Members
Donna Zagotta – Artist Profile
Donna has exhibited and won awards in many national juried shows, including those of the American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society, and the Rocky Mountain National.
Her work appears in several books and magazines, including these feature articles: Advice From Experts; Design Solutions: Painting in Series (Watercolor Magazine, Spring, 2006), Adding Body Color to Watercolor International [Full Article]
Ruth Ann Weber – Artist Profile
Ruth Ann is a representational oil and acrylic artist who strives to create a recognizable, yet fresh view of a subject. Like her main influence, John Singer Sargent, “I’m constantly working towards the goal of ’saying more but painting less.’ Only the most important strokes should be included!”
Ruth Ann says “I love the challenge of [Full Article]
Corinne Vivian – Artist Profile
Pause…feel…connect.
Corinne Vivian is an artist who paints evocative layered pieces. Her work celebrates the dignity of the individual and the strength of spirit. She shows her presence through her connection to the past. Her art explores the continuum of time.
We live in such a fast-paced world. Corinne’s art is her way of slowing down. [Full Article]
Madeleine Vallier – Artist Profile
“Watercolor has been my medium for quite a number of years. The loose flowing quality of the medium produces subtle passages that trigger an emotional response in me. I work with remembered shapes and places and, as the work evolves, the subject is transformed and becomes a personal experience. I am creating an abstract pattern [Full Article]
Mary Thiefels – Artist Profile
Mary’s desire to draw and paint is directly related to her need to explore and experience life with color and intensity. Her work resembles these urges, captured in her use of vivid and saturated color palettes. Her use of mixed media takes her work one step further, captivating the senses through line, texture, and pattern. [Full Article]
Sherle Stofflet – Artist Profile
Sherle has had a lifetime interest in art and is one of the original members of Chelsea Painters. While she is currently on sabbatical from Chelsea Painters, she continues to paint in oils. Sherle is inspired by the beauty of nature and soft, subtle color. Her subject matter is nature-oriented and she produces lyrical, misty landscapes. [Full Article]
Toni Stevenson – Artist Profile
Toni’s desire to become an accomplished artist started early in her life. She has focused on advancing her art education throughout her life. Favorite artists such as Degas, Whistler and Velazquez were her inspiration as she dreamed of aspiring to their mastery of capturing color, light and mood.
She spent several years studying figure drawing and [Full Article]
Pam Roselle – Artist Profile
Pam’s artistic intention is to create a body of work that captures the essence of nature using layer upon layer of pigment on remarkable textures. The delightful flows of watermedia on a variety of textures, the emotions evoked by different color combinations and the joy of unanticipated discovery keep her painting with [Full Article]
Joan Plohr – Artist Profile
Joan graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in Costume Design. She has studied with many renowned artists in oil, watercolor and Sumi-e Ink. Her portraits are drawn with quiet care based on penetrating observation of the face and figure.
Joan is an award winner in both Ohio and Michigan, a member of the Ann [Full Article]
Dee Overly – Artist Profile
Colored Pencil is Dee’s medium of choice. Being a realist, she loves the fine detail she is able to achieve with a pencil’s sharp point.
Dee exhibits her work regularly in both juried and non-juried shows and has won awards for her colored pencil paintings. She is one of the featured artists in the art book, [Full Article]