GROW GALLERY SHELBURNE FALLS . MASSACHUSETTS - FINE ART - CRAFT ART - ACCESSORIES FOR HOME AND OFFICE - HOME DECOR - LESLEY ANN GROW-WINFISKY OWNER AND ARTIST

Summer 2011

Winfisky

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James

GRAY EARRINGS
Gray

HAYWARD HAT
Hayward

PETERMAN BOWL
Peterman

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White

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Cassin

Love

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Asselin

Dibble

Laura Marie

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Kontoff

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Maslow-Blackman

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Shultz-Loomis

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Davis

Midura - Kalesnik

Gray

Presthus

Sutherland

Ward

FEATURED ARTIST

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Jonathan Winfisky
Glass Artist

Jonathan is an artist who was drawn to the medium of hot glass at an early age. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a degree in glass sculpture. His elegant pieces are known for their jewel-like colors, sensuous forms, and simplicity of line.

His work has been featured in the Corning Museum of Glass, The Corning New Glass Review, The Wheaton Museum of Glass, and is shown in over 600 galleries nationwide, as well as numerous prestigious public and private collections.

Grow Gallery offers a significant collection of Winfisky hand blown and cast glass art forms.

Cynthia James
Fiber Artist

Cynthia has brought the expected excellence of an artistic lifetime to her jamescyn collection. Handbags... uniquely and lovingly created, with hand sewn finishing touches and exquisite attention to detail, using rich tapestries, velvets, and iridescent and dupioni silks, to delight the aesthetic senses.

Cassie Gray
Jewelry Artist

Cassie crafts bold and colorful handmade jewelry. Limited edition and one-of-a-kind pieces are created by artisan Cassie in her studio in the Berkshire hills of Massachusetts.

Her jewelry, metals and gemstones flirt and combine, emphasizing the feminine and the dramatic. Beauty in form and comfortable wearability are hallmarks of her design.

Tom Hayward & Andrea Santos
Sheepskin Artist

You've got to see and feel Tom and Andrea's sheepskin accessories to believe them. They are constantly working with new colors and styles, but as always, their speciality is providing the perfect fit and look for your particular body shape.

Spencer Peterman
Woodcraft Artist

Spencer Peterman is always on the lookout for fallen trees rotting in the woods. He gets excited about this kind of stuff. So do his customers. Hidden in those fallen trees — especially the ones covered by moss and dirt — is wood disfigured by the beginnings of decomposition. Turning that wood on a lathe produces strikingly unique bowls.

Tom White
Pottery Artist

Tom's focus has always been on function; Pots that are a joy to use, pots that give the user both comfort and mystery, pots that are enjoyed like an old friend and yet bring new discoveries with daily use. One might find a certain area of the glaze previously undiscovered or a small finger print at the base of a handle.ets, and iridescent and dupioni silks, to delight the aesthetic senses.

Madelynn Cassin
Jewelry Artist

Bio in the making ... her stuff is hot ... our supply is special ... take a look!

New artists and art arriving daily.

Valerie Love
Photography Artist

Photographer Valerie Love is a graduate of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Love has traveled to over 30 countries on five continents, and currently divides her time between the Berkshires and New Zealand. Her photography is informed by natural beauty and unique discoveries of her travels.

We are currently accepting portfolios for review.

Ray Asselin
Woodturner Artist

New England woodturner Ray Asselin, is the maker of fine burl wood bowls, vessels, and other turned items.TTurned wooden bowls have been utilitarian items since about 1300 bc. Today, they're also valued as decorative art objects in their own right. The wooden bowls Asselin makes are intended to be displayed and appreciated as works of art, showing the beauty inherent in various woods, particularly in the burls of North American and Australian trees.

Each piece is handmade on a woodturning lathe in his small New England workshop, carefully shaped, finely sanded and finished, then buffed and polished to a silky smooth lustre. Hopefully, they will bring great enjoyment to those who appreciate the warmth, texture, color, and grain of wood.

Ned Wagers Dibble
Landscape Artist

From Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts he has been working recently on a series of oil paintings that depict local upland marshes. bogs, swamps, beaver ponds "fascinated," he explains, "in part by the stark contrasts of environments they embody; the rawness, the beauty and transcendent nature of these landscapes wisely preserved and protected."

Laura Marie
Jewelry Artist

Laura Marie creates divinely inspired, one of a kind jewelry that is a fusion of art, nature and spirit bought into form.
She has had a life long relationship with and passion for unique gems and minerals. For fifteen years, Laura has been working in harmony with the energy of the gems, showcasing each piece’s beauty, while allowing its energy to radiate fully. Come feel and experience the uplifting energy of her jewelry.

JEFF AND DIANE KONTOFF
Jewelry Artist

In my youth, I was always fascinated by rocks and minerals. After a long career in engineering, I now have the opportunity to re-explore this interest by making jewelry. I make my own cabochons from materials having pleasing colors and/or eye-catching patterns. My jewelry designs typically are simple geometric shapes. I like to treat each cabochon as a work of nature as art and use sterling silver and/or copper to frame the stone like a picture. Recently, I have begun a new line of sterling jewelry using glass filled epoxy. With colors and patterns inspired by my wife Diane, I hope you will find these as appealing as my cabochon line.

Stephanie Maslow-Blackman
Jewelry Artist

Jewelry designer Stephanie Maslow-Blackman is inspired by simplicity of precious metals and the vibrant colors of semi-precious gemstones. She has worked for both small designers and large manufacturers of jewelry but now she is living her dream of having her own company. Stephanie offers fun, one-of-a-kind pieces that are affordable. Her designs vary from traditional metalsmithing to unconventional wirework.

Caedy Shultz-Loomis
Photography

Photography has been a life-long passion and hobby for Shultz-Loomis and being a native of Vermont, she has developed an appreciation and understanding of the local landscapes and wildlife. Through some of her travels to other places such as New Orleans, she ...has captured the astounding and inherent beauty that endures even through times of tragedy and devastation. Her collection currently at Grow Gallery includes photographs taken in Shelburne Falls, North Adams, New Orleans, and Santa Fe. Shultz-Loomis is the Membership and Events Coordinator at the Clark in Williamstown, MA and a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.

Allen Davis
Wood Artist

Allen believes that art can and should be combined with functionality. His work has value for buyers because he focuses on function. Creating artful one-of-a-kind items from nature’s bounty with a utilitarian purpose seems to be the best of both worlds--practical, yet beautiful works of art.

Tom Midura and Julie Kalesnik
Jewelry Artist

Tom and Julie have created a bold and unique jewelry collection by transforming the raw beauty of simple beach stones into one-of -a-kind wearable art. The stones have been shaped and polished by the natural forces of surf, wind and sand. Tom and Julie gather the stones from their resting place along the shores of New England, and arrange them in such a way as to showcase their individual and unique beauty. This is a jewelry collection truly inspired by nature.

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Jeff Gray
Jewelry Artist

“When asked to specifically identify influences on my work I can only say that most of my designs are inspired by the world around me, especially music, architecture, early cultures and nature. As a native Vermonter, I grew up in the foothills of the Green Mountains. The regions Greek Revival houses and soft rolling hills are reflected in the fluid curves and classic lines of my work. Having been a jeweler for thirty-five years, I constantly strive to develop a clean , elegant and affordable collection.”

Lori Presthus
Jewelry Artist

Lori's original artwork is rendered in Egg Tempera and pastels, printed to size with pigment based archival ink on acid free paper, then bezeled and coated with resin to make beautiful jewelry created from an original work of art.

Kim Sutherland
Jewelry Artist

Kim doesn't have an official bio yet... so you could say her art tells the story ... cutting edge and much sought after. Get it while you can!

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Ann Ward

My paintings are creative impressions of magical moments which capture the essence of a time and a place…somewhere you might have been or someplace you may like to visit…in reality or in your imagination.

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