Winter 2021 Exhibition
The exhibition will be available for viewing at Arizona Artists Guild, 18411 N. 7th Ave. in Phoenix, AZ 85023,
Mondays 9am-noon, Wednesdays 3-5 during Open Studio, during AAG
events, or by appointment.
December 5, 2021-February 5, 2022
Natalie Keller
Lonely Trails
Lonely Trails
Natalie Keller
Medium: Oil
Size: 20 x 20
Price: $950
Karen Gray resides in Phoenix, Arizona. A lifetime passion for art began when she was a child, initiated by her grandmother. Plein air excursions to various scenic locations in Phoenix painting landscapes were enriching experiences. Art classes continued through high school and college. As a student at ASU, course work in drawing, painting, ceramics, and life drawing enhanced her knowledge base. While her adult professional career was in the medical field, art activities continued to be a part of her life with additional college courses and numerous workshops. Now retired, the joy of painting is possible every day.
As a member of the Arizona Watercolor Association and Arizona Artists Guild, she has participated in juried exhibitions showing watercolor paintings of various subjects. Flowers, landscapes, and portraits are all included in her portfolio. Karen is currently the chairperson for AWA member workshops. It’s been a pleasure to speak with the talented artists in Arizona and encourage them to share their skills with all of the AWA membership.
Website:
Watercolors.sonoranfoothills@godaddy.com
Breakthrough
Breakthrough
Breakthrough
Marian Sommers
Medium: Mixed media acrylic
Size: 36 x 36
Price: $1,200
Like many artists, my love of art began early. My grandmother was an avid supporter providing me with Plein Air instruction from a local artist and classes at the city’s art center during the summers months. It was during my senior year in high school in a painting class that I got hooked on painting! Eventually, I earned my Art Ed degree and taught middle and high school art for 25 years. Painting has been my absolute passion since retiring in 2007. I moved to Arizona from Milwaukee in 2013, and converted my two car garage into my home studio, complete with A/C of course. I soon tired of traditional painting and wanted to explore abstraction. Abstract painting is tremendously challenging for me yet rewarding.
This particular painting, “Breakthrough.” has several paintings underneath that I just never felt satisfied with. After applying many layers of paint I added tissue collage papers that I had made with India ink. More textures and other marks were added. The process of the working and experimenting intuitively is what brought me joy, and eventually I felt the piece was complete. It was for me a “Breakthrough”.
Droughts Reprieve
Droughts Reprieve
Droughts Reprieve
Candice Diaz
Medium: Sumi ink and watercolor on marbled rice paper
Size: 12 x 10
Price: $400
Candice Diaz is an Arizona native that graduated from Arizona State University.
At age forty, she left teaching when accepted to the graphic design program at
ASU. After retiring from technical drawings and reports, she pursued more
education in drawing, painting and related areas.
Since 2008 she has entered and exhibited in juried shows. Recently, she has
been teaching workshops with Pam Root at Shemer Art Center for the
Marbling on Rice Paper class.
Currently, Candice participates in the Arizona Watercolor Association (AWA
Signature Member), Arizona Artists Guild (AAG Juried Member), Arizona Art
Alliance (AAA Juried Member), Contemporary Watercolorists of Arizona
(CWA Signature Member), Western Federation of Watercolor Societies
(WFWS Signature Member), the Phoenix Tanglers and the National
Watercolor Society.
Recent juried shows include AWA, CWA, the Herberger Theater Art
Exhibitions, AAA WHAM Show, the Arizona State Fair, Glendale Arts
Council Juried Fine Arts Exhibit and the Western Federation of Watercolor
Societies (WFWS).
Contact information:
Candice Diaz
taydiaz@earthlink.net
602 510 6810
Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon
Matthew Werner
Medium: Wood (silky oak and eucalyptus)
Size: 26 x 11 x 18
Price: $8,300
I’m a positive-minded, non-cynical person. I see people as engaging, amusing, beautiful, joyous, and noble characters in life’s panoply. People are simply the most interesting part of the show.
When folks see my sculptures, they see snapshots of people—like themselves—who are doing things that they have done—singing, dancing, sleeping, striving, running, praying—people living. It’s as if they see movements and moments from the show of life. In their minds, they create stories to go with the art.
The art forces a narrative from the viewer.
That’s what I do—I make narrative, realistic, people-sculptures. I see the essential humanity of folks around me—people of all races and walks—and I capture it in physical forms that encourage folks to find a story that is uniquely their own. The narrative may be long and involved, or it may be only a few words. Sometimes they tell me what they see.
I admire the sculptor Bernini for his sense of movement and composition. I admire Rodin for his impressionistic abbreviations of human forms. I favor the illustrator Rockwell for his loyalty to the nobility of common women and men.
Sleeping Giants
Sleeping Giants
Sleeping Giants
Henry Bosak
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 24 x 24
NFS
Why do I do my art? A valid question I suppose. The best reason I have been able to come up with is that I love to create! There is just something so fulfilling about getting lost in the process of creating…time stands still. To be able to look at an image, object or scene and recreate it on canvas or paper in the most realistic way that I can. Being able to share with someone what I’ve captured on the canvas or paper brings me so much satisfaction.
Narragansett Sentry
Narragansett Sentry
Narragansett Sentry
John Erwin
Medium: Watercolor
Size: 18 x 22
Price $300
I have been painting watercolors for over 30 years. I have studied with Diane Maxie, Dick Phillips, Robert E. Woods, Milford Zornes, and
many others. I have a B. S., a B.A. Ed., and a Master’s Degree in Education from A.S.U. I recently retired from the Paradise Valley School
District after teaching for 40 years. I now teach painting, sketching and printmaking at the Shemer Art Center in Phoenix.
I enjoy capturing the textures and bright colors found in nature and in man made structures.
OK Boomer
OK Boomer
OK Boomer
Lee Brown
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 20 x 30
Price: $600
I am a Phoenix artist and a longtime member of AAG. I have been a member of the ARTERY GALLERY, but now work out of my home studio. I generally work in the tradition of the French Romantic, Ashcan and social realist painters. As such, my work features human figures in a variety of social and political settings.
Zabriskie Point
Zabriskie Point
Zabriskie Point
Melanie Harman
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 22 x 22
Price: $600
I work in watermedia on paper. Lately I have been working with collage, using paper and tissue that I have painted myself in acrylic. The act of placing and gluing the papers is meditative and soothing. Sometimes I add more painting on top, but often the collage is all that is needed
Silo Sherman Oregon
Silo Sherman Oregon
Silo Sherman Oregon
Suzie Blackwell
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 24 x 36
Price: $200
I am a graphic designer who has recently started painting again. I love trying new mediums and styles to create art. I was born in Salem, Oregon and have lived in Arizona since 2001. I miss my PNW roots and find myself painting images from the nature I remember there. I have been fascinated with farms as long as I can remember. I loved seeing the sun capture the water spraying from large sprinklers across acres of strawberry fields, combines gathering wheat, and boys on back of trucks hooking the hay bales onto trailers. There are vast amounts of rolling hills and generational farms in the community I grew up in near Silverton Oregon. I also miss the Oregon Coast and like to paint the ocean and ocean sky. I dabble in abstract paintings as well, working in Acrylic on canvas.
Just Rolling Along
Just Rolling Along
Just Rolling Along
Mikii Bendotti
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 16 x 20
NFS
winter Sentinel
Winter Sentinel
Winter Sentinel
Craig Anthony Lomas
Medium: Gouache and colored pencil
Size: 18 x 15
Price: $225
Craig is a long-time signature member of the Artists for Conservation Foundation, dedicated and passionate to their overall mission in supporting wildlife and the environment. Through Craig’s work, he hopes to bring awareness to our natural world. We need to preserve and protect animals and protect our environment. We must respect and honor our environment if we are to declare our stewardship of this planet. We must change our behavior to ensure future generations’ enjoyment of what we are blessed to have
Clean Dishes
Clean Dishes
Clean Dishes
Candice Diaz
Medium: Watercolor
Size: 10 x 10
Price: $350
Candice Diaz is an Arizona native that graduated from Arizona State University.
At age forty, she left teaching when accepted to the graphic design program at
ASU. After retiring from technical drawings and reports, she pursued more
education in drawing, painting and related areas.
Since 2008 she has entered and exhibited in juried shows. Recently, she has
been teaching workshops with Pam Root at Shemer Art Center for the
Marbling on Rice Paper class.
Currently, Candice participates in the Arizona Watercolor Association (AWA
Signature Member), Arizona Artists Guild (AAG Juried Member), Arizona Art
Alliance (AAA Juried Member), Contemporary Watercolorists of Arizona
(CWA Signature Member), Western Federation of Watercolor Societies
(WFWS Signature Member), the Phoenix Tanglers and the National
Watercolor Society.
Recent juried shows include AWA, CWA, the Herberger Theater Art
Exhibitions, AAA WHAM Show, the Arizona State Fair, Glendale Arts
Council Juried Fine Arts Exhibit and the Western Federation of Watercolor
Societies (WFWS).
Contact information:
Candice Diaz
taydiaz@earthlink.net
602 510 6810
By the Seaside
By the Seaside
By The Seaside
Craig Anthony Lomas
Medium: Gouache and colored pencil
Size: 17 x 14
Price $250
Craig is a long-time signature member of the Artists for Conservation Foundation, dedicated and passionate to their overall mission in supporting wildlife and the environment. Through Craig’s work, he hopes to bring awareness to our natural world. We need to preserve and protect animals and protect our environment. We must respect and honor our environment if we are to declare our stewardship of this planet. We must change our behavior to ensure future generations’ enjoyment of what we are blessed to have
Magnetism
Magnetism
Magnetism
Candice Diaz
Medium: Watercolor
Size: 12 x 12
Price $300
Candice Diaz is an Arizona native that graduated from Arizona State University.
At age forty, she left teaching when accepted to the graphic design program at
ASU. After retiring from technical drawings and reports, she pursued more
education in drawing, painting and related areas.
Since 2008 she has entered and exhibited in juried shows. Recently, she has
been teaching workshops with Pam Root at Shemer Art Center for the
Marbling on Rice Paper class.
Currently, Candice participates in the Arizona Watercolor Association (AWA
Signature Member), Arizona Artists Guild (AAG Juried Member), Arizona Art
Alliance (AAA Juried Member), Contemporary Watercolorists of Arizona
(CWA Signature Member), Western Federation of Watercolor Societies
(WFWS Signature Member), the Phoenix Tanglers and the National
Watercolor Society.
Recent juried shows include AWA, CWA, the Herberger Theater Art
Exhibitions, AAA WHAM Show, the Arizona State Fair, Glendale Arts
Council Juried Fine Arts Exhibit and the Western Federation of Watercolor
Societies (WFWS).
Contact information:
Candice Diaz
taydiaz@earthlink.net
602 510 6810
Olds Cool
Olds Cool
Olds cool
Matthew Werner
Medium: Wood (Aleppo pine and yellow boxwood burl)
Size: 32 x 13 x 12)
Price: $7,200
I’m a positive-minded, non-cynical person. I see people as engaging, amusing, beautiful, joyous, and noble characters in life’s panoply. People are simply the most interesting part of the show.
When folks see my sculptures, they see snapshots of people—like themselves—who are doing things that they have done—singing, dancing, sleeping, striving, running, praying—people living. It’s as if they see movements and moments from the show of life. In their minds, they create stories to go with the art.
The art forces a narrative from the viewer.
That’s what I do—I make narrative, realistic, people-sculptures. I see the essential humanity of folks around me—people of all races and walks—and I capture it in physical forms that encourage folks to find a story that is uniquely their own. The narrative may be long and involved, or it may be only a few words. Sometimes they tell me what they see.
I admire the sculptor Bernini for his sense of movement and composition. I admire Rodin for his impressionistic abbreviations of human forms. I favor the illustrator Rockwell for his loyalty to the nobility of common women and men.
Family Snapshot
Family Snapshot
Family Snapshot
Henry Bosak
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 15 x 10
NFS
Why do I do my art? A valid question I suppose. The best reason I have been able to come up with is that I love to create! There is just something so fulfilling about getting lost in the process of creating…time stands still. To be able to look at an image, object or scene and recreate it on canvas or paper in the most realistic way that I can. Being able to share with someone what I’ve captured on the canvas or paper brings me so much satisfaction.
What We Put Our Attention On Grows
What We Put Our Attention On Grows
What We Put Our Attention On Grows
Kimber Jones
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 16 x 20
Price $200
Soon after making my first brush stroke in 2013 I learned that using a brush stifled my creativity. After casting the brush aside, I curiously dipped my palms in paint. Emotions immediately flowed effortlessly through my hands and fingers as I smeared paint abstractly on the canvas as though I was dancing. The gate opened exposing my new-found manner of releasing emotions and working through challenges. I became one with the canvas; in total harmony.
Many artists know exactly where they are headed when they begin a piece of art; I prefer allowing it to take on a life of its own. My work is abstract expressionistic with mixed media and acrylic on canvas often with garbage integrated. The unique textures and luminous colors express my emotions.
I cannot resist adding the landscape architect’s touch by using a Sharpie marker to sign my creations. Adding another level of meaning, I title paintings using powerful statements spoken by my wise supporters to pay it forward.
Edinburgh Close
Edinburgh Close
Edinburgh Close
Lindy Swinney
Medium: Oil
Size: 24 x 36
NFS
As a newcomer to the desert Southwest I fell in love with the expansive skies, colors, and open spaces of Arizona. I had just relocated from New York State and this kind of landscape was completely foreign to me. I was however captivated by the sunsets, mountains, and stormy skies. ‘Desert Sunset’ came from a place of love for this formidable but beautiful place. In it I tried to capture the glowing sky over the desert as it slowly melts down into soft velvety night.
As a forever creative human and self taught artist I have always sought to explore what it means to live this life and to challenge myself in both expressing what that is, and to use the tools and techniques that appeal to me most. This is of course a dynamic, ever changing process. I believe that all artistic endeavors are at least partially autobiographical, but it is my hope that the viewer sees my work through the lens of their own experience and that it provides them meaning and enjoyment.
I have exhibited in multiple solo and group shows here in the Southwest and continue to paint whatever stirs my creative soul into action. Various artworks are in the hands of private collectors.
White on White
White on White
White on White
Nancy Long
Medium: Oil
Size: 21 x 25
Price: $1,200
I have been drawing and painting since I was a child. I received my first set of oils and an easel when I was 12 and I have been drawing and paint ever since. I love to paint rural landscapes and old structures or any other vestiges of times past. Showing the light and mood of a scene is what matters most to me. I love to try to capture a moment. A photograph will never quite tell the whole story or the feeling you have when seeing a scene. It’s so important to remember the impression, light and mood so I can put it on canvas.
Farewell
Farewell
Farewell
Roger “Roj” Lateiner
Medium: Acrylic on hardboard
Size: 24 x 24
Price: $1,600
I am often asked what kind of art I make. Surrealism, Outsider Art and styles like Art Deco and Anime come up, but my art is just a collaboration between my eye and my subconscious. I seldom have a clear idea of what I will paint before sitting in front of my canvas, staring at its blankness, looking for a clue where to begin. Things I have seen or thought about in recent days will percolate through my mind and I will begin to see something teasing my eye, suggesting a line or a form. A canvas will evolve over time as the first image emerges and suggests what it needs to move the process along. Often images will simply emerge from brushstrokes serving entirely different purposes.
That said, in this exhibit, the work titled “Farewell” is actually drawn from a photograph of my wife embracing our 22-year-old eldest child who had, the day before, met with us to tell us he was transitioning from male to female. The photo caught my eye as I prepared to paint on the twentieth anniversary of the automobile accident that killed our new daughter just two years after the photo was taken.
Stillness
Stillness
Stillness
Maria Karlosak
Medium: Oil on wood panel
Size: 16 x 24
Price: $600
Maria Karlosak a visual Artist, combines figures, realism and Abstract with an intense, everything -all- at- once. She developed a love of art at an early age, and has been creating art in various media ever since. She loves nature and has always loved to travel the world. Maria loves to paint landscape and cityscape. She saw a great potential in this form of painting and expression even despite the difficulty of this style. She puts the sights that capture her interest as well as the beauty of nature she see during her travels to canvas.
All Dressed Up
All Dressed Up
All Dressed Up
Sherry Kimmel
Medium: Mixed media collage
Size: 10 x 13
Price: $200
Sherry has lived in Arizona since 1979 and she loves her desert home. In 2004 after attending art classes at Glendale Community College, including five semesters of watercolor with Darlene Goto, art history, drawing, life drawing and painting in acrylics, she joined the Arizona Watercolor Association and began entering exhibitions on a local, regional and national level. Sherry is a Signature Member of the Arizona Watercolor Association and The Contemporary Watercolorists of Arizona. She has received awards for her exhibited works. She is also a member of The Arizona Artists Guild and is excited to begin entering exhibitions again.
Since 2012, Sherry has been exploring mixed media, mono printing, and collage and she has been teaching classes on these subjects at Arizona Art Supply and various art leagues in the valley.
When Sherry discovered mono printing on a handmade gelatin plate she began experimenting with a variety of techniques, including a custom order for a 22 x30 print using branches from a Eucalyptus tree. What an incredible experience it was producing those prints! She now also uses the Gelli Arts Plate to paint papers for collage.
Radiating Blue
Radiating Blue
Radiating Blue
Alice Pelchat
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 24 x 20
Price: $600
Many years ago, pursuing a career in nursing seemed a better option for me than going to art school. The desire to learn how to paint continued so I enrolled in art classes whenever possible. I graduated from the University of Vermont, with a degree in nursing.
I attended Johnson State college in Vermont and Bellevue College in Omaha Nebraska were I studied design, painting, printmaking and took advantage of numerous workshops from nationally known artists. This motivated me to develop an abstract style of painting which continues to this day.
I have exhibited my work in New England, the Mid West and South West. After a forty-five year career in nursing I continue to paint almost every day.
Cozy Retirement
Cosy Retirement
Cosy Retirement
Carol Lei Bendell
Medium: Pastel
Size: 17 x 14
Price: $1,150
Originating from the Midwest, I’ve always been heavily involved in the arts, receiving a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and doing graduate study in Visual Communication at IIT, Institute of Design. My work has been as an Editorial Illustrator, Fine Art Reporter, and Art Instructor at Art Centers and Community Colleges.
In 1980, an opportunity to move to the little Kingdom of Denmark arose. I made Copenhagen my home for the next 26 years, teaching English to adults while learning the Danish language. In addition, I illustrated, taught adult watercolor and drawing courses, and had a watercolor portrait business.I married my high school sweetheart and moved to Hawaii to be with him in 2007. I taught Visual Art to children and teenagers in private schools in Hawaii, until 2018 when the couple moved to Phoenix, Arizona where I now draw and paint daily in my art studio, but also teach in the Scottsdale Artists School Youth and Teen Academy.
My Motivation: I have always found people and their circumstances to be infinitely interesting. As a storyteller, my cultural vision has been shaped by my places of residence: the dense, verdant forests and glens of Ohio where I spent my childhood, urban Chicago, the Kingdom of Denmark, lush, beautiful Hawaii and now Arizona, with a theme of our being products of our times, surrounded by icons which symbolize our diverse conditions. I draw from life as often as possible. My figurative paintings examine energetic vibrations expressed through color and paint strokes, lighting the spark in perceptions and memories. My colorful sky-scapes and nature studies are intended to replenish the soul.
Madison
Madison
Madison
Donna Ceraulo
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 30 x 40
Price: $695
Donna Ceraulo has a passion for female portraiture in a wide variety of semi-abstract styles. Donna’s usual mediums are acrylic paint, mixed media collage and digital art. The work she creates can be emotional, dark, sad, fun, or whimsical. Her works often incorporate built up layers that make them interesting whether viewing from a distance or close-up.
Donna believes in the healing and nurturing benefits of a creative life. “ART enables us to FIND ourselves and LOSE ourselves at the same time.” (Thomas Merton).
Donna has three grown children and a grandson. She lives in NE Phoenix, Arizona with her boxer dog, Cody. She is an animal lover, an avid reader and you’ll find her every weekend painting in her home studio with her dog at her feet and listening to an audio book.
lande 33
lande 33
lande 33
Jean Rossman
Medium: Watercolor and gouache
Size: 16 x 20
Price: $400
Secrets and mysteries are fun and I try to incorporate them into my paintings. I invite the viewer to create their own answers to ‘why’ this image or that color. My work is meant to be enjoyable over and over as the viewer discovers new details when the light changes throughout the day. Composition and color are foremost in the elements of my work. I strive for subjects beyond the edge of common
Wings
Wins
Wings
Kimberly Harris
Medium: Ceramic
Size: 9 x 8 x 18
Price: $1,250
Long Past
Long Past
Long Past
Lindy Swinney
Medium: Oil
Size: 30 x 30
Price: $795
As a newcomer to the desert Southwest I fell in love with the expansive skies, colors, and open spaces of Arizona. I had just relocated from New York State and this kind of landscape was completely foreign to me. I was however captivated by the sunsets, mountains, and stormy skies. ‘Desert Sunset’ came from a place of love for this formidable but beautiful place. In it I tried to capture the glowing sky over the desert as it slowly melts down into soft velvety night.
As a forever creative human and self taught artist I have always sought to explore what it means to live this life and to challenge myself in both expressing what that is, and to use the tools and techniques that appeal to me most. This is of course a dynamic, ever changing process. I believe that all artistic endeavors are at least partially autobiographical, but it is my hope that the viewer sees my work through the lens of their own experience and that it provides them meaning and enjoyment.
I have exhibited in multiple solo and group shows here in the Southwest and continue to paint whatever stirs my creative soul into action. Various artworks are in the hands of private collectors.
Grandpas Best Friend
Grandpas Best Friend
Grandpas Best Friend
Nancy Long
Medium: Oil
Size: 15 x 27
Price: $950
I have been drawing and painting since I was a child. I received my first set of oils and an easel when I was 12 and I have been drawing and paint ever since. I love to paint rural landscapes and old structures or any other vestiges of times past. Showing the light and mood of a scene is what matters most to me. I love to try to capture a moment. A photograph will never quite tell the whole story or the feeling you have when seeing a scene. It’s so important to remember the impression, light and mood so I can put it on canvas.
Reclining Spirit
Reclining Spirit
Reclining Spirit
Carole Matthews
Medium: Mixed media
Size: 20 x 16
Price: $300
The endless essence of nature is often the source of my inspiration. I usually choose to interpret this abstractly since I feel that abstraction encourages emotions, involvement and freedom of imagination. My primary purpose is to encourage people to use their own Imaginations to freely interpret the images according to their own personal life experiences.
Generally I work in a water based medium because of the fluid movement and transparent layers that can be achieved. Color, texture, layers and line are important to my work.
My goal is to try to find the simplest and most interesting way to transfer feelings of spontaneity, freshness and freedom to my work
Misty Horizon
Misty Horizon
Misty Horizon
Maria Karlosak
Medium: Oil on wood panel
Size: 16 x 24
Price: $450
Maria Karlosak a visual Artist, combines figures, realism and Abstract with an intense, everything -all- at- once. She developed a love of art at an early age, and has been creating art in various media ever since. She loves nature and has always loved to travel the world. Maria loves to paint landscape and cityscape. She saw a great potential in this form of painting and expression even despite the difficulty of this style. She puts the sights that capture her interest as well as the beauty of nature she see during her travels to canvas.
Amber Breeze
Amber Breeze
Amber Breeze
Alicia Plogman
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 16 x 20
Price: $350
Alicia’s subjects are usually of an organic nature… enjoys using several mediums.
Education: UCLA, PVCC & several workshops
Has shown work in the U.S & Europe .
Juried member of AAG, Contemporary Watercolorists of Arizona & Az. Art Alliance
Sunset Extravaganza
Sunset Extravaganza
Sunset Extravaganza
Alice Pelchat
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 22 x 27
Price $500
Many years ago, pursuing a career in nursing seemed a better option for me than going to art school. The desire to learn how to paint continued so I enrolled in art classes whenever possible. I graduated from the University of Vermont, with a degree in nursing.
I attended Johnson State college in Vermont and Bellevue College in Omaha Nebraska were I studied design, painting, printmaking and took advantage of numerous workshops from nationally known artists. This motivated me to develop an abstract style of painting which continues to this day.
I have exhibited my work in New England, the Mid West and South West. After a forty-five year career in nursing I continue to paint almost every day.
Many years ago, pursuing a career in nursing seemed a better option for me than going to art school. The desire to learn how to paint continued so I enrolled in art classes whenever possible. I graduated from the University of Vermont, with a degree in nursing.
I attended Johnson State college in Vermont and Bellevue College in Omaha Nebraska were I studied design, painting, printmaking and took advantage of numerous workshops from nationally known artists. This motivated me to develop an abstract style of painting which continues to this day.
I have exhibited my work in New England, the Mid West and South West. After a forty-five year career in nursing I continue to paint almost every day.
Harris Hawk On His Sonoran Throne
Harris Hawk On His Sonoran Throne
Harris Hawk On His Sonoran Throne
Carol Lei Bendell
Medium: Pastel
Size: 23 x 27
Price: $2,850
Originating from the Midwest, I’ve always been heavily involved in the arts, receiving a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and doing graduate study in Visual Communication at IIT, Institute of Design. My work has been as an Editorial Illustrator, Fine Art Reporter, and Art Instructor at Art Centers and Community Colleges.
In 1980, an opportunity to move to the little Kingdom of Denmark arose. I made Copenhagen my home for the next 26 years, teaching English to adults while learning the Danish language. In addition, I illustrated, taught adult watercolor and drawing courses, and had a watercolor portrait business.I married my high school sweetheart and moved to Hawaii to be with him in 2007. I taught Visual Art to children and teenagers in private schools in Hawaii, until 2018 when the couple moved to Phoenix, Arizona where I now draw and paint daily in my art studio, but also teach in the Scottsdale Artists School Youth and Teen Academy.
My Motivation: I have always found people and their circumstances to be infinitely interesting. As a storyteller, my cultural vision has been shaped by my places of residence: the dense, verdant forests and glens of Ohio where I spent my childhood, urban Chicago, the Kingdom of Denmark, lush, beautiful Hawaii and now Arizona, with a theme of our being products of our times, surrounded by icons which symbolize our diverse conditions. I draw from life as often as possible. My figurative paintings examine energetic vibrations expressed through color and paint strokes, lighting the spark in perceptions and memories. My colorful sky-scapes and nature studies are intended to replenish the soul.
Slightly Agitated
Slightly Agitated
Slightly Agitated
Elissa Nowacki
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 48 x 48
Price: $3,500
Artist Elissa Nowacki’s formal art education is limited. She took one art class in high school, and a couple lower-level classes at Community College. She had an amazing Freehand Perspective course at ASU before switching her major from architecture to education. Most recently, in the spring of 2004, she and her exceptionally tolerant husband enrolled in an evening painting class, at Phoenix College, which they fondly referred to as, “marriage counseling.” Elissa’s family is checkered with eccentric artist types, including her mother, who she credits with most of her artistic education.
Elissa Nowacki has dabbled in the arts her entire life, but her current painting style began in the fall of. Her style has gotten tighter, her line work more intricate, and her subject matter has expanded. Her art has been displayed at Third Space, Pita Jungle, Tempe Festival of the Arts, Fountain Hills Art Festival, Grinders Coffee House, and The Grand Arthaus. Her home studio is a stop on the annual Sunnyslope Studio Tour. She has been juried into Sonoran Arts League and Artlink group shows and earned the Award of Distinction in the Arizona Artist Guild Winter Group show.
Going Somewhere
Going Somewhere
Going Somewhere
Jean Rossman
Medium: Watercolor and gouache
Size: 20 x 20
Price: $400
Secrets and mysteries are fun and I try to incorporate them into my paintings. I invite the viewer to create their own answers to ‘why’ this image or that color. My work is meant to be enjoyable over and over as the viewer discovers new details when the light changes throughout the day. Composition and color are foremost in the elements of my work. I strive for subjects beyond the edge of common
Javalina with Antlers
Javalina with Antlers
Javalina with Antlers
Kimberly Harris
Medium: Ceramic and antlers
Size: 17 x 15 x 28
Price: $2,500
Wild Women Rocked the West
Wild Women Rocked the West
Wild Women Rocked the West
Marvella Frey
Medium: Mixed media
Size: 28 x 40
Price: $1,200
Art and the world of color has been my lifelong inspiration and love. Crayons and paper were my favorite “toy”. My first memory is of a purple, magenta, and black shirt my mother wore, long before I was old enough to talk or remember it, but I can see still it. I earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Studio Art back in the late 1970s, specializing in oil painting and welding. Many years passed while I was raising a family, returning to graduate school and working however, I always made time to take an art class, visit art exhibitions and museums, and used art and art therapy training to work with adolescents in my career.
Six years ago I returned to painting more regularly, starting back at figure painting classes at the Phoenix Center for the Arts. In 2020, I retired and finally fulfilled my lifelong dream of becoming a fulltime artist.
As an artist, I am inspired by the beauty and diversity of human and animal spirits, of faces and places, nature and light. My paintings reflect a moment in time, expressed through my own experiences and emotions, and the beauty of people, the planet and color.
Reminiscing
Reminiscing
Reminiscing
Natalie Keller
Medium: Oil
Size: 16 x 20
Price: $850
“I have a passion for art and I try to paint a story or mood on each canvas that the viewer can appreciate.”
Art has been Natalie’s creative outlet for many years. She has been drawing since she was eight years old and started painting as a young adult.
Natalie has lived overseas and off the mainland U.S. for eleven years and during that time she had four one woman shows. She has sold oil paintings, pastel portraits and graphite drawing in Hawaii, Switzerland, Singapore, Delaware and Arizona. Most days you will find Natalie painting in her studio in Scottsdale, Arizona where she displays her paintings by appointment only. Her painting “Barrel Racer” was chosen by the Scottsdale Gallery Association to be displayed for a year on a poster at the Main Street and Marshall kiosk.
Natalie signs her art with a stylized tree and her Italian name “Natale”. She was named after her grandmother who was born on Christmas and the name “Natale” means Christmas; “Natalie “ is the English translation.
Natalie is a member of the Sonoran Arts League, American Women Artists, Arizona Artist’s Guild, The Oil Painters of America and the Arizona Art Alliance. Natalie is also a juried member of the Sonoran Arts League where she had her work evaluated and received the ‘J” distinction
Shy Presence
Shy Presence
Shy Presence
Carole Matthews
Medium: Mixed media
Size: 13 x 13
Price: $275
The endless essence of nature is often the source of my inspiration. I usually choose to interpret this abstractly since I feel that abstraction encourages emotions, involvement and freedom of imagination. My primary purpose is to encourage people to use their own Imaginations to freely interpret the images according to their own personal life experiences.
Generally I work in a water based medium because of the fluid movement and transparent layers that can be achieved. Color, texture, layers and line are important to my work.
My goal is to try to find the simplest and most interesting way to transfer feelings of spontaneity, freshness and freedom to my work
Recycled Remnants
Recycled Remnants
Recycled Remnants
Marcia Losh
Medium: Textiles, buttons, beads, cork
Size: 16 x 18
NFS
After seven years of successfully exhibiting my digital photography mandalas, the global challenges of 2020 turned my art inclinations back to sewing. The tactile experience with fabrics, needle and thread, beads, buttons and trims ignited a different kind of creativity and resulted in collages with a physical texture and diversity. This was a good way to reuse and recycle materials I had been collecting for decades; no new purchases, just reviewing what was available and collaging it together in new forms. In a similar way, I have been focused on rebuilding myself to take part in a changed world, with altered perspectives on both the past and the future.
All the Lonely People
All the Lonely People
All the Lonely People
Lee Brown
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 48 x 40
Price: $1,500
I am a Phoenix artist and a longtime member of AAG. I have been a member of the ARTERY GALLERY, but now work out of my home studio. I generally work in the tradition of the French Romantic, Ashcan and social realist painters. As such, my work features human figures in a variety of social and political settings.
Migration
Migration
Migration
Amy Newton-McConnel
Medium: Photography
Size: 32 x 24
Price: $600
I am an art photographer living in Phoenix Arizona with my husband, daughter and Boston Terrier. I have been highly creative since childhood, making art in various mediums. Photography, however, is my passion and my inspiration comes from my family and the world immediately around me. My goal is to find the extraordinary in the ordinary offering a unique perspective. Photography inspires me to see, feel and think differently and interpret my surroundings in a new and unexpected way. I particularly enjoy utilizing In Camera Movement (ICM) techniques where the camera is intentionally moved during the exposure to create painterly and abstract artistic effects. I am inspired by lines and textures, colors and shapes and create art that inspires emotional response.
Monsoon Rains
Monsoon Rains
Monsoon Rains
Jennifer T. Henry
Medium: Oli and cold wax
Size: 12 x 16
NFS
Jennifer T. Henry studied art while at the University of Cape Town, South Africa where she was born. She immigrated to Phoenix with her husband and family in 1987.
Art has always been an integral part of her life, including her love of teaching from the youngest of ages to Middle School. She continues to attend courses at Maricopa Community Colleges, and with local teaching artists. She is an active member of AZ Print Group, and Arizona Artist Guild.
Playing with color, experimenting with different media are vital to her creativity in portraying her art, be it printmaking, water media, inks, collage, oil and cold wax. Often it’s more about process than the product.
Jennifer creates art in response to the beauty she encounters in the natural world. Her camera’s viewfinder and macro lens allow her to focus on form, colors, textures, and patterns that she seeks to interpret in her art.
Tripod
Tripod
Tripod
Kimberly Harris
Medium: Ceramic
Size: 9 x 9 x 15
Price: $850
Emergence
Emergence
Emergence
Marvella Frey
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 24 x 30
Price: $750
Art and the world of color has been my lifelong inspiration and love. Crayons and paper were my favorite “toy”. My first memory is of a purple, magenta, and black shirt my mother wore, long before I was old enough to talk or remember it, but I can see still it. I earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Studio Art back in the late 1970s, specializing in oil painting and welding. Many years passed while I was raising a family, returning to graduate school and working however, I always made time to take an art class, visit art exhibitions and museums, and used art and art therapy training to work with adolescents in my career.
Six years ago I returned to painting more regularly, starting back at figure painting classes at the Phoenix Center for the Arts. In 2020, I retired and finally fulfilled my lifelong dream of becoming a fulltime artist.
As an artist, I am inspired by the beauty and diversity of human and animal spirits, of faces and places, nature and light. My paintings reflect a moment in time, expressed through my own experiences and emotions, and the beauty of people, the planet and color.
Fall
Fall
Fall
Patricia Ribeiro
Medium: Watercolor
Size: 19 x 23
Price: $ 960
For as long as I can remember, I have enjoyed experimenting with all types of art that involve using my hands. Even when I don’t intend to draw or paint, I find my hands busy sketching in air or my mind wandering to the next image to recreate.
Painting, drawing and doodling relax and transport me. When I’m working on a piece, an outsider might note that I’m quiet and concentrated; but in my mind feelings and ideas are swirling around. My eyes are always searching and scrutinizing lines – of a boat in the water or a friendly face — or remembering colors and shadows of anything I view.
My pieces are inspired by images around me. I have been painting with watercolors for 20 years but recently started drawing with graphite and charcoal. The new medium is so exciting – the texture of graphite on paper, the variations of black and white, the ease of shadows – it’s the versatility of the medium that inspires and excites me.
Whatever the medium, my work is intended to portray the subject as well as my feelings through shapes, lines and colors. My work is the creation of an image in my mind speaking directly to my hands.
Oliver
Oliver
Oliver
David L. Bradley
Medium: Ceramic
Size: 9 x 9 x 6
Price: $200
An artist my entire life, I view my environment as a creative playpen. I look for ways to interact with people, materials, and cultures everyday.
I am full time faculty in the Fine Arts Performing Arts Division at Paradise Valley Community College. I have traveled to many parts of the world, and look forward to future journeys of discovery.
My main artistic medium is clay. Clay contains an infinite amount of potential for creativity. It is more responsive to my hands than any other material I have encountered. It allows me to process my environment in direct and personal expression
Knock at the Door
Knock at the Door
The Knock at the Door
Mikii Bendotti
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 16 x 20
NFS
Interiors-Exteriors
Interiors-Exteriors
Interiors-Exteriors
Hank Keneally
Medium: Hand painted pigment print with collage
Size: 11 x 17
Price: $400
I am very fortunate. I have always been in the Arts. Learning the notes on the piano
from my Grandmother who was a Piano teacher. Listening to Classical Music that my
Brother brought before me. Playing instruments. Becoming a Photographer.
Practicing Counseling and Social Work for 42 years, which I see as another Artistic
process.
Becoming a Painter. I Create every day. I start with compassionate observation. I always have a camera with me. For me, Great Things Happen Where Arts Merge. I use Paint, Cameras and Digital Technologies. I aim for reciprocity between myself and my media. I love to be surprised in the act of Creation. My Artworks shown in this exhibition are all a result
of these processes.
Black Bird and Fiery Sky
Black Bird and Fiery Sky
Black Bird and Fiery Sky
Elissa Nowacki
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 20 x 16
Price: $500
Artist Elissa Nowacki’s formal art education is limited. She took one art class in high school, and a couple lower-level classes at Community College. She had an amazing Freehand Perspective course at ASU before switching her major from architecture to education. Most recently, in the spring of 2004, she and her exceptionally tolerant husband enrolled in an evening painting class, at Phoenix College, which they fondly referred to as, “marriage counseling.” Elissa’s family is checkered with eccentric artist types, including her mother, who she credits with most of her artistic education.
Elissa Nowacki has dabbled in the arts her entire life, but her current painting style began in the fall of. Her style has gotten tighter, her line work more intricate, and her subject matter has expanded. Her art has been displayed at Third Space, Pita Jungle, Tempe Festival of the Arts, Fountain Hills Art Festival, Grinders Coffee House, and The Grand Arthaus. Her home studio is a stop on the annual Sunnyslope Studio Tour. She has been juried into Sonoran Arts League and Artlink group shows and earned the Award of Distinction in the Arizona Artist Guild Winter Group show.
Victorian Beauty
Victorian Beauty
Victorian Beauty
Betsy Aguirre
Medium: Watercolor and ink
Size: 27 x 21
Price: $450
Betsy Aguirre lives in Scottsdale Arizona and loves historical architecture and enjoys travel in the hunt for scenic inspiration. She started painting with her Father and Grandfather at the kitchen table when she was a child. They painted the same subjects that interest her now; beautiful landscapes graced with simple architecture.
Betsy also enjoys capturing fleeting images at airshows, but the dynamic nature of aerial and especially air-to-air photography is her favorite challenge.
Ice Palace
Ice Palace
Ice Palace
Craig Anthony Lomas
Medium: Colored pencil
Size: 15 x 18
Price: $225
Craig is a long-time signature member of the Artists for Conservation Foundation, dedicated and passionate to their overall mission in supporting wildlife and the environment. Through Craig’s work, he hopes to bring awareness to our natural world. We need to preserve and protect animals and protect our environment. We must respect and honor our environment if we are to declare our stewardship of this planet. We must change our behavior to ensure future generations’ enjoyment of what we are blessed to have
Homage to 911
Homage to 911
Homage to 911
Hank Keneally
Medium: Archival pigment print
Size: 18 x 12
Price: $300
I am very fortunate. I have always been in the Arts. Learning the notes on the piano
from my Grandmother who was a Piano teacher. Listening to Classical Music that my
Brother brought before me. Playing instruments. Becoming a Photographer.
Practicing Counseling and Social Work for 42 years, which I see as another Artistic
process.
Becoming a Painter. I Create every day. I start with compassionate observation. I always have a camera with me. For me, Great Things Happen Where Arts Merge. I use Paint, Cameras and Digital Technologies. I aim for reciprocity between myself and my media. I love to be surprised in the act of Creation. My Artworks shown in this exhibition are all a result
of these processes.
Palm Grove
Palm Grove
Palm Grove
Jim Kinne
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 16 x 20
Price $370
My natural images are represented with my impressions to create enhanced emotions beyond the natural beauty of nature. I prefer to paint from life.
Simultaneity
Simultaneity
Simultaneity
Lee Brown
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 36 x 28
Price: $500
I am a Phoenix artist and a longtime member of AAG. I have been a member of the ARTERY GALLERY, but now work out of my home studio. I generally work in the tradition of the French Romantic, Ashcan and social realist painters. As such, my work features human figures in a variety of social and political settings.
On the Beach
On the Beach
Melanie Harman
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 17 x 17
Price: $300
I work in watermedia on paper. Lately I have been working with collage, using paper and tissue that I have painted myself in acrylic. The act of placing and gluing the papers is meditative and soothing. Sometimes I add more painting on top, but often the collage is all that is needed
Windowpane No.60
Windowpane No.60
Windowpane No.60
Stan Kurth
Medium: Mixed media collage
Size: 36 x 36
Price: $1,296
Intuitive painting is the act of making marks and spreading pigment on a surface until it conveys a personal aesthetic. There is no predetermined finish or elaborate planning. My paintings are expressions of my life experience, everything which has touched and moved me along a path to the latest work. If the work fails to speak visually, no amount of esoteric rhetoric here will change it. Painting is a discipline which requires practice, passion, devotion, focus and a steadfast spirit of pursuing something which will never be attained.
Witnesses
Witnesses
Witnesses
David L. Bradley
Medium: Ceramic
Size: 9 x 6 x 2
Price: $300
An artist my entire life, I view my environment as a creative playpen. I look for ways to interact with people, materials, and cultures everyday.
I am full time faculty in the Fine Arts Performing Arts Division at Paradise Valley Community College. I have traveled to many parts of the world, and look forward to future journeys of discovery.
My main artistic medium is clay. Clay contains an infinite amount of potential for creativity. It is more responsive to my hands than any other material I have encountered. It allows me to process my environment in direct and personal expression
Prickly Pear
Prickly Pear
Prickly Pear
Karen Gray
Medium: Watercolor
Size: 16 x 20
Price $ 200
Karen Gray resides in Phoenix, Arizona. A lifetime passion for art began when she was a child, initiated by her grandmother. Plein air excursions to various scenic locations in Phoenix painting landscapes were enriching experiences. Art classes continued through high school and college. As a student at ASU, course work in drawing, painting, ceramics, and life drawing enhanced her knowledge base. While her adult professional career was in the medical field, art activities continued to be a part of her life with additional college courses and numerous workshops. Now retired, the joy of painting is possible every day.
As a member of the Arizona Watercolor Association and Arizona Artists Guild, she has participated in juried exhibitions showing watercolor paintings of various subjects. Flowers, landscapes, and portraits are all included in her portfolio. Karen is currently the chairperson for AWA member workshops. It’s been a pleasure to speak with the talented artists in Arizona and encourage them to share their skills with all of the AWA membership.
Website:
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