Fine Art

STATEMENT
Growing up, flowers bloomed wild and untamed in the pastures at my family’s farm and in my mother’s garden. Eighteen years later, at my father’s funeral, flowers became a symbol of love and memorial. Flowers represent nature’s beauty, memory, and love.
Nature is a source of solace and a reminder of individual strength. My drawings present nature in the form of abundant flower blooms, rendered exclusively in Prismacolor colored pencils and spread across large sheets of paper. Each drawing depicts only one kind of flower. The flowers are repeated in varying sizes and from differing vantage points until the myriad flowers begin to exist together.
The drawings are built-up and discovered over time, somewhat unpredictably. They are composed of small crosshatched areas that begin in a localized region on the paper and are replicated, expanding in all directions from the point of origin. Size and direction of the crosshatches influences which way the composition will grow. In a sense, each drawing is an endurance project of marks advancing across the paper. The more time spent on the drawing the more realized and exposed the composition becomes. These drawings motivate the creation of themselves. My drawings embody how family and nature have impacted my life.

BIOGRAPHY
Zoe Linn Jarvis was born in 1993 in Seoul, Korea. As a Korean adoptee raised in the United States, Jarvis fully identifies as both American and Korean. She holds a BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and   continues her pursuit of fifteen-plus years as a classical pianist. As a passionate and driven artist and musician, Zoe emphasizes the importance of a strong work ethic to fuel progress in her various professional and personal practices.

STATEMENT
Art in it's truest form shows the person making it their beauty and relation to the moment. Art lets us be aware in the creation. When we share art with others it becomes electric. Art promotes our basic instinctual element to be playful and become one with our surroundings.
I approach my art with a vigorous free flow. I work on several at a time. I am interested in how physical objects, poetic abstract forms and emotion spaces communicate making visual corridors. My inspiration comes from the process. In all my art: painting, sculpture, drawing and assemblage, I hope to convey a sincere and instinctive sight.
I like to make colorful oil painting abstractions. Images of people and landscapes present themselves, become characters and starting reference points to complex narratives and visual questions. I am interested in creating a visual language, answering the notion of what is and what is not. The themes of my paintings range from beauty, music, catharsis, social injustice, community, dreams, nature and time. I hope you enjoy.

BIOGRAPHY
Daithi was born in the United States (1972). He was awarded at a young age for his artistic talent. He has studied at The University of Wisconsin, The Art Students League of New York City and, through The Pratt Institute of Art, in Lucca, Italy. While in Lucca, his studio was located in the Cathedral Santa Maria Bianca.
He has exhibited in museums, galleries, universities and city centers across North America, Ireland, Italy and Argentina. Daithi has taught art in many surrounding; such as The McColl Center for the Visual Arts in Charlotte, NC. Save the World Project in Kathmandu, Nepal. Nimbus Arts in Napa Valley, California and most recently as Artist in Residence at The Goodman Community Center in Madison, Wisconsin. His art can be found in many private, public and corporate collections.

STATEMENT
This work is a study of how nature and power rhyme. These are snapshots of what is under the surface: seductive gardens, playgrounds, sensual and scary things…. some frightening. Are they microscopic or large enough to climb inside?  You are invited in to explore and play.
Process Remarks:
This work is digital.... I use CAD [computer-aided-design] software, fractal software, painting software and digital photography to show you what we don't pay attention to. Some of the work is printed on aluminum via photographic process, some printed on metallic film and bonded to the reverse side of clear Plexiglas. Some pieces are printed at high resolution on smooth paper and teased with acrylic. Craftsmanship counts. 

BIOGRAPHY
Education:
BFA Painting, University of Illinois, Highest Honors 1973
Listed:
Who's Who in American Art (Cattell Press) 1976-
Instructor/Lecturer:
Rock Valley College, Rockford Il 1975-1978
Rockford College, Rockford Il 1976
University of Miami (Visiting Lecturer) Miami Fl 1977
Awards:
1989 Air Brush Digest Annual
1984 Art Institute Juried Biennial Spires, Chicago 
1982,1975 Illinois Professional Exhibition, Springfield, Illinois 
1981 Illinois Arts Council Purchase Award, Chicago
1980 Rock Island Juried, Rock Island, Illinois 
1980 Beloit Juried, Beloit, Wisconsin
1976 1st Prize, Union League Juried, Chicago
1975 39th Butler National, Ohio
1975 Mainstreams 75, Marietta, Ohio
Selected Corporate and Public Collections:
Container Corporation of America
Borg Warner, Chicago, Illinois
Bank of Wisconsin, Janesville, Wisconsin
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts
Hope College, Holland, Michigan

STATEMENT
This work is a study of how nature and power rhyme. These are snapshots of what is under the surface: seductive gardens, playgrounds, sensual and scary things…. some frightening. Are they microscopic or large enough to climb inside?  You are invited in to explore and play.
Process Remarks:
This work is digital.... I use CAD [computer-aided-design] software, fractal software, painting software and digital photography to show you what we don't pay attention to. Some of the work is printed on aluminum via photographic process, some printed on metallic film and bonded to the reverse side of clear Plexiglas. Some pieces are printed at high resolution on smooth paper and teased with acrylic. Craftsmanship counts. 

BIOGRAPHY
Education:
BFA Painting, University of Illinois, Highest Honors 1973
Listed:
Who's Who in American Art (Cattell Press) 1976-
Instructor/Lecturer:
Rock Valley College, Rockford Il 1975-1978
Rockford College, Rockford Il 1976
University of Miami (Visiting Lecturer) Miami Fl 1977
Awards:
1989 Air Brush Digest Annual
1984 Art Institute Juried Biennial Spires, Chicago 
1982,1975 Illinois Professional Exhibition, Springfield, Illinois 
1981 Illinois Arts Council Purchase Award, Chicago
1980 Rock Island Juried, Rock Island, Illinois 
1980 Beloit Juried, Beloit, Wisconsin
1976 1st Prize, Union League Juried, Chicago
1975 39th Butler National, Ohio
1975 Mainstreams 75, Marietta, Ohio
Selected Corporate and Public Collections:
Container Corporation of America
Borg Warner, Chicago, Illinois
Bank of Wisconsin, Janesville, Wisconsin
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts
Hope College, Holland, Michigan

STATEMENT
This work is a study of how nature and power rhyme. These are snapshots of what is under the surface: seductive gardens, playgrounds, sensual and scary things…. some frightening. Are they microscopic or large enough to climb inside?  You are invited in to explore and play.
Process Remarks:
This work is digital.... I use CAD [computer-aided-design] software, fractal software, painting software and digital photography to show you what we don't pay attention to. Some of the work is printed on aluminum via photographic process, some printed on metallic film and bonded to the reverse side of clear Plexiglas. Some pieces are printed at high resolution on smooth paper and teased with acrylic. Craftsmanship counts. 

BIOGRAPHY
Education:
BFA Painting, University of Illinois, Highest Honors 1973
Listed:
Who's Who in American Art (Cattell Press) 1976-
Instructor/Lecturer:
Rock Valley College, Rockford Il 1975-1978
Rockford College, Rockford Il 1976
University of Miami (Visiting Lecturer) Miami Fl 1977
Awards:
1989 Air Brush Digest Annual
1984 Art Institute Juried Biennial Spires, Chicago 
1982,1975 Illinois Professional Exhibition, Springfield, Illinois 
1981 Illinois Arts Council Purchase Award, Chicago
1980 Rock Island Juried, Rock Island, Illinois 
1980 Beloit Juried, Beloit, Wisconsin
1976 1st Prize, Union League Juried, Chicago
1975 39th Butler National, Ohio
1975 Mainstreams 75, Marietta, Ohio
Selected Corporate and Public Collections:
Container Corporation of America
Borg Warner, Chicago, Illinois
Bank of Wisconsin, Janesville, Wisconsin
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts
Hope College, Holland, Michigan

STATEMENT
This work is a study of how nature and power rhyme. These are snapshots of what is under the surface: seductive gardens, playgrounds, sensual and scary things…. some frightening. Are they microscopic or large enough to climb inside?  You are invited in to explore and play.
Process Remarks:
This work is digital.... I use CAD [computer-aided-design] software, fractal software, painting software and digital photography to show you what we don't pay attention to. Some of the work is printed on aluminum via photographic process, some printed on metallic film and bonded to the reverse side of clear Plexiglas. Some pieces are printed at high resolution on smooth paper and teased with acrylic. Craftsmanship counts. 

BIOGRAPHY
Education:
BFA Painting, University of Illinois, Highest Honors 1973
Listed:
Who's Who in American Art (Cattell Press) 1976-
Instructor/Lecturer:
Rock Valley College, Rockford Il 1975-1978
Rockford College, Rockford Il 1976
University of Miami (Visiting Lecturer) Miami Fl 1977
Awards:
1989 Air Brush Digest Annual
1984 Art Institute Juried Biennial Spires, Chicago 
1982,1975 Illinois Professional Exhibition, Springfield, Illinois 
1981 Illinois Arts Council Purchase Award, Chicago
1980 Rock Island Juried, Rock Island, Illinois 
1980 Beloit Juried, Beloit, Wisconsin
1976 1st Prize, Union League Juried, Chicago
1975 39th Butler National, Ohio
1975 Mainstreams 75, Marietta, Ohio
Selected Corporate and Public Collections:
Container Corporation of America
Borg Warner, Chicago, Illinois
Bank of Wisconsin, Janesville, Wisconsin
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts
Hope College, Holland, Michigan

STATEMENT
Growing up, flowers bloomed wild and untamed in the pastures at my family’s farm and in my mother’s garden. Eighteen years later, at my father’s funeral, flowers became a symbol of love and memorial. Flowers represent nature’s beauty, memory, and love.
Nature is a source of solace and a reminder of individual strength. My drawings present nature in the form of abundant flower blooms, rendered exclusively in Prismacolor colored pencils and spread across large sheets of paper. Each drawing depicts only one kind of flower. The flowers are repeated in varying sizes and from differing vantage points until the myriad flowers begin to exist together.
The drawings are built-up and discovered over time, somewhat unpredictably. They are composed of small crosshatched areas that begin in a localized region on the paper and are replicated, expanding in all directions from the point of origin. Size and direction of the crosshatches influences which way the composition will grow. In a sense, each drawing is an endurance project of marks advancing across the paper. The more time spent on the drawing the more realized and exposed the composition becomes. These drawings motivate the creation of themselves. My drawings embody how family and nature have impacted my life.

BIOGRAPHY
Zoe Linn Jarvis was born in 1993 in Seoul, Korea. As a Korean adoptee raised in the United States, Jarvis fully identifies as both American and Korean. She holds a BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and   continues her pursuit of fifteen-plus years as a classical pianist. As a passionate and driven artist and musician, Zoe emphasizes the importance of a strong work ethic to fuel progress in her various professional and personal practices.

STATEMENT
With unlimited subject matter and constantly changing light and weather conditions, there is no studio like the outdoors. Mark Twain said that travel opens the mind. I find that it also opens the eyes and is a great creative stimulant. Painting on site, with all its challenges, is really the only way to fully experience the beauty of light, color and form in the natural world. The human eye is far more discerning and preceptive than the camera. Painting is, for me, a process through which I connect to nature, people and myself. Having the ability to translate what I see in the everyday world into a visual image that is both a personal narrative and can also create an emotional response in another person is a wonderful thing and my main reason to continue painting.

BIOGRAPHY
I have been working in watercolor for 40 something years and, to me, there is no other medium so varied in its possibilities of application. Watercolor in itself has the potential to bring brilliance to an image; what keeps me interested is learning how to allow that happen.
I have always loved to draw, even as a boy. I also loved the puzzle solving and design aspects of architecture. As a result, I pursued an architectural education until my second year of college when I decided that presentation drawings and color work were really what I loved to do. I shifted into fine arts with the intention of becoming an architectural illustrator. I completed my BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and I continued working in the architectural field until 1999, at that time, I was able to begin my second career as a architectural illustrator. Working primarily in watercolor, I continued to do illustration work for the next 15 years.
In 2014 I decided to give Plein Air painting a try and was very quickly taken with whole Plein Air art event scene, as much, due to the many wonderful and talented people I met along the way as with the painting itself. I am now happily working full-time as a plein air and studio artist.
Education:
University of Texas, Architecture and Fine Art
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Fine Art, Painting and Drawing
Influences:
Homer, Turner, Hopper, Sargeant, Yardley, Sego, Joe Zbukvic, Richard Sneary, Michael Reardon and Andy Evansen Thank you! 

STATEMENT
I have found that while doing a painting outdoors I am immersed in the moment. What I mean is that later when I look at the painting I can remember all the things that went on as I painted, the weather, the birds singing, a small animal moving through the scene, people who have stopped to talk to me. The memories are all part of the painting.

BIOGRAPHY
Thomas Buchs attended Layton School of Art and became an Illustrator, creating artwork for many national and local companies over a 42 year career. During summers he exhibited at Art Fairs, and also did Pastel Portraits.  
Recently he has concentrated on Plein Air Painting (painting from life outdoors). Much of his current work is representative of this discipline. He tries to capture the light and atmosphere of a scene within a few hours. he believes that a painting is not just a two dimensional illusion, but also that of a moment in life, captured by an artist on canvas. 
Thomas is a founding member of Wisconsin Plein Air Painters Association. The WIPAPA has been established as a state wide fellowship of artists dedicated to promoting and practicing the traditional discipline of Plein Air painting. Members seek to honestly interpret the natural and man-made beauty and diversity of Wisconsin's landscapes and culture. They strive to enhance member's skills and reputations by providing regular opportunities to paint outdoors together, and to critique each other's work  and share their expertise with fellow artists, in order to maintain the highest standards of the Plein Air painting tradition.

STATEMENT
This work is a study of how nature and power rhyme. These are snapshots of what is under the surface: seductive gardens, playgrounds, sensual and scary things…. some frightening. Are they microscopic or large enough to climb inside?  You are invited in to explore and play.
Process Remarks:
This work is digital.... I use CAD [computer-aided-design] software, fractal software, painting software and digital photography to show you what we don't pay attention to. Some of the work is printed on aluminum via photographic process, some printed on metallic film and bonded to the reverse side of clear Plexiglas. Some pieces are printed at high resolution on smooth paper and teased with acrylic. Craftsmanship counts. 

BIOGRAPHY
Education:
BFA Painting, University of Illinois, Highest Honors 1973
Listed:
Who's Who in American Art (Cattell Press) 1976-
Instructor/Lecturer:
Rock Valley College, Rockford Il 1975-1978
Rockford College, Rockford Il 1976
University of Miami (Visiting Lecturer) Miami Fl 1977
Awards:
1989 Air Brush Digest Annual
1984 Art Institute Juried Biennial Spires, Chicago 
1982,1975 Illinois Professional Exhibition, Springfield, Illinois 
1981 Illinois Arts Council Purchase Award, Chicago
1980 Rock Island Juried, Rock Island, Illinois 
1980 Beloit Juried, Beloit, Wisconsin
1976 1st Prize, Union League Juried, Chicago
1975 39th Butler National, Ohio
1975 Mainstreams 75, Marietta, Ohio
Selected Corporate and Public Collections:
Container Corporation of America
Borg Warner, Chicago, Illinois
Bank of Wisconsin, Janesville, Wisconsin
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts
Hope College, Holland, Michigan

STATEMENT
As painter my goal is simply to represent on canvas how I see the world. I'm fascinated with the shapes and rhythms of nature. I conceive of my paintings as a collection of interesting shapes that fit together, and with a little luck the end result can convey something of the sublime. I've worked directly from my subjects or “plein air” for 16 years, and strive for the work to express an empathy for the unique qualities of a landscape as simply as possible.

BIOGRAPHY
Richard Abraham was born and raised surrounded by the beauty of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. In 1998 he made the decision to leave a 14 year career as a designer and animator, and moved to Minneapolis to train in traditional oil painting techniques. He immersed himself in study: drawing and painting from the figure 5 days a week. He refined his craft while attending The Altelier, the Bougie Studio and H&P Studios.
During this time he painted landscapes on location or “plein air” for the first time and discovered a passion for the subtlety of nature. The challenge of working outdoors consumed him, and he hasn’t looked back. Seeking a connection and empathy to the places that he depicts, he scouts rural hide-a-ways to paint in Northern Minnesota, Wisconsin and Upper Michigan.

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Richard has participated in plein air events around the country including the Laguna Beach Invitational and at the Telluride Colorado Event, in 2009 was Awarded the Hiawatha Artist in Residence by the National Forest Service. His art has presented opportunities to travel the world, painting in Italy, Mexico, and Prince Edward Island to name a few. Richard is past president of The Outdoor Painters of Minnesota, exhibits his work extensively and is represented in numerous private collections.
Affiliations
The Oil Painters of America
Outdoor Painters of Minnesota
St. Paul Art Collective
NorthEast Minneapolis Art Association

 

STATEMENT
With unlimited subject matter and constantly changing light and weather conditions, there is no studio like the outdoors. Mark Twain said that travel opens the mind. I find that it also opens the eyes and is a great creative stimulant. Painting on site, with all its challenges, is really the only way to fully experience the beauty of light, color and form in the natural world. The human eye is far more discerning and preceptive than the camera. Painting is, for me, a process through which I connect to nature, people and myself. Having the ability to translate what I see in the everyday world into a visual image that is both a personal narrative and can also create an emotional response in another person is a wonderful thing and my main reason to continue painting.

BIOGRAPHY
I have been working in watercolor for 40 something years and, to me, there is no other medium so varied in its possibilities of application. Watercolor in itself has the potential to bring brilliance to an image; what keeps me interested is learning how to allow that happen.
I have always loved to draw, even as a boy. I also loved the puzzle solving and design aspects of architecture. As a result, I pursued an architectural education until my second year of college when I decided that presentation drawings and color work were really what I loved to do. I shifted into fine arts with the intention of becoming an architectural illustrator. I completed my BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and I continued working in the architectural field until 1999, at that time, I was able to begin my second career as a architectural illustrator. Working primarily in watercolor, I continued to do illustration work for the next 15 years.
In 2014 I decided to give Plein Air painting a try and was very quickly taken with whole Plein Air art event scene, as much, due to the many wonderful and talented people I met along the way as with the painting itself. I am now happily working full-time as a plein air and studio artist.
Education:
University of Texas, Architecture and Fine Art
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Fine Art, Painting and Drawing
Influences:
Homer, Turner, Hopper, Sargeant, Yardley, Sego, Joe Zbukvic, Richard Sneary, Michael Reardon and Andy Evansen Thank you! 

STATEMENT
I have found that while doing a painting outdoors I am immersed in the moment. What I mean is that later when I look at the painting I can remember all the things that went on as I painted, the weather, the birds singing, a small animal moving through the scene, people who have stopped to talk to me. The memories are all part of the painting.

BIOGRAPHY
Thomas Buchs attended Layton School of Art and became an Illustrator, creating artwork for many national and local companies over a 42 year career. During summers he exhibited at Art Fairs, and also did Pastel Portraits.  
Recently he has concentrated on Plein Air Painting (painting from life outdoors). Much of his current work is representative of this discipline. He tries to capture the light and atmosphere of a scene within a few hours. he believes that a painting is not just a two dimensional illusion, but also that of a moment in life, captured by an artist on canvas. 
Thomas is a founding member of Wisconsin Plein Air Painters Association. The WIPAPA has been established as a state wide fellowship of artists dedicated to promoting and practicing the traditional discipline of Plein Air painting. Members seek to honestly interpret the natural and man-made beauty and diversity of Wisconsin's landscapes and culture. They strive to enhance member's skills and reputations by providing regular opportunities to paint outdoors together, and to critique each other's work  and share their expertise with fellow artists, in order to maintain the highest standards of the Plein Air painting tradition.

STATEMENT
I have traveled many paths, and pursued many interests, but have found myself continually being pulled back to painting. Painting hasn’t been my job and certainly not my career, but it is the one constant in my life. It is my one and only vocation. I can choose to work or not, but I must paint.
Painting is not my primary income, which may be an odd thing for an artist to confess, but I like it that way. I very much enjoy keeping full ownership of my painting. I’m allowed to paint exactly what I want to paint, to try whatever creative idea I have without having to please anyone but myself. It’s very freeing experience and I find it keeps my work fresh and unique to me. I paint in the “alla prima” style of painting. I think the proper foundation of good draftsmanship is essential, but I allow myself plenty of space to paint broadly, quickly, intuitively and painterly.

BIOGRAPHY
As a vegetarian and animal activist, Patty Voje tries to use her art to bring awareness to her audience. She has been drawn to animals her whole life. Growing up she lived on a small hobby farm where she had a handful of pigs, sheep, horses, dogs and the occasional chicken. Animals, much like painting, fed her soul. Farm animals are often just thought of as a food source, and therefore, some find easy to mistreat. But, just like humans, they experience pain, fear, sorrow, and happiness. Her goal is to find those moments, and express them in her work.
She also enjoy getting outdoors, painting en plein air. Her goal for her plein air work is similar to her studio work. Work fast and capture the essence of the day. Whether it’s a breathtaking vista or humble view of a neighborhood alley, the goal is to capture the emotional response to scene. Nothing is more intoxicating than chasing light around a canvas.

Education
Patty studied Fine Art at the University of Minnesota and at the Atelier of Minneapolis. She earned her BFA degree at Metropolitan State University. She also studied with several prominent Minnesotan artists, including Joe Paquet, Richard Abraham, Michael Frey and Mary Pettis. She is an active member of American Institute for Graphic Artists and Outdoor Painter’s of Minnesota.

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Exhibitions
2003 Four Corners and the Cathedral - Plein Air Invitational, St. Paul, Minnesota 

2003 Minnesota State Fair Fine Art Competition, Juried Exhibit
2014 Outdoor Painter’s of Minnesota Member Exhibit
2015 Minnesota State Fair Fine Art Competition, Juried Exhibit
2016 Minnesota State Fair Fine Art Competition, Juried Exhibit

Awards
2016 Paint The Point plein air competition, Best In Show