature simple compositions, emphasizing the relationships between light and shadow, colors and shapes, and the abstract elements of design as they appear in the everyday visual environment.
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Dominique Boutaud

Dominique Boutaud, a lifelong artist, has been exhibiting her colorful and lively abstract paintings around the world from Spain, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and France to China and back to the U.S., for many years.

And she has been knighted in Italy.

Abstract painting, she says, enables her to truly express the feeling and impressions of life around her. Her works are full of movement and hope, and intense color. She has created art in many media but now selects oil as her means of more freely, energetically and emphatically expressing herself and, in a way, becoming the painting. Boutaud says, "For me, the painting I am doing is a way of living freely. When I paint, it seems to me that I become the actual colors within the picture, and I find myself experiencing their joyful movement and development. I therefore have the double sensation in painting of being the event, since I am also outside watching it happen. When the painting is finished I continue to enjoy the feeling that the painting is still in process, because the life movement that I have put into it, still appear to me to be developing and searching. For me the act of painting clarifies life and brings serenity to it. At the same time painting is a way of living honestly."
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Kym Scott

Kym Scott grew up in northern California and then received her Bachelors of Science degree in Biology from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Kym's passion for pictures came when her son was born. Suffering from post partum depression, she searched for something to take her mind from the loneliness and stress of newfound motherhood. A dear friend suggested trying photography and willingly loaned her a camera. And so it began.

From this humble introduction into photography she has spent the last 6 years taking landscape and nature photos from California to Italy, and portraits for friends, family and clients to enjoy. Kym now lives in New Hampshire with her husband of 12 years, and son.
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Keith Spiro

Keith Spiro has been creating photographic art images for more than thirty years. Always the story teller, he found visual images best conveyed his message. He has traveled extensively throughout Canada and 48 of the 50 states with Alaska and Maine being the perennial favorites. A frequent contributor to regional news outlets, he focuses on the current art scene and is regularly on contract for any wild art that might otherwise be overlooked by the casual observer.