Driven by the force of spreading a little light, Dana chooses to splash color and life into everything in her genre of art. Inspiration from space, science, shape, unity, and color converge in original paintings made to provoke a sense of wonder. Her pottery, mainly utilitarian, gives patrons a unique option of fun and function.
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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.
#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
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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.
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 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.
Award-winning artist Lorraine McFarland works primarily in pastel and sometimes in oil. Her work as a field biologist and her dedication to environmental conservation influenced her decision to learn to paint outdoors, on location. Since 2007 she has pursued and excelled at painting "en plein air", winning many awards and satisfying her desire to connect with Mother Nature.
I excelled in drawing and design and lived off campus in Bedford Stuyvesant, which accelerated my life experience. I worked at the Venice Restaurant on Myrtle Ave. to pay for rent, materials and tuition.
Jamie Scheppers finds joy in exploring color and texture across multiple mediums. Her paintings are primarily encaustic, though she enjoys exploring other mediums and techniques in hopes of finding new ways to express a sense of carefree and incite curiosity. Though her work may span mediums, she hopes that the playfulness of her bright colors will unite her pieces and help others find ways to be more child-like in their daily lives.
Artist’s Statement
Art is a voluntary effort to satisfy an involuntary urge.
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Born November 15, 1946 in Boonville, Missouri, I received a B.S. in Commercial Art from Missouri State University in 1968. Following four years in the US Navy, I worked briefly as a commercial artist for a small appliance manufacturing company. During that period, I produced the art for the first small appliance selected for the cover of the Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog.
In 1974 I began freelancing as a residential designer. When I married in 1975, I designed and built our first home and then resumed painting in earnest. I worked for architectural offices from 1978 through 1990, moonlighting on the side. I opened my own design office, J.E. Cundiff, Designer in 1990 to produce some of the area’s finest homes. My art was selling through galleries.
I continued working in my design business until family health issues forced it to close. My wife of 45 years died in May of 2021.
I started painting in high school, and still own that first painting. and practiced architectural drawings for 45 years. I see the two passions as innately related forms of artistic expression.
My art has been displayed at Artexpo New York, 2021 & 2022, SPECTRUM MIAMI, 2021, M.A.D.S. Galleries in Milan, Italy and Fuerteven, Spain, 2021 and will be on display at Red Dot Miami and Dallas Texas this fall, 2022.
My passion for writing is supplemented by Photography of Dolls and Action Figures in various settings and Drawings in Comic Book format. I holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Digital Cinematography and Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing, I have taken Photography and Drawing classes at The Boca Raton Museum of Art - Art School, and I am even more inspired by the expansion of my own creativity.
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“I have always had a love for photography, just being able to capture moments in life and being able to preserve them and showcase them. Photography is important to me because I want to tell a story, not just show a picture. As Elliott Erwitt said, "Photography is an art of observation. It has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.."
Make it stand out
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
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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.
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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.
I am inspired by the beauty of nature seen while hiking, biking, kayaking, traveling or enjoying nature’s show in my backyard.
I manipulate and form glass into shapes with heat, flow, dimension, patterns and texture bringing vibrant colors to life.
My journey as a glass artist began with a quest to understand how the glass art we collected on our travels was made. I quickly discovered a new passion for my creativity. I am fascinated with the scientific properties of glass and the technical programming required to achieve various results in kiln-forming and casting. I enjoy the focus and precision it takes to design and explore colors, patterns, textures, shapes and techniques to create kiln-formed and kiln-casted glass art that can be bright, bold, subtle, or textured.
My artwork depicts a story that flows from realistic representations of nature to abstract interpretations with creative 3D elements. In addition to fine art 3D wall hangings and sculptures; I create vessels, bowls, vases, tableware, garden art, clocks and jewelry.
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.
“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.
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.
I studied and earned my art degree at Missouri Western State College as well earning a Master of Arts at Columbia College. Since then, I have worked on my own, building the style you see today. I enjoy participating at various art fairs throughout Missouri as well as gallery exhibits. A few of his most recent solo exhibits were in sunny San Diego, CA, Moberly Area Community College (MACC), and Solar Gallery in Columbia, MO. You can also look for my work at the Annual Boone County Art Show in Columbia, MO.
A goal of mine is that my passion for natural beauty be seen throughout my work. Transforming landscapes, far and up-close, into stunning interpretations of bold color, playful rhythms and raw emotional impact is key. The idea is for the painting to be done “right the first time” without re-working and blending. I create my oils in thick layers, often displaying texture you will want to touch. Most of my work's inspiration is within a few miles of my home.
Open impressionism would definitely be the umbrella of which my work rests under. A few artists that inspire me are contemporary master, Erin Hanson, Cezzane, Van Gogh and contemporary Canadian painter Julie Burke.
You can contact me for pricing on originals, prints, and even custom pieces.
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I attended the University of Missouri, Columbia then moved to Santa Fe where I attended the Institute of American Indian Art. The Southwest, with its rich heritage, incredible quality of light, and beautiful landscape kept me there for 35 years! During this time, I was fortunate to learn from a variety of jewelers and metalsmiths; an education well worth the time spent with them.
I have been crafting unique pieces of jewelry and metalwork for a number of years. My approach to the craft is one of fabricating each piece individually, focusing on work with clean lines and an aesthetic that does not rely on mass production techniques. This method allows me to revisit given pieces many times with an avid curiosity, revealing new aspects and furthering my ideas’ narrative with each endeavor. In this sense, each of the pieces is a one of a kind representation of my rich communication with the metals that I wield.
We all live in a continuum of moments, some fleeting and others memorable for a lifetime. A crowd of people can experience the same moment yet their individual interpretations can be very different. I try to summarize my movement through life as a collection of my experiences. The challenge for me is to capture the emotion and life of my experiences on two dimensional photographic paper and have the viewer feel the mood of the subject matter.
I started taking photographs in my teen years. My father gave me his old Minolta 35mm SLR from the1960's to take pictures at our family gatherings. Several years later I took photographs while studying at the Biosphere 2 Center in Oracle Arizona. The marketing director generously gave me all the film I needed and developed it for me. In return my photos were used for marketing purposes of the Center. I had the opportunity to take thousands of photos of the students and numerous landscapes. Several years later, when I started medical school, my Minolta retired to the camera bag. Later, after a fifteen year hiatus, I purchased a Canon digital EOS 6d and have been busy photographing everything since then. I like to use my family as models in many of my photos. I continue to focus on landscapes and portraits but now I try to incorporate thematic threads within my work.
From an early age, the arts have offered me a path for exploration and a wonderful opportunity to determine how I see the world. My efforts have taken various forms both as a writer and a visual artist. In high school and college I wrote poetry and short stories, took classes in art and drama and acted in plays. For a time I aspired to be an actress. As I have explored these various pathways I have come to see that the imagination is an extraordinary way of knowing and should be highly valued.
Though I concentrated on writing novels and short stories during the years I taught literature, I also spent a decade working in ceramics, learning a great deal about form. I was fortunate enough to receive a fellowship from the Lily Endowment for a project devoted to classes in art, the study of Inuit art and mythology, and travel to the Eastern Arctic to visit the creative environment. I took a number of art classes at Purdue and continued my study of painting and printmaking at UMC
Travel and study, as well as visits to museums in the States, Europe and Latin America have been important to me. A summer of drawing and visits to museums based in Florence with visits to other Italian cities was a rich experience. I have had the unique pleasure of holding and looking at Cezanne water colors at the Louvre in Paris.
As the first writer since the inception of the Vermont Studio Center to be awarded a fellowship for a residence in painting, I have spent a good deal of time there both as a painter and a Guest Writer. A fellowship for a residency at the Center now supports those who care to cross boundaries. My interests in the creative process have led me to develop a workshop, "Heightening Imagination: Writing and Drawing from the Image." No prior experience required. I have taught the workshop in Columbia, Taos, and other parts of the country. As my novels and short story collections have been published, I have had the opportunity to do the cover paintings for the books, as well as for those of other writers who have asked me to do theirs.
Much of my work in both art and writing is set in New Mexico, where I grew up. Its landscape and variety of cultures still inspire me. I also enjoy plein aire painting here in Missouri and in the Maine woods, where I live in the summer. My painting has moved from the figurative to the abstract over the years. I try to paint from the images and colors that move through me and suggest what the painting wants to be. A number of paintings have elements of both the figurative and the abstract. . I work in both water colors and oils. I owe a great deal to the inspiration of Fauves and such artists as Bonnard, Emil Nolde, John Marin, Charles Burchfield, Paul Klee Joan Mitchell and Keith Crown.
I now devote my time to both writing and painting and share a studio with artists Jane Mudd and Chris Frederick at the Orr Street Studios.
We have been together since the beginning of the studios.
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