N A N C Y  C A M P B E L L

Nancy Campbell finds inspiration not in grand, romantic landscapes, but in more intimate and perhaps overlooked details of familiar places. She is intrigued by small-town streetscapes, farmhouses, woodlands, waterways and even her backyard laundry line. “The interplay of sunlight and shadow inevitably draws me in. I aim to put transcendent moments to paper or canvas using oil paint, occasionally oil pastel, watercolor and, most recently, gouache. Gouache is a medium I have come to enjoy during the past few years. Having studied and painted in transparent watercolor for many years, I find that gouache, essentially opaque watercolor, is a versatile medium that has the possibility of adding layers for luminous effects, not unlike oils.”

This past year Nancy began teaching gouache painting at the Woodstock School of Art where she started in the 1980s as a watercolor student of Staats Fasoldt. Nancy has served there as an instructor, as Executive Director and Vice President of the Board of Directors, as well as other board positions over the years. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Nancy grew up in Saugerties, where she still lives with her husband Michael. Nancy’s son Jon, an artist and musician, lives in Berlin, Germany. In this summer Lodge Gallery exhibit we are showing Nancy’s work for the fourth time and we are excited to also include some of Jon’s paintings here.

A former proprietor of the Half Moon Studio Art Gallery in Saugerties, since 2012 Nancy has organized art workshops in Italy. Aside from exhibits in New York and Italy, Nancy has been featured in juried art exhibits from Cape Cod to Georgia to Arkansas. She has earned various awards, such as the Mary Wilson Award for Excellence in Landscape Painting from the Woodstock Art Association, First place in the National All Media show at the Chico Art Center in California and the Hannah Lee Stokes Memorial Prize from the Cooperstown Art Association. She has been awarded residencies from the Cill Rialiaig Arts Center in Ballinskelligs, Ireland.

CHRIS MAGADINI

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.