Stained glass artist Neile Cooper will be the featured artist for the month of August at Gallery 23 in Blairstown.  Neile is a founding member of the gallery and has shown her work there since its opening ten years ago. 

Neile is well known for her collection of jewelry featuring real butterfly wings encased in glass.  On display will be an expanded selection of both old favorites and new fun and bold designs.  As a goodbye and thank you to all of her amazing customers over the years, these butterfly rings, necklaces, and earrings will all be 20% off. Also on view will be a few new large stained glass art works as well as smaller panels and trinket boxes-perfect for gifts.  

David Marchese - Woodworking

Currently I work with wood and the lathe.  I create functional and non-functional pieces, filling a desire for the utilitarian and the abstract.  While some pieces come from a more structured process of cultivation, I prefer more abstract sources of material.  These sources of wood have more naturally occurring shapes and attributes.  This make the pieces more unique and sculptural.  To put it in other terms I like to find the beauty in disregarded and rejected pieces of wood, for others that maybe no better than firewood for them.