Whether representational or abstract in design, Artist of the Month oil painter Lydia Enriquez often begins her paintings with a collage. Her use of collage to kick start her paintings gives them a delightful "other-world" feel mixed with the familiar. The result engages the viewer by drawing the eye in to bridge the real and unreal.

Judy Warner, is well known in town for her paintings of local landmarks and subjects. Judy has lived in Harvard for almost thirty five years. She enjoys drawing and painting scenes from the places she visits each day. Finding spots that have a connection to the rural past, the barns, old houses, and public buildings in our local towns and capturing the remaining agricultural and traditional New England landscape in this area are particularly satisfying to her. Most of her paintings are done in oil or acrylic on either prepared paper or canvas. Judy says, “I try to work outside as much as possible, though I do use my own photographs so ...