James Christensen (1942-2017)

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The range of Christensen's subject matter and style are testament to the artist's imagination, creativity and understanding of art history. His drive to connect with the world weaves through his work like a ribbon, over mermaids, under saints, and around hunchbacks. Christensen has created a rich and strangely familiar world that will take a lifetime to explore. A professor of art at Brigham Young University for over 20 years, he liked to think of the world as his classroom.  His artworks have been described as "creations from the land a little left of reality." His art is found in prized collections throughout the world.

Sueellen Ross, b. 1941, USA

A full-time artist since l980, Sueellen Ross has devoted her career to depicting cat, dogs, and wildlife in paintings and etchings. Ross combines her passion for producing art with her love for animals, to create works of exceptionally strong design and subtle wit. Using India ink, watercolor and colored pencil, she developed her own unique combination of mixed media concentrating on her drawing skills.  Ross’s work can be found in corporate, museum and private collections.  The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum has purchased four of Ross's paintings that will reside in the Museum's permanent collection.

Robert Bateman

Bateman has been a keen artist and naturalist from his early days.  He has always painted wildlife and nature, beginning with a representational style, moving through impressionism and cubism to abstract expressionism.  In his early thirties he moved back to realism as a more suitable way to express the particularity of the planet.  It is this type that has made him one of the foremost artists depicting the world of nature. Many of his early works are on display at the Robert Bateman Centre on the Inner Harbour of Victoria, BC.  He is associated in the public mind with pro-nature education by his work, writings and public speaking.  He is a natural and gregarious teacher and his artwork is vastly instructive.  Robert Bateman is perceived by many to be one of the voices of reason and hope for healthy, rejuvenated and creative engagement with the natural world

Alan Bean

As the only artist who has visited another world, Bean paints with an authenticity and insight completely unique in the entire history of art by creating a palette mirroring his artistic eye. His is a personal portfolio of the golden era of space exploration as viewed by the only artist who has BEEN there. His art reflects the attention to detail of the aeronautical engineer, the respect for the unknown of the astronaut and the unabashed appreciation of a skilled explorer artist. The space program has seen unprecedented achievements and Bean realized that most of those who participated actively in this adventure would be gone in forty years. He knew that if any credible artistic impressions were to remain for future generations, he must paint them now. “My decision to resign from NASA in 1981 was based on the fact that I am fortunate enough to have seen sights no other artist ever has,” Bean said, “and I hope to communicate these experiences through art.” 

Morgan Weistling

Morgan Weistling, b. 1964, California, (United States) Well known for his paintings of early American pioneer life, Morgan Weistling began his art career as a movie-poster illustrator. After 14 years, he left illustration to pursue fine art. Interested in the effects of light, Weistling’s paintings capture the mood and atmosphere of the past. His attention to the historical aspects of his subjects comes from his desire to portray the truth and beauty of America’s pioneering spirit.  Weistling and his wife, JoAnn, also an artist, reside in California with their daughters, Brittany and Sienna.

Yvonne Davis

A nontraditional approach to an old art tradition is what makes the original hand-colored etchings of Yvonne Davis so distinctive. "When you become a printmaker, you are touching the past." Davis says. " I enjoy feeling close to the history of art. Printmaking uses techniques developed centuries ago, and it is still executed in the same basic manner. The first dated etching goes back to the 1500s-this is a medium that was used by the great masters."   Davis has the ability to take a simple subject and transform it with a delightful, singular magic.  Her hand-colored etchings combine her strong sense of design, her technical skills and her devotion to the hand-crafted arts.

Howard Terpning

Howard Terpning is one of the most lauded painters of Western art. Over his lifetime he’s received the highest awards in the field, including the National Academy of Western Art’s Prix de West, the Hubbard Art Award for Excellence, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Autry National Center, and 2005 Masters of the American West Thomas Moran Memorial Award and countless others. He’s an Emeritus member of the Cowboy Artists of America with over forty-one awards from that organization alone. Quite simply, he’s a living master of Western art.

Charles Wysocki (1928-2002)

Charles Wysocki is best known for his stylized depictions of a bygone era of American life.  There's a sense of freedom,  drama and adventure in everything he did-from the simplest still life to the most complex landscape. Wysocki says, "I want drama and light, carefree times or a lonely, heartfelt memory"

Stephen Lyman (1957-1996)

Stephen Lyman was a painter, a photographer, a writer and most of all an explorer. Lyman's first limited edition print was published by the Greenwich Workshop in 1983. His work included paintings, sketches and photographs made during more than 35 trips into California's Yosemite National Park, Alaska's Denali National Park, Oregon's Willamette Valley, the Canadian Rockies and Northern Idaho.

Rie Munoz

Rie’s work and world of art is one of animated movement. You’ll find ducks bobbing on water, boats tied up at docks or on Alaskan rivers, fishermen tending to their nets, children at play, villagers picking berries, village life, and dogs. Rie once said she never met a dog she didn’t like. Her work is suggestive of actual life and her colors are bright, bringing the viewer much delight.

Scott Gustafson

Gustafson’s paintings have appeared on greeting cards, calendars, collector’s plates, limited edition prints, character designs for the animated TV series Chuggington, as well as on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. But it is the world of illustration and the fun and challenge of telling stories with pictures that continually inspires him.

Tabra Tunoa

Tabra started selling her jewelry on the streets of Berkeley, California, and grew her business from there. She is known for her ethnic style of Gypsy Jewelry which is nowproduced in Bali, Indonesia. Check out her website at Tabra.com