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One of a Kind, Custom Painted Birdhouses
Painted Original Birdhouse by Meg Ringer
Margaret Helen (Meg) Ringer grew up in Buffalo, NY, on the Western Seaway Trail, and is the youngest of nine brothers and two sisters. She moved to the North Country region of New York after marrying her husband Michael in 1974. Ringer considers her single most important role to be a mother of five daughters and a grandmother of one. Her education includes fine art and culinary studies, and she continues to create art work along the St. Lawrence River in Alexandria Bay. To contact the artist, please email her at ringer@gisco.net
Painted Original Birdhouse by Mary Tobash
Mary Tobash is a decorative painter from Hegins, PA, Pennsylvania Dutch Country, who has been painting for 25 years. Her painting preferences include wood, tin & slate media. Specific decorative pieces include children's furniture, nursery and home murals, birdhouses, brides boxes, pie boxes, welcome family signs and her own line of greeting cards. During the summer months, Mary lives on Cedar Island, Fishers landing, NY on the St. Lawrence River. To contact the artist, please email her at tobashm@epix.net.
Flight of Fancy by Barbara D. Crone
Barbara D. Crone began her artistic training at R.I.T, eventually graduating Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. While at EUP she participated in a study abroad program in Florence, Italy. She has worked in painting, print-making, and sculpture, as well as metal casting and fabrication. While raising and home schooling her four children, she used her talents in church, school, and community to paint murals, design and construct sets, and create costumes. For many years she taught art classes in public school as well as in her private studio. When her youngest went off to college she began seriously cultivating her personal style, which has evolved from realism to a more abstract simplicity. She is interested in the underlying connections between all living things, and uses oil paint and sculptural methods to explore her ideas. Her work has been exhibited in juried and invitational shows in Pennsylvania, New York, and Florida as well as Krakow, Poland. She has always invited our feathered friends to feast in her backyard and hopes her contribution adds a bit of joy to the landscape. To contact the artist, please email her at barbarac@velocity.net.
Painted Original Birdhouse by Christine Tisa
Currently teaching art in the Utica City School District in New York, Christine Tisa has also taught in Spain and Croatia. Her education includes a Masters in Art Education from Syracuse University and a Masters in Fine Arts from the Rochester Institute of Technology. In addition, she has also studied abroad in both England and Croatia. Her work includes creating tropical flora art for the Horned Dorset Primavera Hotel in Puerto Rico, and more recent endeavors include mural paintings in private homes in Florida and Washington. Many of her piece can be found in private collections in Europe, Japan, Puerto Rico and the U.S. To learn more about the artist and her artwork visit www.tisagallery.com.
Sialia sialis by Bob McNamara
The owner of Art of Wilderness, Bob McNamara is an accomplished wildlife artist. His lovely and technically accurate work has shown in exhibits both nationally and internationally, and has appeared as part of "Birds in Art" at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum. Other showings included "The Best of Wildlife Art" and New York State Conservationist. He is the Illustrator, designer and editor of Tug Hill: A Four Season Guide to the Natural Side, and is currently collaborating with ornithologist Gerry Smith to create a Seaway Trail birding guidebook. As a dedicated naturalist, McNamara, has climbed all of the high peaks of the Adirondack Mountains and has widely traveled in the American West, Alaska, and Canada. But he does most of his work at his stream-side Art of Wilderness studio in the Great Northern Forest on the edge of the Tug Hill Plateau in Central New York. To learn more about the artist and his artwork visit www.artofwilderness.com.
Box Number Two by Lawrence Barone
This trompe l'oeil oil painting on wood represents a well-used blue bird-nesting box that might be found along a rural fence line on the Seaway Trail. Over the seasons, many generations of blue birds may have raised their young in this nesting box. The weathered box is rendered with faithful detail. The number "2" tag tells the story of an ornithologist's birding survey. Mother bird is looking after her four eggs in anticipation of their hatch. Open the front Panel to discover the nest!
Lawrence Barone works in multiple mediums including pastels, oils, and sculpture. He holds a Bachelors degree in Art Education from the State University College at Buffalo and a Masters Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Massachusetts. In NY and throughout the United States, he has exhibited his work in one-man and group shows, and has won awards at the New York State Fair, North East National Pastel Show, Mat Media Exhibition, and "Clemens Country Arts in the Park". Some of his work is included in several collegiate collections and the Vatican Collection in Rome. Learn more about Lawrence Barone and his art work online at www.thegalleryfineart.com or by visiting The Gallery - Fine Art & Studio in Sackets Harbor, NY.
All artwork was donated by the artists. The birdhouses were donated by John Rogers, co-founder of the New York State Bluebird Society, and all proceeds from the sell will go to the Seaway Trail Foundation. For more information please call (315)646-1000.
