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Russian born artist Olga Karpeisky, is known mostly for her still life anf protrait oil paintings. Apart from the aesthetic pleasure and beauty of the subject her still life works are usually inspired by the movement of light through the volume of space bringing the feeling of old masters paintings. Harmony of her art works is achieved trhough rhythmic, dynamic and well balanced compositions created with pleasant color combinations. Paintings of Olga Karpeisky are now featured in private collections of USA, Canada and Russia.
Anita Mosher is an American impressionist trained in the Russian school of painting. Anita is an award winning artist noted for her brilliant use of color and exuberant strokes across the canvas. She has received awards from national juried shows and has exhibited her paintings nationwide in both solo and group exhibitions. Anita's work hangs in private and corporate collections across the United States and Europe. Anita is a founding signature member of the Plein Air Artists Colorado and Nomadas del Arte and a signature member of the Outdoor Painters Society and the National Oil & Acrylic
With over twenty five years experience as a fine artist, design professional and teacher, Kit paints full time at Brushstrokes Studio Gallery, LLP in Denver, Colorado. She graduated from the University of Colorado and the Colorado Institute of Art where she also taught graphic design and drawing for over 15 years. Since 1984 Kit has been showing in galleries nationwide in both solo and group exhibitions. Her work has received numerous awards and is found in both private and corporate collections including the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs and McGraw Hill Publishers in Dayton, Ohio. She is also in the private collection of actor Jack Nicholson.
Kit is passionate about traveling and painting stunning landscapes and florals that represent her interpretation of the many places she visits.
"My paintings are a response to the passion and beauty I feel from and for Nature. As an artist I want to communicate visually and vibrantly the peace and serenity that I find in Nature, which I see as a visual and spiritual wonderland. I use my brush and palette knife to translate nature onto the canvas. I describe my dynamic compositions as a unique style of contemporary Impressionism with a bold use of color and texture."
Juan Carlos Martínez is an award-winning artist living in Toronto, Canada, whose work has been featured in various publications and exhibitions around the world. He was trained classical atelier and works in what is now considered the classical realist tradition. Juan studied in Toronto, Canada, and Florence, Italy, under the tutelage of master painter, M. John Angel. Prior to that period he had been, among other things, a lawyer, but gave up that life to pursue his vocation as a professional classical painter. Today, in addition to maintaining an award-winning portfolio and working on portrait commissions, Juan is usually busy writing and teaching. He has acquired an international reputation both as an artist and art educator. His work hangs in private and institutional collections in Canada and the United States, including commissions for the office of the President of Humber College, Toronto, the Crane School of Music, New York State, and the private collection of Fred and Sherry Ross.
Juan is a chief instructor at Toronto's Academy of Realist Art (ARA) and is the author of a popular 6-part instructional series in International Artist Magazine, entitled “The Academy Way”. He also teaches workshops throughout the year.
"Finding creative meaning requires one to explore their passion. I want the viewer to experience the scene I have painted in such a way that they are touched in some sense; by the beauty of it, by the colors used, or perhaps a memory of theirs is triggered. I believe one's artwork must reflect that journey that the artist takes and express it in such a way that the viewer feels the artist's passion.
A representational style is the foundation for my work.
Recently I have begun to take my architectural paintings in a new direction as seen in the 'Architectural Lingua' series. While my previous body of work was influenced by Edward Hopper and other great 20th century painters, my latest paintings are larger and more experimental."
Mike Natale was born and raised in East Chicago, Indiana just a twenty minute train ride away from the Art Institute of Chicago. As a High school student with a great interest in art, Mike was able to take advantage of the Institute's display of Master's works, which solidified his dream of becoming an artist.
Following his school years Mike was sidetracked as were many other 18 year olds by the war in Southeast Asia. He served in the United States Marine Corp with a rifle company in Vietnam, saw heavy action and was wounded. While recovering in the Philadelphia Naval Hospital, Mike took advantage of it's close proximity to Philadelphia Art Instutute.
Upon returning to Chicago, Mike enrolled in the Ray Vogue Commercial Art program. After Attending the Illinois Institute of Technology School of Design, he worked as a graphic artist for several years. Mike then opened his own design studio from 1973-1983. In 1983 he sold his graphics business and moved to Colorado to pursue his primary interest in fine art.
David Owen of Bloomington, Indiana, who began painting five years ago, says, "Beginning to paint at age 68 has proved challenging and life-giving. The learning curve has been necessarily steep, but I an enjoying the climb." Owen paints landscapes, primarily, in both oil and pastel. He prefers to paint ordinary scenes, being attracted to the beauty of the commnplace. While he paints mostly in Indiana, over the past five years he has had an opportunity to paint or draw in Arizona, California, Florida, Main, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Tennesse, Wisconnsin and France. His favorit subjects are woods and wetlands. He is represented by Brown County Art Gallery in Nashville, IN and Gallery North on the Square in Bloomington,IN.
The Southern coast of Georgia allegedly possesses on third of the globe's healthy salt marsh, creating a vast amount of deep and wide open space. This spaciousness holds a tremendous allure and mystery for me.
After many years of finding landscapes difficult to paint, I finaly felt these distant simple shapes could make well designed composition, and this is one of a 12-year long series. Rather than just documenting the landscapes as they are, my paintings ar meant to portray a mood. Therefore I use a somewhat monochronatic color scheme with muted earth colors and purposefully keep the values close in range so as to not distract fron the mood.
Aside from the poetic beauty of the land, these marshes have their own spirit and vitality. There are incessant changes with the ebb and flow of the tide, the ever changing light with the time of day, atmospheric conditions, and the seasons. The salty smell, the tingle of balmy breezes, the squawking of sea gulls, the violent and fast lived thunder storms all excite and seduce me. I feel such a strong connection to this mystical land, and this connection is what I hope to share through my paintings.
David Ridgway currently paints small to medium scale oils. He paints on site and in studio. Many of his paintings continue to investigate the relationship between man and the rural and sub-rural landscape. Western architecture (gable ended), man made and marine elements are prominent. He currently resides on Orcas Island in teh San Juan Islands of Washington State. here to add text.
Joan was born and raised in northeren California. She received her early art training from the University of California at Berkeley. Following a desire to become a realist painter, she studied for 5 years at the Schuler School of Art in Baltimore, Maryland where she learned the painting techniques of the Old Masters. She finds inspiration from the movement of light across forms and the details that are revealed. Her compsitions are carfully studied arrangements of objects that evoke for her a pleasing combination of form and value. The objects always have a personal connection, and she grows most of the flowers she uses. She is currently represented by the Foxhill Gallery in Washington, D.C., and Gallery RoCa in Havre de Grace, Md. Her work can be viewed on her website.
Susana Scarborough has always loved the land and the outdoors. Her paintings reflect her love of nature and animals. Born and raised close to the farm country of Englands's Yorkshire Dales, Scarborough is now a resident of Oakland, California. She is equally at home painting Yorkshire sheep or Bay Area scenes, including the Holstein cattle of Marin County and the Black Angus that graze the slopes of Mount Diablo.
Scarborough says,"I enjoy experiencing the warmth or the coolness of the California landscape. There is a sense of the heat of the dry grassy hillsides and coolness of the bay waters." Her art invites the viewer to share her vision the landscape and the animals as not just patterns of light and color but also the emotion and memory; capturing the essence of the subject matter. She says,"It is exciting and fascinating. I try to capture all of this in my paintings."
Elizabeth Sandia
Originally from New York City, Elizabeth has backround in magazine Illustration, art direction and residential architectural design. In Sept '95 she gave up her design practice in Key West, move to Santa Fe, NM, and learned to paint. In the spring of '97 she was accepted into Gallery A in Taos.
Elizabeth paints primarily in pastel, combining plein air work, photgraphs and sketches. Her early conservative training has evolved to more interpretive, expressive work in the last 2 years.
She is represented by The Basalt Gallery, Basalt, Co; Earnest Fuller Fine Art, Henderson, Co; Big Horn Galleries, Cody, Wy; and Brandon Michael Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM.
She participates in fund-raising invitationals & donates paintings regularly to worthy causes. Her work has been featured in 2 dozen art magazines like Soutwest Art, American Artist, International Artist Mag., and has been on 4 covers. email sandiaelizabeth28@gmail.com
Jill Soukup, A Colorado native,graduated from Colordo State University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Fine Art. She initially pursued a career in graphic design. In 2002 she made the switch to painting full-time. Since then, her work continues to gain recognition as she recieves awards, appears in national publications, and shows in important juried and one-woman exhibitions.
From the dishes in my sink to a bustling city scene, I find inspiration everywhere: in the interplay of shapes, values, edges, textures, and colors. Intuition and a sense of composition bring these elements together.
Thematically, I find myself returning again and again to the juxtaposition between rigid, mechanical, man-made objects and the fluid, organic aspects of nature-discovering that despite their contrasts, they share and exchange the same tendencies.
My art career has been a long and varied jouney spanning many years. The common thread that travels like a path throughout has been a true love of pinting and drqwing. The natural world has been my focus since 1968 when I reallized that it is always changing and shifting, so therefore would be a constant source of inspiration to me.
My paintings are done using oils...purecolors in the best oil paints are hand mixed each session with linseed oil resulting in vibrant color combinations. One of my main life studies has been color. Movement, composition, depth and last but not least color make a painting come alive. Using linseed oil with thin transparencies of color takes a lot of patience. Each flower has approximately 12 to15 layers of pure color. Reds are especially challenging.
During the summer I look,weed,photograph and do many small paintings. In winter I paint prodigiously...not two seasons are alike, no two flowers are alike, no two paintings are alike. Hopefull my love for nature as well as art shines through. I feel these paintings com fro the dwpths of my soul.
In my paintings, I am trying to communiate the feeling of a place. Everwhere I look, I see flashes of color. The flashes of color come through me to represent the cluture, the environment, the personality of that person and surrondings.
I want to capture life and movement because life is movement and movement is life. My paint dances across the canvas, bcause I hope to express the sancity of life with a powerful figure on my canvas.
Fred Wackerle enjoys both plein air and studio painting in oils and is an Artist Member of the Tuscon Plein Air Painter's Society, The Palette & Chisel Academy of Chicago, and Chicago PleinAir Painters. His paintings Piacho Shadows and Schroeder House Shadows recieved honorable mentions, and his first one-man show was held at Metal Works Gallery in Chicago. In August 2007, Fred had three of his large Abstrct Couds series paintings in a juried exhibition in Chelsea, New York. Fred is currently represented by Verano Fine Arts Gallery in Bisbee, Az. His paintings reflect an avid interst in the impressionistic shapes and shadows in outdoors.
Wanda Westberg
Wanda Westberg, a Berkley artist , has established a reputation as one of the Bay Area's fine traditional plein-air landscape painters. Growing up in the Midwest with its unpredictable weather and changeable seasons, she is content to paint out doors, continuing in the tradition of the early California impressionists, Bringing her oil paints and canvas out where the fresh air carries the sound and secnts of a rural scene, the clouds shift in color and shape and the hills are still scattered with native oaks, she captures the fleeting mood of color and light of familiar northern California. I addition to landscape painting, she enjoys painting still-life, florals, the figure and is known for her amimal portraits. Wanda is represented by the William Lester Gallery in Marin. Christpher Queen Gallery in Duncas Mills and The Banana Gallery in Hawaii.
Romona Youngquist was born on January 11, 1960 in Yuba City, California, but grew up in Eastern Oklahoma. Youngquist essentially started out in life as a child of nature, spending her time exploring the woods with her dog and collecting critters. While exploring, she also studied the design and color of nature. She recalls many times standing in a field just staring in fascination at the values of the deciduous trees against a dark Oklahoma sky before a storm then rushing home to draw what she had seen.
Technically self-taught, she thinks of nature as her real teacher. In 1994 she was awarded a grant from the Alaska State Council for the Arts to study with Oregon landscape painter Michael Gibbons. In the late 1990's she studied with Michael Workman, a leading Landscape painter from Utah. She has taken their valuable lessons and strengthened her own individual style. Romona also admires the work of Russell Chatham, Emil Carlson and Wolfe Kahn, especially for their commitment to the beauty of simplicity and atmosphere. Her admiration of these painters has translated to numerous exhibitions and honors, awards and merits throughout the United States.
Her lifestyle hasn't changed much since early childhood. She lives on a little farm with her family in the middle of Oregon wine country. She still hangs out in the woods with the dogs and her own kids and still collects a wide range of critters. When she isn't painting outside, she paints in her studio, in order to keep an eye on her kids and pets, while listening to her favorite Bach, Handel and Mozart.
Donna Young is recognized as one of America's accomplished oil painting artists. Her ability to capture emotion and mood through color is her most recognized talent. The passion and artistic aptitude that drives Donna is embodied in every piece of artwork she paints. Through her dedication to painting, her visions of nature has resulted in having exhibitions in major corporate venues as well as having earned a strong following among private collectors and celebrities throughout the United States. The spontaneous and vibrant colors of her medium result in pieces that are rich in energy, and almost as timeless as nature itself. Each finished piece is alluring, vibrant and sustaining.
"It is my intention to create paintings that will fascinate, uplift, and heighten the senses. I enjoy presenting my subjects in unusual perspectives, encouraging viewers to put aside habits of perception and to look at the world with new eyes. As an artist, I feel compelled to paint spirit, mood and emotion, creating an alluring, vibrant and sustaining visual impression.
I construct my landscapes through bold brushstrokes with rhythm and quiet solitude, creating a sanctuary for the viewer. My figure work is a synthesis of all contemporary women, depicting courage, inspiration and peace in our modern world."
Young currently resides in the Pacific Northwest where the quiet peace of the mountains, fields and rivers that coalesce into an atmosphere unique to the area.
Welcome to Glaser Frames's Client Page. It contains works and short bios of some of the best artists in the U.S. and Canada. If you wish to be included on our Clients Page, please email a short bio and a photo of your favorite piece of artwork framed in a Glaser Frame to us at info@glaserframes.com. Be sure to include you web page or email address. We will post your artwork and link to you web page.
"It (the frame) looked stunning! I wanted to let you know that I won a $16,000 scholarship towards a fine art degree at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design for that painting! I know a good frame will enhance a painting, so I'm thankful you put it together for me!!
I start May 2012 for a bachelor of fine art."
TESTIMONIAL
I was born in Denver, Colorado. Horses were my passion growing up and I was either barrel racing in rodeos or riding for hours on my own through the mountains of Colorado. My art career began with costume design and then in the 1980’s after moving to Alaska for ten years I started a graphic design business. In 1990 I moved back to Denver and shortly thereafter began painting full time.
I have never been completely comfortable within confines of a particular style category for my painting. I believe the subject matter dictates and guides me as the artist. I am a realist, but my paintings range from contemporary realism to the abstract. Each painting evolves though the interaction of the subject matter and my materials. I am fascinated with light and the effect it has on the mood of a painting. I spend days thinking and planning out the concept of the painting, not the actual drawing of the work, but the overall concept that I would like to convey. Through light, whether it be shadows, or weather, or subtle color change, I begin to create a work of art that has a tone to it. Each color and brush stroke put down leading to the next. I paint many layers, letting each dry in between. I am guided by the textures that arise; the interplay of colors laid on top of each other, and the random shapes that take on a life of their own without actually losing the original subject matter. I strive to create a work that from a distance allows the viewer to easily recognized the subject matter. Then from close up, I believe that subject should dissolve into interactive textures, colors and shapes.
Richard is an award winning Northern California landscape artist, painting with oils, primarily en Plein Air. The discovery and joy of painting came to him quite late in his life path, but not unexpectedly. Landscape photography was his chosen creative medium for thirty years. Large, medium and small format cameras... using primarily black and white images and the magic of polaroid transfers on watercolor paper. After taking a painting class in soft Pastels to enhance his Polaroid transfers… He dedicated himself to the possibilities that painting presented. Most of Richard’s career was spent as an entrepreneur, importer and graphic designer. He became more heavily involved in the art industry as the product manager for an exclusive importer of French fine art materials where his eyes were opened to the unique history of the impressionist era and to art materials in general. He is a committed plein air painter and has studied with many of California’s finest professionals.
Richard is regularly invited to many plein-air events and participates in annual Northern California shows that raise funds for numerous causes. He is one of the MALT (Marin Agricultural Land Trust) painters and other shows include MarinScapes, Napa Valley Art Festival, the San Luis Obispo Plein Air Festival and the Door County Plein Air Festival. Richard represents Plein Air Magazine, is an artist member of the California Art Club and Co-Chairman of the CAC Northern California Chapter.
Janice says of her unique style, “My inspiration is the elegance found in the ordinary. Beauty is everywhere one might hope to find it. And all is inspiration to the heart of the artist"
That style was developed under the guidance of excellent instructors and mentors, both in Canada and the United States. Janice borrows techniques from the Impressionist and Expressionist movements, while infusing the flavor of her own distinctive style. She strives to maintain a spontaneous quality in her work; her vibrant palette and loose brush work blend almost effortlessly. Janice is fascinated by the effect of light on form, loving the challenge of capturing images plein air, but also enjoys working in her studio from photographs. She is always experimenting with new techniques, keeping a fresh feeling to her paintings.
The quality of Janice’s work is well recognized. Among the accolades she has received, Janice placed first, second, and grand champion in the Glenwood Springs Art Show held in Colorado in 2008. Her paintings have been sold and collected world-wide. She is currently pursuing a Bachelor Of Fine Art at RMCAD in Denver, Colorado
