Graduated from the Rocky Mountain School of Art in 1980. Worked as a patent draftsman/illustrator/office manager in a small drafting shop. Worked for Ball Aerospace in the publication department as a lead illustrator. Later I worked for Douglas Astronautics in the Computer Based Training division as a computer graphic artist and Douglas Aircraft in CBT maintenance MD-80 aircraft. I worked for a couple of design studios as a paste up artist/commercial designer. Landscape painting in oil became an interest of mine when I attended the Art Students League. The Denver University offered evening design classes and workshops which I would take. The Art Students League offered plein air landscape classes with Doug Dawson. Drawing class with John Lencicki, painting with Doug Dawson, Ron Hicks, Kim English, Ken Valastro, life drawing with Joshua Fallik, workshops with David Mayer and Quang Ho. I continue to take art classes and workshops."
Reb has lived in the American west since 1978, moving from Illinois to answer the call of the mountains he remembered from his early childhood in Colorado. He found photography as an outlet to combine his natural creativity with his passion for the natural world. His connection to the earth is vividly illustrated in his photographs, which are bold, dramatic testimonials to the beauty of the landscapes and wildlife that surround us.
In his images, Reb searches for the fleeting moments where light and unique atmospheric conditions combine with the landscape to create an unforgettable moment in time.
Reb and his wife, Romain, live in Buena Vista, Colorado.
Art to me is an expression of the wonders and beauty that surround us. On a gloomy day just close your eyes and picture the world in it's most colorful, perfect environent.
My love of art began as a child and I have always been enchanted by it. Only in the past few years have I been delving into it more and have been able to grow in the experience of expressing my visions with creative colors and ideas.
Galen Cox became interested in art at a young age and has enjoyed art classes through his school years. He has studied under Bob Thomas and Joseph Miller at Red Rocks Community College. He has attended the Art Students League of Denver.
Galen has been influenced by the impressionist painters as well his Geologist father and Artist mother. With this in mind, he has been determined to paint not like other painters but in his own way of interpretation.
From that point on, the Montana artist has focused on further developing his skills in rendering landscapes and the human figure.
Most of my paintings feature botanical subjects and are done in watercolor. I enjoy the challenge of creating a painting that is both scientifically accurate and artistically pleasing. However, I also experiment with other subject and media as I find that keeps my work fresher. All my paintings are on archival paper and framed with acid free mats and conservation glass. I am a member of the American Society of Botanical Artists, the Rocky Mountain Society of Botanical Artists and I am a signature Member of the Colorado Watercolor Society.
Danford is a Colorado native and graduate of the Colorado Institute of Art. He started his career with stints as art director at a Denver television station and designer for the Denver Research Institute at the University of Denver. In 1967, he co-founded Unit One, Inc., a graphic design studio. Danford has been painting professionally since 1998.
Chuck has earned numerous local, regional and national awards and distinctions for his work including the first person named to the Colorado Institute of Art Hall of Fame. He is President and a signature member of the Colorado Watercolor Society and teaches classes and workshops for various art organizations in Colorado and elsewhere. His work has been represented in the Colorado Governors Invitational Show in Loveland and his work is found in many public and private collections.
For many years I have been painting, drawing and designing for friends and family. Painting is one of two passions for me. In 1982 I started BISCUITS & BERRIES, Inc., a catering company I owned and operated for 9 years. My creativity came alive in the food and presentations I did for special events, weddings and parties. My creative juices spilled over onto the canvas as well. Pastels and acrylics are my present interest. Bright lively colors that express emotion are the foundation of my work. In addition to creating my own work, I enjoy encouraging emerging and seasoned artists in a variety of classes and workshops. My family are my biggest fans and I am indebted to them for their help and support. I hope you find joy and reflection in my work that will bring happiness and fond memories to you and your family.
Remember black and white film from a large square box camera with a frosted glass viewer? That was my first camera in the early 1950's. Now, after carrying 50 rolls of 36 exposure Fuji Velvia slide film through airports in 2000, I have switched to digital images and a camera that would accommodate my old lenses. Now I have image stabilized lenses and auto focus since my eyes are getting old. Focusing manually still happens when I have time and need. I compose, sometimes too closely, in camera and try to make most images look like I remember the scene. No subject is disregarded although waiting for people to get out of the frame is my common goal, and occasionally to the detriment of the photo.
I have fun
Born in Wisconsin, it was the beauty of the Rockies and great skiing that lured me to Colorado in the late '70's. With art always in the back of my mind, I made a living first as a lab assistant in the Coors research department, and later as a CPA, specializing in tax. Finally art has taken the fore-front. I've studies with some of Denver's finest artists, won many local awards, and have exhibited in several prestigeous national shows. I am an oil painter and a realist. Light is my main subject, which allows me to paint pretty much anything as long as light is playing along it's contours. Memorable summers at the family cottage have given me an affinity for water, one of my favorite subjects. But I am also drawn to people going about their lives, city scapes, orange trees in blossom, branches of blueberries, and scenes from the trips we've taken.
The passion to create art is a blessing.there will always be something to learn, a new path to take, new friends to make.
A native of Colorful Colorado, I began taking private art lessons with Denver artist Sally Bartalot when I was seven, where I was introduced to the basics of art, design and composition. I studied with Bartalot for eleven years. I have also studied at the Art Students League of Denver under Mitch Caster, Mark Daily, and Jane Jones.
I think color is what makes things exciting, beautiful, and memorable. I aim to celebrate these colors in different subjects. Even the simplest subject has a variety of hues, tints and tones in it. There is a diversity of color inherently in the object, as well as the hues reflected onto it by its environment. Essentially, my paintings are all about the colors, from beginning to end.
Although a scientist by training and profession, since childhood I've been fascinated with the arts. Growing up, I experimented with any and all arts and crafts media, even to the point of harvesting yucca and spiderwort to make my own jute and natural dye. As an adult I've worked in a number of media including earth and polymer clays, fused glass, watercolor and pastels. I must admit that I had a love-hate relationship with pastels initially, but they quickly became an affair of the heart and the center of my artistic devotion. With their rich and brilliant hues and velvety textures, I strive to capture the mood and drama of the moment.
As a photographer, I am continually challenged by the concept of transferring my ideas and perceptions onto paper. I love light in all its permutations, and strive to create images that reproduce what my eyes see (which, of course, is impossible!).
I've been taking photographs for more years than I care to admit, first showing my work in Taos, New Mexico during the 1980s. I invite you to share my vision of sweeping landscapes with tiny details, and glimpses into the hearts of flowers and the eyes of animals. Light...color...form.
I value the interaction between image and viewer as I observe common objects from a unique perspective. These images, while based on realism, still leave room for interpretation. My love of color, composition and the play of light and shadow are highlighted in my main subjects of organic items and architecture in oils, acrylics and pastels.
As a graduate from the Art Institute of Colorado, I continue my education at Foothills Art Center in Golden, Art Students League of Denver, The Arvada Center and Boulder Lifelong Learning.
My work has been shown at the Foothills Art Center, the Art Students League Summer Art Market and am currently at the Colorado Mountain Art Gallery in Georgetown, Colorado.
My images are of landscape, wildlife and nature subjects in all seasons. I tend to photograph a lot of fall and winter imagery, my two favorite seasons.
My goal as an artist is simple to relate, but harder to carry off. I hope to create a feeling of place for those viewing my work. I attempt to transport the viewer to an experience of the place and moment that is greater than merely "seeing" the image. If one experiences a cross connection of the senses, such that sight triggers smell of the flower, or warmth from the light or cold from the snow, then to me the image succeeds.
I use a digital process. The images are primarily digital originals, I scan the balance from various slide films. All printing is done by my hand, using an archival ink jet process.
If you enjoy an image of mine, contact me for framing, size, paper surface options and shipping info. More images and information are available on my website.
Jon has been a professional artist since 1991, when he graduated from an art college in New Jersey. Living in the New York area at the time, Jon worked primarily in commercial art for companies such as Marvel and DC Comics. Feeling somewhat restless in commercial art, he made the switch to fine art in 2003. He ditched the pen and paper and picked up the brush and canvas. He moved to Colorado to explore and paint the beautiful western U.S. Jon works mostly in plein air oil paintings, but can be found in the studio as well. Jon paints to share his experiences with nature. Sometimes it is a subtle breeze on prairie grasses and sometimes it is snow in the mountains. There is a never ending supply of experiences in Colorado that should keep Jon happy for many years to come!
I have always had a desire to be creative from a very early age but it was in my thirties that I really pursued my desires to be an artist. I went back to school and received a degree in Graphic Design and Illustration. I was still wanting more so I took some painting classes and I have been painting in watercolor, acrylic and pastels ever since.
I enjoy a heavy saturation of color in my paintings and I enjoy exploring different approaches in the application of paint on different papers using assorted textures and techniques.
My muse is my life and all that I see and experience around me, from my travels in the world to my every day life, from scuba diving to the flowers in my garden. I am always finding a new view of life that I want to capture and express in my art.
Free from commitment to any single style, my work reflects an ever-evolving organic synthesis of mixed media in two separate, but intimately connected bodies of work: mixed mediaencaustic (wax), recycled materials and found object framework and printmakingsolar plate intaglio, monotype, chin collé, collage, painting and drawing on paper.
Although each body of work seeks to scratch the surface of true human nature in order to reveal our original source, each body also retains its own set of unique characteristics. Described as an enchanting collection of work that builds on its textured, yet undefined boundaries to create a ghost-like experience, the mixed media reflects my draw to the rough luxe movement/philosophy. Defined by the Wall Street Journal as artful dissonance and a study in contradictions, rough luxe perfectly captures the essence of the work and the thoughtful combination of carefully arranged recycled materials, found object framework and the contemporary, yet ancient technique of encaustic (wax).
The printmaking, on the other hand, is a more contemporary counterpart. Cloaked in abstraction, stark horizons split the work into two fields, one above the other, and refer to a more spiritual landscape. In this way, each work not only highlights the energetic alignment of subject to source, but more abstractly represents the link between science and spirituality.
Being a lifetime Iowan, until moving to Evergreen, CO in the summer of 2010. Mark has a degree in biology from Iowa State University and has always always had an interest in nature. Taking time now to enjoy the challenges and satisfactions of painting.
With Marla Louise, both in her person and her art one will find an interesting mixture of yin and yang. Her artistic origins are strongly influenced by storytelling and myth, drawing from over 20 creative years as a professional video entertainment designer. The yin and yang is apparent in the fact that Marla is just the feminine half of a dual gendered or transgendered individual. As such, she draws strongly from this rich mixture of masculine and feminine life experience for her art, insight and aesthetic. Yin and yang can also be seen in her mixture of Eastern and Western aesthetics, and in combining the high tech of virtual worlds and traditional canvas.
Although he has professionally been, until quite recently, a home builder and craftsman, photography had been a hobby for John for more than a half century.
All photographs are on Fuji film with a medium format Bronica camera. All prints are made on archival photographic paper, mounted on acid-free mattes and framed by the photographer.
For those who travel, we hope to evoke memories of places visited, new friends made, and the sense of adventure we have felt. For those who have not yet made that journey, we hope to share our love of nature, of places not yet visited, of the surprise that might await us around the next corner or down the next unmapped road. we wish you a pleasant journey.
Lyndsey practiced commercial design for over twenty years for commercial architectural firms. When the clients didnt have the budget for original art work Lyndsey used her rendering and illustration skills and spent many late nights painting for her clients to complete the designs she had created for the client during the day. I let the paintings speak for me. I love the use of color, composition and design. Art can tell you a story within the context of spatial boundaries. Art touches your soul - healing, soothing, invigorating. Art makes us feel our emotions. I use art within a space to create harmony, peace and unity. I paint landscapes, horses or abstracts with the colors that come from within an emotion. I once had one of my instructors tell me that I paint to get my color fix. The gentle and vibrant images she depicts are inspired from some of her favorite vistas, mostly the Colorado mountain views that surround her home. I love the outdoors and the architecture that nature has created. Its so perfect in every detail. I try to capture the spiritual and ethereal connection I have with the mountains in all of my compositions.
My watercolors are definitely representational but with a strong impressionistic influence. Primarily, I strive for the subjective element, my emotional response to the figure, the landscape, or whatever the subject, without too much concern for an exact rendition. Watercolor, sometimes augmented with pastel, lends itself to a spontaneous response to the moment. Pencil marks may show through and frequently colors are exaggerated and objects from the scene transposed. My hope is that my paintings capture a human quality that is missing in much of contemporary life.
Larry Routten is a painter who lives in Denver, Colorado. In 2004, he rekindled a passion for art that had been lying dormant since early in life. He enjoys finding patterns in nature and interpreting those patterns and light found in natures landscapes.
He is primarily self-taught, although he has taken classes with several Denver area pastel artists, including Kathy Beekman, Doug Dawson and Tony Ortega.
I am a Colorado native. Who except for a stint in the Navy, and twelve years in Alaska has spent my life exploring the Rocky Mountain region.
My personal muse is light and the visual poetry it creates. My B&W images are mostly created with a 4 x 5 field camera, using film. The film is scanned, then digitally output as an Archival Carbon Pigment Print. Each of my prints are numbered, signed and dated. Technical quality is just as important to me as my personal vision.
I hope you enjoy my work...
Born and raised in Germany Heidi (Heidrun) has resided in CO for over 30 years. During that time she raised a family, taught, and finally entered the art arena. Her love for the Rocky Mountain area and the spirit of the West helped foster close attention to detail, light and mood as indicative of glimpses into the eternal and she tries to capture those elements in her pencil art, usually after painstaking research.
During her journey into the world of art she has also been privileged to come to know some members of the Native American community and begun to further explore Native culture and history something she hopes to continue indefinitely as it has afforded her with many new insights and increased her understanding of a little known, but fascinating population with rich traditions.
I am fascinated by the grandeur of our western landscape and it is my joy to try and capture its essence in oil painting. In my excursions into the backroads of Colorado, New Mexico, and Washington, I find beauty everywhere. I look for scenes with character, strong compositional elements and value contrasts. Then I sketch and photograph the scene, and then I put oil to the canvas and create. I let the vivid and rich oil colors breathe an energy into my vision and my spiritual journey into beauty has begun. I enjoy the challenge of plein air, to quickly paint a cloudy or sunlit landscape. My goal is to capture the rich variety, the common and the beautiful in the colors that surround us.
Jen Veitch was born in Tianjin, China, where she was college educated with an International Finance and Economic degrees. Upon graduation Jen worked for the Bank of Chinas international department, focusing on joint ventures with western countries.
Jen was afforded the opportunity to work and live in Dallas, Texas and work for a bank in the international department. In 1999 she retired after years of working in the business departments for two major oil companies. Currently Jen and her family live both in Colorado and St. Croix in US Virgin Islands.
I have always enjoyed art and creating. I am mainly a self-taught artist; but, I have taken workshops and classes by several accomplished artists and learning is an ongoing process that I enjoy. I like working in watercolors because of their clean, fresh look. Although I have lived in Colorado for most of my adult life, I grew up at the Jersey Shore and love painting seascapes and lighthouses, as well as other compositions. See my art gallery at www.sundancerarts.com.
I started drawing and painting in the 6th grade because of a positive remark on my artwork for a science paper. Little did I know that remark would take me on a journey into the art world for the rest of my life. When I couldnt paint I did ceramics or other arts and crafts. I definitely feel close to my Creator when I am creating artwork, and though I paint for myself I love when it brings joy to others as well. I have been accepted into several juried shows and won several awards. I can be found in the Colorado Mountain Art Gallery in Georgetown, Colorado and Gilpin County Art Gallery in Central City, Colorado.
