Gallery
Our Artists
Painters:
Annie Barnhardt - Annie works in graphite, oil, and water-based media. Currently, she is exploring the possibilities of discovering and drawing out the real which is hidden in the abstract.
Mike Silver – Mike enjoys painting with oil paint. His still lifes are realistic and beautiful. Additionally, he is also a wood artist with a variety of wood pieces being displayed.
Melanie Pacoli Eck – Melanie paints and draws with a keen eye and a passion for her subjects which include individuals’ young and old, animals, and the environment around us.
Jewelry:
April Wengren – April loves hammering, riveting, and soldering together different metals. She works in copper, brass, nickel, sterling and Argentium silvers. She enjoys contrasts - textured metal against smoothly polished metal, geometric shapes against the curvy, winding forms in nature, and different colors of metal incorporated into the same piece."
Ceramics:
Deb Stabley – Deb does clay work and also 2-d mixed media wall pieces using a polymer cement process over wood. Her inspirations are many. She is drawn to and fascinated by the natural world. Through the use of color and texture, her hope is to create an interesting sense of depth.
Dave Stabley - Dave’s imagery reflects situations that are comfortable, mysterious, and romantic in nature. Fascinated by the unknown and the mysteries of the universe, his faces emit emotions, feelings and energy that create a mood within the surrounding landscape.
Jeff Krankoskie – Jeff’s wood-fired raku clay technique produces a dramatic display of fire and smoke when red hot pieces are pulled directly from the kiln and plunged into dried organic materials. This combination generates a more ancient or timeless appearance.
Sara Baker – Sara creates functional and altered pots in rich jewel-toned glazes. Additionally, she creates fine carved vessels and tiles from clay that play interplay with angles, light, and rich glazes
Mike Morris Michael is a self-taught wood-fired potter specializing in Japanese-inspired works. Embracing the concept of wabi-sabi beauty, he intends for the viewer to closely examine each work and find in themselves what draws them to his works. By not using glazes in the traditional sense, he relinquishes control of his surfaces to the kiln and chance. All of his pieces are formed by hand without the use of a potter's wheel. They are then fired without glaze in his wood-fired kiln called an Anagama, " hole or cave kiln," for 7 days. The resulting surfaces is a collaboration between the clay body and the melted wood ash, creating what is called natural ash glaze. All of the works are food-safe and should be hand
Theresa Madison
Theresa has always been a clay lover. She has a wealth of experience working in clay as well as teaching ceramic classes, from kindergarten to adult. Her work is a continual growing experience: experimenting with clay bodies, glaze formulas, and material additions to the finished works. currently, her work is focusing on organic forms bumping up against formal structures, surface texture, and the marrying of fluid glazes and patterns.
Fiber Arts:
Sara Mika - Sara Mika was born in Johnson City, NY. She was raised in and around the nearby city of Binghamton, NY where she encountered her earliest artistic influence, her grandfather Armondo Dellasanta. He demonstrated not only a love of fine art, but the act of making it relentlessly and Mika's formative years were witness to this devotion.
Mika earned a Valedictorian Scholarship and studied the liberal arts with concentrations in fine art and art education at Lycoming College in Williamsport, PA. She graduated summa cum laude in 2001, receiving the Faculty Award for Achievement in Fine Art. During her years at Lycoming, Mika worked as a student gallery assistant for the art department. It was here, while installing an exhibit entitled "The Lucky Tomato Pincushion Project," that she first experienced work by renowned art quilters such as Susan Shie, Wendy Huhn, and Jane Burch Cochran. Mika attended a lecture and slide presentation by Burch Cochran and was amazed to discover that art quilts are not traditional craft pieces, but works of contemporary fine art implementing the principles and elements of design to amazing effect. She was hooked.
Upon graduation, Mika settled near Bloomsburg, PA where she has since worked as an independent fiber artist under the moniker Mock Pie Studio. Her techniques involving textile paint, needle, and thread are entirely self-taught, although she draws heavily on her formal education in terms of composition and design.
Mika has found acceptance of her bold artistic vision challenging in her small rural town, yet she persists, remaining true to her raw inner voice. Her themes involve human sexuality, reproduction, body image, and love. Wit, sarcasm, and humor are often utilized to express her unique perception of her surroundings. She believes there is contemplative worth in the seemingly commonplace and uses her work to spark conversation. With an illustrative quality reminiscent of children's books, Mika employs bright colors to create typically small format art quilts that she coins "art with heart."
Mika's work has been included in several publications including Quilting Arts Magazine and Cloth Paper Scissors Studios and her work has been seen in both local and national exhibits. Large-scale installations of her work can be viewed at Bloomsburg University and The Children's Museum both in Bloomsburg, PA, and Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, PA. She currently resides in Catawissa, PA with her husband, Ryan, and twins Ellen Faye and Ethan Finn.
My sites are:
mockpiestudio.com
mockpiestudio.myshopify.com
instagram.com/mockpiestudio
facebook.com/mockpiestudio
Denise Richards – Her creative process began on a large four-harness floor loom weaving heavy wool rugs and placemats. More recently she has been working on an 8-harness loom using fine threads, weaving scarves and shawls, and other fiber mediums to convey the sight of color.
Photography:
Robert H. Brown – Robert is constantly traveling. His subjects often include sweeping landscapes, out-of-the-way places, natural abstractions, historic architecture, and distinctive portraits. He uses all the tools of modern and historic photography. All his photographs are handcrafted in his darkrooms, digital lab, and studio.
Painters:
Annie Barnhardt - Annie works in graphite, oil, and water-based media. Currently, she is exploring the possibilities of discovering and drawing out the real which is hidden in the abstract.
Mike Silver – Mike enjoys painting with oil paint. His still lifes are realistic and beautiful. Additionally, he is also a wood artist with a variety of wood pieces being displayed.
Melanie Pacoli Eck – Melanie paints and draws with a keen eye and a passion for her subjects which include individuals’ young and old, animals, and the environment around us.
Jewelry:
April Wengren – April loves hammering, riveting, and soldering together different metals. She works in copper, brass, nickel, sterling and Argentium silvers. She enjoys contrasts - textured metal against smoothly polished metal, geometric shapes against the curvy, winding forms in nature, and different colors of metal incorporated into the same piece."
Ceramics:
Deb Stabley – Deb does clay work and also 2-d mixed media wall pieces using a polymer cement process over wood. Her inspirations are many. She is drawn to and fascinated by the natural world. Through the use of color and texture, her hope is to create an interesting sense of depth.
Dave Stabley - Dave’s imagery reflects situations that are comfortable, mysterious, and romantic in nature. Fascinated by the unknown and the mysteries of the universe, his faces emit emotions, feelings and energy that create a mood within the surrounding landscape.
Jeff Krankoskie – Jeff’s wood-fired raku clay technique produces a dramatic display of fire and smoke when red hot pieces are pulled directly from the kiln and plunged into dried organic materials. This combination generates a more ancient or timeless appearance.
Sara Baker – Sara creates functional and altered pots in rich jewel-toned glazes. Additionally, she creates fine carved vessels and tiles from clay that play interplay with angles, light, and rich glazes
Mike Morris Michael is a self-taught wood-fired potter specializing in Japanese-inspired works. Embracing the concept of wabi-sabi beauty, he intends for the viewer to closely examine each work and find in themselves what draws them to his works. By not using glazes in the traditional sense, he relinquishes control of his surfaces to the kiln and chance. All of his pieces are formed by hand without the use of a potter's wheel. They are then fired without glaze in his wood-fired kiln called an Anagama, " hole or cave kiln," for 7 days. The resulting surfaces is a collaboration between the clay body and the melted wood ash, creating what is called natural ash glaze. All of the works are food-safe and should be hand
Theresa Madison
Theresa has always been a clay lover. She has a wealth of experience working in clay as well as teaching ceramic classes, from kindergarten to adult. Her work is a continual growing experience: experimenting with clay bodies, glaze formulas, and material additions to the finished works. currently, her work is focusing on organic forms bumping up against formal structures, surface texture, and the marrying of fluid glazes and patterns.
Fiber Arts:
Sara Mika - Sara Mika was born in Johnson City, NY. She was raised in and around the nearby city of Binghamton, NY where she encountered her earliest artistic influence, her grandfather Armondo Dellasanta. He demonstrated not only a love of fine art, but the act of making it relentlessly and Mika's formative years were witness to this devotion.
Mika earned a Valedictorian Scholarship and studied the liberal arts with concentrations in fine art and art education at Lycoming College in Williamsport, PA. She graduated summa cum laude in 2001, receiving the Faculty Award for Achievement in Fine Art. During her years at Lycoming, Mika worked as a student gallery assistant for the art department. It was here, while installing an exhibit entitled "The Lucky Tomato Pincushion Project," that she first experienced work by renowned art quilters such as Susan Shie, Wendy Huhn, and Jane Burch Cochran. Mika attended a lecture and slide presentation by Burch Cochran and was amazed to discover that art quilts are not traditional craft pieces, but works of contemporary fine art implementing the principles and elements of design to amazing effect. She was hooked.
Upon graduation, Mika settled near Bloomsburg, PA where she has since worked as an independent fiber artist under the moniker Mock Pie Studio. Her techniques involving textile paint, needle, and thread are entirely self-taught, although she draws heavily on her formal education in terms of composition and design.
Mika has found acceptance of her bold artistic vision challenging in her small rural town, yet she persists, remaining true to her raw inner voice. Her themes involve human sexuality, reproduction, body image, and love. Wit, sarcasm, and humor are often utilized to express her unique perception of her surroundings. She believes there is contemplative worth in the seemingly commonplace and uses her work to spark conversation. With an illustrative quality reminiscent of children's books, Mika employs bright colors to create typically small format art quilts that she coins "art with heart."
Mika's work has been included in several publications including Quilting Arts Magazine and Cloth Paper Scissors Studios and her work has been seen in both local and national exhibits. Large-scale installations of her work can be viewed at Bloomsburg University and The Children's Museum both in Bloomsburg, PA, and Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, PA. She currently resides in Catawissa, PA with her husband, Ryan, and twins Ellen Faye and Ethan Finn.
My sites are:
mockpiestudio.com
mockpiestudio.myshopify.com
instagram.com/mockpiestudio
facebook.com/mockpiestudio
Denise Richards – Her creative process began on a large four-harness floor loom weaving heavy wool rugs and placemats. More recently she has been working on an 8-harness loom using fine threads, weaving scarves and shawls, and other fiber mediums to convey the sight of color.
Photography:
Robert H. Brown – Robert is constantly traveling. His subjects often include sweeping landscapes, out-of-the-way places, natural abstractions, historic architecture, and distinctive portraits. He uses all the tools of modern and historic photography. All his photographs are handcrafted in his darkrooms, digital lab, and studio.