CARPENTER'S BARN - Artist Studio

Audrey Hamilton

Audrey Hamilton has been a digital photographer for the past several years. She discovered it later on in life as a way of handling some grief.  Audrey is an alumni of Cazenovia College and currently resides here in town.   Her work specializes in mysterious textures and shadows occurring in the natural environment, especially swampland  and forests.  Audrey also has an affinity for long scraggly trees and  branches.  Her latest gallery,  Swamp Reflections,  at the Cazenovia Library was an exploration of brilliant Autumn leaves reflected in murky puddles below.   She currently works with a Nikon Z7 and D850.  She does all her own editing and shoots in raw to preserve all the data in each image file.

Website: ahphotographycaz.org
Instagram: instagram.com/ahphotography_cazenovia/

Tara McClung

Tara McClung is an artist and teacher residing in Pompey, NY. She received her BFA in Art Education and Illustration from Syracuse University in 1996 and her MA in Graphics from SUNY Oswego in 2001. Tara works primarily in acrylics and watercolor and is currently experimenting with gouache and oil paint. She paints animals, scenes from nature, and places that evoke memories and emotions. She finds inspiration in the outdoors, in her many gardens, and from the animals that visit the meadows and woods around her home. Tara has been an art teacher in the North Syracuse Central School District since 1997 and has practiced art since childhood. 

More of her work can be seen at: 
Instagram: instagram.com/taramcclung/
Etsy: etsy.com/shop/BadCatStudios
Email: tsmcclung@gmail.com

Jaime Fedele

Jaime is an abstract artist from Syracuse, NY. Her current focus is large scale acrylic and mixed media abstractions with emphasis on texture, reflectivity and movement. She believes in the importance of play in the process of creating and that abstract art is a way of noticing your own emotional states.

Professionally she is a bodyworker who focuses on emotional release and often brings that interplay between the somatic experience and mind into her artistic work. 

In 2022 she completed a mural for Parthenon bookstore in Syracuse, NY which you can view in person, and you can often see her work shown at the Gear Factory in Syracuse. 

Instagram: instagram.com/junebug_abstract/

Jen Pepper

Jen is a visual artist who works in both two and three dimensional media. She exhibits her works regularly in solo and group exhibitions. 

Her work has been reviewed in Sculpture magazine among other journals. She has been an artist in residence to art institutions throughout the world. 

Pepper holds a BFA from The Maryland Institute College of Art & Design and an MFA from The University of Connecticut. She is a professor of art, design and art history at Cazenovia College from 2003-2023. Currently Pepper is a Visiting Professor and Gallery Director at Pratt Munson College of Art & Design.

Website: www.jenpepper.com
Instagram: instagram.com/jenpepperny/