Naturescape Gallery
Naturescape Gallery is a rotating art exhibit featuring artists from Cape Cod as well as the New England area. The exhibit is located in the Museum's auditorium adjacent to the entrance.
By the Water: A Cape Cod Portfolio
Fine Art Photographer, John Kudukey
May - June 2026
Artist’s statement:
I have always been drawn to the natural world, so at the age of fourteen my aunt gave me a 35mm camera and I started taking photographs of rocks, streams, and trees. In 1981 I bought my first large format 4x5 field camera adjusting from a 35mm single lens reflex, which took some time, but I found the slow contemplative nature of working with a 4x5 camera as a perfect fit.By the Water: A Cape Cod Portfolio, is a collection of black and white photographs. I have always found this medium emotionally engaging. Without the distraction of color, textures, shapes, and tones of light, images become more pronounced, inviting an intimate and deliberate way of seeing the world. Most importantly for me, black and white images seem timeless and the truest expression of my feelings for the subjects I photograph.
My work is deeply rooted in the traditions of black and white landscape photography and greatly influenced by masters such as Ansel Adams, Paul Caponigro, Paul Strand, Bruce Barnbaum, and Fay Godwin. However, I am very lucky to have spent some time with John Sexton, Mark Citret, Fred Picker, and David Usher. I am deeply grateful to each of them.
John Kudukey lives in the small town of South Deerfield in Western Massachusetts. He previously served on the Board of Directors of the Vermont Center for Photography in Brattleboro, VT for over 10 years, taught workshops, and has had many exhibitions.
For more information, please go to John’s website: johnkudukey.com
Tree-Book Sculpture
Artist, Sheryl Jaffe
February-December 2025
Steve Swain - Frying Pan Gallery
Healthy Food Chain
Long Term Exhibit - Generously Donated by John & Patricia Kenney 2022
Steel sculptor Steve Swain is an accomplished artist, architectural designer, craftsman, and boat captain. He is responsible for creating several notable local restaurants and buildings. His last project before switching to art full-time was designing and overseeing construction of the restaurant Pearl in Wellfleet and the restoration of Duffy Gardinier’s Tug Boat shack, saving the last of old clam shacks from the wrecking ball and creating The Frying Pan Gallery on Wellfleet Harbor Pier where Steve designs and hand builds steely renditions of marine life. In the fall of 2019, a second Frying Pan Gallery was opened in Orleans.
In his secluded studio Steve seeks inspiration in nature and credits the great outdoors for his creativity and compositions. His custom marine installation at the Museum is an amazing design and work of art highlighting the ocean world of bait fish, bass, and great white sharks.
For more information on Steve’s work go to: www.fryingpangallery.com
James Prosek
Award Winning Artist, Author, and Naturalist
Long Term Exhibit
CCMNH is proud to present the work of artist, author and naturalist, James Prosek. His book Ocean Fishes, is a collection of 35 Atlantic fishes, all of which were painted life size based on individual specimens he traveled to see, a journey that started right here on Cape Cod. Naturescape Gallery is exhibiting two of his life-sized Fine Art prints; a Swordfish and a Blue Fin Tuna. His work has been shown in numerous esteemed galleries.
For more information about James and his work go to: troutsite.com