I am a failed artist Enjoying every bit of it Delighted to live in my home town of Leonia NJ As a kid I studied oil painting with Charles Chapman Jewelry with Charles Cole Love this town MarciaSandmeyerWilsonArt.com

Born in 1939 into a family of artists including my sister and brother I decided to become a musician. I came to NY after graduating from Oberlin, and soon won the Concert Artists Guild competition. I wanted to design the flier for my recital so I went to the School...

Landscape, portrait and still life painting and design

I am a watercolor artist and I’m interested in creating a watercolor and greeting card workshop here in Leonia. I have a gallery page on Facebook called “My Watercolors by Tarricone” where you can see my watercolor work.

I don’t do perfect – I actually love to explore “mistakes.” Be it in mixed media or oils, there are journeys to be discovered. I do enjoy the silence and contemplation that goes with creating my work. The mental challenge to ‘listen’ to a piece and be open to what...

I am a figurative expressionist. I use color to express emotion. I like to paint people, cats, birds, flowers and my dog, Snowball. I have been in numerous Juried shows. Most recently I won Best in Show at the Belmar Arts JAS Juried Show, 2019 and Honorable Mention at the...

While running my graphic design business, Fenwick Design Inc. in New York City, I studied watercolor at the National Academy.  I have been painting with watercolor and occasionally oils for 20 years.  I attended workshops in Owls Head, Maine where my husband David and I bought a summer house and...

My work is going in a few directions both in abstraction and figurative, however the figure might not always be human, a figure to me can be alternative such as letter forms, words, maps, symbols or abstracted facial characters from vintage cartoons. Constant attempts to come away with a new...

  Leonia Visual Artist Robert Birmelin (born 1933) is an American figurative painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. “Birmelin is best known for his paintings and drawings capturing the drama of close physical involvement as experienced in the movement and tensions of the urban crowd. He has also explored a range of...

Ron Pancrazi is an artist for fifty years working in Leonia for forty of those years. The paintings are abstractions, metaphorical expressions of what may be real. Working with form and space like a sculptor. He studied fine art at the Cooper Union.