 | Artist: Bill Turner
"Why roads?" I'm often asked. When I first began showing these paintings, my first response was a little feeling of shock - "Roads? All my paintings have roads?" It's not a scheme or plan - that is, to paint paintings with roads. It's just that roads are a marvelous vehicle for taking one's imagination into a painting, especially one that evokes the sort of emotional qualities that I like for these paintings to have.
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 | Artist: Catscapes, Inc.
I am inspired by my surroundings as well as what I perceive through my memories - some recent, others from childhood. I select images which serve as archetypes of life experiences: old letters, a path, a grove of trees. I think my background of science and graphic design is why I am compelled to divide a canvas into sections of images, color, and texture. Mixing mediums and experimenting is the most exciting part of the creative process, turning my art studio into my personal laboratory. Multiple layers of acrylic and oil glazes, combined with collage, allow me to integrate all of the mediums I love to work in, such as clay (the tiles in my work that I make and refer to as "cookies"), encaustic (wax), and gold-leaf.
My paintings are divided and pieced together purposefully, mimicking the piecing together and layering of memories, images, and feelings. In this way, I hope the viewer is provoked to feel a certain intensity and strength from my work
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 | Artist: Chadwick Studios
Award winning artist Darron Chadwick creates thematic representations of ancient civilizations, cultures, and traditions. Aesthetically, his creations have a contemporary presence but also retain a rich, timeworn flavor as a result of the three-dimensional equivalents of calligraphic inscriptions incorporated into each piece. Further, these images not only evoke visual and perceptual depth but imply intellectual depth as well.
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 | Artist: Deborah T. Colter
My challenge as a painter is to find an exciting balance between the pandemonium of my thoughts and the multitude of images and events that bombard our daily lives. I trust the inner thoughts of the mind as they reveal themselves purely through the act of creating.
I work with an abstract collection of marks, textures and color, repeating shapes and forms, seeking to find a balance of chaos and harmony within each piece I create. Often these marks will reflect architectural landscapes, roads, maps, repeated patterns, or colors as if seen from above or as recalled from within, a sort of visual record book of the mind.
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 | Artist: Eddie Corkery
Eddie Corkery was born in Chicago, Illinois, and studied at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and Naguib School of Sculpture in Beverly Shores, Indiana. His commercial clients include: Tiffany & Co., the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, TRW, and Johnnie Walker, among others. His work has appeared in The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Chicago Magazine, and other publications.
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 | Artist: C. L. Cunningham
As I share this website with collectors both known and unknown to me, I am struck by the speed with which things change around us. The very nature of existence seems to be tethered to the mercurial evolution of technology. One constant, is the need for beauty, for that which illuminates the human condition, inspiring hope and joy. The more our world relies upon automation and artificiality, the more we admire evidence of the human hand. We seek out the objects that reflect the touch of the creator, the unique vision and refined craftmanship of the individual artisan.
The website is not only about sales, convenience and communication. It is also intended to provide the collector a "chair" beside my drawing table in which to observe the monthly progress of mixed medias as I work them toward completion.
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Artist: Sandi Dahl Studio
Sandi Dahl is a pastel painter of the landscape. Her landscapes are intuitive landscapes of the mind, an emotional response to the land. The artist searches for the simplest, strongest concept of the land, the statement, which, in its‘ simplicity, allows her to develop artistic expressions of colors, shapes and a "special" light. She strives to communicate the feeling of a space, to convey a sense of place in a moment of time.
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 | Artist: Jody dePew McLeane Pastels
My pastel drawings are figurative works inspired by actual situations in which I try to interpret my response to the events I witness. The subject matter for this body of work was derived from many visits to tech rehearsals, as well as backstage areas of several theaters. The final drawings are executed by me in the studio from sketches and slides I take for referencing the gesture of the figure. I do not use models. The color palette and lighting are often heightened to a theatrical level, illuminating the mood of the figure.
The pastel I use is comprised of pure powdered pigment combined with a small amount of binder. They are not oil. Crumbling the pastel in my left palm, I use my hand as a palette, scooping the pigment with my right thumb to apply it to the pastel paper. This technique gives the work a painterly quality. Because the pigment is airborne due to its crumbling, I wear a respirator while working in the studio. When the drawing is completed I steam it to fix the pastel, rather than spraying it with a fixative.
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 | Artist: Dorer Studio
Jan and her husband, Gil, maintain a studio/home just outside of Chelsea, Michigan, near Ann Arbor. A graduate of Central Michigan University, with a major in art, Jan has been passionate about painting for more than 40 years. She uses acrylic paint on paper and may include collage for textured effects.
Her current work is conceptual in nature, developed through years of painting and experimentation. She strives to keep her paintings unique and fresh and has gained the respect of both collectors and peers for her creativity, integrity, and innate use of color.
Rarely does she begin with a preconceived idea of a finished painting. Each brush stroke suggests a new and challenging direction as the painting evolves. In her abstract, impressionistic style, she does not draw what she sees, but paints what she feels.
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 | Artist: Eaton Studios, Inc. - Kathleen Eaton
Kathleen Eaton is a Chicago area artist whose work is an interpretation of city and suburban environments. Her paintings reflect a fascination with architectural spaces and the unexpected solitude or human activities that occur within them. From this interest her work has developed to explore the relations between imagination and reality in an urban environment.
Her paintings are begun with an idea of a place, real or imaginary, then proceeded by a series of sketches to a full-sized drawing, and the final oil painting is done from this. The technique she uses involves building up areas of color through the application of many thin layers of transparent paint.
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