Current Exhibit
Nancy Campell, Barn at Seamon Park, 11 x 14 oil on canvas
Chris Magadini, Big Pine, 12 x 9, oil on canvas
Winter 2025 Show at The Lodge
When: December 4 - March 17, 2025
Where: The Lodge at Woodloch
Artists: Nancy Campbell + Chris Magadini
Artists’ bios
N A N C Y C A M P B E L L has always been inspired by landscapes, particularly of places most familiar to her, whether the town and village of Saugerties where she grew up and still lives, or the Italian countryside in the hills not far from Rome, where her grandparents lived. She creates imagery in oil, watercolor, and, most recently, has become intrigued with the versatile medium of gouache, which to her is a happy marriage of watercolor and oil. She believes a successful painting conveys a particular feeling of place or a moment in time, using light and shadow to reveal the exceptional beauty of an “ordinary” landscape or small-town street. The artist has received awards for her landscapes at Chico Art Center, California, SW Artists Assn. in Mena, Arkansas, The Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY, and the Woodstock Artists Assn. and Museum in Woodstock NY. One of her paintings was selected in 2025 for the prestigious annual exhibit “Made in New York,” at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn NY. She has been awarded two residencies at the Cill Rialaig Art Center in County Kerry, Ireland and in 2012 created a painting workshop in Ciociaria, Italy.
Campbell was Executive Director of The Woodstock School of Art from 2010 - 2015, where she has served on the Board of Directors since 2015. Since 2022 she has been an instructor at the school, teaching workshops in gouache painting.Born in Brooklyn, she has lived decades in Saugerties with her husband Michael. They have three adult sons.
C H R I S M A G A D I N I
was born in Great Barrington, MA, and raised in Palm Springs, CA, Los Angeles and Phoenix. After graduating from The Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles in 1970, Magadini pursued commercial illustration in Stockholm, Sweden. He returned to Phoenix, AZ, where he continued working commercially. In 1975, Mr. Magadini moved to Flagstaff, AZ, to teach art at Northern Arizona State University. In 1978, he received a full fellowship to Syracuse University and came east to earn a M.F.A. degree. Thereafter, he moved to the New York metropolitan area to further his career as a free-lance illustrator. Magadini has taught at Marymount College in Tarrytown, NY, and has been a guest lecturer at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. He lives in Great Barrington, Massachusetts and summers in the Adirondacks.
Magadini said, “For me, painting is not simply the replication of what the eye sees. It is the creation of an image that embodies my thoughts and feelings. These, I think, are fairly universal, and I seek to communicate and connect with viewers on that level.”
In recent years, Magadini has become known as a plein air painter. His growing popularity has brought avid collectors to galleries where his work has been exhibited worldwide. A former illustrator, Magadini’s credits include covers for Reader's Digest magazine, illustrations and promotional brochures for Reader's Digest Books, and illustrations for Guideposts, Angels, Field & Stream, Boating, Audubon, Flying, Women's Day, Scholastic Books and Zebra Books. He has designed stamps for the United Nations and the current American Heritage Series Collectors Plates for Royal Copenhagen USA. Illustrated books include Bible Life and Times; The Illustrated Dictionary of Bible Life and Times; After Jesus; A Passage to India; Great Disasters and Rodale's Naturally Great Foods Cookbook.
Past Exhibits
