I have been painting for over 40 years, in oil, pastel and watercolor and
have taught for almost that long. I have a Master's Degree in Art/Education
and am a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of Colorado.

http://www.nordic-arts.com

I want my viewer to experience a sense of the familiar, as if they have seen or felt a similar light, place or mood at some earlier time. I have found that painting en plein air helps me capture those color notes, atmosphere, luminosity and shadow. I often use my location paintings to create larger studio paintings. Oil is my medium, and the Pacific Northwest my main inspiration, although I have traveled and painted in California, the Rockies and Southern Europe. I’ve spent most of the past five years in river gorges, on seashores, mountains, pastures and vineyards, accompanied by my sketchbook, easel, and bear spray.

http://www.marylouepperson.com

Artist Susan Faust vividly expresses her love of natural beauty through her passionate pastel and oil paintings. She's the recipient of numerous awards in American and international exhibitions, and is a featured artist in the US Public Broadcasting System television show, " The Artist's Workshop".
A native of the eastern US,  Susan began drawing at the age of five, graduated from college with a BA in Fine Art, and pursued a successful career as a ceramicist.  But painting full time was her dream and in 1988 Susan moved to the desert of Arizona. Susan is also a gifted and generous teacher who has shared her passion for art with students from around the world for the past 30 years.

http://www.susanfaust.com

Pam Flanders is an award winning painter who resides in Portland, OR.  Her works are inspired by her natural surroundings from the ocean to mountains and valleys.  A Midwest native, Pam grew up in a rural setting with sensitivity for the natural world. Her love of drawing lead to travel and painting en plein air as evidenced in her variety of landscape subjects. Workshops with contemporary masters have influenced her present expressive style.  Pam loves painting in late afternoon when warm light and long shadows fill the landscape.  These many and varied studies done on site are the color notes used for larger studio works. 

Pam’s oils have been juried into national and regional shows and can be found in corporate and private collections.  She is a member of Alla Prima International, Oil Painters of America, Plein Air Painters of Oregon, among others.

http://pamflanders.com

“In Flattmann’s art, everything evolves from an emotional reaction to the subject. He wants people to sense the excitement he has about the imagery that appears in his mind’s eye long before he commits paint to canvas or pastel to paper”.
  --Alan Flattmann’s French Quarter Impressions, by John R. Kemp

Alan Flattmann was born in New Orleans and studied art in the historic French Quarter.  In honor of the publication of the above book, the mayor declared September 28, 2002, as Alan Flattmann Day in New Orleans.

Flattmann was inducted into the Pastel Society of America Hall of Fame in 2006 and is a PSA Mastel Pastelist. Among his many credits, he also received an American Artist Art Masters Award in 1996, authored The Art of Pastel Painting (1987, revised in 2007) and his work is featured in the book, The Poetic Realism of Alan Flattmann (1980).

http://www.alanflattmann.com

Ellie attended UCLA, earning a degree in Fine Arts with Honors. After a career in graphic design and raising a family, she returned to her first love, painting. As a full time painter, Ellie's chosen media are oil and watercolor. Today she works in her studio and in the field, using her talents to paint for shows, interior designers, and the galleries that represent her. Commissions sometimes require her to paint in France, Italy, and England.

Her work has appeared in a number of Art Publications throughout her career. She frequently teaches workshops for art societies and private groups and is asked to judge exhibits.

Ellie is a Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society, a Signature Member of Women Artists of the West, a Full artist member of California Art Club, and a member of Oil Painters of America.

http://www.elliefreudenstein.com

A 1986 graduate of California‚s Art Center College of Design, Johanna has over twenty years experience as a storyboard illustrator, portrait painter and art educator. The landscape is but one of the many genres and subjects that inspire the artist.

From 1993 until 1997, Johanna lived and worked in Waikiki and maintained her own pastel portraiture gallery on the grounds of the Hilton Hawaiian Village Resort. After four years of living in Hawaii, and missing her family back in California, the artist decided to return home to Pasadena.

Johanna currently instructs oil painting classes at Montecito Fine Arts School in Arcadia. Her illustrations for the home décor market have been published in open editions by Dogwood Publishing and are sold in retailers such as Target and Bed Bath and Beyond. Her painting “Mom’s Kitchen”  garnered a Special Award from Women Artists of the West and was also a Finalist in The Artist’s Magazine’s Annual Competition in 1991.

http://www.studiosinaloa.com

http://www.gislimbertiart.com

Debra J. Groesser was born in England and has resided in Ralston Nebraska since 1970. Deb has had a great love of art since early childhood. She earned her BFA degree in painting in 1978.

Although Deb works in several media and paints a variety of subjects, her favorite is plein air landscape painting in oil. Deb is fascinated with the play of light, shadow and atmosphere in her subjects and strives to capture mood and emotion in her work.

Deb has won many awards and has participated in juried and invitational shows across the country, including Chicago, Seattle, Taos, Evergreen Colorado and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art in Montgomery Alabama. Deb is a professional signature member of the National Academy of Professional Plein Air Painters, an associate member of Oil Painters of America, the American Impressionist Society and American Women Artists. Her artwork hangs in numerous private and corporate collections locally and nationally.

http://www.debragroesser.com

http://www.markhemleben.com

I've been making art as long as I can remember and started painting with oils when I was twelve. I received a BFA in painting with secondary teaching credentials from Northern Arizona University in 1991 and then worked as an art and English teacher until 2006.
Now I am a full time painter of plein air and studio landscapes.

Nature's beauty is constant inspiration as I strive to respond to it in creative, harmonious and respectful ways. I hope that my reverence for the land is evident in every brush stroke and that the impression of the place and time I am painting is conveyed believably. In essence, my simple goal is to respond to the beauty which surrounds me with beautiful works of my own making. Painting allows me to share with the viewer some of the valuable energy I received while immersed in the process.

http://www.hucksart.com

As a young girl, I was introduced to the work of the French and American Impressionists. Their use of color and "ordinary life" subject matter interested me and coincided with my love of poetry. The idea of capturing a moment in time was moving to me, as I have always been a hopelessly sentimental person. However, I am not only drawn to the sentiment of a moment or place, but the artistic freedom that the impressionistic interpretation of it provides me as an artist. In my landscapes, I seek to capture the initial impression of the scene, trying to avoid details that I feel are not necessary in expressing it.

I have been a painter in the Pacific Northwest for over 30 years. This diverse region provides unlimited resources for inspiration. I have worked in a variety of mediums, with the square format as my primary choice for landscapes.

http://www.lisajoycehill.com

Rose is an award-winning painter who makes her home in Houston, Texas. Her work has its genesis in field studies and photographs from the nearby Gulf Coast as well as her plein air paintings from across the U.S. and abroad. In each painting, she strives to present a space that is both accessible and beguiling to the viewer.

Rose’s work has been juried into national and regional shows such as Arts for the Parks top 100 and 200, Oil Painters of America, and Women Artists of the West. Her paintings hang in corporate board rooms, hospitals, and private collections.

http://www.rohostudio.com

I paint with bold, clean strokes, thick with rich, sometimes surprising, colors that express what I see and feel when painting. My hope is that in the end I have engaged the emotions of those who look at my work. I begin long before I pick up my brushes using design and composition principles to outline the work. I then paint with abandon and joy. The resulting work shows my personal application of impressionism with a minimalist quality.

Often inspiration comes from what I see walking on my ranch on the historically rich, brushy edge of the Texas Hill Country. Here daily, I encounter constant contrasts and variety in texture and color - the dichotomy of harmony and discord; lushness and barrenness; serenity and energy.

My challenge is to show the complexity of creation by painting intimate, personal portraits of nature. Whether choosing a landscape or still life, close observation reveals the ordinary as extraordinary.

http://www.jeanleverthood.com

http://www.jeansartblog.com

 “I am primarily interested in the transmission of light in my paintings.”

Julie studied with classical realist painters Ted Seth Jacobs and Anthony Ryder whose teaching instilled the principles of light, color and form relationships based on direct observation of nature.

Exhibited extensively in Hawaii, Julie’s work is part of the permanent collections of the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and the Hawaii State Art Museum. She was one of the featured artists at the commemorative “Artists of Hawaii” exhibit at the Honolulu Academy of Art in 2000 and has been juried into Art Maui seven times.

A recipient of a Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Acquisition Award, as well as many exhibition prizes for painting, Julie is a Signature Member of the Plein Air Painters of Hawaii and teaches plein air painting on Maui and in France.

http://www.juliehouck.com

http://www.judyhowells.com

I was born in Salt Lake City, Utah where I spent my summer vacations in the Utah mountains sketching and painting the scenery surrounding my grandparent's cabin. After graduating from high school I lived in Japan. I moved to Portland, Oregon in 1977 and graduated from Marylhurst College with a Bachelors degree in Art and a minor in Japanese. I have been employed at Oregon Health & Science University as a graphic designer and illustrator since 1983.

In 1999, after more than 2 decades of working in pencil, I took a trip to South Africa where I was overwhelmed by the landscape and atmospheric lighting. Upon my return home, I immediately began working in pastel. It was a career-changing experience. I strive for simplicity of composition in my pastel landscapes where I use a limited color palette, along with light and tonal value, to create mood and reflection.

http://www.jeffsfineart.com