2023 Painting
Deb Baughman | Pulaski
Deb's Painting
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Plein air, landscapes and Midwestern scenes, farms, industrial, elevators in oil and watercolor. I look for the rhythm in lines in fields and industrial views. I like barns, elevator, bins, alleys.
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Jennifer Drinkwater | Ames
The What's Good ProjectFB: whatsgoodproject
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A Mississippi Delta native, Jennifer Drinkwater is an artist, an associate professor of art & visual culture and the community arts specialist for extension and outreach at Iowa State University. Jennifer explores how we bring artwork from the studio into the world, and how art-making can both build and shape community. Over the years, she's created installations in restored prairies in Nebraska; collaborated on public art projects in vacant sites on Iowa main streets; spearheaded a community knit-bombing project; painted murals with middle school children on a juke joint in the Mississippi Delta and in Perry, Iowa; and written free toolkits about these projects. Jennifer's also the creator of The What's Good Project, which celebrates the meaningful stories from where we live through community conversations and painting. Although she's spent one year of her life living in tents, Jennifer currently resides with her husband and dog in an almost tiny house in Ames, Iowa.
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Cheryl Gates | Perry
Shuffle Designs Studio
FB: Shuffle Designs Studio
IG: shuffle_designs_
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I am a midwest girl who grew up in Indiana and earned a Bachelor's of Fine Art from Ball State University. My art is very much inspired by the flowers, lighting and landscape of the midwest, as well as the lighting and colors of the west and south. My medium is the modern medium of digital art, specifically digital watercolor and digital gouache using my iPad Pro and an Apple Pencil and a brush designed for painting on the iPad. My creative drive is to create art that is cheerful and brings people joy and helps them to see the details of the world around them.
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Leslie Leavenworth | West Des Moines
Leslie Leavenworth Art
FB: Leslie Leavenworth Art
IG: leavenworthleslie
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Leslie Leavenworth is an intuitive painter in pursuit of excellence around images that invite others into a place of peace. You will find her in her studio or on location in Iowa creating paintings of landscapes, people, still lifes and most recently, abstracts. |
Bruce W Litterer | Shell Rock
FB: brucewlittererartist
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Bruce is a self-trained artist known for his amazingly detailed colored pencil drawings of Iowa farm life and wildlife. Bruce's art is a blending of prisma colored pencils with odorless turpentine to create a watercolor background with two to four layers of colored pencils on top of each other throughout the drawing.
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Kristy Niemeyer | Norwalk
PAPERimages
IG: Kristy's Art Explosions
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Kristy Niemeyer is a graphic artist entering the ‘someday’ phase of her life. After 40 years of creating graphics for others, dreaming of someday painting ‘that painting,’ she is discovering the art of her soul. Her artwork now is an outward expression of the joy exploding and bubbling up from within. Working mainly in watercolor and sometimes adding ink, Kristy follows a trail of curiosity: making an observation, wondering about what captivated her attention, doing a bit of research, and discovering delight – something worth expressing. When the results touch another’s heart, a circle of three hearts is complete.
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Louise O'Donnell | Ames
FB: Louise O'Donnell
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I work in pastels, watercolor and occasionally oil. I like to paint scenes of Iowa and its people. I graduated from Iowa State and lived throughout the country pursuing a career in design and merchandising for catalogs. I returned to Iowa with the goal of painting again and I have! |
Shawn Palek | Slater
Palek Studio
IG: Obishawnkenobi1
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Shawn is an airbrush artist that specializes in custom artwork for clients and paints pop culture images in the studio. |
Betsy Peterson
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Art has always been a part of Betsy, with early expression naturally spilling out as she experienced the world around her. Following a formal art education at University of Iowa, Betsy taught elementary art before home-schooling her two sons. Inspiration was everywhere and Betsy continued to express what she experienced in soft-sculpted figures with twig limbs, paintings and drawings.
With bright colors, whimsical figures, and meaningful words, Betsy’s art draws from her soul. Her love of words, color, and childlike spontaneity pour into each piece creating art that inspires generosity, gratitude and joy. Beyond the gallery, Betsy has created award-winning pieces, commissioned work, and public art with the talent and heart that are a part of each project she pursues. |
Barb Thompson | Cedar Rapids
Barb Thompson Art & Design
FB: bthompson.artwork
IG: bthompson.artwork
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Barb Thompson is an artist who specializes in watercolor & acrylic painting and loves to study florals and vegetation. Her aim is to capture blooms and colors for year round enjoyment of botanicals. She paints from photographs of her own garden and plants, as well as bouquets she curates from local floral shops. Through still life compositions, she strives to capture botanic life as a reflection of emotional memories. Plants are a standard in life’s big and small ceremonies. Her goal is to produce relatable artwork that inspires remembrance of an experience. This moment may be as simple as creating (or enjoying) the ruby tartness of rhubarb crisp. Growing up in the Midwest, she has learned to immerse herself in each season and enjoy the botanicals as they bloom and change with the weather. She resides in Cedar Rapids with her husband and two children. Barb also has a background in graphic design for print applications.
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Diane Tough | West Des Moines
Diane Tough Fine Art
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Artist Diane Tough received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Art from Central College in Pella, Iowa. She taught art in the Des Moines School District for two years before a career in computers at the State of Iowa and then IBM. Upon retiring from IBM, Diane resumed her interest in art and has studied with various artists in pastel, oils and watercolors.
Medium: Pastel; acrylic; oil; watercolor Subjects: Landscapes, People Style: Representational and Abstraction |
Tanya Wilhite
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I am a contemporary, impressionist painter inspired by nature, light, color and emotion. I paint in acrylic, oil and pastel on a variety of surfaces. I have also dabbled in mixed media resin beach art on wood panels. I began my creative journey when I was a young child in small town, rural Iowa at my grandmother’s ceramic shop. I have fond memories of watching my grandmother paint ceramics with the greatest attention to detail. I especially remember her painting eyes that pierce the soul. I want to make a positive impact in the world through my art. Art, like music for me, is critical to life. It takes you away to a place that allows time to stop and you can focus on that exact moment. I want my paintings to lift people up and provide a bright spot in their day and give them space to feel whatever emotions exist. There are days when getting started is a challenge. Both in life and art. When I begin with a positive outlook, I am constantly surprised at the unexpected difference one stroke can make in a painting. Life is similar; take one step at a time. As I learn, grow and become more intentional with my strokes in my paintings, I also learn and grow to be more intentional to live every day to the fullest. There is so much beauty in our world if we pause long enough to take it in and appreciate it. I create art to capture those beautiful moments in time and to fill souls.
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Kelsey Wilson | Nevada
Kelsey Wilson Studio
FB: KelseyWilsonStudio
IG: kelseywilson.art
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The artist employs a variety of watercolor techniques to explore botanical subjects. Each is composed to activate positive and negative spaces. The artist accurately describes the forms and textures that tell each plant’s unique story. Subjects are chosen in the spirit of environmental stewardship.
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Jill Woodward | Dallas Center
IG: jillwoodwardart
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Art is my path to creating a world of beauty, peace and serenity. I paint children engaged in the simple pleasures of childhood. Scenes are frequently set in mid-western landscapes of sunshine, blue skies, green grass or snow. Childhood intrigues me as a fleeting opportunity to be genuine and authentic, a time when mindfulness is natural and self-consciousness does not exist. This child-like way of being presents itself as a comfortable, easy-going charm that delights me!
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