Featured Artists - May
FEATURED ARTIST
Gallery 23 Artists of the Month for May 2025
Diane Pratt & Andy Smith
DIANE PRATT
PHOTOGRAPHY
Diane Pratt: The selections featured in the window this month are from the many gardens that she has photographed in. Diane is a photographer who creates images utilizing many photographic processes. Gallery 23 displays her color landscape and garden photographs printed on a variety of media including traditional prints, canvas, and aluminum where it is clear that her love of gardens, Nature and architecture are reflected throughout her work.
” I see beautiful images when I travel and capture them with my camera, sometimes going back several times to capture the most pleasing or revealing light.”, she muses.
Diane’s favorite color is blue, so it was no surprise that on her first trip to the Virgin Islands she fell in love with the landscapes. The series “Caribbean Blues” has come out of her annual trips to St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands and the surrounding Islands. The series consist of sailboats, beaches and sunsets showing the blue colors of the Caribbean.
Diane is one of the founding members of Gallery 23 in Blairstown, NJ. Color images may be ordered in a variety of sizes and media.
Email: diane@photodesignsbydiane.com
website: www.photodesignsbydiane.com
ANDY SMITH
PHOTOGRAPHY
Andy Smith's award-winning photography has been exhibited at locations in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland. He regularly has a booth at numerous fine art and craft shows in the Mid-Atlantic region. Andy is a juried Master Artisan of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen.
“We human beings are part of an incredibly diverse and interesting universe -- our Mother, the source of our creative energy, and our home. An evolving process that began over 13 billion years ago brought us to today. The latest lessons of quantum physics teach that the entire universe is within us while also a vast order that includes everything. We are who we are because we are related to everything that is, and that is reflected in the core of our being. Yet immersed in the isolation of our own lives we often do not appreciate the beautiful creation around us that is part of who we are. My photography provides a small window into the vast array of this beauty, an opportunity to observe and consider, to contemplate and learn from the things and creatures that surround us, a moment of spiritual connection to one another and to that being observed. While my images reflect my reality, that reality is interrelated with everything in the universe and therefore touches everyone’s reality. “
Andy can be contacted via website: https://shop.AndySmithphotography.com or via email at: Andy@AndySmithPhotography.com
Customers will receive a 10% discount on any one item from May 1st to May 31st. Discount is available at checkout in the gallery.
Gallery 23
23 Main Street