Welcome!

SPAG would like to welcome the three new, talented members to our family!

Beverly Ward
Beverly had made her living predominantly as an actress. She has no formal training in the visual arts except "on-the-job." Bev works in acrylics, oils and recently began experimenting with wartercolor. Raised in San Diego, the city of one season, her eye is drawn to the ever changing textures of the New England landscape. In her paintings she seeks to evoke an atmosphere - or to recreate for the viewer the feeling of the time and place she painted.

Check out Bev's work! http://www.spagstudios.com/artists/beverly/beverly_portfolio.html


Janet Coughenour
Janet is a lifelong Connecticut resident and presently a full-time artist living in Westport, CT. Her watercolors paintings and paper collages have been shown throughout Fairfield and New Haven Counties. She recently won "First Place" with collage "Tribal Joy" at the John Slade Ely House in New Haven, CT.

At five years old, Janet recalls making entire "chestnut families" out of shinny, mahogany horse chestnuts gathered on her walks in the woods. Using toothpicks and rich imagination, these "people" were carefully lined up on display for the enjoyment of her dog, Butchie. Her brightest Crayolas added windows and curtains to the inside of her favorite companion's doghouse. Creating and rearranging things began way back then.

Her art studies began with modeling at the Silvermine Guild and private sittings for local, accomplished artists learning from observation. Schooling included Housatonic CC, The Creative Arts Workshop, the Penland School of Crafts. Private study with Caesar Cirigliano, AWS and Carol Hubbard, also an American Watercolor Society painter.

Check out Janet's work! http://www.spagstudios.com/artists/janet/janet_portfolio.html


Sergey Stepanenko
Sergey was born in Barnaul, Russia in 1956. He graduated from the Fine Arts College in Frunze, Kyrgyzstan, receiving a Bachelors in Fine Arts. He attended the Moscow Printing University, in Moscow, Russia, where he received a six-year Master's degree in book design. He moved to the United Stated in 1995.

During his career in Russia , Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and United States, Sergey has applied his talents in many fields of Art and Design. In the United States, his murals and fine art work adorn some of the finest homes in the Country as well as several Cruise Ships of Celebrity Cruise Line and Royal Caribbean Cruise Line. He has been featured in and worked on a series of exclusive projects for the International Watch Magazine, and was featured in the New Canaan/Darien/Rowayton Magazine, Greenwich Home Magazine, The Stamford Advocate and Darien Times. Sergey’s works are featured in the SONO Gallery in Norwalk, CT and Zorya Fine Art Gallery in Greenwich, CT. Some of his well-known clients include Keith Richards, the Kennedys, Ann Eisenhower and Princess Jahara. His Paintings adorn private art collections around the world in countries such as the US, Russia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Greece, Serbia, India, Panama, Japan, Germany, France and Egypt.

Check out Sergey's work! http://www.spagstudios.com/artists/sergey/sergey_portfolio.html