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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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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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. https://www.instagram.com/helenbuckstudio/ helenbuckstudio@gmail.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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Gia Marie Houck
A hospice social worker by profession, I use my camera to capture the subtle intricacies of life and the world around us. I enjoy finding the quieter, lesser noticed, but really beautiful small moments and shining a little light on them. My work includes images from my beloved Austin and my travels. www.giamariephotos.com www.gia-houck.pixels.com giamarieh@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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Denise Elliott Jones
I’ve been working with a visual vocabulary of shapes that tell a universal story. Painting, printmaking, and mixed media are my primary creative processes. I try not to have any predetermined outcomes but see where the work will take me. www.deniseelliottjones.com dej1@austin.rr.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
Paleoindians made their home in rock shelters or on bluffs. Their shadows and stories are still here. Mythological stories describe how humans first came to a place. Even the earliest arrivals were preceded by the spirits that formed the rocks and springs, clothed the earth in trees and grasses and invited the animals to live there. Humans made the place their home, found all they needed, and filled the earth with their origin stories. https://carolhayman.weebly.com/ chayman@austincc.edu |
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LA Hollins
Experiencing life through color, paint and process creating striking multi-layered dense organic abstracts full of light and texture. Exploring life's daily challenges, memories and dreams. Contemporary fauvist devoted to modern abstract expression. Recurring themes of joy, hope, loss, humanity, wild animals, nature, garden and technology. Simple and complex imagery emerge through frequent repeated destruction and reiteration. https://bluestonesart.com bluestones@bluestonesart.com |
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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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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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Joan Lawson
Joan Lawson expresses her love of nature in her paintings. She finds inspiration in dreams and visions as well as the natural beauty and light of the Texas Hill Country. Additionally, she likes to paint scenes from her travels in the American Southwest and abroad. She enjoys the flexibility of acrylics and collage to achieve texture and depth in her work. She is a founding member of the Creative Arts Society is currently on the Board of Directors. http://www.joanlawson.com artist@joanlawson.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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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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Eileen McKeon Butt
I express myself creatively through the intersection of science, nature and art. I'm fascinated by the natural world and the discoveries made through science, especially particle physics and astronomy. I feel that science has enabled us to expand not only our knowledge of the universe, but also the definition of art itself, to include landscapes of planets, abstract-looking subatomic particles and stunning portraits of both plants and creatures. Science and art can beautifully coexist! eileenmckeonbutt.com eileen@eileenmckeonbutt.com |
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Shruti Mehta
Shruti Mehta is an emerging artist living in Austin, Texas. Shruti Mehta has passion for painting ethnic women in the beauty of humble moments in life, she likes to combine realism with abstract in bright colors. Shruti also has a frenzy to wander around new lands and bring to her canvas the distinctive characteristics of these regions she visits. Shruti has been experimenting with various mediums; oil, acrylic, watercolor. https://shrutimehtastudio.wordpress.com shrutipmehta@hotmail.com |
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John Michaelson
I have decades of artwork, consisting media of photography, pen&ink, pastels and pencil, all meddled by tonality, composition and luminosity measured as fine art. Years inspired came on the California Hi-desert. My portfolio shows photography, some of it. https://jtmart.net/ TMArt@yahoo.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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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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Tiffany Rankin
Tiffany Rankin, Ink Artist My existence as a black woman fuels my work. Understanding my part in society, and its transformation through the telling of lore is my obsession. I mean to understand how these myths have produced my identity in an ever complex society. https://tiffanyrankin.com tiffanyinkart@gmail.com |
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Cathey Reynolds
I use nature as my inspiration for my paintings. The variety of colors, shapes, and textures is limitless. I combine brush with palette knife to bring a sense of depth to my pieces. Nature offers a place of serenity and joy with an ever changing choice of shades and tones. http://ReyofSunArt.com reyofsunartaustin@gmail.com |
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Leigha Rhae
Leigha Rhae is a self taught artist, all of her work consists of images inspired by the human condition. With a background in biology, she explores the strange and unusual as it relates to human emotions. https://www.instagram.com/leigharhaeart/ leighasipos@gmail.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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Eva Sim-Zabka
Eva Sim-Zabka is an expressive abstract painter who creates contemporary art in acrylics and mixed media. She is known for her large canvases filled with spontaneous, fresh, colorful art with a lot of texture. She paints intuitively and allows herself to experiment a lot during the creative process. Her art evokes emotions. Viewers are fascinated by bright colors and vibrant energy. As a formal psychologist Eva Sim-Zabka was always interested in creative self-expression. Art seemed to be a perfect playground for her to continue the journey. www.onecolorfullife.com onecolorfullife@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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Karen Sherman
I love oils as a medium due to their transparency and the luminous colors that can be created by layering thin coats of paint. My work consists of strong values and high contrast to create drama intended to immediately catch the viewer's gaze and hold it . My aim is to compel the viewer to come closer, study the piece and see more new things in it each time they see it. www.kshermanart.com ksherman94062@yahoo.com |
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Dawn Winter
My love of color, layers and texture are reflected in my paintings. During the creative process, I especially enjoy using acrylics, palette knives and my intuition to create paintings with a balanced sense of color, depth and patterns. Often times, my paintings explore the interactions between bold and muted colors, other times creating a sense of depth through a variation of a subtle color selections. www.dawnwinterart.com dawnwinterart@gmail.com |
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Terri & Frank St.Arnauld & Yezer
As collaborating artists, we work primarily with negatives and sometimes with large-format cameras (cloth over the head). Negatives are used to make hand-printed images, either in black & white or platinum, a historical process that’s hand-coated on cotton paper. Some platinum works are woven with a second print, rendering a modern image with a cubist look. Since 2006, we have added digital work to our repertoire to have the right process(es) available for each project. www.platinumportraitsphoto.com terrifrank95@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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Sarah Walters
Born in Iowa, now it Texas via Seattle, Chicago, NY and NJ. I'm a recovering TV news executive. After 20 years I left the newsroom to explore painting, being a fulltime mom and yogi. I like to paint on stuff people throw away. Windows, wood, boxes. But, I also paint on canvases too. I have a slightly persistent obsession with painting Willie Nelson. sarahwalters1974@yahoo.com |
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Cathryn Zinna
I’ve been working on collages. I enjoy showing movement and trying different ways to show it. cjzpink@yahoo.com |
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Amanda Zappler
I began painting when I was 3 years old to illustrate simple stories I was writing to entertain my family and friends. Art is my key to the secret garden, my way down the rabbit hole, my looking glass. I use art as a means of self-expression – 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. I'm never far from a sketchbook or scrap paper, so I am constantly drawing, or thinking about drawing. Sometimes the drawings are left in the sketchbook, the bottom of my purse or backpack, or remain in my imagination, and other times they develop into more in-depth ideas and detailed images winding up as paintings. I primarily use gouache, pen, chalk and acrylics on a variety of surfaces. I love the bright colors and rich textures that occur when mediums are combined. I hope my art conveys a sense of hopefulness and joy. I experience so much pleasure from painting that it is my desire to pass a bit of this along to the viewer. If a piece of my art work can bring a smile to someone as they pass by, then I have been successful! 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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