David W. Mayer is a member of the Oil Painters of America (OPA) and the California Art Club (CAC). He has won major national and regional awards and has been featured in “Art of the West”, “Western Art Collector”, and “Southwest Art” magazines. David’s work appears in national art shows such as The Russell, Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale, Settlers West American Miniatures, OPA national and regional shows, Western Masters, and others. He is represented by fine art galleries around the country, and his paintings are held in private and corporate collections worldwide.
Clive Tyler
Clive Tyler, of Ft. Collins, Colorado and now Santa Fe, calls himself an ‘environment painter’ due to his realistic depictions of the plein air settings in which he paints. Clive often finds himself thrown into painting a subject when a wild animal crosses his path to graze. To Clive, his painting is an opportunity to relay his experience in nature to his viewers:
“I’m trying to recreate the experience I had, personally, when I was outside. It’s more about the emotional state, or something that seemed new to me even though I’ve probably seen it all my life.”
His work has consistently won many honors and awards, including 3rd place (out of 3000) in Best of Show at the international South Eastern Wildlife Expo (Feb. 2011), Best of Show & First Place, 2010 Windows to the Divine Paint Out, Honorable Mention, 10th Annual Pastel Journal Contest (2009), Best of Show Plein Air Artists Colorado 12th Annual Exhibition (2008), Multiple Awards, Pastel Journal Magazine (2008 & 2007), People’s Choice Award, Rocky Mountain Plein Air National (2007 & 2005), and Best of Show, Museum of Outdoor Arts (2003). He’s an elected member of the Pastel Society of America and a signature member of the Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters.
Kelli Folsom
Kelli Folsom is an academically trained artist working exclusively from life in oils. She creates museum quality paintings combining an old master feel with rich color and painterly brushstrokes. When collecting her work you will be bringing a layer of refined beauty of the highest quality into your collection that uplifts the soul.
Kelli is an award winning artist who at a young age is already exhibiting in museum shows and garnering attention and inclusion in some of the highest organizations in contemporary representational art like Oil Painters of America, American Women Artists, American Impressionists Society and Women Artists of the West.
She received a B.F.A. from Lyme Academy of Fine Arts in Old Lyme, CT ,the first impressionist colony in the U.S. established in 1899. It is here that she studied traditional life drawing, painting and sculpture with great emphasis on in depth study and classical techniques and the joy of working in a direct impressionist style in nature. Every still life arrangement is set up in her north light studio and painted directly from life in a matter of one or two sittings. She paints directly so that her relationship to the subject is heightened in the moment in order to pass on that perception and experience to the viewer resulting in a painting that looks like a painting and not a photograph. Kelli chooses objects and arrangements to create the most aesthetically beautiful design and a feeling of abundance and intimacy. These arrangements are influenced by centuries of traditional still life painting from the Dutch Masters of the 1600s to French Academics of the 1900s.
McCaw, Dan
Artist Statement
My Art is symbolic and ambiguous not to confuse you or lead you down a predetermined destination. I avoid the voices of clarity for its value remains in its mystery. Many of my paintings in this exhibition are represented by a female figure, she symbolizes and represents the human desire for validation and acceptance. She stands her arms frozen as though the sculpture has not yet freed them from the stone, she waits for validation and the freedom to express her full self… her magic, her mystery.
Biography
Highly acclaimed American Expressionist Dan McCaw was raised in the mining town of Butte, Montana, where he began sketching and drawing at an early age. While his sensitive figural work is deeply rooted in the romantic impressionist tradition, recent years have seen him moving toward a more individual expressionist tradition. A skilled and discerning interpreter of color harmonies, light and mood, the core of McCaw’s work is based on expressing feeling and emotions with the fewest elements, that less is more. “My primary interest lies in going beyond the technique in order to interpret the subject in different ways and expand on that interpretation to make a personal statement. Creativity lies in uncertainty because your solution can be anything!”(Gallery 1261 Interview).
Described as an artist at the forefront of bridging representational art with contemporary sensibilities, Dan began his formal art training with a scholarship to the San Francisco Academy of Art followed by studies at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and the Bongart School of Art in Santa Monica. He subsequently taught at the College of Art & Design for 17 years and in 2007 was awarded an honorary Doctorate by the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.
Throughout his 40-year career, he has had more than 50 solo exhibitions. His work has also been shown in museum group exhibitions at the Long Beach Museum, the California Museum of Fine Art, Lancaster Museum, Madden Museum, CM Russell Museum as well as numerous prestigious invitational exhibitions including the OFA Invitational in London, the American Art Invitational, Salon D’Arts, the American Heritage Invitational in Houston, the Anne Irwin Invitational in Atlanta, the Gladney Foundation Invitational in Houston, the Biltmore Invitational in LA, and the Society of American Impressionists Invitational in Scottsdale.
McCaw has been the subject of feature articles in Art Voices South (1979), Southwest Art (1983, 1993 and 2011), Western Art Digest (1985), International Fine Art Collector (1992) and Island Scene Magazine (1996). Most recently, Dan completed a book entitled “A Proven Strategy for Creating Great Art” (2002). His work may be found in many national and international, private and corporate collections.
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