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Jessie Hughes
Jessie grew up deep in the mountains of Colorado and now lives in Taos, New Mexico with her husband and two children. She has done midwife for 20 years and traveled extensively overseas doing humanitarian work. Jessie found painting as a vital part of her personal transformation and healing journey. When asked why she paints…
Read MoreLynda Jasper-Vogel
Lynda Jasper-Vogel (b. 1942 Monterey, CA) received a Fine Arts degree and teaching credential from San Francisco State University. After a brief teaching career, she moved to New Mexico and began a long career as an independent artist. The consummate Renaissance woman, Lynda, has run a successful leather shop, created hand-painted wallpaper, worked in silversmithing, set…
Read MoreJohn Staple
Education = Mill’s College Children’s School in East Oakland, CA – 1951-1953 *most of the rest is fairly superficial except for the 3 Mystery Schools I later attended. Occupation =questing-seeker Day job = potter for over 40 years *secondary artistic manifestations: photomontages & memoir writing Supplemental work quotients = janitor, farm-worker, Tribal Art…
Read MoreSandy Chestnutt
Artist, graphic designer, and former computer graphics instructor (Adobe)–Sandy has contributed to the art industry coast to coast. Finding solace in nature during some difficult times, she emerged an award-winning artist with her wildlife and landscape paintings, recognized for her detail and whimsical long brush strokes. “Expressing my honor for my Hopi roots and our…
Read MoreDon Wallis
Born on a farm in northwest Tennessee: I grew up in Oklahoma and in high school I sculpted and worked and worked in the arts. In my 30’s I began a career in sales and marketing in the high technology industry. In 2014, my wife and I retired from southern California to Ranchos de Taos,…
Read MoreRia Burnett
Nature, various geographies and cultivated landscapes engage my senses, my mind, my spirit. These varied and accumulated encounters over a lifetime continue to transform me, describing journey, creating narrative. In my visual reflections, I enjoy the juxtaposition of varying scales, often considering the grand and the minute simultaneously. Likewise, naming the moment calls to mind…
Read MoreDaniel A Brown
I was born in New York City in 1950. Growing up along “Museum Alley”, I began painting at the age of 15 after viewing Vincent Van Gogh’s ethereal “Starry Night.” I continued to do so throughout high school and college at which point I discovered photography and writing. My photojournalistic articles have been published in…
Read MoreNancy Kirk
Kirk encounters everything through her art. She has worked as a scenic painter for opera and ballet in Florence, Italy, illustrator, painter and interior muralist. She has assisted art conservators in the restoration of historic Broadway theaters and was commissioned to add extensive original figurative work to the Golden Theater on 45th St. in New…
Read MoreMarsha Fawns
Early on, I toddled to the empty field next door gathering weeds, stones and sticks, then spent hours creating mud-pie sculptures in my sandbox. Saturdays, I took courses at the Art Museum in Rochester, New York. Art awards were gained for store windows painted, posters created. While earning my BA in Education at Ohio Wesleyan…
Read MoreMargaret Tange
Margaret Tange grew up surrounded by wildlife on the family cattle/wheat ranch in Northeastern Montana. Her life on the ranch included driving farm equipment and riding horses in the coulees. Always in close contact with nature, she began drawing at a young age, encouraged by her mother who was an accomplished landscape artist. She received…
Read MoreGlory Penington
Through photography, I show you what I see, but with painting, I share with you what I feel. This story begins with photography: I began taking home photos at the age of 10, always had a camera with me on any travels, and haven’t been able to keep one out of my hands since the…
Read MoreSarah Bush
Almost all my fine art work is an exploration of the tension between timelessness and impermanence, fragility and resilience, and the physical body and the spiritual self–I find this tension extremely poignant and I like to explore these themes by developing different bodies of work using a variety of media. Language, text, and poetry are…
Read MoreInger Jirby
Inger Jirby’s life has been as rich, dramatic and exotic as her art. She was born in the far north of Sweden, above the Arctic Circle in Lapland, a place of blazing color in the fall. Her earliest memories are bathed in bright palette, the same colors that characterize her passion-filled fauvist paintings. She began…
Read MoreAlex Chavez
I am a fine artist who explores themes of mortality through figure painting. My figures, painted in oil on canvas and wood, are an extension of my Mexican heritage and Central America’s Day of the Dead festivities; they appear skeletal and pale, yet somehow flushed and vibrant. Through bravado brushwork and assertive color palettes, I…
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