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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
Mona Stratos Mona Stratos
Special to Worcester Magazine USA TODAY NETWORK
Artist Mona Stratos was born in Massachusetts, went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and lived many years in New York City and Westchester County, rich with the history of the Hudson River School. For the past 20 years she has lived in Woodstock, Connecticut, landscape painting, traveling to the shores of the Cape to her beloved Provincetown, home to generations of ancestors who fi shed from schooners
that traveled to the Grand Banks, to the rugged coast of Maine and the mountains of New Hampshire. Her primary medium is oil. She has won awards for her paintings from the Cape Cod Art Association where she was an elected artist to Lyme Art Association placing fi rst for New England Landscape show juried by Don Demers. She has exhibited in many juried shows from Connecticut Plein Air Painters and the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts. These days Mona can mostly be found working in her studio on large format works of still lives as well as the landscapes of New England.
“Red Skies at Night”
“White Pine” IMAGES COURTESY OF MONA STRATOS
“Laundry Day”
