SalidaArtworks

Grant Pound,

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:55:37 +0000

Grant Pound, Founder of Colorado Art Ranch
Artist Summary: Founder of Colorado Art Ranch. Works in glass, paint, monotype, assemblage.

Category: Mixed Media

Website Address: www.coloradoartranch.org

Mailing Address:

Grant Pound
6878 Taft Court
Arvada, CO 80004

Phone: 303.279.5198
Email: grantcoloradoartranchorg

Mel Strawn

admin — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 01:56:40 +0000

Melvin Strawn (Mel Strawn) – painter, printmaker, photographer
Artist Summary: I am a retired art teacher (college & university), painter, printmaker, photographer. An image maker. I have for decades explored digital imaging-both photography and ‘original digital’ prints. Work continues in all media and conceptual realms, figurative and abstract.

Category: Visual arts
Discipline: Painting, printmaking, digital art, photography
Subject: abstract and figurative

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

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

Phone: 719 539 2637
Email: melschaffeenet

Christine Hallett

admin — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 01:54:38 +0000

Christine Hallett – nature photographer
Artist Summary: Nature Photographer – various forms of expression using my photos: framed, standout board, and gallery wrap.

Category: Visual Arts/ Photography

Mailing Address:
Christine Hallett
533 Blake Street
Salida, CO 81201

Phone: (719)207-3469
Email: beetlebug2000hotmailcom

Heidi Michel Bady

admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:38:06 +0000

Name: Heidi Michel Bady – Encaustic, Photography, Drawing, Mixed Media, Collage, SculptureArtist Summary: My graduate experience, while a great gift to have spent so much time with the best people I could have asked for, really messed up my actual art output for years following my graduate show. I ended doing things in school that were more angst-full than I acutally felt inside to please teachers that were trying to drag something wonderful out of me. Now while I appreciate the effort, I’m not sure what they were after were the same things that I was truely looking for. I can say, however, that my critique classes were a true learning experience and have served me well, not just in looking at art, but in learning about how I should look at life.
Enough years have passed that I can draw a bird and make something out of it that I think is beautiful – without hearing the words, decorative, derivative, dilettante…well almost.
Since leaving school, I have experimented with different media and have settled on layering different papers, photographs, and drawings in encaustic (a beeswax recipe) as a way to express myself.
I want to enjoy my own work, have it mean something to me, and hopefully have it touch at least one other person. This may be why the birds became such an important component in alot of these pieces. I started noticing all the birds in my life at a particular time, and that is when I started drawing and photographing them.
I do take my own photographs, and I also draw with pens and colored pencils from pictures online, from books, or from photos. I either use the original drawing, or scan them into photoshop so that I can change sizes and repeat patterns. I also reserve the right to color birds in a way that nature never intended.
Patterns and repetition have always been a way for me to express an idea, but I would use old books or other text and not my own voice. Something that is brand new for me is using pieces and parts of my sketchbook/journal in my own work. In the past I was always too afraid of putting myself out there in that way. But the filter is off now, for better or worse. And if it means that much to me, hopefully it will be well recieved.

White is a color and can be your favorite. It really is okay.

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Category: Visual Arts

Discipline: Encaustic, Photography, Drawing, Mixed Media, Collage, Sculpture

Subject: Landscape, Wildlife, Human Form

Website Address: www.heidimichel.com

Mailing Address:
Heidi Michel Bady
Salida, CO

Phone: 503.752.8431

Email: heidimichellivecom

Chuck Miller

admin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:35:28 +0000

Chuck Miller, Digital imaging of landscape, architectural, floral

Artist Summary: I used different forms and platforms starting with 4″ x 5″ Speed Graphic and 35mm Voightlander in my High School Camera Club. Later, a Leica then moved into high-end 35mm Nikon SLR with darkroom work in both color and black & white. Nikonos for underwater work. My favorite film was always Panatomic-X with Diafine.

In college, I minored in Fine Art and Architecture at NYU; studied photo composition at the Museum of Modern Art

Former member of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, Frick Collection and the Guggenheim

Dabbled in Digital Photography until fully committing to Digital in 2008

Currently involved with HDRi digital “darkroom” work

Category: Photography

Discipline: Digital Imaging

Subject: Landscape, Architectural, Floral

Website Address: libertynetworkDesign.com

Mailing Address:
Chuck Miller
P.O.Box 512
Salida CO 81201

Phone: 719.221.1454

Email: libertynetworkDesigngmailcom

Carl Bork

admin — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:34:22 +0000

Carl Bork, traditional oil painter

Artist Summary: I’m a traditional oil painter specializing in painting impressionistic landscapes, portraits, and still lifes done from life or outdoors (en plein air).

Category: Visual Arts

Discipline: Painting

Subject: Landscapes, Portraits, Still Lifes

Website Address: carlbork.com

Mailing Address:
Carl Bork
149 W. First St
Salida, CO 81201

Phone: 216-409-3679

Email: carlborkarthotmailcom

Stephen Smalzel

admin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:50:22 +0000

Stephen Smalzel, landscape painter

Artist Summary: I am a landscape painter for the most part – s ometimes traditional, sometimes not. I also run and play the banjo, and on occasion will paint a car or other available object in need of seasoning.

Category: painter

Discipline: paint

Subject: nature

Website Address: smalzel.com

Mailing Address:
Stephen Smalzel
PO box 651
Salida Co, 81201

Phone: 303-917-9666

Email: allhailstevehotmailcom

Rita Leydon

Sue — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:57:30 +0000

Rita Leydon, I currently make documentary videos (DVD) focusing on mature masters and tradition bearers within the Swedish folk music genre.

Artist Summary: I have been active as an illustrator and graphic designer for many years, plus I am also a weaver and spinner. For fun I play nyckelharpa and dance Swedish gammaldans and bygdedans. My husband and I also demonstrate nyckelharpa and teach Swedish dancing on occasion, sometimes we even play for the dancing. We moved to Salida in May of 2010 and will take a year off to build our home 10 miles west of town.

Website Address: www.ritaleydon.com

Mailing Address:
PO Box 637
Poncha Springs
CO 81242

Phone: 215-205-9105

Email: ritaritaleydoncom

Tamara Herl

Sue — Wed, 26 May 2010 15:14:55 +0000

Tamara Herl, I create mixed media assemblages.Often I use my images as a tool for social activism, in the hopes of inspiring people to become empowered by connecting with their Inner Wisdom. I have a bachelor’s degree in art education, and a master’s in art therapy. I am a registered teacher, a registered/board certified art therapist, and a certified art coach. My hobbies are photography and hiking.

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
PO Box 36
Poncha Springs
CO 81242

Phone: 719-539-2061

Email: coachtamaraherlcom

Christine Marie Davis

Sue — Wed, 19 May 2010 02:02:46 +0000

Christine Marie Davis, I create sculpture and jewelry with found objects and tactile materials.

Artist Summary: Working with old junk, bones, relics, tools, and cabinets, I add soft materials such as fur, hair, rubber and wax. What evolves is an invented object that hovers between abstract and representational. I especially like unexpected twists and surprises that give new meanings to familiar things.

Category: Visual Artist

Discipline: Sculpture, Jewelry, Fine Arts, Fine Crafts

Subject: surrealistic figures, abstract, strange creatures, feminist statements

Website Address: tactileart.com

Mailing Address:
Christine Marie Davis
PO Box 87
Howard, Co 81233

Phone: 719-207-3644

Email: christactileartcom