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This year we are opening our doors to you, our prospective industry collaborators, to experience the work of our diverse roster of painters and sculptors.

We grasp the pivotal role of interior designers, realtors, and hospitalty industry workers in helping clients discover their aesthetic inclinations and create spaces that are uniquely theirs, whether that’s a cozy home or a bustling corporate hub. With our knowledgable staff on board, we’re poised to assist you in handpicking the pieces that best align with your taste and budget.

Our reputation for transforming art collecting into an easy, intimate, and accessible experience has cemented our place as a time-tested favorite among art enthusiasts.

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Mark Bailey

Mark Bailey’s painterly brushstrokes subtly define the figures and objects within his works. His contemporary impressionist style captures an intimate portrait of his subjects and their surrounding environment, with his cityscapes and interiors glowing with the energy of their bustling urban backdrops. His exquisite figures reveal an undertone of an individual story within each scene he translates onto canvas.

A favorite among collectors, Bailey was chosen in 2010 by Southwest Art magazine as one of “21 Under 31 Artists To Collect Now” and has since been a featured artist in the publication as well as in American Art Collector, Fine Art Connoisseur, The Artist’s Magazine, among others. Bailey has also received acclaim in art competitions, including Best In Show at the Governor’s Art Exhibit in Colorado, and he attended the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, where he completed his BFA in 2005.

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Bryony Bensly

Born in Thailand and raised mainly in Hong Kong and England, Bryony Bensly experienced a multicultural upbringing, with artistic influences that ranged from Asian religious art to postmodernism. She had forays into installation art, made sculptures out of organic matter, and then circled back to her first love: drawing and painting.

Bensly’s work is a juxtaposition of conceptual ideas and realism, manifesting in surreal imagery with a narrative that illuminates our internal and external life. Her current body of work focuses on our interdependence, responsibility, and attitudes towards nature and the environment.

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Suchitra Bhosle

Growing up in Bangalore, India, Suchitra Bhosle was exposed to the world of painting through two artists in her family, her father and grandmother, who helped establish an early appreciation for art. These influences allowed her to see the world through an artist’s filter beginning at a young age. She was highly perceptive and as a child had the ability to find beauty everywhere around her, even in mundane objects she found in the kitchen, backyard, or a book. When she wasn’t painting or daydreaming, she was reading art books. Her oil paintings are bursting with life: Bhosle strives to depict the atmosphere of a setting and mood of the model. She is aided in this by her knowledge of use of color as well as her study of the anatomical underpinnings that serve as the foundation of her paintings.

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Rich Bowman

For Bowman, growing up among the fields and vast plains of Sherman, TX, was a childhood of joy and hard work. For years he struggled to find peace with his paintings. He came to the realization that the detail and craft of his illustrative past are secondary to the emotional quality and truth of his work today. Free to paint without the burden of a camera’s detail, the landscapes come from a place filled with feeling, a place that he knows well. It was only a matter of time before it would find its way from his head and onto his canvas. The result is that Bowman’s works are both passionate and poetic, dramatic and subtle. He lures the viewer with patches of color juxtaposed to contrast and intrigue.

“My paintings today are a direct result of my upbringing and my many years of creating, trying to capture the emotion I have felt from viewing a scene,” he explains. “My paintings are not about the details of a specific place. I try to convey a feeling of time and atmosphere through texture, design, and color. My goal is to trigger a familiar feeling in the viewer as they connect to a painting.”

Drawn In oil 24 x 24

Dean Bradshaw

Dean Bradshaw grew up in the Santa Monica Mountains in southern California. From an early age, nature became his closest friend; he spent every free moment hiking and observing the intricacies of her light and form.

Bradshaw seeks to achieve an abstract quality using recognizable shapes on his canvases. He works plein air, relying on good memory and photos for minimal reference. “Painting directly from nature means the world to me,” he explains. “It opens up new dimensions in the way I see light and color and deepens my appreciation for nature and life as whole.”

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Gordon Brown

“My paintings are all about light and mood,” says Gordon Brown.

Brown grew up in Grand Junction, CO, and still lives nearby. Ensconced in his century-old home shaded by peach and apricot trees, he finds peace and inspiration in this bucolic oasis; from the balcony of his studio at the back of the property, he can survey the imposing Bookcliffs mountain range.

He considers it his responsibility as a painter, he says, “to record and reveal the natural beauty of the landscape as faithfully as possible.” Therefore, he spends a great deal of time in the field studying his subject matter. The photos and small oil studies he does on site are just a reference, however, and bear little resemblance to the canvases he ultimately produces.

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Stephanie Bush

“It was the desire to examine more closely that which is peripheral and overlooked, that lured me to look more closely at a being that shares my space and ecology,” Stephanie Bush says.

“I grew up in the city of Montreal with only the occasional weekend or summer camp experience in the country, so cows are in many ways as foreign to me as a camel. The first thing that overwhelmed me when confronted with the actual presence of a cow, was simply their size. This translates directly into the size of my canvases. Next was the strange experience, repeated again and again, of having them look directly at me. I had the unshakable feeling of being seen, and seen deeply. One can get lost in their eyes and so the gaze has become an integral part of the series, expressing the relationship between the witnesser and the witnessed.”

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Charles Stuart Callis

Charles Stuart Callis was born in 1984 in Salt Lake City, UT. He received an international education, attending schools in Germany, England, Switzerland, and the US, and obtained his BFA from the University of Utah. Callis currently lives and works in Helper, Utah, and enjoys spending his free time exploring the American West — the influences of that and his travels can be seen in much of his work.

His most current pieces are based on photographs taken by his grandfather, Keith Hayes, depicting life in the 1930s to 1950s. His work took him all over the country, and through it all he diligently documented his experiences.

Daniel Caro

Daniel Caro was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1986. Discovering his talent from a young age and understanding that the current Art Schools would not meet his expectations of a refined technique in painting, and having no funds for formal study at an art academy, he decided to pursue a career as a self-taught artist. He focused on painting realism by carefully researching and practicing on his own, for which his self-taught technical skills were recognized and admired — he quickly garnered attention locally and internationally and showed in many exhibitions.From the very beginning of his career, he participated in important art fairs in Latin America and the US, such as the ArtBo Art Fair in Colombia, Affordable Art Fair in Mexico, and Spectrum Art Fair in Miami. Caro’s work is in private collections in the US, France, Spain, Colombia, Mexico, Chile, and Panama. Most recently he was awarded an Honorable Mention in the 15th International ARC Salon Competition, the largest representative art competition in the world, and exhibited and auctioned his work at Sotheby’s.

Trish Coonrod

Trish Coonrod is a classically trained artist living and working in Ithaca, NY. She grew up in Danvers, MA, the youngest of ten, and has always loved to paint and draw. She majored in painting at Washington University in St. Louis and The New York Academy of Art, graduating with honors in 1995. She has lived in upstate New York since 2006 with her husband, two children, several dogs, and chickens.

“I am a still life painter, particularly interested in fruit and flowers. I enjoy exploring their colors and idiosyncrasies of form, which can imply gesture and personality. Each object is unique and the interactions between objects point to a story or dialogue. I’m an enthusiastic gardener and my paintings often include subject matter that I’ve grown.”

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Ken Daggett

Focused, passionate, prolific and determined -— these are words that convey the spirit of Ken Daggett’s life as an artist. After years of embellishing architectural renderings that limited his artistic ability, he is now free to paint without bounds. Some of his favorite subjects are the pastoral scenes of Northern New Mexico, quaint village churches, and hand built adobes tenderly perched on the mesas and in the valleys.

Daggett is a full-fledged Taoseno thriving on waking up each day to the beauty of the land. His paintings glow with the color and drama of sun-flooded scenes and shady mountain meadows. One feels the heart of the artist as well as the spirit of place in his works.

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Robert Daughters

Born in 1929, Robert Daughters was raised in St. Joseph, Missouri. After graduation from high school and three years in the military, he worked as a Curator of Display at the St. Joseph Museum of Natural History while attending the Kansas City Art Institute and School of Design.

During a 1953 visit to Taos, Daughters discovered the beauty and light of the area. His earlier works were in a realistic, academic vein and consisted of many charcoal drawings of Southwest Indians as well as oils of New Mexico landscapes and Pueblo scenes.

“A tireless, compulsive painter, he has produced countless representations of the Southwest in all of its magnificence,” writes SouthwestArt magazine. “His style is characterized by dark outlines and short discrete brush strokes that catch color and movement of his subjects with vivid flourish. And above all he conveys a sense of the regions brilliant light.”

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Jay Davenport

Jay Davenport has always been interested in and excited by fine art, especially representations of animals and wildlife. With a push from his grandfather, he began private instructions at an early age. His enthusiasm for and education in the arts continued, and he earned an Associates Degree in Painting and Illustration and later completed a four year apprenticeship in Realism and Trompe-l’Oeil.

Davenport’s desire to paint the humorous has materialized into his original works of animals and how the different things they do relate to human life. His intention is for the viewer to “step back once in awhile and observe and even laugh at ourselves.”

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Silvia Davis

“My sculptures of animals involve a process of constant adding and subtracting blocks of wood until a complex, surprising surface is established,” says Silvia Davis. “While building these blocks of color and pattern, I also work out the proportion and expression of the character. This process of building up and breaking down gives life to the character of the animals and creates an element of transformation.”

It’s easy to see that the work of Silvia Davis is complex in many ways. Each sculpture has a kind of geological memory of its making which is visible in the final form. The almost genetic shuffling and reshuffling of the many different shapes, colors, and textures of the carved blocks of wood is all there for us to see. When looking at one of her cats, a thought comes to mind may be similar to what Darwin may have thought when looking at a real cat: “How did this miracle come to be”? On a deeper level her work is a metaphor for those moments of awe, which we all feel from time to time in the face of nature.

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Jade bronze 35 x 9 x 25

David Dornan

David Dornan resides in Utah and has spent the past nine winters painting in the desert. He has produced a sizable body of work, focusing most recently on a series of still life motif paintings. His work is in numerous public and private collections across the US, and he has received purchase awards, prizes, best of show awards, and/or high placement in nearly every exhibition he has entered throughout his 20-year career. Dornan has also won many academic and professional awards — he recenty resigned from a 17-year university faculty position to pursue his painting full time.

Remarkable things happen to commonplace objects in Dornan’s paintings. A can or jar, a flower, a paint brush, a palette as a lone subject or as an element in a complex composition take on a monumental quality through scale changes and central placement. The objects painted assume a commanding presence through his assertive paint application. Immediacy and spontaneity are achieved not only with a brush, but also through the smear of a thumb, the wipe of a rag, and the “weight and speed” of a drip.

Kim English

Born in 1957, in Omaha, NE, English was raised in a rural town near Colorado Springs, and completed his formal artistic training at the Rocky Mountain School of Art in Denver, CO in 1979. After graduation, he joined the faculty at the Art Students League of Denver and the Scottsdale Artists School.

English depicts the profound moments of beauty often hidden within the particulars of daily life. A master of painterly chiaroscuro, his work remarks on the powerful harmony that exists between light and shadow in nature. While much of his subject matter is pulled from local venues, English loves to travel, and responds to the inherent beauty he finds in each new destination. Perhaps the most distinguishing feature of English’s work is his astonishing manipulation of his medium. Using the alla prima method, he typically finishes a piece in one sitting, granting his pictures an immediacy and instinctive quality that is recognizable across a wide range of subject matter. He expertly transitions from thin washes of color to buttery areas of generously applied paint, creating texture and reinforcing the impact of his overall design

Cary Ennis

Cary Ennis incorporates meditation and stillness into her life as well as her paintings, creating peaceful images that invite contemplation. Meditation extends to all aspects of the painter’s life and she begins each day in her studio with a moment of introspection.

The clarity, calmness, and reverence for the beauty in everyday objects is what Ennis sees in the objects that she tries to capture in her work.

The dark backgrounds, focused light, and tranquil mood of her still-lifes bring to mind Vermeer, one of Ennis’ favorite painters. She wants us to open our eyes to see things differently, and observe the aesthetic beauty of something as simple as an onion or radish. The cohesiveness of items is important; the individual characters striking harmonious notes that come together to quietly soothe the viewer. Ennis explains, “I think that when things are seen simply as they are, then the beauty in them reveals itself.”

Aimee Erickson

Aimee Erickson has developed a warm, inviting pictorial voice grounded in traditional realism, informed by the principles of design, and inspired by nature and human experience.

“Color has emotional weight and is related to the shape of space,” she says. “Drawing or painting, for me, means to look at the thing and transmit its vitality to the canvas.”

Erickson teaches studio and plein-air painting, drawing, and color theory locally and at venues nationwide, and her work has been awarded top prizes in many national competitions, including Oil Painters of America, American Women Artists, the Portrait Society of America, as well as multiple notable plein air competitions.

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Desert Cloudscape oil 14 x 18

Natalie Featherston

Natalie Featherston works exclusively in the centuries-old realm of Trompe L’oeil, creating dazzling paintings that combine the virtuosity of a Dutch master with a thoroughly modern mind. She discovered her love for painting by accident in the early 1990s after moving from North Carolina to New York City to pursue her master’s degree in music. An accomplished cellist, she has had the honor of performing at Carnegie Hall and across Europe as a soloist and chamber musician.

“Although I enjoyed making music, I wanted to do something more creative and unique, something that was altogether mine,” Featherston says. “I started drawing from the models at the Art Students League and I was hooked.” Classes soon followed at some of New York’s most venerable art institutions: The National Academy of Design, The School of Visual Arts and The Drawing Academy of the Atlantic, culminating in a six-year apprenticeship with Michael Aviano.

“Artful beyond just illusion and trickery, [Featherson’s works] are truly masterful still lifes made with both craft and wit.” -The Chicago SunTimes

Rocket Ray Gun oil on 3D panel 14 x 11

Douglas Fryer

Douglas Fryer was born in Salt Lake City, UT, and was raised in Illinois and California. In 1988 he received a BFA in Illustration from Brigham Young University in Provo, UT, and later returned to BYU for further study toward an MFA in Painting and Drawing, which he completed in 1995. Fryer has taught fine art and illustration at several universities and art schools, including BYU, The University of Hartford in Hartford Connecticut, and at The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.

He attempts to recreate in his works the way in which we perceive a landscape through quick glances, close observations, or emotional attachments. The resulting imagery is “out of focus, interpenetrating, merging and melting away.”

“Paradoxically,” Fryer says, “the more I abstract an image, the more real it seems to me, or the more it represents or interprets how my eye and mind actually see the world.”

Michael Gallarda

Michael Gallarda is a Hispanic native of California now living and working in Santa Fe, NM. A self-taught painter in oils, he is one of America’s leading contemporary trompe l’oeil artists. His work has elevated this ancient genre to a thoroughly modern aesthetic through his realism, his adherence to traditional trompe l’oeil principles, and his signature use of portraits of women of haunting beauty.

To Gallarda, every image in the painting must fool the viewer’s mind – or else “it’s just a still life.” This strict commitment to the traditional requirements of the genre, combined with his skill, is what renders a Gallarda trompe l’oeil painting truly convincing.

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Paper No.2 oil 20 x 20

Daniel Gerhartz

Born in 1965, Daniel Gerhartz grew up in rural Wisconsin, an area he continues to call home. The unspoiled beauty of the nearby Kettle Moraine State Forest was his playground as a child and still provides inspiration for many of his paintings today. “I’ve been really lucky,” Gerhartz says. “I can paint what I want to paint: the area around here is so beautiful, with its rolling hills, deciduous forests, and prairies. I love to place a figure against that landscape.”

Honesty is the vein that runs through the life and art of Dan Gerhartz. This integrity, combined with his driving work ethic and impeccable technique, have brought him a degree of success that artists twice his age would envy.

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Reflection oil 60 x 40

Jared Gillett

Jared Gillett graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City with his masters in Painting in 2003, prior to that having received his BFA from Utah State. He lives and paints in Salt Lake City, UT.

Daniel Glanz

Daniel Glanz began his career in illustration and fine art photography with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute after attending Colorado State University and Minneapolis College of Art and Design. His art is known for its energy, movement, and technical mastery, with a powerful yet elegant quality drawn from his classical approach to sculpture. He travels extensively to destinations such as Africa, Central and South America, the Galapagos Islands, and the Antarctic, and he draws on these experiences in making art.

Glanz’s work, which is created in his Loveland studio, ranges in size from table-top to monumental. The editions and commissions grace many private collections, both nationally and internationally, as well as public art programs. He is an Elected Member of the National Sculpture Society, National Sculptors’ Guild Member, and a Signature Member of the Society of Animal Artists.

Change In the Wind bronze 9 x 19 x 8

C.J. Hales

CJ Hales works at the intersection of traditional technique and modern execution. Exploring the world through oil paint, Hales views everyday items and scenes as possible subjects for deep emotional expression. Whether a still life, portrait, plein air — or some combination thereof — he creates work that seeks to discover the hidden stories in overlooked or undervalued spaces.

A current student and protege of revered artist David Dornan, Hales hones techniques learned in the studio to explore his own subjects, provide a different perspective, and grow as an artist.

After receiving his BFA in Drawing & Painting from Utah State University, he currently resides in the rural desert town of Helper, UT, where he paints full time and studies with David Dornan, Paul Davis, John Erickson, and many others included in the strong cultural heritage of Utah artists.

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Tony Hochstetler

Tony Hochstetler is a sculptor of unusual animals and botanical subjects. His repertoire of work revolves around reptile, amphibian, insect, marine life, and the occasional odd mammal. Born and raised in northern Indiana, he spent his childhood in the forests, fields, and wetlands, studying the natural world around him. He currently lives in Colorado, where he continues to seek out and research unique subjects.

Hochstetler is a member of the National Sculpture Society, and a Signature member of the Society of Animal Artists.

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Chameleon Leaf bronze 11 x 30 x 5

William C. Hook

William Hook’s background in art began at home. It was through the influence of his father and grandmother, a professional photographer and architect respectively, that art became second nature to him. Other family members were art historian Bainbridge Bunting, prominent Italian painters Gino and Bertha Venanzi, as well as Pulitzer Prize winning author, Willa Cather. When the discussion of art arose at the Hook household, there was never a lack of opinion or interest.

“I was always encouraged to try new media, and that is one reason why I still paint in acrylic,” Hook shares. “My grandmother would find materials in art stores or would have read about a newly developed medium and I would be the art quinea pig”.

The American landscape is William Hook’s inspiration. Large skies, low horizons, distant mountains, and textured foregrounds are expressed in his paintings with broad brushstrokes of vivid color.

Head Waters acrylic 30 x 30

Karl Jensen

Karl Jensen was born into an artistic family and has sculpting in his genes. His father, Reed Jensen, is a sculptor of note and his great aunt, Elaine Brockbank Evans, taught sculpting at the university level and has work displayed across the country. Thus he grew up surrounded by art and creativity; later he studied under Angelo Caravaglia in college.

Sensitive portrayals of faces continue to be his trademark. Children are his favorite subject matter because of their beauty and innocence: “Childhood is a carefree time of joy and play, making it a perfect source of artistic ideas with universal appeal,” Jensen explains. He has the unique ability to “capture a moment in time” to bring something of the freedom of childhood to us.

Jensen’s work embodies the articulation of the human spirit. His work ranges from small indoor bronzes to life-size outdoor pieces and fountains.

Joel Carson Jones

Joel Carson Jones lives, teaches, and paints in Northeastern Pennsylvania, where he was born in 1975. With the work ethic of the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area, he embodies a humble appreciation of simplicity, nature, and the friendships his discipline has fostered. Jones has established an international reputation for his still life and trompe l’oeil paintings. In 2008, he was granted the title of Living Master by the International Art Renewal Center.

The artist completed his undergraduate work at Marywood University, in Scranton, PA, and studied abroad in Angers, France. His vision and ability to render with impeccable clarity has put him at the center of today’s growing movement, Contemporary Renaissance in the Classical atelier. His reputation, expertise, and work are sought world-wide.

Jones’ works continue to appear in many outstanding publications such as The Artist’s Magazine, International Artist Magazine and American Art Collector.

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Blue Skies With A Chance of Sprinkles oil 20 x 16

Shelby Keefe

Even as a young child, Shelby Keefe knew she was an artist. Coming from a family of artists and crafters in rural Wisconsin, she was encouraged to draw and paint and always had plenty of inspiration for making her artwork. After earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1981, she embarked upon a career in graphic design. Moving to Milwaukee for school opened a whole new world for her, and Shelby fell in love with the urban landscape.

By doing group exhibitions, art fairs, and commission work, she gradually gained the attention of enough collectors and was able to retire from graphic design in 2005 to work full-time as a fine artist. As her reputation grew, she became sought after as an instructor, teaching workshops around the country and serving as faculty for the annual Plein Air Convention and Expo.

“I am passionate about drawing and depicting my subjects with honesty as well as expressiveness,” Keefe says. “My goal is to create a fresh perspective to the recognizable world without being predictable or mundane.”

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Andrei Kioresku

Andrei Kioresku was born December 26, 1964, in St. Petersburg, Russia. He graduated in 1988 from Art College and in 1994 from St. Petersburg Art University in Mouchina, and then received his diploma in 1995 from the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. His works are among private collections in Europe, America, and Russia.

Kioresku’s style could be characterized as subjective realism or post impressionistic — reminiscent of Gaughin or Cezanne. He experiments with texture and materials in order to achieve beautiful colors. Even though the artist often travels to his native Urals Mountains for inspiration, he never paints on site: reality does not dictate his expression. Kioresku paints only from his imagination and tries to convey his desire for a world of peace, beauty, and harmony between humankind and nature. In this vein, he is an ideal romanticist. He wants his paintings not to shock, as does the revolutionary, but to give joy, happiness, and optimism — the hope that life will go on and never finish.

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Milt Kobayashi

A third generation Japanese-American, Milt Kobayashi was born in New York City; soon after that his family moved to Oahu, Hawaii, and then ventured to Los Angeles when he was eight. After receiving his BA in 1970 from the University of California, Kobayashi began working as an illustrator. However he found that his work, which was quite editorial in its nature, did not fit the Los Angeles commercial art market. In 1977, Kobayashi returned to New York City. There, a casual visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art permanently altered his artistic direction after he saw Velazquez’s portrait Juan de Paraja.

There is a quiet sophistication in Kobayashi’s oil painted canvases, summoning a pensive, ethereal feeling in the viewer. Kobayashi’s subjects are people from another time and place and, yet, they are strangely familiar — they are urban dwellers lost in thought as they take a momentary respite from their routine. Kobayashi’s people are absorbed in the world of contemplation and meditation, making them attractively aloof.

Marilou Kundmueller

Marilou Kundmueller’s works are primarily oil on canvas or board and monotype. Her motivation to paint is from a variety of subject matter in everyday life that captures her interest: the elegant movement of birds in flight and impossible delicacies of plant life or the inspiring light and gesture of accidental still-lifes and fabrics (posed like models or observed) create endless opportunities to play with color.

“My goal as a painter is to have each painting be momentum for the next as a continuum for growth, to mature my facility with paint,” says Kundmueller. I think the vocabulary of paint is everything.”

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Robert LaDuke

Robert LaDuke’s narrative paintings are a combination of memories, dreams, and everyday life. Some of LaDuke’s most vivid memories are of traveling cross country in the family Cadillac with an Airstream trailing behind. Combined with these memories is a fascination with 1940s era transportation and, because of an inheritance of antique steel toys, it comes as no surprise that these same vehicles often appear as subject matter in many of LaDuke’s paintings. According to the artist, his work “is pretty much transportation oriented — trains, ships, cars, trailers, everything that rolls or floats, and they always have that nostalgic 40s look to them.”

His vintage portraits of idyllic, Rockwell-esque American lifestyles stem from history but are often layered with surreal visions. Metaphors and narratives exist beneath LaDuke’s cartoon-like surfaces, which are painted with defined lines and candy-like color palettes.

Starlite acrylic 34 x 34

Robert Larum

Robert Larum came to the United States from Norway in 1948, becoming a ski and mountain climbing instructor for the army involved with the Mountain and Cold Weather Training Command in Colorado Springs and Camp Hale, CO. Following military service, he became a brick and stone mason by trade, but he fell from a scaffold and broke his leg. During his recovery period, Robert was finally able to do what he had always wanted to do, from the time he had left Norway. That was to pursue his talent as a sculptor.

Earlier in Norway, during WWII, Larum first saw the Arabian horses that were brought into his country by the occupying troops. From that time began his love of the beauty and grace of such a magnificent animal. As a young boy, Larum’s main interests were in carving what he saw in real life. He has continued to pursue that dream and his sculptures reflect and capture those feelings. He has established a solid reputation as a sculptor of equine bronzes, as well as other wildlife subjects.

Larum and his wife Mary Jo live in Littleton, CO, and it is there that he also has his studio. They formerly raised Arabian horses on their ranch near Elbert, CO.

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Rabbit bronze 8.25 x 22 x 6.50

Patrick Lee

Patrick Lee was born in 1972 and attended the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in Painting with an Art History minor. He currently lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA.

Lee takes a unique, creative approach to painting en plein air and the studio. He draws heavily on intuition and imagination to develop an image, often altering the drawing, color, and spatial relationships to create a mood and express a feeling about the subject. His method often results in strong elements of abstraction and suggestion in his work, rather than explicit detail. This allows the viewer an opportunity to connect with each piece in their own way.

Lee has had numerous solo and group exhibitions, including at the Butler Institute of American Art, the Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, and The Westmoreland Museum of American Art. His work has been acknowledged by fine art critics, and featured in publications such as in PleinAir Magazine, Southwest Art Magazine, Fine Art Connoisseur, and Art Food home. In addition, he has won several awards such as Best of Show Award, Olmsted Plein Air Invitational 2021; Best Urban Scene Award, Wayne Plein Air Festival 2019; Best of Show Award, Bath County Plein Air Festival 2018; and Best Figurative Painting in a Landscape Award, Plein Air Easton 2018.

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Jhenna Quinn Lewis

Jhenna Quinn-Lewis began studying art in 1976 at the University of Illinois. She went on to later become the art director-manager at the Ferndale Art Cooperative in Ferndale, CA. She was also the owner/ director of the Candy Stick Gallery in Ferndale. To further her own artistic endeavors, she studied with David A. Leffel, one of the country’s most respected and well know artists in 1999.

Her work has been featured in many publications such as Southwest Art Magazine and US Art Magazine. Her paintings are also included in the corporate collections of Harry and David as well as a commissioned painting in the private collection of Lawton Chiles, the former Governor of California.

“I seemed to be born with a love and appreciation for art and nature, or maybe a better word to describe this is awe,” Lewis says. “Art is a universal language that can teach us about ourselves and our world. It is a part of all our lives and surrounds us even if we don’t notice or understand it. I have always had the need to create through images on canvas. The need is to foster an understanding of nature that is reflective, which suggests the presence of some unacknowledged mystery.”

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Inspiration from the Museum oil 18 x 11

Francis Livingston

Born in Cortez, CO, Francis Livingston has been painting for 25 years. He studied at the Rocky Mountain School of Art in Denver before moving to San Francisco in 1975 to attend the Academy of Art. He later taught there for 10 years. Influenced by Sargent and Whistler, Livingston painted primarily in a monochromatic style until he began to study the work of the Bay Area Figurative Movement, including Richard Diebenkorn, Wayne Thiebaud and others. That led to experiments with color and a fondness for the California and French Impressionists.

For nearly eight years, Livingston has been painting the Santa Cruz boardwalk. “I’d always been intrigued by amusement parks, the rundown seediness, the intermingling of the past and present,” he explains. “When I went down to Santa Cruz for the first time in the 70s, it had that same quality as the old rides, the colors starting to fade. It fit in with the look I was after.” The artist has also done numerous portrayals of scenes from New York City and Coney Island, focusing on dramatic architecture and color.

Livingston is in the top ranks of American illustrators, and his work has been widely published. His paintings have been exhibited in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York, and he was awarded Silver Medals from the New York Society of Illustrators in 1997 and 1998.

Grant Macdonald

Born in Leesburg, VA, Grant Macdonald was raised from age two on a ranch in west Texas. He began drawing at age six. His desire to become an artist was encouraged by his family, and he received his bachelors degree in Fine Art from the University of Mississippi. After serving a tour of duty in the Air Force, he received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin, with a thesis on portraiture. His instructors in Austin included Everett Spruce and Ralph White.

In 1971 he moved to Kerrville in the Texas Hill Country, where he gained widespread recognition for his landscapes and wildlife art. Since moving to northern New Mexico, the focus of his work has shifted toward the immense and varied subjects offered within that region.

Macdonald has participated in several major exhibitions, including the American Art Classic and the Western Heritage Sale in Houston, the Collector’s Sale in Dallas, and major auctions in the U.S. He has also been featured in several notable art publications such as Art of the West and Southwest Art magazines.

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William Maughan

William Maughan began his career in commercial illustration in New York in 1974. Since that time his illustrations have appeared in numerous magazines, children’s books, paperback book covers, and ad campaigns. After establishing himself as a widely sought-after illustrator, a new vision and artistic interpretation of a purely painterly approach marked a turning point for the artist which continues today.

Maughan creates images in both oil and pastel that focuses on the serene and peaceful mood of the life he’s experienced. The cool colors of a canal scene in Venice or the soft glow on his daughters faces bathed in sunlight are images that convey Maughan’s sense of romanticism and wide scope. Each work is a tribute to his eye for composition and technique.

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Dave McGary

Dave McGary was raised on a cattle ranch in Wyoming, with his art career beginning early in life. At 12, he sculpted in clay; at 16, he received a scholarship to spend a year in Italy studying the human form and the art of bronze casting. Shortly after his return to the US, McGary started working at a Santa Fe foundry and began a friendship with a Sioux artist that contributed significantly to his interest in sculpting the American Indian. Subsequently he was adopted into the Ogala Sioux tribe and given the name Wambalee Tanka, “Big Eagle” — but his adopted family on the reservation were more likely to refer to him as “Big Red Ears” because of his predilection for soaking up tales of their ancestors.

A McGary bronze is a unique combination of American West and classic Renaissance art form of Italy. “Amazing,” “astounding,” and “unbelievable detail,” are some of the most frequent first words heard when people view renowned artist Dave McGary’s bronze sculptures of Native Americans. The works are masterpieces of anatomical and historic accuracy. They are also based upon real individuals of American history.

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The Gatekeeper bronze with patina and paint 37.5 x 22.5 x 15.5

Vachagan Narazyan

Born in 1957 in Kislovodsk, Russia, Vachaga Narazyan lost his parents as a young boy and went to live with his grandparents. His latest works are a direct reflection of the images he experienced when the circus came to visit his hometown. While the images are true in their depiction, the years that have passed and his feelings at the time he created each piece has a direct effect on the finished work.

Narazyan’s art captivates our hearts with the creation of his own mysterious, intriguing yet classical world on canvas. His paintings are hauntingly beautiful, whimsical and surreal, with provocative symbolic undertones.

The works of this dissident artist are among the most evocative to come out of the non-conformist movement of the former Soviet Union. Narazyan’s poetic and visionary style is simply magical. His subjects are widely diverse, often juxtaposing Old World images with New Age elements.

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P.A. Nisbet

Peter Allen Nisbet was born in North Carolina in 1948 and began the study of painting at age ten. He has been a student of fine art for over forty years, beginning in water colors and proceeding to oils by age 25. He received a liberal arts degree from the University of North Carolina followed by a commission in the United States Navy. He served as a line officer at sea with a ten month tour of duty in Vietnam. During that time he was appointed by the Secretary of the Navy to serve as Director of Art Services for the Navy’s Office of Information. Following Naval Service in 1974 he commenced a free-lance commercial art business providing graphic design and illustration for over twenty-five national organizations. In 1980 he moved to the Southwest and began painting landscapes. Since then he has completed and sold hundreds of paintings which are derived from experiences throughout the world. Nisbet has traveled to such remote places as the South Pole and China, but his preferred locale for painting is in the deserts of the Southwest and Mexico.

Thunder Comes Running, Little Big Horn oil

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Ricardo Fenandez Ortega

Mexican artist Ricardo Fernandez’s way of adding and subtracting light and carefully controlling rich dark, luscious tones resembles great 17thcentury Spanish masters such as Diego Velazquez. His intuitive ways of using lights and darks (chiaroscuro), takes us to a mysterious, sometimes surreal space, where women wear elegant armor, extravagant headdresses and exist in empty terrains while participating in strange, but fantastical and dream-like activities.

Through his usage of a historical style, Ortega authentically assembles an extended body of work that resembles and continues, in many ways, the legacy of the old Spanish masters. His curious themes may feel contemporary, but overall it is hard not to go back in time while enjoying these skillfully-painted works of art.

“I try to come close to realism in order to achieve a specific visual purpose. That purpose is to provide something that connects to both the viewer and myself in a very particular way, psychologically speaking. People respond to realistic painting quite differently than they do to abstract or less realistic work. I want to evoke the response people have to very realistic images without actually becoming a realist or photorealist painter. I simply want the viewer’s mind to respond to my work in a way that is similar to how it responds to photorealist and hyperrealist painting. But from there, I want to achieve something quite different than photorealists and hyperrealists.”

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Jacob A. Pfeiffer

Jacob A. Pfeiffer is a young artist who hails from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1996 with highest honors. Pfeiffer’s technique is impeccable, precise, and uncannily accurate. His latest work consists of tightly rendered still lifes containing a wide variety of objects. Purposefully provocative compositions are constructed with meticulous and time consuming craftsmanship. A rich and deeply saturated palette is used to depict a myriad of complex textures. Pfeiffer designs his spaces with a deceptive simplicity that resonates with a sense of volume, drama, power and above all, humor. The resulting work has found a wide array of admiring collectors and has also garnered the attention of the art press, being featured in American Arts Quarterly, Art News, The Artist’s Magazine and gracing the covers of American Artist, Southwest Art and American Art Collector. His inclusion in several high profile museum shows attest to the status of this successful young artist. Jacob lives in Madison, WI with his wife and two children..

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Brad Price

The bold brushstrokes and colors in expressionist works by Brad Price are inspired by the Southwest landscape and its rugged beauty. His work is a rebirth of the sense of style of early Taos painters and the Post-Impressionists. His works in oil are emotive and colorful with strong directional lines that he employs to guide the viewer into the world that he has seen and experienced. Through painting Brad Price makes an emotional visit to the scene he is painting. He experiences again what it was like to be there. He can smell the chamisa and hear the waxy clacking of the aspen leaves as they blow in the wind. He can once again enjoy the breeze as it comes down from the mountains. When he paints, he is there. When he hangs a painting on the wall, he invites others to be there with him. The amazing landscape of Northern New Mexico is his primary focus. The light in New Mexico has a luminescent quality all its own, and Price seeks to capture its effects on canvas. His style emphasizes contrast and bold complementary color. His paintings are a total experience placed on canvas. According to Price, “Art is experience and the sharing of experience. It is creating something new and beautiful for the world, and then sharing that moment with others.”

Gary LeePrice

Gary Lee Price was born May 2, 1955, in Twin Falls, Idaho. As a child Gary would sit in his room and draw. His ability to create art became his strength and his salvation. After graduating from Montpelier High School in Idaho, Price went on to study art at Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho. However, it was not until he was attending the Utah Technical College in Provo where he met and studied with sculptor Stan Johnson, that he was drawn to sculpture. His work with Johnson inspired Price to enroll at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and study painting, drawing, and anatomy. While he worked at the university on his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, he continued to study under Stan Johnson. Because of the diversity in subject matter, Price’s work has been called eclectic. In addition to a broad range of subjects, his pieces range in size from massive to small, his subjects from religious to fantastical, and his style from tightly controlled to impressionistic. About his work Price says, “The ability to listen and draw upon the many sources of inspiration that constantly surround us determines our growth. What I try to do is remain open, not pigeon-hole myself to one subject matter or style. My work is constantly evolving.”

Einstein bronze 52 x 70 x 60

Malcolm Rains

Rains was born in Bristol, England in 1947. His family, seeking better opportunities than postwar England could offer, emigrated to Canada in 1955. He became a Canadian citizen and still resides there with his wife and two children. Rains’ early training was in architecture, which he studied at the University of Detroit and the University of Toronto. He graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1974, where he received a conceptual art education and concentrated exclusively on sculpture. Rains likes to work in series. After deciding upon a theme, Rains will do a number of paintings investigating the subject in depth. This method of working in series, combined with his practice of eliminating all unnecessary elements from his work, allows Rains to capture the essence of his subjects.

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David Richardson

Colorado native, Richardson began drawing and sculpting at a very young age. In high school he started working in sculpture studios around Loveland, CO. During this time he was immersed in all aspects of sculpture and the lost wax process. His first studio job was at Dan Ostermiller’s studio where he worked on many monuments. He then landed a job at Kent Ullberg’s studio. In this time working with Kent his style and knowledge of sculpture really took hold. Now, Richardson’s sculptures are featured in both public and private collections throughout the USA and abroad and his work is on display in many galleries and museums. His sculptures have even been recognized by movie directors Guillermo Del Toro & Clive Barker. Richardson is an elected Sculptor Member of the National Sculpture Society (NSS) and an associate member of the Society of Animal Artist (SAA). He is inspired by nature and architecture and has a unique style by blending the two together; applying nature to modern architecture.

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Soft Landing bronze 29 x 14 x 14

Fatima Ronquillo

Born in San Fernando, Philippines in 1976, Fatima Ronquillo emigrated as a child to the United States in 1987 where her family settled in San Antonio, Texas. She currently resides and maintains a studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico with her husband and west highland terrier. Her work is included in private collections throughout North America and Europe.

Ronquillo is a self-taught painter whose classically inspired imagery evokes a world of serenity and charm. Her paintings of mysterious personages, often set against pastoral and idyllic landscapes, are accented with an underlying sense of drama and playfulness. These small intimate works invite a respite from the frenetic pace of modern life.

Fatima Is an intuitive painter who works from a deeply personal visual language and imagination. Each painting is an unfolding story of layered meanings brought to life through multiple layers of paint. Her painted surfaces sparkle with thin delicate glazes over thick impastos and scattered scumbles of semi transparent colors. She paints in the style of the European classical traditions coupled with a magical realism rooted in folk imagery. Hers is an authentic voice echoing from an inner world where art history meets with nostalgia and imagined characters from literature, theatre and opera.

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Girl With Golden-Cheeked Warbler at the Gloaming oil 12 x 12

Sue Rother

Sue’s lifelong obsession was creating art. She attended U.C. Davis, where she studied under Wayne Thiebaud and others. Further education included Art Center College of Design and The Academy of Art College in San Francisco, where she has been teaching for 11 years. For 25 years Sue painted and drew as an illustrator for clients such as, Disney, Bank of America and Williams Sonoma, Gallo Wines and hundreds of various corporations and publishers nationwide. She has also exhibited at the American Museum of Illustration in New York.

Always a painter, the transition from illustrator to gallery artist was a natural. progression in Sue’s creative endeavors.

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Refuge oil 18 x 14

Megan Seiter

Megan Seiter is an American artist specializing in colored pencil still life drawings. Originally from Rhode Island, she received her BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, and in 2009 moved to California to pursue her career as an artist. Megan’s work is distinguished by her attention to fine detail and nuance in color. She works with wax-based and oil-based colored pencils, building layers of color that add depth and luminosity to her works.

“As a young adult I began attending figure drawing sessions, and fell in love with the human form. Each model offered a unique opportunity to explore texture, shape, and unconsidered beauty. I continued to study portraits and figures as an undergraduate student, and though my focus eventually shifted, this exploration of the figure left a lasting impression on how I approach my work today. I infuse many of my still life drawings with the same quiet intimacy that I did in my portraits. I’ve discovered that, like people, I can find surprisingly emotive qualities in inanimate objects. My compositions focus on the subject alone, without a contextual background, so as to shine light on the details that make each object distinctive.”

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The Gloaming Colored Paencil and Pastel 9 x 9

Jane Shea

While living as a child in Germany, Jane was introduced to some of the world’s great museums. However, nothing captured her attention as much as the Andrew Wyeth painting, The Milk Shed. She was transfixed by this beautiful work hanging at the Birmingham Museum of Fine Arts, in her hometown. To this day, she can still recall the quality of light passing through the layers of pigment. In Shea’s early twenties, she drove to Wyeth’s studio in Chadd’s Ford, PA. Her intention was to tell him how he had inspired her to become an artist, but ultimately felt too shy to knock on the door. Instead, she plucked a blade of grass from his lawn which Shea still has today. Jane strives to paint this light that she first saw in Andrew Wyeth’s painting when she was nine years old. Whether it is the old world shimmer of the Tuscan countryside, the brilliant spring greens of the South, or the incredible light of New Mexico - this is the light that Shea attempts to capture.

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Arroyo Seco Trinity gouache 4 x 6

Sarah Siltala

Stillness and moments of quiet are the ephemeral influences in my work. Just as a bird alights only for a moment and then is gone, I try to capture that brief moment where the world stops for an instant and we are fully aware. Whether a still life or landscape, I am interested in capturing the most feeling with the least amount of busy mark making to communicate my vision. I prefer smooth surfaces and empty space to showcase the small details I want the viewer to focus on. I spend several weeks on each painting, patiently layering thin veils of oil paint to reveal a depth of color and luminosity that makes each work unique. This draws the viewer in to look more closely at its hidden complexity. I try to find balance in quiet, contemporary composition and harmonious color and texture.

Brian Stinson

Brian Stinson is a plein air artist painting the New Mexico landscape. He has an M.F.A. in painting from UMASS in Amherst, Massachusetts. Following graduate school he taught at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn before traveling to Europe. While visiting Spain, he was selected by the noted realist painter Antonio Lopez to study in Santander. He was Artist in Residence at the University of Dallas International Artist Residency program CentralTrak. His paintings are included in private collections in Spain, Portugal, Germany and the U.S. Brian resides with his wife and two daughters in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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Blue Sandias oil 15 x 48

Eric G. Thompson

Eric G. Thompson captures stillness. He captures moments. Whether he is painting in oil, egg tempera or watercolor, he is seeking to evoke a haunting memory, a lost feeling. In a fast-paced world of deadlines, obligations and busyness, Eric invites you into the peace that he has enveloped within this momentary glimpse in time. Believing that we all seek silence, without even realizing it, he implores you to dwell on something you otherwise would have overlooked, or have long-forgotten. Literally and figuratively, he sheds light into the attics of our lives, even if it is just to awaken a feeling buried deep within the viewer.

A major influence on Eric’s work is the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi, an appreciation of imperfection, age and patina, often referred to as “flawed beauty.” Balance and light are also key elements found in every painting he creates.

Trusted Reserve egg tempera 31 x 24

Kari Tirrell

A self-taught artist, Kari Tirrell spent her formative years drawing people and animals in graphite, charcoal, and ink. She won her first award in an art contest at age 11. After many years of drawing, Kari changed direction and started painting abstracts in acrylic, selling her work to collectors around the globe. She eventually returned to realism, and soft pastel became her medium of choice.

Kari’s work has been juried into many regional, national, and international exhibitions, and has received numerous awards. She lives in Gig Harbor, Washington, and is a Signature member of the Pastel Society of America and the Northwest Pastel Society, and is a Distinguished Pastellist with the Pastel Society of the West Coast.

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L’Deane Trueblood

L’Deane Trueblood has an extended family whose members reach far beyond what most of us can imagine. In addition to being the mother of three and the grandmother of seven, this accomplished artist has sculpted and painted a veritable tribe of youngsters whose personalities and attitudes embody childhood. “I don’t get too deep about my work,” she muses. “I’m not intellectual about it. I sculpt because I love it, and I focus on subjects that actually matter to me. If I don’t love it and have a feeling for it, I probably couldn’t do it in the first place, and I don’t think people would respond to it anyway. I want to communicate, ‘It’s a beautiful world, a nice place. Enjoy it...’”

Ms. Trueblood received her BFA with honors from the University of Oklahoma. After receiving her MFA, she worked as an illustrator and arts director for the U.S. Air Force. She spent many years in Europe where her husband was a NATO commander. Trueblood’s many interests also led to mountain climbing. She is recognized as the first woman over 40 years of age to climb Mount Elbe.

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Anthony Waichulis

Anthony Waichulis is a contemporary Trompe L’Oeil painter from Northeast Pennsylvania. Often celebrated by critics and collectors alike, Waichulis’ efforts have captured top honors in both domestic and international competitions and have been published in most major art publications including, but not limited to, The Artist’s Magazine, Fine Art Connoisseur, American Artist, American Art Review, American Art Collector, Art News, and Art-Talk. Anthony’s exhibition record contains a number of well-respected venues including The Smithsonian Institute, The National Arts Club, The Butler Institute of American Art, The Arnot Art Museum, The John F. Peto Museum, Art Basel, The LA Art Show, The Orlando Museum of Art, and the Beijing World Art Museum. In January 2006, Anthony became the first Trompe L’oeil painter to be granted Living Master status with The Art Renewal Center. “My painting efforts still remain as steadfast and focused today as they have when my journey began. I continue to teach and lecture privately, at academic institutions, and at various art associations throughout the country. My desire to learn and grow as an effective Representational Trompe L’oeil painter remains unfettered. I aspire to honor those I follow and strive to give benefit to those who may one day follow me.”

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Kent Wallis

The spirit of the artist is obvious in his paintings. One must see them to understand him. After the lengthy and sometimes painful road to fulfillment, he is not shy about expressing his views on art. He says, “The pseudo- intellectual community will have us analyzing art for analysis’ sake, viewing art for viewing’s sake and buying art for buying’s sake. They will tell us white is black, good is bad, ugly is beautiful. All this will be done in an effort to convince the ordinary person that he or she cannot understand or appreciate art. Painting for me comes from the heart, not from the head. Emotion communicates. Intellectualism befuddles us with rules, dogmas, and ramblings. When someone views my painting, I want them to see emotionally with me. Every artist has strengths and weaknesses. Some are great draftsmen, others are great composers. I’m a colorist. I can hardly wade through the other things because I want to get the thick, juicy color working.”

Kevin Weckbach

"Subject matter to me is a vehicle for me to explore how I observe life. My urban influences are an assembly of varied fabrics stitched together to form a tapestry. It is not to resemble a literal story of what it is; moreover, it is a quilt that explains my visual expression. What I find particularly interesting in human intervention in nature is how we are still intertwined with it. Roads, buildings, and farmlands bend with the natural curves of mountains, hills, and streams. City nights are lit up like lightning bugs with an array of colors and patterns. I want to push the viewer past the humdrum of everyday observation into a world of visual tapestry."

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Ghost Ranch oil 12 x 16

Slade Wheeler

After years of study in anatomy, composition and two-dimensional design, he began the extensive study of past Masters. Over time Slade discovered his love for the minute details and the use of symbolism that realism and trompe l’oeil styles offer. His work is often laced with allegory and contemporary references, narrated by the use of everyday objects and icons placed in near-surreal settings. He remains dedicated to the traditional approach and “close observation” that is required for the precise execution of his paintings. View more works from this artist by clicking here

Donald Roller Wilson

Houston born and Fayetteville, Arkansas-based, Roller is a Gothic storyteller with the phenomenal technique and precision of an old master, animating his paintings with finely wrought clothed chimpanzees, dogs, and cats, wooden matches, dill pickles, asparagus stalks, olives, and cigarette butts. He creates characters like Cookie the Baby Orangutan, Jane the Pug Girl, Jack the Jack Russell “Terror,” Loretta the Actress Cat, Miss Dog America, and Patricia the Seeing Eye Dog of Houston. Each spring from the artist’s hyper-vivid imagination into lengthy caption fantasies and onto canvases that require an enormous amount of time to complete, all painted in vivid detail, reminiscent of the 16th century Dutch masters. His oil paintings are explicitly detailed, but unusual. The Washington Post stated “One utterly forgives the painter’s self-indulgences for one reason . . . He is technically impeccable.”

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Jimmy Was Upset Because None of the Hot Ones Were At Eye Level and the Yellow Ones Were Short (With Story Pieces) oil 24 x 18

Michael Workman

Michael Workman, his wife Laurel, and their children live in Utah. He received both his BA and completed his MFA from Brigham Young University in 1992. His style is “contemporary traditionalism” as noted by Focus/Santa Fe magazine.

“I think I’m producing something people long for,” he says. “My watchword is beauty. I’m after producing something beautiful. For me it’s a spiritual thing. I see beauty everywhere I look.” He was highly influenced by George Innes who believed that art should evoke emotion in people.Workman’s art has won wide acceptance by collectors, artists and critics. He has been featured in Art-Talk, Southwest Art,and several other publications as well as an invited artist of the Mountain Oyster Club annual show and the Northwest Rendezvous show. Workman finds his creative juices stirred by sunsets, cool gray days, late evenings, vast fields and the simple elegance of animals. Always his work is one of balance of the definite and the abstract. It is the classical and romantic, not in opposition but blending in harmony, that entice the viewer to become part of the pastoral landscape.

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