Gardens & Beaches
Artist, Eve Aspinwall

July 2 - August 30, 2025

Artist Statement:
“Many of us spend the winter months dreaming of summer. We dream of gardens and beaches.

For the last several years I’ve spent the winter painting these themes partly as a survival tactic and partly to explore how realism and abstraction can combine to create expressionist paintings, paintings that evoke a sense of place while also expressing how the place makes us feel.

Like the beach, the garden changes every day and is different every year, yet the underlying rhythms remain the same. Patterns of color and light, curves of pathways and layered forms create a sense of serenity and abundance. The garden is human made, intimate, a light and colorful clearing at the edge of dark woods.

The beach, unlike the garden, is a primal place. Created by nature, we go there to witness something that is clearly beyond our control. It is vast and often dangerous, yet it inspires, refreshes, and rejuvenates us. Both environments are emblematic of summer. For me, both provide nourishment, inspiration, and delight.”

Artist Bio:
Eve studied at Vesper George School of Art, School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Art, and Lesley College School of Expressive Therapies and she holds a BFA in Printmaking and Drawing from the Massachusetts College of Art.

As an art educator, Eve taught at Buckingham, Browne and Nichols School, Cambridge, MA, Brookline Adult Education, Nauset Community Education, Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, private lessons and workshops. She has exhibited in multiple shows including Boston Visual Artist Union and Gallery 52 in Boston, Hopkins and David Wright Galleries in Wellfleet, Casa Vieja Gallery and Siddhia Hutchinson Galleries in Vieques, PR, OMA Gallery and Adorn, in Orleans, Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, and Cape Cod Museum of Art.

Eve Aspinwall lives in South Orleans where she works from her home studio and offers private drawing/painting classes and outdoor workshops.

For Info on upcoming classes and outdoor workshops contact eve-aspinwall@comcast.net
INSTAGRAM: @eveaspinwallart

Tree-Book Sculpture
Artist, Sheryl Jaffe

February-December 2025

The Tree-Book-Sculpture was inspired by Sheryl Jaffe’s loving relationship with the trees and the poem “On the Pulse of the Morning” by Maya Angelou. Angelou’s poem features the profound process of reconciliation, acceptance of the past, and hope for the future. Trees have personality and spirit, they give generously of shade, oxygen and habitat, and they emanate profound beauty. The installation is meant to honor the dignity and express the oneness of all people, plants, trees, and the earth.

Sheryl Jaffee has been exhibiting her artwork throughout New York and New England for over 30 years. She works with organic materials, handmade paper from local and exotic plant fibers and found objects to create 2 and 3-dimensional works. Jaffe studied traditional hand papermaking in Japan and China and has taught papermaking at home and abroad with students aged 4-84. Jaffe was a resident artist at The Barn, Edward Albee Foundation, and at Yellowstone National Park where she explored fibers found in those unique locations. She now volunteers in the community with the ArtPeace Makers and with Delilah’s Healing and Educational Collective in bringing Wampanoag culture and education to the Outer Cape.

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