Mollie Mcnealy
Mollie is a contemporary artist with over 25 years of experience. Her work is often created as part of a series; Passage, Rebirth, New Beginnings and The Hidden Series, 2020. Her works are described as, "colorfield moments"; they represent vast expanses of lush color and texture filled with emotion.
Mollie’s paintings have been exhibited in New York at MALO for Madison Avenue: Where Fashion Meets Art, AIR Gallery, The Paul Mellon Arts Center, Allen Sheppard Gallery, Denise Bibro Gallery, Art Capital Group Gallery, MPG Gallery, Boston, MA, Interior Design Showrooms, restaurants, and her pieces are found in a large selection of private collections all over the world.
Mollie received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Photography at Arizona State University. She received a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Painting from Pratt Institute, and received an Interior Design Certificate from Purchase College, Purchase, NY. Mollie has a grand sense of design, color theory, sensory intuition and emotion in her paintings.
Currently her paintings are on view at the Bedford Gallery, Bedford, NY.
Claire Melbourne
Claire, a New York native and artist since childhood, graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan. She began with a major in Fine Arts but transitioned to fashion, becoming an award-winning designer at London Fog, East-West, Braetan, and Gallery.
In 2008, Claire rediscovered her passion for art in the form of abstract painting.
Claire works in acrylics, oils, and various other natural and manufactured materials to create unique dimension, color, and texture. She is a student at Silvermine Arts Center in New Canaan, CT. Her works have been displayed at galleries across New York and Connecticut.
In 2013, her works were curated with a private collection of lithographs by Chagall, Picasso, and Dalí at a gallery in Rhinebeck, NY. A year later, her painting Saturday in the Country won Honorable Mention in a show judged by Walter Leidtke––a curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.