During her time in Ithaca, Juls focused on her fine art career and her work took a steady turn towards realism and landscape. In 2009, Juls and her family picked up again and moved to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Juls has continued her fine art endeavors here with a new focus on Gettysburg and its beautiful, historic scenery. Juls is also the Scenic Artist and Costume Shop Manager for the Gettysburg College Theatre Department and a busy mother of two little boys.

Jonathan’s highly creative oil paintings often depict sweeping scenes of the landscape as viewed from higher vantage points. Visitors to the Gettysburg National Military Park are likely to see Jonathan painting at his easel atop one of the observation towers or at his favorite site, Little Round Top. Jonathan's work as a multi-instrumental solo performance musician also influences his painting style and sensibility.

Carolyn held her first art exhibition in 2005, and she is now a member of Oil Painters of America. Her love of nature, animals and travel provides the inspiration for her oil paintings. While animals are her favorite subjects, Carolyn also paints still-life, figurative and landscape scenes in a style influenced by the French, Dutch, American and Russian Impressionists.

Leo loves to use color and the effect of light on color as a means of expressing his artistic impressions. Even though he wants people to see the realism in his floral and landscape paintings, he also attempts to impart a certain mystery through the impressionistic style. Over the years, Leo has studied with world-renowned artists and has taken numerous painting classes and workshops. He is a member of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Society of Artists, Pittsburgh Watercolor Society and Pennsylvania Watercolor Society.

These portraits are mounted in nineteenth century frames that he finds at auctions and antique shops. Charles sits on the Board of Directors of Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Art Festival, the oldest outdoor art show in the country. Outside of that festival, Charles’s work is found exclusively at Gallery 30.

Milan retired in 2005 after teaching art in New Tripoli, Pennsylvania for more than 30 years. He received his BS in Art Education from Kutztown University in 1973. He later studied painting at the University of Salzburg in Austria and also under the instruction of the well-known watercolorist Edgar A. Whitney. Over the years, his work has been selected for numerous juried exhibitions, including Gallery in the Park, the Bethlehem Art Show, and the Mayfair Juried Art Show.

Harold began teaching art in the Indiana Area School district of Pennsylvania in 1975 and studied water color while on sabbatical in 1986. In 2001 he attended the first of five summer oil painting workshops in Bennington, VT conducted by the Massachusetts College of Art. His major influences include N.C. and Andrew Wyeth, Edward Hopper, Douglas Fryer, Marc Bohne and T. Allen Lawson. He continues to reside in Indiana, Pennsylvania with his wife Susan.

Diane is a consummate student of art. After years of learning from great teachers, Diane made the transition to painting full-time. She studied portraiture, figure and color with painters John Ebersberger, David Lawton, Bonnie Roth Anderson, Abigail McBride, sculptor Stephen Perkins, and nationally renowned portrait painters, Cedric and Joanette Egeli, at their studios in Edgewater and at the famed school of impressionism in Provincetown, Massachusetts (now the Capes School of Color). More recently, she has studied with Louis Escobedo and taken workshops with Nancy Tankersley and renowned realist, Max Ginsburg.

Simonne’s highly textured paintings are created by layering on oil paints with a palette knife, a paintbrush or a combination of the two tools. She finds her inspiration in nature and is typically drawn to a subject by the emotions evoked by the scene, which are often linked to past experiences and memories. Simonne has painted a wide variety of subjects around Central Pennsylvania, and she is excited to spend time capturing the streets and farms of Gettysburg in 2016. Her paintings have been awarded at the Lewisburg Arts Festival Show and other regional art shows, and she recently completed a solo exhibit at Bucknell University.

Rich currently has pieces on display in the Lincoln Collection at the Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois, the Lincoln Museum in Hodgenville, Kentucky, The Lincoln Library and Museum in Harrogate, Tennessee, as well as Ford’s Theatre in Washington DC. He has been published in the Civil War Preservation Trust magazine, Hallowed Ground and even had one of his paintings featured in the playbill for Ford’s Theatre’s production of “The Rivalry.”

Nature provides Richard with an infinite variety of moods and contrasts that change with the seasons, the weather and the time of day. In an impressionistic style, the artist captures these contrasts by using light and dark, cool and warm. Richard paints images that people can recognize as places that they have seen or visited but presents them in a new, more poetic light.

Chris’s work is on display at the Visitor Center at the Gettysburg National Military Park, and he has also won awards in 15 international photography contests.

Dan is a Washington, DC native who worked for many years in the communications, public affairs and political fields only to begin his pursuit of the Muse in 2003. Dan creates his art from his digital studio in an 1810 farmhouse in the Appalachian foothills just west of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Susan Daul grew up in the woodlands of New Jersey and has been drawing and painting since her early childhood. Susan graduated from Meredith College in North Carolina, majoring in Religion and Biology. She now lives in the countryside of North Carolina with her husband of 32 years, their three children, two dogs and a cat, where she enjoys creating her folk art.

Thom has participated in art shows in New England, Texas, Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, New York and Pennsylvania and has been featured in regional and national publications. Thom was also selected as the 2014 Virginia Fly Fishing Festival’s Featured Artist.