Judith Becker
Judith Becker received a BS in Design, Certificate of Education, University of Michigan and MS in Education, Monmouth University. Of all of her art related accomplishments, she is most proud of being an art educator. Teaching people the joys of producing art, of finding solace and pleasure in the art process is a gift she gives in return for the joy it brings to her.
Judith specializes in painting with watercolors, colored pencils, pastels and often mixes her media for unusual effects. She is especially accomplished in composition, design and color theory. She is the creator of a unique art form called “Spritzilism”™, which involves using botanicals as templates for sprayed watercolor paint. The results produce interesting compositions with lots of vibrant colors and textures and is one of her specialties.
She is an award winning member of the West Virginia Watercolor Society and is a juried artist of Tamarack, “The Best of West Virginia”, where she also exhibits and sells her art through its Dickirson Gallery.
She currently resides in the WV Panhandle area where she is a member of the Board of Directors and the Coordinator of Art Education for the Berkeley Arts Council. She shows her work in the Berkeley Art Works gallery in Martinsburg.
Leah Bennett
Leah (Yoyi) Bennet is a multi media artist who is primarily self taught. She was influenced by her artist father and Carmen Trujillo, a Cuban-American artist who instilled in her the importance of being well-rounded in art disciplines. Yoyi has over 15 years experience teaching art techniques. She works with ink, watercolor, charcoal sketching, acrylics, oils, encaustics and cold wax. She rounds out her art expressions by producing her own hand crafted jewelry. She is a firm believer in up-cycling. Her passion as an artist and instructor is to bring joy and an awe moment in someone else’s life.
Liz Goins
Liz Goins resides in Charles Town, WV and has a master’s degree in art education K – 12. She offers art workshops in Book Arts, Papermaking and Papercutting techniques. She has taught through art organizations in Chambersburg, PA and the Art Center in Sarasota, FL. She is also active with the Jefferson County,WV school system, Jefferson County Arts Council, is a juried member of the Over the Mountain Studio Tour and Tamarack, ‘The Best of West Virginia’. Her work has been widely shown in Chambersburg, PA, Jefferson County, WV, Sarasota, FL, Boonsboro, MD, Frederick, MD, Takoma Park, MD, Charles Town, WV and Summit Point, WV.
David Buckley Good
David Buckley Good’s work appears in collections throughout the USA and Europe. He has been a painting and drawing instructor at Baltimore’s prestigious Schuler School of Fine Arts for 22 years.
Martha Hanley
Martha retired from public school service and has been pursuing the art she found
at midlife. “ Expressing visually that of the sacred beauty and mystery of life that
words alone can’t capture is my goal. The fun, exciting process of creating is just as
important as the final product.” She is a member of the BAC Art Coop.
Having trained as a facilitator for Soul College she has offered it in small groups in
different settings. She finds it rewarding for herself and others and sees it as a
service in these troubling times.
Robert Howard
An artist’s style has a lot to do with who we are, what our personality is like, and, in a way, it is a sort of graphic signature. Jan is interested in detail and a careful representation of what she actually sees – whether it is in a photograph, or an object or scene from real life. My interest is the essence of my subject, I am less interested in representing something as it actually is and more attracted to getting a feeling of the subject – the essence. So, most of my work here, especially the figurative pieces and portraits, try to do just that.
I also find myself being pulled to the smallness of things – so I’m not going to be attracted to grand vistas, but rather the flowers at the road side. I like still life for the same reason. I am also an eclectic, mixed media artist so that I will use whatever is at hand to help me convey the feeling I’m after – brushes, sticks, leaves, fingers – anything that makes the mark I want. And I’ll use whatever media – oils, acrylics, pastel, watercolor, charcoal and sometimes several together.
Cynthia Huesman
I am a former high school science teacher and I have also taught workshops in corporate settings as part of my pre-retirement work in Information Technology. Currently, my workshops have included a Pysanky workshop at Shepherd University and at the Firehouse Gallery in Charles Town, WV. I have also taught a Parchment Class at St. Agnes Catholic Church in Shepherdstown.
I am an oil painter who paints in a realistic style and has fun with abstraction. My subject matter includes landscapes, still lifes, architecture and patterns with occasional life drawing and portraits. I pay careful attention to the play of light on the scene before me and render my paintings and drawings with detail as well as attention to accurate colors and depiction of reflections and shadows.
Jean Marie McClure
Jeanne Marie is primarily a 2-D artist creating in Water Color, Acrylic, Collage, as well as mixed media. She has exhibited art in juried shows, exhibits and local events for over a decade. She continues to explore new ways to enhance creativity by interacting with others through art.
Victoria Pendragon
Victoria Pendragon, has exhibited in 47 juried shows across the country and has work in four corporate collections. Her work hangs in numerous private collections both in the United States and Europe. She is an ordained transformational counselor and the author of four books on emotional and energetic healing, which have been published by Ozark Mountain Publishing.
Her workshop – Collage as a Tool for Personal Transformation & Healing has been presented at venues in Providence, RI, Philadelphia, PA, Cherry Hill, NJ, and at WomanGathering, an annual event held in upstate Pennsylvania.
Victoria’s one-woman show, Witness, which consists almost entirely of collage, has been exhibited in Winchester, Virginia at the Shenandoah Arts Gallery, and in Bedford, Pennsylvania, at Locality Gallery. It is also available for viewing online at www.VictoriaPendragon.com/art-of-the-thriver/witness/.
Sterling “Rip” Smith
Sterling “Rip” Smith is an award-winning fine art and architectural photographer whose work has been exhibited nationally and regionally. His work can be found in public and private collections throughout the Mid-Atlantic Region and in galleries in the Eastern Panhandle region of West Virginia. His web site is http://www.sterlingimages.com.
Lori Thompson
Lori Thompson earned her BA in Art Education at Shepherd in 1991 (honors) and her Master’s at George Mason in 1999 (honors). Lori taught art in VA public high schools for many years. She was Director of Fine Arts at Hyde School in Woodstock, CT for four years. Lori’s teaching has encompassed all age groups: from preschoolers in daycare centers to the elderly in senior homes and from students in after-school art programs at inner city elementary schools to adults in community art centers, such as the Creative Alliance in B’more. Prior to moving back to WV in 2017, Lori was the Arts Specialist at a Veteran facility for seven years. Her passion for teaching art and her compassion for her community recently led her to develop and instruct a weekly, ongoing art class (free) for those in recovery at Berkeley County Recovery Resource Center in Martinsburg.
Jean Marie McClure
Jeanne Marie has been an active member of Berkeley Art Works for over a decade. She has participated in class offerings, juried exhibits, special events and gallery shows. She is primarily a 2-D artist creating art in watercolor, acrylics, collage and mixed media, as well as ‘wearable art” in the form of polymer clay. Jeanne Marie has always enjoyed creating since early childhood and is always exploring new was to create art; the educational opportunities offered through Berkeley Art Works have enhanced her skills, knowledge and creativity.
Jane Ping
Jane holds a master’s degree in Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She also has teacher certification in grades K-12, and has taught children/adults for over 30 years.