Olive Branch Gallery

Olive Branch Gallery Studio & Gallery
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This is the last week to come see this beautiful show! Please reach out to Maryanne at 845-389-9328 if you would like to...
10/11/2025

This is the last week to come see this beautiful show! Please reach out to Maryanne at 845-389-9328 if you would like to set up a time to come see these wonderful paintings!!

Hello everyone! This show is still running through 10/18, but due to Don breaking his leg, we are only open by appointme...
10/03/2025

Hello everyone! This show is still running through 10/18, but due to Don breaking his leg, we are only open by appointment. Please feel free to reach out to Maryanne at 845-389-9328 to arrange a time for viewing!!

Thank you to everyone who came out last night to join us in supporting the wonderful artists who are showing their work ...
09/13/2025

Thank you to everyone who came out last night to join us in supporting the wonderful artists who are showing their work in our current show, The Gift of Nature. The show will be running through October 18th!

Purple with White Irises by Mira Fink Mira is an accomplished artist, educator and naturalist. Specializing in landscape...
09/11/2025

Purple with White Irises by Mira Fink Mira is an accomplished artist, educator and naturalist. Specializing in landscapes, she is known for her richly colored art which captures the beauty of the Hudson Valley and reflects her deep connection with nature. She has been teaching art (and natural science) for over twenty-five years and exhibiting art in juried and solo shows for over thirty. Her work is in private collections nationally. She studied painting at the Woodstock School of Art, then continued her education by taking classes with prominent watercolor artists and also botanical illustrators from the NY Botanical Gardens. She later became a certified teacher after earning a BFA in painting and a MS in Education from SUNY New Paltz. Her illustrations have appeared in literary journals, natural science publications, magazines and recently, in a book of nature poetry. She loves working in watercolors as this media is excellent for portraying light, transparency and color found in nature. She says, “My art is about the vividness of color, the energy of living things and what happens when you slow down long enough to truly see and appreciate it.” More information about the artist at: www.mirafink.com

Wilderstein by Jane Birmingham The use of color through painting is wonderfully emotive for me. Also, I like that art is...
09/11/2025

Wilderstein by Jane Birmingham
The use of color through painting is wonderfully emotive for me. Also, I like that art is my brain teaser: the process of creating art is filled with challenges, problem solving, and heightened concentration.

In my mid-20’s, I attained an M. A. In Art Therapy, which was a novel field of study at that time. It combined my undergraduate degree in Psychology with my concentration in Studio Art classes. I was employed as an art therapist for Hudson River Psychiatric Center, at its community based location in Kingston, N. Y., for thirty years.

Retirement offered opportunity to focus on my own creativity again. I took many plein air classes with local artist, Mira Fink. Working mostly in watercolor, many of the paintings in this exhibit were started in these plein air classes. My passion for historic architecture, flower gardening and nature are prominently featured here.

Dahlia Diptych by Lynne Friedman Lynne interprets the shimmering natural world in oil, watercolor, and works on paper. L...
09/10/2025

Dahlia Diptych by Lynne Friedman Lynne interprets the shimmering natural world in oil, watercolor, and works on paper. Living in the Hudson Valley for many years and painting in foreign locals, her major themes explore the land's magic, and plant & flower growth with an emphasis on expressive color.
She has had three solo museum exhibitions; the James McNeil Whistler Museum (Lowell, MA), the Booth Western Art Museum (Cartersville, GA), and the Woodstock Art Association and Museum (Woodstock, NY) , solo exhibits at Noho Gallery and Prince Street Gallery in Chelsea, been in numerous group exhibitions and selected for corporate collections.
Friedman loves to explore foreign locations and has been awarded many artist residencies around the world, most recently in Provence 2023, Tuscany and Umbria 2024.
Her work has been selected for 2022-2025 by the US Embassy in Benin, W. Africa through the US Dept of State - Art in Embassies Program and previously in two other embassies. BA And MFA , Queens College, Doctor in Education Ed.D, from Teachers College, Columbia University.
A former President of the New York Society of Women Artists and former Art teacher at Manhattanville College , Union University (NJ) and Ulster Community College, she lives in Rosendale with her husband and 2 sweet and funny cats.

Pink Orchid by Marlene Wiedenbaum PSA-MP, IAPS-MC (Pastel Society of America- Master Pastelist) Marlene is a graduate of...
09/08/2025

Pink Orchid by Marlene Wiedenbaum PSA-MP, IAPS-MC (Pastel Society of America- Master Pastelist) Marlene is a graduate of Queens College, SUNY New Paltz & studied at the Arts Students League in NYC under Harvey Dinnerstein. Her award winning paintings have been exhibited internationally, including the International Pastel Artists Invitational in Taipei, Taiwan and the Xian Art Museum, China. Her work is featured in text books commissioned by the Taiwanese government and she is an International Honorable Member of the Beijing Pastel Research Academy. In 2022, Wiedenbaum was selected by Hudson Valley Magazine as Best Artist 2022, and awarded Master Circle Status by the International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS). In 2025 her large format pastel paintings are featured in the Pastel Journal. She was featured in the June 2021 edition of VIC Pastel, the Newsletter of the Pastel Society of Victoria, Austrailia. Fine Art Connoisseur featured her exhibit of Hudson Valley Landscapes in Fine Art Today, and she was profiled in Art Times, and American Artist among other arts magazines. Marlene teaches pastel classes & plein-air workshops at the Woodstock School of Art in the Hudson Valley. An award winning MASTER Pastelist & Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America, and an Elected Member of the Audubon Artists Org., Marlene is currently serving on the Board of Governors of the Pastel Society of America and her work is included in the 2024 PSA Exhibit at the Butler Institute of American Art, Giffuni Gallery in Ohio. Her work is in private and public collections throughout the world and is represented in the tri-state area.

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