Invitational Exhibit

Denise Baxter
Ashland
Denise Baxter, executive director of Ashland Artisan Gallery and Art Center, resides in Ashland, Oregon with her husband and two children.  As an artist, she has extensive experience working with many art mediums such as photography, printing, sculpture, water colors, computer aided design and oil painting. 

Anne Brooke
Jacksonville

Charlene Brussat
Jacksonville
I am always looking for light, shadow and color. That’s what makes me want to paint.

Robert DeVoe
Ashland
Robert’s art has been mainly in watercolor and pastel, and he is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society and Watercolor U.S.A. Honor Society. He has an innate sensibility for composing landscape, still life and figurative subjects, making the viewer aware of occasions when light and surface interact to produce moments of extraordinary visual pleasure.

Barbara Eshoo
Medford
Barbara Eshoo is a sweepstakes and award winning landscape artist from the Pacific Northwest whose signature style captures the power of sunlight in her work.  Her impressionistic paintings are loose and free and clearly representational. Barbara has an artistic heritage.  Her father, Charlie Plumb, was the cartoonist creator of “Ella Cinders”, one of the very early internationally syndicated comic strips (1921 - 1948). Her work can be found in private and corporate collections across the United States, Canada, Mexico and China.  Barbara now divides her time each year painting in Oregon and the Coachella Valley.

Adele Marie Hiles
Ashland
For over 35 years I have been in love with painting because to me it is a dance:  loading paint on the brush, flipping the paint rag over my shoulder, raising the filbert tip up to the reverberating canvas like a fencer raising his foil.  En Garde!  Beyond the physical dance, the reward of looking has changed me to my core.  I paint the light that surrounds objects, defining, enlivening, and making them SING, and everyday, I learn again, to listen!

Judy Hanson Howard
Ashland
Judy has been an artist and educator in southern Oregon sin 1966. For the last 28 years, she has continued to balance her time between painting and promoting other artists at Hanson Howard Gallery in Ashland. She fluctuates between realism and abstraction while exploring various painting mediums. The results are as much a surprise to her as they are to her audience.

Rob Jaffe
Ashland
This is an exciting time to be a photographer. I have been shooting, processing, and printing both black and white and color photographs for over 30 years. I printed all the work you see at this show using the giclee (zhee-clay) process. The prints are incredibly rich in detail and depth, and bring a new level of creativity and subtlety in my work… I am happy to share it with you.

Mary Rollins
Mary attended Dana College, in Blair Nebraska. As an art Major, she also attended the University of Copenhagen; And, graduated Magna cum Laude with a BS in Fine Arts from Southern Oregon University in 1979. Her years of professional training and discipline have given her what she describes now as,  “...an appreciation for the impact of strong values and the changing qualities of light.”  Today, her subjects include intimate views of rivers, wildlife, and florals of the Pacific Northwest. Her work stands as a personal interpretation of the world; and it has been described in professional art magazines as--Contemporary Naturalism.

Ruth Hickok Schubert
Medford
An impressionist painter, Ruth Schubert sees and uses color by using bold brushstrokes and bright colors to capture design and the effects of light and atmosphere, allowing the imagination of the viewer to soar! This dynamic artist continues to create thoughtful watercolor and acrylic paintings for enjoyment and investment. Subject matters range from seascapes, landscapes, flowers, people, animals, birds and nature in contrast… expression into contemporary design.

Judy Weiner
I paint with oils using a classical realist technique. My focus is on my discovery, acknowledgement and reflection of the spirit, beauty and order I see in our natural world.