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Laura Aiken
Crayons, markers, paints, colored pencils, stone, and glass---I enjoy it all. My brain is always on art. I am a self-taught mosaic artist customizing in kitchen backsplashes, and unique signage. Mosaic...
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Joe Ambuhl
I’m 45 years old; hair designer by trade, and have 10 years in Designer Fashion designing showrooms. Understanding beauty and art has always been my passion. Coming from a family history of artists has...
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Barbel Amos
Sometimes I have a specific idea in mind to paint, other times I let my intuition guide me as to which way my painting will develop. I have enjoyed being involved in art all of my life, first during my...
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Casandra Andrews
Casandra Andrews, a native of Greenville, S.C., is a versatile artist whose exuberant mastery of different mediums-pastel, watercolor, texture, acrylic, ink and pencil- parallels her ability to see and...
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Yvonne Herd Arrowood
My art is a passion that I love to share…. I am primarily an oil painter, specializing in portraits and Old Master reproductions. I love color and shapes, shadow and light, human faces and paintings that...
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Alice Ballard
My art is a reflection of my relationship with natural forms. These forms come to me on walks, while I work in my garden, on visits to the produce section of the grocery store or, appear as gifts from...
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Trinity Behrends
I am looking for elegance in all things. I try to speak of it in my work.
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Eric Benjamin
My images are based on the landscape real or imagined. They are a representation, not a documentation of nature. While the landscape is a jump-off point, I am more concerned with creating a strong, emotional...
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Carl R. Blair
In life, it is prudent to think first and act afterward. In art, I act first and think afterwards, gaining spontaneity and freshness, along with unexpected accidents that happen that I can take advantage...
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Deborah Bloss
I remember as a child always being consumed in art class at school. I love to learn something new every day and always willing to share with others. I give life to my jewelry creations and am very thankful...
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Hans-Peter Bolz
Hans-Peter Bolz always had the desire to become an artist, even at an early age growing up in postwar Germany. His first grade teacher recognized his talent and encouraged him to keep painting as long...
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Joseph Bradley
I am fascinated with my own emotional connections to certain imagery. Each of my works is a process of layering, intuition, and experimentation. My recent work is very process-oriented using many washes...
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Angelique Brickner
I begin with a thought, an idea or a feeling, and a large lump of clay. I carve and dig at the clay until the image exposes itself. Then I start the practical, technical plan to assure a successful firing...
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Deb Bridges
Raku is a very fast, unpredictable method of firing pottery. Seemingly insignificant things like a breeze blowing into the kiln vent holes or the speed at which the kiln is heated can make a glaze change...
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Duffy Brown
My hand fabricated jewelry is inspired by the colors and textures of natural objects. I enjoy using mixed metals: sterling silver, copper, and brass. Found objects are often included in my designs. ...
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Shane Bryant
I like to make things people can use. While all of my work is highly decorated, and any piece could stand alone on pure aesthetics, it is the inherent utility that I enjoy. I take great pride in creating...
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Jane Todd Butcher
Although my acrylic and collage paintings are typically very colorful, I have also returned to my old love of drawing with charcoal... a simple and bold medium that seems to suit these times. To satisfy...
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Kyle Buttram
At the end of March Kyle Buttram was laid off from a job in the textile industry. She was shocked into serious art making again! Now her loss is considered a kind act of Providence. Using her knowledge...
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Ryan Calloway
I combine the traditional techniques and elements of a blacksmith shop with modern advanced welding technology. Every stage of building and finishing steel is engaging. I enjoy working with fire as a transforming...
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Jim Campbell
My artwork grows from a number of impulses. Since childhood, I have enjoyed making things; sock puppets, Popsicle stick trays, lanyards, and drawings in the dirt. You name it. So here I am several years...
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Sharon Campbell
For decades, I have worked with clay, beginning as a studio assistant at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Not surprisingly, after mixing hundreds of pounds of clay a week, I hoped I would...
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Renee Carolla
I've always trusted my photography to tell the story, so much more efficiently than my words. Every dog has an incredibly unique spirit. Capturing their whimsical, loving and spontaneous nature is a delightful...
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Katy Cassell
Enameling is the fusing of glass to metal through heat. I choose this medium because it allows me the freedom to work seamlessly between the realms of painting, drawing, and metalsmithing. It exists...
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Tim Cassell
Symmetry, balance, harmony. The geometry of nature and the structure of growth. The beauty of mathematics. Tranquility. An opening flower, a dividing cell, the perfection of a crystal. Honesty of...
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Bob Chance
My current works consists of forms that reflect ways I have explored in the past and ideas generated by looking closely at pots from a variety of ceramic traditions. My inspiration for these pieces has...
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Steven Chapp
I have always enjoyed making marks on a surface. Printmaking is one of the media in which I do this. It is my objective to create images that not only speak of marks but to have marks that speak for the...
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Bill and Pam Clark
Clark House Pottery is strongly influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement of the early 1900’s. We make investment quality American Art Pottery; one unique piece at a time, using new shapes and designs...
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Emily Clarke
My color palette is inspired by the Technicolor movie musicals of the 1940’s and 50’s. My images are inspired by family photographs, ads, movies, memorabilia- anything that creates for me the sense of...
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Kevin Clinton
My art portrays humanity. My pieces hold up a cracked mirror to reveal mankind and all its flaws. I work primarily in wood, whether carving sculptures, woodcuts, or more recently, wood engravings....
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Mary Coleman
I discovered art to be on a totally different level of life. Being an artist enables one to see beauty in all things and convey that beauty by drawing on paper, painting on canvas or paper, creating by...
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Cheryl Combs
I work on the E-cubed principle: Excellence, Essence and Enjoyment. Those three elements must be experienced in the process of creating a work and the work must reflect it before it can be signed. Excellence...
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Diane Kilgore Condon
Painting has lately become the singular response for everything. I have some random problem- go to the studio and work it out. As I've gotten a little older the wierd vectors I'm encountering in life seem...
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Jennifer Conn
Time marches on and waits for no man. I think artists feel the gravity of that statement more than most people because they deal with its fleeting moments in their art. A sunrise at its peak or the play...
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Judy Iselin Cromwell
My painting has been inspired by wilderness adventures, and especially with involvement in conservation organizations in preserving our mountains & forests, rivers & green spaces, as well as historic architecture....
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Liz Daly-Korybski
I was sitting at home one day looking at some scraps of stained glass from a project. I could not bear to throw out the smaller pieces. It dawned on me? Hey, you went to school for Jewelry Design, Make...
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Pamela DeWitt
From time to time, although all too seldom, each of us takes a moment to really look at the beauty and wonder of the world around us. I paint to convey that sense of peace and awareness. As I put brush...
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Peggy Dickerson
I originally began painting oils in the 60's, but my primary focus the past 11 years has been watercolor. I have had the privilege of studying under many talented teachers. One aspect of painting that...
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Jane Doyle
I paint for the purpose of discovery, seeking out the infinite range of colors that can blend together, to produce a work that reflects how I see and interpret any given subject. In this process I allow...
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Tricia Earle
Sometimes I think and plan my paintings, at other times it is intuitive. Originally I was an oil painter. I especially liked doing expressionistic landscapes and my favorite place was the southwest. Occasionally...
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Janina Tukarski Ellis
I paint with the knowledge that everybody is intriguing. Everyone is the hero of a story. Every moment is the climax scene in its own novel. My personal challenge is not to seek out remarkable inspiration,...
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Greg Flint
For a while now my work has largely revolved around the art scrounging. I'm either using found objects such as shell fragments, pebbles, or rusted bits of steel in my jewelry, or I'm appropriating old...
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Paul Flint
Sometimes it's a subject mater that makes me want to get in the studio. Sometimes it's a color or what one of my studio mates is doing with a new material that pushes me to work, (or it could be what they...
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Tom Flowers
First of all I am an artist. I have a passion for life and nature, and I express it through my art. I paint and I sculpt. I observe as much as I can see, and I am always looking for things or visions...
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Mary Fritz
I create ceramic sculpture. I use clay, the primordial mud of this earth, as a direct link between art, nature and me. Everything I make, whether a sculpture or functional piece, is inspired initially...
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Susan Goldsmith
My ceramic pieces focus on the potential of functional pottery yet I am always looking to find the unusual in the forms I create. I am drawn to nature as my greatest inspiration. The colors, the feel...
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Betty Gorman
I have always been inspired by the impressionists and have constantly strived to capture the purity of light and color as they did. I enjoy working with oils because of the depth and versatility of the...
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James G. Gorman
My background as an artist and educator spans a period of nearly 35 years. In that time I have explored a range of mediums that include graphic design, painting and drawing, printmaking, sculpture, silversmithing,...
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Barbara Green
One of the first creative acts of humans was to make jewelry. I love creating beautiful pieces of art that are worn and become a personal statement for the individual wearing my jewelry.
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Lynn Greer
I am fascinated by the variety of color in both sky and lights in the cityscape at night. I have been experimenting with the luminosity and compositional possibilities inherent in this subject. My medium...
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Samara Hall
I make jewelry because I feel incomplete if I do not create. I chose metal as my medium because of the endless ways it can be formed & changed- it is a non-stop learning process that is so fun to experiment...
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Lynne Harrill
I primarily use color and shape to express my ideas abstractly. My inspiration comes from nature, music, poetry, concepts and emotion. In the Heat Waves Series, I have explored the concepts of heat and/or...
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Georgia Harrison
A moment in time, feeling that moment and expressing that moment in light and shadow, texture and movement… that is where I am.
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Leslie Hart
Recently I have been working on a body of work inspired by my surroundings. Around our house we have owls, all kinds of birds and wild little animals and lovely flowers everywhere. Which is somewhat of...
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Anne Hassold
My process of creating art is very straight forward. At a young age I was exposed to old masters’ paintings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Once exposed, I began work shops, and continued my art...
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Brenda M. Hill
My medium is photography. Capturing the extraordinary detail of a wildflower or the time worn beauty of a Victorian angel expresses both the beauty and reality of nature.
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Diane Hopkins-Hughs
I have always been captivated by form, light, and texture in the world and in my photography. Whether in nature, architecture, realism or abstraction the mystery is the same and I hope to capture a bit...
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Ann Jennings
The beauty and joy of nature inspires and compels me to express my emotional response to the gift of creation.
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Hilary Jernigan
A non-representational composition to me is very musical. Color and value resonate notes, tones and moods. Shape and line help create a sense of rhythm, tempo, and beat. A finished composition presents...
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Deborah Morrow Johnson
One of the purposes of art is to delight us by expressing the exquisite beauty of God's created world. Flowers are certainly a most delightful aspect of this world and give us great joy. My abstract paintings...
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J.B. Johnson
I try to show and share with others... the magic in nature. To bring out that special moment where everything falls into place... the perfect memory that lasts a lifetime. Whether it is the curve of a...
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Erin Jones
My work involves the abstraction of familiarity, be it of the corporeal realm or of objects from my environment, translated into sculptural ceramic forms. This discovery and creation of form focuses on...
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Al Keiser
Limited edition and one-of-a-kind photographic images printed on satin is a new medium which I have developed over the past three years. These satin prints can be best viewed first hand. You have to...
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Patricia Kilburg
While exploring subject matter that interests me, I like to emphasize an element of texture. I build up layers, using acrylic paint and other mediums. I want there to be a lot going on in my paintings,...
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J. Ashley Kirby
Several years ago I watched a vice-presidential debate where one candidate asked: “Who am I?" Why am I here?” I think that these questions are a constant thread in the artist’s mind. We are searching for...
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Annie Koelle
I think I have always assumed that I would be an artist as a profession, or rather, I never considered doing anything else. As far back as I can remember I have always drawn—on the carpet, on the fireplace...
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Joe Lanier
Oil Portraits have been created for centuries. In my work, I am challenged with the individual possibilities of each portrait. As an artist, I can prepare a technical process for creating a portrait that...
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Cham Little
Most of my art is motivated primarily by instinct. The major force that drives this instinct has to do with the surfacing of subconscious relationships among a variety of subjects and formal visual elements....
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Dabney Mahanes
I am a painter, concentrating mainly on the figure which allows me to explore the full range of my creative expression. I find rhythmic line in the body gesture, exciting shapes in the body contour, and...
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Linda McCune
The Stress Series works are visual documents of the language or the euphemisms of stress. Such statements as “I am all tied up in knots,” “Everything is mixed or tangled up,” “I have dropped an important...
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David Scott McCurry
My art is about visual observation and perception of the real. It is also about history and the lived experience of people in specific locations. I enter into deep conversations with objects, buildings...
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Michael McDunn
The work I do evolved from my need to survive in a part of the country where, for many years, contemporary furniture styles were quite unacceptable. This forced me to design furniture that was fitting...
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Benjamin McKamey
“I paint. I draw. I take pictures. (But not always in that order). I create images by any means necessary. I may use a cheap plastic medium format film camera or professional digital photographic...
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Joe McKinney
: I work in both acrylics and oils in creating landscapes. I employ established technical resources of painting to recreate the places I have been. The final products are what many call representational...
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Glen Miller
Most of my work involves a representation of the human form, often as an anonymous but empathetic figure that has evolved from a series of sketches. I enjoy the planning process of sketching, distilling,...
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Jo Carol Mitchell-Rogers
Driving this body of work is my interest in the notion of the iconography of the ordinary. I hope the images transform seemingly common or everyday moments that might otherwise be overlooked. Derived...
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Joyce Moore
Abstract painting fulfills a need I have not yet fully understood. My current work has no reference beyond the world of the canvas; it is always an experiment in process and technique, allowing the element...
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Brenda Morgan
Lighting a torch, melting glass and creating something unique – no one was more surprised than I was that this suits me so well. I’m fascinated by both the process and the result of glass bead making (lampworking)....
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Nicole Payne
My process is very much about imagination and creativity, as far as the convergence and juxtaposition of ideas. My mind is like one of those lottery ball tumblers; I have ideas bouncing around constantly,...
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Teri Pena
Open landscape and endless skies are predominant in my work. I relay the essence of nature through color and movement in an almost dream-like state. Painting in oils with oversized brushes, I leaving behind...
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John Pendarvis
For me it is exciting to try new things with old mediums and processes. I want my art to celebrate life, hear my voice and share it with others. Art is a reflection of life lived if we are honest...
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Julia Peters
The learning process of artistic endeavors has been in my life as long as I can remember. My ability to draw and paint is not all that special. A lot of people can do what I do. My special gift is the...
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Nancy Pratt
My love of art began as a child in my ability to draw. I was born into a family of creative people. As far back as I can remember, from my Great, Great Grandfather down to me. I never did much with my...
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John Reid
John draws inspiration from his subject matter and is greatly influenced by forms in nature. With the ability to see complexity in ordinary objects, he is able to visually transform the ordinary into...
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Cathyrn Rice
I get to play with fire and make jewelry for discerning women. Life is good.
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Ken and Janet Ries
The basic steps of working in stained glass -- cut, grind, wrap, and solder -- are just half of the story behind a dazzling panel catching sunlight in a window. As with every art medium, it’s the prep...
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Patti Rishforth
I've studied classical portraiture for many years. I know the structure of the head and the proportions of the face and figure in various age groups. A good artist can paint the most rich and accurate...
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Judy Sahms
I paint in both representational and abstract styles. After many years of the study of color, I find that I am continually learning more about color. I try to capture moments in time and paint what first...
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Grace Scherer
Every painting expresses to the viewer the personal feeling of the artist toward the subject. Like a signature, this expression is made individual by the use of line, shapes, stroke and color. Inspiration...
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Jill Schmidt
This past year I have been mainly concentrating on portraits inspired from my own photography. I try to capture the emotions that my subjects portray in our photographic sessions, so that I can accurately...
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Marie Scott
My vibrant oil paintings are intended to convey a sense of color, light, contrast, and beauty, as I strive to capture an ordinary scene or object in a fresh way. I paint the things I see and experience...
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Julie Hughes Shabkie
Abstracted realism would best describe my work. My objectives are to explore realism without being predictable and abstraction without becoming inaccessible. I enjoy experimenting with different textures:...
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Kim Sholly
As photography continues its advance into the technologically sophisticated digital realm, I want to turn back in time to historic photographic processes— to a time when simply capturing light onto a light-sensitive...
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Lois Silk
After exploring other venues, I always return to my joy of painting the human form, figure, face, and emotions. I'm inspired by the challenge before me when beginning a new blank canvas. It becomes...
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Charles Slate
My main body of work is traditional black and white photography processed in the dark room by hand. I still love the touch (and smell) of the chemicals and feel that the process that takes place is part...
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Charlotte (Charlie) Slate
I’ve been working with fabrics and dyes for years, constantly adding to my repertoire of techniques such as Arashi shibori, batik, marbleing, and screen printing. I use dye, discharge, resist, and burn-out...
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David Slone
I want to make work. I want to be honest. I want to grow. The end.
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Bonnie Smith
I love the elemental simplicity of mosaics. No individual tile has much power, but when combined with others, the result can be dramatic. Recently I’ve been making retro, pop-art style tiles and contrasting...
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Susan Sorrell
I have been truly fascinated by the use of cloth as a collage element. Within the last few years, I have been experimenting with fabric, beading, painting, printmaking, and found objects that can be attached...
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Pat Spangler
Light, Shape, Pattern, Texture, Color … The play of these elements in nature … A sense of wonder of God’s creation … Abstractions of common images … Images that spark a memory or emotion … That stimulate...
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Tim Speaker
As an artist and designer, I am afforded the opportunity to present my unique way of seeing the world around me. Yet my vision of the world is directly linked to a time when I had no vision at all. As...
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Barbara St. Denis
Color, design, the figure, buildings and inanimate objects are the primary elements of my paintings. Symbols and shapes which represent my personal artistic journey, ie; my fascination with clocks and...
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Jacquie St. Denis
Line, value, color and shape tend to be the visual arts elements predominant in my work. Equally important to me, however, are the elements that can only be seen during the actual painting or drawing process....
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Ric Standridge
I believe that each painting is a synthesis of the varied cultural influences that have shaped my own consciousness. These influences are entered into my paintings; the order and the complexity that results...
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Guy Stevens
The interplay of light and texture is a prominent influence on the choice of subject and technique. I think of myself as an expressionist. I am an intuitive, expressive colorist, striving to give the viewer...
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Barbara Stitt
My inspiration comes from almost any subject matter that sparks my interest at the time and I have always been fascinated by pattern, design, texture and color. I enjoy working with these applications...
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Anne Taylor
My life is full of passion for the arts. A passion for photography drew me to learning the elements of printing color and black & white images. Two things have changed this year which altered my...
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Jo Ann Taylor
Plein Air painting is one of my joys but every day I paint in my studio with my "Mind’s Eye". The studio paintings are always more expressive because I am not confronted with a lot of information and I...
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Alexia Timberlake
For the last several years I have explored the manifestations of the human body as vessel, as tool, and as found object. Recently, I have been more interested in going beneath the skin. The correlation...
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Rachel Vann
My paintings are primarily meant to be felt, not understood. Generally, I try to capture brief moments of transcendence or emotional consciousness in otherwise mundane narratives and make the viewer experience...
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Judy Verhoeven
I’ve naturally come around to collage through my interest in papermaking and my affection for paper. I work with pages from discarded books mostly, but also magazines, photocopies of my original art, doodles...
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Jason Waggoner
Although he was born in San Diego, California, Jason Waggoner spent his formative years meandering the woods and fields of a farm in Mariposa, a rural California town near Yosemite National Park. In forsaken...
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Katie Walker
In my recent work I am combining multiple layers of poured acrylic paint onto a wet ground with hard-edged geometric marks and shapes. I am interested in creating different levels of planar space, blurring...
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Eli Warren
My infatuation with photography is in presenting the creative. My art isn’t as much in creating, but in finding and emphasizing the scene. In the outdoors, man and nature are very adept at creating interest...
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Jean Wilder
I have been making pottery and sculpture for over 20 years. My training has been in design and sculpture at the college level, in addition to many workshops given by professional ceramists. My focus has...
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Enid Williams
My work reveals an interest in both the physical and intellectual process of perception, especially the manner in which we read and understand pictorial space. I rely on a complex ordering of form and...
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Cory E. Wilson
As an artist my most important achievement is gaining stability. Through art I illustrate imbalance: my personal chemical imbalances, as well as social and cultural imbalances. The understanding that...
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Frances Woodside
My work is a tribute to the courage and strength of the human spirit, housed in each individual person. Using skill, intuition, faith and experience a person is able to become strong and safe in any environment. I...
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Paul Yanko
The densely layered compositions characteristic of my painting are reflective of a desire to reconcile formal painterly concerns with an interest in creating process-derived imagery. I remain equally...
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David Young
Sculpture and hand building with clay have always been my favorite art form. For me, hand building is exciting, challenging, and very free. Clay is a wonderful medium that allows me to express my impressions...
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Susan Young
My work addresses the relationship between forms and their interaction with each other. This relationship may exist through two pieces that communicate with each other, through forms within other forms,...
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Timothy Zane
Mosaics are one of the great historical mysteries of time. They are pieced into the architectural puzzle of so many civilizations and so many ages. Yet, after millenniums of time mosaics still capture...
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