Artist/designer Tom Menihan lives and works in Boston, MA. He and his wife, Ginny ONeil, also spend time in Martha’s Vineyard, MA and Treasure Beach, Jamaica where they are the artists-in-residence at Jake’s Resort during the winter months.

Tom works primarily with transparent watercolor and gouache. He has studied with Bill Georgenes of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the late Dudty Fletcher who taught in Cambridge and at the DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA. He has attended workshops with Charles Reid and Paul George.

Tom and Ginny show their work by appointment at Two Boats Gallery, their home/studios in Jamaica Plain and Oak Bluffs. Their work can also be seen at Dragonfly Gallery and Vineyard Lights in Oak Bluffs, and at Yes, We Have No Bananas Gallery in West Tisbury. Ginny and Tom work as a team teaching watercolor painting through art immersion experiences, workshops and private lessons.

Born in Rochester, NY, Tom is the son of John C. Menihan (1908-1992), noted lithographer and painter. After ten years of teaching followed by a second career as a graphic designer, Tom made painting his main focus.

Combining an early interest in graphic design with a fascination for the light and spontaneity of watercolor, my work shows a calligraphic quality of line with an impressionistic point of view. I’m intrigued by coast lines and tree lines, roof lines and clothes lines.

I believe that art is a universal language which can transcend borders and other man-made barriers.

Ginny ONeil is a portrait and landscape artist who works mainly in watercolor. A lifetime Boston resident, she also spends time in Martha’s Vineyard, and Treasure Beach, Jamaica where she and her husband, Tom Menihan, are the artists-in-residence at Jake’s Resort during the winter months.

Ginny and Tom show their work by appointment at Two Boats Gallery, their home/studios in Jamaica Plain and Oak Bluffs. Their work can also be seen at Dragonfly Gallery, Vineyard Lights, and Kennedy Galleries all in Oak Bluffs, and at Bananas Gallery in West Tisbury. Ginny and Tom work as a team teaching watercolor painting through art immersion experiences, workshops and private lessons.

One of the ten ONeil sisters of Boston’s Easter Parade during the 1940’s and 50’s, Ginny credits her late mother, Julia ONeil, for early creative inspiration. Ginny and Tom have raised five children and have eleven grandchildren and one great grand who have all been the subjects of many paintings.

Ginny began painting with watercolors on her first trip to Jamaica, intrigued by the light and color of the Caribbean coast and the beauty of the Jamaican people. Her first painting guru was Bill Georgenes, who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A compelling interest in portraiture led her to study with the late Dudty Fletcher who taught at the DeCordova Museum and the Cambridge Center for the Arts. She has also attended workshops with Paul George and Charles Reid.

My watercolors are a blend of realistic and impressionistic images – portraits or landscapes with an indication of the human element. To capture the look and mood of a subject, I blend colors of shapes and shadows into strokes that dance around the light.

My artwork reflects the racial and ethnic diversity of my life and my community. I want happiness and optimism to permeate my paintings, to be shared with those who see the work and who take it into their homes.