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Many years ago, I was fortunate enough to find an art school that still believed in teaching the basics of drawing, compostition, and value. I have used these skills as a solid foundation and expanded upon them creatively, allowing my own personal style to constantly evolve.
I vary my approach to each painting slightly, depending on my mood or the subject mater. I take much inspiration from the great representational artist of the past and present. I try to stay open to learning new ways of painting. I think this approach helps to keep my work fresh and free of "formulas".
Although I paint a variety of subjects, I find that direct observation of the subject matter is the best way to learn and grow as an artist and to communicate my feelng about the subject matter to the viewer. I am constantly striving to say a lot with just a few brushstrokes.
Painting has held my attention for many years mainly because it is such a challenge. I always believe my next painting will be my best painting. I will continue to devote myself to improving as an artist.
I would like my paintings to show that there is beauty all around us - in the play of the light and shadow, in spots of color, or in everyday subjects that we might normally overlook. As an artist, my job is to edit and expand upon the worlld as I see it, giving back what is my own unique perspective. I paint with a passion for life that I hope will be translated to the viewer.
Coni began her career in New York City, where for years she was a Fashion Illustrator. A native of New york, she graduated from the Traphagen School of Fashion Design & Illustration. Adams also attended Parsons School of Design, The School of Visual Arts and the Art Students League in New York City.
Greatest influences in her work, having studied with Robert Blackman,NA., Sidney Dickinson,NA., Daniel Greene,NA, in New York and Robert Bruce Williams in Washington,D.C.
Coni's style leans toward Impressionism with a realistic approach to the face, hands and feet. Using a palette, which is light in hue, Coni endeavors to create a painting, which is totally unique with every commission.
Adams has previously served on the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Portrait Society in New York City. Also for 7 years Adams served on the Advisory Board of the American Society of Portrait Artists, 3 years of which she was Co-Chairman. Also spending 3 years as a member of the Board Of Directors of the American Society Of Portrait Artist Foundation. She spent years as Juror of Awards at the Salmagundi Club (NYC) member exhibitions. And was Coast Guard Artist (COGAP) with paintings on permanent exhibition in United States government buildings around the country.
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Brushstrokes is a unique working studio-art gallery located on South Gaylord Street in Washington Park. The moment you step inside you're welcomed to an array of color, texture and form created by the three nationally acclaimed Colorado artists John K. Harrell, Kit Hevron Mahoney and Anita Mosher. Together, these artists have created a unique, warm and friendly atmosphere where guests literally have an interactive opportunity to watch their process, ask questions and have an open dialogue about influences, inspirations, styles and brushstrokes.
My current work has ventured away from strictly landscape painting into a plane somewhere between landscape and still life. For lack of a better term I refer to these works as "Stillscapes." Attempting to create still lifes that are a natural extension of the landscape, I have stripped down the foreground components to represent simplified, utilitarian groupings that find symbolism in the agrarian culture.
The Artist
Born and raised in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Allan Chow resides in Kansas City, Missouri, where he received his BFA in Illustration from the Kansas City Art Institute. While apprenticed to an illustrator/painter, Allan learned new painting techniques, but more importantly, became inspired to pursue a career as a fine artist. Allan’s earliest work features cityscapes and landscapes from his native country.
His Paintings
Allan paints with a palette knife, applying thick impasto in brilliant colors found only in dreams. His emotions and passions pour through his spontaneous yet controlled brushstrokes, creating a three-dimensional experience for his audiences. During his exhibitions, viewers find it difficult to resist the temptation to touch his paintings. Allan has established a national following with his sophisticated style and obvious passion for painting.
Represented by the Leopold Gallery in Kansas City, Missouri, and Strecker Nelson Gallery in Manhattan, Kansas, Allan is a highly regarded painter of abstracted landscapes of the Kansas City skyline, the Flint Hills and San Francisco – all inspiring subjects. Allan’s eye-catching red stamp graces each of his paintings, setting them apart from other works on gallery walls.
Allan’s original paintings and prints belong to prestigious Kansas City-area collections such as H&R Block; the Kansas City Royals; BKD; Lewis, Rice and Fingersh Law Firm; the Overland Park Convention Center; the University of Kansas Medical Center; University of Missouri-Kansas City; Russell Stover Candies; and the Kauffman Foundation. His work hangs in private collections in Kansas City, Seattle, California, Hong Kong and Malaysia. Allan has received awards from the Societies of Illustrators of Los Angeles, New York and Korea, and he has been featured in the Kansas City Star, The Artist’s Magazine, Living the Artist’s Life by Paul Dorrell and Visitation Church: A Century of Faith.
Just for fun
When Allan isn’t painting, he teaches, competes, performs and participates in social salsa dancing events locally and nationally.
Betty Curtiss took up oil painting after a career in the the theatre. She was the featured artist in Gallery Guide Spotlight for her show Skillman Diary Farm. A commissined painting hangs in the Lfayette Yard Marriott Hotel, Trenton, NJ and her works have appeared in The Gallery at Bristol-Myers Squibb. She was a first prize recipient in the Woodmere Art Museum's annual show in Philadelphia, Pa. He Paintings of butchers celebrated the 60th anniversary of Maresca's Meat Market, Sergentsville, NJ. Betty conributed to Dangerous Women 2 at Mercer Gallery West Windsor, NJ. A selection of her paintings can be seen at her website.
Grounded in impressionistic tradition, with a contemporary style all her own, Robin Cheers' paintings document scenes familiar to all of us. Her settings include relaxed interiors, bustling cafes or sunny beaches, but the primary focus is on the human element.
Robin is a avid sketcher and skilled at depicting the figure. She brings gestural drawing element into her paintings. Her style is immediate, expressive and painterly with a strong emphasis on composition
Robin's paintings are found in many private and corporate collections and collected internationally.
The defining characteristic of Pat Carney's paintings is to make beauty visible. Her subject matter ranges from intimate flowers to panoramic landscapes. Many of these images are drawn from on-location studies and references made during travel throughout the western states and beyond. It is her depiction of light and color relationships, however, that attracts viewers to her work. Each work of art is a close study of the colors and appropiate light key of the subject, creating a sense of place and/or form. She captures the dramatic or sometimes subltle effect of light on form, whether painting prairie overlooks or snowy mountain ranges. Her skiful use of color and energetic brushwork make her paintings seem effortless.
For the past eighteen years. Christin Coy's art work has reflected her appreciation for nature through her landscape painting, both in plein air and in her larger studio works. Christin's paintings of Northern California's hills and costal regions reflect her strong connection with the land, and bring to life the unique mood and beauty of each setting. She is especially attracted to the warm colors and elongated shadows that appear in the late afternoon.
Christin participates in annual art exhibits such as "Ranches and Rolling Hills" which raises funds to protect farmland for Marin Agricultural Trust. She is a founding memeber of teh BayWood artists, a small group of professional artists that help raise awareness and funds for the protection and conservation of land and water through the sale of paintings. Christin's paintings have been collected throughout the United States and in Europe.
Galleries representing Christin: Painters Place, Larkspur, TomalesFine Art, Tomales, Holton Studio, Emeryville, CA and Windrush Gallery, Sedona, AZ. She is an artist member of the California Art Club. A collection of her paintings from previous "Ranches and Rolling Hills" exhibits is included in the book "Ranches and Rolling Hills-Art of West Marin".
I love the visual beauty of New Mexico and the West, the desert and variety of three cultures. I consider myself a contemporary colorist and modernist, but most of all, a visual poet. I am drawn to paint endangered places such as wilderness, historic buildings and fading cultures, in the hope of drawing public awreness by preserving them on canvas. I plan to start traveling across the country to paint the figure in the enviornment.My landscapes are painted "en plein air". My visual mucic is written with the principals of impressionism, but I am a bit of an expressionist, as painting what I feel about my subject is important, and love for the paint to express itself in impasto movement.
Cameron Davidson is a contemporary realist painter and sees his art as a way of capturing what he finds beautiful in the world. A way to communicate his love for people, places, and thngs. His paintings relect this as he enjoys a variety of subject matters including Figurative, Landscape and Still Life. In 1995 Cameron recieved his Bachelor's Degree of Fine Art in Illustration and Design, form Brigham Young University and interned in New York with Burton Silverman and Max Ginsberg. He resides in Saratoga Springs, Utah with his wife and four children.
Michele was born and raised in a small East Coast town about an hour’s drive from New YorkCity. Her mother introduced her to the arts when she was young, taking her regularly to museums,galleries, and the theatres. Moved by what she experienced, Michele started to draw and paint at a young age.
A trip to Florence, Italy for a printmaking intensive in 1986 completely changed the direction ofMichele’s art. She fell in love with the landscape and people of Italy, and began a new adventure in plein air painting using chalk pastel.
Back in America, she eventually shifted her focus to oils. She finds fresh subjects by hiking into her favorite mountain ranges in the High Sierra, Central Mexico, and Peru. Michele has studied plein air painting with Kevin Macpherson, Jean LeGassick, Jeanette LeGrue, and Randall Sexton. Her work has been exhibited in galleries on both East and West coasts, and exists in private collections throughout North America.
Michele received her Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees from the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California. She is a member of the California Art Club and Oil Painters of America.
Infused with vibrant colors, the paintings of Santa Barbara Fauvist, Kathleen Elsey, explore interior spaces, figures, still life, breaches and landscapes. Working both plein air and in her studio, she paints with a vivified palette and brusque brushwork recalling both Fauvist and Imressionist traditions. She teaches "Brush with Life" painting workshops in Sonoma and Santa Barbara, California as well as Taos, New Mexico. In the past year, Esey's paintings have been on exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum in Mew Mexico and the Bakersfield Museum in California as well as the Salmagundi Art Club in New York City.
Summer of 2009 brings a solo exhibition of over fifty of Kathleen's paintings to Divine Inspiration Gallery in Santa Barbara, California. Her work is also represented by galleries in Carmel, California, Atlanta, Georgia and Hawi, Hawaii. she is a member of the New Fauves, a group of nine painters from the US and France. She is signature member of the National Association of Women Artists and the American Impressionist Society.
Born in New York, raised in Atlanta. BA in psychology and criminology FSU.
Court appointed juvenile officer Atlanta. Ran and owned a working ranch in New Castle, Colorado. Live now on St. Simons Island in Georgia.
Sold first painting at age 15 of a horse named Smokey.
Studied portrait oil painting with Roman, Constatine, and Marc Chatov. New York Studio School under Graham Nickson and Joseph Santore. New York Art Students League- staff. Denver art students league with Quang Ho and Kim English. Florence academy of fine art, florence, italy. studied with Bob Kuhn, Russell Chatham, Scott Christensen, Clyde Aspevig, and others
Five gallery affiliations; Teach plein air workshops; Artist in resident Roaring Fork Club and Woods Lake resort in Colorado
My paintings have raised over $100,000 for wildlife and conservation organizations.
Currently involved in equine rescue on tidal islands, the humane society of south coastal georgia, and various charities for children. 20% of all commissions are donated to the charity of the clients choice.
I paint 5-6 days a week and like to ride, flyfish, golf, kayak and play dupilcate bridge……well I used to like to……
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Kate Faust is an award winning photographer and painter. She devotes her time to both painting and photography. Kate has exhibited work throughout the Tri-state area. She is currently a menber of the National Artist Women's Association, Southern Vermont Arts Association, the Ridgewood Art Institute and the Professional Women's Photography Association in Manhattan. Along with painting, photography has been the ideal tool to chronicle the world around me. I have had the freedom to travel the world with my camera as a guide. This "freedom" has opened my eyes to many diverse cultures. I love to photograph and paint people experiencing life's simple moments. Everyday scenes captivate my attention as do ordinary objects. I strive to capture those moments when an object or face is being illuminated by the sun - especilly at sunrise or sunset. My focus brings attention to that which is often overlooked. Painting and photography yield two diverse yet connected perspective that diserve equal consideration. Consideration, I endeavor to provide through my work.
My paintings continue to evolve over time. When I first started painting I was very tight with few brush strokes visable. I have changed, and am now, the opposite. I like thick paint and heavy brush strokes, lots of color, and I look for subjects with brilliant colors and contrasts. I prefer early morning and late evening light when painting the landscape.
I use a limited pallet of Cadmium Red, Cadmium Yellow and Ultramarine Blue. On large paintings I add Cadmim Orange and Dioxazine Purple for the convenience. I first block in a section of Painting. Then, before any paint dries, I start adding layers and mixing the paint to some degree on the canvas itself.
I have been influenced by Nicoali Fechin, Berger Sandzen, and Monet. I love Sergeant's figurative oil paintings and any time I can, I see them in person. I am influeced most today by Scot Burdick and Dan Gerharts, but I have also painted with many great local painters like Billyo O'Donnell, Dave and Shawn Cornell, Hennryk Ptasiewicz , and too many more to list here.
When I first started painting I took lessons and workshops from Nora Othic, Billyo O'Donnell, Doug Dawson, Camile Prezwodek, Lyn Pharris and Michelle Torrez. I have sutdied and painted with many others, but think of myself mostly as self taught.
If you stood in front of the house where I grew up, you could throw a rock in three directions and hit corn. I was born and raised in a small town in Ohio, where the countryside was doninated by corn fields, pig frams and dairy operations.
There was plenty of beautiful open space as soon as you left the town limits, and it was all agricultural land -- oceans if corn punctuated with barns and farm houses, sprinkled with hogs and dairy cattle. This instilled in me a deep appreciation for farming, and I think explains why years later, I am drawn to scenes that include those elements.
I fled small town Ohio to attend the Cooper Union School of Art in New York City. After graduation I attended Yale's summer progam in Brissago, Switzerland, then continued to travel around Europe for 5 months before returning to New York. I worked at several design firms in New York, living there for total of 11 years before moving to San Francisco in 1992. I now live in a small town of Fairfax California and as I travel to the back roads of the Bay Area, I'm in awe of the spectacular beauty and undisturbed quality of the landscape there.
I occasionally paint on the ragged edge of urban areas, drawn to the gemetric elements and planes of light, but the everpresent abandoned vehicles, but I'm a ruralist at heart.
John, encouraged by his artist grandmother, began painting at an early age and now creates impressionistic visions of cityscapes and florals that have a vibrant quality much like his personality.
Karen Rohde Haley
Karen Rohde Haley continues to gain recognition with her swirling brushstrokes and vivid colors that capture the beauty of Colorado landscapes. She is represented by Framing Creations (Van Natter Gallery) in Greenwood Village, Colorado. She is an associate member of the Oil Painters of AmericaKaren Rohde Haley
Karen Rohde Haley continues to gain recognition with her swirling brushstrokes and vivid colors that capture the beauty of Colorado landscapes. She is represented by Framing Creations (Van Natter Gallery) in Greenwood Village, Colorado. She is an associate member of the Oil Painters of America
I adventure oil paint landscapes en plein air. I am integrally connected to the land by teaching, painting, and preserving the wild places tha I explore. My landscapes evoke a poetic sense of place. I follow in the footsteps of early painters of the American West.
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Cheri Christensen was born in Enumclaw, Washington, a small rural town of horse and cattle ranches and dairies at the foot of Mt. Rainier. She attended the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and graduated from the University of Washington.
Cheri studied oil painting intensely for three years with Ron Lukas, a protege of Sergei Bongart, who taught in the tradition of the Russian Impressionists. In her studies, Cheri concentrated on seeing and conveying the effects of color and light on forms.
The first painting she submitted to a competition was included in a prestigious exhibition at the Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum in Seattle, and the first painting to include animals received the Beatrice Jackson Memorial award for Best Traditional Landscape in the Allied Artists of America 1995 show. She has since gone on to be represented in and win awards in numerous regional, national, and international shows.
Cheri is a signature member of the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society and a member of the Oil Painters of America.
