Meet the Artists

Eulalie, pronounced U' la lee is an award  winning southwestern artist. Friends often call her by her nickname, Lee Brown. She  currently lives near Tucson, Arizona where she explores the color and light of the southwest.  She paints in layers to create depth and interest on the finished surface. She evokes an emotion, a sense of place, in her art. Eulalie enjoys working in water media on paper or canvas. Color, shape and texture dominate her images. She likes to play with color and mark making. She enjoys transparent and opaque paints.

Artist’s Background

Eulalie has achieved the status of Saguaro Fellow in the Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild. She frequently exhibits in the juried shows in their gallery. Her work has recently been shown at the Sonoran Desert Museum, the Tubac Center for the Arts, the Sedona Arts Center where she received First Place in the Northern Arizona Watercolor Society show, and the Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce.

Eulalie’s experiences include studying art at Parson’s School of Design in New York. She received her BA in Art Education from C.W. Post College on Long Island. She holds an MA in Special Education from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. She taught in the Pikes Peak region for many years. She worked in Colorado Springs as a painter, digital artist, website designer, and teacher.  She was a member of the Bridge Art Gallery, the Colorado Springs Art Guild and the Pixilated Palette Art Group in Denver. She has received many awards for her art work.

Raditia Lasry grew up in Switzerland and now lives in the United States. Throughout her life, she has had the opportunity to be in touch with various cultures, religions, beliefs, and world views that supported her vision of what in means to be human.

Her curiosity about people and relationships was always her passion. It became a mission of helping people find their way in being themselves while existing in social, relations, natural , and educational structure and limitations.

She believes that the key to success in life is to be yourself while finding a way to move through the complexity of being human and building deeper connections with one another.

Gary Nix grew up in Bloomington Minnesota. He had many hobbies but a love for drawing and painting lead him to major in Graphic Design. He would settle in Chanhassen, Minnesota with his wife and two kids. His busy life never stopped him from creating personal projects and commissions.

Gary tries to express his observations, travels, and experiences through his paintings. And like many outdoor enthusiasts, there are few limits to his exploration. One of his favorite times to take a long hike is after a fresh snowfall (the more inches the better). He has always embraced the regional extremes of his home state. It allows him to

expand his palette and learn in an ever-changing environment. His recent love for Plein Air painting has also allowed Gary to connect to the community. He has no problem when strangers ask questions while he paints the outdoors.

Gary's current mentor, Joe Paquet, has helped him understand Plein Air on a granular level. Paquet's teaching of hierarchical and rhythmic composition, as well as the importance of an underpainting, form, extremely subtle shifts in value, color as value, a sense of space, and the use of the prismatic palette, have all been instrumental.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I look for unexpected beauty in the ordinary and in nature. My journey is not a replication. I want to create an experience that resonates and moves the viewer as it did me at the moment. The translation into paint occurs through careful observation and experimentation. I manipulate shapes, colors, and space to create a hierarchical structure. This builds an independent structure that reveals the final painting. I like my work to be a combination of my idea and the original reference.

VIEW HIS WORK

Diana Pierce started storytelling with a camera long ago and for most of her

career she was in front of a video camera as a news reporter and anchor for

different television stations with the last one being KARE-TV (NBC), Minneapolis, MN. Now, in retirement, she has picked up a mirrorless camera and tells stories from behind the lens letting the image speak. She has captured landscapes from the Arctic to the American Southwest. Recently, though, her landscapes are in macro form, and she sees nature at its best in flower images.

Fran Schlosser is a Calgary artist, illustrator, and instructor. Although creative her whole life, it was in the fall of 1998, she had an incredible urge to paint seriously and enrolled in U of S painting classes in Saskatchewan, and has not stopped painting and learning since, attending a weekly open masterclass in Calgary, and taking advanced portrait, figurative and sculpture workshops whenever possible with many well-known artists in Canada and the USA. She has participated in many Gallery art shows, and her art resides in homes across Canada, the USA and as far as Australia. Figurative work has always been a favourite of mine with a focus on the portrait.

It is utterly fascinating to me how an image on paper or canvas can capture the

essence of an individual. To create a story, to see a persona, a character, emerge from a blank, white state, "to witness the point during the process that the paint on the canvas becomes “alive”, when the paint ceases to be paint, and a being emerges, for me, is just magical!"

I would say my style is an intuitive, sensitive, colourful, realism. 

As much as I love painting the human being, I also take great pleasure in painting the things in my life that spark joy – the florals, the animals, the dresses, the accessories, the music, the entertainment, the fantasy and occasionally, a place that I have been or would love to be. Some days I like to paint with a knife – thick paint straight from the tube, mixed directly on the canvas, other days I prefer to paint with my brushes and mix the paint on the palette, in a more meditative way. 

"My mind is noisy, and I find myself drawn to subjects and processes that I like to explore for a while, move on to something different and then circle back again. Threaded into all of this is a deep appreciation for colour, drama, and skill building.”