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Mary Baxter more
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Mary
Baxter moved to Marathon in 2002 and
opened the Baxter Studio and Gallery in
the old Shoemake Hardware building,
where she continues to make and sell her
work. She uses a vintage Silver Streak
trailer that allows her to live in more
remote locations, where the smaller
paintings are done ‘en plein air’ and
the ideas and sketches are gathered for
the large paintings that will be
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Sawtooth |
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Caroline
Korbell Carrington
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"My Concern as an artist
is to discover a personal vision through
nature. The landscapes I paint are new
and old places I have traveled that have
a magical, sacred quality. The rugged
beauty of the South West has captured my
heart and senses like no other place. I
feel that by painting the landscape I
celebrate its awe inspiring beauty."
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Alpine Sky
30x40 oil on canvas |
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Ric Dentinger
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Ric has been painting and
illustrating professionally for over 20
years while successfully balancing a
career as an art director and managing
his own design shop.
Born in La Rochelle France, Ric was
raised in a military family that moved
throughout Europe, finally settling in
San Antonio, Texas. Showing a love for
art at an early age, painting and
drawing has been a part of his life as
long as he can remember. Although
talented in various mediums, Ric excels
in watercolor. His love and passion for
watercolor shows in his bold and
confident approach.
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Roughnecks Three Rivers
Watercolor 11x15
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Ken Elliott
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“Typically, I’m trying to use brighter
colors than are found in nature, but
still seem believable to me. I am also
balancing different elements in my work
to make a more interesting scene.
Whistler said, ‘I’m improving on
nature.’ That is very close to what
goes on when I am working. It is very
much a chess game. There is a lot of
deliberating, chance-taking and moving
pieces around.”
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Into the Woods
Monotype |
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Melanie Fain
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“I have always been drawn
to nature - it is my livelihood, my
recreation, my comfort, my home. It is
who I am and what I know best. I hope
you enjoy my art and find a connection
that is meaningful to you.”
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Night Watcher
etching, 11.5x 14
edition of 100
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Malou Flato
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"There are few Austin
artists I admire more than Flato . . . .
Flato overlaps pale smudges of color —
like layered crepe paper — mirroring the
play of light, the diaphanous quality of
water and the thickness of greenery in
western landscapes."
Michael Barnes
Austin American-Statesman.
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Dogwood
60"X72"
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Charles Field
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"The immediacy of plein-air painting is
exhilarating. I can see and feel the
enormous sweep of nature with all
elements in motion. In the studio, my
approach is as direct as when I am
working in the field. I have painted on
the remote coasts of Ireland, Nova
Scotia, the Pacific Northwest, as well
as Tuscany, New Mexico, the Texas Hill
Country and Gulf Coast. Many of my
paintings might be called "skyscapes,"
as the infinite space and illumination
of the sky are key to my compositions. I
love to move paint and color in response
to the challenge of natural form, space
and light."
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Sundown-Taos
16X46 oil on linen |
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Larry Graeber
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"In the work of both of my
painting and sculpture, my effort is to
emulate my fondness for nature,
phenomena and convergence, as a means to
discover orders and structures."
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White Night
18 X 20
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Pauline Howard
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"...learning, changing, exploring,
absorbing, (still). Redefining form,
color, and light, (over and over
again)...and then again there is the
interest in nature, and the nature of
people, that draws me to put pastel to
paper, paint to canvas."
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On the Edge of
Thunderbird Hill
Watercolor/Gouache, 6 x 7.5
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Carol Ivey
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"I
like to take seemingly insignificant
artifacts of life and celebrate
them. Discarded objects and plant
material ready for the compost pile
as well as more expected still life
objects are my subjects. Through
arranging them in various
relationships and sequences, I
question the nature of brevity and
permanence."
"My painting process relies on
direct observation and natural
light."
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Garlic
26X17
oil on canvas
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Kraig
Kiedrowski
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"I can divide my current
landscapes into roughly two groups, the
vistas and my “little building
paintings” or “suburban scenes”. The
vistas are about space and atmosphere.
The suburban scenes are about intimacy
and the beauty in the familiar.
An artist’s job is to convey a sense of
the world that is unique and at the same
time universal. If I can speak to that
through an evening sky over a flooded
field or sunlight on a paint peeled
garage door I feel I have succeeded."
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La Charreada
watercolor/pastel, 24X18 |
Matt Kleberg
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Matt is a painter based
in Charlottesville, Virginia. Originally
from Texas, Matt apprenticed under Fort
Worth painter Ron Tomlinson for five
years, then studied painting at the
University of Virginia. His work has
been exhibited around Virginia,
Washington DC and Texas, and is included
in many private collections across the
US. Recent work explores the way the
experience of memory informs our sense
of identity. |
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Green Horse
Oil 52x62 |
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J. Mark Kohler
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Mark has spent the last
13 years traveling the American West
from Texas to California and from
Arizona to Montana. "Everywhere I've
traveled, I've had the good fortune to
meet hard-working, decent men and women
who are following a life-style that is,
at the same time, both noble and
disappearing. It's my privilege to
chronicle their struggle to keep the
tradition of the West alive.
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The Big 44
Watercolor 9"X11"
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Janet Eager
Krueger more
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"I like to think of myself as an
interpreter between two cultures: a
representative of a remnant society
that still exists within the larger
urban clamor of the American scene.
Lately my work has taken a turn for
the literary. Suddenly, every thing
I see seems to have a certain
mythological resonance. I believe it
is an appropriate way to take a new
look at the old myth that is Texas
ranch life."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Krueger
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Verge
Oil on canvas, 60x84
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Zelime Matthews
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"It’s all about color and
contrast, line and design; it’s all
about celebrating the infinite
manifestation of our world: subtle
transitions, acrimonious juxtapositions,
positive and negative spaces, fluidity
and stasis and; it’s about balance,
walking the razors edge."
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Stonework
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Linda Morgan
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"A moment in nature is my
usual inspiration for a painting.
Everything in nature is in a constant
state of change. Whether the variations
are dramatic or subtle, there are
evolutions every year, every day - every
moment. I can't capture all of them, but
hopefully, at the end of the day, a few
of them will become pieces of art and
will be memorable in some small way."
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Succulents #6
Acrylic on canvas 36x48
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Matt Morris
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Matt
Morris is a partner with nationally acclaimed Lake/Flato
Architects in San Antonio. He was made a Fellow in the
American Institute of Architects in 2006 for his design
and artistic sensibilities. While crafting a career in
design as an architect he was busy studying the built and
natural environment on paper and canvas as an artist. It is
impossible to separate art from architecture so Matt
blends his analytic rigor as an architect with the fluid
expressive nature as an artist. The results are an
expressive landscape presentation like no one else.
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Craziness in Bolivia
oil on canvas 60"x72" |
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Doug Sweet
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"This work represents a
visual interpretation of the effects of
light on a variety of subject matter.
Experimentation with the direction
applied on these subjects has created an
avenue of expression which explores the
aesthetic relationship between painting,
music and poetry." |
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Slice
Acrylic on canvas, 42 x 58
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Jane Wells
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I enjoy what strong,
natural light does when it illuminates
objects. -- Jane Wells
"I am a painter. I see everything in
terms of what it would look like as an
oil painting. When something brightly
lit catches my eye, I sketch the shapes
I see, record the colors and take a
photograph. In my studio, I lay in large
areas of color, pushing the oil paint
back and forth, manipulating it into a
balanced composition."
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