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Nancy Boren
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This series of garden
paintings focuses on backlit figures
surrounded by horizontal and vertical
planes arranged to catch the light. The
halo of light around a backlit figure’s
edge becomes my center of interest and
in these pieces I have juxtaposed the
organic and often curving lines of the
woman with the flat planes or straight
sides of tables and chairs. All of these
scenes were set in my garden and on the
balcony of my studio.
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"Breakfast in the Garden"
oil on canvas 32 x 30 $4,500.00
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Brad Braune
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Brad was born in Abilene, Texas in 1951
and lived there until he was 13. His
maternal grandmother, Maybell Hutchins
was a primitive Texas painter and
ceramist, and he spent a major portion
of his childhood painting and working
with her. By the time he was in his
early teens, his family had permanently
relocated to the ranch they owned near
the small Texas town of Hico, where he
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"Cows, Closer"
acrylic wash on canvas
34" x 34" 2004
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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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Distant Thunder Storms
15”x 24”, pastel on paper
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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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Hello
Cupcake
Watercolor, 22x30 inches
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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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Rene Andrew Esparza
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He vividly remembers a class trip to the
San Antonio Museum of Art in 1988. Two
classmates were viewing a John Singer
Sargent painting and whispered to each
other how there was no way they could
paint something like that. He remembers
coming up to the painting after them and
thought to himself that he thought he
could, even though he had not picked up
a paint brush since his paint-by-numbers
days. He knows now that after all the
years of clues and hints that he did not
have to go looking to become a painter,
it would always come looking for him.
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"Dog Looking In"
oil on canvas,
10 x 14 inches |
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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 1/2" x 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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Cherries
Watercolor
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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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Painting 8
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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 1/2
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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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The Road to Alpine
Oil on linen, 26x40 |
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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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"Mundito"
Watercolor on paper
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Janet Eager Krueger
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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."
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"Cows and Calves"
oil on poly, 54x48 inches
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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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"Into the Woods"
Acrylic on canvas 36x48
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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
$3700.
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