Artists’ Studio Tour
Sunday, May 18, 12 to 4 p.m.
Post Tour Reception for ticket holders 4-6 p.m.

Do you enjoy meeting and talking to artists, one-on-one, about their work, in their unique studios, surrounded by their work? Do you love to spend a Sunday afternoon in the spring driving through the back roads and landscapes of Bucks County, stopping for brunch, lunch or dinner at a Bucks County restaurant?

If the answer to these questions is yes, you will want to take the self-guided Artists’ Studio Tour, on Sunday, May 18, 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm. This event is a part of the Central Bucks Chamber of Commerce’s Bucks Fever Celebration of the Arts Series.
The Artists Studio Tour is created by the members of the Artists Studio Tour Committee, chaired by Kathy Keller (Graphic Energiez & Mixed Media Art Center). The Tour’s Major Patron is Team Capital Bank and Buckingham Properties, LP; contributing patrons are Buckingham Valley Vineyards, Doylestown Bookshop, Howard Gallery of Fine Art, Memorable Affairs Catering and Mixed Media Art Center/Graphic Energiez.

Tickets for the Bucks Fever Artists’ Studio Tour can be purchased at:
Central Bucks Chamber of Commerce; Suite 23, 252 W. Swamp Rd., Doylestown
Doylestown Bookshop, 16 South Main Street, Doylestown
Howard Gallery of Fine Art, 77 W. Bridge Street, New Hope
Mixed Media Art Center, 323 South Main Street, Doylestown
Team Capital Bank, 18 N. Main Street, Doylestown

2008 Featured Artists and their Studios

Steve Zazenski
Studio of Steve Zazenski
Watercolor / Gouache

Steve Zazenski, a native of Bayonne, NJ, has been a full-time artist since 1978. Zazenski is known for his watercolor landscapes of New England, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Zazenski has won numerous awards from the New Jersey Watercolor Society, the Garden State Watercolor Society, the Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit, Rockport Art Association, the Salmagundi Club and many local shows in the metro area.
Zazenski’s work is included in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress. Private collections include former Secretary of State and Mrs. Edmund Muskie, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kiley, Mr. and Mrs. Rupert Holmes, Lech Welesa, Congressman Barney Frank and Stephen and Cokie Roberts. His work has been exhibited at the Bergen Museum, Montclair Museum, Nabisco World Headquarters, Sardis Restaurant N.Y., and the Salmagundi Club. His series of lithographs depicting nostalgic scenes of his native Bayonne are very popular and have been used on the television shows Growing Pains, and the Mary Tyler Moore show. Zazenski is a popular demonstrator and conducts painting workshops in Bucks County where he now lives with his wife, Kathy, and his two daughters, Katie and Laurie.

Elise Redfield
Studio of Elise Redfield
Plein Aire Oil on Canvas

Elise Redfield was born in Bucks County PA and was exposed to great art at an early age. From that beginning, her love of art and curiosity about art continued. Her great grandfather, Master Edward W. Redfield, painted in this area and her study of his work helped her to reach maturity in her own work. While she believes that an adequate foundation can act as a springboard for later creations of art, she has found her own artistic voice and has developed a strong command of the medium. In Elise’s work she allows these historical elements to coexist with the tenets of her own brand of Bucks County Impressionism.

Elise Redfield studied at Moore College of Art in Philadelphia. She furthered her studies at the Art League of New York, where she studied under Nelson Shanks. She has pursued independent studies at the New York Academy of Fine Arts. Her work has been represented by important galleries. Redfield has been a participant in exhibitions at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, New York and has also exhibited locally at the Hicks Art Center in Bucks County. Her work has been published in the American Art Review.

David C. Horn
Lionheart Artisans
Copper Artisan with a focus on both sculptural and functional pieces

David C. Horn is from a sixth generation Bucks County family and has lived in Bucks County his entire life. Horn earned a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from Penn State University, an Associates degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bucks County Community College and papers for a journeyman machinist at the former Lavelle Aircraft Newtown PA.

Horn owns Lionheart Artisans, restoring old homes in eastern Pennsylvania. Horn also fill’s requests for interior and exterior copper crafts and accents in homes and restaurants. Some of the more unusual include a copper bar, an urn for cremated ashes, mailboxes and lanterns.

Horn notes that Copper is both a medium of his trade as a historic building restoration contractor as well as an inspiration for his sculptural and functional craft work. “The process of creating and letting the work create itself is where the fun is.” Weather permitting; Horn enjoys creating pieces outside with the birds and the sun. “Once the work is completed there is a need to let the next one evolve.”

Mary Sand
Studio of Mary Sand
Equine Sculptor

Born to European immigrants, Mary Sand spent several years of her childhood growing up in Darmstadt Germany where she began learning to ride horses. Her inspiration to create sculpture comes from memories of the equestrian statues positioned in city centers throughout Europe where she traveled over many summers.

Sand’s craft is born of disciplined self-development, anatomical study, and rigorous training at the side of nationally recognized equine sculptors. Her work has been included in juried exhibitions throughout the US, including the American Academy of Equine Art at the Kentucky Horse Park (Lexington, KY), the Equestrian Life Art Gallery at the Devon Horse Show, the National Sculpture Society in New York City, and a wide variety of private collections.

Sand was a semi-finalist to internationally renowned equine sculptor Gwen Reardon from Lexington KY, for the US Dressage Federation life-size project at the Kentucky Horse Park. Sand is currently working on a life-size version of her sculpture "First Love" and invites you to explore the extraordinary process of creating sculpture.

Sand now lives and works as a full-time sculptor in beautiful Bucks County Pennsylvania, on a small farm, with views outside to her horse Ami, Machu Picchu, Lightning and her pygmy goats.

Commissions for individuals, memorials, and perpetual trophies are welcome.

James Bennett
Studio of Jim Bennett
Oil Painter

James Bennett has been painting since the age of 14, and began drawing even before that. He enjoys painting almost anything, but admits that faces are always a favorite. Bennett began his professional career shortly after receiving recognition from the Society of Illustrators and RSVP as a scholarship student at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Bennett's conceptually humorous Illustrations have since appeared as covers and interior pieces for The New York Times, The L.A. Times, Forbes, Time, Sports Illustrated, The Weekly Standard, Mad, Business Week, New York, Smithsonian, Reader's digest, Yankee, Golf, and Philadelphia magazines among others.

Currently a member of the Executive Board of Directors at the Society of Illustrators, Bennett is also active in the Illustrators Partnership of America. He taught illustration at the School of Visual Arts, and was an instructor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He has taught and/or lectured at Syracuse University, Kendall College, and Rhode Island School of Design among others.

Bennett lives in Pennsylvania with his wife Susan and sons Steven and Brett. Bennett’s paintings are available for sale at Howard Gallery of Fine Art, located at 77 W. Bridge Street, New Hope PA. 18938; howard-gallery.com. Commission paintings by Bennett’s unique style, referred to as “Exaggerated Reality” caricatures are gladly accepted through Howard Gallery.

Dot Bunn
Red Stone Farm Studio
Oil Painter

Dot Bunn is a full time studio painter, teacher, lecturer working in a traditional method of oil painting. Bunn is a life long resident of Bucks County. Her award winning work has been exhibited at numerous juried shows including Salmagundi Juried Exhibition and Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club in NYC. Bunn has received the top award for Best Painting at the Phillips' Mill Juried Art Exhibition twice (2004, 2007). She was honored to have four of her figurative paintings selected by Philadelphia/Tri State Artists Equity Association to hang in their Select Exhibition. Bunn has had five one woman shows in the past four years.

Bunn’s education includes oil painting, watercolor and graphic design. She studied oil painting with Paul F. Keene as well as other distinguished instructors. Bunn has studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and the Barnstone Studio. She teaches traditional oil painting and color mixing from her studio in Bucks County, at Mixed Media in Doylestown, and at the Art Colony in Stockton, NJ, as well as lecturing at Delaware Valley College to adult education classes.

"My Bucks County is still open fields and rural farmlands. I believe it is this quality that attracts people to our county. Spring on Haring Road is the quintessential view that inspires me to paint a landscape. It is a mixture of simple abstract shapes among rich textures." says Bunn.

Nathan DiStefano
Studio of Nathan DiStefano
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas

Nathan DiStefano was born in Doylestown and is MFA graduate in Painting at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. His rapid brush strokes and intense colors generate searching and growth while creating a vigorous feeling toward life as he searches for higher dimensions of the spiritual that is a part of our ordinary life moving within the environment. DiStefano explores the terrain of love in its many aspects and guises that go unnoticed and are dulled by the familiarities of the everyday. His paintings are of an activity in time; it is not a set moment but dynamic and near rhythmic. Each gesture of paint is like a container of energy as he translates nature’s infinite variety of information and energy with each mark.

DiStefano’s paintings have been shown in galleries in Doylestown, Pennsylvania: the Barn Studio, Doylestown Frame Factory, Sabine Rose Gallery, Doylestown Health and Wellness Center, and the Freighthouse Restaurant. Previous Exhibitions include the Rosenwald Wolf gallery at the University of the Arts of Philadelphia, the Crane Building in Northern Liberties Philadelphia, and the Amsterdam Whitney gallery in Chelsea, New York. His works have been published in the Art Acquisition, Direct Art, Manhattan Cable and his work is in private collections nationally and internationally.