Steve Hills sold his first watercolor to his fourth grade teacher! While still in art school, he worked for Bryant Galleries. During military service, Hills ran the graphics department of the Berlin Brigade.
For several years, the versatile Hills worked in commercial illustration and design in Louisiana and California. He graduated from the Art [...]
Phil Cusumano has lived the very truth of his subject, commercial fishing, both as a marine artist and a sea captain. These exciting paintings drop you in the middle of the action! Most will find his strong color hues also drawing you to his art.
He works both in the present and the past, [...]
A renaissance man, Ron Conry studied art history in college. His media include not only oil, watercolor, and photography, but also engraving in fine metals.
His art is seen at regional shows in New Jersey, Maine, and Vermont. Conry has just recently joined The Art Gallery in Stowe, VT.
As you can see by my four [...]
This Minnesotan originally comes from California. Brian Stewart’s excellent paintings are renown for “funk, junk and antiquity!” Floats my boat. . .
His first career was advertising, but twenty years ago fine art claimed him. Not only a fine studio painter, he is devoted to working plein air as well.
Stewart teaches painting too: his next gig [...]
This Penn State University graduate, Michelle Ramin works daytime at a little locally run art supply store and makes art as often as possible in Portland, Oregon.
She plays drums with a band called The Black Globes. Music and art and people and traveling and amazing foods and the ocean all have formed her and [...]
Richard Oversmith finds the medium of oil on linen compatible with his approach to creation. The colors, edges, value and drawing all are in service of the specific mood he wants to achieve. The setting speaks directly to him while he limits himself to the fewest brushstrokes that will create a recognizable image.
Oversmith seems to [...]
Carol Thompson excels at conveying light, depth, and movement in oil on canvas. Her high-key color choices are very popular too!
Thompson’s art was included in the book Contemporary Western Artists –and honored with feature articles in Southwest Art and Stepping Out.
Numerous venues in the West give you opportunities to see [...]
The long and successful art career of Roger Bansemer is amazing! He has worked in a number of styles but lately focuses on representational paintings of landscapes, shorebirds, wildlife, beachscapes, and nautical themes. In particular he has become known as America’s premier painter of lighthouses.
His book, Southern Shores, evoked this quote from the [...]
Bill Allen’s mission is to document the lifestyle of the Chesapeake watermen who ply the bay on the east coast of north America–before they are gone entirely.
For seventeen years this watercolorist was himself a professional waterman, coming from a family of several generations of Chesapeake Bay fisherman! Since he was a boy, he [...]
A rambler and a ‘gambler’ is maritime artist Janne Matter, now living in Phoenix but with both Atlantic and Pacific roots as well. She especially is well known for her paintings of classic and wooden boats in oil and acrylic.
You can read a lot about Matter’s personal journey into art on her website, concerning [...]
