George Adams

George's interest in photography started at an early age.  He can still remember owning a Kodak box camera as a teenager.  Over the years he has had various 35mm. cameras, and has always taken pictures, earlier as slides later as prints.  He had never considered any outside-of-family interest in his pictures, but this changed after a few years of retirement in Rangeley.
Realizing the special nature of the scenery in his adopted town, he has taken his special judgment in his selection of subjects.  He now has a large number of quality photographs of the Rangeley area, sufficient for exhibiting.  George claims that it is a special opportunity to work with the beauty in this part of Maine.  As a result, if asked, he would classify himself as a landscape photographer with a second interest in recording the smiling faces of children.
In his early days he was a chemist, working for a large chemical company and living in Delaware.  Before that he and his wife both lived in Massachusetts and both have spent much time in Maine and New Hampshire.  An outdoor enthusiast for sure, he likes to ski, camp and canoe, and would take any picture anytime if asked.

John Bickford

John is a graduate of the Phillips Exeter Academy and of MIT.  He has studied painting at MIT (with yorgy Kepes) the Yale (Summer) Art School, the Vesper School of Art, the Famous Artists' Correspondence School and the Hartford Art School.  He has also participated in painting workshops given by Charles Sovek, Loise Bourne, William Vrsak, Frank Frederico, Robert Seifert, Ann Templeton and John Massimino.
John is a member of the Art Guild of Middletown, CT; the Arts and Crafts Association of Meriden, CT; the Hamden Art League; the Upcountry Artists of Farmington, ME; the Lyme Art Association and the New Haven Paint and Clay Club.  He is represented by the Fore Street Gallery in Portland, ME and the Classic Gallery and Framing in Farmington, ME.  He also exhibits his work at the sidewalk and club shows in Maine and Connecticut.
He has received over two dozen awards and prizes, including Best in Show at Bethel, ME and Meriden, CT.; First Prize at the Farmington Art in the Park, etc.  In 2001 he won a prize for the "best traditional portrait" at the annual exhibit of the Academic Artists of America in Springfield, Mass.
He has taught drawing, painting and printmaking.  He is the author of New Techniques in Printmaking, published by Watson Guptill in New York; and is a Contributing Editor to The Artists Magazine.
John lives in Middletown, CT and has spent summers or summer vacations in rangeley Plantation, ME since 1959.  He paints portraits and still lifes, but the bulk of his work consists of landscape paintings of Western Maine.

Pamela Jo Ellis 

Pam was born and raised between Rangeley and Cape cod, Massachusetts.  She earned a BA in Art History from Colby College in 1981 and headed out to San Francisco, working in the galleries on Fisherman's Wharf.  In 1985, she moved back to Rangeley to stay, and has been painting seriously for over 10 years.  She has won numerous awards for her realistic watercolors and her affordable high quality laser prints are popular at sidewalk shows and street fairs throughout Maine.  She has been published in two national magazines, and her clients come from all over the US.  Her original watercolors can be seen at the Christmas Classics Gallery on Main Street in Rangeley, Gallery 7 in Portland, and the Birds Nest Gallery in Bar Harbor.  She lives with her two children, Bethany and Connor, overlooking the east shore of Rangeley Lake and sees inspiration for her work at every turn.

Sonja Johnson 

Sonja was born and raised in Rangeley.  She attended the University of Southern Maine where she earned a BS in Art Education and a BFA with a concentration in photography.  Her experience as a photographer has had an impact on how she composes her works.  Her colored pencil drawings and acrylic paintings capture small moments in time or a subject closely cropped to allow viewers to find the extraordinary in the common place.  When not producing images of high realism, she lets loose with her other passion of whimsical children's drawings or polymer clay creations.  She has won a number of awards at street fairs and open juried shows.  She currently exhibits at the Gallery at Stony Batter and Birds of a Feather Gallery in Rangeley.

Ellen Magnussen

She was born in Telemark, Norway.  Drawing scetching and painting has been a big part in her life ever since she can remember.  Her formal training began in Denmark in the 1950's where Ellen studied oil painting.  After moving to Canada in 1957, she continued her studies in drawing and painting with professor Alfred Pinsky of Concordia University and also with Louis Muhlstock, a noted Canadian artists.
In the States, Ellen studied at Rhode Island School of Design and watercolors at the University of Virginia in the late 70's with Ray Yoder.
Landscapes and scenery, details and vistas, in watercolor, are what Ellen likes to do now.  Ellen and her husband Frank have lived on a pond outside Rangeley for the last 20 years.
Ellen first received recognition for her work in 1960 when a drawing of Erik, her sleeping 2 year old son, won an award at an art show in Canada.  She has received several awards since then.  Ellen's work is hanging in many private collections and can be seen at Christmas Classics in Rangeley.

Madeleine De Sinety Behrman

Madeleine was born in France and came to Rangeley in 1985.  She attended the Ecole National des Arts Decoratifs in Paris.  She got into photography by taking pictures of the last steam trains running through Paris.  Her main body of work for twenty years has been photographing a small village in Brittany.  Selected images have been exhibited at the French National Library in Paris, from May to June of 1996.  She has also been working on a photo documentary of a small village in the province of Nebbi, in northern Uganda, Africa.  Her work will be published in the August issue of Photo District News. 

Heidi Sorensen

Heidi was born near Seattle, Washington.  She attended Evergreen State College and the Factory of Visual Arts in Seattle.  She learned to sail on Puget Sound, and then set off for some travel and sailing in the Caribbean.  Heidi met her husband, Larry, and they lived and sailed together on his 37 ft. boat.  They bought land on Toothaker Island, Mooselookgeguntic Lake, as a summer retreat.  The attraction of the forest and lake won out over the tropics and the sea, they eventually sold the boat and moved to Maine year-round.

The natural beauty of the lakes and mountains inspires most of Heidi’s work.  The region’s many different vistas and overlooks provide subjects for her paintings.  She especially enjoys the many layers of the mountains, rolling hills and water. The distinct seasons offer a wide choice of moods and colors.

Some of Heidi’s most interesting work has been collages she has recently begun to do.  Here she combines a small original watercolor with various papers and other materials. Some of her most striking scenes are the starry night images.

Her work is currently being shown at Books, Lines and Thinkers in Rangeley, and The Gallery at Stony Batter in Oquossoc.

Louise Tesseo

Louise has lived in Oquossoc for twenty years.  She comes from a family of ten from Montreal.  She is a self-taught artist creating painted furniture and woodenware featuring brilliantly colored, primitive designs.

Anne Walker

Anne is a fiber artist working with fabric to create small art quilts.  Primarily self-taught. she has also taken classes and workshops with many prominent quilters and artisans in other mediums.
Her fabric pieces range from landscapes of Maine mountains and lakes to impressionistic and graphic pieces inspired by her surroundings and travels.  Each is an original design, utilizing a variety of quilting techniques and styles, non fabric materials and embellishments.
When not quilting, Anne has been exploring a variety of other fiber materials and art forms, including felt, hand-made paper, vessel construction and collage.
Anne brought her talents, along with her family, to Rangeley in 1986. Gardening, travel and the natural environment provide constant inspiration.  Her work can be seen at Birds of a Feather Gallery and area art shows and exhibits.

Sarah Walker

Sarah was born in Massachusetts and has lived in Rangeley with her family in Rangeley since 1986.  She developed her interest in art at the Rangeley Lakes Regional School as a student of Sonja Johnson.  Summer programs at the Foothills Art Camp and Maine College of Art added to her art education experiences.  Currently, Sarah is attending the University of Southern Maine, majoring in studio art with a concentration in photography.  Her photographs can be seen at Birds of a Feather Gallery on Main Street in Rangeley.

Pam was born in Springfield, Massachusetts and has lived in Rangeley since 1981.  She is a self-taught artist, quilter, and is now building intriguing dioramas.

Bill was born in 1943 in Longmeadow, Massachusetts.  He received a BFA in painting from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, and an MFA in painting from the University of Illinois, Urbana.  Wegman is best known for his 20 by 24 inch Polaroid photographs of his weimaraners.  A retrospective of Wegman's works, which originated in 1990 at the Kunsthalle in Lucerne, Switzerland, traveled to numerous museums in Europe and the United States, including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.  Wegman has also created video segments, starring his dogs, for "Sesame Street".  Man's Best Friend, a book of Wegman's photographs, was published in 1982 by Harry N. Abrams.  Some of his other published titles include Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella. 

Tami was born in Rumford, Maine.  She has lived in Rangeley for six years.  Her original decoupage works are totally functional pieces of art.  The scenes are depicted by using a series of layers.  Each layer includes a picture, cut from a variety of sources including magazines, greeting cards, wrapping paper, and books.  The images are decoupaged to the back of the glass and then painted and varnished to help preserve the piece.  The backs of the plates are finished with handmade rice paper.  Throughout her life she has dabbled in stained glass, paper mache', and mosaics, but has found this medium to be the most rewarding.

Northfield is an eight member, a cappella vocal ensemble based loosely around the community of Farmington, in the western mountains of Maine.  Northfield specializes in the vocal traditions of medieval and renaissance Europe and early America, with a repertoire that extends from the 12^th century to the 20^th.  They perform regularly throughout the region, at church and community concerts, and occasional private events.  For more information, contact Dan Woodward at 207-778-4572, Mardy Porter at 207-778-5074 or email ldghollw@rangeley.org.