Despite growing up in the Jim Crow era, Malley was unaware of the racial divide between herself and her tenant farmer and migrant playmates. As an adult, she addresses racial inequality through compelling figurative paintings. As a child, she was immersed in nature on her grandparents’ farm. Today, she expresses her concerns for the environment through intriguing abstracts and advocating for climate change legislation.
Read moreDebra Perkins Brings Texture to an Abstract World
Working in cold wax and oil as well as acrylics, Perkins uses texture to explore the complexities of relationships, nature and current events.
Read moreA Modern Dutch Master
As a child, Anna Katalkina lived in one of the world’s most beautiful cities and experienced some of the world’s greatest art. As an adult, she combines an eye for detail, a penchant for precision, an international perspective and the skill of a Dutch master to produce engaging and thought-provoking still life paintings that make the viewer smile.
Read morePatricia Williams Paints with a Little Help from Her Friends
Patricia Williams says that the works in Glimpses, her new series of abstract-ish stilllifes, are very personal. But they are also the result of collaboration.
Read morePamela Reynolds Looks On the Bright Side
The abstract artist did not let a successful career in journalism get in the way of her true passion, art. Or is it that she doesn’t let art get in the way of her writing?
Read moreCycling Through Luscious Landscapes with Linda Bankerd
Linda Bankerd’s colorful abstract landscapes evoke the thrill of the road—from the perspective of a bicycle. An avid cyclist and acrylic painter, Bankerd produced these intuitive pieces from memories of rides long and short, in the Washington area, more distant reaches of the United States and abroad.
Read moreSeeing Between the Lines
Thick line? Thin lines? Wavy lines? Curly lines? Plain old straight lines? Touchstone artists use all these and more to create shape, pattern, form, structure and rhythm in Lines.
Read morePaula Lantz Starts Out as a Docent, Discovers She’s an Artist
The brightly colored abstract acrylic paintings in Portraits Only , Paula Lantz’s May 2019 show, capture the spirituality of ordinary people made extraordinary.
Read moreClaudia Samper Mixed Media Stories
Argentinian-born Claudia Samper reminisces on her early life in Buenos Aires. “As a youngster I was always drawing and creating things with my hands,” she recalls. “By the time I entered the university I didn't have many choices in Buenos Aires except for traditional career paths--medicine, education, law, etc. We of course did have a wonderful art institute, but it never crossed my mind to pursue art then.” The one track that suited her the most was architecture. After completing that 6-year degree program, she had acquired a solid base in both the technical and the art spheres of the curriculum.
Read moreAina Nergaard-Nammack: The Language of Music and Color
Aina in studio
A child of a Norwegian father and a Spanish mother, Aina spent her early years toggling between school in the frigid north to hot summers in the heart of Spain -- a life that was bound to teach her many languages. Five to be exact. Add to that sum Aina's study of various "languages" in the visual arts. First with her mother on painting excursions to the "White Villages" in the south of Spain, practicing in her mother's studio in Seville, and then being instructed formally in art school where she was required to copy the Old Masters, including Velasquez, Vermeer and Goya.
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