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Pietro Adamo began his
career over two decades ago as a realist landscape
painter. Working from his home studio in Woodbridge
Ontario, he focuses on the abstract, exploring the
potential of self-expression through painting.
Kathy O’Leary began painting while studying art
in college. The impact of California’s scenery has
inspired her to paint what she witnesses. She enjoys
the process of painting, but her true motivation is
nature. She loves being outdoors and loves painting,
especially California landscapes. O’Leary’s images
of the peaceful, tranquil environs of the North
Coast area of California create an atmosphere with
the surrounding space. There is a strong emphasis on
space in her images that persuades one to care less
about trees, the mountain ranges, or golden fields
of grass, and more about the breeze between them
that you don’t see. The effect of space goes beyond
simple painting techniques, but gives her work a
unique transcendental quality. Kathy O’Leary’s
paintings are exhibited in galleries and private
collections from California to Africa.
Born in 1953, Laurie Adams
graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Lesley
College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Adam's oil
paintings often portray figures in a romantic light.
Craig Alan was born in San
Bernardino, California, in 1971 and moved to New
Orleans as a child. There, Alan began to work as a
street portrait artist, which provided him with
numerous subjects and allowed him to improve his
understanding and portrayal of the human figure, as
well as develop technically and conceptually as an
artist.
John Balkwill is a book
artist and printmaker residing in Santa Barbara,
California where he operates The Lumino Press, which
is dedicated to producing handprinted and bound
limited edition books as well as prints.
Anne Belov has been
painting and drawing for more than 25 years. She
received her BFA from Philadelphia College of Art
(now University of the Arts) in Philadelphia, PA and
her MFA from University of Washington. Her work,
featured in "American Artist Magazine" in 1988,
1990, 1993, and 1995, contains both still life and
landscape images.
Holding a BFA from the
University of Colorado in mixed media painting and a
MFA in fine art painting in oils from the Academy of
Art University, San Francisco, Catherine sees in her
artwork an opportunity to share beauty.
Melanie Boone works with
found objects to create her 3-dimensional collages.
Each piece will be a world unto itself revolving
around a particular theme or period in history, such
as medicine, the law, ancient Egypt, Chinese
dynasties, the Victorian era, etc.
Fanny Brennan's innovative
approach to painting is immediately clear in the
small size of her work, which never exceeds a few
inches square. These tiny pictures are filled with
humor and, in meticulous detail, present playful
images of a mythical world that exists only in her
imagination.
Atlantan native Greg Carter
graduated with honors in 1997 from Art Center
College of Design in Pasadena, California.
Melinda Cootsona is a
native of Northern California. She attended the
California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland
where she received her BFA in Interior Architectural
Design in 1981. She worked full-time in both the
Interior and Graphic Design fields for over twelve
years and taught design for two years at the Academy
of Art College in San Francisco.
Daughters is known for his
impressionistic style of paintings and serigraphs of
the craggy, vibrant landscape of Northern New
Mexico, Arizona and Mexico.
Elya Dechino was born in
1955 in Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR and currently resides
in Atlanta, Georgia. His mother was a well-known
impressionistic landscape painter, and her spirit of
experimentation left a lasting impression on Dechino
as a young boy.
A native of Loretto,
Pennsylvania now living in Pittsburgh, Ron Donoughe
is best known for his spirited realistic landscape
paintings. He has been a plein-aire artist for
nearly twenty years, and his works can be found in
many corporate and private collections throughout
the United States.
Kalani Engles attended
Stanford University where she studied art under
Nathan Oliveira. Her work varies from the abstract
to organic, including large steel sculptures and
bright, whimsical paintings.
David Faville has studied
art at the University of Oregon at Eugene, and the
Art Institute of Seattle. Faville became interested
in. His work is a synthesis of concept and design,
sometimes humorous, somewhat on the edge, and always
drawn to the correct proportion.
Audrey Guerin's early years
as a professional ballet dancer for the New York
City Ballet Company has informed her paintings with
a sense of movement and music.
Terry Guyer started drawing
as soon as he could hold a pencil. By age 5 he could
produce reasonable copies of illustrations he found.
By age 10 he was tackling still-life in oil.
Bonnie Hagstrum has studied
art widely in the United States, Italy, China, and
Japan, including the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts,
the College of William and Mary, and the Museum of
Modern Art School.
Kerry Hallam paints
enticing images through the use of a bold palette
and captivating compositions. Kerry is most noted
for his power to evoke emotion.
Scott Hile is a self-taught
sculptor and painter. He began his love of art with
innate curiosity by studying the art that moved him,
deconstructing it, examining it and reassembling it
in his own way.
Gladys Hoefer has lived and
maintained her studio in Hillsborough, California
for the past 24 years.
California artist Susan
Hoehn is best known for her vibrant hues reflecting
the beauty of the landscapes she paints; this
brilliance of color has become the trademark of her
work. From vineyards to romantic seaside vistas,
Hoehn captures the essence of the contemporary
landscape.
Arnold Iger has shaped his
creative life for over 25 years, exploring and
synthesizing visual media including; printmaking,
film, video, mask-making, puppetry and design.
Heather Jdge was born in
western Michigan. Growing up she spent a lot of time
outdoors, facinated with nature and its patterns.
This love of the natural world became an inspiration
and continues to be a recurring theme in her works.
Mark Roko Jurasin makes
paintings that speak to the excitement of
extemporaneous creativity.
Frank Kaczmarek was born in
Boston, Massachusetts in 1940. The son of a fashion
designer, Frank began painting and drawing at an
early age. Basically a self-taught artist, Frank has
worked with various media including watercolor,
etching, and silkscreen printing, specializing in
sailing and nautical scenes and landscapes.
Artist John
Douglas was born in Kansas but raised in
Phoenix Arizona. There he found
inspiration for his first creative
impulses in the landscape of the
American Southwest.
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Born in Bulgaria in 1965,
Komar spent much of his earlier years training in
formal art. Over ten years, he studied at the School
of Fine Art and Design and the Academy of Fine Art,
both in Bulgaria.
Dorian Krausz is a painter
with a lifelong career in art, but also works in
oil, ink, charcoal, and multi-plate aquatint
etching. Her primary subjects are nudes and the
human condition. She is a woman with a sharp sense
of humor and values.
Dineen Linza was born in New York in
1969 and raised in Mesa, Arizona. Her
love of art was nurtured and developed
in the Fine Art programs of Mesa
Community College and the Colorado
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Joseph Lorusso was born in
Chicago, Illinois in 1966 and received his formal
training at the American Academy of Art. He went on
to earn a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute.
Born in 1946, Malcolm
Ludvigsen was raised and schooled in Sunderland,
England. After graduation in 1971, he taught at the
university level and then earned his doctorate in
mathematics at Newcastle University.
French artist Olivier
Mallemouche creates colorful and contemporary glass
sculpture through traditional glass blowing
techniques.
Darina Marko was born in
Bulgaria in 1966. At an early age she focused her
studies on fine art. After specializing in fine art
in secondary school she went on to study at the
Academy of Fine Art in Bulgaria for an additional
five years.
Kay Marshall received a
degree in art from the University of Wisconsin.
Through figurative, landscape, and calligraphic
abstractions she explores the ideas of impermanence,
separation, and the relationship between order and
chaos. During the process of her work, the artist
seeks to balance the intuitive and analytical urges
within herself.
Geri Medway began her art
training at an early age by attending an
after-school program at the renowned Art Institute
of Chicago
Born Elizabeth Boxeman in
Montana, Elizabeth Ockwell receieved a BA from the
University of Washington in 1967.
Joro Petkov was born in
1960 in the small Bulgarian town of Tchiprovtzi, a
town renowned for its distinguished legacy of many
fine artists and unique carpet designs
Natalya Romanovsky, a
European native, emigrated from Moldova in 1993 to
the United States, having already received a
Bachelor of Science in graphic design from Kishinev
Art College. Romanovsky's paintings are exciting
combinations of vibrant color, rich texture, and
movement.
Melanie Rothschild was
educated in ethnic arts and anthropology, but it
wasn't until she graduated from college that she
felt ready--and free enough--to buy a tube of paint.
David Schneuer's works are
a unique witness to European life during the golden
period of German Expressionism between the World
Wars.
Laurent Schkolnyk trained
in both medicine and fine art, studying at the Beaux
Art School I Nantes.
Judy Sherman was raised on
the Olympic peninsula of Washington state where she
developed an early passion for the seaports and
fishermen that continue to reappear thematically
throughout her work.
Patricia Waring Sherwood received an MFA
from Mills College in Oakland in 1974.
She has painted in California since 1955
and has taught in the California College
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Born in Palo Alto in 1959,
Sean Smith began his studies at University of
Arizona in archeology. While his interest in
becoming an archeologist waned, his interest in
civilizations of the past continues to be strong and
informs his artwork today.
Theo Tobiasse was born in
Israel in 1927, then Palestine, he moved with his
family to Paris in 1931. During the German
occupation they survived by hiding in total
isolation for two years.
Leigh Toldi grew up in the
art community of Big Sur where she remembers drawing
at the young age of four. As a young child her
images leaned towards those of people and animals
and though throughout the years her art medium and
technique have evolved, the subject matter has
remained basically the same.
Sue Toorans works in stone
and welded steel, finding freedom in the three
dimensional forms that their properties allow her
The monoprints of Linda
Tullis portray floral subject matter and objects
which appear floral, such as Grecian urns and
Corinthian columns.
After pursuing several
careers, Kevyn Warnock finally settled on art as the
only career that could "create passion in her life".
Waugh first began his
artistic endeavors in the fields of graphic
illustration and product design before turning to
painting in 1988. A self-taught artist, Waugh works
in two interchangeable interpretations of abstract
and figurative forms.
Born in South Carolina,
Virginia Wood studied at the Art Students League in
New York. During this period she developed an
artistic, intuitive style, creating original pastels
that spontaneously evolve by placing element against
element while using the old master technique of
layering color onto color.
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