CAS ArtistS Portfolios
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Lyle Adair
Ideas guide my work as I sculpt copper through thoughts of the world around me. The natural world takes up a substantial amount of my work. I like to play with common themes and twist them around in order to give them new meaning. I compose my work using a torch and variety of hammers and chisels to bring images to life. The process is finished with various chemicals and clear coated so my pieces can be hung indoors or out. Some are meant to hang while some are meant to stand free. All are meant to be. http://copperbylyle.com lylead71@gmail.com |
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Larry Akers
Pattern recognition is a deep cognitive process, a complex combination of visual input and cognitive interpretation. I create artwork that challenges and entices each viewer's pattern recognition sensibilities as they revel in the pure sensuality of complex, fluidly interacting patterns and colors. I aim to stimulate viewers to appreciate their own remarkable capabilities of observation and perception. The real beauty is how we perceive and interpret what we see. I want viewers' eyes to play. https://www.eyeplaystudio.net larryakers@austin.rr.com |
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Mary T Barton Abstracting images from the imagination and views of daily life are the beginning of each piece. I pull much of my inspiration of form and color from nature and my love of interpretation of the beauty around us. My emotions and interests seem to evolve with each piece of art. I thrive on the diversity of styles from all genres, and find each artist has unique perspectives and expressions. Art has always been my therapy. Whether working through difficulties, or celebrating accomplishments... it has to remain the balance in my life. The motion and progression that each piece of art produces, as it's being produced, is a catalyst to maintaining my sanity. Simply put, without art -- I most likely would go crazy! http://marytbarton.com marytbartonart@gmail.com |
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Theresa Bond
The natural world is my muse. My experiences as a wife, mother, grandmother, and citizen of the world, influence my work. The concerns of our environment, man’s impact on his surroundings, and the future of the planet influence my subject choices. There is beauty in small moments; my goal is to capture the essence of those moments. http://www.tbondartist.com austinartist@hotmail.com |
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Helen Buck
By observing the relationships of color, value, shape, and texture, I work to create images very different from how most people look at the world. I believe that observation and intuitive responses to visual stimuli, energy, and emotion, are the main contributing factors to the successful execution of meaningful art in my practice. Surrounding and immersing myself in the observation and execution of a painting in rich color, from subtle to impactful value shifts, tactile qualities, and elusive, ethereal shapes are the things that drive how my work grows and evolves. www.momartstudio.com |
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Charlotte Clark
I am primarily an intuitive abstract acrylic painter. I often let a painting evolve as I lay down the paint, using my imagination to define the final product. Every painting I create is a new adventure and learning experience. I enjoy experimenting with shapes and colors and exploring new avenues and ideas as each painting I create progresses. I find covering a canvas with paint to be the perfect creative outlet. facebook.com/ClarkImages clcart121@gmail.com |
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Katie Conley
Artist Katie Conley captures moments of beauty and joy. She spends most days covered in oil paint, but she also loves collage, mosaic, and almost all forms of art. For as long as she can remember, she’s lost herself in art. She followed her passion in college, studying Studio Art at Indiana University. She earned her master’s degree from the University of Louisville in art education and began teaching art. She gave up teaching to work on her own art and is thrilled to be able to paint and create full time. Katie lives in Austin with her husband and their two boys. Together they’ve traveled both domestically and internationally. She loves showing her art at local studios and businesses and welcomes commissions. www.katieconleycreative.com katiesconley@gmail.com |
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Thedocia Autumn Mae Crocker
Thedocia Autumn Mae is the owner and operator of local artisan company Sovereign Frequencies, an interdisciplinary and multidimensional artisan company focusing on glass, metal, fine, photographic, craft, and urban art. Most of her images seek to create a dialogue regarding our evolution and place in society through iconography and sychogeographic ethnographies. Her art is intended to be more than just a three letter word. The images are created as a psychogeographic representation of her surroundings, as seen through a Nikon D3300 and recreated in pastel and paint; a visual ethnography in fine art form. Her images seek to initiate a dialog with the viewer through the use of traditional and nontraditional techniques. |
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Beverly Dennis
I find that I reflect more on things that I used to just acknowledge. That blue in the deepest purple or red in the greenest leaf. The small color nuances are exciting and changes even more so. I have always enjoyed working on different surfaces and under-painting. Slick shiny surfaces or woven patterned surfaces. Most recently I find the rich glow of gold or black a as they peek through color intriguing. As ever, I paint what I see, only as I paint more, I seem to see more. http://www.beverlydennis.net msde140@bellsouth.net |
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Lauryl Eddlemon
I've always been fascinated by the human face. I enjoy exploring how we express emotion; what makes us different; what is true beauty. I'm not a traditional portrait painter but instead I think of my paintings as expressive, abstracted images that form a human element. I love using varied mark-making with a variety of media in a loose, fresh way, always striving to convey a unique human spirit. https://www.instagram.com/lauryl.eddlemon.art lauryl.eddlemon@gmail.com |
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Ligia Francisco
Living between languages and cultures has shown me photography as a powerful way to share and build who I am. I seek out the unnoticed in the mundane, ordinary moments or objects, small details, and patterns that compose disruptive images. I am interested in the relationship between photographic language, identity, diversity, and belonging. My artwork includes abstracts, still life, abstract, and street photography. I also enjoy exploring different media like videography, textile art, painting, collages, and poetry. I have had the honor to exhibit and publish my artwork in the US, Europe, and Latin America. https://www.ligiafrancisco.com ligiafrancisco@gmail.com |
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Pete Holland
These pieces explore the depth that metal brings to photographic prints. petehollandphoto.com petehol@gmail.com |
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Jenn James
Color, nature and the human experience are the inspirations for my art. I'm an Austin abstract artist and love telling stories through brush strokes of brilliant colors! I enjoy creating unique, eclectic and eccentric art that brings happiness into people's lives, homes and hearts. I recently left my corporate job of 21 years to follow my heart and become a full-time artist. I find joy and creativity in everyday life! JennJamesDesign.com jennjamesdesign@gmail.com |
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Jane Fier
The process of creating art is exhilarating and challenging for me. I approach each painting with an image in mind of abstracted shapes and colors and incorporating elements of light and shadow. Working with multiple layers of paint I scrape away, scumble over, scratch through, and finally add my gestural marks with a brush. My intention is to convey that we are all works in progress, constantly changing and reworking our lives much like the painting itself. My idea may evolve into something quite different from what I had intended or it may progress as initially envisioned. Eventually, perhaps after a brief struggle my image emerges. https://www.janefier.com/home fierjane@yahoo.com |
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Carol Hayman
Her work suggests myths and daydreams in a dreamworld of cosmic nature, evoking notions of disappearance, deconstruction, and self-effacement. Themes deal with myth-making attached to objects and locations from urban legends to Native-American and Aboriginal story-telling, with Greek, Roman, Japanese, and Norse mythology, heroes, sheroes, and super-heroes, in comic books, sci-fi tales, creation myths and ghost stories. The mythological world is part of being human. These prints bridge past and present, the mystical and concrete. https://carolhayman.weebly.com/ chayman@austincc.edu |
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Priscilla Humay
Creating is an integral part of my life. I frequent favorite places to observe, sense, and draw. Through a very personal process, I work to capture the uncommon in the common seeking rhythm, color, form, and essence of nature's beauty. In my studio, my preliminary sketches along with past and present drawings are woven into final pieces. My mediums are acrylic and colored pencil on canvas, wood, and archival papers. http://www.humayfineart.com pmhumay@gmail.com |
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Natasha Kanevski
We all look at life quite polarly; we select from our surroundings specific objects and significant phenomena. Sometimes we do that intentionally, or we cannot do otherwise. We all have a vital need to focus on what, like a crutch, helps move to the moment here and now, closing our eyes to our life situation. As a result, the reality is distorted, simplified to two sentences, looks clumsy, somewhat rough, and even vulgar. This selectivity of attention, the way it inevitably distorts reality, sticking out, and greatly exaggerating specific details, is my work's theme and idea. Contrasting texture and colors are the visual languages I use to express my ideas and feelings. I work in that sweet spot between painting and sculpture. Most of my heavy-textured/sculptured expressionistic artworks are in vibrant colors, full of energy and life. However, recently I started to work monochromatically, too, to allow the attention to concentrate on texture and composition. http://instagram.com/art.by.natasha.kanevski art.by.natasha.kanevski@gmail.com |
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Martha Kull
I really like painting, drawing, and creating visual art. I love experimenting with different mediums and styles. Many of my favorite childhood memories involve drawing and painting and pretending to be an artist, fashion designer, or architect. My favorite art subjects are sunsets, seascapes, and trees – I enjoy trying to capture “the beauty that is in all of nature” in my art work. But there are many other subject areas that capture my attention, so I also dabble in other landscapes, still lifes, collages, and anything else that strikes my fancy https://www.facebook.com/martha.kull.9 mlkullgg@gmail.com |
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Jennifer Landis
Jennifer Landis is a self taught acrylic artist. As a nature lover, she is inspired by the beauty of sky, water, and earth's metallic minerals. Using nature's own color palette with added pops of color, she attempts to capture the beauty of the world around us. Jennifer's artwork has a flow that is often described as "calming" to the senses. Her hope is that her artwork conveys a sense of wonder and inspiration to others. www.composedchaosart.com jenlandis72@gmail.com |
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Joyce LaBaw
Joyce LaBaw began her artistic journey after retiring from three decades of working as a mechanical engineer. Her work includes acrylic abstracts, landscapes and portraiture. Often drawing inspiration from local Texas scenery, she strives to capture beauty that is compelling and resonates with the viewer. She is thrilled to have the opportunity to create, explore and show her art. http://www.joycelabaw.com joycelabaw@sbcglobal.net |
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Doug LaRue
My art often results in Realist, Figurative or Abstract paintings and contemporary mixed media. Capturing a moment when physical, emotional and ethereal experiences are in synchronicity. The outward nature of emotion often results in a figurative expression—the more visceral the emotion the more realist the expression. The ephemeral inner nature of ethereal experiences often manifests in the abstract. My artwork fuses a mixture of media elements expressing the intersection of inner and outer experiences.
http://douglarue.net studio@laruearts.com |
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LeRoy Lawson
LeRoy began his interest in photography while earning a photography merit badge in Boy Scouts. Throughout his school years he shot black and white landscapes with a Brownie Hawkeye and processed and printed film in his bathroom darkroom. He established Lawson Studios, and began doing portraits, model portfolios, head shots for professionals, event and product photography, landscapes, wildlife, and artwork photography. An award-winning photographer, he uses 35mm, medium format, large format, and digital cameras. mlawson1@swbell.net |
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Felipe Adan Lerma
It's a treat, at age 71, to have and present a new series of work - a blend of many of things I learned and loved creating images since the very early 1980s - color field abstracts that, in the process of creation, of applying acrylic pigment in gels and pastes and many times mixed with watercolors - reveal land and seascapes, skies, and at times, even birds and creatures. What Joan Mitchell may have meant when she said she carried her landscapes within her. Variety within the monotones is created by textures worked and mixed as it's applied. Please take a look. You may find a tone that says, it's you. https://www.FelipeAdanLerma.com adan1950@gmail.com |
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Samantha Lesan
After years of providing trauma-informed care to survivors, I realized that art making was therapeutic to both myself and others. I began creating my own artwork and eventually began facilitating therapeutic arts classes for processing difficult emotions. Art creates a wonderful visual language to process and express emotions beyond words. The colors and images in my mind are often influenced by nature and emotion. For example, I use earthy, gritty mixed media to communicate the emotional BitterSweetness of life. The muted colors communicate sadness, while the large expressive marks communicate energy and even joy. In addition, the ways in which I move the paint are both intuitive and planned, a beautiful marriage of both control and spontaneity. SamanthaLesan.com hello@samanthalesan.com |
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Elena Lipkowski
I am fascinated by the tensions between the minute and the monumental, the old and new, the here and there, the then and now. My work bears witness to the joy of the present moment through the prism of past moments. www.ElenaLipkowski.com Elena@ElenaLipkowski.com |
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Kelly Lopez
As long as I can remember, I have been creating art. My perception of life has distracted me at times, but I always return back to "creating", feeding off of life experiences, creating a richer aesthetic. My art focus is on people, animals, nature, historic irony, funny, satire, cartoon like, texture, color, color and color. I love to learn new techniques and to re-purpose trash, resulting in experimentation with many forms of the visual. The mediums I work in are digital art & photography, painting, mixed multimedia, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, textiles and printmaking. kellylopezart.wixsite.com/kellylopezart kellylopezart@gmail.com |
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Meena Matai
I create vibrant and playful art. My creative journey is as much spontaneous and playful, as it is meditative and introspective. The main message in my art is one of building a supportive community. Hopefully when people look at my art they see that I can’t create art alone, that it’s made possible with inspiration from nature, support from them, my friends and family. I hope that the vibrant colors in my art inspire them to be positive, to collaborate, to nurture and support. We, as humans, are more alike than we are different. Just as colors come together to form beautiful art so do people to form a supportive community. It takes a village to raise a child or to bring about monumental change. My vibrant colors play a small part in building our community. My art is available as original wall art, canvas and paper prints and wearable art scarves. I work with alcohol inks and acrylics. www.meenamatai.com info@meenamatai.com |
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Mozelle Marks
My artwork is about capturing a moment in time brought to life with vibrate colors and details. I get my inspiration from the unique places I have lived and visited throughout my life. I paint in acrylic and oil with subjects ranging from landscapes, architecture, still life,and figurative. As a native Austinite much my inspiration comes from central Texas and the Hill Country. My paintings are available on the web and locations in the Austin area. mozellemarks.artweb.com mozellemarks@gmail.com |
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March Mattingly
We all have our 'Favorite Places', etched into our life's memories, whether they be of a specific locale in an exotic land, a state of mind that brought joy and understanding, or a certain memorable, point in time that we cherish from our own, unique, individual journey we all make on this earth. To be able to share a thought or perception, to recognize a special moment in time, when light and form come together to form meaningful content, and to capture that visual moment so that others, too, can appreciate it, is to celebrate life and our participation in it. Through my artwork, I attempt to express and convey to the viewer; self-awareness, personal and community accountability, the beauty of nature and the complex interrelationships between humans and the natural world. www.marchmattingly.com marchmattingly@gmail.com |
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Shruti Mehta
Shruti’s art work spans a wide range from rural life, ethnic women, festivals and seasons, to landscapes and abstract art. She likes to create fusion of regional art styles and abstract art. Shruti captures her expansive vision through a variety of mediums such as oil, acrylic and mixed media. She includes elements of realism, modernism, and then adds her own perspective in her paintings. Shruti's art has been exhibited at various venues in and around Austin. Her artwork has been selected for People's Gallery, City of Austin. In December 2020, Decibel ATX, Austin PBS, made a short movie on Shruti’s art styles and her journey as an artist. Here is the link for this https://decibelatx.org/culture/blending-perspectives https://shrutimehtastudio.wordpress.com shrutipmehta@hotmail.com |
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Maggi Miller
As a paper artist, I make my own paper and I use found paper for creating picture and collages. My pieces include images of almost anything - people, animals, objects, etc. Reflecting on how to use paper to share my mind’s eye stretches my imagination, vision, and intelligence. Creating with paper is drawing, painting, writing and sculpting all at the same time. My dream is for viewers to say, “It looks good on paper!” maggimiller.com Maggi@maggimiller.com |
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Linda Montignani
The sense of place is an important part of the way I process experience. More than people or the experience itself, what I remember most is the feeling of the spaces that I, and others, inhabit, whether the essence of those feelings reside in the minutest details or most expansive vistas. Different locations have different atmospheres that affect us in various ways. The ocean can be soothing or turbulent; the hill country can be refreshing or so hot that it drains the energy. We can be renewed and nourished by our surroundings, or depleted and oppressed by them. Even within ourselves is a refuge of peace, or a place where our own personal demons confront us. We synergistically affect the sites we inhabit and the people in them. In turn, we are changed by the experience of a place, and the people there. My work expresses the impressions I have had in places to which I have felt a connection, whether it is one of serenity or chaos. aardvarkstudio.com lindamon108@gmail.com |
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Steven Preuss
I create complex mosaic pieces on canvas using acrylic, texture, poured paint, and cut pieces of paper I designed with water color pencils and stamped inks. I'm in spired by nature and my environment, but my works are either abstract or impressionistic. I strive to create beauty in my art either through the use of color, subject matter, or both. #StevenPreussDesigns (Instagram) steven.preuss@yahoo.com |
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Jennifer Polnaszek
We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates… Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty. - Junichiro Tanizaki " . My work is informed by the relationship between shadow and substance, shape and form, light and dark, value and hue. My primary focus is the human form, the outward expression of attitude and emotion, that magic thread that connects us one to another. http://www.jenniferpolnaszek.com jenniferpolnaszek@yahoo.com |
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Veronica Ortegon Primeaux I have BFA from Texas A&I University and greatly enjoyed the Fine Arts Program which allowed me to create art in paintings, ceramics, photography, printmaking and sculpture. Since graduation I have worked in numerous creative fields including advertising, art education, and as a graphic designer producing publications, posters, and web graphics. For my own creative outlet, I work with photography, digital art, oils on canvas, and watercolor. https://www.behance.net/VeronicaPrimeaux veronicaortegon1999@yahoo.com |
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Marilyn Rodriguez
Color, dimension and abstractness are the basic elements of my artwork. Each painting elicits meaning where the viewer can make new and unexpected insights. My paintings are always evolving. This process is part chemistry, part creativity with a dash of serendipity. marilyn-rodriguez.pixels.com mmmrodriguez27@gmail.com |
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David Schwindt
“Painting is my way of getting to know a place. For reference I use sketches that help fix the moment in my mind and linger on to be resolved as I continue to develop as an artist and human being. Since so many of us are on the move in these harried times, I hope I might be able to stop you for a moment to linger over the light and colors from places I've visited. Maybe you've been there. If you haven't, maybe you'll want to go.” https://davidschwindtartist.com/ dwschwindt@gmail.com |
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Mary Schwindt
I have a fine arts degree from the University of New Mexico with an emphasis in photography. Most of my finished photographs are shot with a smart phone and then digitally enhanced. I goal is to amuse or entertain the viewer by using interesting subjects and bold color. https://www.mschwindtphotography.com/ maryschwindt@gmail.com |
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Denise Schneyer
Denise studied art at CW Post College in New York and has studied with various artists over the years. Her work has been displayed in the Dougherty Art Center, Bass Concert Hall, Austin Bergstrom Airport, as well as local galleries and restaurants. Her art has been purchased and hangs in many places, including Hawaii, New York, New Mexico, California, Oregon, and of course, Texas. Denise works are exclusively originals. She works mainly in pastels, acrylics and mixed media, with subjects ranging from pet portraits to landscapes to abstracts. She is a member of Creative Arts Society, Austin Pastel Society, Lakeway Painters, Bee Cave Arts and Lake Travis Painters. Her work can be viewed on her website at deniseschneyer.artspan.com. deniseschneyer.artspan.com daschneyer@gmail.com |
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Jigna Thakkar
An artistic version of a geode made with resin, pigments & acrylic crystals www.JArtDesignGallery.com JArtDesignGallery@gmail.com |
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Anca Thomas
I was born in Romania, and I start to paint abstract at an early age. I retired in 2017, after working in finance field in Dallas area, and I always had the urge to share the beauty of art with a wide audience. I was called a genius of colors , many times, in different occasions, and I always believe that it is never to late to pursue your dreams, believe in yourself, and be confident in your talent. I participate in many exhibits, here, in Georgetown, and I am a self tough artist, and learn, experiment, practice, design and create every day, using my unique gift, to paint, and I am willing to share this beauty with others. athomas3.artspan.com ancadoruvlad@verizon.net |
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Judith Witkin
Color has been the focal point for Judith's work as a quilt maker and an artist. She paints in an intuitive style as it is creative and intensely satisfying as well as allowing her the freedom to work with colors and nature in an abstract form. Her art reflects what she feels and how she views the world around her. judithwitkinart.com judithwitkin@gmail.com |
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Jayshree Vakil
Carefully attentive to the play of forms, I draw from immediate pleasures underlying everyday visual experience. Rhythms of line, rhymes of color and spatial relationships, unexpected vitality in “inanimate” objects, all make each work fresh, dynamic, and emotionally resonant. Experiences during my various travels find their way to my sketchbook, from whence they’re turned into paintings. jayshreevakil.com jv@jayshreevakil.com |
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Marcy Ann Villafana
In my admiration of real women; mothers, athletes, home-makers, dancers, famous or not, women with uplifting attitudes, strong-minded, caring, nurturing — with goodwill, I strive to create masterful pieces to express their inner beauty, goddess, and spirit within. – All Women, everywhere. Currently, I am playing with color, childhood dreams, sharing my love of the ocean, and life-essential water, feeling – freedom and gratitude. https://VillafanaArt.com mv@villafanaart.com |
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Cathryn Zinna
After retiring I thought I would renew my creative interests. I love color and motion and try to express it in my art. The process can be arduous, but is always rewarding. Perhaps the best part, is enjoying the creativity and stimulation of my fellow artists www.katzinna.com katzinnaart@gmail.com |
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Amanda Zappler
I paint to identify with hidden qualities of my character, to better understand my reality, and to express my interpretation of the world around me. My goal is to use my paintbrush like Alice’s rabbit hole, to open an unexplored world, a place of curious self-expression, but also a world of new relationships, new chances, new beginnings, and most importantly new stories. https://www.arteparalavida.info/ austinears@aol.com |
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Lisa Zinna
Photography is the basis for my work, but the digital post-processing gives me the liberty to make an image into something unexpected. By using unique coloring, multiple exposures, blurring, or myriad other methods, my work transcends the ordinary. To make a bold statement, for example, I photograph simple paper collages and create composites which are formed by using several layers of images rotated and flipped. Upon close inspection, all the layers are visible, yet a brand new abstraction surfaces which has a personality like no other. The results are fresh, the work is contemporary, and it leaves me feeling excited to do it over and over and over again. lisazinna.com lisazin@gmail.com |
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