Alex Alampi Jr., a watercolor artist from Gloucester County, New Jersey, features the people of the Mid-Atlantic region. "Working Portraits," as he refers to them, are images reminiscent of a simpler time. Although Alex enjoys painting a wide variety of subjects from the Delaware Bay region and the pastoral countryside where he grew up, his inspiration comes from the people; those individuals who still make a living from the land and waterways in the traditional …showed first 75 words of 253 total…

…showed last 75 words of 253 total…all over the coasts of the region. But when I think of lighthouses, I don’t normally think of the New Jersey bays and coastline. However, after seeing some of Alampi’s work, I feel as though I have already been there and seen them. He captures the shape and environment of the lighthouse and its surrounding so well, it is as though I’m looking out a window rather then at a watercolor painting.