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LEONA BUSSE
Leona Busse https://www.lbussestudio.com is a contemporary artist who lives in Washington, Missouri. Born in Southeast Missouri, the love for fine art has been a part of her life since she was a young child.
Portraits, landscapes and animals are all rendered with the artist’s perception and emotion. As the artist believes, “All individuals were created to create, it is up to each of us to explore what this means.”
Leona studied under artist Ann Hampton in her secondary school years, learning discipline, attention to detail through drawing, painting, block-printing, and sculpture. After receiving an Art Scholarship, she pursued an AA in Art Degree.
The next 30 years took her in a different direction ending recently as an Engineering Manager. During this time, she furthered her education to a Master of Science in Administrative Studies.
WELCOME TO THE ART EXHIBIT AT CITY HALL!
The Art Exhibit at Chesterfield City Hall brings access and education to art within our community and features two-dimensional artwork, including mixed media, paintings and sculptures from established regional artists. Inside this guide, you will find artist bios, and a brief synopsis of the art on display.
City Hall will feature several Art Exhibits throughout the year, showcasing different artists and a variety of art styles. This Art Exhibit will be open Monday through Friday, October through December, from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm, excluding holidays.
Information about the artists will be available on each piece of artwork, in this guide and at the informational display in the lobby. All details about upcoming Art Exhibits and events are available on the City’s website at https://www.chesterfield.mo.us/art-exhibit-at-city-hall.html for more information.
Chesterfield Parks, Recreation & Arts would like to thank all of our exhibitors, residents, businesses and our staff for their support in our Art program. Please enjoy the Art Exhibit at City Hall!
Sincerely,
Thomas McCarthy Director of Chesterfield Parks, Recreation & ArtsIn 2021, she decided to give her life-long dream to become a full-time artist another go and started a five (5) year business plan. In the first year, she placed as a finalist in the 3rd Annual Into the Wild Art Competition. In 2022, she and her daughter teamed up and placed Best in Show in the “Conversation” Exhibition at Art St. Louis. Also, she was invited to the Highland, Illinois Art Show that took place October 8-9, 2022. In 2024, she will be in the Award of Excellence Exhibition at Art St. Louis.
LEONA BUSSE’S WORK
Artist: Leona Busse
Title: London Bridge
Dimensions: 10” x 8”
Medium: Ink & Marker
Price: $75
Artist: Leona Busse
Title: Yellowstone
Mountains
Dimensions: 20” x 16”
Medium: Ink & Marker Price: $125
Artist: Leona Busse
Title: English Village
Dimensions: 11” x 14”
Medium: Ink & Marker
Price: $100
JACK CLARK
Photography is my passion now and has been for the last fifty years. I remember walking down the lake Michigan walkway in downtown Chicago thinking “What a beautiful experience I wish I had a camera to record this experience.” As soon as I returned to St. Louis, I immediately bought a 35mm camera and soon realized that I had no idea how to make pictures with this wonderful equipment. I heard that Kirkwood had a good night class on beginning photography... And so, it began. At the conclusion of the class the teacher asked “Where do you go from here.” One of the possibilities mentioned was the St. Louis Camera Club which I joined. That was many years ago and I am still a member and still learning the art and science of photography. Over the years I have narrowed my primary interest to architectural and landscape photography. St. Louis has a great deal of middle twentieth century architecture to capture with a camera.
The greatest reward from my journey with my camera has been that I now see so much more beauty in the world. From seeing tiny insects to the grand mountains of our country, I can stop and wonder at the grandeur of both.
Won’t you join me.
JACK CLARK’S WORK
Artist: Jack Clark
Title: Forest Park Bandstand
Dimensions: 16” x 19”
Medium: Photography
Price: $75
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Artist: Jack Clark
Title: Doors of Lafayette
Dimensions: 26” x 38”
Medium: Photography
Price: $85
Artist: Jack Clark
Title: Oregon Lighthouse
Dimensions: 20” x 16”
Medium: Photography
Price: $75
SARAH LORENTZ
Artist Statement:
I maintain a sense of expressiveness in my use of saturated colors and confident brushstrokes, reminders of the process and physicality of the material. Many of my works are created ‘en plein air’ (outdoors, on location, from direct observation), a process that appeals to me for being both an intimate and accessible art form. I look to capture not only a visual reproduction, but also an experiential description. My color choices relate to the temperature, weather conditions, and my own mental state as much as they relate to the local color of the scenery and the resulting painting provides a snapshot of the particular moment in time as I experienced it.
In crafting my composition, I balance a simultaneous level of realism and aesthetically satisfying abstraction. This challenge sustains my engagement in the process and invites active visual interpretation in viewers. So much of our visual consumption is fast-paced media designed to be clearly recognizable instantaneously, requiring little effort on part of the consumer. I want my work to reveal itself slowly, reconditioning the mind to study and interpret visual patterns.
Biography:
Contemporary painter Sarah Lorentz creates energetic, striking compositions full of bold brushwork and electric color. Though the subject matter of her work ranges from evocative figurative commentaries to pastoral plein air landscapes, the physicality of material and deliberate remnants of the process reveals the same confident hand behind the brush.
Sarah’s academic training has been traditional with apprenticeships and extended studies in Europe. She earned her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts with a focus in studio painting from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and now has an active presence in the art scene of St. Louis where she lives and works.
SARAH LORENTZ’S WORK
Artist: Sarah Lorentz
Title: The Great Balloon Glow
Dimensions: 11” x 14”
Medium: Oil on Birch Panel
Price: $400
Artist: Sarah Lorentz
Title: Midwestern Forum
Dimensions: 10” x 12”
Medium: Oil on Wood Panel
Price: $300
Artist: Sarah Lorentz
Title: Frank Nathan Bandstand in the Spring Dimensions: 6” x 10”
Medium: Oil on Masonite Price: $325
