C.W. Nave
C.W. Nave has a passion for painting the landscape. She works mainly on location all over the southeast USA, mostly in Kentucky. She can be found along the roadways and in parks creating small paintings.
Your favorite art is appreciated especially if your favorite artist is an award winner who has been judged favorably by her peers. Nave has been voted five times Artist of the Year in Kentucky. She also won the top painting award in the American Academy of Equine Art 20th year retrospective show.
Nave concentrates her work now on series of horses of the bible, a non-exhaustible source of inspiration, and landscapes. Her work is in private and corporate collections worldwide.
Dan McGrath
As a child my school notebooks featured drawings in the margins. I spent my professional career in computers and retired in 2001 to pursue a lifelong interest in art. I have studied with Mary Neely, Larry Wheeler, Booth Malone, Jay Moore and with Yvonne Todd for 5 years. They have been an enormous help and encouragement. Always interested in the outdoors, hiking and canoeing, I was drawn to landscape painting. It presents so many opportunities and challenges.
I am interesting in depicting the nearby but seldom seen locales, the streams, gorges and fields of Central Kentucky. My purpose is to convey the solitude, peace and contentment I feel when painting plein air. The constant changes in light and weather are an artistic challenge but also a real joy and realization that you cannot be a landscape painter without experiencing the spiritual in all of creation.
Joe Anna Arnett
Joe Anna Arnett was born in Jacksonville, a small town in the lush forests of East Texas, Arnett knew she would spend her life as an artist. There was never any doubt, only a detour and even that was in commercial art.
She graduated from the University of Texas, earning a B.F.A. then she moved to New York and eventually became Senior Art Director for Young; Rubicam Advertising working on such accounts as Merrill Lynch and People Magazine. In New York, she continued her fine art studies at the Art Student’s League.
In 1984 Arnett moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 1985 she married artist James Asher and they began their adventures of travel and painting throughout the world. She has exhibited at the Albuquerque Museum of Fine Arts, The Colorado Historical Society becoming a Master at the Artists in America Show in 1997, The Tucson Museum of Fine Arts, the Cincinnati Museum Center, and Art Asia in Hong Kong. She has participated in Prix de West Invitational Exhibition and the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum since 1996.
Arnett has been featured in numerous art magazines and has authored “Painting Sumptuous Vegetables, Fruits and Flowers in Oil” which was published in 1998. The book went into the second printing in 1999 as well as a Chinese language edition that same year.
For the past 12 years, Arnett has enjoyed sharing her love of painting and the techniques she has acquired with students in workshops held throughout the U.S. as well as Canada, Italy, France and Ireland. Working from life, either on location or from the flowers in her own garden, Arnett presents her subjects with a passion and reverence for the Creator of the originals.
Line’ Tutwiler
Line’ Tutwiler was born in Riverside, California and lived there until her family moved to the Midwest. Tutwiler studied at the American Academy of Art in Chicago in the early 1970’s. She has devoted her life to the love of family, faith and her interpretation of the beauty that surrounds her and inspires her, especially the beautiful effects of light and shadow to be found in America’s neighborhoods and street scenes, including those of New England in the floral glory of summer.
Tutwiler paints in both oil and watercolor. She has painted in such exhibits as the Oil Painters of America Exhibition in Chicago, Women’s Miniature Painting Show in Southport MD, and Top 100 participants in Arts for the Parks in Jackson WY. She has also received such awards as Amie B. Davis Memorial Award and the Chesterton Women’s Art Award.
Silvia Davis
My development as a sculptor evolved from a keen interest in realism and a strong alliance with past classical sculptural traditions. The process of direct observation has always been the most natural and sensuous way of working for me. My sculptures resolve in a realistic fashion as a direct result of a genuine desire to find out how the subject actually appears to me.
My images to animals exist not only as character portraits, but as symbols that embrace heroic qualities. My job as an artist is to reveal and give credit to their complexity, their grace, integrity and individuality as beings and their capacity for understanding.
Davis received her B.F.A. and her M.F.A. in sculpture from the University of Utah. In 1983 she received the North American Sculpture Award in Golden Colorado.
Vivian Jendzio
Vivian Jendzio’s paintings reflect movement and the energies of life and force. Painting and drawing are automatically entwined with each other, which is intuitive through feeling and sensitivity of the subject matter.
Jendzio’s award- winning work has been exhibited throughout the United States. She has degrees in Fine Art and in Physical Education which translates into a kinetic expression in her artwork. Combining the use of paint, and drawing Jendzio creates vibrant tensions while the
underlying images and motion shows through.
Jendzio's artwork has won numerous awards, and has been shown in prestigious exhibitions. Her artwork paintings and drawings are in numerous collections private and corporate and is represented with many galleries where she is known for her expressive large mixed media works.
Yvonne Todd
Growing up I read every horse book I could put my hands on - particularly anything illustrated by Paul Brown or Sam Savitt. Then I saw George Ford Morris’ book “Portraits of Horses” $40! I couldn’t afford it. I had just started my savings account but I took down a general address and wrote a letter. Somehow it made it to the correct people and they wrote back saying to send $12 and the book would arrive in two weeks. My mother was furious - it would wipe out my savings, but I insisted. I still have that book. The glistening coats and the fire in the eyes of those horses still send a message - get the eyes right or the rest of the painting is lost. Chardin, Sargeant, Lucy Kemp Welch, Rosa Bonheur and others have also influenced my work.
College was frustrating. As a realist painter in an art department gone mad with abstraction, I was a total misfit. Realistic animals, particularly horses, and landscapes weren’t considered worthy subjects. I still strive to learn and improve, painting as much as I can. Workshops with Jean Bowman, Sam Savitt, Steve Sawyer and a Master Class with John Seerey-Lester and Scott Christensen along with lots of museum touring provide a solid base on which to expand.
I have been fortunate to be juried into shows across the country and have won awards but the real satisfaction comes from the expressions and comments when people view my work or see the commissioned portrait for the first time. To hear “Oh, it looks just like her!” or “You really captured her expression!” means everything.
Yvonne lives in Kentucky, breeding, raising and racing Thoroughbreds with her husband. Her horses are often featured in her work along with her dogs and cats.
