“The use of dynamic colors and the expression of movement are hallmarks of all my paintings, whether on paper or canvas. The colors I choose are independently selected and randomly mixed for each painting. Multiple colors move through each painting, taking the viewer along many and varied paths to visions […]

Dannielle Mick Mist Over the Sea, pastel on paper, 9” x 12”, 2017, featured image above “Nature fills me with inspiration.  Sometimes it brings a beautiful familiar and sometimes it brings uncommon grandeur.  This is what my dreams are made of.” – Dannielle Mick Dannielle Mick has been inspired by […]

“Landscape is a constant inspiration” William Bukowski is a painter living in Mankato, Minnesota.  He has been teaching art at Bethany Lutheran College since 1980.  He graduated with an M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1979 and taught one year at Thiel College in Greenville, Pennsylvania. Bukowski paints primarily from life and for […]

“I’ve been sketching everything in sight since I was old enough to hold a pencil, but the thing I wanted to sketch the most has always been people. When bored in school I would invariably wind up sketching the teacher. ‘Betsy! What are you doing? Bring that up here!’ she […]

“My paintings are a carefully observed negotiation, manipulated layer upon layer in order to create a work of art as equivalent as possible to the complexity of real life. They are an attempt to control the almost uncontrollable substance that is oil paint, and the equally untamable expression of the […]

ARTIST’S STATEMENT Surely the gift of being creative is a wonderful thing but talent comes from hard work and discipline. The final painting that leaves my easel has a carefully designed structure that guides my choices throughout the process. Design is my starting point and many of my paintings had […]

Largely self-taught, Scott L. Christensen came to art via a circuitous route. He grew up in Lander, Wyoming, a place of extreme geography and wild beauty. There his aesthetic developed. It was not until college, however, that he would recognize nature as his muse. The shift was precipitated by a […]

Raw, poignant and profoundly honest, David Jon Kassan’s work aesthetically captures humanity in its true form. As an artist, Kassan acts as an empathetic intermediary between the subject he portrays and the viewer. More than simply replicating his subjects Kassan seeks to understand them. He seeks to capture the essence […]

“My work as a whole encompasses an exploration of the human experience. My interest in the people around me comes from the idea that we look at people every day, but we never really stop to SEE them. In every painting I strive to capture the beauty, variations and complexities […]