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2025 Featured Artists Gallery
Revisiting this year's interviews plus new and featured art work
 • Amy Allen
Handmade Candy Canes
How Tuck’s Candy Factory creates these nostalgic pepperminty treats one cane at a time
 • Amy Allen
We published a book!
How a Palate & Palette story inspired a new book about food and life at a special restaurant: My Place by the Sea.
 • Amy Allen
Don Demers, illustrator turned fine artist and American Society of Marine Artists “Fellow”
Working at sea, a powerful maternal influence, decades of painting, and the muse
 • Amy Allen
Nancy Strisik: Recollections of Paul Strisik’s Life and Art
A painting life well lived and a new tribute show
 • Amy Allen
Colin Page, painter
His colorful world, the new still life book, breakfast cake, balancing gallery life and painting, and more
 • Amy Allen
Jackie Jones, landscape painter
The life-changing painting advice, benefits of a graphic design background, composition tips, and more
 • Amy Allen
Summer 2025 Palate & Palette Gallery: Part 2
More dazzling new work! Check out the latest from people featured on Palate & Palette
 • Amy Allen
Stan Moeller, painter
When painting displaced a thriving music career, wisdom gained while taxiing Don Stone, why he loves to paint restaurant scenes, and much more
 • Amy Allen
Anne Rearick, photographer, and Willie Loco Alexander, painter and musician
A rock and roll love story, songs and paintings about places, the amazing crane photograph, and so much more
 • Amy Allen
Summer 2025 Palate & Palette Gallery: Part 1
A dazzling display of recent work from featured artists
 • Amy Allen
Matt Patterson, Wildlife artist
The joys of field research, turtle rescues, and collaborating with Sy Montgomery
 • Amy Allen

In case you missed it

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Michael C. Thorpe, quilt and performance artist
The career-making quilt, when he delivered a lecture backwards, how interpretation can be liberating, and so much more
 • Amy Allen
John Terelak, American impressionist painter
Throwing paint Jackson Pollock style, the career-changing book, why he’s a loner, and what keeps him excited to paint every day
 • Amy Allen
Elaine Buckholtz, light installation artist, art professor, inventor
Living an illuminated life, the delight of razzle dazzle, and a vision for civic-minded art
 • Amy Allen
Donut Dreams
The brilliance of the Brother’s Brew chocolate donut that almost wasn’t
 • Amy Allen
Jon Sarkin, accidental artist
Obsessive-compulsive and joyful art making, why he paints on album covers, and how Pete Townshend came to own an art piece
 • Amy Allen
Wendy Chidester, painter
A motherlode of typewriters, respect for vintage items, and a fortuitous weather event
 • Amy Allen
George Van Hook, painter
Learning to paint in 20 minutes and letting the paint do the work
 • Amy Allen
Cheryl Miller, photographer
How this self-taught artist captured images of jazz greats, hip hop artists, and community life that are in museum collections
 • Amy Allen
Don Gorvett, reduction woodcut artist
A look inside this technically challenging process, the teacher who nurtured his talent, and when eight of his pieces joined the Museum of Fine Arts…
 • Amy Allen
Lauren Ko, pie and tart artist
The spoke pie that went viral, why you should grill your pineapple, and the story of her bestselling cookbook
 • Amy Allen
Chris Williams, sculptor
Why he loves to make dragons (including one that breathes fire!), the rat that took over weathervane duty, and the life-changing advice that started it…
 • Amy Allen
Jessica Brilli, painter
Why she loves to paint vintage subjects, favorite cars, and how disregarding art advice has resulted in some of her most exciting work.
 • Amy Allen

More Palate & Palette

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Oil painting “village” in Dafen, Shenzhen, China
“Replicas” and original paintings, a remarkable gallery with artifacts, and a Google Translated conversation
 • Amy Allen
Rachel Wilcox, painter
The story behind her new “ghost people” paintings, a cooking practice that makes her a better painter, beach pizza explained, and much more
 • Amy Allen
C.W. Mundy, American impressionist painter
Painting upside down, “directing” your art, applying the “alien” factor, and the stolen all-star painting
 • Amy Allen
Kyle Ma, painter
Painting loose but accurately, why he values personal connection with subjects, and more.
 • Amy Allen
Pigeon Cove Ferments
Sauerkraut, kimchi, and kombucha for people who don’t like kombucha
 • Amy Allen
Cynthia Rosen, painter
How she orchestrates a symphony of color and why she often works on two canvases at once
 • Amy Allen
Barbara Lynch, chef, restauranteur, painter
When less is more in food and art
 • Amy Allen
Erik Ronnberg, Jr., model ship builder
A story of master craftsmanship and dedication
 • Amy Allen
Susan Abbott, painter
What led to a dramatic shift in her work, a happy accident with a borrowed camera, and her admiration for awkwardness
 • Amy Allen
Jeff Weaver, painter
How he thinks about subject matter, the painting he won’t sell, and the wonders of patina
 • Amy Allen
Paul Balmer, painter
The inspiration for his new abstract paintings, the happy, pivotal accident with a disc sander, and the cityscapes that took his career to new heights
 • Amy Allen
Dale Ratcliff and Stapleton Kearns
The new gallery, why he gives away art lessons, the power of a great high school art teacher, and plein air painting inspiration
 • Amy Allen
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