Artists Who Teach

Welcome to Blevins Sculpture Studio. Sculptors Art & Ginny Blevins. We create bronze statues for corporate, public, and private monuments and memorials of children and adults, living or deceased.
Our specialties are portrait busts, figure commissions, reliefs, and MiniMe's,
but our work spans a range of categories, genres, and sizes.

Herstmonceux Castle

Kimberley has a long term goal to capture in watercolors all the major castles in Britain, Ireland and then on to continental Europe. She also enjoys ceramic sculpture. In addition to being a talented artist she enjoys working with her students on a one to one basis and teaches on-line. She offers the first critique for free.

Cabinets of Frivolities 3, 19' X 22" assemblage

My creative process is intuitive – starting with materials and/or marks that I make – with no preconceived plan. I like putting things together – sometimes pieces that seem not to go together. My work encompasses a variety of mediums – oil, acrylic, water, prints, found papers and objects, image transfer and encaustic. In each artwork there may be one medium, two or many media combined in one piece. Inspiration comes from the inside – based on my personal distillation of the external world.

Sojourn In Spring

Kathryn has great affection for the natural world. Her award winning collages convey the world as she sees it through nature's eyes.

Since 1980 Marlaine is conducting workshops in making dolls and animals. She is an industrial designer (home textiles) and illustrator, and since 1987 author and illustrator of books about dollmaking (in Dutch and German). Publications in several books and magazines in the Netherlands, Germany, Japan, France and the USA.

Painting by Josie Fife

Ink and watercolor are Ilene's primary media, functioning best as an extension of her thought process. Preferring to explore ideas rather than a clever style or technique, Ilene's choice of medium frees her to explore and interpret multiple areas of tnterest with equal intensity

I am inspired when an ordinary scene or object is somehow transformed into something glorious and wonderful. Maybe it's a striking combination of colors or textures, or a compelling pattern of contrasts. It could be the relationship of a person to nature. Most often it's the effect of sunlight, deepening a color here, making an edge disappear there, that motivates me to paint.

"Glaze & Layer" a glazed and layered single signature book. I teach this as a two-day workshop.

Artist, Calligrapher, Teacher

Through Shadow 2

Hua Nian, originally from China, taught photo-journalism in Jinan University, Guangzhou,
prior to her move to the USA.

Figurative Art Calendar 2008

Speckled Pears

If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint,"
then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. --Vincent Van Gogh

Enduring Through Time

This scene is in Verona, Italy, just opposite the scene I painted in "Dining with Dante". I liked the people walking under the arches, and, of course, all the textures on the muted colors of the old buildings.

Polar Carnivale

You are entering a place filled with make-believe and magical characters. So turn on your imagination
and let your journey begin. Thanks for visiting and come back soon.

Claire Marcus’ Watercolor “ Smith Marble” has been chosen by Kennedy Publishing as a National Watercolor Winner in the Juried Book Watercolor Painting Competitions. The Competition's Winners (from all over the United States) are published in the book “ Best of America Watercolor Artist and Artisans, Vol.1”

Rugs By Connie

Welcome to the online home of Fiber Designs

Creative Chick Studio

Woman in Purple Mantle

"My love is textiles in all forms and I work to explore these combined techniques in my dolls and handprinted fabric and garments. I encourage my students to trust their instincts while exploring the unfamiliar."

La Mia Giola (My Joy)

The prints shown on this website include etchings, woodcuts, solar prints, monoprints, and mixed media.

My goal is to say as much as I can about my subject without saying it all
so that it leaves the viewer to become an integral part of the painting.

Dallas Sculptures

"Paint who you are....I am a city girl so I paint the city and it's people."

Tenderness, Silk Painting

Silk Painting and Batik

I am a teacher of classic drawing, painting, storytelling and pictorial arts.

Bersani's illustrations are breathtakingly lifelike.

Treasures of the Heart, Electrified Box Construction,
Wood, Acrylic Paint, Mixed Media, 11"w 8.5"h x 6.75 "d

FeBland's boxes, an outgrowth of her large scale constructions and totems, present a compelling paradox
in which the dichotomy of inside and outside is explored.

Ascending the Stairway to Heaven

"Pursue what you love, love what you pursue." Catherine Hillis has painted all her life,
studying privately throughout the last two decades, winning numerous awards and honors
at competitive shows regionally and nationally.

Bitter and Sweet, Encaustic on Board

Collage and Mixed Media Painting "A subtle blend of the conceptual and the sensual."

Kim Possible, one of the many designs Stephen has created for television animation.

Stephen Silver an animation character designer will introduce you to the art of drawing, character design
and the business of art. He will share with you his personal techniques fro producing top notch character designs and the creative process of drawing.

Emma, Colored Pencil

Diane Worfolk Allison has a multi-faceted career, having spent years as a portrait artist, a Montessori teacher,
a published illustrator and author of children’s books and essays, a storyteller and a performer.

Fiber Artist, Teacher and Author

San Antonio, Texas

Hindes is respected as a colorist with keen insight into the effects of varying types of light. She makes every attempt to capture fleeting moments, honestly. She is a firm believer that life is beautiful; therefore, the artist’s greatest need is to see more clearly rather than excessive embellishment.

New Beginnings

During the last several years I have allowed my interest in ravens to guide my work. This has been a freeing experience and opened the door to innumerable new personal insights and quiltmaking opportunities.
The quilts created during this period have been produced by progressively experimenting
with various design elements and techniques.

"In my work I have been focused on three main elements: design, light, and color", Irina says. "Light, dark, and value of the color inspired me more than anything. I want to share with everybody how beautiful everything is that God has done. I want to capture the complexities of reflection, light, value, tone, and shade,
and I hope that might trigger an emotion in someone else."

Leonardo DaVinci

Various pens / media and colored pencil on Canson paper. The texts are excerpts dealing with
knowledge-theory vs. experience. The words expressed some feelings I had at that time about
teachers, especially in lettering and design.

Portrait of Simon Bolivar and the Sculptor, Stuart Williamson

Teacher of Sculpture, Exhibitions Consultant, Tel/Fax 593 2 2375 916

Fall in Canelo

SEE MY NEW BLOG AT http://rogeralderman.blogspot.com/, this is a demonstration
of my painting techniques of larger outdoor landscapes.

Christopher Robbins teaches art, ceramics, and sculpture at McNeil High School in the Round Rock
School District. He lives and creates his distinctive sculptures in Leander, Texas.

Won the "Best of Show" award in a figure show at Laguna Plein Air Painters Association Aug. 2007

Irises on Gold

Instructional painting holidays taught by artist Sharon Pitts. Space limited, call today!
Contact: Jackie Sanchez - (973) 768 3113 or raejack@aol.com Sharon Pitts - (973) 783 9609 or paintergirl@comcast.net

Master Weaver and Textile Designer

Letters to Piet

There is a force within me that must create. It speaks to me, inspires and motivates me. For twenty years this energy had been directed towards fabric and thread, resulting in quilts and quilted clothing.

Color surrounds me and excites me on all levels and I find infinite inspiration from observing Nature in all her seasonal wardrobes. I am captivated by the rhythm of stringing beads and the patience it requires to sit and bead for hours and hours. It slows down the frenetic pace of my hurried life and helps me find perspective.

Lifting the Veil

“Touch is an essential connection to life. My art evolves intuitively through a manipulation of surface, color, texture and form. Tapestry weaves an unconscious thread to the human spirit. These abstract mixed media tapestries inspire the senses to recall a primal source of beauty.My purpose is to touch people’s spirits with beauty and healing.” Donna Durbin

I started as a basketmaker, delighted by the idea of containing space as well as things gathered. Soon I started to make odd shaped vessels that could contain nothing other than one's imagination.

Weaving woven on a computer-assisted Jacquard handloom.

Herring Smokehouse, Low Tide

"As artists, there's a reason why we paint the landscape and not the figure, still life or some other subject. It's the landscape that feeds our creative fire. Thankful for its inspiration, we are eager to see that it, in turn, gets taken care of. And our best way of making sure it gets the care it so richly deserves is this: To put our representations of it on display for all the world to see. Our hope is that our paintings will
encourage others to become stewards of the land, just as we have become its promoters."

“More and more I realize how much my rural background influences my work. In the beginning painting was a way for me to preserve those childhood memories, as monuments or icons in my life. Now, as I explore different mediums and subjects, I find it is those quiet moments as a child spent observing my rich
environment that persuades me to keep drawing..painting to keep trying to re-create the perfect moment.”

The Sunday Painter

Crowe’s subject matter includes figurative, still life, and landscape. Her direct representational style
is painted from life either in the studio or plein air.

Blond Bluff of Sedona

Cody DeLong is renowned for his unique and original oil paintings where he captures a wonderful sense of light in his landscape paintings and beautiful atmosphere in his signature skyscapes and sunset paintings.

St. Remy, France

My favorite way of capturing memories as I travel is by keeping a Watercolor Journal.

Julie’s paintings are exhibited extensively in Hawaii. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and the Hawaii State Art Museum.

California Hotel, Santa Barbara

Artist Camille Renga Dellar is a native of Santa Barbara, California. Growing up in the beautiful foothills that embrace this picturesque area helped develop her keen observation of landscape.

"The measure of a good artist is not just that they have something interesting to say,
but they have found an interesting way to say it. Sandra Power succeeds on both counts."
Gary Faigin, Art critic, KUOW public radio, WA

Ponies and Chinese Plums

Ning worked as a visiting artist at various art centers both in the United States and Canada in the early 1990s and finally settled down in New York metro area in 1996. He has exhibited in China, Canada and United States, received various awards, and has works in corporate and private collections in the US and abroad.

Carol is currently represented by the Louisa Melrose Gallery in Gladstone, NJ, the Tideline Gallery
in Hockessin, DE, the Jennings Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Tideline Gallery in Rehoboth Beach, DE,
and The Boca Museum of Art Artist’s Guild in Boca Raton, FL. Carol resides with her husband in Somerset, NJ during the summer and in Port St. Lucie, FL during the winter.

I knit to rejoin the frayed and unraveled places around me.

My art is a blend of many different creative expressions over many years.

Mother Of Us All

Nature is fascinating in so many ways: evolution, adaptation, and change are intricate parts of an ever-changing world. I am interested in transformation in nature, moments of deep cataclysmic shifts, moments of superb energy release. I am interested in the very special instants when a balance is broken or shifted, an existing equilibrium is changed and transformation occurs. More and more, humans
are influencing some shifts in nature.

Hovering Child

With a background in psychology, design, and photography, I make photographic images combining portraiture with dreamed landscapes and the natural world. As my work creates juxtapositions in time, it also re-imagines relationships of scale and physical possibility. My images create an inclusiveness that is wistful yet ironic. Children and adults, anonymous and forgotten, appear as honored guests. Although my images
violate the laws of physics, they honor the interdependence and connections of humanity
with the animals, insects, and plants, which populate the natural world.

Valley of the Giants

"I see geometry in the land, mountains and skies.
The abstract beauty of God's creations are a marvel to behold."

I am a multi-media visual artist. The subject matter of my abstracted images are the human figure and prairie landscape. How one experiences objects in space and over a period of time is a consistent theme in this innovative work. A unique fragmentation of shapes and lines results from a process of layering,
distortion and abstraction of paint, charcoal and textiles. The dynamic works are defined
by the media and the energetic mark-making.

Victor Wang with his painting, In the Distance

Victor (Sheng) Wang, Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Fontbonne University, St. Louis, Missouri 63105 USA

Kayla-In Studio Light

Scott Mattlin is an artist with a deep and passionate appreciation for beauty in the natural world
and within the human spirit.

Marble Canyon Majesty

"I have always loved color and the diverse landscapes of the Southwest where I grew up."

Northern Californian Brian Blood has been a professional artist for the past 25 years. Operating his own publishing company, then becoming a successful Illustrator, working in Graphic Design and now for the past 17 years he has settled into Fine Art. Teaching for more than a decade in the Fine Art Dept. at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and conducting his own Plein Air Painting Workshops around California keeps him very busy. Brian's painting workshops are open to all levels of painting experience. They are geared towards helping artist deepen their insights in painting with oils.

Beneath The Earth II

The landscape is a universal symbolic image, thick with narration and metaphor, which is why
it has been a canonized subject matter for so much of art history. Particularly today at a time
when the natural land is disappearing at an unprecedented rate, the landscape
becomes an even more poignant image to work with.

Swimming In The Blue

One of my first contacts with art as a child was looking at reproductions of Flemish still life paintings. I was fascinated with the way the painters carefully rendered the effects of light upon reflective surfaces.
Throughout my art career, I have felt compelled to explore light and color
in combination with these surfaces.

Tom's Stretched Series With Tea Bowls

"What is to exciting about looking at a sleeping tiger?"

Jiving Teapot 2

Clay is a center in my life. I am involved with it in one way or another almost every day. Through it I express my love for the natural world and its continuous beauty. I am fortunate to make my living as an
artist, sharing my visions in a medium to which I feel deeply connected.

This quilt has been used as CD cover art, as well as for the covers of two college math textbooks.
It was also included in The Art Quilt by Robert Shaw, 1997.

Michelle Barnes has won numerous awards for her illustrations in books, magazines, and newspapers,
including a Society of Illustrators Silver Medal Award.

I've gotten a-lot of mileage of this painting. It was the image that landed me my first artist rep.,
my first national award, and my first paying job. Society of Illustrators Annual 1998,
Spectrum Fantasy Annual 2000, Expose' 1, Digital Fine Art Book, 2003,
Kota Press Gold Award, August 2003, Total Image Award 2003,
Electronic Arts Permanent Corporate Collection 2005.

Philip's luminous and meticulously detailed digital and traditional oil paintings have classical influences but are purely based on the fantastic. Many images are derived from the ever present surreal worlds that play out
in his mind like lucid dreams throughout the day.

Ignite Thy Passion

There has always been a yearning inside me to create art that has meaning. I desire to reflect this time and place in which I live, yet also to manifest that other landscape inside my mind and deeper still, inside my soul.

Ever So Gently

Over the years, my commissioned drawings have included children, dogs, horses, wedding portraits and houses. Occasionally collectors wanted to see a particular bird or animal subject,
and commission a drawing with that theme.

.925 silver with patina, 18ky gold, 2mm raw diamond cubes

"Since 1992 Todd Reed has been exploring the use of raw diamonds in his timeless jewelry. Hand fabricated in 18 and 22 karat golds with sterling silver, each piece is a unique piece of art. Todd's jewelry has won many of the industries top awards and is represented by the top stores and galleries around the world.
Todd continues to keep his work inspired and free from the confines of the societal norm".

Mike Tracy Sketchbook January 2008

Please click on the images or the month to go to the sketchbook pages for that month. These drawings are usually done early in the morning and reflect whatever the preoccupation, vision, or inspiration is at hand,
at the moment. If you take the same magazines, newspapers, catalogs as I do, you might begin
to recognize some of the imagery, although it is often turned, spindled, mutilated
or deconstructed and reassembled to suit the moment.

Flower Market-Guatemala

I love the challenge of painting outdoors-particularly figures of people
doing everyday things in different cultures.

Lorquin's Admiral 54" X 24"

Textile Arts Teacher and Fiber Artist, specializing in Tapestry, Krokbragd Tapestry
and Hand Woven Rugs.

Judie works in her studio/gallery at the Tula Arts Center in Atlanta where she has maintained a studio since 1984. She continues to be involved in the Atlanta art community by exhibiting in art shows throughout
the year. Paintings and sculptures by the artist are represented by Watson Gallery and
Frameworks Gallery in Atlanta, Zimmerman Gallery in Augusta, Georgia,
Globe Gallery in Clayton, Georgia and Seven Oaks Gallery in Lakemont, Georgia.

I believe that artistic creations are searches to either share an experience, or to find some answers
about the mystery of our own existence.

Black/brown ash basketry is taken to a new form when the traditional wood splint is showcased in Susan kavicky’s work. Whether the structure is organic or architectural, the satin of black ash is always the center of attention. It is the satin that compels Susan to work with black ash. Influenced by a strong commitment to the creative process Susan strives to listen and follow the developing work rather than direct a specific result.

Window on Twill

Contemporary Basketry

I was born in San Francisco and did my undergrad work at UC Santa Cruz,
where I studied painting and photography.

There's something about collage artists that makes them want to collect "stuff." I have always collected quips and quotes that I felt were interesting. Some are trite, some are profound, yet all have meaning to me.

Peaches and Cream

Selected by Southwest Art Magazine as one of 10 Artists to watch in 2008.

In Memory of July

Master of Fine Arts, Fontbonne University, Missouri 1998
Master of Arts, Fontbonne University, Missouri 1997
B.F.A, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taipei 1982

"Elena Mary Siff mines a broad range of contemporary images and artifacts
in work with a particularly social and political bent."
-Nancy Doll, Former Director, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts forum

My art reflects my ongoing fascination with the landscape where urban culture and nature collide,
most often to be found in the fringes of our cities.

In addition to her full-time commissioned portrait practice, Saper is an active speaker, demonstrator and instructor. She is a faculty member of the Portrait Society of America and the Scottsdale Artists' School.

Ron Schwartz was born April 8, 1934 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He developed his early skills
in art classes at the Philadelphia Art Museum.

Animals' ability for unfettered expression is both enviable and foreign within the boundaries of humanity. We are restrained in behavior by our nature and by society, to the extent that one can imagine an animal mocking our comparatively reserved demonstrations of love, need or anger.

Drumming Up Business

I have had a lifelong interest in the needle arts, and I love the tactile nature of quilting.
Like many quilters before me, I began by taking classes to learn standard methods and
traditional patterns before moving on to designs of my own creation.

Mother of Pearl Series #1

The work in this series was created during the summers of 2001 and 2002 in Blacksburg, a small university town in southwest Virginia. My studio was just south of town, a beautiful drive, each day,
through the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Reflected Felix

Cesar Santander is a "Photorealist" painter. He uses photographs as sources for his paintings
and the paintings themselves look like photographs.

Robert Anderson has been painting and printmaking since receiving his Master of Fine Arts Degree from
Pratt Institute in 1972. He has been involved with digital image making since 1986, using the computer
as a graphical composition tool for planning complicated figurative paintings.

She dared not from the path

"There is a dialogue between myself and the materials I choose to use: what they will and will not do; how the material will change and become something different than its original form. It is a give and take process of layering on and taking off until the work tells me it is finished. I have always been interested in other cultures and other times both real and imagined and that becomes a large part of the story telling in my work."

Painting is my way of understanding the natural world and the human made world, of sharpening my focus. On one day, Science may take precedence, on another, visual reality. On occasion, metaphor becomes prime, at other times a fascination with patterning or the interaction between humans and nature directs my work. Occasionally the seduction of the paint is irresistible, or I fall under the spell of color sequence.

Textiles represent an alternative history and practice. The physical nature of the stitched mark reminds the viewer of a kind of activity and maker marginalized in traditional art histories. The use of roses, pins, or
polka dots asks the viewer to revisit the notion of “femininity” in art, as well as the romantic and nostalgic.

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay area, Barbara has always created art since she was a child for her own amusement and enjoyment. In 1980, when her three children were grown, she began devoting full time to her artistic career. A fully self taught artist, Barbara has achieved an international reputation with a style that combines shimmering colors, a unique sense of design, and the artful skills of a storyteller.

Lavender Fields

In the colorful expressionistic landscape paintings of Trice Tolle, one can see how she has found infinite ways to capture the endless beauty and emotion found in nature. She has traveled extensively throughout
her life and draws upon her travels as one of her inspirations. Trice states that when she paints,
it is like one of her adventures, she never knows how it will end up!

Antique Playthings

I was born in Philadelphia, grew up in New Jersey and studied Fine Arts and figure drawing
at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Dartboard & Balloons

Daniel E. Greene, N.A. is a former instructor of painting at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League of New York. He is the author of "Pastel" that was in print for 25 years and "The Art of Pastel," which were published in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Chinese. In 1969, Mr. Greene was elected to the National Academy of Design.

A View from Lake O'Hara

Gil Dellinger has participated in over 300 group and one person exhibitions. He is a retired Professor of Art
at the University of the Pacific. He has inspired many young artists through his talent for teaching
and his own artwork, having won the Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence
and Professional Contribution in 1990.

"Capturing an inner feeling, a moment in time so quickly passing...A moment that is beyond words, almost beyond thought. In art, as music, there are rhythms, movements, flow and ebb...." Betty Jean Billups

Steve Kell sold his first oil painting at age 18, but his creative bent and runaway sense of humor
quickly steered him toward cartooning and humorous greeting-card writing.

A moment in time - in nature the light and shadow are always forming complex shapes, textures, patterns and colors. As an artist, I am trying to capture these elements in my paintings. With paint and brush, I am also adding strong graphic contrasts and careful detail to the very special moment in time!

Snow Squalls on the North Rim

I am one of six plein air artists who are featured in a PBS series,
PLEIN AIR, PAINTING THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE. www.pleinairamerica.com

Julie uses porcelain and works to find a balance between the decorated surface and the pot’s form.

Studied under:
Diane Tesler – Oil Painting
Danni Dawson – Portrait/Figure Painting
Peter Thrasher – Portrait Painting
Robert Liberace – Figure Drawing

Evening on Piazzale Michelangelo, Florence

Painted while in Italy with my friend Joe Paquet. A young Japanese art restoration student
watched me paint this, and taught me Italian, for three hours.

Dancing With Illumination

Zhaoming Wu was born in China and grew up in Guangzhou City. He received his BFA from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art China and his MFA from the Academy of Art University, San Francisco.

This vessel stands 26 cm tall. It is part of a series of pieces I've been working on for several years,
based originally on the form of a prehistoric Chinese vessel. A copper blue glaze has been sprayed on.
This piece was made through a combination of hand building, press moulding, and altered thrown parts.
It was fired to cone ten reduction.

I have been working for 18 years on pieces which are thrown on a potter's wheel, individually carved and inlaid with multiple colors of glaze, and finished with gold luster. While the technique is similar,
although refined from 18 years ago, the aesthetic focus has changed.

For the last five years I have been working on a series of narrative works and smaller interior paintings
that are a distillation of perception and memory, where color and light convey a world
psychologically and spiritually charged.

Enjoy and explore my sculptures, and keep in mind that all these pieces are made entirely of wood.
No other material has been used.

Inspired by ancient Anasazi and Mimbres potsherds, I began making southwestern pottery. I dig clay in the Elk Mountains outside my studio in Snowmass, Colorado. The clay is filtered to remove rocks and debris and then hand coiled to form each piece. The pottery is then incised with metal tools to create the rythmic texture
and pattern. Each pot is a one-of-a-kind hand crafted work of art.

“I have always been drawn to ways of working that have allowed for discovery, surprise, failure and redemption. I find my images in the layers of paint, discover the form as my hands touch the clay, surrender to the vagaries of the fire. Each work comes to me, not as an answer, but as another question. The longer I make art,
the more I realize it’s not about mastery or control. What remains is an ongoing dialog between
the artist and his art. One must listen as well as speak.”

Since childhood the human figure has interested me as subject matter. Recent changes in my life allow me to spend time working from live models in both clay and drawing materials. Although the majority of my work is three dimensional, drawing and painting are essential to the development of my ideas in clay.

Personal relationships are integral to our survival; they bring meaning to life and satisfy the need
for interaction on both an emotional and physical level.

Long Cabinet in Macassar Ebony

Creating one of a kind, furniture represents a unique blending of the beauty, elegance, and materials
of the natural world, and the Creative spirit of ones imagination.

Jessica Straus is a wood sculptor from the Boston area. Her carved and polychromed wood sculptures
explore the poetry of unexpected juxtapositions between recognizable and invented forms.

The challenge of creating handbuilt porcelain forms using texture, volume, and structure keeps my interest in the working process. The body of work represented here is an innate connection of elements in nature,
in the sewing process, and also in Art Nouveau.

Financial Responsibility, coiled wax linen and credit cards

Creativity – The ability to recognize an idea. Take that idea and become engaged and excited about
its possibilities. Take the excitement and apply it to the process of working on your Art. True inspiration and creativity comes more readily when you learn to enjoy the journey through your art, no matter what direction it might take you. Learn to follow your artistic voice as well as guide your Art to its completion.

Transylvania Public Library (10'H by 36'W by 1.5'D)

These high relief wall sculptures are designed using urethane block (rock lite) with epoxy and fiberglass coatings. Rocklite is signboard used primarily for outdoor applications. The man-made material
is much more stable than wood and is very durable for public or corporate installations.
Scale is on average approximately 6 feet in length, by 4 feet in height.

The Ring of Fire

I don't know when the urge to create began. It has always been there from earliest memory. It started with painting and drawing, but once I discovered sculpture and particularly clay, over twenty years ago,
I was totally obsessed. There is a prose poem by Byrd Baylor that states, "Clay remembers
the hands that made it." I love the fact that you connect directly with the clay with your fingers
and it responds like a living thing. Although many images inspire me and I sculpt a
variety of subjects, the image of the horse and women's stories are my passion.

Low Slung Boulder Table

The passion for discovery through self-expression persuades me to be an artist and is part
of the driving force that compels me to teach art.

Morning Light, Crystal Cove

"To make you see what I have seen is part of my objective; but, to have you feel what I have felt
is the ultimate goal. Capturing an effect is capturing the emotion of a place, time or a moment.
The more specific the moment, the more singular the emotion."

My work has undergone major transitions the past two years, from functional ceramics to animal and figurative sculpture. I have always been interested in sculptural work but didn't know where to begin. It's difficult to try something new when you have achieved a certain level of success with your present artistic direction.

Handweaver Jennye Rebecca Owen is a studio artist who creates a line of handwoven clothing for women. Formerly a resident of Atlanta, she relocated to the mountains of North Carolina in 2006 after retiring
from 35 years of teaching art. She is a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild.

Natural Treasure

These latest pieces by my husband Larry and I are a natural extension of the collaborative direction we have been working in for the past 8 years. My own creative impulse has been moving beyond
the more traditional "doll" forms I have been known for over the past 30 years.

Older Than Dirt

Myrna continues to explore watercolor's limitless range of possibilities with a special emphasis on color, dramatic impact, and textures. Her figurative work seeks out the universal communication
of humanity through expression and gesture.

A Shaft of Sunlight

I enjoy painting the natural world.
My work is representational but has a painterly style which sometimes borders on impressionism.

Carolyn Anderson, a nationally recognized artist, is an accomplished pastelist and oil painter.

"I view my work as an ongoing process of search, and self-examination. I am interested in the passage of time, and what remains. I try to explore the effects of time on memory, identity and nature.

These paintings celebrate the familiar. They dignify the everyday objects which surround us,
exalting real worth and beauty which too often the world fails to notice.

Blue Monolith 3

I have been painting for over forty years. During that time my interest in the act of painting has never waned. However, the content of my work and my technical abilities have constantly been in a state of flux.

Complex Cloth, Order your copy from Amazon.com

The concept of art cloth arose from a related idea - that of complex cloth. I wrote a book of that name,
which was published in 1996 by Fiber Studio Press, an imprint of Martingale and Company.
Complex Cloth details a series of surface design patterning processes,
all of which can be combined in endless permutations, to create
a cloth surface with richness and visual depth.

I've been a painter since childhood—this is what I am meant to do. Wherever my art leads me
I am grateful to pursue its ever-changing challenge.

Award for Excellence (Pictorial Books) Chicago Book Clinic I Book & Media Awards November 2006

Not just a catalog of wonderful artworks but an introduction to an equally impressive person,
this book is a fine example of creative spirit and artistic insight.
- Paula Frosch, Metropolitan Museum of Art Library, New York

"Impatient Realist"
Oil Painter and Photographer

"Integrated Notions"

As a sculptor, educator, and lecturer Eric McGehearty uses his personal struggle with dyslexia
as a "jumping off" point to discuss issues like perseverance, advocacy, and hope. Audiences find
that his work in conjunction with his speaking drives home those points.

Neo-Cubist Study II
Screenprint

For me, creating images is the most wonderful of games...

Andrea's Flag
Scott's painting is in the permanent collection of the
Westervelt-Warner Museum of American Art in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

"I see painting as both a way of exploring the world and then as the vehicle of sharing those discoveries
with others. I travel to find subjects to paint as much as paint so I can travel and expand my horizons.
Through this unique language, one can say things that are impossible with words."

Table for Four

Realism and abstract-it's all the same to me. The real essence of painting is the dialogue between shapes, tones, colors, textures, edges, and line. Everything else follows-including light, form,
concepts, personal beliefs and inspirations.

Captain John's Tomatoes

Richard Schmid was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1934. His earliest artistic influence came from his maternal grandfather, Julian Oates, an architectural sculptor. Richard’s initial studies in landscape painting,
figure drawing, and anatomy began at the age of twelve and continued into classical techniques
under William H. Mosby at the American Academy of Art in Chicago.

Beautiful Morning

An artist recognized for her skill and strong determination, Amery Bohling exhibits
a drive to excel in all aspects of work.

Elizabeth Wilson is a nationally recognized artist, whose work has often been described as having a “quiet energy”. Primarily a Landscape painter, she has also worked extensively with the Figure. She has taught Drawing & Design at various colleges & universities in Philadelphia for over 15 years.

Equally adept at figurative, still-life and landscape,
Dan Beck is an award winning artist and sought after teacher.

Regents Road Freeway Bridge

Danny Griego was born and raised in Greeley, Colorado, a plains town in the northern part of the state. He received a BA in Theatrical Scene Design and a minor in Art from the University of Northern Colorado in 1991.

Buffalo with Egret

Matthew Hillier's extraordinary wildlife paintings offer the viewer a unique vantage point. His paintings express more than the physical characteristics of a species; they reveal the artist’s passion for his subjects.

Three Red Pears

Carol Marine is a painter in Texas who has been practicing the painting a day regimen since October of 2006.

These images, like much of life, are the result of a happy accident, born out of the desperation felt when my camera broke. These are a combination of my photos, photos I've taken of old family photos, and satellite images captured and stitched together.