I create my own canvasses with different combinations of wood carvings with canvas and sculpting with lapidary. Occasionally, I throw in photography for some spice. People ask me what is your media? my answer is anything I can get my hands on. I see art in everything. The challange is reproducing the works of the greatest artist ever Mother Nature, with a human twist on it.

Category: painter, sculpture
Discipline: self-taught, mentored by Mother Nature
Subject: the beauty of this earth

Mailing Address:
Candice Weber
10907 Arroyo Circle
Salida, Colorado 81201

Phone: 719-539-5298
Email: onejudygmsncom

Leaf Me Alone - Carving/Canvas - 37" x 25" - $150

Hummingbird - Wood Carving - 26" x 25" - $125

Ceremonial - Wood carving inlaid with Turquiose - 15" x 11" - $75

Horsin' Around - Canvas - 36" x 12" - $100

Babies - Canvas - 24" x 14" - $100

Lookin' Out - Canvas - 24" x 14" - $75

Heart - Canvas - 20" x 17" - $50

Nature's Windows - Agate Stones - various sizes - $15-$35

Artist Summary:

Category: Visual Artists
Discipline: Painting, drawing, sculpture

Mailing Address:
Gilmore Vanstone, Jr.
307 W. 12th St.
Salida
Colorado, 81201-1913

Phone: 1-719-539-2136
Email: gilmorevanstonebresnannet

Malu Castro

Artist Summary: I’m a psychologist and Art therapist. I was born in Colombia, but I lived in Paraguay and Argentina for many years. I live with my husband Justin and our dog Lola up in the mountains of Cotopaxi, CO.

My art is about color and nature. I work on recycled wood and I like to create strong color contrasts and let the color mix freely. I also make carvings.

Category: Visual Artist
Discipline: Painting and woodworking
Subject: Abstract

Website Address: www.colorfulideas.blogspot.com

Mailing Address:
Malu Castro
PO Box 271
3380 County Road 16
Cotopaxi, CO, 81223

Phone: 719-942-4471
Email: malucphotmailcom

"Aspens with Yellow Birds" Acrylic on wood

"The Yellow Birds" Acrylic on wood

Malu Castro

Ted Fish

Artist Summary: When Ted realized that if he did not start creating art, he never would, he began his experimentation with clay. After Ted received a BFA with a concentration in ceramics (his second useless degree, the first is a BA in political science), Ted began sculpting heads in clay and other mediums.

All of the work result from his interest in the power of primitive and ancient sculptures and how such sculptures connect the meditative and contemplative mind. Images from 30,000 years of art in places throughout the world, such as Egypt, South America, Africa, and Polynesia are connected with real life experiences. Sculpting objects allows me to find in an interior space a response beyond the intellect, an emotional reaction. It is creating life out of nothing.

Several of his works are included in Lark Books 2004 publication, 500 Figures in Clay. He won the Laguna Clay Award at the “Colorado Clay Exhibition, 2003”, Foothills Art Center. Mr. Fish has been juried into several other exhibitions including “James Surls Juried Sculpture Exhibit,” Red Brick Art Center, Aspen, CO, July 2009; “21st International Juried Show”, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, 2007; “Colorado Art Open 2005 and 2009,” Foothills Art Center; “St. Petersburg Clay National 2003,” Florida; “Origins in Clay III,” San Antonio Potters Guild, Texas; and “Annual Face to Face,” The STAGE Gallery, Massapequa, NY. In October 2005 Mr. Fish’s solo show, “Where Words Stop” was held at the Lakewood Cultural Center in Colorado.

Category: Sculpture and Painting

Discipline: Clay and Acrylic Paint

Website Address: tedfishart.com

Mailing Address:
Ted Fish
PO Box 1423
Salida, CO 81201

Phone: 719.207.3890

Email: lfish647msncom

"Cipher" - Ferrikued Ceramic with shards

"Red Monk" - Ferrikued Ceramic.

"Hugh" - Acrylic on Canvas

Artist Summary: I am a newcomer to Salida, having been here just since 2009. My primary art is jewelry and I have painted, drawn, and sculpted for many years. Art is a second career after many years as a computer engineer.

I am on the board of Salida Artwalk, serving as the treasurer. I also serve on the board of Colorado Metalsmiths Association.

Category: 3D art

Discipline: Metal jewelry

Subject: contemporary

Website Address: www.marstal.com

Mailing Address:
Judy Staby Hoch
7703 Meadowlark Lane
Salida CO 812014

Phone: 719.539.5494

Email: judymarstalcom

Working as Mz. Allaneus Designs, she creates furniture, railings, lighting, tile work, signage, hardware, sculpture, and garden art, using metal, clay, glass, wood and found objects.

Category: Visual Arts

Discipline: Sculpture, Architecture, Ceramics, Fine Arts, Fine Crafts

Subject: non-representational, patterns found in nature, landscape, and human form

Website Address: MzAllaneus.com or TammyGrubisha.com

Mailing Address:
Tammy Grubisha
7485 County Rd 150
Salida, CO 81201

Phone: 719-539-2991

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Dan Cassidy

Artist Summary: I am a bladesmith and forge knives. All of my work is sole authorship. I have attained a juried rating of Journeyman Smith in the American Bladesmith Society. I am currently working on my Master Smith rating.

I am on the Board of Directors for the American Bladesmith Society and the Webmaster for the organization. We have members on six continents and are a 501C3 non profit organization.

American Bladesmith Society Inc.

Category: Visual Arts

Discipline: Bladesmithing

Website Address: www.americanbladesmith.com

Mailing Address:
Dan Cassidy
9675 County Road 156
Salida, Colorado 81201

Phone: 719-539-1033

Email: mountainfireforgeearthlinknet

Black Walnut Bowie

Knives by Dan Cassidy

The experience of living in South America (Bogota, Colombia) for approximately three and one-half years while I was young greatly affected my aesthetic vision.  My parents purchased clothing and decorative items made by the native South American people which had a great primitive and pre-Columbian influence on me.  I still have some of these items and refer to them for artistic inspiration.  Having spent most of my life in Colorado, I have also been greatly influenced and inspired by the arts and crafts of the native people of the American West and Southwest.

At the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia I learned many technical skills to apply to my art while also being exposed to the broad arena of  the evolution and development of  my art and myself as a person (which are inseparable).  Living and studying art in Philadelphia also greatly influenced the aesthetic and contextual aspects of my art.

The materials I use in my work are quite varied.  I am very interested in combining materials of differing colors, textures, and characters.  I often use found objects as springboards for my work.  While many of my pieces are attempts at simply creating interesting visual forms by combining differing materials and images, I find my work increasingly relates my own life experiences and concerns.

Category: Fine Arts
Discipline: Mixed Media (sculptural)

Website Address: See me on Facebook or Gallery Kay

Mailing Address:
Kay L. Litz
528 W. 2nd Street
Salida, CO  81201

Phone: 719-221-0713
Email: kaylitzyahoocom

Cortina del Bosque by Kay Litz

Azul by Kay Litz

Website Address: www.strawn-art.com, www.melsbrush.blogspot.com

Mailing Address:
Bernice Strawn
8905 HIghway 285
Salida, CO 81201

Phone: 719 539 2637
Email: melschaffeenet

Category: Visual Arts, Fine Arts & Crafts

Discipline: Mixed Media, Assemblage, Collage, Photography,Altered Books

Subject: Bas relief images including silhouettes, the female form, spirituality, feminism

Website Address: www.tamaraherl.com

Mailing Address:
Tamara Herl
1400 CR 48
Howard, Colorado  81233

Phone: 719-221-0548

Email: coachtamaraherlcom