Gallery
Kelly Shanafelt
Kelly is a Boulder artist and musician who accidentally discovered how fun it is to break glass. She started eight years ago when she off loaded a crate of stained glass and some tools from a friend whom she was helping move. Many bandaids later she found out how much she loves working with her hands and bringing the beauty of nature alive in glass mosaics. She works with stained glass, dichroic glass, gold smalti and hundreds of small seed beads as she creates fabulous images of dragonflies, peacock feathers, trees and other nature inspired mosaics. Kelly is also an accomplished violist with the Colorado Symphony and teaches with Boulder Suzuki Strings.
For more of Kelly’s work, see the her Etsy site: August Glass 1
Posted November 11th, 2012
Leah Dennison
Leah Dennison is one of the members of Boulder Loose Threads, a group of fabulously talented art quilters who were drawn together by a mutual love of color, texture, pattern, and fibers. Leah is a very prolific quilter whose work flows from one creation to another simply yet beautifully. Her amazing pieces have graced the walls of many gallery installations in Colorado and across the country. Leah says this about herself and her art: “I was fortunate to have learned how to sew as a child. As an adult I discovered a way to combine sewing and creativity by making art quilts. Creating art is a fascinating process that consumes me from start to finish. The final product is the answer to a mystery that I have spent hours and hours trying to solve. I never know what I have created until the process is completed. This unknowing keeps me interested and driven. I strive to push myself in new, often uncomfortable, directions because this builds the suspense and makes the final reveal of the piece even more of an exciting surprise to me.”
For more information, see the BLT website: Boulder Loose Threads
Posted September 20th, 2012
Jane is a Colorado artist. She graduated from The Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles in 1974. Since then her clientele has included many companies and corporations throughout the country. She has been commissioned to do art pieces for Disney, Warner Bros., Sesame Street, Mattel Toys, Tomy Toys, Tonka toys, McMillan, Harcourt Brace and Simon & Schuster.
Her paper sculptures appear to be made of metal, and only on closer examination are found to be actually composed of paper. Each piece is based on a theme derived from nature. “The Wave” expresses an aquatic theme, showing the blues and greens and purples of water, as well as water’s flow and movement. Ranging in size from 2′x3′ to 3′x5′, most of her beautiful, lightweight sculptures can be hung either horizontally or vertically.
Her paper collages, which possess a very Zen quality, are made from handmade papers, leaves collected from the Rocky Mountains which she dries and presses, and various other natural materials.
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For more info on Jane or to view more of her work, please visit her website : Jane Yamada
Posted July 8th, 2012
Anne began art quilting after moving to Colorado, where she feels she’s been blessed to create and learn amidst an amazing community of artists and teachers. Her work combines the hand-embroidery that she learned as a child with contemporary design, often integrating word, paint, and abstract image. As a long-time teacher and teacher educator (she’s currently a Professor of Education at CU Boulder), Anne brings a continuing hunger for growth and learning to all that she does. She loves creating something new from familiar resources and stories, and would delight in working with families and communities to create works that celebrate shared memories and values.
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For more info on Anne or to view more of her work, please visit her website : Anne DiPardo
Posted June 15th, 2012
Gaynor Cooke Nelson, a resident of Longmont, is a classical realist painter in oil whose varied works appear in public and private collections throughout the United States. Trained in the classical realist tradition, Gaynor began her studies in Atlanta, Georgia, under the direction of master colorist Nance Honea. The foundation of her painting technique is the creation of an under-painting —grisaille —which establishes composition and values. The grisaille provides the cohesive glue holding everything together in the composition. Gaynor further enhnaces her technique by the application of multiple layers of oil color and glazes,rendering a luminescent quality to the images on the canvas.
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Active participation in the art community has been important to Gaynor. She served as guest curator for the Longmont StudioTour’s preview exhibition from 2003 through 2009. She also founded the group,“The Portrait Alliance of the Rockies” in 2008,and organized an exhibition of the work of seven local portrait artists from Boulder and Longmont. In early 2010,she co-organized an exhibition of 35 prominent Colorado artists at the “Niwot Hills Luxury Home Exhibition” in Niwot,Colorado. Gaynor is particularly honored to be associated with Children’s Hospital of Denver’s Bereavement program,‘The Colors of Healing’. She paints portraits of children for families who have lost a child.
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For more info on Gaynor or to view more of her work, please visit her website : Gaynor Cooke Nelson
Posted May 4th, 2012
Experienced, multi-talented, professional artist teacher and musician Ree O’Winds has traveled widely, and has been commissioned to create numerous, beautiful works of art. Rees expertise is portraits of people, pets, and homes. She works in oils, acrylics, watercolors, pastels, sepia tones, charcoals, pen and ink, and pencil. She also does CD music covers, murals, logos, sculpture, and art instruction.
Not only can Ree capture an amazing likeness of her subjects, she also imparts spirit, and personality as well. Her art work has a lasting interest, quality, and value, which often fall short with a photograph.
Ree has a degree in art education from the University of Georgia. She has taught in private, and public schools. She has begun aftercare art enrichment programs for children. Ree has taught art to home schooled students, adults, and private lessons. She has chaperoned an art, music, and dance study group to Europe.
She has owned her own art studio / galleries, and has produced hundreds of treasured commissioned works of art.
For more info on Ree or to view more of her work, please visit her website : Ree O’Winds
Posted April 10th, 2012
Bead Lounge is pleased to present a trio of Botanical artists, Debbie Nichols, Jill Lacert and Rosie Hill, and abstract landscape painter Mary Frances Krause, as our February & March 2012 Artists of the Month. The Longmont Botanical Group was created about seven years ago but has a history of painting together long before the group was established. All members have studied art extensively throughout their lives and are accomplished professionals. Some have worked for well known greeting card companies and are members of several other artistic societies. They all support one another through their work and spirit.
Posted April 10th, 2012
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
