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Tracey Adams
After attending the New England Conservatory of Music in the early eighties, Tracey Adams continued her artistic education at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
She has been represented in over 30 exhibitions nationally. Recently Tracey was awarded the 1995 Vermont Studio Center Fellowship and a 1996 Scholarship at CSU, Long Beach for her work The Transient Image. Adams was featured on NPR Radio's Focus on the Arts and KMEX Television's Life in the Arts. Her abstracts take the form of collages, etchings, mono- prints, lithographs, photo-etchings, drawings and paintings.
Abraded surfaces reveal numerous layers that represent her fascination with both her own past and history in general. She says her work is "...more basic and straight- forward while still acknowledging that there is a history of experience beneath the surface."
Thomas Anderson
Thomas Anderson studied Asian art and philosophy as well as graphic design at The Evergreen State College in Olympia Washington. He graduated in 1973 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree. After graduation Tom developed an interest in glasswork and co-founded Mansion Glass Studios in Olympia, WA. In 1986 he worked at Pilchuck Glass School as a teaching assistant. In 1988 & 1989, he specialized in glass casting and enamel kiln firing in the advanced graduate program.
In 1990 Tom established his own studio in Olympia. Since then he has continued to work with mixed media that consists of paint, metal fabrication, and glass in both two and three-dimensional forms. His limited edition giclées on paper, the Hydroblue Series, express his continuing interest in mixed media combining paper, foil and varnish. The artist's interest in Asian art and design is reflected in his use of spare compositions, calligraphic line and subtle palette.
Tom's work is shown in galleries in Oregon, Washington, Florida and California. His artwork is in public and private collections including the Oregon Arts Commission, the Washington Arts Commission, Delta Airlines, the City of Olympia, Hewlett Packard and US Bank.
Marcus Bohne
Marcus Bohne was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. His earliest art influence came from the goofy but venerable Mad Magazine, particularly the movie parodies that were drawn by comic artist Mort Drucker. The young Marc was so impressed by Drucker's ability to make drawing lifelike that he spent hours and hours trying to imitate his comics.
In 1975 Bohne received an A.A. degree from Columbia College in Columbia, MO, and in 1975 he went on to earn his B.F.A., also from Columbia. When asked why he became an artist, Bohne says that he's always enjoyed doing it, "so I made the decision to do what I enjoyed doing."
Bohne was also asked what he loves about art, and his reply, like his art, is honest and original: "I am not sure that I do love art in general. I do love doing what I do, but most of what is considered art is not of much interest to me. It serves a particular function in my life, and I enjoy and appreciate that function. It is my outlet for a type of expression, it satisfies my need to generate something that defines me. It allows me to explore and express internal responses to my world that would take many pages of text. To me it is like being a writer, only the picture is worth many thousand words."
Says the artist about his work habits: "They are all bad. I get to the studio late and procrastinate. If it wasn't for occasional bursts of unexplained motivation, I'd never get anything done."
Some of Bohne's exhibitions include the Munson Gallery in Santa Fe, NM; the Kimzey Miller Gallery in Seattle, WA; Chaparral Fine Art in Bozeman, MT; The Albuquerque Museum in Albuquerque, NM; Jack Dennis' Wyoming Gallery in Jackson, WY; the Whatcom Museum in Bellingham, WA; The Fountainhead Gallery in Seattle, WA; Columbia College in Columbia, MO; and the Northern Colorado Artist Association in Ft. Collins, CO. Bill Gates of Seattle, WA and Bruce Rauner of Chicago, IL are two collectors of Bohne's work, but Bohne considers "anyone who buys one to be pretty special."
Terri Burris
Terri Burris developed her interest in art at an early age, under the magical guidance of a neighbor who became her first teacher. They spent many hours together, rooting Terri's visions in childhood inspiration for a lifetime. Bolstered in an extensive career in textile, graphic and ceramic design, she returned to her first and greatest love of painting, intertwining her love of nature, abstraction and design in each of her atmospheric pieces.
Terri paints from focused perspectives of the natural world, filtered and infused with memory and nostalgia. Her palettes emerge directly from her intimate observations of life's minute details. She is inspired by the Northern California coast, the character of the weather, faith, music and her family. Terri's stunning use of color creates subtle layers of imagery which are unique to each subject. The textured, moody and poetic pieces incorporate crystallized collage fragments to provoke each individual's own thoughts, feelings, memories and imagination.
Terri is a recipient of the Image-Ination Award and a selected artist of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Rental and Sales Gallery. She has exhibited at SKGallery in Venice, CA; Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, CA; Long Beach Arts in Long Beach, CA; Fred Segal in Santa Monica, CA; and Finegood Gallery in West Hills, CA. She studied at El Camino College and Palomar College in Southern California. She continues to create living memories with her husband and little boy in her native Los Angeles.
Marcia Burtt
As early as age twelve, Marcia Burtt knew she wanted to be a landscape painter. Fascinated with the outdoors, she tried to capture the allure of nature in her sketch book. In high school Burtt won a summer scholarship to the Otis Art Institute. She began college with a major in psychology, but halfway through the program she remembered her love of painting and graduated with a double major in art and psychology.
Burtt is a member of OAK, a group of painters dedicated to preserving the natural open spaces of California by capturing its essence in their art. Her vivid landscapes created en plein air combine vigorous brush strokes with an imaginative use of bright colors. While Burtt adds finishing touches in her studio, she tries not to change the freshness of what she has captured on location.
John Butler
John Butler, Vice President of Butler Design Incorporated, has created and successfully marketed artwork, wall coverings and furniture accessories for many years.
A native of Seattle, he began his art career in the historic Pioneer Square District. John's creative flexibility with materials and techniques and his inclination to employ non-traditional materials in the service of traditional design and imagery soon captivated the decorative art industry. John's fusions of xerox prints and metallic and pure paints on paper enriched by embossments have brought to life imagery that ranges from leafy botanicals to pure abstractions.
Scott Cilmi
"The creative process is a fusion of the life experience that combines emotional content, observation, technical skill, exploration, humor and reinvention-in a way that is tangible and immensely satisfying. I love to create surfaces that are visually intriguing and mysterious, with expressive colors and shapes. Each of my paintings has many layers of paint. I begin each one on canvas or paper, painting over and over on thinly collaged papers until a rich texture emerges. I use acrylic paints, gouache, pencils, and charcoal. I also work with copies of hand-written letters, pages from old books and found objects as collage elements under the painted surfaces. By building up layers of paint and collage the paintings become infused with a cultural history."
Scott Cilmi holds a BFA in painting from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. The artist's whimsical and charming paintings on paper and canvas have been exhibited widely in Northern California.
Carolyn Cole
"The focus of my recent abstract paintings has been to create a sense of energy and spirit through color, composition, line and shape. I do not set out with a specific image in mind although there are certain images that act as a starting point for each composition. I work on a small number of paintings concurrently, so that each painting is not the result of a single creative output but a culmination of a number of sessions."
Carolyn Cole holds a B.A. Degree in Painting. She has participated in exhibitions from 1976 to the present and has been published in numerous periodicals such as "Artweek" and "The Seattle Times". Her work has been collected by many prestigious corporations among them are Manufacturers Hanover Trust of New York, IBM, Kaiser Permanente and Walt Disney Productions.
Sandi Dahl
"Landscape paintings are my major focus, often times they are intuitive landscapes of the mind, an emotional response to the land."
Searching for basic elements that convey the mood of the land, artist Sandi Dahl attempts to capture these essential elements in order to communicate the feeling of a space. Expounding upon these basic fundamentals of the landscape, her pastel paintings are statements of simplicity and beauty. Dahl strives to convey this sense of place within a fleeting moment in time.
Sandi Dahl grew up on a farm in North Dakota and has resided there most of her life. Several members of her family are artists and this family background played a role in her development as an artist. Dahl is a graduate of the University of North Dakota and sites as her most influential teachers Wolf Kahn, Albert Handell and James Conway. Dahl has received grants and commissions from both the Minnesota State Arts Board and the North Dakota Council on the Arts. Corporations such as the Radisson Hotel, Abbott-Northwestern Hospital, AT&T, Northrup Corporation and the University of North Dakota have collected her work.
Ken Elliott
"Landscape painting should make a simple statement." Artist Ken Elliott believes in the simplicity and purity of portraying natural settings. Utilizing a strong compositional foundation, Elliott organizes elements in his landscape to satisfy and engage the viewer. The sky, water, land and trees function as pieces in a "compositional puzzle" arranged to portray a variation in perception, just one view in the different experiences of life.
Involved in the art world for many years before becoming an artist himself, Ken Elliott began his career as an art dealer and gallery director. Soon he began producing his own works of art based on a desire to create a simple and uncomplicated view of natural beauty. Utilizing photographs in his paintings, Elliott rearranges and manipulates the elements in his scene to suit his mood, while still retaining the overall essence of the scene. He explains, "If I can orchestrate the variables I perceive and offer a view beyond our typical experiences, then I have succeeded."
Ted Goeschner
Raised in both New Jersey and New England, Ted Goerschner's earliest art influence was an 8th grade art teacher. She was an exchange teacher from Australia who opened the young student's eyes to his artistic talent, and gave him the push he needed.
Goerschner's grandfather was an artist, so "I guess if runs in the family. I never wanted to be anything else. I tried other things; they never worked." Goerschner loves the freedom of being an artist, and the people and the places that he is able to visit. Fulfillment for him is the happiness he is able to bring to others with his special talent. The artist hopes his work "gives joy to the viewer. I feel art should lift up the spirit, not drag it down-TV takes care of that." Years of studies, observations, challenges, successes and lessons permeate the walls of his studio, a telling picture of an artist's lifelong commitment to perfection - transferring nature onto canvas.
The artist attended the Art Student's League in New York; the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art, New Jersey; and the University of Florida in Tampa, FL. His work appears in numerous publications, has won many distinguished awards, and appears in many public and private collections, including the Holiday Inn Corporate Collection, the Mr. Kevin Costner Collection, and the Household Finance Corporate Collection.
Nan Goss
The dynamism of Nan Goss' work is the product of her ability to instinctively coalesce the unusual with the ordinary.
A mixed media artist Nan is drawn to non-traditional materials. Each piece she creates is composed of diverse elements such as copper, wire, gilded surfaces, glass, trade beads, natural items and wonderfully curious detritus from the industrial world. She intuitively reconfigures her materials creating unique textures and color compositions that are eclectic and unexpected.
During the past several years, Nan has exhibited and sold her work at the American Craft Council shows and markets throughout the U.S. and galleries in the U.S and Japan.
Arnold Iger
Arnold Iger was a student at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1973 to 1976. He also studied industrial design and animation at San Francisco State University in the early 1980s. This artist has diversified his formal education to say the least. The history of his studies includes literature, philosophy, design and advertising, film and performance, traditional Japanese arts, industrial design, animation and marketing. In 1972 Arnold worked in the famous etching Atelier 17 in Paris, France. By the 1980's Arnold was engaged in traditional four- color plate etching. His editions of floral still life contain a distinct Japanese influence in color and form. Simultaneously the artist was making highly romantic painted- paper relief constructions of fantastic Gothic and Romanesque architecture by which he raised the use of visual and the tactile senses on a two-dimensional surface to a high art.
More recently he has developed an affinity for collograph printing combined with mixed media on paper. A subtle use of color combined with a bold sense of design and exotic imagery has always been pervasive throughout his art. Thus Arnold's art is an unusual synthesis of Eastern and Western concepts of color, design and media.
In 1993 Pins and Noodles, a theatre performance and video about food in Viet Nam, which Arnold co-directed, co-wrote and co-produced with Paul Kwan was commissioned for the Grand Opening of the Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco. A sequel, Anatomy of a Spring roll was produced in 1992, commissioned by Independent Television Service for National PBS. It was screened at the New York Museum of Modern Art, Oakland Museum/National Educational Film & Video Festival and San Francisco Kabuki Theatre/Asian American International Showcase. The artist has also received numerous awards and fellowships, among them, Artist in Residence, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California, National Endowment for the Arts, traveling fellowship to China and San Francisco Exploratorium Museum, the Memory Project.
Santiago Izquierdo
Santiago Izquierdo was born in Burgos, Spain, on April 20, 1948. He lived his childhood and adolescence in Spain's central region, a very extensive area known as Castille.
Castille is a place where the sun shines very brightly and the land is red and rich; where the color yellow takes over the countryside in the summertime and where trees reveal their various shades of color in autumn. This range of color that characterizes Castille's different seasons marked Izquierdo forever.
Light is one of the key elements in Izquierdo's painting; a natural, strong light that contributes feeling and emotion to the observation of Castillian landscapes. Warm colors are mixed for a clear purpose: to add light to such landscapes, a purpose that is beautifully accomplished. Color is another of Izquierdo's key elements. His broad chromatic palette shows lively and warm colors which are used with great artistic strength.
The artist starts from a Castillian naturalist landscape and moves on to create a schematic composition, which in some of Izquierdo's paintings becomes abstract landscape representations. Brush strokes are free and the composition falls apart into color-dominated levels, leading to an abstract landscape.
Liz Jardine
The variety of styles present in Liz Jardine's artwork speaks volumes of this artist's natural curiosity and dynamic perspective. As a child, Jardine was raised on and artistically shaped by the sights and sounds of New York City. Jardine would journey to a different museum every Sunday with her father, who is also a painter. In an engrossed effort to study and learn from the master painters, Jardine would blur her eyes one at a time in order to change her perspective and fully appreciate the compositions and the brushstrokes. Broadway shows also heightened young Jardine's senses to the endless combinations of color and light, fantasy and whimsy that would eventually be incorporated into her work.
Jardine gravitated toward the tactile and, as an undergraduate student
at the State University of New York in Buffalo, she concentrated on textile
design and clay forms. There she developed an interest in incorporating
fibers into porcelain wall pieces. The resulting series was displayed in
an exceptional solo exhibition granted her before graduation by the University.
Upon graduation, Jardine began apprenticeship at various textile and design
studios in the New York City area. Many of her raw silk garment designs
were sold through Horton Studio at several designer boutiques including
Henri Bendel.
In a conscientious effort to return to more traditional media, Jardine began an apprenticeship with a graphic design studio and developed skills in various advertising art and production techniques. Eventually, she began working free-lance and built a strong reputation as a skilled concept illustrator and art director. This work paved her return to watercolors in various genre as florals, landscapes, still life and abstracts. Today, Jardine flourishes in varied media but especially favors acrylics for their texturing and form-building abilities.
A self-professed coffee-holic, Jardine's tastes run the gamut from the cool, blue sounds of Joni Mitchell to the manic, wacky humor of the movie Beetlejuice. Gustav Klimt is her idol; the master artist's style and flavor is preeminent in Jardine's work, especially in the gilded palette, rich patterns, and exotic textures. Jardine's art is at once uncomplicated, vibrant, powerful but capricious.
Although Jardine credits much of her inspiration to her fascination with fashion and the 1920's, her love of travel unquestionably fuels her creativity and stimulates her artwork. Wanderlust has swept her to exotic countries both near and far. She has toured extensively throughout Asia and been on safari in Kenya. Ultimately, her travel has revealed itself in many of her pieces in the primitive patterning and Serengeti-inspired colors. At one memorable moment on a visit to a Masai village, all the women came out to greet Jardine and her traveling party with a tribal welcoming song, an especially lasting and touching experience for the artist.
Carol Jessen
Carol Jessen has been an artist in San Francisco for 15 years. Her principal media are oil painting on canvas, pastel on paper and Japanese woodblock printing. Jessen's approach to developing and designing an image reflects her interest in capturing the fleeting moods of cityscapes and landscapes as they are transformed by fog, rain, light and darkness. She has lived in Japan and traveled widely throughout Asia and Europe. Accumulating images through sketching, painting on site and photography, Carol uses the photograph as a frame of reference and a point of departure. She does not reproduce the images exactly. Her interpretations are highly subjective and in essence express her feelings about the tension between content and form.
The process of developing Jessen's oil paintings begins with many small charcoal sketches, which are further, developed by painting small loose oil paintings or drawing full color pastels. She then sketches the full size image onto the canvas with charcoal. The painting evolves by building up many thin layers of paint to achieve vibrant colors finished with a layer of damar varnish. The pastels are made with many layers of the finest highly pigmented soft pastels drawn on an archival vegetable fiber paper which produces a rich paint quality. In many cases various handmade papers with unusual surfaces are used. These surface textures combined with the pastel impart a quality unique only to soft pastels.
Carol has exhibited locally and internationally. The Cleveland Museum of Art holds two of her woodblock prints in their permanent collection. She has demonstrated the woodblock technique at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco and at Stanford University.
Lois Johnson
The textures and colors of coastal California were firmly impressed upon the mind of the artist as a child growing up in the Santa Cruz Mountains. She never forgot her love for the California coast, even as her family moved to the San Joaquin Valley and her marriage took her to the Southwest. Recognition as an artist first came in the Southwest when she was included in "Contemporary Western Artists Magazine" and Who's Who in the West. Her work was also represented in many major collections among them General Motors, Firestone, The Wickenburg Art Museum and the US Department of Justice.
Although enjoying her successes in the Southwest, Johnson still longed for the coast of California and soon returned there to paint coastal scenes. Under the influence of the French Impressionists she painted en plein air capturing the breadth and beauty of the California land and seascape.
Recently Lois was honored at a congressional reception where she received a silver award from the curator of the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. Her work was presented in a traveling exhibition to museums and universities across the country including Georgetown University, John f. Kennedy Museum, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and is on permanent display on Ellis Island.
Denis Jully
Denis Jully was born in Mulhouse (Strasbourg, France), the cradle of the Alsatian textile industry. He has sound training as a fabrics maker. After founding the government factories of the Shah of Iran, the former fabric ennobler has transferred to his paintings all the details of this craft, such as the color hues and degradation, the tension created by spaces on canvas, typical of printed fabrics.
Jully's works reveal a personal spirit characteristic of the Rhine school (neo-romantic and mystic). His canvases are permeated by the feeling of Nature, an allegorical nature where the mountain streams and vegetation are just archetypes. He defines his work as "allusive imagining," often finding inspiration in his many trips and the years he lived in Africa or Iran. Persian miniatures, rug samples, the ochre and red colors of the African soil, pieces of wood with history-all these elements are woven and combined in his paintings.
Aleah Coury
Aleah has created works in which whimsical and geometric forms, reminiscent, of Paul Klee or Joan Miro, float across multi-layered backgrounds impregnated with a dazzling array of materials. The Iris/Giclée process has proved to be the perfect means for translating these extraordinary works into print form because it is capable of capturing fine gradations of tone and color as well as the varied textures and surfaces of the original pieces.
"I have had fun creating a visual vocabulary that speaks in a variety of ways. I am inventing unique shapes meant to provoke a response from the viewer." Color is always key in Koury's work. "I believe a color gains importance because of the color placed next to it. I feel this created visual electricity is always unique and stimulating." 'Playful' and 'powerful' are words that symbolize Koury's bold approach.
Aleah Koury has participated in numerous one man and group shows across the United States. Xerox Corporation, Varian, Kaiser Permanente and Eastman Kodak as well as those in Japan, Hong Kong, France and Germany are among the many corporations that have included his work in their collections.
Barbara Lawrence
"As a Marin County, California native and the daughter of a painter, I grew up with art and nature all around me. Just as each day is unique, each painting I create reflects a very personal experience. I almost always work on location. This in itself is a challenging and a powerful experience. To sit and watch the landscape change with the shifting light the shadows rolling over the hills, or the colors and movement of a beautiful flower, brings me great satisfaction."
Barbara Lawrence studied at California College of Arts & Crafts in Oakland and the Academy of Art in San Francisco. Deciding early on to make her living with art, Lawrence worked in design, production graphics and computer illustration. A few years ago she made the courageous decision to follow the momentum of what she sees as the most creative period of her life and start painting full time.
The artist teaches workshops in the United States and Europe in pastel. Her work can be seen in numerous shows and galleries in and around California, including the Marin/Scapes Show in July 2002.
Don Li-Leger
Don Li-Leger is a renowned B.C. artist whose body of work spans three decades. Born and raised in British Columbia, Li-Leger early on demonstrated a keen interest in art and an affinity for the natural world around him. This symbiosis of art and nature has been an instrumental force in Li-Leger's life and in his decision to become an artist.
Li-Leger pursued studies in art and natural science in the 1970s and over the next twenty years he built a reputation as a realist painter and printmaker. In the late 1990s Li-Leger began creating a series of colour-saturated acrylic paintings that evoked abstraction but included elements of geometry, natural phenomena, calligraphy and collage. These texturally rich canvases have been described as "Asian Fusion" paintings and are characterized by a restrained colour palette and architectonic arrangements.
Informed by a number of influences, including Asian art, Eastern philosophy, and abstract art; Don Li-Leger has said that this genre of work "grew out of my intensive involvement with monoprints, where I improvised and combined various imagery with broad areas of rolled-on saturated colour."
Although painting and showing his artwork consume much of Li-Leger's time, his family and his home and garden in White Rock B.C. continue to be the wellspring of his creativity: "I've had numerous mentors throughout my life: family, neighbors and fellow artists." "The plants and irises represented in my paintings are those I grew in my perennial garden therefore they hold personal meaning."
Didier Lourenco
Didier Lourenco was born in 1968 in Premia del Mar, Barcelona. At the age of 19 he began to work in his father's print studio, where he learned the art of lithography. He began to paint on paper and canvas, taking over a small corner of the studio.
In 1988 he had his first solo exhibition at Vilassar de Dalt, and printed his first lithographic edition. He dedicated himself solely to painting in the corner of his father's studio, where he had created his own mini-studio. The corner was open to various visiting artists. Not only was the gaze of the artists directed towards Lourenco's works, but Lourenco's gaze was directed at the works of these visiting artists. This would be his education in the world of painting.
Lourenco was awarded Second Prize at the XXXIII Premio de Pintura Joven de la Sala Pares de Barcelona. He also participated in some group shows in Barcelona and Valencia. In 1992 Lourenco won the Premios Talentos of the XXXIV Premio de Pintura Joven de la Sala Pares de Barcelona. He had his first solo show at the Galeria Art Dama de Calafell. He also participated in numerous group shows. In addition, he had solo exhibitions at the Vayreda de Barcelona, Gasto Sala d'Art de Terrassa, Sala Rebull de Reus, Galeria Susany de Vic and at the Minerva Galeria d'Art de Mataro.
In 1995, Lourenco left his corner in his father's studio and moved into his own studio in Premia del Mar, Barcelona. His solo shows continued, and in-between the studio and the shows, he traveled with his friends and painters Moscardo and Praga to the north of Italy.
His days are full of travel and exhibitions. His solo and collective shows continue, and he travels to Paris, Lisbon and New York, where he continually gains inspiration for more of his glorious oil paintings.
Kent Lovelace
Kent Lovelace was born in Washington D.C. in 1953. He was raised in the
San Francisco Bay area. He received his BFA from the University of Colorado
at Boulder in 1976 and his MFA in from the University of Washington in Seattle
in 1979. His graduate studies were under the direction of world renown artist
Jacob Lawrence. Kent also apprenticed as a lithographer at Landfall Press
in Chicago; working as assistant to Claes Oldenburg and Christo, among others.
Kent has been the Master Lithographer for Stone Press Editions, Inc., in
Seattle, WA since 1979. During this time, Kent has been the principle printmaker
for artists Jacob Lawrence, Robert Bateman, Dale Chihuly, and Monte Dolack,
and worked extensively with Russell Chatham and many others.
Kent's own artwork can be found in most major public and private collections
throughout the Pacific Northwest and many others nationwide. He also maintains
a frequent exhibition schedule with galleries in the West.
Traveling extensively, Kent paints almost everywhere he visits. His recent
travels have him painting in the Dordogne region of France, the Italian
Umbria, and the Big Hole in western Montana. Says the artist, "Everywhere
I go, I bring something back. I love to see the landscape through painting."
The artist's focus is on color, composition and surface.
He has long been interested in the pastoral landscape, particularly in ancient land and its continuing use. His recent paintings are created on copper plate and seem to glow from within. Kent's artwork combines the elements of earth and sky with uncluttered simplicity, creating imagery that appeals to our minds and our souls.
Yvonne Maloney
Yvonne Maloney's paintings of elegant ladies and flowers set forth a mood of days gone by. They are bold, beautiful and full of color.
Born in Malta, Yvonne Maloney spent her early childhood on the island before immigrating with her family to Canada and then to the United States. The arts of Matisse and Modigliani have influenced the artist and served as her inspirations.
Her work has been exhibited at Scripps Cancer Center in La Jolla, California, the Hospital Infantil de las Californias in Tijuana, Mexico and the Palm Springs Desert Museum. Yvonne participated in a two-person show at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 2001. KPBS's Online Magazine featured her artwork on its magazine cover two times in 2003 and her work Lydia in Green was auctioned at Sotheby's in New York for the benefit of the New York Academy of Art.
Collectors from Beverly Hills and Rancho Santa Fe, California, Grosse Pointe, Michigan, Canada, England, Mexico and Malta have purchased her paintings.
Deborah DeWitt Marchant
After graduating from high school in Rye, New York Deborah entered Cornell University with the intention of majoring in Agronomy.
A love of photography and art drew her away from college and she left after two years. Instead of receiving any formal art or photography training, Deborah's natural inclination was to take to the road in search of imagery and a broader sense of the world. In her twenties she traveled extensively, alone, developing a creative process inspired by atmosphere and light and fueled by a zest for knowledge. She has been showing her work professionally since 1976.
Deborah has taught courses in photography, been an Artist in-Residence at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology and a guest lecturer at Oregon State University to name just a few of her activities relevant to her work as a photographer.
The artist's photographs address light and its ability to transform everyday scenes into subjects of beauty. A world traveler, Deborah's imagery has universal significance while maintaining a sense of intimacy for the viewer.
Deborah has exhibited widely and her work is included in many private and public collections, among them Kaiser Permanente, Portland, Oregon. Intel Corporation, Foremost Dairy Headquarters, San Francisco, CA and St. Louis University.
Liz Maxwell
Liz Maxwell was working full time as a statistician when she began taking classes at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California. She is now a full time artist working, on a daily basis, in her studio located in the garden of her home.
Liz is a painter and a printmaker. She is an artist who finds her inspiration in natural forms from which she abstracts macroscopic details that in her hands become subtle compositions rich in color and texture. The artist's monotype series reveals the infinite variations that may be derived from the juxtapositions of a few elements artfully composed and printed on a sheet of paper.
Liz has participated in exhibitions across the United States. Most recently she has shown her work in: Images of California, National Steinbeck Center, Salinas, CA, Westmoreland Arts & Heritage, Youngwood, PA and New Visions, Pro-Art, Oakland, CA.
Alan Mazzetti
For several years following his graduation from the Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA, artist Alan Mazzetti worked as a graphic designer. He designed book jackets, an art that directed him toward illustration. His progression from graphic designer to illustrator of book jackets to fine artist evolved naturally. Today his primary focus is on fine art.
All of Alan's work involves collage, found materials, photo transfers and colored papers that interact with layers of painted color and texture. His paintings mirror all aspects of his development into a fine artist. His evolution is reflected in the photographic passages that emerge subtly as storytelling elements that become both complimentary and secondary to the color, texture and the composition overall.
"The Passaggio and The Entrata series, part of a larger travel-based body of work are inspired by memories and images of a few days spent in the lake region of central Italy. In the middle of Lago d'Orta is a monastery (and bakery) full of gardens and ironwork that became the basis for this work. I hope to evoke the sense of beauty, mystery and discovery I felt while roaming this island."
John Mominee
"Art is an adventure for the artist and viewer alike. Creating paintings as visual ideas is a way of communicating how I see (or feel) the universe. I create art works for myself, making things I find interesting. It is my hope that viewers will enjoy the work visually and discover its mysteries."
John Mominee is a Wisconsin artist known for his handsome, large-format monotypes. Collectors respond to the extraordinary color, sensuous texture and relationship of light to dark. Paint brushed onto a Plexiglas plate that is printed using an etching press creates the monotype. Each "transfer painting" is unique and original. John's dynamic monotype compositions are the sources for the giclée prints shown in the Drybrush Graphics catalog.
Born in Evansville Indiana John earned an M.F.A. in painting from Southern Illinois University in 1967. He taught at the university level until 1994, when he decided to become a full-time painter.
John's artwork can be found in prominent corporate and private collections including: Johnson Wax, Price Waterhouse and Oscar Meyer Company.
Miquela Nicolau
Miquela Nicolau was born in 1942 in the town of Campos, on the plains of the island of Majorca off the coast of Spain. Spending her childhood with her family in this simple environment, in the light and warmth of the Majorcan southern landscape, would mark the intimate themes of her future works.
Her studies, started in reply to an interest in expressing her inner world, were carried out at Escola d'Art i Oficis of Palma, where she worked with drawing, ceramics and painting. However, it was the possibilities of color in painting that led her to define a path of experimentation in this technique, initially by means of different studies and later by self-teaching. A cooking enthusiast, Miquela also loves mixing emulsions and pigments in her workshop, eager to discover a personalized artistic way. She uses collage in most of her works to incorporate elements into painting that express personal feelings and experiences.
Since her first personal exhibit in 1986, she has shown her works at different halls, art galleries and fairs, as well as in both national and international contests. Her works have been exhibited in Germany, France, Switzerland and various Spanish cities.
Kim Parker
"How can I express in words what I feel for flowers and for painting them? I take not a single leaf for granted when I paint, and by that I mean, that every flower face is a real soul to me, looking straight out or in profile. My mission is to create a loving, garden community. I adore the process of gardening with my brushes and paints. My palette is my smorgasbord for an insatiable desire for playing with color."
"I love to walk the city streets, and snap photos of wild flowers growing in the most unlikely of places. It touches me deeply to see these bold and delicate urban survivors, vulnerably exposed to bus fumes and potentially disrespectful passersby. I never use photo references when I paint, although I like taking pictures of flowers simply because there is no end to my attraction to them. For me, much of the joy in painting flowers, is in the pure invention of them, through memory, not direct reference. I don't wish to be tied into, or to create anything too literal, visually. The freedom of interpreting, the freedom of self expression, is what keeps the process fresh. Walking away from a garden, a park, or even some small seemingly insignificant pot of flowers, leaves it's mark. The beauty of that relationship is in the silent impact, which can stay for days within, before finding it's way onto a canvas or a textile design. What I love about my greatest inspiration, German Expressionist painter, Emil Nolde's floral water colors, is his loose and unabashedly succulent interpretation of flowers. His floral paintings almost scream with sensuality and pleasure. That is how I feel when I paint my gardens."
-Kim Parker July 2005
Pepa Poch
Pepa Poch was born in Barcelona in 1960. As both of her parents are successful artists, she was fortunate to grow up in an creative environment. She studied Fine Arts at the Massana School in Barcelona and later went on to study Decorating and Interior Design, as well as receiving a Master's in Textile Design.
At present, Pepa is a member of the International Colours Authority in London, for which she designs the catalogues with the latest trends in color on an international level. She is the designer of Premiere Vision in Paris, carrying out projects in print and colour as she does for Design World in New York. She also does textile design for Lago di Como in Milan, Italy.
Pepa Poch also paints for Indigo in Guinea, Africa, and she has had various projects on decorating and interior design published in Elle, Marie Claire, Nuevo Estilo, ABC, and La Vanguardia. At the same time, she designed various rooms in Casa Décor. She is the author of the book El Gran Libro de la Decoracion del Hogar, published by the editorial Arco.
Pepa decorates for Maison & Objet, Tislitcasa in Paris, and does customizations
for Levi Strauss in the United States.
From 1998 through 2002, Pepa's work has been exhibited in galleries in London,
Paris, Aix en Provence, Barcelona, Minorca, The Canary Islands and Valencia.
Camille Przewodek
The artist dubs her paintings "celebrations of mood." Often sketching and painting at the same location during different times of the day, she captures the true essence and mood of each scene. Her passion is for shifting light and vibrant color. The visions she captures on canvas may entice the viewer along a sun-dappled California roadway, transform a modest cottage in Southern France into an ancient romance or turn an indoor garden into a riot of sensuality.
Camille received her formal art training at Wayne State University in Detroit and the Academy of Art College in San Francisco. She spent several summers studying color with impressionist master Henry Hensche at the Cape School of Art in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Camille has received many awards for her artwork which may be seen in galleries and collections across the country.
She now divides her time between France and California, teaching and painting in both locations.
Barbara Rainforth
"I paint to remember and to discover that landscape-like paint is my vehicle."
Barbara Rainforth composes transitional landscapes that occupy the visual space that falls between realistic and totally abstract forms. Bold fields of color and loops and slashes of vibrant brushstroke are the elements that impart to the viewer the essence of earth, sky and water. She explains: "my paintings are composites of remembered places during my travels. While they have a reference to places and times they are creations of my imagination and my memories. I find by working in this fashion I have come closer to recreating the experience of being there than even photographs allow."
The artist holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree from San Jose State University, San Jose, California. Since 1982 Barbara has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States and Europe. She has received awards for her works on paper as well as for her paintings.
Carol Rowan
The passions of Carol Rowan are evident in her pastel paintings. Viewing them one may discover a colorful flower garden drenched with sunlight, or perhaps a patio shaded by a vine covered pergola, a luncheon table set with lace, crystal goblets and bowls of fruits and flowers bringing to mind the delights of a languid summer afternoon or a scene from a romantic opera. The velvety and rich hued pastel chalks on paper that the artist employs to create her images are especially suited to the visions she intends to evoke. "In all of my art I try to capture a feeling of warmth and a sense of light and energy. The subjects are from my immediate environment." Sundays she may be found working in her studio, listening to an opera with the aroma of a roast or soup coming from the kitchen.
Carol holds an M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art and has been employed as an art teacher in the Illinois and Wisconsin school systems. Her work is included in numerous private and corporate collections including: Northwestern Mutual l Life Insurance, Miller Brewing and Beta Systems.
Henry Sides
Bright color and joyous imagination characterize the paintings of Henry Sides. His paintings are inhabited by all manner of animal, fish and fowl busily involved with the activities that are usually the concerns of mankind. Some dressed in human attire, these wonderfully endearing characters evoke a smile every time. As the figurative inventions arise from his unconscious so do the color filled landscapes that Henry paints in glowing primary and secondary hues. It is no wonder then that the artist has quite a following among adults as well as children.
Henry's paintings can be found in collections in New York City; Australia; Berlin, Germany; San Francisco and Los Angeles, and on the East coast of the United States. The Artist has participated in many exhibitions throughout the United States from the early 1970's to the present.
Marti Somers
The Drybrush Graphics limited edition giclées by Marti Somers are taken from four of her paintings on panel. The surfaces of the panels are painted, collaged and integrated to form a subtle layering of images and words. Her genre is still life consisting of pitchers, flowers and fruit, grocery lists and birds; semi-abstracted objects from everyday life that suggest a story is being told.
Stanford University, the University of Notre Dame and the University of Utah have each commissioned one of her mixed media compositions. Several of the artist's paintings have been published as gift cards, including a recent publication titled Courtyards of the Westin designed for the Westin Palo Alto, California.
Marti Somers, a native Californian, received her fine arts degree from the University of Hawaii. Currently, Marti is a partner in Artefact Design, a Palo Alto graphic design firm, where she works as designer and illustrator.
Robert Striffolino
Striffolino was born in New York city in 1950 and was raised on Long Island. Although from his childhood he could draw spontaneously with extraordinary skill, he never took a formal art class, feeling that his drawings were so personal he could allow no one -- not even teachers -- to interfere with his art. Instead, he majored in architecture at Ohio University. After his graduation he was hired by the City of Cincinnati as an architect. However, in spite of earning good commissions and professional recognition, he began to feel increasing frustration over a life and career too distant from the art he loves.
In 1978 Striffolino left his architect's job to embark upon what he has since called "an odyssey: I decided to travel for as long as I needed to reestablish something in my soul, something I had gotten away from." He backpacked and camped along for seven months starting in the Great Smoky Mountains, then along the Gulf Coast and across Texas to New Mexico, through the Rocky Mountains north into Canada, and finally across to the Pacific and down the California coast. It was while camping in California within sight of the Pacific Ocean that he made the decision to settle down and paint in earnest. This decision he later said "resounded in my soul". Immediately thereafter he moved permanently to northern New Mexico, where he still resides.
For Striffolino color is the highest and most subjective element of painting, but the real subject matter of his work is its emotional content. He strives to articulate on canvas an intense feeling about the location, whether it is the physical dynamics of the landscape or the juxtaposition of colors and light. This is when the painting really begins to take on a life of its own.
"Elmer Bischoff said, 'You have to bring off a fusion of your interest both in the subject and in the painting. It's like walking on a tightrope...the paint on canvas plays a double role -- one of an alive, sensual thing in itself, and the other conveying a response to the subject. Between the two is the tightrope.' I like the fact that I need to feel that tension. I feed information onto the canvas until a dialogue begins. Listening becomes paramount because then I can discover what the painting needs in order for it to blossom. Another balance and tension I seek is between the landscape imagery and my emotions. That kind of tension and edge keeps me coming back to paint again and again."
Yoichi Tanabe
Yoichi Tanabe was born in Kumamoto, Japan in 1949. In 1957 he moved to Tokyo, where he completed Political Science studies at the University Waseda. In 1974 he completed a postgraduate artistic study of human anatomy at the University of Fine Arts in Tokyo. From 1975 through 1978 he worked for the National Parliament's library, and from 1979 through 1986 he participated in numerous solo exhibitions in a variety of Tokyo art galleries, and became Professor of Drawing in the Bunka Fashion College, Tokyo.
In 1988 Tanabe moved to Sitges, a small town on the Catalan coast near Barcelona, Spain. He spent a few years there, at the edge of the Mediterranean sea. His paintings are infused with the Mediterranean landscape-the earth, the sea and the light. At the same time, the rich tradition of his Japanese culture is very clearly evident in his work.
One of the first impressions one receives from Tanabe's paintings is the deep respect with which the subject is treated; a closing of the distance between the painter, the subject and the viewer. Elements merge within his work-nothing presents itself apart from the composition as a whole. The principal trait of Tanabe's work is the natural rhythm, which implies life and reflects the sense of amazement that the artist feels when confronted with the spectacle of nature.
The magnificent works of Tanabe are testimony to a place in space and time that will never repeat itself, and that cannot be compared with anything else.
Sandra Wampler
After years of childhood training in traditional art, at age 16 Sondra Wampler's artistic direction was forever changed when she was given the retired family camera for her personal use. She completed the Commercial Photography program at Santa Monica College in 1982. After pursuing a career in advertising photography she returned eventually, to fine art, focusing on a contemplative observation of nature.
In her black and white photographs Sondra is sensitive particularly to the nuance of natural and studio lighting on objects. The natural elements and man-made objects she brings into her studio are portrayed as both delicate and powerful.
Her work can be found in public, private and corporate collections throughout the country.
Sally Wetherby
Born in Berwyn, Illinois, Sally Wetherby earned her undergraduate degree in Art Education from the University of Wisconsin. She went on to pursue graduate work at California State University Long Beach and Sonoma State University.
After traveling extensively in Europe, Mexico and the United States, Wetherby returned to her California studio where she began to combine painting with photography. This technique has evolved over the years and finally developed into the unique style recognizable in her work today. Concentrating on still life imagery, Wetherby enjoys exploring flea markets in search of interesting props to combine with flowers grown in her garden in her scenes. She employs painting and photography in her creative process. Using layers of oil paint, transparent glazes, lacquer and wax on wood panel Sally achieves a highly finished, beautifully crafted work of art.
Sally Wetherby's work is widely exhibited and has earned numerous awards. Her paintings are included in many private, corporate and museum collections.
Greg Wilhelmi
An accomplished colorist and skilled draftsman, Greg Wilhelmi's magical landscape scenes have captured the imagination of viewers across the nation. His use of streams and paths bordered by brightly colored flowers and trees lead the viewer deep into his creative vision of sunlit forests and fields.
Wilhelmi began his artistic career as an illustrator and graphic designer. He attended Montana State University and the University of Denver to get his degree in art and later became a tenured faculty member at Colorado Institute of Art. His work is represented in hundreds of corporate and private collections.
After 25 years, Wilhelmi closed his Denver studio and returned to Montana where he had grown up and where he has always received inspiration from the land. He now lives and works close to Roundup.
Valerie Willson
Valerie Willson lives on a rural island near Seattle, Washington, and is influenced both by an intense immersion in nature and close involvement in the process of people's lives. Patterns fascinate her - the patterns in growing things and the patterns in our lives, the way humans address similar issues over and over, yet differently each time. Hope and joy fascinate Valerie, as they are woven into the continual cycle of living things, and "...in the way for us as humans in that it is a reason to live and yet such a challenge." It is these concepts that Valerie thinks about and attempts to infuse into her abstract paintings as she builds/subtracts layer upon layer and pattern over pattern.
Over the years, Valerie has become increasingly interested in incorporating the techniques of monotype into her paintings. Coming from a background of printmaking (etching and monoprinting), she continues to be drawn to the freedom and serendipity of the monotype process, while somehow finding that she wants to extend that process into a more substantial finished object.
Valerie begins by gessoeing heavy rag paper on both sides. Then she dries it in blotters, creating a very flat surface which will take a lot of abuse. Beginning with an underpainting of a fairly brilliant color, she builds textures and colors slowly, using both substrative and additive processes. She applies paint with stencils (lace, Japanese papers, found objects), stamps (handcut blockprints, commercial made patterns), and textures. Paint is applied both with a brush and with rollers. As in monotype, what is revealed in the subtractive process often becomes the most exciting and unique aspect of the piece. The finished work is varnished and framed, or attached to an archivally finished wood panel.
Valerie received a B.F.A. from Portland Museum of Art School in Portland, OR in 1972; and also attended the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, NC; University of Oregon in Eugene, OR; and Southern Oregon State College in Ashland, OR. In addition to receiving education Valerie has imparted quite a bit of art education to others as well, teaching printmaking, monoprinting and drawing at various schools and colleges.
From the early 70's to the present Valerie has had numerous group and solo exhibitions throughout the Pacific Northwest, nationally and internationally. Her works have appeared as illustrations in several publications; her works have won many awards; and appear in various public and private collections, including the Portland Art Museum, Safeco Corporation and Fred Meyer Charitable Trust.