Featured artists
Featured artist: Conor Smith
After years of searching and experimenting, UK artist Conor Smith found the medium of scratchboard and could not put it down. The notoriously unforgiving nature and permanence of the medium draws him to it.
Featured artist: Chris Breier
Through his art, Chris Breier invites viewers to explore the intricate relationships between colors and their emotional impact.
Featured artist: Michael Ireland
Aquabord artist Michael Ireland believes successful public art is in effect, a way-finder, a sense of place. Geographically, it gives us a guide or reference relative to where we are going or a reminder of where we have been. It can also be a way-finder that guides our beliefs or challenges us to look within, perhaps grounding our senses as we experience our surroundings in a slightly different way.
Featured artist: Daniela Werneck
Aquabord artist Daniela Werneck is a realistic watercolor painter based in Houston, TX, whose work combines the most traditional watercolor methods with a contemporary look.
Featured artist: Jivan Lee
Much of Jivan Lee’s work arises from an intensive process of repeatedly painting at the same locations over months, seasons, and years. Each day on location contributes to larger arcs of work that borrow from his previous career in science and almost empirically investigate time, change, and human perception.
Featured artist: Dennon Walantus
Gessobord plein air painter Dennon Walantus found himself constantly running out of subjects to paint, which led him to the surrounding Adirondack Mountains landscape with a cigar box easel and oil paint.
Featured artist: Chris Firger
By prioritizing color, contrast, and composition over representation, landscape painter Chris Firger is able to create a unique and immersive experience for viewers. Instead of simply reproducing a scene, he uses his artistic skills to capture a particular moment or feeling that he wants to convey.
Featured artist: Camille Przewodek
Nationally renowned colorist and painting instructor, Camille Przewodek, is noted for her ability to see and use color relationships to effectively express the “light key” or “envelope of light” that nature presents to us outdoors at different times of the day or under different types of weather conditions.
Featured artist: Gareth Jones
Gareth Jones, a UK native now residing in New Hampshire, rekindled his love of art after receiving a Christmas gift several years ago.
Featured artist: Joe K. Smith
Drawn mostly from the varied landscapes of his beloved New England home, Joe Smith’s finely detailed work captures the unique character and spirit of the wild places that exist all around us, but just out of sight.
A conversation with Ali Cavanaugh
Watercolor artist, Ali Cavanaugh discusses how she discovered Aquabord, her color palette, her favorite techniques, and the evolution of her artwork over the years.
Featured artists: Ampersand Artist Partners
As the year wraps up, we wanted to highlight a few of the artists that graciously partnered with us over the year and shared their love of Ampersand with the world. We sent each of the December artists an Ampersand panel and one of our new 5x7 or Walnut Floaterframes. The task was to paint their artwork of choice and then frame it in the Floaterframe.
Featured artist: Mike Egan
A former funeral director and embalmer turned artist, Ohio based Mike Egan creates artwork dark in nature, yet highly saturated in color. His graphic, minimal pieces are complex in their use of symbols.
Featured artist: Vic Hollins
Inspired heavily by the desert, patterns, and color, Vic Hollins' illustrations are vibrant and complex. Cacti surround her bright red historic bungalow studio in downtown Tucson, AZ sparking her creativity.
Featured artist: Lisa Skelly
After a house fire, Lisa Skelly relocated to Newport Beach, CA and resumed her longtime love affair with the ocean. Pastel plein air seascapes are her favorite subject and continue to be what she paints most often.
Featured artist: Michael Emerson Wall
Michael Emerson Wall paints with a variety of mediums to create Celestial Environments which are deep and thought provoking and border between abstraction and realism.
