Grant Drumheller:  has been the recipient of a Fulbright–Hays Grant in Painting to Italy, a Blanche Colman Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Artist’s Fellowship, a New England Foundation for the Arts Grant, and a grant from the Pollock– Krasner Foundation. Most recently he was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome in 2009. He has had numerous exhibitions, including one person shows, in Italy, New York, Massachusetts, and Maine. He is currently represented by Greenhut Galleries, Portland, Maine, Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, and George Marshall Store Gallery in York Harbor, Maine. He is Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of New Hampshire. Please refer to his website for further information: www.grantdrumheller.com

Gordon D’Arcy:  is a freelance environmentalist (Masters in Environmental Science), artist, and author. He guides and lectures on environmental subjects in the west of Ireland including the Burren College of Art where he heads up Irish Studies. He also teaches peripatetically in schools under the Heritage in Schools Scheme and in the cross–border Pushkin Trust. He has had many one person art exhibitions and illustrated and published nine books on environmental subjects, mainly birds. www.gordondarcynature.com

Ashley Cook:  graduated from Glasgow School of Art with First Class BA Hons in 1986. Immediately after studying, she was screen–printing technician until 1990, then printmaking lecturer until 1995 at GSA. She maintained her art practice since graduation, winning awards and exhibiting internationally with printmaking residencies in Rejavik, Vancouver, Los Angeles, Seattle, Zacatecas, Spain, and West Africa. In recent years her focus has been on studio practice, using screen–printing and digital imaging; she mixes photographic, autographic, and found images to create illusionist environments from disparate sources. Her work is collected internationally.

Rufus Coes:  born 1940 in Longmeadow, Massachusetts. He moved to Phippsburg, Maine to paint full–time over thirty years ago. For the next twenty years he exhibited his work at galleries, juried exhibitions, and one–man shows throughout the northeast. Juried, group, and invitational exhibitions include, DeCordova Museum, Slater Memorial Museum — One–man Show,  Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, American Watercolor Society, Maine Coast Artists, All Maine Biennial, William A. Farnsworth Art Museum, and others. He also exhibited in numerous one and two–man shows in galleries in Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York.