Kim Hoechst

For Kim, painting is an opportunity to transform fleeting visual experiences, perceptions, and memories into something elevated, tangible, and more permanent. She seeks to express a sensory response to her surroundings and convey a point of view by organizing color relationships, form, light, and shadow into atmospheric and believable visual experiences for the viewer.

She finds inspiration from her immediate surroundings, striving to capture how light defines and transforms interior spaces; how it pours through windows and illuminates the views outside them; and how it adds interest or brings drama to everyday objects, composed to create an engaging still life.

Ms. Hoechst has been an artist for over eighteen years. She built a foundation for her drawing and painting skills through extensive study at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. More recently, she’s been engaged in individual study with Peter Van Dyck, a Philadelphia-based artist and teacher who was educated at The Florence Academy of Art in Italy. Peter’s critiques have strongly influenced her work and have guided her in a quest to keep evolving as a painter.

Anne Mitchell Reid

Anne is a tapestry weaver and pastel artist. She uses the same traditional techniques used in medieval tapestries, but incorporates geometric patterns and textures suggested by the yarns. She often adds metals and found objects to create mixed media works.

Also working in pastel, Anne uses the medium to inspire her weaving. In recent work, she has been "painting" using mohair, brushing it to mimic brush strokes, creating a tactile and visual experience for viewers.

Born in Glasgow Scotland, Anne studied Textile Design at the Scottish College of Textiles and received her BA and MFA in Interior Design and Woven Tapestry from Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland.

In 1989, she emigrated with her family to the USA. With two sons to raise and a limited amount of time to weave, she returned to weaving tapestries for exhibition only, while pursuing careers in interior design and social services. In early 2001, she opened a studio in Kimberton, PA and began to also work in pastel. Two years later she moved to Phoenixville with “The Upstairs Studio Artists”. Nowadays, she works from her studio in the Spring City Mills, Spring City, PA.

Sandra Severson

An artist since childhood and member of a family of artists, Sandra’s deep love of horses and other animals led her to move to the family farm in 1980, where she developed hands-on skills and anatomical knowledge of her equestrian, wildlife, and barnyard subjects.

Sandra’s classical training in drawing and portraiture include studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Her work has been shown at the Kentucky Derby Museum, the International Museum of the Horse, and has appeared on the covers of the Chronicle of the Horse, Oasis magazine and the American Lipizzan Registry. She has won First Prize at Woodmere Art Museum, and painted the posters for Dressage at Devon, and the Devon Horse Show.

Sandra is also a portrait painter of horses, dogs, and other pets, and often paints wildlife, farm animals and rescues from sanctuaries.