David Lancaster

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. 

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Gladys Swan

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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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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Mary A. Davies

My art work is inspired by: the splendor of nature and creation, the personality and character on people’s faces and situations, landscapes that show interesting subjects like parks.

I work in acrylic, ink resist, mixed media, pen and ink, watercolor.

I decide what to paint by considering the elements of design, composition, color, and technique. Not all subjects are good for ink resist.

The viewer should enjoy the statement made by the artist.

EXPERIENCES:

Columbia, Missouri

·        I am a member of the Columbia Art League and Artists’ Village.

·        I have displayed at the Central Annual Boone County Art Show, Columbia Art League Gallery, and Orr Gallery.

Fulton, Missouri

·        Past member of the Missouri Water Color Society juried show at Winston Churchill Museum. “Blazing Red Buds” ink resist.

Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri.

·        Past member of the Brush and Pallet Club.

·        Honorable mention for Ink resist- mixed media painting “Hillbillies and Millionaires”.

·        Rural Public School Elementary Art Teacher Montgomery City, MO and Mexico, MO.

EDUCATION:

Undergraduate:

Kansas University, Lawrence Kansas,  Freshman, Art Major

Washington University, St. Louis MO, School of Fine Art, BFA Degree

Post Graduate:

Washington University, St. Louis MO, Art teacher Certification K-12 

Graduate:

University of Missouri, Art and Education Masters, M.ED Degree 

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Steven Wilson

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My work is the therapeutic expression of my pathology and soul. It is the interpretation of the world and its dimensions; both real and those I have created.

http://stevenwilsonart.weebly.com/

Apparatus & Consent

If I defend thee, then battle shall by my breast, and war shall be my womb

Lewranthi

Liebenacht, Distance is perspective

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Tierney Baumstark

Tierney Baumstark

There are two quotes that I feel describe where I am as an artist. 

“Creativity takes courage.” - Henri Matisse

 “Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.” - Salvador Dali

Art makes me happy.  It gives me an outlet to be creative and relax.  I enjoy drawing and painting mostly.  I also work with fiber and clay. 

I believe that being an artist and showing your creativity to others takes courage, which is why I chose a quote from artist Henri Matisse.   I also believe that as a young artist, still learning and growing, that it’s important to admire the works of other artists.   I try new techniques and develop my own abilities by learning about and emulating other artists.  My very first painting was inspired by the works of Salvador Dali. 

I hope you enjoy my art as much as I enjoy creating it. 

You can also find my works on Instagram @catalogue_raisonne_baumstark

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Vicki Winton

Vicki Winton

Hi, I’m Vicki. 10 years ago I wouldn’t even know which states to travel through to get to Missouri from my home state of Michigan. It’s okay, I got it now. During my 47 years in Michigan I was only a casual photographer; documenting the life of my family. A few years after cancer claimed the life of my first husband, I met and married Brian and moved to Columbia.

A couple of years ago he gifted me with a DSLR camera for Christmas and my life, gratefully, has not been the same since. I rediscovered my long lost joy of photography.

Now that the kids are grown [insert confetti here] I actually have time to exercise my skills, I spend much time exploring Mid-Missouri and capturing glimpses of life in our community.

I am delighted to be a member of the Columbia Art League.

Photographer/Owner
Winsome Glimpse Photography

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Laura Kay Weatherspoon

Laura Kay Weatherspoon

Dare to be different! Life is simply amazing and I love to share the way I see the world through my artwork. I feel so blessed that I get to wake up each day and do what I love to do.

I was raised in the small farming town of Troy, Illinois. Growing up, my grandmother and mom would tell me stories about how I would sit at the living room window for hours and draw the birds long before I was even in school. Although I did a lot of drawing when I was young, it was the day my dad took me to a local art store that I was bit by the bug. That day, my dad bought me my very first box of prismacolors. I would sit around and draw for hours on end with that first box, mainly of horses from my imagination. That following summer I received second place at the Madison County Fair in Illinois, for a mare and foal drawing I did with that first set of prismacolors. From that day on, my dad would always say, “You need to be a freelance artist when you grow up.”

And well, here I am. I graduated from William Woods University, Summa Cum Laude, with a major in Equestrian Science and a minor in Art Education. I now own a studio in Fulton, Missouri where I have two kilns, a pottery wheel and all my painting supplies.

I love hiking, biking, running, camping, sailing and riding my horse. I also enjoy traveling or any activity that gets me outside in the fresh air where nature can inspire me. My camera usually accompanies me everywhere I go, as I am always looking for the next great photo opportunity for something I can take back to my studio to paint or sculpt.

My passion lies mainly with clay and ceramics. I use water based clays for throwing on the wheel, as well as hand building and sculptures. I use oil based clays in preparation for bronze sculptures. However, my passion for art goes far beyond the limits of cay. I enjoy doing palette knife paintings with my oil and acrylic paints. Another favorite is painting with my watercolors. The transparency of watercolors captured my imagination the first time I used them and I have loved them ever since. Stippling is another form of art I enjoy, and I find the end resulting immensely rewarding considering the hours spent in one project.

I want people to feel inspired by my work. God has blessed me with a talent and I want to use that talent to make other people smile. There is nothing more rewarding than seeing a vision of mine come to life on canvas or in my hands with clay and have people look at it and smile.

Contact me about commission work.

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E: Laura Kay Weatherspoon

Still Life with Fruit

Dog Portrait

Ceramics

Goose

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Margaret Leslie Utterback

Margaret Leslie Utterback

"There are moments in our lives,
there are moments in a day, when
we seem to see beyond the usual.
Such are the moments of our greatest happiness.
Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom.
If one could but recall his vision by some
sort of sign. It was in this hope
that the arts were invented.
Sign-posts on the way to what may be.
Sign-posts toward greater knowledge."
Robert Henri; The Art Spirit

Today the sky is absolutely cobalt above, fading to pale rose madder at the horizon. I yearn for a stick of pastel with the same sense of blue, a sense of endless atmosphere. And one that would tell of the warmth or coolness of the breeze as it moves around me. And a stick of pastel that would generate the radiating sunlight, at dawn, at noon, or dusk. Today the objects in front of me are composed of a silent history. And again, I yearn for a stick of pastel that would tell it's tale, complicated with it's "self" and mine and another and another. The reality is that no single stick of color can replicate the beauty of nature or the complexities of a relationship. To copy is impossible; the attempt to copy is mundane. A painting is an image; a combination of the reality, the painter, and the viewer. And the reality is fleeting, instants of impressions, transmitted from the eye to the brain and translated in minute portions of time. The translated image of the painting only carries the "sign" of the artists visual "language," in hopes of a non-verbal communication and a connection with a reality.

contact:
E: Leslie Utterback
Tel: 573-445-2189
W: www.ottercreekstudio.com

Waterplay

pastel
19x25

The Chosen Path

pastel
16x20

Convergence

pastel
25x19

Rocheport Elevator

pastel
12x19

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Terry Sutton

Terry Sutton

I am the youngest of twelve children and as it often is with large families things get recycled. My toys and some of my clothes were well broken in by the time I came along. My mother said this made them extra special because of all the stories they could tell me if I knew how to listen to what they were saying. My imagination would take over as I thought about what she said about things being extra special. I would find a pen or a pencil and draw small winding treasure maps that would eventually lead to what I considered a personal treasure; an old hot wheels car, or some nuts, bolts and washers from one of the Junk drawers.

I mention these things to try to explain the thought process behind what I draw. It is a collection of things I treasure. I experiment with different media. Water colors, pencil, pen and ink are my favorites.

When I draw, I have no clue what the finished product might evolve into. I begin by mapping out the underlying design and then fill it in with detailed individual scenes that, when combined, form the finished piece. This approach allows me the freedom to be creative and not limited to one overall concept. I try to make each of the smaller scenes as detailed as possible with the intent that each section makes a statement as a stand-alone piece. I have the pleasure of just drawing what I feel at the time.

I am married with a two-and-a-half-year-old son and work a full-time job, so time is scarce for drawing. Drawing the smaller interior scenes allows me to finish one section at a time and still be able to break free to enjoy time with my family.

I tend to lean towards outdoor or nature themes. Often it’s as if I am going fishing and recording my journey to the pond. I might see a bird sitting in a tree or on an old stomp. I might notice a fern peaking from behind a tree or ants overwhelming a dead log foraging for food. Life is abundant in the woods even with all of death and decay scattered around. I try to capture the feeling of life’s everlasting circle, a sense of something greater, keeping in perspective how small we are in the scheme of things and how collectively our individual contributions help define the underlying design. 

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T: 573-489-3113

Nature's Music

Snapshot

Snail

Marsh

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Josie Sullivan

Josie Sullivan

In creating artwork, my intention is to capture the diversity of life in all of its strangeness. I love working with found objects, paint, metal, glass...you name it. I am a graduate of the University of Missouri. I left Columbia in 1986 and headed to Kansas City, where I taught art for the inner-city school district. This is where I learned more deeply about the healing power of art, which eventually led me to complete a master's degree in counseling and schooling in art therapy. I have since returned to Columbia Mo., and have joined the Orr Street Studios. My art can be seen around town at various venues including five panels on the lower level of the Youzeum.

As a member of the board of CAL, I am excited about the many changes that are happening at the Art League. The online artist's village is one of those changes! Thank you for stopping by to take a peek at my work!

contact:
E: Josie Sullivan
T: 573-442-9219
W: www.josiesullivan.com

After the News

Sunday Afternoon Drive

Thank God That's Over

River Time with the Artist and Her Dog

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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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Amy Schomaker

Amy Schomaker

Amy Schomaker’s love of texture and form are apparent in her diverse use of handmade paper, painted paper and low-relief dimensional collages and paintings. 

She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1990 concentrating in oil painting and printmaking. A St. Louis native, she now considers Columbia Missouri her home. 

Amy is continuing to learn new techniques and applications in papermaking as a member of the Fiber Arts Study Group through the Columbia Weaver’s and Spinners Guild. Her work can be seen in a variety of locations throughout Columbia in the Art League’s Community Exhibit Program.

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A medley of artwork lines both walls like playful sentinels. These are the colorfully manifest creations of Columbia artist Amy Schomaker, bringing life and light to the otherwise gray corridor of Boone County Regional Hospital. Bold acrylic paintings, silkscreen prints, delicate torn paper collages, and painted paper creations hang neatly, side by side. She holds no objections against exhibiting early work alongside her latest creations. “Art doesn’t have an expiration date like milk,” Schomaker contends. 

Schomaker pursued a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in oil painting as well as printmaking at the University of Missouri in the late 1980s. Additional art making techniques were acquired throughout the four years Schomaker spent teaching art to middle school students and the influences she encountered as a member of the Columbia Weaver’s and Spinner’s guild. Schomaker attributes much of her artistic growth to Leandra Spangler, a mentor and friend, who set inspiration in her to continue developing as an artist.

Although Schomaker’s artwork has many influences, the most essential influence is her own: and it proves to be the single tie that binds the variety of art forms together. Each work embodies Schomaker’s veneration of nature and her playful dance with unconventionality and inventiveness.

“You don’t have to color inside [the lines],” Schomaker insists. She allows this concept to trickle over into her paintings which are layered, folded, cut, burned, or torn to effect multi-dimensionality. Variations on these techniques encourage shadow play arising from the surrounding light situations to pass through the artwork, resulting in many transient impressions of the painting. 

Organic elements enter into Schomaker’s hand painted paper modeling and collages. She adds cooked down plant fibers to her handmade paper before “combing” distinctive textures onto each paper sheet. Her paper works are a continuation on the theme of mingling actual and applied perspectives and are what she describes as “low relief sculptures.” 

Schomaker regularly participates in quarterly community exhibit programs, Fiber Arts tours, and regional art exhibits. She has her sights set on expanding her audience and will undoubtedly continue developing and applying new techniques in her art forms as life itself unfolds alongside her.

by Lindsey Cole

The Fiddler

paper mâché

Chasm

acrylic on canvas

Reaching for the Sun

acrylic on paper
collage

Paper Lantern

Paper ornament/lantern
handmade paper
with block printed symbols

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Marcia Rackley

Marcia Rackley

Marcia Rackley earned a BFA degree in Illustration from the University of Missouri where she received the “Outstanding BFA Student Award” (Jerry Berneche Award) and won 2nd place in the MU Chancellor’s Art Competition. Marcia likes working in clay, pen and ink, watercolor, oil, acrylic, pastel, charcoal and photography.

She is a native Missourian and a registered Cherokee who has worked as a freelance artist for many years. Her commissions include: 12 illustrations for the University of Missouri Savitar (1987); paintings, photographs and two almanac covers for Shelter Insurance; private commissions; medical illustrations for liver research and patient education (University Hospital); and a mural (painted at the age of 16) featured in the Missourian. In 2001, Marcia exhibited her polymer hand-sculpted art dolls in the 2001 International Toy Fair in New York City as a member of a professional doll maker’s guild. In 2014, Marcia won 1st place ribbons at the Missouri State Fair for two of her pastel paintings and later won an award for her pastel painting Peppers and Goblets at the Boone County Art Show in Columbia.

Marcia also enjoys digital photography. She has been exhibiting her nature photographs for the last three years at Runge Nature Center (Jefferson City) and Powder Valley Nature Center (Kirkwood). She has also exhibited in the J. Lottes Health Sciences Library at the University of Missouri Hospital. In 2014, her photograph of the American Painted butterfly was selected by the National Federation of Wildlife for inclusion in their 2015 card collection.

Marcia currently works at her alma mater, the MU Department of Art, where she is inspired and amazed every day by its art students and faculty. She is a member of the Columbia Art League and her most recent soft pastel paintings will be on display at the Central Bank of Boone County, 720 E. Broadway, Columbia, Missouri, beginning November 23, 2015 and continuing through the month of December 2015.

The Nature of Things

Juvenile Bald Eagle

American Painted Lady

Peppers and Wine Glasses

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Deni Cary Phillips

Deni Cary Phillips

Deni Cary Phillips Photographs ~ Infinity Photographs

denicaryphillipsphotographs.com

573-424-9693

Embracing moments. Capturing Intimacy.

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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Farah Nieuwenhuizen

Farah Nieuwenhuizen

Farah Nieuwenhuizen has lived and traveled throughout Western Europe, Brazil, Canada, and the United States of America. These experiences laid the basis for her lifelong concern with cultural diversity.

She studied painting at the Escola de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, before she continued her studies in the visual arts at Washington University in St. Louis and at the University of Missouri in Columbia where she received her bachelor's degree in art education, K–12.

For twenty years she taught at Hickman High School in Columbia, where she was recognized as an outstanding teacher. She has written and reviewed art curriculum for the Columbia Public Schools. While teaching at Hickman High School, she became the major contributor to the production of the annual multicultural assembly.

Ms. Nieuwenhuizen has received several awards for her painting, batik, ceramics, jewelry, and fiber arts at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia and art shows at the Boone County National Bank and the Columbia Art League. Her artwork has been on display in several regional art exhibits. Also, she has taught art education at the University of Missouri's College of Education, where she received a High Flyer Award in fall 2001.

Imperial Topaz

Pendant

Smokey Topaz

Pendant

Faceted Smokey Topaz

Pendant

Moon Stone

Pendant

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Randy McDermit

Randy McDermit

I am a local Columbia artist who has spent the majority of my life in or around Columbia. Most of my work has been with acrylic paint; however, I’ve also worked with charcoal, pastel, and pen and ink. I began college as an art major at Columbia College, but after two years I changed my major to psychology and transferred to MIZZOU. I didn’t pick it up again until after I graduated, moved to St. Louis, and started working for the state of Missouri. In St. Louis I moved into a studio apartment and started doing charcoal drawings, posting them all over my walls. At that time I wasn’t concerned with a finished product. I just attacked the paper with aggression and vigor and then set it aside to start another one. I didn’t show them to anyone for months, but steadily I felt I was making progress. Eventually I started working in bits of color using pastels until I developed a love of color.

My early work was almost exclusively charcoal and pastel and greatly shaped the development of my style. I always enjoyed the feel and expressiveness of charcoal and pastel. My application was loose, physical and cathartic. Whether it was the medium that drew me to my subject matter or the other way around, I found satisfaction in depicting simple, dramatic gestures, figures and faces. It was more about capturing the intensity of a single moment rather than complex narratives or concepts. When I made the gradual transition from pastel to acrylic, I brought with me the same approach. The translation has produced some interesting results, and those early days continue to influence my direction. When I get off track, I always go back and do a few charcoals to reconnect.

I have always found the task in every artwork is to bridge the elements of connection and conflict. I feel like if I am authentically connected and present everything else will fall into place. The older I get, the more I trust my intuition. I trust that if I am fully engaged in the process of self expression, a truth will reveal itself. Not every truth, but a truth nevertheless.

contact:
W:artaccidental.blogspot.com
Tel: 573-424-0216

Mechanical Romance

Floral Arrangement

Tattoo

The Tower

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Kay McCarthy

Kay McCarthy

I can't remember a time in my life when I was not drawing, painting or working on an art project. Graduating from the University of North Dakota with a bachelor's degree in fine arts I soon found that my love of the arts would take another turn. I started with an administrative career in non-profits which ultimately translated into arts administration. Now retired from the City of Columbia's Office of Cultural Affairs, I spend as much of my time as possible doing what I love best...painting my favorite subjects, people and dogs, from photographs in my home studio. Nothing is more satisfying than using the medium of watercolor and seeing an image emerge to tell it's own story.

One day's happiness often predicts the next day's creativity. - Teresa Amabile

Little Ballerinas

Sand Shadows

Daddy Strong

Dear Sheyanne

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Hope Martin

Hope Martin

I love to zoom in on something small and make it big! All those seemingly little details become large, prominent and important. To me, that is very important; all those little things. They’re not so little.

I aim, with my art, to make people slow down and notice the beauty of the things that they miss. I want to help people connect with that beauty and maybe even help them find a sense of wonder they didn’t know they were missing.

My medium of choice is pastels. I also use black ink with watercolor and sometimes instant coffee.

contact:
573-239-5606
www.hopemartinartist.com

Backlit Berries

Soft Pastel

Pear Trio

Soft Pastel

Autumn Repose II

Soft Pastel

Release

Soft Pastel

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