Lois Beatty has been a member of Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, in White River Junction, Vermont, since 2001, when she moved to New Hampshire from the Boston area. She had been working for many years in painting, collage, paper pulp painting, and monoprinting. After joining TRPS, her work expanded to incorporate some of the more traditional etching techniques. Recently she has been doing solarplate etching and collagraphs.

Beatty’s art straddles the abstract/realistic line, but her starting point is always shapes in nature-from rocks and bones to the human figure. Color, texture, and layering are central to her art. She teaches monoprint workshops at Two Rivers, serves on its Board of Directors, and was on the studio’s 2004, 2006, and 2008 Portfolio Committees.

She studied art and art history at Oberlin College; the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Massachusetts College of Art; Rugg Road Papers and Prints; and Two Rivers Printmaking Studio. She has exhibited in solo and group shows nationally, and was juried into the Provincetown Art Association and Museum’s Second Annual Prize Competition (juror, Grace Glueck of the New York Times), the South Shore Art Center’s All-New England Juried Exhibition (First Prize, Graphics), and the Two Rivers Momenta competition (Juror’s Prize awarded by Sharon Matt Atkins, Assistant Curator at the Currier Museum of Art). Beatty’s art has been purchased by public and private collections, including Fidelity Investments, the Washington Post, IBM, Eastman Pharmaceuticals, The New Republic, and Emily’s List. Her prints are in the 2004, 2006, and 2008 TRPS limited-edition portfolios purchased by the Boston Public Library, the Currier Museum of Art, Dartmouth’s Hood Museum, the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, the University of Vermont’s Bailey/Howe Library (Special Collections), Plymouth State University, Southern New Hampshire University’s McIninch Gallery and The Waskomium Collection.

Beatty’s work can be seen at Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, McGowan Fine Art Gallery in Concord, New Hampshire, and F.H. Clothing in Quechee, Vermont.

Rachel Gross is an artist and printmaker living in Hartland, VT. She grew up in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania and then attended Oberlin College where she majored in Religion and Studio Art. After living in Seattle for several years Rachel received an MFA in printmaking from Tyler School of Art. Rachel is an Artist Member and on the Board of Directors at Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction. She has had solo shows at Hooloon Art in Philadelphia, Norwich University, Plymouth State University, and AVA Gallery in Lebanon, NH. Her work has been exhibited in many group and juried shows including the 2013 deCordova Biennial, Color Ways at the NAGA Gallery in Boston, Impressed: Vermont Printmakers 2012 at the Helen Day Art Center, and the Northern Print Biennale in Newcastle, UK where she was the recipient of the Northern Print International Residency Prize. Her prints are in several major public collections including the Boston Public Library, The Southern Graphics Council Print Collection, the Hood Museum, and the Mead Art Museum. Rachel has been an Artist Resident at Yaddo and at Northern Print in Newcastle, UK. She has taught printmaking and foundations at the Savannah College of Art and Design, The Center for Cartoon Studies, and Amherst College. You can see more of her recent work at rachelgrossprints.wordpress.com.

Judy Lampe lives in Enfield, New Hampshire. She studied painting and art history at Mount Holyoke College and traveled extensively in her early adult years, including a two-year residency in Kyoto, Japan. Originally a watercolorist, Judy has worked in printmaking since the mid nineties. Her primary media are intaglio and relief etching, photoetching, mezzotint and monoprint.

Judy is a founding Artist Member and Board Member of Two Rivers Printmaking Studio and has participated in the publication of four portfolios of work by studio artists and faculty. She has shown individually and in two-person shows at AVA Gallery, Two Rivers Printmaking Studio; The New Hampton School; The Society For New Hampshire Forests and in juried and invitational regional shows. In 2010 she was invited by the Hood Museum to show a series of state proofs and copper plates for gallery display in “The Artful Disposition of Shades: The Great Age of English Mezzotints.” Her work was also shown at the Hood in 2012 as part of The Wise Collection.

Judy’s work can be seen at Two Rivers Printmaking Studio and in
The Members Gallery at AVA Gallery and Art Center.

Elizabeth Mayor´s woodcuts are sometimes large in scale and created with power tools. At other times they are small and hand cut, with the addition of chine collé and thread. Her years as a sculptor can be felt in the dimensional aspects she favors in her prints. 

Elizabeth received an MFA from Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and has exhibited extensively throughout New England and in New York, where she was included in the American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture in 1993. Selected solo shows include Boston´s Alpha Gallery, Saint-Gaudens Historical Site in Cornish, NH and the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, NH, which recently purchased several of her works for its permanent collection. 

Elizabeth Mayor´s studio is in Hanover, NH and her art can be seen at McGowan Fine Art in Concord, NH; AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, NH; and Two Rivers Printmaking Studio.

Sheryl Trainor attended Massachusetts College of Art and later received a BA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is a signature member of the Vermont Watercolor Society and a board member of Two Rivers Printmaking Studio.

Her work has been shown at Pegasus Gallery in Quechee, VT; Southern Vermont Art Center and Gallery North Star in Manchester, VT; Woodstock Gallery in Woodstock, VT; AVA Gallery in Lebanon, NH; and the West Branch Gallery in Stowe, VT.

She participated in the 2008 and 2011 Portfolios which are in the collections of Boston Public Library, University of Vermont Special Collections, Plymouth State College, and Southern New Hampshire University.

Her work can be seen at the Woodstock Gallery in Woodstock, VT and the Long River Gallery in Lyme, NH or at www.sheryltrainor.com.

BA Fine Arts, Michigan State University
BPA Advertising and Illustration, Art Center School in Los Angeles

Sue worked for several years as an art director in New York ad agencies, then decided to leave the commercial business and began working as a printmaker and painter. She won an award which resulted in a scholarship to the National Academy where she studied the art of the woodcut and wood engraving. Recently she has been working with Vijay Kumar, master printer at the Manhattan Graphics Center. She has shown her paintings, prints and drawings in several open studio shows in New York and at the Manhattan Graphics Center. In 2001 she had a one-woman show in Studio 23, Bay City, Michigan. Since becoming a Two Rivers Printing Studio member she has exhibited in many of their studio shows as well as at the Flyndog Gallery in Burlington, the Pegasus Gallery in Quechee, Bridgewater Mills Gallery, Bridgewater, VT and the AVA gallery (juried exhibition) in Lebanon, NH. In October of '06 her work was accepted as an exhibiting artist in the Shelburne Art Center Gallery, Shelburne, VT. Sue also took part in the opera exhibit last month at the Lebanon Opera House. This past September, she had a one woman show at The Two Rivers Printing Studio. In April of 2008, Sue had another one-woman show at the Manhattan Graphics Center in New York.

Nancy Wightman is an oil painter and a printmaker. Though largely self-taught, Wightman has studied painting and printmaking at the AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire and Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, including printmaking courses with Jose Clemente Orozco III and Brian D. Cohen. 

Wightman has exhibited her work with artist members of Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in their studio gallery and at the Vermont Council on the Arts, Montpelier, Vermont; and in New Hampshire at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon; The Fells, John Hay Estate, Newbury; Kimball Union Academy, Meriden; and at the AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon. Her work was included in the 2006 New Hampshire Prints of the Year at the Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord. 

Wightman is a founding artist member of Two Rivers Printmaking Studio. She served on the Portfolio 2004 Committee.

Victoria Shalvah Herzberg has lived in Vermont for over 35 years, during which time she was a research faculty member at Dartmouth Medical School who took occasional art classes at AVA Gallery and Art Center when it was located in Hanover, NH. Following her retirement, she concentrated on  original design knitting, pottery, and painting. After becoming a juried signature member of the Vermont Watercolor Society, she studied  at TRPS where she continues to perfect non-toxic alternatives to traditional printmaking. Her images range in subject matter from local scenery and botanicals to the human figure and non-representational abstraction.

Sheri earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, an Associate Degree in Graphic Design, and a Bachelor of Design in Visual Communication from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Canada, where she was awarded an Endowment Fund Scholarship, a Centennial Scholarship and an Elizabeth Greenshields Grant. After spending five years working for the Swiss Visual Communications firm, Gottschalk +Ash International in Montreal, Quebec, Sheri went on to complete her Master of Arts at the University of Iowa. Sheri is the Manager at Two Rivers Printmaking Studio.

Penelope Bennett moved to the US to attend Hunter College, and later, Cooper Union, in NYC. For a period of thirteen years Bennett lived and worked in Spain. She currently divides her time between large scale portrait commissions and etchings. Bennett has exhibited her work in the US and abroad including exhibitions in Paris, France; London, England; Barcelona, Spain; and NYC. Her work is in many public collections, including Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York; the Museo De Art Contempoaneo, Villafames, Spain; Muse De Bellas Artes, the Museum of the University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire. It is also in the private collections of Harry Belefonte, Leonard Berstein, Kenneth Clark, Allen Ginsberg, Diego Hidalgo, Norman Miller, Gregory Peck, Benjamin Spock, Gloria Steinenm, Jose Luis Sert, and Kurt Vonnegut, among many others.

Janet Cathey, lives in Randolph, VT, and recently retired from teaching art to K-8th grade students.  She received a BA degree in Geology from Carleton College, Northfield, MN, and K - 12 Certification to teach Art from Upper Valley Educators Institute.

Type of Work: Monoprints and Relief Prints

Artist Statement: My inspiration, like many artists, comes from patterns and shapes in the natural world, from microscopic organisms such as pollen grains to landforms such as meandering rivers.  I’m also inspired by the children that I teach. I admire the freedom with which young children approach art making.

I enjoy trying new printmaking processes. I currently make many-layered prints, overlapping images to make one of a kind monoprints. I like to collage, sew, paint, and draw on prints.

I started making bird relief prints so that I could create a bird calendar as a gift to one of my sons, who works with raptors. I have gone beyond 12 bird images!

Carol Lippman divides her time between West Newbury, Vermont and Syosset, New York. In addition to being an avid painter, Carol enjoys making daily collages. Her prints and collages have been exhibited at group and solo exhibitions at various Long Island and New Hampshire venues.

Pepe combines linocut, collagraph, and solarplate etching techniques. She studied printmaking at Union College in Schenectady with Sandra Wimer. Pepe has worked as a circus performer, aerial photographer and member of the U.S. Freestyle Ski Team. In addition to her art, she works for the Killington Mountain School in Vermont.

Jes Raymond works with relief and monoprint techniques. She lives in Wilder VT, and earned her BA at The Evergreen State College in Olympia WA. She is both a musician and a visual artist, and is inspired by the ways in which she can connect the day to day with the natural world and the larger mythic stories playing out in our lives. She is always exploring the ways that music and art can intersect- looking for silence and rhythm in her visual work and color and texture in her musical compositions. She has been awarded the Jackstraw Foundation Artist Award, The Seattle City Artist Award, and the 2021 VT Arts Council Creation Grant for her interdisciplinary work.