OCFAL Artist Directory

Here you will find a list of all OCFAL affiliated artists. Click on any of the artist's names to view their profile.

  • Kathy Arleth
  • Kathleen M. Arleth is a Somers Point, NJ artist who works in the media of watercolor and pen and ink. She specializes in landscapes and streetscapes of the local area and from her many visits to small towns and villages of Europe, especially the West of Ireland and Southern Italy.
  • Robert Baum
  • "Baum’s abstract paintings pack a punch. Painted impasto with a vibrant energy, I feel the air, light, and wind.” — Peter Trippi, editor of Fine Art Connoisseur magazine, and juror/judge at the Long Beach Island. N.J. Plein Air Plus competition, awarded Baum first place.
  • René Capri
  • I enjoy taking photographs of my life’s journeys. After living in many different places, my two favorite places are Los Angeles, CA and the Jersey Shore. I focus on the beauty of every day life!
  • Joanne Coffman
  • After receiving her BA in Visual Arts from West Virginia University, Joanne migrated from her home state of WV to southern New Jersey. She has exhibited her art at the Ocean City Art Center, TLC, Shore Memorial Hospital, Nashville North Studio, Chora Leone Gallery, Virua Hospital, Ocean City Fine Arts League, Jesse Creek Winery and Riverfront Renaissance. Professionally, Joanne is a Realtor, who enjoys cooking, gardening, fishing, and most of all, her friends and family.
  • Merryl Cool
  • My body of work encompasses images of architecture, landscape and still life, although I am drawn to a wide range of subjects. My goal is to create a bold work of art that resonates with my vision of the subject. I achieve this primarily through the creation of unique compositions and generous use of color. Inspirations for my compositions come from travels and life experiences.
  • Linda Crane
  • Many of my pastel paintings were started on site and finished my studio. I've fallen in love with the rich, intense colors of pastel, as well as the spontaneous nature of the medium.
  • Peg Dittmar
  • Peg has been a professional for twenty-five years working in both oil and watercolor. She has won forty-five awards and three banks have purchased her paintings.
  • Dennis Doyle, Jr.
  • I'm an addict, a full blown plein-air painting addicted junkie! For the past year or so, I have been getting my paint on from Cape May to Ocean City to Somers Point to Atlantic City, along with other locals as well.
  • Sharon Egan
  • Since completing my BFA at Penn State University, I continue my education at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and in private workshops. In addition to being represented in galleries and juried shows, I've been honored to receive awards for my work in both watercolor and oil.
  • Betty Fernandez
  • Painting is my way of appreciating and preserving familiar places, people and things as I see them in this moment in time. It is by working that I find my ideas evolving and taking shape, until the essence of my subject comes through.
  • Alexis Flack
  • Alexis creates nature-inspired art bringing the outside in. She composes tree print art and stained glass from what she encounters in nature to share its beauty and encourage all of us to do everything we can to protect it.
  • Cary Galbraith
  • Cary studied at The Philadelphia College of Art, currently The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Phoenix School of Design, NYC and PAFA The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. She received her certificate from the Academy in 1976.
  • Elissa Goldberg
  • Elissa Goldberg started drawing with pastels approximately 20 years ago. Some of her pieces have been inspired by her many travels and wondrous explorations through her native Bucks County, while others come from her vivid imagination.
  • Shirley Hawthorne
  • Shirley grew up in rural South Jersey where she developed an appreciation for the beauty in simple things, a love of nature, and a practical resourcefulness. These earthy values have guided her life long interest in art, and she has been inspired to see found art in things as diverse as design in urban street cleaning carts and manhole covers to patterns in sand and textures in river stones.
  • Rae Jaffe
  • My first love is painting in oils, but I also enjoy working with pastels. I like to take everyday scenes and elevate their importance through the use of color.
  • Doreen Khebzou
  • I love to work and create with my hands and I am very susceptible to visual beauty and images. A lovely walk has many lingering stops and my pockets fill with interesting rocks and feathers.
  • Mary Ann Kline
  • Mary Ann's primary interest is oil landscapes with secondary studies in watercolor, acrylic, pastel, print and jewelry making, pottery, figure drawing and fiber arts.
  • Wanda Kline
  • Oil is Kline’s primary medium. She paints with palette knife and brush on large canvases, sometimes creating a thick impasto. Glazes give an added depth and luminosity. Her style can best be described as contemporary realism. The images are recognizable, depicted in a loose, painterly fashion.
  • Joanne Killian
  • Her inspiration for painting came from her garden. Her first love was gardening and through that the two were complimentary hobbies. She began painting beautiful flower pots and table linens. At the urging of her children and grandchildren and those who saw her creations, she began to take her artwork seriously.
  • Steve Lamond
  • With my father a photoengraver, I was raised in a household with two darkrooms and a light table in the basement – cameras and art supplies everywhere. So I’m deeply excited by the capabilities of digital-darkroom technology, and I love exploring those tools to push my camera work into the realm of art and imagination.
  • Carolyn LaMountain
  • While never losing her love of art, Carolyn seldom had time to pursue it with any great regularity until she retired from teaching. She started taking drawing classes at Ventnor City Cultural Arts Center with Joe Duffy, a retired Atlantic City High School art teacher. She then participated in watercolor classes with noted watercolorist Marie Natale, and has taken workshops at Atlantic Cape Community College. Currently, Carolyn takes a pastel class with well-known pastel artist Linda Kaufman.
  • Renee Leopardi
  • From early childhood, Renee has always been interested in art. She has pursued the love of art through workshops, self study, practice and teaching. Working primarily with soft pastels for the expressive nature of the medium, she enjoys plein air painting with other local artists.
  • Marion Lotka
  • Marion Lotka studied at Moore College of Art, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia College of Art and graduated from Philadelphia University. Inspired by the surrounding land and seascapes, Marion works in acrylic in a loose and impressionistic style, alive with the colors of nature.
  • Amy Mahon
  • Amy has always been interested in art and has been painting with acrylics for over 20 years. Over the past few years, she has expanded on her aerial view paintings, capturing summer days spent at the beach and boardwalk and giving a bird’s eye view of farms and flower markets.
  • George Mattei
  • George Mattei’s photography has been featured in magazines, advertising campaigns, and gallery exhibits throughout the United States. A graduate of New York City’s School of Visual Arts, he has served as Staff Photographer for Fortune 500 Company Nabisco and has shot advertising campaigns for major commercial clients, including Siemens, Becton Dickson, Prentice Hall, BASF, Ricoh, and Berkeley College.
  • Carole McCray
  • Carole McCray is a Cape May artist drawn to capturing the ever-changing moods of the seasons and particular times of the day of the salt marshes, the sky and the water. "I think anyone lucky enough to be an artist easily notices the natural beauty around us; brilliant sunsets, an azure sky, cloud shapes and verdant meadows."
  • Mollie O'Mara
  • Light is what drives award winning artist Mollie O'Mara to paint in watercolor and pastel. As the hours go by, the sun reveals light in in beautiful, various ways to envoke an energy that is both familiar and unknown. Her style is free, loose and impressionistic while capturing the true essence of the scene. She brings the viewer back to a place where they have been or would like to enter.
  • In Memory of Bernice Rappoport
  • In my art I choose subjects that have a personal connection. Many of my paintings feature the play of light on landscapes, portraits/figures and still life.
  • Susan Hanna Rau
  • Susan Hanna Rau has spent her life exploring various art media. She was fortunate to find a dedicated teacher early in life who strongly influenced her artistic development.. After moving to the shore, she continued to work at developing and improving her art through a wide variety of learning opportunities including seminars and workshops covering oils, acrylics, pastels and watercolors.
  • Linda Robinson
  • I am an artist primarily working in pastels, and I also paint in oils and watercolor. I love the South Jersey landscape and colors; there is a painting to paint wherever you look! I believe the landscape is the beauty of South Jersey and I try to capture the feel, colors and beauty of the landscape in my paintings.
  • Barbara Rosin
  • Barbara Barasch Rosin was born in Philadelphia. She studied at the University of Pennsylvania, Tyler School of Art, and the Fleisher Art Memorial. She has had several artist residencies, at Vermont Studio Center and in France and Italy. Over the past thirty years, she has exhibited paintings in numerous galleries, art centers, and public spaces
  • Jill Snyder
  • "Painting with glass" has become Jill's passion as she enters a new stage in her life. Her pieces are created using primarily glass in her mosaic works. Jill is a juried artist with works in galleries along the east coast.
  • In Memory of Thelma Snyder
  • Thelma K. Snyder was a local artist who had gained recognition on the East Coast for her oil paintings. She specialized in painting unique interiors, windows, gates, doors, gardens and sea life.
  • In Memory of Deb Spinella
  • "As with life, I believe art is as a journey, not a destination. I view my artwork as a journey of self-discovery and self-expression of what moves me as I take life’s voyage."
  • Elizabeth Tasker
  • My paintings are a moment when the light and the landscape stand still. I try to capture the moment and convey that sense of place. Oil paints have always been my medium of choice. The way the colors blend, the texture of the paint as it is mixed and the way the paint goes from palette to canvas. It's an old friend that always has something new to teach me.
  • Margaret Thorn
  • Margaret specializes in watercolor realism. She changes her subjects often, as she turns to different events that pass through her life. Local scenes, unique moments of life, and memorable adventures are typical subject matter. Her paintings are without angst and reflect a down to earth and easy-going personality.
  • In Memory of Michael Waters
  • I have an unorthodox approach in handling my materials, and I add varying texture to intangible forms and bold colors to create a visual pulse that gives the work added interest yet still results in classic balance and harmony.
  • Leon Wescoat
  • Leon Wescoat 3rd, an Atlantic City native is a self taught artist in the medium of oils. Landscapes are readily seen as well as many nautical subjects. Creative works include photography as well. Leon is a registered Coast Guard artist and his works have hung in many South Jersey galleries as well in many private collections. Leon lives in Absecon with his wife and family.
  • Cheryl Patton Wu
  • Cheryl currently creates fine art in fiber and fabric in West Cape May, NJ, where she finds inspiration in the surrounding beauty of nature, the beach, and shore life. Cheryl is fascinated by color, texture, light, pattern, shapes, and movement. Using only fabric and thread, she makes “paintings” interpreting subjects such as sea life, sunsets, birds, landscapes, and skies, showing a refreshing point of view ... one containing whimsy, spirit, exuberance and depth of emotion.
  • Grace Zambelli
  • As an artist, Grace likes to use acrylics to capture the mood and nuances of everyday life. Her work in the bereavement field has propelled her to create work that affirms the consistent, positive details that are often overlooked in one's hectic, sometimes overwhelming life. She has enjoyed capturing many of these moments in the scenery and people of South Jersey.
  • Michael Zambelli
  • My paintings allow me to capture the emotional aspects of abandoned or overlooked objects, with a focus on old vehicles, products and structures. The way the sun hits it, the way the rust transforms it or the way its beauty and personality goes unnoticed are what attracts me to a particular subject matter.
  • Carol Zerbe
  • Carol has art degrees from Moore College of Art & Design and Tyler School of Art of Temple University. She paints a variety of subjects in watercolor and states that elements of color and light are of particular importance as they give a painting drama and life. She has one jazz themed grouping that is semi-abstract in style.