Artists Gallery
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Elizabeth Hatchett
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I am an artist interested in painting animals, especially dogs, horses and cats. I have had a lifelong interest in art and feel a kinship with animals, so my expression in art has fused with this bond with animals.
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I grew up with many animals in my home and continue to have two dogs living with me as companions. I have learned from their habits and instincts a love and joy for life.
I received my bachelor's of fine art degree from the University of Texas, Austin, and my Master's of Art Education from the University of Kansas. I have created art in various media and subject matter. I was an art educator in the Lawrence School District for seventeen years. I also taught art in Alma and in Perry, Kan. My artistic expression was also influenced by my experiences in teaching.
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Karie Parsons
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Biography
Karie works as a real estate agent in Kansas. She is joyfully married with 4 fabulous children.Her work can be seen at a private show at the 6th Street Gallery in Kansas City, Kan., starting May 9 following the DOTTE art walk and continuing through June 6.
Artist's Statement
Painting is my sanity. I consume canvases like a drug. Most paintings are given to me in dreams. I paint passionately and purposefully, because I have seen them complete before I begin. This ability has been a gift given by spiritual means. I am trained with an art degree, but the glory is not mine to own.More paintings can be seen here.
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Jodi Bowersox
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Jodi Bowersox lives close to Tonganoxie, Kan., with her husband, Kevin, and two boys, Tristan and Tracy. Their small acreage is also home to a horse, three goats, and eight cats.
In addition to painting, Jodi enjoys many creative endeavors--sewing, theatre, stenciling, furniture refinishing, tile work, and writing.
In 2006, under the pen name of J. B. Stockings, she published a children's book that she authored and illustrated--a fictitious story about two real cats with the title "A Tale of Two Kitties." This book's profits benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and can be purchased at Amazon.com or jbstockings.com.
Jodi has always had a love for animals and nature, which is evident in her watercolor paintings. She began selling her work in 2006 with the start of her Pet Portraits business and expanded to Wild Things in the spring of '07. You can view her gallery at www.jbwatercolor.com.
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Judi Geer Kellas
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Judi Geer Kellas’ roots are on the Gulf Coast of the southern United States. Both parents painted, so she began painting when about 8 years old. Geer Kellas has a BA in fine art & a MA in painting. She married George Kellas and moved to the Midwest in 1968. Geer Kellas taught at KU in the early '70s and opened the 7E7 Gallery in '72. She sold the gallery in '83 to return to her art studio full time. Now, she works in her studio daily; acrylic & collage paintings, silverpoint drawings, serigraphs & linocuts (original prints) are her media.
Geer Kellas exhibits her art regionally and nationally. To see more of her art in Kansas City, visit the Dennis Morgan Gallery and Pi Gallery. Or visit her web site: www.geerkellas.com.
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Artha Jackson
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Artha (Slangerup) Jackson is a patron member of SAMA (Society of American Mosaics Artists). She is a mostly self-trained mosaic artist who fell in love with this ancient art form just a few short years ago after having taught children drawing and watercolor for many years in Mesa while raising her seven children. She took a leave of absence from teaching art to working full time at Brigham Young University, then returned six years ago and settled in The Islands in Gilbert, Ariz. She relishes her time expanding her online business and teaching classes in her private workshop. In April 2007, she began teaching mosaic classes at Michael’s in Gilbert. She gives mosaic classes in elementary schools and teaches drawing in the summertime at her home.
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Having always been involved in art since the age of six at the knee of her “Grandma Stella” (not her real grandmother, but a live-in friend of the family), Artha thrived on her art ability throughout her school years, earning a Bank of America Award in her senior year at Encinal High School in Alameda, Calif. Her first college class in art was taken when her first children (twins) were just four months old at Alameda College in California. She later received private art instruction and took more art classes at Mesa Community College and at Brigham Young University, all while raising her large family. Artha specializes in the trendy mosaic vessel sinks and smaller projects for the home and garden. She set up her Web site in 2006 and is thinking ahead for possibilities of conjoining her art and music talents with a specialized business in her community.
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Karen Brenner
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“Capturing beautiful moments in the lives of horses” is the theme of equine artist Karen Brenner’s work. Painting horses at work and rest, and — their favorite — grazing, Karen creates intimate compositions with vibrant, realistic colors. Her paintings are built slowly with layer upon layer of translucent oils.
“Art heightens our awareness of the beauty that surrounds us, and gives us reason to pause and soak it in. I’d like my work to provide a simple moment of beauty.”
Karen enjoys traveling to horse farms and equine events to photograph horses of every breed where she gathers reference material for her work. She lives in Wooster, Ohio, with her husband, Will, who can be coaxed to trail ride with her and their three quarter horses and Andalusian.
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Donna M. Martin
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I have always been fascinated by the seduction and harmony of line and space, black and white. The experience I try to convey is to soothe, distract, and entertain the mind's eye, and sincerely hopes the viewer experiences this, just as I do while creating my art.
“It is critical for me that each drawing I create be distinct, but non-descriptive, to enable the viewer to the piece as a first experience; a lost moment in time, harmony within themselves, a perceptual moment.”
My drawings have a connection with water, life, energy, birth and space in time. Like life, they evolve and are constantly changing. I sincerely hope that each line the viewer's eye follows allows the them to feel something uniquely new each and every time; allows them to see deeper into all of the possibilities of space between line.
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Patty Boyer
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I try to bring beauty, humor and color to everyone through my art. In these troubled times, the combination of these three elements can go a long way toward creating a new perspective and direction of thought. I consider my art to be "Exaggerated Realism" — like turning up the color control on your TV set!
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Malissa Martin Wilke
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About the artist
An artist and freelance writer, Malissa Martin Wilke also works and consults in social services nonprofit fundraising and administration. Her first children's book, "A Zoo Friends Lunch," was published in 2006. In her artwork, she focuses on encaustic (an ancient medium composed primarily of beeswax, resin, and pigment) and mixed media abstracts. Originally from Texas, she now lives in Lawrence, Kan.
Artist's statement
It is my belief that all people share in the pain and ugliness that is too prominent in our world, whether it is our own, observed, or unknown in our individual lives. My response is to create beauty; if we all share in the distress, then we must share in the beauty and perhaps some of the agony and despair dissipates when beauty is introduced into our universe.We all have a story (also a guiding concept in my work as a writer); my hope is that my work expresses the stories people long to have told, but can’t tell themselves. If a picture is worth a thousand words, I believe that a single piece of art can tell a thousand stories.
Perhaps the pain and ugliness in our world also motivate my need to explore the coexistence of chaos and order. In one piece, it may be that I am attempting to impose order on chaos and in another it may be that I am acknowledging chaos in the midst of order, but all of my work portrays the connection between the two.
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Jean Sanders
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I returned to the outside work force a couple of years ago, having enjoyed freelancing while raising our two children, herewith known as the Pouting Princess and Tall Boy. I am a designer in the advertising department of our bustling daily newspaper where I have learned all sorts of whizzbang computer skills, but I still need to paint. A few months ago I started a blog. I have been managing to crank out some decent art almost every day. If I could only be so regular about working out!
I have spent 25 some-odd years as a painter and designer, exhibiting in galleries and museums, painting murals for various PTAs, designing newsletters, logos, greeting cards, magazine ads and illustrating little books for Christmas gifts. I contribute illustrations every week, too, to the JavaPlum.com Web site. I depict the tall, blonde, thin, chic gad-about-town that we all think dwells within us.
Every couple of years I get together with my dearest and oldest friends from college, the Reid Hall Red Hots. We have been misbehaving in hats much longer than those Red Hat johnnys-come-lately. It has been quite a gift that we treasure our misspent youth. Our children (and husbands) despair. I grew up in Connecticut in a family of readers and writers. The New England work ethic propels me daily - and thus the blog. I hope you'll bookmark it and visit it often. My domestic trials and travails can be fairly amusing. One hopes. Enjoy!
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Cynthia Hudson
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Cynthia grew up with much art and dance influence. Her father was an artist attending the Kansas City Art Institute when she was born. Her mother owned a dance studio. These strong influences reflect in her work today, with an emphasis on motion and color.
After carefully choreographing a painting, the intent of the artist is for each piece to take on a mood and rhythm of its own. Known for her use of bold strokes, vibrant colors, and heavy textures, Cynthia enjoys a variety of subjects, such as jazz, dance, floral and abstracts.
Cynthia lives in Kansas City and has a variety of art in many homes and businesses across the country. Her work can also be seen on the nationally syndicated television show "Dharma & Greg."
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Linda Frost
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Linda Frost is a lifetime Kansas resident and has resided in Lawrence for over 30 years. Frost's work has covered virtually the entire spectrum of quilting, from reproducing antique quilts using reproduction fabrics and traditional patterns to creating abstract pieces while exploring with contemporary quilt artists.
Frost's work has been exhibited in galleries and quilt shows through out the country; most recently at the Page-Walker Arts Center in Cary, N.C., the Irene French Gallery in Merriam, Kan., and locally at the Lawrence Art Center and Watkins Historical Museum. Her Civil War era reproduction quilts have been pictured in several books by Barbara Brackman, and her "Patchwork Hawk" was part of the Lawrence "Hawks on Parade" exhibit.Artist Statement:
I use layered textiles and the quilting stitch to create line and shape. This work has provided a means for me to take ethereal thought and emotion and put them into a physical form.http://www.13thstreetstudio.typepad.com
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Linda Everett
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The sentimental quality of Linda Everett's portraits and the nostalgic touch she displays in paintings of homes, farms, and landscapes have made her watercolors in demand. Her goal is not to merely create a painting, but to capture the essence of a family home or loved one.
Linda resides in Baldwin City, and she was born and raised in the small western Kansas town of Quinter. Because of her faith in God, Linda believes her ability and passion to paint are gifts from Him, and it is her desire to give back to Him through her work.
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Jo Renfro
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I graduated from KU with a degree in fine arts and have been working in the field for the past 25 years. My work has ranged from T-shirts art to mural painting, and most recently I've been creating art to be licensed on products such as calendars, gift wrap and partyware. I hope to one day illustrate a children’s book. My art is colorful, multi-patterned, whimsical and humorous. When someone smiles when they look at something I’ve done, I know I accomplished what I set out to do.
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Kathie Duguid
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I want to take the ancient art of quilling, modernize it by using bright colors and 3-dimensional designs, and share my art my love of this art with all through demonstrations, shows and my web site.
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Leslie Flowers
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Leslie Flowers is a graduate of The University of Houston with a bachelor's degree in fine arts, studio painting. Through many years of sketching, painting and experimenting with new styles Leslie Flowers has a look that is unique to her. Improvisational, eccentric and idiosyncratic compositions describes her work. Leslie works from her stock of photographs and appropriated imagery. Preferring abstract to realism, she also enjoys impressionism when developing a painting. She defines volume, space and atmosphere with deliberate use of vibrant color, bold contrast and texture. Ms. Flowers works in oils, acrylics and latex.
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Linda D. Baranski
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Linda is a mosaic artist, painter and printmaker living in northeast Kansas. She creates mosaics using Italian vitreous glass tile, antique jewelry, stained glass and found objects using both direct and indirect mosaic techniques. Her painting ranges from realism to abstract expressionism in oil, acrylic and watercolor. Upon her return from Mosaic Restoration School in Ravenna, Italy, her focus has been to create mosaics in the style of the Italian masters.
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Margaret Rose
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Margaret Rose's art mission is to recontextualize and reframe cultural icons and archetypes. Experimentation is paramount, using traditional media as well as found objects. Collaborative interaction weaves into the creative process.
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Julie Hammer
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Julie Hammer is a watercolor artist offering paintings, prints, note cards and Christmas cards. Her themes include collegiate, Christmas, floral, children, landscape, still life, scripture, portraits and home portraits.
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Julie's watercolor paintings are available as prints, and most are also available as a packaged note cards. Julie’s watercolor paintings capture her interest in family life and her love for God. Her bright colors, attention to detail and use of scriptures have made her prints and cards favorites among her growing clientele, who have purchased her work at art fairs and in gift shops across the country.
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Carla Tilghman
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I’ve been weaving off and on since I was twelve. In 2004, I decided to turn my hobby into my profession and earned my MFA from Kent State University.
Weaving is a subtle three-dimensional process in which threads pass over and under each other to create patterns and images. Sometimes, this process is a bit too subtle. By using a combination of digitally assisted looms and traditional hand-weaving processes, I’ve been exploring both the illusion of texture and also creating pieces that are more obviously three-dimensional.
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My work varies from landscape inspired pieces to complete abstractions, but all take advantage of contemporary technologies in order to push the process of weaving into new directions.
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