Painter's Keys Art Directory

Carolyn Blaylock

Carolyn Blaylock - Premium Artist

When it comes to Carolyn Blaylock's colorful paintings of animals and children, she believes that the expression of personality and spirit is where the work begins and ends.

Wendy Chaney

Wendy Chaney - Premium Artist

Wendy Chaney has lived all her life in Illinois and Wisconsin (and more recently Michigan) and is an unashamed lover of the midwest landscape.

Judith D'Agostino

Judith D'Agostino

Judith D'Agostino's artist statement: I paint and draw things that inspire me. I love the creative process, the puzzle, the challenge to one up myself. I enjoy the solitude of working alone in my studio where everything and everyone is gone from my head and the only thing that remains is my creative impulse and technical ability. I enjoy expressing myself in different ways whether that is with a still life, landscape or figurative piece. My hope is that when viewers look at my work, I can inspire in them the same feelings I had when I made the painting or drawing.

Priti Lathia

Priti Lathia

Priti Lathia's artist statement: I am a local art teacher and teach several mediums but enjoy working in watercolors and oils. My work has a vibrant, colorful and joyous feeling. I love to paint nature with a painterly flair. My paintings are inspired by the people in my life, places i have visited or still life subjects that have inspired me. While painting i like to think about color, light and view point. I worked as a nutritionist for many years. Over the past five years, I have dedicated more of my time and energy to my art.

Ria Hills

Ria Hills

Ria Hills' artist statement: I am a self-taught painter who works mostly in pastel. I was born in The Netherlands, raised in New York and presently live in rural Massachusetts. My work can be found in private collections throughout the United States. I have been a participant in the "painting a day" movement online since 2006. These paintings are mostly inspired by small, common objects. For me, the subject is not as important as the process of trying to translate blocks of color and light into something discernible. I enjoy the challenge of realism and am captivated by the ways light plays on a subject.

Thomas Paquette

Thomas Paquette

Thomas Paquette's work has been the subject of more than forty solo exhibitions at prominent art galleries (in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Portland) and museums (Georgia Museum of Art, Erie Art Museum, Westmoreland Museum of American Art) nationally. Dozens of his paintings have been selected to hang in eleven U.S. diplomatic facilities around the world, including embassies in St. Petersburg, Athens, Rome, Vienna, Santiago, and Taipei. Besides being awarded the three-year Residency-Fellowship from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, he had a visiting artist residency at the American Academy in Rome and also with the Aegean Arts and Cultural Exchange on the island of Mytilini. He has completed several large commissions for the Federal Reserve Bank and the states of Minnesota, Maine, and Montana; and his paintings are also aboard the opulent Queen Mary 2. A book with 110 of his gouache paintings was published in 2007 for a show that traveled to museums. Originally from Minneapolis and living for a decade in Maine, he now lives with his wife at the edge of the Allegheny National Forest in Pennsylvania.

Renee Mox Hall

Renee Mox Hall

Renee Mox Hall owns and operates a gallery in Park City, Utah. She paints in an Interpretative Realistic style in both watercolors and Acrylics. She offers both original paintings and self -represented Signed and Numbered Fine Art Giclee Editions.

Aleta Pippin

Aleta Pippin

Contemporary abstract oil painter, Aleta Pippin, paints in bold, vibrant color offering vibrant expressions to brighten your environment.

Jaison Cianelli

Jaison Cianelli

Jaison Cianelli's artist statement: To me, the premise for creating artwork is not to re-create reality. My paintings are gestures of colors, forms, and texture that give a sense of uplifting familiarity. The more abstract the piece the more it is formed in spirit and spontaneity right on the canvas and not from an actual place or thing. I try to capture an essence and bring a feeling onto the canvas.

Heather Rohde

Heather Rohde

Accomplished professional artist Heather Rohde is best known for her elegant, expressive artwork of horses though she also excels at dog, cat, wildlife and nature art. Her great love for and knowledge of horses and the natural world can be seen in all she creates. High quality limited edition fine art prints and original paintings are available for purchase directly through her online gallery. Heather Rohde accepts commissions as well.

S. Josephine Weaver

S. Josephine Weaver

S. Josephine Weaver is a painter living in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has lived, worked and exhibited in Chicago, Illinois, Bethesda Maryland, Washington, D.C. and Cincinnati, Ohio. She studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and has a degree from the former Layton School of Art in Milwaukee. Her paintings are in many private collections.

Karen Martin Sampson

Karen Martin Sampson

Karen Martin Sampson Artwork Elissa & Tyler oil painting Karen Martin-Sampson has been successfully painting commissioned portraits since 1985. She is represented by the Timms Gallery, Courtenay, BC and is a member of the Federation of Canadian Artists. Her clients include Time Warner, Xerox, and various publishers. She has illustrated 4 books on pregnancy, infant care and one for UNICEF. Karen Martin is a teacher, lecturer and instructor in illustration. She has presented workshops in creativity, figure painting and fundamental drawing and painting. Karen has also taught art courses in New York State colleges.

K. Lawrence Leveque

K. Lawrence Leveque

K. Lawrence Leveque's artist statement: ?I'm a dreamer given the intuition to paint. Painting always surprises me. As I attack the confusion of life with a distinct fascination for the beauty around us, I am often amazed at the finished product.?

While working his trade for 37 years as a freelance illustrator and designer, Kevin has continued to immerse himself in fine art. The Impressionists' play a key role in the inspiration of Kevin's artwork. Lorser Feitelson, Donald Putman, and Harry Carmien, instructors at Art Center of Design in Los Angeles, California, where Kevin attended on full scholarship, also influenced him greatly.

Ben Scherbeijn

Ben Scherbeijn

Ben Scherbeijn's (Holland) artist statement: I like nature, stillness and the Inner Self, they are my sources of inspiration for life as for painting. In drawings, etchings and paintings I'm trying to catch some of it and bringing it further. So I like it when coincidences and surprises happen in my works. Furthermore I like the smell of the oils and mediums and the thickness of paint with sand and/or other materials.

Zariah

Zariah

Zariah specializes in visionary watercolor paintings, the fine craft of translucent, glowing, multidimensional works of beauty and richness. Her passion is to share pure Divinity through these delightful journeys into the realms of wonder, magic, and sacredness; through her deep commitment to exquisite detail and authentic expression, her works impart profound mythological significance and remembrance.

Elsie Griffiths

Elsie Griffiths - Premium Artist

The scope of Elsie's work includes oils, watercolours, acrylics, drawings, etchings, monotypes and mixed medium.

Silvia Forrest

Silvia Forrest - Premium Artist

Silvia Forrest Fine Art

Munazza Naeem

Munazza Naeem

Munazza Naeem's artist statement: I am a Painter and Printmaker. Most of my work is based on vivid ?Memories?. Memory is dependent of any unity of time and place. I take aspiration from short term, long term, perennial, and auditory memories. Some times I use semiotics in my narrative works to create another dimension. The ?human psychology?, simultaneity of different time of frames is present in my work. My work has innumerous theme, I silently conversation with simplicity. Also I always try to search Philosophical aspect in my work. My work is a fusion between figurative and abstract way of observing her surroundings. I try to do complex overlapping of images, time, and movement through space. My work has a strong connection between space and time. Especially I overlap many images/reflections to create multidimensional layers. My viewers feel the smoothness and transparency in a deep manner. My unique artistic styles give me an understanding of significance of particular ideas regarding my vivid memories and nostalgia. Also I am getting involved in dreams. I try to capture sensitive ?reflections of memory? that people normally ignore. Also I am using the past serious issues (from history). By focusing on the mental, emotional, and physical grounds we all share in our society. I open this window in my work, which gives broad meaning to my thoughts. It takes the viewers from one frame to another time frame. Memory is the mirror of the world. But this memory is frail. Every day, irreplaceable parts of this memory disappear for ever. I want to save them for our new generations. I want to share them with all other communities. I don't want to keep them in my personal dairy.

Penny Otwell

Penny Otwell

Plein air painter Penny Otwell has lived in Yosemite for over 40 years and has become well known for her oils and watercolors of the Yosemite Sierra, the foothills, and the High Desert. Her distinctive style with a focus on color and design can be seen at the Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite Valley through original pintings, matted prints, postcards, and tee shirts.

PJ Piccirillo

PJ Piccirillo

PJ Piccirillo's stories, rich in northern Appalachian character and landscape, are inspired by the people of the timberlands and red-brick industrial burgs of Pennsylvania's Allegheny Plateau, where his ancestors settled to work farms, tanneries, mines and rail sections. PJ's acclaimed novel Heartwood was recently released by Middleton Books. His short fiction has appeared in numerous journals, most recently The Laurel Review and Ellipsis, and he has twice won the Appalachian Writers Association award for short fiction.