I have always been drawn to create because it lifts me to another level of consciousness and what I call a meditative state. It helps me to escape from the daily pressures and stresses of life.
Featured Artist Mickey Baxter-Spade
I find color fascinating and fabulous. Art is not so much about what ends up on the canvas as it is about the process.
Featured Artist Adriana Guidi
My inspiration comes from many places; a quick glimpse of my boyfriend taking a nap with one of our cats, a unique look or pose , a great sky with a beautiful cloud formation, an aha! moment of “oh I have to paint that!”
Featured Artist Katrina Mitten
I am a member of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma. As a little girl, I was taught the importance of knowing who I am and where I came from. At the age of twelve, I wanted to learn an art that was traditional to my people. I was drawn to beadwork.
Featured Artist Grzegorz Czarnecki
Marquetry, or wood decorative artistry, is considered to be one of the most difficult arts. Besides unrepeatable skills, it requires patience, engagement, and unprecedented precision.
Featured Artist Daryl Dancer-Wade
My appreciation of the landscape came about almost imperceptibly while spending summers exploring the shorelines of the sheltered glacier-carved water ways of North Western Ontario and Manitoba.
Featured Artist Nettie Price
Most of my characters are people I know and love, especially my dog Benny who recently died. I love colors and I am not a very serious person at all.
Featured Artist April Lacheur
One of my favorite parts of painting is that the end result is often a pleasant surprise. I sometimes add other mediums including fabrics, metals and papers to my work giving life to some elements such as tree trunks or bird feathers.
Featured Artist Natalie Abrams
Over time, my work evolved into two distinct but related bodies of work – the three dimensional ribbon works and a body of abstract landscapes. The ribbon pieces began to take shape when I started working sculpturally in about 2004. I became increasingly interested in the dimensionality of sculpture and textures; giving texture a more pronounced depth.
Featured Artist Leah Jay
As I look forward into 2012 and beyond, my goal is to become a better “internal listener” – to bring my art closer to my true childlike nature.
Featured Artist Cathy Read
The first goal for any artist is to create art like life depends on it. My goal is to create beautiful, unique art with depth. And that involves regular studio time. I plan to do a lot more of that this year.
Featured Artist Kandyce Waltensperger
Sixteen years ago, I was fortunate enough to move with my husband and twin daughters to Monterrey, Mexico. Once we were settled in, I began watercolor classes under a couple of well known local artists. That was the beginning of my love for bold color combinations and puzzle-like compositions.
Featured Artist Desarae Lee
My work is largely based on narrative. Each piece is a short story told through various subconscious symbols, some more obvious than others.
Featured Artist Brazen Edwards-Hager
I have been fortunate enough to have my artwork collected internationally, highlighted in numerous juried exhibitions, local art shows and galleries. I feel it’s important to push myself as an artist and to explore the boundaries, never being afraid to try new and engaging approaches to art.
