Featured Artists - October
FEATURED ARTIST
Gallery 23 Artists of the Month for October 2025
Sharon Pontier & Leslie Miller
SHARON PONTIER
COLLAGE & ABSTRACT DESIGN
Sharon Pontier is a retired Teacher, who now devote much time to her own art expression. Although Sharon has a varied interest in her art expression she is including in person sketches and small portraits. She can be contacted at sbp@icloud.com.
She continues to expand her experience and knowledge through classes with professional artists as well as ongoing critiques that allow the growth of ideas and excellence. She has exhibited work through the Sussex County Arts and Heritage Gallery in Newton, the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Barryville Arts Alliance, and with the Art Muse exhibits in Newton and at the Sussex County Collage
"The art that I find myself most involved with currently is mixed media paintings. To be able to use many different types of materials gives me a freedom to enhance my ideas and express them more fully. I am a local artist who has lived in this community for over 40 years. I have been involved with many organizations and community activities. I love the time I can spend working on art and with artists."
LESLIE MILLER
PAINTING
Leslie Miller: "Creating art is, and always has been, part of my identity. It is the way I process and express my ideas, feelings and inner life as they interact with the world around me. My work is often inspired by nature, and the emotional responses that are evoked by the beauty and mystery of the physical world.
I was born and raised in New York City and Glen Cove, Long Island, where I attended the public schools and was fortunate to have gifted art teachers. I graduated from Hofstra University with a B.A., Columbia University with an M.A., and The Mount Sinai School of Medicine with an M.D. I am a practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in New York City, and have been a resident of Greenwich Village, New York and Blairstown, New Jersey for more than thirty years.
From 2003 until 2006 I was represented by The Enderlin Gallery in New York where I had a two-man show in 2004 and 2005. Being a psychoanalyst has a profound effect on my art, and everything I paint is meant to convey meaning, which is sometimes beyond the reach of words."
Leslie can be contacted via her website: https://www.LeslieSMillerAuthor.com
Sharon and Leslie are graciously offering a 10% off discount on the sale of one of their items for the month of October in person at the Gallery only.
Gallery 23
23 Main Street Blairstown NJ