Artist Directory
BAA’s Artist Directory is comprised of Artist Members within our Berkshire community. Listings are included in annual Berkshire Art Association Artist Membership.
Brent Ridge
Brent Ridge is a Berkshires-based artist whose work delves into themes of industrial decay, natural beauty, and human resilience. With an MFA from the Glasgow School of Art and a decade of the vibrant art scenes of Brooklyn, NY and Boston, MA, Ridge brings a unique perspective to his art- local, global, rustic and urban.
Janet Pumphrey
Janet Pumphrey’s traditional, representational photographs span the genres of portraits and street photography, vintage and sports cars, travel, landscapes, and wildlife. While photography is a representational medium, Pumphrey also moves beyond the inherent realism in traditional photography to see the world in a new and more creative way. Her work is painterly, sometimes abstract, sometimes impressionistic. Each piece is a unique, creative interpretation of a realistic image.
Diane Firtell
Not a photographer….but an artist who uses a camera, almost all of Diane's work, over the years, has originated from the photograph. Making art; a mystery to some, a mandate to others. And while she clearly fall into the latter category, the why still, often times, remains a mystery. Easily bored and not terrifically skilled technologically but, she enjoys being ever engaged in the "what is there for me to do that is different” experience…not necessarily to be different from other artists, but mostly to have a new creative experience for herself. While she continues to do what she enjoys doing, it is exciting for her to know that a year from now something she currently has no conscious awareness of will become part of a fresh and new body of work.
Maja Parker
Maja Parker is a documentary photographer and multi media artist based out of Massachusetts, pursuing work concerned with social and economic justice. She recently graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
Alan Papscun
Alan Papscun is a contemporary sculptor and photographer who lives and works in Stockbridge, MA. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from MassArt, Boston MA, and a Master of Fine Arts from Alfred University, Alfred NY.
Judy McNutt
Judy lives in Pittsfield, and is driven by a love of all the arts. She is an actress, singer, playwright, Director, seamstress, acrylic painter, & also does: watercolors, mixed media/collage/recycling, printmaking, photography, & jewelry making.
Michael Coyne
Michael Coyne is a retired emergency physician whose artistic pursuits are inspired by mountain biking, hiking, travel, music and nature. He specializes in watercolor and ink paintings, upcycled metalwork sculptures, and pottery.
Laura Christensen
Laura Christensen is a visual artist who paints on found vintage photographs. Her work combines past and present, photograph and painting. Many galleries and museums, including Simmons College, Kidspace at MASS MoCA, Brattleboro Museum and Arts Center, and M.A. Doran Gallery, exhibit her work. Recent awards include an A.R.T Grant from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.
Lori Bradley
The decorative arts, photography, landscapes, and plants are all integral to Lori Bradley's paintings and ceramics. She views the language of decoration as a pathway to memories, cultural habits, family, friends, and community rituals.
Mark Mellinger
In the '60s, I studied at Cooper Union Art School. I worked in commercial art, biology research and psychology. While continuing my practice of psychoanalysis in New York City, I relish my return to, and immersion in the nonverbal realm of painting, collage and construction, half the week in the Berkshires.
Jesse Tobin McCauley
Jesse Tobin McCauley is a painter and graphic designer working in the Berkshires. Her paintings are acrylic on canvas — bursts of bold, bright, saturated color — that evoke a feeling of happiness through the flood of interacting abstract color, finding the beauty in the chaos of color and shape.
Allan Seppa
Allan has been exhibiting for many years in arts & crafts events, gallery shows, and First Fridays Artswalk shows. His photographs are mostly landscapes, cityscapes, and seashorescapes.
Casey Albert
Casey Albert is a Graphic Designer and Photographer. In her spare time she creates art using repurposed records and record covers. In 2017 she donated a piece of work into the BAA’s annual 10×10 show.

