David Coblitz www.coblitzphotographicarts.com David Coblitz improves customers’ lives through subtle fine art messaging. This creates an uplifting environment for themselves, their clients, and their staff. Whether clients are interior designers needing to showcase their results, businesses needing to show how they increase their own or their client’s bottom line, or medical facilities seeking to improve patient outcomes and well-being by reducing stress and pain, Coblitz creatively uses photographic art to solve problems for them, their employees, and their clients in a variety of settings. The art may be on their walls, on the web, and in their print materials. Elizabeth Cavanaugh Cohen www.elizabethanncohen.com I have been specializing in prints and ran an ongoing workshop for artists meeting in my studio for many years. Using my Dickerson combination press, we could do etchings, collagraph, lithography, monoprints, etc. I have had many one-person shows and exhibited in several galleries, including American Association of Artists in New York. Elizabeth Concannon www.wsalabama.org/elizabethconcannon/ I am a native St. Louis artist, whose interest in drawing and art has been continuous from grade school days. Primarily self-taught, I have also studied with many local and national artists in watercolor, drawing and printmaking, including (in alphabetical order) Carole Barnes, Miles Batt, Glen Bradshaw, Gerald Brommer, Al Brouillette, Virginia Cobb, Judy Gard, Carole Myers, and Ed Reep. This image is mixed media collage as a reaction to an actual visit to the City Museum in downtown St. Louis, which truly represents a work of art in the best sense of that term. Jerry Cox www.coxstl.com Jerry Cox, Creative Artisan section member, considers furniture to be functional sculpture. He designs and builds custom cabinetry and furnishings for NewSpace, Inc. Formally trained as an artist, he also mixes sculpture, painting and photography with his furniture-making career. Michael Daft www.mdaft.smugmug.com “How you watch the rest of the world from a window…..” From Sunday in the Park with George by Stephen Sondheim. Working with a camera forces me, allows me, encourages me to watch my world from the window of the viewfinder. I look for composition. I look for color. I look for meaning. I seek to create a unique and memorable point of view. If observing my work changes you even slightly, I have succeeded, and I am happy. If you begin to see your world through different eyes because of my photographs, I am ecstatic. Eileen Dailey My work is structured around the figure, beginning with a contact print from the human body. I treat the figure as another shape in an environment documenting an instant in time. The raw and primitive effect of the body print combined with the life-size scale gives the feel of the figure frozen in time. I see the canvas as a residue of human activity in which human life and
spirit either survives when in balance with the environment or is destroyed by imbalance. Betty Deall Betty loves lines and angles. In neary three decades as a painter, Betty has used many media for her paintings, but finds that oil painting is her favorite. Marlene DiFiori Locke www.geocities.com/difioriart My work has been in over 50 exhibits (local, regional and national), and is included in corporate and university collections such as the 7-Up Company, RGA, Inc., and the University of Missouri—St. Louis, as well as private collections. My art was featured on Fox 2 News on July 2, 2011. In the Eddy (whirlwind) Series and Zoomer Series, I explore movement, depth and chance. Besides paintings and digital prints, I make independent acrylic “skins” with pours that are both random and controlled. I also create sculptures connected to both the Eddy and Zoomer works of art. Penny Dillon www.pennydillon.com Penny Pate Dillon has been involved in the arts all of her professional life. She has degrees in two areas of art: a Fine Art degree from Washington University in St. Louis and an Art Education degree from the University of Texas at El Paso. Her education also includes two years in the Kansas City Art Institute’s Commercial Art program. Penny’s diverse art career includes everything from a classroom art teacher, art supervisor, commercial artist, fashion illustrator, and commission artist. Today, Penny is a full-time studio painter, and loves every minute. Marie Donato www.mariedonato.com Marie is a professional artist, instructor, and portrait artist living in the St. Louis area. She is a contemporary realist painter. Foremost, she is a painter of the human form, producing striking figurative paintings and drawings as well as beautiful family and corporate portraits. Her work has been recognized in International Artist Magazine. Marie has won awards in both national and invitational juried exhibitions, traveling extensively exhibiting her work in juried shows throughout the country. Her work is featured in private and corporate collections, nationally and internationally. Marie teaches classes and workshops in watercolor, pastel, drawing and portrait drawing. Shannon Dougherty Shannon Dougherty attended Webster University for her Bachelor of Arts in St. Louis, Missouri, which she completed in 2011. She has exhibited work at galleries in her hometown of St. Louis, Missouri, including Art St. Louis, Gateway Tower, and Cecille R. Hunt Gallery. Shannon’s work ranges in many media including oil painting, charcoal drawings, and primarily photography. St. Louis and the many cities Shannon has lived in are a strong inspiration and are represented in her work. Deb Douglas www.debdouglas.com As an artist, I work with two dimensional materials, including painting, drawing, collage, and printmaking. Since graduate school I have worked to develop a personal vocabulary of imagery and mark making that speaks to my interest in the balance of form and content. My work deals with the
juxtaposition of color, pattern and form with a postmodern sensibility. Combining these elements with various stylistic tendencies creates a personal narrative that allows me to explore my own personal experiences on a conceptual basis while working within the construct of formalism. Marianne Erickson www.myslart.org/profile/MarianneErickson As a painter, Marianne draws her primary inspiration from the great artists who use words as their medium, from Emily Dickinson to Jimi Hendrix. She believes that by translating the poet’s word-pictures into visual images, the artist, the reader, and the viewer stand to gain deeper insight into the essence of the text. However, the photograph Three Barn Farm was inspired solely by the poetry of an autumn afternoon at Mark Erker’s farm. Muriel Eulich www.murielwatercolor.com Born in Paris, France to a family of artists, Muriel Eulich has always treasured and nurtured creativity—in herself and in others. As a trained art therapist, Muriel spent many years working in prisons, community centers, hospitals, and in private practice, and also taught at the college level. In recent years she has renewed her commitment to her own watercolor painting; as she works in her studio each day, she feels gratitude and joy for the chance to explore more deeply the beauty and mystery of the world around her, and the world within. Susan Fadem Mark Twain is famous for saying, among other things: “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” Artist and award-winning journalist Susan Fadem boots that distinction further still. For all those moments and times worth celebrating, she says, blah jewelry just may not cut it. Instead, it takes a statement piece to embolden the wearer and enliven the occasion. A jewelry designer, as well as a veteran newspaper and magazine reporter and the author of four books, Susan makes statements. With her one-ofa-kind necklaces, you will, too. Suzy Farren I make my living as a writer, telling stories with my words. My art offers a different way to tell a story. I am attracted to cast-off things and found objects. In Paper Trail, I sewed together scraps of handmade, hand-dyed paper and torn up pieces from old shopping lists. I frequently use text and marks (in this piece stitches) in my work but it is seldom readable, thus making each piece a more visual than linguistic story. Mirka Fette My subjects vary greatly. When I see something beautiful, I am eager to depict it and share my perspective others. Do you sometimes retell stories and spice them up a bit? Well sometimes a beautiful subject needs that as well. I like to experiment with texture and pattern sometimes from natural materials. Printmaking lends itself to layering and prints can take on a bas-relief quality that I find appealing. There is nothing as satisfying a pulling the print off of the plate because the outcome is always surprising and often delighting. Steven Finnegan www.fineartamerica.com/profiles/ 2-steven-finnegan.html I was born in St. Louis in the Dogtown area
of the city, where I still live. The main media I work in are oils, acrylics, colored pencils, ink, as well as wood carving. Landscapes, portraits and wildlife are among some of my favorite subjects to paint or sketch. Art for me has never been a way of just expressing myself; it is big part of who I am as a person. It is something that I just can’t stop doing!
Daniel Fishback daniel-fishback.artistwebsites.com Except for a few non-credit watercolor classes and workshops, I am primarily self-taught. With each painting I try to place the viewer at the scene. If the scene is a performance, they are in the audience. If a landscape, they can walk down the path, wade in the stream, or swim in the lake. My aim is to create paintings that viewers not only feel like they can walk into but are so beautiful and inviting they wish they could. I am a member of Art Saint Louis and Oil Painters of America. Carol Foster I split my time between Tampa, Florida and Kirkwood, Missouri. My watercolors combine elements of light and shadow in which I try to realistically retain the brilliance of color found in my subjects while maintaining good design. I am a signatory member of the Florida Watercolor Society and also have been selected to exhibit in many other shows on Florida’s Gulf coast, including, on two occasions, the National Biennial Art Exhibition in Punta Gorda. Ralph Fournier Ralph Fournier is best known as a contemporary architect who came out of the School of Architecture at Washington University during the golden age of St. Louis Modernism. Born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, he graduated in 1952 from Washington University, where he studied under legends Eugene Mackey and Edouard Mutrux, a partner of Bernoudy. As a young architect, Fournier was “a purist,” he says, and designed contemporary homes from St. Louis to Atlanta to Indianapolis. Now retired, Ralph is a prolific painter with a loyal following. Carlene Fullerton www.missourifiberartists.com/gallery/ c_fullerton.htm Carlene Fullerton is an artist, educator and arts advocate. She worked in the Education Department for the St. Louis Art Museum for ten years, taught high school art for thirty years, and has served on the Boards of the St. Louis Artists’ Guild and Missouri Fiber Artists as well as the educational advisory boards at Fontbonne University and the Contemporary Art Museum. Currently, she co-edits the Missouri Fiber Artists newsletter and volunteers for Craft Alliance. She works in mixed media, primarily drawing, fiber and collage. Sandra Funkhouser I have a B.A. degree from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois. My major was Art Education. In 2002, I retired from teaching elementary art for thirty five years. In 1990 I began to explore watercolor. Prior to this time I had worked with fiber arts, some pottery, acrylic and oil painting. I have found watercolor to be a rewarding medium for me. I have done several commissions. These commissions
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