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Heather Heckel

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Due to a complication at birth, I have constant double vision. To compensate, one eye is stronger than the other and I have no depth perception. This flat vision allows me to see the world as if it were already on canvas–with visual cues of light, shadow, and scale to create form. My particular viewpoint causes everything to become a portrait, including inanimate objects. Everything has a life.

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Susan Barse Miller

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My name is Susan Barse Miller. I have shown art at the disabled level, all over the Island, including Hofstra University. They have one of my paintings. I have shown at libraries and churches at the professional level. More recently I have shown with the Art Guild of Port Washington. My background in Fine Arts comes from my family. My grandmother, Susan Barse Miller,was a painter. So was my Dad, Barse Miller. We all three studied at The Pennsylvania Acadmey of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Pa. More recently I have explored watercolors. It is a challenging and rewarding medium. I hope to continue in watercolors even though I have gone back to some acrylic painting.

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Henry Butz

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Art is the conveyance of intangible ideas and emotions through a tangible medium. The focus of my photography explores the theme of, “What does it mean to be human?”

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Hillary Serota Needle

Member Artist

As a self-taught emerging artist, my work in oils is reflective of architecture, flora, landscape and street scenes that I’ve photographed in my travels, especially during a trip to Ireland. Drawing inspiration and direction from my photographs, I trained myself to “see what I’m looking at.” By breaking down an image into shadows, light, movement, and color, I discovered the ability to breathe life into something of one dimension. I especially enjoy isolating an up-close perspective on flowers, whose patterns and complexities continue to amaze and delight – nature’s formula for the creation of something unique, imperfect and random.

With no formal training, other than an extensive undergraduate art history education at Hofstra University, I began painting in late 2017 upon receiving a gift of an easel and art supplies from my father, who paints as well. He knew I had it in me and now it was my turn to create.