Ruthie Moccia

Ruthie Moccia

Artist Bio: 

Ruthie Moccia works in oil, acrylic, pastels, and photography. Her photographs are sometimes embellished with oil paint. With her degree in art education, she taught art in the public school and at the Lawrence, KS Art Center. She performed the tedious task of color separation for Hallmark Cards before scanners took care of that. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in Kansas and Missouri. She has received awards for her entries in the Five State Photography Exhibition (Hayes, KS), Riverbend Art Festival (Aitchison, KS), Visions Photography Show, Columbia Art League, Boone County Art Show, Art St. Louis, and St. Louis Women’s Caucus for Art. Her portfolio was accepted into the archives at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in the year 2000. 

For more info visit: https://www.mocciart.company

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Artist Statement:

Nature is where I find my greatest peace and my finest joy. Add canvas and paints to that and some kind of reverie begins that leads me to a state of contentment. I like to capture the Missouri River on canvas as it flows through Boone County, changing with the shifting light every minute from dawn to dusk. And I do enjoy change. Mixing materials and paints in ways one does not normally see is a lot of fun for me. One of my favorite things is to embellish my black and white photographs with oil colors to change the entire mood of the piece. Most recently I have been using pastels to create crazy/fun snack pieces I call Tablescapes, some even with snacks for birds. If you go to my web site you will find way too much variety which is why I chose Wild Ponies as a logo…that pony energy continues to gallop into new directions.

Debbie Cahow

Painter

ARTIST STATEMENT

Debbie Cahow creates watercolors through an intuitive sense of playfulness. She is a lifelong doodler and sometimes painter. She came to Columbia, MO in 1977 with the plan to study art at the University of Missouri. She switched to nursing after getting married and starting a family. Since retiring from her nursing career in 2016, she has enjoyed a return to her art practice, especially painting with watercolor. More recently Debbie has been drawn to abstract watercolors. Debbie creates through love and joy and is influenced by all the emotions. She creates for the health of her mind, heart and soul. She loves sharing her art with others.

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  #1 untitled 12x16 1/2” unframed

  #2 friendly dragon 15 1/2x12 1/2” framed

  #3 Under the Microscope 15 1/2x12 1/2” framed

  #4 Abundance 8x10” matted

  #5 Trillium 12 1/2x15 1/2” framed

Inessa Morelock

INESSA MORELOCK

inessa.more@yahoo.com

Also she could be found on Facebook, Viber and Telegram. 

Artist statement 

Being a big fan of writer Agatha Christie's detectives, I was so happy, when the Muse, who visited me, presented Agatha Christie's image to my inner vision. 

With great enthusiasm, I started working on the figure and woven pieces. Double entendre is my favorite title, so it goes: " Agatha Christie is weaving a plot of her new detective mystery " for your pleasure. 

Artist biography 

Inessa Morelock was born and raised in Kharkiv, Ukraine. For the last 23 years she has lived and created in Fulton, MO. 

Being a self taught artist, Inessa developed her own style, which combines echos of Old World legends, fairy tales and Inessa's quirky sense of humor. 

Very often Inessa is writing a short story about her creation, which helps her to understand the character she portrays in her creations. 

Weihua Zhu

Weihua Zhu

zhukee1@gmail.com

Weihua Zhu was born and raised in China, and later moved to Japan. She now lives in Columbia, USA. These experiences laid the basis for her lifelong concern with cultural diversity. She first discovered her God-given talent when she won an art award in 7 years old. Her mediums includes watercolor, ink and acrylic on canvas. Much of her work revolves around figure work, animals and Chinese characters. She exhibits her artwork in Columbia Art League, Memorial Student Union and The Montminy Gallery.

Artist Statement: I am seeking my inner bridge between the Western and Eastern. I have practiced Chinese calligraphy since childhood. By using acrylic paint as medium, I try to talking about a correlation between stories and symbols, a try to expressing my abstract language on the canvas.  I understand my own traditions and reconstruct the relationship between myself and the contemporary world. It takes me a lot of visionary strength to enact words that evolving into a mountain scape, evoking parallels with Classical Chinese landscape painting in pen and ink. The simplicity of technique and arrangement allows my paintings to achieve an abstract and pure visual effect.  My artworks are seen as a compensation, poems of homesickness.

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Samuel Goodfellow

Samuel Goodfellow

sam.goodfellow@westminster-mo.edu

573-808-1681

All through school I doodled.  It helped me concentrate. I always thought it would be great to do more than just untutored sketching.  Other interests intruded and I had the pleasure of spending my career teaching History at Westminster College.

About ten years ago I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease.  I realized that if I had any desire to dabble in the arts, I had to start now.  I poked around in my boxes of stuff and found an old Grumbacher pastel set from high school.  I started playing with it and quickly became hooked.

Having no formal training, I basically keep experimenting until I like the result.   I learn a lot, but I throw away a lot as well. Most of my pictures reflect where I have lived or travelled.  I have spent blocks of time in Yellowstone Park, Germany, France, and Namibia, all of which have very different atmospheres. Painting and drawing continues to be a wonderful learning experience.

Lisa Bartlett

Lisa Bartlett

Artlandish Gallery

1019 E Walnut Street

Columbia, MO 65201

artlandish@live.com

573-442-2999

http://www.artlandishgallery.com

Portrait credit: Jane Mudd

Being of a restless, creative nature, I generally have multiple projects going at once. I bounce between media, and I love to experiment.

Sometimes I like to paint on very large canvases and include collage and gold leaf in the composition. I also enjoy working in three dimensions, using such found objects as old clock cases, broken ceramics, and Victorian hardware.

My work often tells a story, since I'm fascinated by human nature and by what history has to teach us. Old photographs, old letters, and other memorabilia are major sources of inspiration. Finding the beauty in brokenness is  the goal.

I'm always looking for new ideas, new construction techniques, and new projects to get excited about. Anything that involves experimentation, anything complicated, and finally just the act of creation itself--that's what I love.

 Artistic History

I received a Bachelor's of Fine Arts degree from Columbia College, Columbia Missouri in 1988

For ten years I was the graphic designer for KOMU-TV an NBC affiliate television station.

In 2001 I opened an antique store called The Vintage Shop in downtown Columbia.

In 2007 I was part owner of Spare Parts Gallery.

Since 2009- I Own and Operate Artlandish Gallery, Manage the North Village Art Studios and am on the board for the North Village Arts District in Columbia Missouri.  

Leslie McCoullough-Payne

Painting

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Statement

I grew up with the blessing of dyslexia, my parents and siblings encouraged me to read by introducing me to mythic legends and grim fairytales and allowing me to imagine and draw: monsters, maidens, knights, great heroes/heroines  and all kinds of animals and lands, using the images to help me understand the printed words. As my education proceeded, I continued to use this method as i studied, Biology, K-12 Education, Developmental Psychology, Philosophy/Religion, Equestrian Sciences, and Art.

Influenced by the symbolism of Kandinsky's color theory, Jungian Depth Psychology, and Rupert Sheldrake’s Morphic resonance/holon theory of the formation of life forms; I have developed a personal method, dropping  acrylic paint onto wet canvas allowing the paint to mix in random patterns then allowing images to be brought forth by meditation and active imagination,  the paintings guiding me into animal formations, mythical imagery, and landscapes. I hope you enjoy the examples of my artwork, if you wish to see more you can find me on Instagram @LMCPART or Facebook as The Art of McCulloughPayne, or contact me directly at lmcculloughpayne@gmail.com  or 573-310-3950.

David Moreno

“As my artist statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible, and therefore full of deep significance.” Calvin & Hobbs

My mom said that I was an easy birth, even though I was born with a pencil in my left hand.  I must have been 8 or 9 years old when I became conscience of my desire/ability to draw and create. I use the word “create” because at that young age,  I must have felt a need to create something, anything and with whatever I had available, be it pencil or crayon to make small drawings. In junior high and being a young boy from the Detroit, Michigan area I would draw cars and re-design and modify plastic model car kits.

In high school, I had several drafting (mechanical drawing) classes. This was way before computer aided drawing (CAD),  I found that drawing mechanically or free hand was a real fit.  I also began to take my artistic drawing more seriously by taking drawing classes at night at the local community college. I was born to draw!!

Like so many things, life got in the way of the art. It was not until my mid-twenties, when I married my wonderful wife and entered the University did I again, find my love of art by way of design and architecture. Architecture gave me that drawing/ creative release.

 At one point we lived in Cleveland, Ohio, and again I was taking night classes but, this time oil painting classes.  This art program included a nighttime program at the Cleveland Museum of Art that allowed artists to be classified as a “Copiest”. As a Copiest you were able, during certain Museum evening hours, to set up easel and paints and stand immediately in front of a Masterpiece and copy the Masterpiece. Truly a privilege. I have made several reproductions of Edgar Degas and one of Albert Besnard and of Picasso. 

 I begin each painting by drawing the subject in detail with pencil or a brush with very thin gray paint before adding any color.  This underpainting establishes the light, values and tone of the painting.

After 45 years in architecture, design and construction, I have retired and really begun to spend more time drawing and painting in earnest. For the larger paintings, I often build my own wooden frames and stretch the canvas. The subject matter for a painting is varied and pretty much whatever strikes my fancy. This year I plan to copy several of John Singer Sargent’s paintings and perhaps dabble in some abstract work.

Curtis Hendricks

I create computer-based art using photography as a base, a product of a lifetime learning to do things differently. To see the world differently.

The colors and techniques of modern abstract art fascinated me from an early age. I wanted desperately to learn more, but there were no artists in the tiny farming village where I grew up to teach me. No one understood what modern art was, let alone why it was. But there was an appreciation for photography.

I began shooting with a 1960 model Agfa rangefinder fixed lens 35mm camera and learned to use darkroom techniques to enhance the image. Graduating to a single lens reflex camera I worked primarily with Kodachrome. Digital photography opened a new world. The computer became the artboard I never had; the darkroom I could never afford. I discovered there would never be a camera or a lens that could capture what I saw in my head – that, I had to create on my own.

I use the photograph the same way a painter uses a charcoal sketch – as a starting place. I squeeze out the unseen hiding between the pixels; the angels, the demons of my own imagination.

Light. Color. Darkness. Perspective. Introversion. Mystery. Love.

Leanne Tippett Mosby

Even though the course of my career took me down other paths, I have always been an artist at heart.  From receiving my very first camera, a Kodak 110 instamatic, at age eight, to taking every high school art class available, I have always enjoyed the prospect of creating.  Although I dabble in jewelry and painting, more recently I have focused more heavily on photography.  After wanting to do so for 15 years, I had the amazing experience of taking the Summer Intensive at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography – where I made many new friends and was able to eat, sleep and breathe photography for six wonderful weeks.  I enjoy every type of photography from portrait, to abstract, landscape, to macro and beyond.  Most importantly, photography is a way for me to document everything from grand adventures to intimate family gatherings…but being able to sell a piece here and there would certainly be icing on the cake!  

I hope you enjoy these photos.  If you have an interest in any of these images, or would like to commission a special photograph, please contact me at (573) 999-2737 or ljtmosby@gmail.com.

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Jennifer Slouha

Jennifer Slouha

Jennifer Slouha is a self-taught artist living in Holts Summit, Missouri.  Her preferred mediums are professional grade colored pencils, graphite pencils and acrylic paint.  These media allow her to pursue a passion for realism and fine detail.  Her process involves the use of rich tonality and perspective.  Jennifer starts with researching the subject and begins forming the composition.  Then she creates a simple line drawing and begins building depth until the image takes form. Each colored pencil drawing requires from 30 to 100 hours to complete.

Jennifer enjoys creating highly technical pieces and continually works on improving her skills.  She specializes in commissioned photorealistic automotive artwork but also creates art in many other subjects such as pets, wildlife, cityscapes, and portraits

She is a member of the Columbia Art League in Columbia, Missouri and participates in the Community Exhibit Program, exhibiting her artwork throughout the city on a rotating basis.  She has also been accepted into Capital Arts Gallery in Jefferson City, Missouri, the Art House Gallery of Fulton, Missouri, and the Lake Fine Art Academy & Galleria in Osage Beach, Missouri for representation.  She was commissioned to create a series of automotive artwork for Missouri Auto Auction in Columbia, MO.  Her artwork has won awards and been published numerous times.  She has also been the sketch artist for an episode of the Travel Channel’s television series “The Dead Files”.

contact:
T: 573-397-3573
W:www.jenniferslouha.com

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Eric Seat

Eric Seat

by Lindsey Howald
with permission of the Columbia Daily Tribune

Eric Seat is a different kind of illustrator.

In a career field increasingly populated by graphic designers toting Macbooks, he works with traditional media - acrylics, oils, board. He holds texture and stylistic exaggerations to be as important and inspiring as the meaning of the text his work is meant to highlight.

And while the great illustrator Norman Rockwell created warm and fuzzy family scenes, Seat's portraits are delightfully eerie.

"I would like to think of it as more of a fine art," Seat said of his work.

The 27-year-old earned his bachelor's degree in communication arts and design from Virginia Commonwealth University. After attending the Illustration Academy, a workshop that features, among others, Kansas City's Mark English, Seat came away inspired by illustrators who had moved the genre from magazine pages to art gallery walls.

That's why, when Seat moved to Columbia from Leesburg, Va., he landed in an art gallery. This is his fourth month in the city, and he recently joined Columbia Art League and staffs the gallery once a week.

His portrait of Michael Moore, the filmmaker who made a name bashing President George W. Bush in films like Fahrenheit 9/11, also appeared in CAL's "Politically Speaking" exhibition. "It was a little portrait I did for my portfolio," he said. Asked if it lends some insight into his own political leanings, Seat stepped around a firm answer.

"I don't necessarily do portraits of people I like," he said. "I just thought I'd do it for my portfolio since he's in the public eye a lot. I was definitely interested in having political beliefs" portrayed in my artwork "a while ago, but not so much now."

While he might be hopeful about linking illustration with fine art, Seat depends on assignments from publications. Therefore his portfolio is ultimately designed to market his drawing talents. Inspired by the exaggerated caricatures of Philip Burke and grotesque figures of Lucian Freud, Seat's portfolio contains recognizable subjects such as Moore, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Kurt Vonnegut.

"For illustration work, it definitely needs to be an image that fits the needs for the publication," he said. He must be doing something right: His work has received awards from the Society of Illustrators, Communication Arts magazine and Print magazine.

He moved away from the busy sprawl of the Washington, D.C., bedroom community with his retired parents. Talented but shy, he's still struggling to find his footing.

"You know, finding work in illustration is certainly a slow progression for me," Seat said. In Virginia, he produced work for Military History magazine and taught occasional illustration workshops while working part time in a frame store. He's currently working on a series of illustrations for Read magazine, depicting George Orwell's Animal Farm for middle school-age readers.

Eric Seat selected for international
illustration competition
in New York City
(Feb. 2010)

contact:
W: www.ericseat.com
Tel: 703-727-5372

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Deni Cary Phillips

Deni Cary Phillips

Deni Cary Phillips

Infinity Photographs

denicaryphillipsphotographs.com

573-424-9693

Intimate Landscapes

Deni Cary Phillips has had a camera in her hands since childhood. Unable to develop prints in the darkroom, she was thrilled when digital photography gave her creative control of processing. Deni shoots outdoors and the natural environment almost exclusively. Travel photography, landscapes and ancient architecture, and intimate landscapes are her favorite subjects. Self-taught for many years, she is also a graduate of The Arcanum, a now-defunct online school where she studied under a number of well-known photographers, as well as a student of Don Giannatti's commercial photography classes. Her work is on permanent display in a number of local residences and commercial buildings in Columbia Missouri. She is happy to work with clients to create right-sized photographs from her collection. Contact Deni through Columbia Art League for more engagement with the "Visions of Eagle Bluffs" collection, or to see more of her work.

You can often see her work in various locations around her home town, Columbia, Missouri, as well as online: Facebook, Instagram at InfinityPhotoDeni, and on her website, denicaryphillipsphotographs.com.

 "Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving." 

Ansel Adams

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