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Multi-media artist Annette Coleman mines the fragments of her nightly dreams to create layered works of art. Bringing seemingly disparate archetypes and symbols together with wax and pigments, she creates richly imagined landscapes of the unconscious. Her latest body of work “The Collective Dream” employ heat sensitive film on a heated canvas to segue dreams to art.
Born in Denver and raised in Littleton Annette still lives, works and produces art in Colorado.
Affiliations with The Colorado Women’s Caucus for Art and Core New Art Space, a Denver Artists’ Coop has helped build and shape Annette’s fine art career. While working as an advertising specialist Annette has developed a strong style and unique imagery in her fine art. Annette is virtually fearless and incredibly resourceful when it comes to new creative challenges. She’s been known to work around the clock to master new software, raid her closed or just the right item for a photo shoot, or take the lead finding new materials or exciting venues for showing her fine art. Annette is Creative Communications’ founder and creative director overseeing art direction and design. After attending Colorado Sate University and the Colorado Institute of Art, she embarked on a design career which has included positions at the Denver Center for Performing Arts, the Colorado Historical Society, and a number of Colorado’s leading advertising agencies. She formed her communications company in 1993.
For more info on Annette or to view more of her work, please visit her website : Annette Coleman
Posted November 22nd, 2011
Lannie moved to Colorado from Michigan with his family when he was about six years old and certainly views Colorado as home. A lifelong artist, he has dabbled in most every medium as he has traversed his artistic experience. His current favorite is digital art, finding that, unbeknownst to many, creating in the digital realm is every bit as challenging as creating in two or three dimensions.
“I have been doing art all of my life and have always played with different media. I have been doing digital work for at least 10 years, if not longer. I love using just about every kind of media, except oils, which take too long to dry. I love sculpting as it puts your art out there, people want to touch it. I love two dimensional works, such as paintings, because they do the opposite and take the viewer into the work and away from where they currently stand.”
Lannie teaches science and fine art when he’s not creating his own fabulous pieces, and offers classes to children and adults alike.
If you would like more info on Lannie or to view more of his work, please visit his website : Lannie Art
Posted October 11th, 2011
In her own words:
“It took a long time for me to find my way to polymer clay. I spent the first 50 or so years of my life as a musician in San Diego, California. My main instrument was the flute. I also enjoyed teaching music, singing in and directing school and church choirs. I always enjoyed hand crafts and discovered polymer (or it discovered me) in 1992. I found that what I enjoy most is creating color. Whether it’s with musical notes, my voice or this pliable and so far unlimited medium, I’ve found my home. Moving to Colorado in 2006 allowed me to have the time I needed to develop skills and give voice to all the ideas floating in my imagination.”
Regarding her Icon collection:
“Inspired by the “Icons” of San Diego area artist Laurie Mika, I began creating polymer tiles three years ago. As much as I enjoy blending custom colors and making beads from polymer, I find texturing, painting, staining and guilding these individual little canvases very liberating. There are no two alike on these pieces. And just as each tile has it’s own look, each Icon is completely one of a kind.”
Posted September 23rd, 2011
Dennis was born in New York City and raised in the Hudson Valley area before moving to Colorado in 1988. His desire to pursue art was always secondary to earning a living and raising his own family until his retirement. When he retired, Dennis turned his focus to his artistic ambitions. He started out mostly self-taught through reading and studying numerous books and visual instructional tapes and discs. He has also taken some workshops with established artists to broaden and improve his skills.
Dennis’ preferred medium is Oils, and he enjoys Plein Air and Studio painting. He describes himself as a representational painter and colorist. The subjects of his paintings are Landscapes, Cityscapes, Peoplescapes and Portraits. His goal is to paint scenes as he sees them and communicate the emotion or story attached to that moment in time.
Posted September 23rd, 2011
Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Charlotte came out to Colorado in 1987, studied at UC, Boulder and have a BA in Studio Arts & Art Education. She enjoyed teaching art in both Colorado and Washington, DC for awhile before returning to Colorado and becoming a mother.
In years past she’s enjoyed working in watercolor, mask making and hand made paper. Since 1998 her artwork focus has been drawing, painting and sculpting different metals with the assistance of her husband, Ben; together they are Zink Metal Art. Charlotte offers a strong, fluid, feminine sense of design and form to the metal, and Ben works as their solid fabricator and engineer. Sometimes she’s sketched and reflected on the subject matter before she begins drawing on the metal sheet, and other times she enjoys letting her unconscious guide the images, shapes and forms that emerge. Ben cuts most of their designs with a hand held plasma cutter, and they work together on their different finishes. This collaborating on sculpture designs, layouts, finishing and installation has taught them both so very much about the art process and themselves. They are very proud to have created an extensive body of work in this time; both small and large scale pieces in private and public collections worldwide.
For more information, see Charlotte’s website: Zink Metal Art
Posted August 28th, 2011
John, who currently lives in Erie, is a modern day Impressionist with a talent for creating beautiful oil pastels that look like batiks. He likes a canvas with a lot of texture upon which he applies his oil pastel alchemy to achieve vibrant, engaging images that draw the viewer into past lifetimes. His limited edition serigraphs depicting his niece with antique dolls have been represented in Doll Reader Magazine and Contemporary Doll Collector Magazine. His original paintings of Rocky Mountain National Park and Yellowstone National Park were honored to have been included in the Top 100 of the Arts for the Parks contest in 1989 and 1990. John’s originals and prints are in numerous private collections on the coasts as well as Texas, Missouri,New York, Colorado and Canada. He is currently working on his new series entitled “Turn of the Century America” which depicts the gentle times gone by. Also he has a series called “Victorian Indians”, depicting the Native American posing in photographers studio settings in the early 1900’s. These have been reproduced in giclee prints.
For more information, see John’s website: Zephyr Studios
Posted March 10th, 2011
Originally from San Diego, and by way of Seattle and Albuquerque, Lisa Ellison has lived in Colorado for the past 20 years, expanding her unique artistic vision, and enjoying the outdoor lifestyle. At her easel on a crisp snowy morning on the Continental Divide, or on a hot summer day in New Mexico, her love of the natural world shines through in her canvases. She paints evocative landscapes and still life with intense color and feeling, looking for the underlying strength and movement in each composition. She prefers to paint outdoors, in order to experience and interpret the pure strength of earth and sky.
She is an Associate member of Oil Painters of America, as well as a member of the Plein Air Artists of Colorado, and the Art Students League of Denver. She has studied painting with Kevin MacPherson, Louisa McElwain, and Teresa Vito, amongst others, and she recently had the opportunity to study the art of Fresco with a Master Restorer in Tuscany. Whether in fresco or oil, her aim is to portray the beauty of the natural world in a style all her own.
For more information, see Lisa’s website: Lisa Ellison Fine Art
Posted January 20th, 2011
Longmont artist Sandra Burtis prefers to express her creativity on the 3-dimensional surfaces of dried gourds. Her latest “crop” on display called “Gourds - From Seed To Fine Art, Southwest Visions” is a fantastic selection of southwest Native American inspired pots, masks, bowls, ladles and spirit dolls.
Turning gourds into fine art is a long, dirty, labor intensive process. The first step in that process is procurring the seeds and planting them (or if you prefer, you can order cleaned, ready to go gourds). Sandy grows quite a few of her own gourds with names like Snake, Kettle, Canteen, Dipper and Tennesee Spinners.
Once the gourd has reached maturity, it needs to be dried and cleaned which can take many months to accomplish. At this point, if designs or accents are to be cut into or added to the gourd, special tools like miniture jig saws or Dremels are needed. Sandy likes to use water-based ink dies to add the beautiful designs and colors to her creations.
Sandy has come from a Watercolor background and has taken classes from such artists as Robert Rivera whose fine art gourd creations are world renowned. She is striving to bring this marvelous technique of turning gourds to art to Longmont and beyond.
Posted November 11th, 2010
Paula Peacock is a talented, self-taught artist who works primarily in oil to create her amazing statements in realism. Her works have won awards in several competitive exhibitions and can be found in numerous private collections around the world. Currently living in Longmont, Paula often contributes her time and talent to support many local art events and venues.
In her own words, “My work is a conduit for my lifes joys, trials and tribulations and my paintings, more than words, reveal my responses to those experiences.
For more information, see Paula’s website: Paula Peacock
Posted November 7th, 2010
Midori Igarashi (whose family name means “fifty storms”), is a talented pottery artist currently living in Boulder. Her work in clay reflects her Japanese heritage and she describes her journey into the world of clay as a means of clarifying her life.
In her own words, “I was born and raised in a small port town in Japan where my father is the third-generation artisan of a signature seal shop. I grew up and worked in an office, but became confused about my life. One day, I decided to see other parts of the world. I brought all my savings and left home. I first met clay at a class I took in Colorado in 2002, and got hooked on it. I was fortunate to find this infinite possibility of midium to communicate visually to the world. I would like to keep asking both the society and myself what handcrafted artworks can do to make our world better place to live.
For more information, see Midori’s website: Midori Igarashi
Posted September 26th, 2010
