A closer look

Studio visit: Claireware

While we were in New York picking out new inventory for the spring (you aren't going to believe the great things that are coming), we stopped by Brooklyn to visit Claire Weissberg in her Claireware studio.

The creative world of Denise Zompa

"Creating was always a part of our lives,” says plein air artist Denise Zompa of her childhood.

The well-kept secrets of Hessel Studios

“You'd have to be pretty dumb to want to copy us.” -Gregg Hessel

Rosalie Nadeau's nature

"Painting connects me intimately with my subject. The pure pigment of pastel and oil are unequaled in portraying the brilliant intensity of nature. As light colors life, I am inspired to paint... to create presence, a tactile feeling, the sense of specific time and space."

- Rosalie Nadeau

Jan Jacque

“I explore the idea of tranquility, balance and complexity as manifested in nature with my clay and wood," Jan Jacque says.