Painting & Drawing

BETH HYATT RAPP

BETSY MONTOYA

BILL SHADDIX

BOB COONTS

CAROLL FORESTH

CHARLES HUCKEBA

DANIEL LONG

DONNA LEVINE

GARY ROBERTSON

GENE DIECKHONER

GUADALUPE APODACA

JACQUELINE COHAN

JANET BLUMENTHAL

JEANNE BONINE

JOHN MORTENSON

JOY HARTL

KEITH DABB

KELBY LOVE

KIM BALLARD

LARRY HAYWORTH

LAUREN KNODE

LINDA HERST

LORETTA MUSGRAVE

LORI MYERS

MARLAN MASTELLER

MARLENE PARDI

MARLESS FELLOWS

PATRICIA STACY

ROBERT BURT

SANDI CIARAMIITARO

SCOTT WALLIS

SUSAN HARTENHOFF-HAYGOOD

TJ THOMPSON

TRAVIS CROWTHER

WALTER MELNIKOW

WEI TAI

WILLI WALTRIP

ARTHUR BENJAMINS

KEITH DAGLEY

JELENA EROS

MIKE GARDNER

LEO POSILLICO

DICK MUELLER

SAM THIEWES

 

GUADALUPE APODACA

Guadalupe Apodaca art career spans over forty years as an award-winning artist and is acknowledged by The Pastel Society of America and other awards from juried fine art shows throughout the United States. Born in Fort Collins, Colorado, his artistic abilities amazed teachers and family with accurate portrayals of faces at a very young age….(more)

KIM BALLARD

I love painting people…..and this has come to be expressed in my paintings in many ways.For years I focused on portrait painting as a way to study people, focusing on the expression of features, likeness and body language. From there, I moved to figures, staging romantic scenes with girls walking through a meadow, or lounging with a book….(more)

ARTHUR BENJAMINS

Arthur was born in Rotterdam. He is a Dutch artist who specializes in depicting motor racing, Land-and-Water speed record-breaking scenes, abstract, Surreal and Science-Fantasy paintings. He resides outside of London, England….(more)

JANET BLUMENTHAL

A visual orchestra of bright color and bold imagery brings to light the rhythms found dancing across the canvases of Janet Blumenthal’s work. The viewer may ask “why musical themes?” Janet best describes this in her own words, “Music is a universal language easily recognized and interpreted by all….(more)

JEANINE BONINE

Romantic Realist Jeanne Bonine is known for her soft and lush larger-than-life floral paintings. Although her early works of the ’70s were executed in oils, Bonine soon discovered the challenge of transparent watercolor. It became the medium of her choice as she learned through the years to master the “purist” techniques and the art of controlled freedom….(more)

ROBERT BURT

Robert began his love of art in New York, coming into the city to visit the galleries and the art museums as he first studied under his uncle.  He moved quickly to classes at the Art Students League of New York in Woodstock.  Robert studied with Franklin Alexander, working from a model using charcoal and pencil.  He also studied painting and art history at SUNY at Ulster.  Soon he had his own gallery in Lake Placid, New York and later moving it to Asheville, North Carolina….(more)

SANDI CIARAMITARO

Sandi’s desire is to take art enthusiasts along with her on a journey of artistic discovery. When Ciaramitaro is not in her studio painting, she can be found painting en plein air (in the fresh air), alla prima (Painting in one go, finishing the piece on site) At least once a week, this indulgence takes her off-road to paint places not normally seen. “Know that my work is painted with passion. I have to remember to breath, I am so taken aback by the beauty!”…(more)

JACQUELINE COHAN

 Jacqueline Cohan is an Arizona native but lived the gypsy life of a Navy brat! The experience introduced her to a wide variety of cultures and that included art, music, and cuisine. A retired businesswoman who felt the call so many artists feel and began painting. After only one year she began selling her work and this inspired her to pursue her art on a more serious level. Now after 6 years of showing and selling she has developed a unique style that is filled with color and human emotion….( more)

BOB COONTS

Colors, as used by the Fauvists, the challenge of composition and the excitement of discovery impact my work and style. Animals, plants, landscapes and people provide a wealth of subject matter. Combining a sense of warmth, graceful movements and detail give release to a style bordering on abstract but reflecting a true image….(more)

TRAVIS CROWTHER

Travis Crowther was born and raised in rural northern Utah where from the time he was young, he was painting and drawing. Surviving a baseball size eye tumor when he was 2 years old, they did not find out that he was legally blind without glasses until the second grade….(more)

KEITH DABB

“Keith! You go to the back of the room, the rest of you students take out your math books and turn to page 106.” This often happened in my 6th grade class. I was sent to the back of the room to work on art projects for the teacher. The rest the class did math- this was great for a 6th grader that loved to draw. However, next year in 7th grade math I found out that I had missed many basics and didn’t understand math to well. I finally made it through high school even learned some math, my favorite subject remained art….(more)

KEITH DAGLEY

A versatile artist working primarily in oil, Keith uses both brush and knife techniques. He also works in pastel, graphite and prisma pencil, and is often inspired by his own experiences. A love of family, horses and ranch life, wildlife, Native Americans and their culture, both past and present, provides a wide range in the body of his work.

“Recording life, whether wild, domestic, present or historical, through my artwork fulfills a great need that I have. Capturing the personality of each animal, person, or event and sharing these experiences is the principle behind my painting,” says Keith…(more)

GENE DIECKHONER

Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Gene studied art throughout his school years and graduated from Ohio University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree. After spending five years as a commercial artist in Los Angeles, he decided to focus his attention on the fine art field. To bring an awareness of the world around us; to inspire appreciation of the vastness and diversity of this great land; to revel in the joy of life reflected in the serious and comic exploits of those creatures who share our planet; all these ambitions are represented in Gene’s paintings and sculptures….(more)

JELENA EROS

Jelena was born in Moscow, Russia. In 1971 I competed with thousands of other talented young people from all over Russia and won a coveted place at the Faculty of Applied Art, Moscow Textile University, where She studied under renowned Russian Artists. 1973 I was awarded an ‘Outstanding Student Scholarship’, enabling me to continue my education at the Hungarian University of Applied Art in Budapest, from where I have MA in Textile Design. In 1980 I was invited to teach in Moscow Textile University, as an Assistant Professor at Faculty of Applied Art, at drawing and painting department….(more)

MARLESS FELLOWS

Specializing in oil paintings, I have studied at Scottsdale Artists’ School under renowned artists’ such as Joseph Loruso, Clayton Beck III, John Burton, Carolyn Anderson. My passion is and always will be figure painting. It’s the hardest and yet the most rewarding for me. Growing up being a young cowgirl, it was just my natural course to want paint western art. I love horses and grew up with them. I’m also drawn to the life of the cowboy and his easy slow speaking gentleness. The majority of Cowboys are down to earth hard working ‘good Ole boys’….(more)

CAROLL FORSETH

The artistic ability of Caroll Forseth began to emerge when he was a young boy living in Northern Alberta. He was one of the nine children born to Norwegian immigrants homesteading in Canada. From an early age, he knew he had a talent for painting. Although his surroundings, as a child, did not afford him the luxury of art lessons, the drive and determination of years have made Forseth a master. The development of technique, an uncanny sensitivity to color and the projection of composition were self-learned tools in the quest to record the beauty he sees. The rugged and majestic Rocky Mountains provide the inspiration for the majority of his work….(more)

MIKE GARDNER

Mike Gardner is an accomplished award- winning artist and art teacher whose artistic themes center principally on America Life and Wildlife. His preferred mediums are oil-on-canvas paintings, bronze sculpting and artistic jewelry. He has been featured in various galleries locally and nationally; this will be Mike’s seventh year participating in the Arizona Fine Art EXPO in Scottsdale, AZ….(more)

SUSAN HARTENHOFF-HAYGOOD

Susan, a self-described Midwesterner, was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Her interest in art developed at an early age with influence and support from her family and her father, a plein aire painter now living in California. She spent her childhood pondering the vast landscape that surrounded her. Her love of art is matched only by her passion for horses. She remembers learning about great artists as a young child. One of her most poignant early memories is of a piece called “The Horse Fair” by Rosa Bonheur, that hung in her elementary school’s hallway. It is this subject that first brought attention to her own paintings and drawings. …(more)

JOY HARTL

Growing up on a farm, I learned that Nature is the most sublime artist of all.  In later years when I thought of becoming an artist, that realization turned into a challenge.  How could one capture the palette of a sunrise or sunset?  Colors that constantly evolve into new hues and shades.  How could one ensnare the monochromatic journey of clouds on canvas, ever shifting from glowing pastels to gloomy tones?  How could one reveal the essence of a flower? The exquisite inner architecture that embraces galaxies of light and color….(more)

LARRY HAYWORTH

Larry was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of southwest Missouri. Being surrounded by nature prompted his interest in drawing and painting at an early age. Inspired by his uncle wildlife artist Lee LeBlanc Larry attended Art school at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. Upon graduating Larry painted out of his uncle’s studio for a while before returning to the Ozarks and building a studio….(more)

LINDA HERST

L.C.  finds her inspiration in creating original oil paintings in contemporary and traditional Western Art using rich, bold color and vibrant compositions. Spending time on ranches, working alongside Cowboys, herding cattle, barrel racing, attending American Indian powwows and raising horses and cattle are just a few of the activities used to capture the true essence of Western Art and Cowboy Art.  Observing, sketching, and photographing horses, cowboys and cowgirls, and American Indians, Herst focuses attention on the authenticity of tradition in Native American life and enthusiasm for depicting the cowboy’s frontier….(more)

CHARLES HUCKEBA

Charles Huckeba is a contemporary painter with a fine arts degree and graduate study from the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he studied under an outstanding faculty of contemporary artists such as Larry Rivers and Irma Cavat. His influences are varied, including Paul Klee, Jean Dubuffet, Adolf Gotlieb, Cy Twombly, Wassily Kandinski, and Joan Miro. Charles and his wife, Jill, have spent years exploring and recording the rich lode of prehistoric pictographs and petroglyphs found in the Western United States Great Basin….(more)

BETH HYATT-RAPP

Growing up in Jacksonville, Illinois, I remember as a child always wanting to draw. It was a wonderful pastime and gave me pleasure in entering contests where I was recognized for my ability to draw. After graduation I moved to Chicago in pursuit of an art career at the Art Institute of Chicago, but being tall and thin, I found myself swept into the world of fashion. Growing up dancing and teaching dance during my teen years, it was as easy for me to move in front of a camera as it was for me to breathe. In 1988 a friend and I started “Model Image Center Inc.” which my friend is still operating to this day….(more)

LAUREN KNODE

Color and light are the two major elements in Lauren Knode’s paintings. Her chosen mediums are oil, acrylic and pastel. Painting best represents what she wants to convey about nature’s miraculous breadth of color, diverse texture and energy of light. “The spectacular radiance of a sunrise or sunset, dramatic cloud formations, and light radiating through the petals of a luminous flower, fill me with great inspiration.” Skyscapes and florals, dominant themes in Knode’s work, express her love of nature’s grandeur and intricacies….(more)

DONNA LEVINE

‘Richly colored, expressionistic paintings emerge from intense observation and contemplation of growth and change. Each twist of a leaf on stem, each push and pop of blossom from bud becomes the impetus to explore the miraculous dynamic of life. This is done, not with cool, scientific analysis, but with an instinctual, intuitive, passionate eye. The most important is found in the least apparent.  The details engender thoughts of the universal.’…(more)

DANIEL LONG

Through painting, I want to give expression to my emotional experience of nature. Like some impressionist or cubist painters, I am more interested in capturing personal encounters with nature rather than merely representing it. I think that realism in art shows us a conscious look at reality and nature, as we would expect to see it.I look at abstract art as a tool to unlock the mind, or the unconscious, to see something through color, line, and form that you would not expect to see in nature….(more)

KELBY LOVE

Kelby Love never doubted the focus of his life, from childhood, his interest in nature, particularly fish, was enthusiastic and comprehensive, due to the many trips to the river with his father. Kelby has observed, sketched and painted animals since he can remember, and it has translated into first hand knowledge of his subjects, which he transforms into exacting detail for his clients, Field & Stream, Outdoor Life and National Geographic….(more)

MARLAN MASTELLER

‘I grew up in a small town of Iowa. After studying art in Minneapolis, I took off for California. This was the height of the 60’s – long hair, love beads and peace, man! Now that was a life changing transition to say the least! I have traveled throughout Europe, Canada and the U.S. and seen and heard many unusual and amazing things. After sixty years of going through life’s passages, I am blessed with my wife, Terri, two wonderful children, and a neurotic golden retriever. My occupation is owning a Midwest corporate art source, but my passion lies in bringing pictures to life. Most of my ideas come from sifting through antique magazines and books, as well as my own photography….(more)

WALTER MELNIKOW

Being “in the moment” reflects the essence of my art. I tend to combine the energy, color, and texture that is moving me in the moment that paint is put to canvas. That is why the look of my art varies so much — some days, very structured and geometric, and other days, textural and organic….(more)

BETSY MONTOYA

Betsy Montoya can’t remember a time when she didn’t have a paintbrush, knitting needle or macramé twine in her hand.  Her first true work of art came at the age of ten, when she created a set of four oil paintings inspired by ‘The Cat and the Fiddle”.  Soon after, she learned to sew and began making her own clothes.  Never content with convention, Betsy improvised her own patterns, and added unlikely embellishments and color combinations….(more)

JOHN MORTENSON

John Mortenson was born in 1947 in Williston, North Dakota. His two passions in life were then and continue to be, music and art. His art career began with lessons from the age of eight with his great uncle  Paul Rolshoven, a commercial and fine artist. Not sure yet which direction he wanted to go, he majored in music at Bismarck College. He then went on to graduate from the University of North Dakota with an honors degree in Classical studies followed by a year at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens Greece, with the idea of teaching as a career. However, art beckoned him once more and he studied painting and art history at the Sorbonne in Paris France….(more)

DICK MUELLER

“Growing up with Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, and Hopalong laid the foundation for my love for and curiosity about the dress, faces, and activities of the west of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Using photographs (old and new) for inspiration, I try to paint a feeling and/or action with pencils with pencils, either graphite or colored, not brushes. Besides western characters I also incorporate desert wildlife into my drawings….(more)

LORETTA MUSGRAVE

Loretta wandered the back roads of Arizona with her father, George Linn until he found that country ranch and farm tucked in the foothills of South Mountain in the Valley of the Sun. She was assigned to care for the sick and injured animals, a project that provided her with quiet models for her drawing. At age seven she won a state art competition, which included a small amount of money. Delighted, she began to draw for the local ranchers. They demanded perfection; hard taskmasters but perfect training for the young artist. Packing a Bachelor of Fine Art/specialty in painting degree into three years, her talents were reward with Arizona State University’s Moore Award for Excellence….(more)

LORI MYERS

Lori began her studies in art at Southern Oregon State College and then moved to Phoenix to complete a degree in Interior Design at Scottsdale Community College. While attending college she worked for Flood Studios where she assisted in the process in of creating custom glazed tile. After finishing college she worked for several years in the design field before beginning her career in painting….(more)

LEO POSILLICO

A native of Long Island, New York, Leo, has been a successful, award-winning artist for over 30 years. His work is known and praised nationally and internationally and is widely recognizable through his signature brush stroke characters.

Trained at New York City’s School of Visual Arts, Posillico, has been a photographer in Vietnam and pursued a multi-faceted art career as an art director, illustrator, board game designer, album, book cover artist, and author. Was represented by Martin Lawrence Galleries in the United States and shown in various galleries in Japan….(more)

GARY ROBERTSON

The concept behind Gary Robertson’s art is to take “A New Look at the Old West”. Over the last century the subject of the American West captured the imagination and heart of many artists and art patrons. Painters, such as Moran, Remington, Dixon, Hurley, Mahaffey and Mell, all created exceptionally beautiful works. To help update this tradition, Gary wants to bring new life to this popular, but aging movement. Interest in the American West is as strong as ever; however, he detects a desire by many, to see this subject portrayed differently…more up to date. He feels the old techniques and mediums are not that appealing or important to the emerging, younger patrons. They want something new and unique….(more)

BILL SHADDIX

Born November 30,1931, the success that Bill Shaddix has received has been hard fought and well deserved. The oldest of eight children, Bill knew intimately the grinding poverty of the depression years. His parents lost their own farm in Oklahoma and worked as laborers to hold the family together. Bill can still remember working alongside his mother in the cotton fields. But the painful memory of lean times is tempered by more happy thoughts, of fishing in the creek, gigging for frogs, and occasionally  stealing a melon and eating the heart out right here in the patch”….(more)

PATRICIA STACY

The artist Andrew Hamilton once wrote:  ”The tip of your brush is the tip of your soul”—and so it is for Pat Stacy, an artist who paints with much color as well as her inner self.  Her work is contemporary, abstract, and contains symbols that communicate her gratitude for universal creative expression.  You will find an Entity touched by the light of the Creator in all of her recent work with the light of the Creator coming into the painting sometimes expressed by descending golden squares. Spirals represent the journey to the center of our being, and triple spirals or triskelions may have many meanings….(more)

RON STEWART

In the over-crowded field of contemporary western artists, Ron Stewart’s professional achievements have made his work familiar to a wide range of discriminating collectors. Ron is among those who is tied hard and fast to the quality of painting and the historical fidelity of the Old West Masters….(more)

WEI TAI

WEI TAI arrived in America in 1991. Since that time, he has successfully found his rightful place among the leading Chinese artists of his generation. Born in a rural village south of Shanghai, China, his father was a reserved sculptor in their homeland and taught his son both sculpting and painting techniques. Wei Tai went on to be a graduate from the Shanghai Fine Art Institute. He was also an Assistant Professor of Art and Fashion design in Shanghai College. The artist served as the Chief Designer of the China Silk Corporation for seven years….(more)

SAM THIEWES

“I studied art at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. I spent 36 years in Chicago and Colorado as a freelance figure illustrator. I moved to Colorado with my wife Nancy in 1993. Started painting outdoors about the same time. My work for the last fifteen years have consisted of Landscapes, both studio and plein air, Wildlife, Portrait and Figurative. Within the past year I have been concentrating on paintings of Cowgirls. The Cowgirl paintings are based on many of the older cowgirls I have met over the last seven years….(more)

TJ THOMPSON

Tim (TJ) Thompson, the Painter of Horses and the People they own, is a self taught, versatile artist that has been creating art for over 30 years. Known for his ability to capture ordinary lives and routine moments with a thought provoking message, his paintings are his inner voice placed on canvas. He does this in a way so that others may see, feel and participate with him in the telling of the story. Tim’s versatility is apparent in his work, from creating heirloom quality portraits to original western/wildlife art….(more)

SCOTT WALLIS

Wallis’s paintings can be described as colorful, intense, vibrant and even aggressive. His impressionistic style makes you feel like you’ve been or want to be in each scene. He creates a vision of harmony with such elements as color, texture, light, surface interest and balance, resulting in exciting works of art. Born in Ogden, Utah, Wallis was raised in Logan. He graduated from Utah State University in 1980 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and photography. …(more)

WILLIE WALTRIP

Willi was raised in OK where she learned her love of horses and rodeos. Majoring in art from the University of Missouri, she then worked as an artist for Halllmark Cards before going into advertising and purchasing her own commercial art studio. Marriage led to the Waltrip Ranch in Peoria, AZ where she raised horses while becoming the first woman art director in the area and then creative director for a local ad agency.  Winning various advertising awards she continued in her field as advertising director in a Forbes Fortune 100 company….(more)