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XIIXIISchedule of Events
Opening Party and Silent AuctionFriday, May 3, 20136pm–9pm
Mingle with donating artists and enjoy wine and hors d’eouvres while previewing donated artwork. There will also be a Silent Auction of items contributed by businesses, artists and Guild supporters.
Collectors Choice XII ExhibitionMay 4–May 18, 2013
Donated artwork will be on view in the St. Louis Artists’ Guild galleries during regular gallery hours (Tuesday–Sunday, 12pm to 4pm).
Selection PartySunday, May 19, 201311am to 3pmArtwork selection begins at 1pm
At the Selection Party, names of ticket-holders are drawn at random. When your name is called, you can select one of the available pieces of artwork. One piece of artwork is guaranteed for each ticket purchased. You must have a ticket to attend this event.
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As we celebrate twelve years of Collectors Choice I am delighted to greet artists who have
donated their art over the years, and pleased to meet artists who have shared their talents for
the first time to support this annual fundraiser. That loyalty extends also to our donors and
committee members who make this event the success it’s been over the years. Businesses and
private donors from the area have contributed to the event and without their support this event
could not be possible. Many people have worked on the committee and have volunteered
many hours to produce this wonderful fundraiser. I am very grateful to all who make this event
so popular.
The real delight is to see patrons thrilled with their selection. When we talk about Collectors
Choice one of the aspects we repeat often is the variety of artworks that fill our galleries …
something for everyone’s taste. Many times we hear someone comment that their name was
called late, but he or she still got one of their top 10 choices. It is rewarding to see so many
familiar faces of patrons who have come to Collectors Choice for many years, and I welcome
all who might be attending for the first time.
It is with enthusiasm and thanks that I welcome you to Collectors Choice XII. Your contribution
supports the many programs, exhibits and events produced by the St. Louis Artists’ Guild.
Joanne Stremsterfer, Chair
Collectors Choice XII
From the Collectors Choice XII Chair
A Delicate Restoration of an Antique Oil Painting in Progress.
And they thought he had been lost forever.Before Before After
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A Steam heat pipe burst and adversely affected this precious oil painting. Depicted here is a view of the in-process restoration treatment with “Bloom” in the varnish being carefully removed.
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Board of Governors
Executive CommitteeKaren Glines
President
David Zamudio
1st Vice President
Randy Allen
2nd Vice President and
Photography Section Chair
Cindy Puricelli
Treasurer
Betty Springfield
Secretary
Board MembersJoseph Coleman
Jerry Cox
Artisans’ Section
Marianne Erickson
Mark Erker
Cindy Fehmel
Literary Arts Section
Howard Glickman
Architecture Section Chair
Laura Hoffstetter
James W. Sherby
Kim Kordonowy
Fine Arts Section
Bob Shay
Illustration Section
Advisory BoardWilliam Bixby Sheldon
Chair
James H. Buford
Carol Carter
Jonathan Kodner
Jacqueline Millstone
Billyo O’Donnell
Charles Reay
WIlliam Schawacker
Joanne Stremsterfer
Anne Stupp
Ambassador George H. Walker III
William Wilson
Staff Kathryn Nahorski
Executive Director
Adrian Aquilino
Graphic Design and Communications
Amy Firestone Rosen
Exhibitions and Education Assistant
Joseph Fenwick
Bookkeeper
Loren Myers
Gallery Attendant (Volunteer)
Collectors Choice XIIEvent CommitteeJoanne Stremsterfer
Event Committee Chair
Sandy Kolde
Silent Auction Chair
Cynthia Berg
Linda Boyer
Dorothy Diehl
Marianne Erickson
Sam Fitzgerald
Ann French
Carlene Fullerton
Karen Glines
M.J. Goerke
Toni Gordon
Jeri Herold
Helen Hume
Kim Kordonowy
Donna Mills
Mary Mosblech
Marian Noll
Marianne Pepper
Kathy O’Neill
Terri Pirrong
Johanna Prinz
Betty Lynch Salih
Nora Schomogy
Ruth Sobbe
Betty Springfield
Kay Wood
Thank you to all the people whose hard work and generosity made Collectors Choice XII possible!
CCXII Sponsors and DonorsAnonymous
Art and Frame Restoration / Home is Where
the Art Is
Catering St. Louis
Marianne Erickson and Michael Meinhold
In loving memory of Audrey Rosa
Duane Reed Gallery
Fontbonne University
Interactive Educational Video, LLC (Bob and
Marti Fowler)
Remy’s Kitchen and Wine Bar
William Schawacker
Simmons First Bank
Joanne Stremsterfer
Switch: Liberate Your Brand
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001
Debra Akin
Hyacinth
oil on board
12” x 9”
002
Muhammad Alhawagri
Galactic
photography
003
Muhammad Alhawagri
Neon No 3
photography
004
Muhammad Alhawagri
Neon No 4
photography
005
Bob Allen
Untitled Vessels
stoneware
14” tall
006
Randy Allen
Ghost Town
photograph
12” x 24”
007
Michael Anderson
First Cast, Forest Park
oil on canvas board
20” x 16”
008
Adrian Aquilino
Orbit
encaustic
20” x 16”
009
Robert Backowski
Skyship Of Our Federation
assemblage sculpture
010
Marianne Baer
Madre
upcycled fiber
24” x 15”
012
Laura Bailey
Rocky Mountain NP, Sublette and
Manchester, St. Louis
photograph
diptych, 12” x 18” each
013
Jody Baltzer
Earth Panels I and II
mixed media
35” x 17” (double-sided)
014
Linda Bangert
Trees
monoprint, linoleum cut, and intaglio
011
Lila Bahl
(donated by Ginny Shaller)
Untitled
photograph
21” x 28”
015
Marylou Barrow
Phantasia
mixed media watercolor collage
33” x 40”
016
Berenice Bauer
Jewelry
silver, garnet, Czech glass, freshwater pearls
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018
Cynthia Berg
Napa Valley
watercolor
22 ¼” x 28”
019
Nancy Berndt
View from the Terrace
acrylic
28” x 22”
020
Lynn Beseau
Reaching from Within
acrylic on canvas
22” x 22”
021
Diana Saffo Bono
Wall Flower
pastel
14” x 11”
022
Linda Boyer
Cat and Lilies
watercolor
20 ½” x 24 ½”
023
Pat Brokaw
Along the Passage to the Sea
hand-produced reduction block color print on Japanese paper
18” x 24”
025
Shirley Buzzell
Daisy Glow Bug
acrylic
12” x 24”
026
Marilyn Cathcart
Colorado Dream
oil
24” x 24”
027
Amy Chee
Visitation
digital photograph
12” x 17”
029
Jennifer Churchill
Sinking
oil on canvas
30” x 24”
030
Steve Clayton
Moonlit Path
mixed media collagraph plate
29” x 14”
031
Steve Clayton
Orange Abstract
acrylic
54” x 31”
032
Steve Clayton
Dancer
charcoal on canvas
48” x 36”
017
Amy Bautz
Cactus
oil on canvas
36” x 42”
028
Rita Chu
Quiet Time
photograph
21” x 15”
024
Allison Norfleet Bruenger
Green House Glance
fretwork in copper, riveted and patina with original drawing, freshwater pearls, and crystals, copper chain
18” chain
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Steve Clayton
Eve
acrylic and charcoal on canvas
24” x 18”
037
David Coblitz
Fall Companions
digital photograph
038
Elizabeth Cavanaugh Cohen
Autumn Umbrellaria
monprint collage on Japanese papers
31” x 41”
039
Elizabeth Concannon
Trip to the City Museum
mixed media
32” x 28”
040
Jerry Cox
Untitled
mixed media
12” x 12” x 7”
045
Betty Deall
One Way or Another
mixed media oil collage
24” x 24”
047
Penny Dillon
Anna
oil on canvas
14” x 11”
048
Marie Donato
Intermission
graphite and charcoal
17” x 12”
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Marlene DiFiori Locke
Zoomer 8a (2 of 4)
digital print and ink
8 ½” x 11
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Michael Daft
Etude for the Digital Camera and Grand Piano
digital photography
4 pieces, 16” x 20” each
043
Eileen Dailey
The Earth Clears Herself
oil on canvas
72” x 60”
044
Eileen Dailey
Opening the Eyes
oil on canvas
72” x 60”
042
Maria D’Agrosa-Sweney
Red Passage
acrylic
18” x 25”
035
Steve Clayton
Iridescent Girls
acrylic and charcoal on paper
32” x 32”
036
Steve Clayton
Reveling In His Glory
oil on canvas
16” x 20”
034
Steve Clayton
Eve’s Adam
acrylic and charcoal on canvas
24” x 18”
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Deb Douglas
Violet Love
oil on canvas
30” x 40”
051
Junko Eccles
CWE Sunset
watercolor
28” x 21”
052
Marianne Erickson
Three Barn Farm IX
film photography
16” x 20”
053
Muriel Eulich
Prickly Beauty
watercolor on paper
22” x 15”
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Suzy Farren
Paper Trail
mixed media
18” x 26”
056
Mirka Fette
Kaleidoscope Owls
intaglio print
20” x 16”
059
Sam Fitzgerald
The Spires of Kizhi
photograph
11” x 14”
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Daniel Fishback
Fruit Basket
acrylic
060
Carol Foster
Sea Grapes
watercolor
22” x 18”
062
Carlene Fullerton
Landscape
acrylic
18” x 24”
063
Sandra Funkhouser
Summer Sparkle
watercolor
16” x 20”
054
Susan Fadem
Necklace
petrified wood, magnesite, pearls, copper
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Steven Finnegan
Cobalt Blue and Tea Pot
acrylic
16” x 20”
061
Ralph Fournier
France
oil
16” x 20”
064
Stan Gellman
Claytonscape
linocut
6” x 6”
049
Shannon Dougherty
This Side of Paradise
lustre digital print
13” x 20”
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Beth Goyer
Jesse James Home
digital photograph
12” x 30”
070
Bob Hartzell
Light Sculpture
paper
36” x 21” x 21”
071
Franklin Haspiel
Abstract Motion
acrylic on masonite
24” x 18”
073
Katina Herbert
Kinetic Prism
ceramic, glass, wood, and jute
19 ¾” x 24”
075
JoAnn Houle
Lil Astrobot
acrylic
30” x 24”
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Helen Hume
Augusta, Private Estate
oil on canvas
16” x 20”
078
Barbara Johnson
Arlene Keeping Warm
acrylic
19” x 22”
079
Gary Johnson
Hollow Form 95/24
segmented-turned wood, wenge and maple
8 ½” in diameter, 8 1/8” high
067
M.J. Goerke
Bonusas
mixed media collage
15” x 15” x 2”
066
Karen Glines
Dr. Bond’s Barn
digital photograph
18” x 24”
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Bryan Haynes
Birdman
giclée limited edition print
45” x 30”
065
Carrie Gillen
Uprooted
acrylic, oil, fabric, wood, and canvas
24” x 30” x 8”
068
Scherrie Goettsch
Bleu
oil
24” x 20”
076
Bruce Howard
Whistler’s Mother’s Secret
acrylic on cloth and wood with interactive moving parts
24” x 24”
074
Diana Hoffmann
Tulips x Three
oil
36” x 12” x 4”
080
Liz Jones
Waltz Time
oil on canvas
36” x 30”
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Robert Jones
Martha, Is That You?
oil on canvas
20” x 24”
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Gary Karasek
Painting with Light
oil on board
24” x 30”
083
David Kaskowitz
Untitled
marker and ink wash
084
David Kaskowitz
Still Life with Broom
marker and ink wash
086
Kim Kordonowy
Garden in Winter
oil on canvas
24” x 24”
088
Nancy Lischer
Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska
pastel
14” x 18”
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Amalia Fister Lottes
Abstract in Magenta
watercolor on Yupo
17” x 12”
090
Greg MacNair
Untitled
oil on canvas
092
Pat McCarty
Nightcrawler
hand-forged iron rebar
093
Mimi Mednikow
Circles
oil on canvas
36” x 24”
094
Rob Miller
Untitled
ceramic
10” x 10” x 17”
085
Ruth Kolker
March 15
mixed media painting on paper
24” x 20”
087
Ken Kuellmer
The Fourth on the Thirty-Fifth
photograph
091
Mary Ann Maritz
Grape Wine
watercolor
14 ½” x 22 ¼”
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Joe Mills
Lafayette Square Door
pastel
35” x 20”
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Zachary Miller
Glass 5
oil on canvas
24” x 36”
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George Myles
El Romeral
acrylic on canvas
18” x 24”
103
Shirley Nachtrieb
Angel Song #17
mixed media
20” x 16”
107
Joan Nazzoli
Spring Shower
watercolor
26” x 20”
109
Marian Noll
#2968443
photograph
16” x 20”
104
Kathryn Nahorski
Untitled
mixed media
16” x 20”
101
George Myles
Le tombeau de Duchamp—Etant Donnes
(The Tomb of Duchamp—Being Given)
mixed media
20” x 16”
108
Sandra Nelson
Mystic Morning Series II
watercolor
17” x 20 ½”
100
George Myles
In Memoria Aestate Die (In Memory of a Summer Day)
mixed media
16” x 16”
099
Glenn Myers
Julie’s Window
digitially manipulated photograph
20” x 16”
098
Loren Myers
January 20th
oil on canvas
16” x 12”
097
Mary Mosblech
Sunflowers Squared
watercolor
105
John Wm. Nagel
Elevator, Morrison, MO
digital pigment print
32” x 40”
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Roeemary Nagel
Chevy Grill
digital pigment print
25” x 20”
110
Carmelita Nuñez
Vibrations
ceramic
7” x 4” x 3”
111
Sherry Yadon Orlando
Conservatory with Plumeria
oil
28” x 22”
112
Laurel Palmer
Benetka Road Covered Bridge,
Ashtabula County, Ohio
watercolor
12” x 16”
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Adrienne Patel
Monique
gouache
20” x 16”
114
Scott Petty
Mississippi Levee
oil
115
Thomas Matthew Pierson
Old Male Nude
oil on canvas
36” x 24”
119
Thomas Matthew Pierson
One Gummy Bear
oil on panel
9” x 12”
118
Thomas Matthew Pierson
Weight Gain 4000 and Repeating D-Bells
oil on canvas
54” x 28”
117
Thomas Matthew Pierson
Female Nude Translation
oil on canvas
24” x 30”
120
Madeline Pisani
Entrance to Bur-Hawk Estate
oil
26” x 21”
121
Eliza Pope
Gentle Giants
digitally manipulated photograph on canvas
24” x 20”
123
Johanna Prinz
Tangled Hair
archival ink on paper
23” x 19 ½”
124
John Quinn
Algae
painting
24” x 18”
126
William Quinn
(donated by Michael Meinhold)
Paysage avec maisons eloignees
watercolor and goache on paper
20” x 24”
127
Jeremy Rabus
Valley of Wuxamabac
acrylic and resin on panel
20” x 16”
125
Pat Quinn
Tickling the Ivories
digital alchemy
18” x 24”
128
Jane Reed
Conversations in Yellow
acrylic
16” x 20”
122
Mary Gardner Pusse
Canyon Series #35
montage of monoprints mounted on canvas and varnished
14” x 18”
116
Thomas Matthew Pierson
Male Nude
oil on canvas
36” x 24”
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Nora Schomogy
Owl
acrylic
16” x 19”
141
Tom Sepe
Land Locked
watercolor and ink
18” x 22”
143
Terri Shay
Cycle
mixed media
9” x 12”
142
R.J. Shay
Sports School
pen, ink, and watercolor
20” x 26”
139
Jack Schlueter
Warm Bath
watercolor
28” x 22”
137
Marceline Saphian
Opening Bloom
monotype/montage
29” x 25”
136
Naomi Runtz
Only in Venice
color photograph
16” x 20”
135
Russ Rosener
Two Women
analog silver gelatin print
20” x 16”
134
Amy Firestone Rosen
Study
monoprint
10 ½” x 10 ½”
133
Barbara Romero
West Window
ink, colord pencil, and chalk
16” x 16”
132
Kelly Robinson
Never Level Necklace
sterling silver, freshwater pearl, patina
chain: 16” long; pendant: 1 ½” x 2 ½”
130
Charlotte Rennard
Yellow Roses
oil
11” x 14”
129
Jane Reed
Virginia
acrylic
36” x 48”
138
Jeffrey Sass
Nite Spot Cafe
oil
131
Erin McGrath Rieke
Journey Back To You
acrylic on canvas
30” x 40”
144
Jeffery Sippel
Arctic Flower
lithograph
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Neal Slaten
Tucker
oil
14” x 18”
149
Betty Springfield
Old Mesilla Winery
photograph
16” x 20”
152
Barbara St. John
Spring Bouqet
oil on canvas
11” x 14”
150
Joseph Stephans
Hilo Hawaii Plantation
oil on canvas
16” x 20”
151
Barbie Steps
Hibiscus Times Two
photography print on metal
12” x 24”
156
Jim Trotter
Union Station Twilight
photo on canvas
30” x 34”
157
Joyce Trotter
Vision
photo on canvas
42” x 31”
158
Leslie Uljee
Doorway — Desert Garden
(Mother Earth Series)
embroidered and quilted fabric
29” x 29”
159
Gene Ursprung
Wetlands Sunset
watercolor
23 ½” x 29 ½”
160
Bill Vann, Lisa Ober, and Deanna Nash
(donated by Bob Whitesitt)
Winter Landscape
acrylic on canvas
24” x 36”
153
Joanne Stremsterfer
Blue on Green Plant with Coleus
monoprint and wood relief
28” x 23”
154
Donna Tamburello
Into the Light
oil pastels
12 ½” x 15 ½”
155
Donna Tamburello
Italy
oil pastels
17” x 14”
147
Susan Smith
Lamp
handmade base and shade, antique China pieces
25 ½” tall
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Betty Spector
Lily
watercolor
21” x 17”
146
Barbara Martin Smith
At Ease
transparent watercolor
22” x 30”
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Patricia Vinyard
Cassandra Warns Mr. Toad
mixed media, graphite, and acrylic on paper
30” x 37”
176
Dan Woodward
Cannon Smoke (at Fort Davidson — Battle of Pilot Knob)
oil on birch panel
11” x 14”
175
Kay Wood
Maine
black and white photograph
20” x 16”
174
W. A. Williams
(donated by Bob Whitesitt)
Untitled
oil on canvas
35” x 44”
173
W. A. Williams
(donated by Bob Whitesitt)
Untitled
oil on canvas
36” x 30”
172
Gwin WIllis
Standardbred
oil
16” x 20”
171
Gwin WIllis
Ch. Baymor Whitebluff Dan
oil pastel
21” x 22”
170
Gwin WIllis
Hunting Dog
oil
25” x 29”
169
Julie Wiegand
Freedom
oil on panel
15” x 15”
167
Margi Weir
Antimacassar for the Gulf
digital ink jet print on rag paper
20” x 21”
168
Rita Walls
Rosie Posies
mixed media, fiber, and pastel
19” x 37”
166
Linda Wein
Sojurn
encaustic
165
Bernard Waxman
Solitude
photograph
28” x 22”
164
Kate Warner
Still Life
acrylic
163
Charles Wallis
Autumn Stream
oil
16” x 12”
162
Joy Lalita Wade
A Lazy Day In The Poppy Field
mixed media
15” x 23 ½”
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Unknown
(donated by Bob Whitesitt)
Passing Fancy
oil on canvas
24” x 26”
179
Unknown
(donated by Ginny Shaller)
Young Girl
painting
24” x 18”
177
Barbara Zucker
The Jewel Box
photograph
14” x 18”
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Debra Akin
Before I developed a “feeling vocabulary,” I was always able to express myself through making art. I started out in graphic design and I loved the process of organizing images and print. Space planning led me into interior design, where I developed a passion for fabric, texture, color, and overall good design. But I still felt that I wasn’t being completely authentic until I came to realize that my creativity and spirituality are intertwined. Pursuing a fine art degree, exploring new techniques, puts the world in a different perspective. I’m inspired by nature and its perfect design.
Muhammad Alhawagriwww.alhawagri.com
I’m a self-taught photographer and visual artist. My mother gave me my first camera at the age of 9 and a second at the age of 22. She was a passionate art teacher, who inspired me to fly into the endless sky of creation. From the earliest years of my life, I began a journey to discover my soul through my art. I write with ink made of light and images that may appear only for an instant. My photographs are only a mere proof that those stories and poems once existed.
Randall Allenwww.rsaphoto.com
A retired Navy Submariner and entrepreneur, I love photography and I also draw and paint on occasion (although my passion is really photography). My philosophy is that there are great photo opportunities almost everywhere. I’ve enjoyed photography for over 35 years, and today in the digital realm, the artistic and creative possibilities are almost endless and there is always something new to learn. My favorite quote is from Ansel Adams: “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”
Bob Allenwww.foundryartcentre.org/artists/BobAllen.aspx
I retired from teaching in 2003, and in 2004 became one of the original artists working and exhibiting at the Foundry Art Centre in downtown St. Charles. After fifty years, I still find the process of making, glazing, and firing pottery very exciting and rewarding. My major goal is to make a personal statement in clay. This is a difficult task, and my work has been influenced by many generations of potters. I have spent much time developing glazes, decorating slips, and decorating techniques that are uniquely my own.
Michael Andersonwww.michaelandersonstudio.com
MichaeI Anderson was born in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and has been an artist, illustrator & designer for over 35 years. Prior to establishing Michael Anderson Studio in 1983, he was employed as a display designer and a graphic artist. Collaboration with designers, architects and planners to develop their ideas for interior environments and urban design concepts in sketches, drawings and digital illustrations is a specialty.
Robert Backowski
A lifetime of work in engineering and as a draftsman of heating and ventilating systems, along with my interest in fantasy, sci-fi space movies led me to create Skyship of Our Federation. For many years I constructed objects of art from copper sheet stock. Then came my retirement (I am now eighty one) and copper prices
became dear. I then took objects found in flea markets and resale shops, along with some from antique shops. Close observation will reveal parts of the media used. In 2008, I donated to Collectors Choice a work using this media.
Marianne Baerwww.mariannebaer.com
Whether I am deeply carving the raised surface of my intensely colored pieces or incising the flat area of my functional ware, my focus is on texture, detail, and pattern. My work is the contemporary expression of my interpretation of ancient textiles, pottery, and patterns from around the world. Each piece is made by my hand only, in my studio in St. Louis MO.
Lila BahlOwner of Lila Bahl Photography in St. Louis.
Laura Baileywww.laurasbailey.com
Laura Bailey is an award-winning illustrator, painter, and photographer. With photography, she most enjoys the act of searching. With camera in hand, she lets the subject matter reveal itself based on the time of day and location. “It is often a surprise to me what will then occupy my next fifty shots,” Bailey says.
Jody Balzer
Earth Panel is next in a series titled Earth Elements that I began in 2005. This is a series of mixed media collage pieces exploring texture and subtle color variation as found in topographical landscape, primarily in rock outcroppings. Natural dyes of coffee and tea on fabric and paper are used to bring the experience of beholding the world of natural and manmade formations into the interior environment. All of nature is multi-dimensional and has a sculptural aspect that changes over time. The reversibility and vertical/horizontal display option of Earth Panel honors those qualities.
Linda Bangert
As a printmaker, I use numerous methods of printmaking to achieve colors, opacities, textures, and details needed to complete my two-dimensional image. The possibilities are endless. Every session at the press brings about new results and there is always something to continue on with. I use the landscape most often, partly because of its ever-changing information (colors, structure) and my enjoyment of being outdoors. This print is a combination of monoprint, linoleum cut, and intaglio. This line of trees is along the Missouri river in Nebo, Illinois.
Marylou Barrowwww.maryloubarrow.com
Memphis born, Marylou has had a lifelong interest in the creation of art. Her creativity, color sense, and flair for design are evident in her mostly impressionistic style, which ranges from traditional to contemporary. Much of her inspiration stems from her love of nature, especially flowers. Marylou is a member of the St. Louis Artists’ Guild and the St. Peters Oak Leaf Artists’ Guild. She has received numerous awards both locally and nationally. Her paintings hang in private and corporate collections. Items available for purchase are original watercolor paintings, framed watercolor prints, and greeting cards.
Amy Bautzwww.behance.net/AmyBautz
Amy Bautz teaches computer art at Saint Louis University and is an artist working in traditional and new media. Since early 2009 she has been working regularly as a computer artist on an animation team. Bautz regularly exhibits her work nationally and internationally, including solo exhibits in Berlin, Germany and Athens, Georgia.
Cynthia Berg
Cynthia Berg is a native of Missouri who has resided in St. Louis most of her life. She was an art major at Colorado Women’s College and began painting professionally in 1985. Since then she has exhibited in major national and regional juried shows as well as solo and group exhibitions. Her work has been carried in galleries in Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, Colorado and California. Her paintings are included in both private and corporate collections across the United States.
Lynne Beseauwww.muralsgonemad.com
Lynne currently lives in Lake Saint Louis, Missouri. She earned her MFA from Lindenwood University in 2003 and received her BFA and Teaching Certification from Washington University in 1983. Lynne taught art in the Hazelwood School District for 25 years and retired from Hazelwood Central High School in 2009. Lynne now works full time as a professional artist. Lynne’s approach reflects her intrigue with exploring surface textures, the reflection of light and color, and her preference for polychromatic color schemes. She has developed an innovative style that blends precise realism with abstract expressionism.
Diana Saffo Bonowww.dianasaffobono.com
Diana Saffo Bono is a self-taught artist; the daughter of a Sicilian immigrant and first generation Sicilian mother. Growing up in an Italian community, life revolved around family, church, good food, and a passion for living. Simple pleasures. Diana’s work has gallery representation in the Midwest and hangs in homes and businesses throughout the United States. She is best known for her brush work and her love and use of color. The medium she works in varies depending on her intent for a particular piece.
Linda Boyer
My paintings reflect a variety of subjects and designs and are done primarily in watercolor and acrylic. Member of St. Louis Artists’ Guild, Associate Degree in Graphic Art from St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley, course work in Fine Art at William Jewell College, classes at St. Louis Art Museum
Allison Norfleet Bruengerwww.alnbcollections.com
Allison L. Norfleet Bruenger studied art throughout her childhood. After receiving a BFA in Retail Advertising with a Fashion Illustration emphasis from Columbus College of Art and Design, she participated in art exhibitions across the country. During this time, Allison honed her skills in jewelry design, ceramics, and mixed media. After moving to St. Louis in 2002, she attended Maryville University in St. Louis, receiving a BFA in Metalsmithing and Jewelry. She is a member of Best of the Missouri Hands, the Society of Midwest Metalsmiths, and the Greater St. Louis Art Association.
Pat Brokawwww.patbrokaw.com
I work exclusively with reduction prints. I want to present images that make people think “that is where I would like to be.”I find that often in the most common subjects there is beauty that tends to escape the casual eye. My works are exclusively small editions and all prints are pressed by hand. My process layers color and space with each subsequent step building toward the final product. Often the image only resolves itself on the final step, and that is what I love about this type of art: the beauty that is only reluctantly revealed.
Shirley Buzzell
Shirley Buzzell was raised in Colorado. At a young age, her family encouraged drawing. As years passed, several opportunities to study under others provided classroom situations where she expanded her choices of media and technique. A favorite subject matter was landscapes of prairie and mountain scenes. Shirley has had many opportunities to practice artistic endeavors in charcoal, pastels, ink, watercolors, acrylic paints, and oil paints. Commissioned requests have provided her with different subject matter. These pieces of art raised the bar of expectations. Currently, Shirley is accepting commissions for charcoal portraits and acrylic paintings of memorial items.
Rita ChuRita Chu works at Wells Fargo Home Mortgage as a risk management professional. She is an avid photographer and recently returned from a landscape photo tour to the Valley of Fire in Nevada. During a 2011 trip to Venice, she captured Quiet Time, a moment of thought for a couple sitting on a stone bench along the Grande Canal. Rita is passionate about photography and enjoys discovering new places and experiencing the spiritual beauty of nature.
Jennifer Churchillwww.myslart.org/profile/JenniferChurchill
Painting and creating are necessary to remind myself how rich it is to experience being alive. I am a self-taught artist who finds beauty in even the most mundane environments. Art has been an intricate part of my rural upbringing. My hurried modern lifestyle is not accommodating to the constant flow of emotion in my daily life. Thoughts and feelings build up inside of me until I can let them out through creativity. I prefer to work with oils on canvas. When my work is going well I feel a sense of peace and fulfillment.
Steve Clayton
I consider myself a multi-media artist at this point of my life. Having spent years immersed in drawing, watercolor, and printmaking techniques and applying them to my creations has led me now to exploring photography, oil, acrylic, mixing multiple media and something I call fusion art. The word fusion best expresses my process when I’m mixing photos with acrylics or mixing line drawings with photos I’ve taken, collages, and printmaking. I never know where a simple drawing is going to take me. I draw inspiration from my contemporaries and historical artists as well as from family and friends.
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David Coblitzwww.coblitzphotographicarts.com
David Coblitz improves customers’ lives through subtle fine art messaging. This creates an uplifting environment for themselves, their clients, and their staff. Whether clients are interior designers needing to showcase their results, businesses needing to show how they increase their own or their client’s bottom line, or medical facilities seeking to improve patient outcomes and well-being by reducing stress and pain, Coblitz creatively uses photographic art to solve problems for them, their employees, and their clients in a variety of settings. The art may be on their walls, on the web, and in their print materials.
Elizabeth Cavanaugh Cohenwww.elizabethanncohen.com
I have been specializing in prints and ran an ongoing workshop for artists meeting in my studio for many years. Using my Dickerson combination press, we could do etchings, collagraph, lithography, monoprints, etc. I have had many one-person shows and exhibited in several galleries, including American Association of Artists in New York.
Elizabeth Concannonwww.wsalabama.org/elizabethconcannon/
I am a native St. Louis artist, whose interest in drawing and art has been continuous from grade school days. Primarily self-taught, I have also studied with many local and national artists in watercolor, drawing and printmaking, including (in alphabetical order) Carole Barnes, Miles Batt, Glen Bradshaw, Gerald Brommer, Al Brouillette, Virginia Cobb, Judy Gard, Carole Myers, and Ed Reep. This image is mixed media collage as a reaction to an actual visit to the City Museum in downtown St. Louis, which truly represents a work of art in the best sense of that term.
Jerry Coxwww.coxstl.com
Jerry Cox, Creative Artisan sectionmember, considers furniture to be functional sculpture. He designs and builds custom cabinetry and furnishings for NewSpace, Inc. Formally trained as an artist, he also mixes sculpture, painting and photography with his furniture-making career.
Michael Daftwww.mdaft.smugmug.com
“How you watch the rest of the world from a window…..”From Sunday in the Park with George by Stephen Sondheim.Working with a camera forces me, allows me, encourages me to watch my world from the window of the viewfinder. I look for composition. I look for color. I look for meaning. I seek to create a unique and memorable point of view. If observing my work changes you even slightly, I have succeeded, and I am happy. If you begin to see your world through different eyes because of my photographs, I am ecstatic.
Eileen Dailey
My work is structured around the figure, beginning with a contact print from the human body. I treat the figure as another shape in an environment documenting an instant in time. The raw and primitive effect of the body print combined with the life-size scale gives the feel of the figure frozen in time. I see the canvas as a residue of human activity in which human life and
juxtaposition of color, pattern and form with a postmodern sensibility. Combining these elements with various stylistic tendencies creates a personal narrative that allows me to explore my own personal experiences on a conceptual basis while working within the construct of formalism.
Marianne Ericksonwww.myslart.org/profile/MarianneErickson
As a painter, Marianne draws her primary inspiration from the great artists who use words as their medium, from Emily Dickinson to Jimi Hendrix. She believes that by translating the poet’s word-pictures into visual images, the artist, the reader, and the viewer stand to gain deeper insight into the essence of the text. However, the photograph Three Barn Farm was inspired solely by the poetry of an autumn afternoon at Mark Erker’s farm.
Muriel Eulichwww.murielwatercolor.com
Born in Paris, France to a family of artists, Muriel Eulich has always treasured and nurtured creativity—in herself and in others. As a trained art therapist, Muriel spent many years working in prisons, community centers, hospitals, and in private practice, and also taught at the college level. In recent years she has renewed her commitment to her own watercolor painting; as she works in her studio each day, she feels gratitude and joy for the chance to explore more deeply the beauty and mystery of the world around her, and the world within.
Susan Fadem
Mark Twain is famous for saying, among other things: “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” Artist and award-winning journalist Susan Fadem boots that distinction further still. For all those moments and times worth celebrating, she says, blah jewelry just may not cut it. Instead, it takes a statement piece to embolden the wearer and enliven the occasion. A jewelry designer, as well as a veteran newspaper and magazine reporter and the author of four books, Susan makes statements. With her one-of-a-kind necklaces, you will, too.
Suzy Farren
I make my living as a writer, telling stories with my words. My art offers a different way to tell a story. I am attracted to cast-off things and found objects. In Paper Trail, I sewed together scraps of handmade, hand-dyed paper and torn up pieces from old shopping lists. I frequently use text and marks (in this piece stitches) in my work but it is seldom readable, thus making each piece a more visual than linguistic story.
Mirka Fette
My subjects vary greatly. When I see something beautiful, I am eager to depict it and share my perspective others. Do you sometimes retell stories and spice them up a bit? Well sometimes a beautiful subject needs that as well. I like to experiment with texture and pattern sometimes from natural materials. Printmaking lends itself to layering and prints can take on a bas-relief quality that I find appealing. There is nothing as satisfying a pulling the print off of the plate because the outcome is always surprising and often delighting.
Steven Finneganwww.fineartamerica.com/profiles/2-steven-finnegan.html
I was born in St. Louis in the Dogtown area
spirit either survives when in balance with the environment or is destroyed by imbalance.
Betty Deall
Betty loves lines and angles. In neary three decades as a painter, Betty has used many media for her paintings, but finds that oil painting is her favorite.
Marlene DiFiori Lockewww.geocities.com/difioriart
My work has been in over 50 exhibits (local, regional and national), and is included in corporate and university collections such as the 7-Up Company, RGA, Inc., and the University of Missouri —St. Louis, as well as private collections. My art was featured on Fox 2 News on July 2, 2011. In the Eddy (whirlwind) Series and Zoomer Series, I explore movement, depth and chance. Besides paintings and digital prints, I make independent acrylic “skins” with pours that are both random and controlled. I also create sculptures connected to both the Eddy and Zoomer works of art.
Penny Dillonwww.pennydillon.com
Penny Pate Dillon has been involved in the arts all of her professional life. She has degrees in two areas of art: a Fine Art degree from Washington University in St. Louis and an Art Education degree from the University of Texas at El Paso. Her education also includes two years in the Kansas City Art Institute’s Commercial Art program. Penny’s diverse art career includes everything from a classroom art teacher, art supervisor, commercial artist, fashion illustrator, and commission artist. Today, Penny is a full-time studio painter, and loves every minute.
Marie Donatowww.mariedonato.com
Marie is a professional artist, instructor, and portrait artist living in the St. Louis area. She is a contemporary realist painter. Foremost, she is a painter of the human form, producing striking figurative paintings and drawings as well as beautiful family and corporate portraits. Her work has been recognized in International Artist Magazine. Marie has won awards in both national and invitational juried exhibitions, traveling extensively exhibiting her work in juried shows throughout the country. Her work is featured in private and corporate collections, nationally and internationally. Marie teaches classes and workshops in watercolor, pastel, drawing and portrait drawing.
Shannon Dougherty
Shannon Dougherty attended Webster University for her Bachelor of Arts in St. Louis, Missouri, which she completed in 2011. She has exhibited work at galleries in her hometown of St. Louis, Missouri, including Art St. Louis, Gateway Tower, and Cecille R. Hunt Gallery. Shannon’s work ranges in many media including oil painting, charcoal drawings, and primarily photography. St. Louis and the many cities Shannon has lived in are a strong inspiration and are represented in her work.
Deb Douglaswww.debdouglas.com
As an artist, I work with two dimensional materials, including painting, drawing, collage, and printmaking. Since graduate school I have worked to develop a personal vocabulary of imagery and mark making that speaks to my interest in the balance of form and content. My work deals with the
of the city, where I still live. The main media I work in are oils, acrylics, colored pencils, ink, as well as wood carving. Landscapes, portraits and wildlife are among some of my favorite subjects to paint or sketch. Art for me has never been a way of just expressing myself; it is big part of who I am as a person. It is something that I just can’t stop doing!
Daniel Fishbackdaniel-fishback.artistwebsites.com
Except for a few non-credit watercolor classes and workshops, I am primarily self-taught. With each painting I try to place the viewer at the scene. If the scene is a performance, they are in the audience. If a landscape, they can walk down the path, wade in the stream, or swim in the lake. My aim is to create paintings that viewers not only feel like they can walk into but are so beautiful and inviting they wish they could. I am a member of Art Saint Louis and Oil Painters of America.
Carol Foster
I split my time between Tampa, Florida and Kirkwood, Missouri. My watercolors combine elements of light and shadow in which I try to realistically retain the brilliance of color found in my subjects while maintaining good design. I am a signatory member of the Florida Watercolor Society and also have been selected to exhibit in many other shows on Florida’s Gulf coast, including, on two occasions, the National Biennial ArtExhibition in Punta Gorda.
Ralph Fournier
Ralph Fournier is best known as a contemporary architect who came out of the School of Architecture at Washington University during the golden age of St. Louis Modernism. Born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, he graduated in 1952 from Washington University, where he studied under legends Eugene Mackey and Edouard Mutrux, a partner of Bernoudy. As a young architect, Fournier was “a purist,” he says, and designed contemporary homes from St. Louis to Atlanta to Indianapolis. Now retired, Ralph is a prolific painter with a loyal following.
Carlene Fullertonwww.missourifiberartists.com/gallery/c_fullerton.htm
Carlene Fullerton is an artist, educator and arts advocate. She worked in the Education Department for the St. Louis Art Museum for ten years, taught high school art for thirty years, and has served on the Boards of the St. Louis Artists’ Guild and Missouri Fiber Artists as well as the educational advisory boards at Fontbonne University and the Contemporary Art Museum. Currently, she co-edits the Missouri Fiber Artists newsletter and volunteers for Craft Alliance. She works in mixed media, primarily drawing, fiber and collage.
Sandra Funkhouser
I have a B.A. degree from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois. My major was Art Education. In 2002, I retired from teaching elementary art for thirty five years. In 1990 I began to explore watercolor. Prior to this time I had worked with fiber arts, some pottery, acrylic and oil painting. I have found watercolor to be a rewarding medium for me. I have done several commissions. These commissions
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include, pet portraits, human portraits and house portraits.
Stan Gellmanwww.stangellman.com
Carrie Gillenwww.carriegillen.com
Carrie Gillen is a St. Louis artist and educator. She has taught with a variety of St. Louis non-profit organizations, worked as an assistant art coordinator for the Louisiana Children’s Museum, and organized teaching workshops for the Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans. Gillen graduated from Loyola University New Orleans with a BFA in Painting and a minor in photojournalism. Her personal work incorporates sculpture and painting in the form of three-dimensional wallhangings. Pieces are made through free-form fabric manipulation and building uncharacteristic formal properties with such materials. Pieces are contextually subjective.
Karen Glineswww.goodreads.com/author/show/1670615.Karen_Glines
Karen Glines, author and photojournalist, tells stories in her fine art photography. She believes that a narrative is connected to every moment of each day and that each one can be shared enthusiastically or kept intimate and private. Her serious goals most often take years to accomplish. Her most recent accomplishment is the collaboration on the book, Painting Missouri: The Counties en Plein Air, with Billyo O’Donnell, published by the University of Missouri Press, which received the Governor’s Award for it in the literary category in 2009 by the Missouri Humanities Council.
M.J. Goerkewww.goerkeart.com
M.J. Goerke is a St. Louis based artist and teacher working in a variety of media. M.J.’s extensive experience has led to being juried into many of the best shows in the country and has resulted in being the recipient of many major awards in all categories. The winner of the Best In Show at the St. Louis Art Fair in 2003 (one of the top five shows in the country) and the Peoria Fine Arts Fair in the same year, Goerke has also won some of the highest awards at the Midwest Salute to the Masters on seven different years!
Scherrie Goettschwww.houzz.com/pro/goettsch/scherrie-goettsch
Goettsch is a photographer, illustrator and coauthor of the Iowa history book Terrace Hill: the Story of a House and the People Who Touched It, co-written with her husband, Steve Weinberg. Her oil painting Tango for Two won a Les Bourgeois Vineyards’ wine label competition in the 2002 Collector’s Series. A solo exhibit of her artwork was displayed at the winery. She has written numerous stories for Columbia HOME & Lifestyles magazine. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Drake University, in Des Moines, Iowa and a Master of Arts from the University of Missouri.
Beth Goyerbethgoyer.com
Beth Goyer is a local artist and photographer who has embraced the wide world of digital photography and the use of Photoshop. Photoshop is my medium of choice. It allows me to take parts of the real
world and make them into new images, sometimes unsettling but usually beautiful and ethereal. I have always been involved with the visual arts—drawing, painting, photography, etc, starting before beginning grade school. I taught junior high and middle School for 29 years before retiring to continue my pursuit of learning new ways to make my images, visiting new places and taking images.
Bob Hartzellwww.bobhartzell.com
Bob Hartzell is a printmaker and light sculptor, who is active in community arts and education. He grew up in a series of small Missouri towns as he followed his education administrator father from school to school. After a few failed attempts at a degree from NMSU (now Truman State University), he moved to Chicago were he completed his BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. During his twenty year unofficial fellowship in the art and music scene in Chicago he worked at Steve Walter’s Screwball Press and as lighting director at the famous rock club, Lounge Ax.
Franklin Haspiel
Franklin began his fine arts career as a trumpet player at the Casa Loma Ballroom. His musical expertise won him a position as band director at Pattonville High School. Frank’s interest in the arts led to membership in the St. Louis Artists’ Guild and eventually to becoming a member of its Fine Arts Section. Franklin’s paintings have been accepted into 14 of the Guild’s competitions. He has had two showings at the Phoenix Galleries.
Bryan Hayneswww.artbybryanhaynes.com
Missouri artist Bryan Haynes is fast becoming one of the country’s most renowned fine artists. His approach to the landscape is distinctly his own—pure, romantic and stylized. Not to mention he has a color sense that can ratchet up anyone’s perception of color. His work is grandiose, and makes one feel humbled within the great design of nature. Shadows work magic in his paintings, turning entire fields into deep red blacks with patches of fire breaking through in critical spaces. He loves all of the seasons equally.
JoAnn Houlewww.joannhoule.com
Artist, part Native American, t-shirt screen print shop sidekick, and I make a mean grilled cheese. I’m the middle child of a (mostly) Norwegian/German Mother and a Chippewa/French Father. I decided in 6th grade I would be an artist. I drew mostly cartoons from 1991–1999. In 2004, I graduated from the University of North Dakota with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, specializing in painting and drawing. I currently reside in St. Louis.
Robert Jones
Robert received a B.S. Degree in Art Education in 1971 from Southeast Missouri State University and has attended art classes at Meramec Community College. Robert is a longtime member of the St. Louis Artists’ Guild.
Ruth Kolkerwww.ruthkolker.com
By combining printmaking and painting an exciting journey of discovery can be reached. How the two disciplines are layered is key to the composition. Pattern, texture, shape, line and color are
woven together to create a visual texture. I invite the viewer to respond.
Kim Kordonowywww.artworkbykim.com
This is an oil plein air painting from the Sherwood Forest Nursery in St. Louis, MO. I was interested in the grouping of several house plants next to a large red watering can. That day, the warmth in the greenhouse contrasted with the snowy chill of winter.
Greg MacNairwww.gregmacnair.com
Greg MacNair has 25 years of experience as a commercial and fine artist and is currently a resident artist at the St. Louis Artist’s Guild.
Pat McCartywww.washingtonforge.net
Pat McCarty has been blacksmithing for 23 years and is an instructor for the Traditional Chest Class at the John C. Campbell Folk School. He has studied under Uri Hofi of Israel and is featured in the book Treasure Chests, by Lon Schleining. Pat is a member of the Blacksmith Association of Missouri, the Artist Blacksmiths Association of North America, and is a Juried member of the Best of Missouri Hands. He has participated and demonstrated at the Taste for the Arts Festival since 2007, and was featured in The Masters of Steel show at Kunstlerhaus Gallery in Herman, MO.
Mimi Mednikow
When artists pick up a brush, they begin taking risks. That freedom is what I enjoy about painting. My work is non-objective, using big brushes, loose strokes, and vibrant color. I don’t know what the next painting will be, but I look forward to it.Trained at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Iowa. Exhibits locally at Kodner Gallery, St. Louis Artist’s Guild, Art St. Louis, Forest Park Community College. Painting selected for 10th anniversary poster for Missouri Governor’s Conference on Aging in 1995
Mary Mosblechwww.mosblechart.com
Mary Mosblech has been attending watercolor painting workshops for more than 10 years. Artists that she has studied under include Cheng Khee Chee, John Salminen, Jan Kunz, Gerald Brommer, Mary Ann Beckwith, Charles Reid, Donna Zagotta, Ted Nuttal and Stephen Quiller. Mary has exhibited at the St. Louis Artist Guild, St. Peter’s Cultural Center, Creative Art Gallery, and Old Orchard Gallery in Webster Groves.
Glenn Myers
The image began as a traditional digital photo, then was edited in iPhoto and later transformed, with additional editing using Photoshop. The original image digital information gathered in the traditional camera as tool and photographer as observer was joined by the photographer as both artist and designer to give a type of birth to an extended artistic expression of the original image.
Shirley Eley Nachtriebwww.nachtrieb.com
Shirley Nachtrieb, a graduate of Fontbonne College, resides in St. Charles, MO. She has been a freelance artist and teacher for over 30 years. Shirley’s painting media include watercolor, pastel, acrylics, mixed media collage, fiber, and handmade books. Shirley is a four-time winner of the prestigious Grumbacher Award of
Excellence. She is represented in Rockport Publisher’s book, Creative Watercolor by Mary Ann Beckwith and Pebble Publishing’s book, Best of Missouri Hands. Shirley has appeared on numerous Artworks cable television programs demonstrating painting techniques. Gallery representation includes Norton’s Fine Art Gallery in Clayton, MO and Framations in St. Charles, MO.
John Nagel
I continue to be attracted to a combination of elements constructed of a rural subject, warm gentle light, and a high resolution capture. Light, of course, is the essence of photography; and the way light reveals the subject is the stimulus of my creative response.
Joan Nazzoli
I retired from teaching art after 29 years. Art has been important to me since I was very young. I have a great appreciation for nature and the beauty that I see in it. I enjoy taking photos and painting from them. I also work with stained glass, mosaics, and jewelry. I have a shop called “Daydreams” in Kimmswick, Missouri, where I sell a few of my creations along with antiques and a variety of items.
Carmelita Nuñezwww.kungfuchicken.com
Carmelita Nuñez is a ceramic artist who creates beautiful functional pieces for people’s everyday rituals. When you perform those rituals—everyday things such as eating, drinking, and gathering with friends or family either casually or formally—your dinnerware and drinkware should reflect your personality and represent just how special those moments are. When you are creating those everyday moments, the vessels that you use for those occasions should also reflect how precious life is.
Sherry Yadon Orlando
Sherry Yadon Orlando is a native St. Louisan and enjoys painting a variety of subjects in numerous media. Whether painting in watercolor, oils, or highly textured acrylics, she tries to interpret the abstract quality of reality by painting the interplay of light and shadows on subjects with strong design patterns. Sherry retired from teaching at Ritenour Adult Education Program where she instructed for 30 years. She has been a freelance artist specializing in portraits and work done for McDonald Publishing Company. Sherry has been juried into nearly 50 Art Section shows with the St. Louis Artists’ Guild.
Laurel PalmerI am happy to say that this is my ninth year for donating to Collectors Choice, a wonderful fundraiser for the Artists’ Guild. Beyond that, my sold work includes house portraits, pet portraits, portraits of children, landscapes, and other various commissioned artwork. I work primarily with watercolor, but I also paint with acrylic and continue to enjoy my first love, drawing, in pencil or charcoal.
Adrienne (Vanmala) Patel
“In my mind’s eye An image…. Transferred transposed By myriad colors Deep velvet indigo Luminous green Brushed against An infinite whiteness
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Becoming Creation….”
Madeline Pisani
My landscape paintings are an attempt to communicate through painting the complex world that exists hidden in nature. Interesting shapes and areas appear as the follow of energy passes around and through the trees and leaves. My painting goal is to capture this subtle movement of lights and shadows that form into wonderful shapes. Viewing a peaceful and tranquil location provides an opportunity to present the spiritual side of nature. Enjoy my paintings expressing the love of nature without too much interference.
Johanna Prinz
Prinz has been a working designer, speaker, and educator throughout her career. Since 1972, she has served as the sole proprietor of Johanna Design Studio, designing apparel for many clothing manufacturers. Johanna served as the Fashion Program Coordinator at Palm Beach Community College from 1986 to 1997. During her time at PBCC, she created a new curriculum to teach students about the “real world” of the apparel industry. Prinz has been juried into several art exhibits in the St. Louis area since her retirement. She is an active member of the Guild and other arts organizations.
William Quinnwww.williamquinnpainter.com
For more than five decades, William Quinn has surprised us with newly invented images, not through a quest for novelty but through his natural creativity. By the time of his graduation in 1953 with a BFA from Washington University, he already was a master of his craft. Quinn works on one painting at a time, not in a series, as he abhors repeating himself. As a result, each painting is a new experience both for the painter and viewer. In a career spanning over 50 years, he has exhibited widely in the U.S. and Europe, winning many prizes in competitive exhibitions.
Jeremy Rabuswww.jeremyrabus.com
Jeremy Rabus explores the physical properties of paint (such as opacity and viscosity), and the optical effects of color through his vibrant abstract paintings. He received a BFA in Painting from Southern Illinois University in 2004. He has exhibited widely in the St. Louis region, in venues such as Hoffman LaChance Contemporary, Mad Art Gallery, the St. Louis Artists’ Guild, and the Ethical Society of St. Louis. He has received several awards, including the Rosemarie Sacchi Award and the SIUE Friends of Art Award—Painting.
Jane Reed
Jane’s paintings, drawings, and photographs have been exhibited in galleries across the United States. She draws her inspiration from the world around her, and has been known to trudge through mud and rain to photograph a scene that may or may not become a painting. Jane is a member of the Guild’s Fine Arts and Literary Arts sections.
Kelly Robinsonwww.hammerstonemetal.com
I completed my BFA in Metals and Jewelry at the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2000. After graduating, I broadened my skills by working as a full time bench jeweler, while creating one-of-kind art
jewelry in my home studio. My work has been included in such publications as Showcase 500 Rings, Art Jewelry Magazine, and Humor In Craft, as well as multiple exhibitions. I currently live in St. Louis and am pursuing my MFA degree in the Metalsmith Program at Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville (SIUE).
Barbara Ann RomeroI have always been drawing things, rooms, landscapes, and people around me. Sometimes they get framed.
Russ Rosenerwww.photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=23972
Photography is best when it encapsulates and crystallizes a distinct moment in time. The stopping, blending and smearing of light and time are endlessly fascinating and hopefully a comment on the transitory nature of those living moments.
Naomi Runtz
I have worked in photography for over 30 years, making prints in black and white, color, carbon, palladium, and Polaroid media. I have exhibited locally at the St. Louis Artists’ Guild, Art St. Louis, Women’s Caucus for Art, Componere Gallery, Fontbonne University, Martin Schweig Gallery, University City Library Gallery, and the Foundry Art Centre. National locations include Hays Art Center, Hays, KS, Kansas City Artists’ Coalition, Printmaking Council of NJ, National Exhibit at Fayetteville, AK, Swann Gallery, Detroit, MI. Also, for many years I have participated in the Lyon-St. Louis Sister Cities Exhibition in Lyon, France and Clayton, Missouri.
Marceline Saphian
As a long-time member of the St. Louis Artists’ Guild, it is a pleasure to participate in Collectors Choice. My work through the years has included oil painting, acrylic painting, ceramic sculpture, welded sculpture, fiber work and my present emphasis, monotype and mixed media. Subjects come from things around me, including home and yard, landscapes and people. Realism is not a goal, as I would rather find new and exciting ways to express ideas and seek inner meaning and relationships. Examples of the work I do are included in many private and corporate collections and museums.
Jack Schlueter
I am an art teacher who has never stopped working “outside the job.” I always have something going all year round in a variety of subjects, but I really enjoy painting away my summers in Blue Hill Maine. The coast inspires me and painting recharges my batteries to begin another year of teaching.
Nora Schomogy
Portraits are my specialty. I have painted many different kinds of paintings but nothing gives me feelings of contentment and joy like the act of painting a portrait, either of a person or of an animal. This painting of an owl was juried into the Ann Metzger Memorial National All Media Exhibition at the St. Louis Artists’ Guild last summer.
RJ Shaywww.stl-illustrator.com/portfolios/rj-shay
While I assume a number of multiple art personalities, I am currently devoting more time to corporate and personal caricatures. This aspect of my business is both a lot of fun and rewarding for me when the final piece is presented. It is a unique gift and one that seems never to get old. In fact, I
tell my caricatured clients they will look at the art in five years and remark how good they looked then! I also do quite a bit of humorous, editorial and conceptual work.
Jeff Sippelwww.jeffsippel.com
I joined the faculty of the University of St. Louis, Missouri in 1998. Before that time I served as Education Director of Tamarind Institute from 1988 to 1998, The Ohio State University from 1985–1988 and in 1981 directed the Quensen Lithographic Studio in Lamspringe, Germany. I received my B.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire and my MFA from Arizona State University.
Neal Slaten
Neal Slaten was born, raised and currently resides in St. Louis where he has been painting on and off for the last 30+ years. Neal is mostly a self-taught representational artist with interest in plein-air landscapes, portraits and the occasional still life. Neal’s formal art training includes coursework in drawing and figure painting at Meramec Community College, along with participation in several workshops and short courses including workshops with Kevin McPherson and Billyo O’Donnell.Neal’s educational process continues to this day.
Barbara Martin Smithwatercolorsmith.com
Rhythms of the process of creating are constant as well as ever changing. Omnipotence is present in these rhythms, like a friend. When I retreat to my studio to paint, I carry this friend with me. Working with the fluidity of transparent watercolor on handmade paper parallels the seen and unseen, known and unknown, foreseen and recalled qualities of subject that emerge during the painting process. Each painting comes from within, linking me with the past and the future. Each is a deliberate engagement with all that is mysterious and beautiful.
Betty Springfield
I love nature, and my objective in my photography is to capture the beauty all around us. Nature provides some of the most dramatic settings in terms of light, color and form. Water is one of my favorite centerpieces in photographs, along with the natural elements surrounding it.
Barbie Stepswww.stepsphotography.com
My two big passions in life are photography and travel. I consider myself lucky in that I have the opportunity to combine both in my many explorations around the world. I enjoy sharing with others some of what I have experienced both here and abroad—the little moments and places that make a good life
Joseph Stephans
Joseph Stephans is an artist working in traditional landscapes. He has taken several art courses at St. Louis Community College and workshops with artist Billyo O’Donnell.
Barbara St. Johnwww.barbarastjohn.com
My paintings represent my search to express how I respond emotionally to a subject. My hope is to connect with viewers, rekindling an awareness of the beauty that we take for granted in our hectic lives. I like to explore the city and document my discoveries with my camera. I use these pictures as my starting point,
and from there I let my inner voice attempt to convey what has touched my heart. I approach each painting not to reproduce what I see, but to interpret what I feel with use of color, expressive brushstrokes, texture, and the palette knife.
Joanne Stremsterfer
I am intrigued with the constant transformation of nature and have chosen that as the concept for this relief print. The manipulation of various printmaking techniques enhances the element of surprise that have intrigued me over the past several years. I’ve worked in pastels for a long time and gradually began experimenting with surfaces on which to draw. Printmaking has provided the variety of effects that I enjoy.
Jim Trotterwww.trotterart.com
Joyce Trotterwww.trotterart.com/joyce
Leslie Uljee
Doorway—Desert Garden (Mother Earth Series) explores connections between the human body and topography. The hand quilting is an exercise in meditation as rows of stitches progress across a metaphorical landscape. Leslie’s fiber art has been exhibited since 1996, most recently in the 2012 Lay of the Land juried exhibition at the St. Louis Artists’ Guild. A photograph of an earlier work was included in Touching Fiber Arts, a 2012 book by the Texas Museum of Fiber Arts.
Gene Ursprung
Gene Ursprung is a regional artist known for his Mississippi river landscapes. Gene taught painting at Lewis and Clark Community College and has been accepted in shows at the St. Louis Artist Guild; in Decatur, Springfield, and Alton, Illinois; at the Illinois Art Museum at Rend Lake, Illinois; at Cedarhurst in Mt. Vernon, Illinois and a gallery in Chicago, Illinois. Gene has studied with watercolor artists Edgar Whitney and Eliott O’Hara in Kennebunkport, Maine and Harold Gregor in Saugatuck, Michigan. Gene’s subject matter includes scenes along the Mississippi Great River Road of thelimestone bluffs, historical houses and farms.
Patricia Vinyardpatriciavinyard.roxer.com
Through her drawings and paintings, Patricia Vinyard explores relationships and transcendence from the perspective of her personal experiences. Influenced by landscapes of the American Midwest, by mid-20th century gestural abstraction, and by traditional figure painting and drawing, she employs familiar forms and materials in ways that reveal an inner world rich in sensual exploration and lyrical metaphor. Patricia maintains a studio near downtown Belleville, Illinois.
Joy Lalita Wadewww.blackartinamerica.com/profile/JoyLalitaWade
I’m a realistic storyteller. I paint a traditional, mixed media style. I find the physical, spiritual and social awareness of the human condition utterly beautiful, and a balance that emerges from interplay where subject and nature alternate. I like to bring attention to people I think are often overlooked, to capture the personal human essence of a time and place in rich vibrant color and texture. It is a gift to work at my passion, it keeps me grounded, and the most
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rewarding part of what I do is that I always want to do more.
Charles Walliswww.nortonsfineart.com/artwork/wallis
Charles Wallis is a native Missourian who finds most of his subject matter in his home state. His interest in art began at an early age. He studied at the American Academy of Art and has enjoyed the opportunity to paint for over half a century. He is a representational painter who looks for the subtle surprises in nature for inspiration, especially inanimate objects that tell us something about ourselves. His work is in several corporate and private collections, and his painting technique is featured in Watercolor Your Way, a book written by Carl Schmalz and published by Watson Guptill.
Kate Warnerwww.kwarnerart.com
I love the process of making art. Deciding on the medium, presentation, and then proceeding through the composition to successful completion is the most satisfying thing I do. My subjects of choice are related to nature, trying to capture even an iota of the beauty and mystery is a never ending challenge. I am rewarded if in the end, the viewer is drawn to and finds some personal response to an image.
Bernard M. Waxmanwww.photosbybmw.com
Bernard Waxman, a retired faculty member and administrator from the Department of Computer Science at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, has been interested in photography since his early teens. During the past ten years he has been working with digital imaging to create a body of work that is focused on landscape, macro, and most recently environmental photography. Bernard does all of his own printing and framing using archival inks, paper, and framing supplies. Now that he has time to devote to photography, he enjoys sharinghis photographic vision and creations with others.
Linda Wein
I create encaustic paintings that express my feelings about life and nature. Each work crystallizes an impression of something I’ve seen or an emotion I’ve felt. I use the translucency of encaustic wax to create depth as I build up layers of colors, textures and images. From my earliest childhood through today, I find inspiration in the natural world. Trees, birds, and far horizons all find their way into my paintings. I want my artwork to evoke a momentof calm meditation and connection to the universe.
Margi Weirwww.margiweir.com
Margi Weir earned her MFA in painting from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA); her MA in painting from New Mexico State University; her BFA in painting from San Francisco Art Institute; and her BA in art history from Wheaton College, Massachusetts. She has spent many years as a professional artist, living and working in California, New Mexico, Colorado and Paris, France. Margi Weir moved to Detroit, Michigan in the fall of 2009 to join theWayne State University Faculty as an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing in the James P. Duffy Department of Art and Art History.
Julie Wiegandwww.juliewiegand.com
I have been a working artist in Missouri for over 25 years. I grew up in the Missouri River Bottoms of Chesterfield, surrounded by huge cottonwood trees and farm fields for miles. I continue to express my connection to and love of nature and the countryside through my art. My oil paintings and murals express light and color interactions within a subject. A large percentage of my oils are painted en plein air and I truly enjoy this challenging and rewarding work. I am drawn to simple compositions and find true joy in capturing a mood with color and light.
Gwin Willis
My mother inspired me to get into the fine arts when I was an older child and I loved it. I enjoy drawing animals in charcoal and pastel; for painting I started out with acrylics at the age of 10, and now I have just started trying out oil painting. I like sporting art best of all, like George Stubbs and Robert K. Abbett.
Kay Woodwww.kaywoodart.com
Kay Wood is a versatile St. Louis artist whose work includes spectacular Polaroid transfers, mixed media, collages, and 3-dimensional figures.
Dan Woodwardwww.woodwardartstudio.com
Dan Woodward, an internationally known artist, takes pleasure recording the quickly vanishing world of natural wilderness and historical identity. His current project, Impressions of the Civil War in Missouri, is traveling the state during the Sesquicentennial. While on display at the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site, curator Karen Maxville said, his “exhibit explores the soldier’s experience throughout the war enabling the viewer to connect visually and emotionally to the plight of soldiers then and today.” As a former member of the 101st Airborne, Woodward knew firsthand what it was like to be a soldier. Visit woodwardartstudio.com for the exhibit schedule.
Barbara Zucker
My home darkroom was initially set up to do black and white developing and printing. Eventually my interest in the history of photography led to courses in nineteenth century processes and contemporary image making techniques. I show regionally and nationally, my work hangs in public and private collections, I offer workshops, and I am a member of several area arts organizations.
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