International Voices CFAI.co Volume 1 No. 5
contemporary fine art
Cover Artist George Ayers www.cfai.co/georgeayers
Sheri Jones
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Art by Sheri Jones www.cfai.co/sherijones From the May Art Challenge
George Ayers
My personal taste for art usually leans towards classical realism although I appreciate all forms of creativity outside of painting including music, architecture, classic wooden yachts, film, sculpture, pottery and the list could go on and on and possibly become quite boring!
CFAI.co Cover Artist
Although I’ve always had an interest in sketching and architecture I’ve had no formal art training outside of an art class in high school as well as the abundance of information available in books and online. Over the last 15 years or so I have made a living as a draftsman, aircraft dispatcher for Continental as well as a sailor although 90 percent of that time was as a civil engineering draftsman. I was a music performance major in college on the trumpet and taught private lessons as well as playing around town in various jazz bands, orchestras as well as ensembles from the university.
Features this month New Artists
Pages 6-7
Painter’s Keys - Robert Genn Page 9
Art Challenge
Pages 16-21
Hall Groat II Art Review pages 38-39
featuring Deanna Jaugstetter
in Visual Language Colors on My Palette pages 22-29 featuring Amy Whitehouse and Melody Cleary
Blog Review Florida pages 40-41
Florida Artists Special Reviews pages 42-47
Mark Schwartz, Sally Shisler, Diane Mannion
Daily Painters
Pages 54-55
ART TELLS THE STORY Martine Callebaut
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Elizabeth Renee Barrett www.cfai.co/elizabethbarrett
Robin Swaby
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Frances L Pineda
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Melissa Torres
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NEW ARTISTS ON CFAI.co Jodi Hess
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Ken Martin
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New Signature Member Marie Fox www.cfai.co/mariefox
CFAI.co Masthead
Visual Language Magazine Sta Editorial Editor -in-Chief Laurie Pace Executive Editor Diane Whitehead Managing Editor Nancy Medina Deputy Editor Debbie Lincoln Feature Editor Art Reviews Hall Groat II Feature Contributor Robert Genn Blog Editor Kimberly Conrad Associate Editor Lisa Kreymborg Advertising Contact Kimberly Conrad
CFAI.co Newsletter Editor -in-Chief Diane Whitehead Executive Editor Laurie Pace Managing Editor Kimberly Conrad Deputy Editor Debbie Lincoln Feature Editor Art Reviews Hall Groat II Associate Editor Lisa Kreymborg Feature Contributor Clint Watson FASO Feature Contributor Robert Genn Painter’s Keys Membership Director Kimberly Conrad Associate Director Lisa Kreymborg
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All Artwork is Copyrighted by the Individual Artists. Visual Language Vol 1 No 5
Painter’s Keys with Robert Genn
Robert Genn’s Studio Book
May 28, 2012
Painter’s Keys - Robert Genn
Dear Laurie,
Odysseus, in Homer’s Odyssey, is ten years getting back to Ithaca from the Trojan Wars. All kinds of crap and corruption take place while he’s gone, including interference with his wife Penelope. Our odysseys need not be so traumatic, and regular little ones can invigorate. I recommend three- and four-hour car-sorties. In our family we call it “mosey driving.” Unlike your regular trip to Costco, you move around so you can look and see and perhaps record. Your mind needs to slow down and drop into a visually aware trance so you can access your latent “appreciation mode.” A lot of good stuff can probably be found just blocks from your home. Because of the “click and go” habit, a camera can be counter-productive. You need a journaling pad or sketchbook. I often use small stretched canvases hooked over the steering wheel. We’ve put some photos of my system at the top of the current clickback. To mosey in foreign lands, with no particular itinerary, is my idea of artist’s heaven. Starting this September, my friend Don Getz of Peninsula, Ohio, is planning a year-long coast-to-coast US odyssey of watercolour journaling. Don has chosen to be in selected small towns and villages on certain dates, and he’s giving two- and three-day workshops in many of them. A lifetime of commercial art and obsessive sketching make Don the “King of the Journaling Instructors,” and anyone who has seen his work will know why. We’ve put Don’s work and info at the top of the current clickback. Don’s system is to draw the perimeter first, then, without benefit of pencil, using a permanent laundry marker called Identi-pen, he commits his lines in ink. “Ink gives confidence and a deadly eye,” says Don. After the drawing is more or less the way he wants it, he comes in with watercolour washes. The idea is to keep the work understated, fresh and lively. Don’s journals are not pretentious; they are the passing stations of a lifelong odyssey. Best regards, Robert PS: “With journal sketching a great deal of work can be accomplished in a rather short period of time. Speed is key, and speed comes from practice.” (Don Getz)
Sign up for Robert’s letters on his site. Read this letter online and share your thoughts on talking about your work. Live comments are welcome. Direct, illustratable comments can be made at rgenn@saraphina.com The Workshop Calendar: Here is a selection of workshops and seminars laid out in chronological order that will stimulate, teach, mentor, take you to foreign lands or just down the street. Many of these workshops are recommended by Robert and friends. Incidentally, if you are planning a workshop and have photos of happy people working, feel free to send them to us and we’ll include a selection in the workshops feature at no extra charge.
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Elizabeth Chapman
24” x 48” x 1.5” Acrylic on Canvas Title: Ambrosia
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Logan Bauer www.cfai.co/loganbauer
Born in North Dakota, Bauer’s formative years were spent overseas. He took his first painting class in England at age 13. He graduated from Trinity University in Texas and continued his art education while pursuing other professional goals. Now a full time artist, Bauer’s impressionistic and contemporary work is imbued with a vivid sense of color and light. His oil paintings are characterized by years of watercolor techniques that blend color in unsuspecting ways. Bauer is a member of the Arizona Artist Guild. His work is available at www.loganbauer.com
LoganBauer.com Recent works have been shown at the Herberger Theatre Center in Phoenix, Arizona, and the Arizona Art Alliance’s Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona. Presently, his work can be seen at the Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Art in Las Vegas. In 2011 he also appeared in the publications American Art Collector and Southwest Art. In addition, he will be seen in the 2012 publication “International Contemporary Masters V”. ,and the subsequent exhibition by that name in Las Vegas from March to June 2012.
Colleen Sanchez www.cfai.co/colleensanchez
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Joe Mancuso www.cfai.co/joemancuso
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“A Chill In The Air” 24x36 Pastel
“Best Of Show” at the Pastel Society Of Southern California 2012 Members
ART CHALLENGE
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May 2012
Best of Show Carol Peterson
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Little Buckaroo
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First Place Theresa Paden
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Second Place Jani Lori
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Third Place Melody Cleary
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Honorable Mention
Ann Rogers
Jimmy Longacre
Honorable Mention
Linda Bell
Lisa McKinney
ART CHALLENGE
Linda Snider Ward
Leada Wood
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Carol Myer
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COLORS ON MY PALETTE
Amy Whitehouse www.cfai.co/amywhitehouse http://www.cfai.co/colors-on-my-palette/amy-whitehouse/ When did you realize you loved art and wanted to be ‘an artist’? As far back as I can remember I loved drawing, finger painting (still do!), and any kind of art. I remember in 2nd grade walking around my neighborhood and selling my artwork to kind neighbors. I’ve always been an artist at heart even though there have been years when it was on the back burner. Who has been the greatest influence from your past to mentor you to this career? All the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters. Degas, Monet, Manet, Berthe Morisot, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Mary Cassatt, Gaughin, Odilon Redon all spring to mind. Having lived in Paris for a full year as an undergraduate student, I was able to visit the Jeu de Paume (now the Musee D’Orsay) several times a week. I could never look at those works enough; I went so often I had it memorized, yet each time I saw the individual paintings I was enchanted. Who is your mentor today, or another artist you admire and why? Recently I took a workshop at Scottsdale Artists School with Logan Hagege who awakened a keen interest in exploring landscapes and seascapes more fully. A few artists whose work inspires me include Dreama Tolle Perry, Liz Hill, Diane Whitehead, David Boyd, Jr., and Mike Rooney. Kimberly Conrad and Laurie Justus Pace have been mentoring me as well. What is your favorite surface to paint on? Describe it if you make it yourself. My favorite surface on which to paint would be gray linen. I love the feel of the weave and the medium value it provides. What brand of paints do you use? I use primarily Gamblin and Sennelier paints, for their consistency and full pigment feel. Do you have a favorite color palette? I usually have on my palette: Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Orange, Cadmium Red, Ultramarine Blue, Sap Green, Yellow Ochre, Citron Green, and any Transparent Oxides.
COLORS ON MY PALETTE
COLORS ON MY PALETTE
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COLORS ON MY PALETTE
COLORS ON MY PALETTE
Melody Cleary
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When did you realize you loved art and wanted to be ‘an artist’? I was very inspired when I won first place in my grade school art competition and again in a high school competition. My mother found a local art center and I enrolled in drawing and oil painting classes during high school. It was not to be that I would attend art school or get an art degree, but I knew art would be a life long interest and so I moonlighted taking art classes whenever I could. When I retired in 2000, I spent years seriously practicing and developing until I realized my ‘style’ and produced a body of work. Who has been the greatest influence from your past to mentor you to this career? First, I would say, my mother. She knew I had a gift and she supplied me with the tools to practice it. Next, I would say my father who was a talented drawer of designs in the granite and marble industry. I would draw next to him at the kitchen table. In his retirement, he took up oil painting as a hobby and had a love of nature and landscape, as do I. He was always interested in my work and what I was producing next, though, he really didn’t look at it as a business or career. Who is your mentor today, or another artist you admire and why? My critique group is very important to me. Many of us come from a local art co-op and have been meeting monthly for a few years now. A few have B.A.s in Art or Art History, one is a traveled career art teacher, and others are hobbyists. As well as sharing friendship, we share input on each others work and I always gain insight on whatever I’m working on. We have viewed some art videos, and California artist Robert Burridge is a big influence on me to loosen up and get creative. And the colors! I surely became a colorist - it just speaks to me. Other current artists who’s work inspires me are Dale Witherow (WA), Ellen Dittebrandt (OR), Lynn Boggess, Kathleen Earthrowl, and Kentree Speirs (OR), just to name a few. What is your favorite surface to paint on? Describe it if you make it yourself. I work mostly on stretched gallery canvas, 1.5” depth, with a medium or smooth tooth....no framing is required. I’ve also worked on gessoed watercolor paper. What brand of paints do you use? Liquitex and Golden acrylics, mostly. Do you have a favorite color palette? I have a variety of yellows, reds and blues....phthalo blue, manganese blue, cad orange, any medium and light yellow, pyrrole red, naphthol red light, yellow ochre and white. I’ll add some alizarin crmson or dark green to mix up dark darks. For a brilliant orange, I’ll use some Holbein Luminous Opera. I’ve often used this and yellow to make a brilliant background for nature scapes.
COLORS ON MY PALETTE
COLORS ON MY PALETTE
COLORS ON MY PALETTE
Melody Cleary
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Jill Saur www.cfai.co/jillsaur
JillSaurFineArt.com Jill’s tagline, “joy on canvas”, captures the essence of her remarkable work. Art lovers have collected her radiant aspen and birch tree paintings for over twenty-five years. Expressive, dynamic, and full of life, Jill’s paintings are often hung as the focal point of a room. Looking to the future, Jill feels that the best is yet to come.
Right Page Top Right: Awake Before Winter (2) 36x48, Acrylic on Canvas Rigiht Page Top Left: Abundant Brilliance 36x48, Acrylic on Canvas Left Page Below: Autumn Beauty 48x36, Acrylic on Canvas Right Page Bottom: The Gathering 48x36, Acrylic on Canvas
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Barbara Churchley www.cfai.co/barbarachurchley
BarbaraChurchley.com Barbara Churchley is an award winning artist who captures the moods of the landscape one canvas at a time in an expressive style all her own.
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Rae Andrews www.cfai.co/raeandrews www.yessy.com/raeandrews
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Above: Ethereal Koi 1 30 x 40 Middle: Reections 40 x 40 Right: Fireglow 24 x 48
Artist of Australia and Artist of Texas
Rae Andrews is an Australian artist who lived on the island of Maui for many years before moving to Texas. She works in all mediums, and likes to challenge herself with a variety of subjects, although water and movement are very identifiable with this artist. Her layering technique of bold color veils achieves a translucent, sometimes fractured result in her works. Rae is a teacher in both Australia and the U.S.A.
Rae Andrews www.cfai.co/raeandrews www.yessy.com/raeandrews
RaeAndrewsGallery.blogspot.com LeftTop: White Water Tumble 30 x 40 Left Bottom: Can’t See The Forest for the Trees 30 x 40 Middle: Walk with Me 24 x 36 Right: Escarpment 24 x48
Hall Groat II NY Critic Review
Abstraction Revealed Through Perceptual Painting: A Review of Georgia Artist Deanna Jaugstetter’s When studying the work of Atlanta-based artist, Deanna Jaugstetter, it’s evident that she perceives the world that surrounds her as both a representational and abstract painter concurrently. Paintings such as, Passages, appear at first glance to be completely non-objective in nature, however when studying them beside representational pieces such as, Brugge Canal II, one begins to see abstract architectural elements slowly emerge. Deanna’s abstract works seem to be distillations of her realistic paintings, whereby buildings and landscape elements are deconstructed into various geometric and organic shapes and then re-assembled into a new configuration she perceives in her imagination. My hunch is that this creative process at times may be conscious; however most of the time is subconscious and natural.
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Contemporary Fine Art Review by NY Art Critic Hall Groat II www.NYArtGuide.net/groatii/index.html
Painter Hall Groat II, professor of fine and media arts at Broome Community College, teaches foundation courses in painting, drawing, color theory, and computer graphics. Groat earned a master of fine arts degree in painting and drawing from City University of New York at Brooklyn, a bachelor of arts in art history, minoring in studio art at Binghamton University, and attended graduate and certificate programs at Buffalo State College, Syracuse University, and Savannah College of Art and Design. He also attended summer sessions at Chautauqua School of Art, Chautauqua, NY, and Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vt.
Hall Graot II NY Critic Review
Several of her abstract works are reminiscent of the late Clyfford Still who was the leader of the First Generation Abstract Expressionist movement in New York during the 1940s’. The large 30”x40”, acrylic on canvas painting entitled Life is a Dance contains a series of fragmented organic shapes that appear to be floating overtop an ethereal field of color. The warm and cool atmospheric color contrasts add a compelling sense of depth, while evoking rhythmic motion. The quirky titles that she thinks of are as inventive as her abstractions. The Evolved Soul and When Lightning Strikes are two painting titles that indeed pose more questions than provide answers. Perhaps Deanna’s future paintings will combine both aesthetic and conceptual elements from her abstract paintings with the ones that are created from direct observation. This would be tantalizing!
Blog Review Jani Lori
Judy Batterson
Sally Shisler Mark Schwartz
Diane Mannion
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Judy Batterson
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Jani Lori
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Florida Artist Spotlight
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Florida Artist Spotlight
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Florida Artist Spotlight
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Oil Painting DVDs Professor Hall Groat II
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Carol Nelson www.cfai.co/carolnelson
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Armella Benton
Artist of Colorado
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Nancy Standlee www.cfai.co/nancystandlee
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Artist of Texas
Marie Fox www.cfai.co/mariefox
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Delilah Smith www.cfai.co/delilahsmith
DAILY PAINTERS
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Robin Cheers
Debra Hurd
Kay Crain
Jeanne Illenye
Linda McCoy John K Harrell
Gerald Schwartz Marie Fox
Filomena Booth www.cfai.co/filomenabooth
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Strong composition, visual texture, bold use of color, and trusting her intuition are just some of the elements that Filomena employs in creating works that elicit emotional responses from viewers. Her work, at times, may be subtle, and at other times vibrant and bold. She is a prolific painter and credits her ability to master a variety of techniques to her experience as an art teacher. Filomena considers herself an experimental abstract expressionist artist. Her paintings often begin with thin washes of paint followed by layered glazes of color. The addition of collage materials, texture, and metallics may be used to enhance the composition as it slowly emerges from the canvas. The process involves the gradual buildup of many layers of color and texture to create the final image. She holds a B.A. degree in fine art education from Newark State College, now Kean University, in New Jersey. She has taken a variety of graduate courses at Montclair State College in Montclair NJ, as well as studied at the Dunedin Art Center in Florida. She has also participated in and taught several art workshops in Florida as well as acted as juror for Art in the Square outdoor art festival in Southlake, Texas.
Artist Statement To create a powerful and moving abstract image is a gratifying experience for any artist. To have that image appreciated by the viewer is an even greater joy.
LISA McKINNEY www.cfai.co/lisamckinney
LMcKinneyGraphics.blogspot.com Lisa-McKinney.artistwebsites.com Lisa McKinney is the daughter of an internationally collected painter and a renowned microbiologist. The mix of the creative and the logical always felt like a pull of two very conflicted worlds. As a child, Lisa’s drawings and paintings were chosen each year to be displayed at the elementary school art shows in the local opera house. But as time went on, she found herself focused on more analytical endeavors and abandoned art altogether. After studying Social Work and working with troubled teens for several years, the artistic side had long been forgotten. But when she began experimenting with graphic design, photography, and digital art, the worlds collided into an emotional and visual experience of the right and left brain. Lisa currently works as a graphic designer, and as an artist focuses on graphic paintings, photography and editing, and mixed media graphics.
Gigi Hackford www.cfai.co/gigihackford
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Liana Yarckin
Artist of Texas
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Liz Hill www.cfai.co/lizhill
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Artist of Texas
Nancy Medina www.cfai.co/nancymedina
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Artist of Texas
Diane Whitehead
Artist of Utah and Montana
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Diane Whitehead is an avid outdoors woman and a self-taught artist. She is highly praised for her strong brush strokes and bold use of color; both of which make her work come alive. Diane paints what she loves best; nature and animals. Her flowers and landscapes reflect the moods of the western mountains she calls home and her animals look you in the eye with a majesty and gentleness that create an instant bond. At once elegant and whimsical, Diane’s animals touch our soul and our sense of humor. Born in Spokane, Washington, Diane began to paint earnestly when an uncle gave her his set of oil paints. One of eight children, she found painting to be her most treasured “quiet time�. Originally determined to be a veterinarian, Diane feels she has combined her love of animals and oil paint to make the perfect marriage of creativity. Diane is a full-time artist working from her studio in Park City and when the weather allows, a Plein-air painter in the mountains she loves. She has participated in workshops with Reid Galey, Carolyn Anderson and Jove Wang and continues to pursue new techniques for her creative expression.
Mary Jo Zorad www.cfai.co/maryjozorad
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Artist of Washington
Mary Jo Zorad has been drawing and painting since a young child. She always wanted to be an artist. Her first teacher was her father who spent time drawing while he tutored her in math. Her first solo art presentation occurred in High School. She has painted and sold art for over 20 years. Her career took a turn into Psychology and Art away from a full time artist after Junior College where she studied art and art history. While in graduate school she continued painting and drawing while writing her dissertation. She sold and gave away many of her paintings while studying psychology and art therapy. During that time her graphic design drawings were included in mail order catalogues and her paintings in business offices. Mary Jo’s subjects vary from domestic animals such as cats and dogs, to landscapes, people, still life, horses and wildlife. She paints in oils, watercolors and pastels. She was born in Indiana, moved to California where she studied, and now lives in Washington on a 5-acre organic farm. Mary Jo states “I am fortunate now to realize my expression and passion for art and make a living with this creativity. It is the expression of life and nature surrounding me that I seek to portray. I paint what I see and feel in my soul. Nature – closest to our soul, creates the vibrant colors that sparks the eye and warms the heart”. She was never far away from her true calling of creative expression.
Kimberly Conrad
Artist of Colorado
Pouring Color into Your Life www.cfai.co/kimberlyconrad
KimberlyConradDailyPaintings.blogspot.com KimberlyConradFineArt.com I am a full time artist, dividing my time between painting and teaching in my Colorado studio. Having painted on most every surface imaginable, at this time I work primarily on canvas, board, and paper. Though my style remains quite diverse, I believe I have the heart of an Abstract Expressionist, or even more accurately, an Action Expressionist, as I am most definitely an “action painter”. My preferred application, used in my landscape, seascapes and aspens is to “pour” my paint, manipulating the flow with water and body movement. I use no sketches or brushes, rather allow the paint to move freely and tell it’s own story. Each painting is a journey, dictated primarily by my current thoughts and emotions, be they happy, sad, peaceful or frenzied.It is a mysterious relationship, and is thrilling when the painting finally reveals itself, and our private journey becomes a story to share.
Angels Unaware
Judy Mackey www.cfai.co/judymackey
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Debbie Grayson Lincoln www.cfai.co/debbielincoln
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Artist of Texas
Laurie Justus Pace
Artist of Texas
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