Mountain Splendor
Set amidst the spectacular beauty and wonders of November in the Catskill Mountains, WFA offers you a wonderful venue to enjoy the artwork of over 65 individual artists including Mara Lehmann and Robert Schneider.
November 2026 in the Catskills
Giving Thanks…Looking Forward as we celebrate 25 years in business this autumn. We welcome you to the in-between times of the season: looking back with gratitude…. and looking forward with excitement.
Leslie Bender explores the complex relationship between memory, emotion, and perception. Through layered imagery, rich color, light, and movement, she creates dynamic compositions in which figures, animals, and familiar settings shift between reality and imagination. Her expressive paintings invite viewers into a vivid inner world, encouraging personal connections and individual interpretations.
Ilya Lerner
Through decades of painting, Ilya’s work has transitioned through conceptual and aesthetic periods. A native of Moscow, trained by leading Russian artists, Ilya uses reality as a starting point of a meditative process to create his work. His extensive experience as an observational painter keeps his work true to life. While incorporating both traditional (strong draftsmanship,…
Susan Copich
Susan Copich was born in Youngstown, Ohio and graduated from Ohio State, studying Performance and Choreography. After college, Susan kicked off her career in San Francisco as a modern dancer and owner of a Pilates Studio. Opening up to new forms of art and self- expression, she studied at the New York Center for Photography…
Jack Laroux
Jack Laroux was born in New York. He Currently works and resides in the New York City area and the Catskill Mountains. Jack Laroux’s vivid cubist interpretation of a psychedelic world is based on stained glass and shattered glass imagery that portray the effects of light illuminating and shining through transparent surfaces. It is enhanced…
Judith Dunbar
Step into a world of color and texture with Judith Dunbar’s dimensional paintings. Judith creates hand-sculpted artwork with thick, expressive layers of paint, with surfaces that feel immersive and alive. Dunbar’s paintings engage the senses through saturated color, sculpted texture, and organic form. Her work draws on themes of growth, ripeness, and the tactile quality…
Kenneth Young
Kenneth Young was raised in Hudson, New York. He honed his skills as a child by copying pictures from comic books and completing paint-by-numbers kits. Throughout his adolescence he furthered his art education via correspondence courses and with the support of his high school art teacher. During this time, Kenneth also embarked upon a comprehensive…
Isabelle Dupuy
Born in France in 1969, Isabelle Dupuy spent her childhood the country side of Provence, in Southern France. She developed her artistic skills at Ecole des Beaux Arts in Valence, France. As she continued to study, her relationship with art quickly became a passion. As Isabelle developed her own aesthetic, she took inspiration from her…
Al Gury
Al Gury is an artist, educator, and writer. He currently serves as a Professor of Painting and Drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, America’s oldest art school and museum. As a painter, Al explores the dynamic tension between representation and the formal elements of color, composition, and content. His work…