Open Studio Sessions at the Crescent

The Ten-2-One Artists have an “Open Studio Session” at the Crescent Gallery every Thursday, 10:00am to 1:00pm — We invite everyone to stop in & visit with us. Come see what we’re working on and view the wonderful artwork in our “Hills & Horizons” gallery show.

We are located at 158 Main Street, Thomaston, CT (right next to the Thomaston Opera House Box Office)

Holiday & Miniatures Art Sale 2021

Photos from last Sunday’s Holiday & Miniatures Art Sale which featured miniatures, prints, photographs, note cards, and more. The participating Ten-2-One Artists were: Deborah Apostolico, Carmina A. Ayazides, Cindy Blanchard, Ron Blanchard, Susan Coppola, Patty MacIver, Skip Marsh, Ann Walsh, & Patricia Ward.

Car Show Art Sale

Art Sale & Gallery Show
at the Crescent Gallery

Featuring the Ten-2-One Artists

The Crescent Gallery, 158 Main Street, Thomaston, will be open September 12, 1-4pm during Thomaston’s 30th Annual Summer Cruise (car show). The artists have been 'revving up' for this event with a special selection of car/truck related paintings.

Any purchase in the month of September, at the Crescent Gallery, will support local artists and the Thomaston Police Explorers. Donations will also be welcomed in a tip jar for the Police Explorers as they ready for the Police Academy. Special thanks to the Fine Arts Connections for making this all happen.

Come meet the artists and see their work.

There will also be children activities.

In Memory of Mark A. Wells

May 22, 1947 - June 29, 2021


Landscape/plein air artist, Fine Art Connection of Thomaston - Art Department • Ten-2-One Artists, 2015, & 2020-21

Mark Andrew Wells, 74, of Northfield, died June 29, 2021, at home, surrounded by his family. He was the beloved husband of Edna Z. Wells.

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Mark was born May 22, 1947, in Torrington, a son of the late Gordon and Irene (Ohotnicky) Wells. He was a graduate of Wolcott High School, class of 1965. He attended Paier School of Art in Hamden from 1971 to 1972, and Northwestern Connecticut Community College, studying fine art from 1973 to 1975. He studied life drawing at Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven from 1982 to 1985, and at the Washington Art Association from 1987 to 1991. He studied painting with Ira Barkoff from 2014 to 2016.

Oil landscape painting was Mark’s lifelong passion. He was a member of the Washington Art Association. His work was exhibited in Connecticut and Vermont galleries, including the Mattatuck Museum, having won an honorable mention in 1997 for the museum’s Connecticut Visions Exhibition; the Washington Art Association; Phoenix Rising in Thomaston; Artwell Gallery in Torrington; Crescent Gallery in Thomaston; Whiting Mills in Winsted; Gallery 25 in New Milford; Underground Gallery in Collinsville and Harwood Hill Motel in Bennington, Vt., having served as artist in residence there from 2016 to 2017. He also won the 2018 Watertown Art League first place award in oil painting. His work is in many private collections.