2024 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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Nancy Carlson | Ankeny
Nancy Carlson Expressions
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I create primarily floral art based on photographs from my garden. I enjoy the colors found in nature and am amazed at the variety. I want people to smiled when they see one of my pieces and feel like it's always spring/summer in their home. I have been experimenting with painting on 2 and 3 panes of glass to create depth to my pieces. The past year I've painted more bicycle pieces and have been challenged with wedding portraits. These are typically commissioned pieces. Everything is upcycled; frames, vases, glasses and blocks. I'm saving one piece at a time from the landfill.
A paint pen is used to draw the design then acrylic paint applied to the reverse side of glass in frames and the outside of 3-dimensional items such as vases and glasses. The 3-d items are baked and finished for use. |
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. |
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. |
Autumn Rozario Hall
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Autumn Rozario Hall is a Latina painter, dreamer, mother, and sharer of stories. She lives and works in Des Moines, Iowa. She is a recipient of two Community Art Grants from the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation and is working within the rewilding movement, blending art with environmental outreach in the form of gallery shows, native plant workshops, and writing. Her paintings have been shown in art galleries throughout the U.S. including four solo shows as well as group shows in Brooklyn, Portland, San Diego, and Nashville. She enjoys engaging with her local art community in Des Moines. Through her work she seeks to share a sense of wonder and create art that inspires and uplifts. Her acrylic and mixed media paintings explore story and human connectivity to nature.
In my paintings I use flowers, leaves, seed pods, and other bits of nature for reference. I collage book pages, lace, insect wings, tissue paper, and found objects into the substrate of the piece and paint into it to create a layered painting. I paint on a variety of surfaces including up-cycled panels, canvas, heavy paper, and cradle wood. My paintings focus on the idea of finding wonder, and a personal connection to nature. They often contain figures and animals immersed in the landscapes around them. They act upon the environment, as it in turn, acts upon them, symbolizing the inextricable connection between person, earth, and the process of growth. |
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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