Art Gallery
Our Showroom is filled with wonderful art from the artists below.
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AMY LAY
Oil Paint and Pencil on Canvas
Vibrancy, a sense of looseness and a comfortable nontraditional style are all ways in which Amy’s Paintings have been described.
Residing in and drawing inspiration from mountain hideaways in Wyoming and the Wallowa Mountains of Northeastern Oregon, Amy fosters an intimate love and fascination for the animals, wildlife and ecology surrounding her. Primarily self-taught but grateful for her Art Degree from Eastern Oregon University, Amy’s career has evolved from childhood dream to strong reality.
Read Full BioTREVOR SWANSON
Working with Oil on Metals
Acclaimed by critics and collectors alike, Trevor V. Swanson is one of the most gifted and promising wildlife artists in the world today. Coming from a long line of talented artists, Trevor is a brilliant example of inspired talent passing from one generation to another. Trevor started painting at a very young age. Almost intuitively, he acquired an appreciation for the realism detail and value systems essential to wildlife rendering. Through patient study, he further mastered the technical skills needed to create truly outstanding works of art.
Read Full BioBRYCE PETTIT
Wildlife Bronze Sculptor
Bryce grew up surrounded by nature. His deep love for the world around him and his desire to create art have always been closely linked. When he entered college, he studied biology and the natural sciences followed by graduate studies in ecology. Eventually his passion for art became undeniable and he focused full time on an art career.
Read Full BioSUE KRZYSTON
Native American Oil Paintings
Surrounded in her home by the Native American Indian artifacts that she collects and paints, Sue Krzyston believes that these objects represent the “soul” of the people who create them. “I strive to capture that feeling on canvas by using the nuance and essence of an object and utilize the effects of light and shadow to depict the beautiful and varied textures of each item that I select for my compositions. Light is so important in making the artifacts relate to each other. I try to make the inanimate objects come alive in the glowing warmth of the light.
Read Full BioJANE WORD
Leather Pillows
AXTON GIDDINGS
MARI GIDDINGS & JOE AXTON
“In our work together, we make dimensional paintings- mixing media, genre & technologies using metals, metallic paints, glass, wood, clay, ink, paper, oxidation & tarnish. Part of the challenge for us often involves taking inherently unstable, “accidental” materials- such as gold tarnish- and making them stable, archival & purposeful. Consequently, our work studies change, emphemerality, the nature of collaboration, the interplay of male and female, and the elements of perception.”
For the initial ten years of their marriage, Mari & Joe Giddings-Axton maintained separate studios & signatures. Their son, David (1998), was their first officially collaborative work. Mari studied painting with Meryl Mahaffey before finishing her degree under master printers Wayne Kimball and Dan Britton at Arizona State University’s world-renowned printmaking program. After graduation, she served a three-year apprenticeship with painter-printmaker Robert A. Devoe, who, she says, “taught me, finally, that art could simply be about beauty.” She adds, “I see myself primarily as a colorist, in the tradition of Matisse, Bennard, Turner, and Rothko.”
Joe began his art career as a scene designer and stage painter, bringing, he feels, three-dimensionality and theatricality to the Giddings-Axton collaboration. “Plus,” he says, “a sense of audience and purpose that a classical art education often forgets.” Joe studied at Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz & Northern Arizona University, and did his doctoral work in art theory at the City University of New York.
Giddings-Axton artworks can be found in numerous private & corporate collections, including ASU Permanent Collections, Target Corporate Collection, Southwest Airlines Corporate Collection, & the Disneyland Hotel. They are represented by galleries in Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York.