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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 commercial fisherman who turned to art in later life, Doug Kinney’s views on Port Orford, Oregon, has changed since moving here 17 years ago.
“It rains here, but we get a lot of the rain at night, and there’s wind, but you do things in the morning before it comes up,” Says he, “I [...]
This Texas artist’s watercolor technique just blows me away with admiration! So much life and love come through his creations too. Pat Glenn also plays the banjo in the old 5-string style and sings cowboy songs. He confesses to reading cowboy poetry as well.
Glenn notes he is a fan of Robert Yonke [...]
I no longer remember exactly how Ray Annino and I first connected online, but I was immediately drawn to his gift for telling abstraction in his art. Not only that, Annino’s palette is also unusual and original among watercolorists. While his approach is light and careful, the results are dramatic.
Searching for worthy subjects, [...]
After thirty years’ experience, his watercolor technique shows it: sophisticated, detailed, with maximum control of his medium. This artist’s style is realistic, his color palette low in key (he calls it “moody”).
Tandecki’s imagination is truly active and energetic in finding creative ways to maintain viewer interest in the subjects he loves.
This [...]
John C[uthbert] Hare: (1909 - 1978) A bit of a mystery surrounds this gifted and productive 20th-century artist, so devoted to Atlantic boats and coastal scenes. He ranks among the finest boat painters of his day.
Now many of his works appear in antique auctions and still sell well. Born in Brooklyn, NY, and [...]
