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2025 Small Stones Festival of the Arts

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THIS WEB GALLERY SHOWS ALL SUBMITTED ARTWORK.  ARTWORK SELECTED BY OUR JURORS FOR EXHIBITION AND PUBLISHING ARE NOTED.

 

  1. VIEWING - Click on an image for a larger view.
  2. NAVIGATION - The images are sorted with prizewinners first (note that most prizes will be awarded on January 25), then alphabetically by artist last name. Note that there are multiple pages in the gallery - use the page selector to see more entries.
  3. SEARCHING - You can enter an artist's first or last name in the search box to find a given artist.
  4. FILTERING - You can create a filtered view to see only paintings or photography by selecting a choice in the Category Filter box. You can see only those entries selected by our jury for inclusion in our exhibition and printed catalog by using the Tag Filter.
  5. PURCHASING ARTWORK - Artwork on display at the in-person exhibition may be purchased if the artist has elected to make it available for sale.

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Tuscan Cyprus
Tuscan Cyprus
Ann Gurney
$350.00


Artist statement: Tuscany offers such beautiful landscapes, I wanted to capture it on a canvas. The warm golden colors along with the wonderful perspectives led me to paint this line of Cyprus trees on a bright afternoon. I painted in oil and wanted to paint loose and have fun with it.
Red Tuscany
Red Tuscany
Ann Gurney
$350.00


Artist statement: I came upon this Bicycle while walking in Tuscany. The red color popped against the dull textured stucco backdrop of the building. I captured only a section of the bike as I thought the shapes were interesting. I used a digital camera.
Illuminated
Illuminated
Lucia Hackett
$300.00

Selected for Exhibition
Artist statement: I visited this fallen tree many times knowing that one day I would find a bird who would add to the beauty of it. This Great Blue Heron relaxed his wing to soak up the first rays of the setting sun shining through the forest. The stillness of the air allowed for the wonderful line of reflective angles on the water’s surface. In seconds the scene disappeared along with the sun’s rays never to be repeated!
Tip of the ear to end of the tail lovely!
Tip of the ear to end of the tail lovely!
Lucia Hackett
$250.00


Artist statement: I had been quietly observing this mother Red Fox for many days while respecting her space and behavior. In a magical moment she decided to rest from hunting prey for her babies and positioned herself perfectly across from my car. Such a privilege when she gave me soft beautiful eye contact not to be forgotten❣️
Playful light
Playful light
Lucia Hackett
$250.00


Artist statement: The agricultural spirit of a Country Fair inspired me to photograph a horse pull and their magnificent draft horse teams. To my delight the heat of the late Summer’s sun tickled the air into playing games and created a magical background for this beautiful draft horse team’s portrait.
Quabbin Rest Stop
Quabbin Rest Stop
George Hancin
$500.00


Artist statement: I greatly enjoy painting from life; to look at a motif and have your hands fall in sync with your eyes is a magic experience. The dynamic interaction of focused looking and its recording creates its own type of meditative high. The past many years I have been concentrating on suburban, and rural landscape painting. I have been exploring how light, time, and seasonal describe a place and set mood. I am interested in how architecture, cars, and street signs, interact with the natural environment
Specific medium: oil on board
Jen's Cottage
Jen's Cottage
George Hancin
$600.00


Artist statement: I greatly enjoy painting from life; to look at a motif and have your hands fall in sync with your eyes is a magic experience. The dynamic interaction of focused looking and its recording creates its own type of meditative high.The past many years I have been concentrating on suburban, and rural landscape painting. I have been exploring how light, time, and seasonal describe a place and set mood. I am interested in how architecture, cars, and street signs, interact with the natural environment
Specific medium: oil on board
Purgatory Creamery 1
Purgatory Creamery 1
George Hancin
$900.00


Artist statement: I greatly enjoy painting from life; to look at a motif and have your hands fall in sync with your eyes is a magic experience. The dynamic interaction of focused looking and its recording creates its own type of meditative high.The past many years I have been concentrating on suburban, and rural landscape painting. I have been exploring how light, time, and seasonal describe a place and set mood. I am interested in how architecture, cars, and street signs, interact with the natural environment
Specific medium: oil on board
Oakhurst Road
Oakhurst Road
George Hancin
$800.00

Selected as Alternate
Artist statement: I greatly enjoy painting from life; to look at a motif and have your hands fall in sync with your eyes is a magic experience. The dynamic interaction of focused looking and its recording creates its own type of meditative high.The past many years I have been concentrating on suburban, and rural landscape painting. I have been exploring how light, time, and seasonal describe a place and set mood. I am interested in how architecture, cars, and street signs, interact with the natural environment
Specific medium: oil on board
Season of the Black Bird
Season of the Black Bird
Maggie Hart


Artist statement: I am a watercolor artist with a love of detail and realism. In my work I use objects and nature to expresses the theme of the human emotional response to all one lives in a life.
Linked to the Past
Linked to the Past
Maggie Hart
$300.00


Artist statement: I am a watercolor artist with a love of detail and realism. My work uses everyday objects and nature to express the theme of the shared human emotional experiences that one lives in a life.
Stromness, Scotland in the fog
Stromness, Scotland in the fog
Pam Haynes
$275.00

Selected for Exhibition
Artist statement: When visiting Stromness, Scotland, on a foggy morning, I was enchanted by this street.
Specific medium: Watercolor
Norwegian Horse
Norwegian Horse
Pam Haynes
$200.00


Artist statement: I visited a Norwegian farm outside of Bergen Norway and I was fascinated by the personality of these rare horses.
Specific medium: Watercolor
MCA Kicks Ass, Tower Records, 1997
MCA Kicks Ass, Tower Records, 1997
Jen Heck
$250.00


Artist statement: As a filmmaker, music has always been an inspiration to me. While I was a student at NYU in the ‘90s, music was everywhere, but I was too poor to attend concerts. However, I carved out an opportunity to use my camera for access by working as a music photojournalist. Only a (naive) teenager at the time, I often developed a friendly rapport with the artists I met. In this image, MCA was gracious enough to pose with my skateboard at Luscious Jackson’s album release at Tower Records on W4th.
Specific medium: 35mm film
Prince at the Palladium in NYC, July 14, 1994
Prince at the Palladium in NYC, July 14, 1994
Jen Heck
$275.00


Artist statement: As a filmmaker, music has always been an inspiration to me. While I was a student at NYU in the ‘90s, I had an opportunity to use my camera for access by working as a music photographer. Just a teenager at the time, I often developed a friendly rapport with artists I met. In this image, Prince plays at NYC’s Palladium in the summer of 1994. Later, in 2016, I made Prince’s official memorial film with Van Jones. That film screened at his public memorial in Minneapolis for over 17,000 fans.
Specific medium: 35mm film
FOCSA Havana
FOCSA Havana
Jen Heck
$200.00

Selected for Exhibition
Artist statement: I am an avid history buff, and finally, in 2014, after years of curiosity, I was able to visit Havana when it briefly reopened during an easement for artists and professionals. The city feels frozen in time, as if the clock stopped in 1953. It was a fascinating study in architecture, history, and decay. This image is of the FOCSA Building, a monolithic architectural block in a mixed Brutalist-Modern style, facing Havana’s Malecón and overlooking the Straits of Florida.
Specific medium: Digital camera
Adventure Part 1: Himalayas Versus Twin Engine
Adventure Part 1: Himalayas Versus Twin Engine
Jen Heck
$200.00


Artist statement: Like so many before me, I was drawn by the allure of the Far East and its multifaceted promise of adventure, including one of the greatest earthly challenges one can imagine—Mount Everest. I was fortunate to travel to the mountain twice for my film work, and although the journey is mostly on foot, it begins with a precarious plane ride on an outdated Russian plane, landing on the world’s most dangerous runway at the mountainside Lukla airport. This image represents part one of that long journey.
Specific medium: Digital camera
Quiet Watcher, Havana Streets
Quiet Watcher, Havana Streets
Jen Heck
$200.00

Selected for Exhibition
Artist statement: I am an avid history buff, and finally, in 2014, after years of curiosity, I was able to visit Havana when it briefly reopened during an easement for artists and professionals. The city feels frozen in time, as if the clock stopped in 1953. It was a fascinating study in architecture, history, and decay. This image is a typical street scene that could have been just as easily taken in 1954 as 2014.
Specific medium: Digital camera
Cairn
Cairn
Ria Hills
$590.00

Selected for Exhibition
Artist statement: Ria Hills was born in The Netherlands, raised in New York, and presently paints in her home studio in Uxbridge, MA. Her still life paintings are born from the appreciation of the play of light on common objects or a scene. Revealing the beauty of simple subjects that are frequently overlooked is a challenge that she enjoys.
Specific medium: Acrylics on canvas
Summer's End
Summer's End
Ria Hills
$425.00


Artist statement: Ria Hills was born in The Netherlands, raised in New York, and presently paints in her home studio in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. Revealing the beauty of simple subjects that are frequently overlooked is a challenge that she enjoys.

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