Carol Lundeen is an oil painter specializing in animals, both wild and domestic.  Her style is representational.  She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art from Northwest Nazarene College, Nampa, Idaho.  She continued her studies with Robert Hagberg, Jay Moore, along with a host of other master artists. 

Becky Lucht is a scratchboard artist.  Her body of work reflects her ongoing love of animals, from horses and pets to wildlife, with a few fantasy creatures thrown in. They are generally rendered in the stark black and white of scratchboard, although she has been drawn to color versions of late.

Martha Inman Lorch is known for watercolors of her favorite places.  She is inspired by her international travels, as well as her experiences closer to home.  Her style is representational, with a touch of abstract expressionism.  She uses layering, wet-in-wet techniques, and visual texture to express the soulfulness she feels for her subjects.  

Kathy LeJeune is a self-taught artist who works in pastel, graphite and charcoal.  Her drawings reflect the important role horses played in her early life — if she wasn’t riding them, she was drawing them.  She spent wonderful childhood days riding at local playdays and along country roads or in pastures.  Raising a family and teaching in Louisiana schools necessitated a break from drawing, but she found comfort and joy when she picked up her pencils again during the Covid pandemic.  She has not put them down since.  Her artistic output includes sympathetic drawings of horses and their pivotal role in western life and rodeo competitions.  Cowboys and cows get some gritty starring roles, too. 

Sarah Kennedy expresses her love of the natural world, the beauty of the desert, contemporary and traditional ranch life, rodeo, horses and figurative portraiture through her oil paintings.  A sparkle in the eye, the softness of a draped mane or curved neck, the light that creates drama or luminosity, color that brings excitement or serenity are elements that infuse her work to capture life and feeling.

Reneé Marz Mullis is mesmerized by the pastel stick’s strength of color and brilliancy.   She paints southwestern landscapes, interiors and exteriors, florals, and still lifes, both in the studio and en plein air.  She most enjoys the multitude of challenges in conveying a strong sense of luminosity and atmosphere in her work. 

Texas pastel artist, Anna Lisa Leal, honors the fierce beauty of the botanical wonders of Texas, and the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts; as well as the wildlife and found objects found in these regions. The textures and tenacity of life in these harsh areas inspire raw, radiant stories painted from her heart to represent the spirit of the American Southwest. 

Marie Kash Weltzheimer is a representational artist whose work reflects inspirations from music and nature. She has a long history working with pastel, drawing mediums, and oils.  Common themes she explores are people, portraits, and still life, along with an occasional venture into landscapes.  Some of her recent still life compositions resemble nests.  These are symbolic to the important core value of family structure that is deeply felt, since she built her family by adoption.  A sense of order, color, love, security and support is built into the compositions.

Reenie Kennedy is an award-winning acrylic artist.  Her work reflects her love for wildlife with an emphasis on bird art.  She enjoys combining wildlife with her exquisite floral and ocean inspired backdrops, along with a touch of humor.   She believes a sense of humor in painting is one of the best ways to lift the spirits. 

Heather R. Kaiser is an accomplished artist, renowned for her award-winning sculptures.  Her work is primarily rendered in bronze.  She often depicts Native Americans and historical Western scenes.  She captures the layers of attitude, emotion and personality of her subjects, showcasing her deep appreciation for their strength of spirit. 

Renée Kelleher is an impressionist oil painter who finds delight in beautiful surroundings wherever she lives or travels.  Big city skylines, hillside vineyards, restaurant and chapel interiors, and corner flower markets inspire her alike. 

Joanne Lavender is an impressionist painter.  She paints the open spaces of the West with simple abstract shapes and values that reflect her early training in graphic design.  She chooses to compose her representation of the land emphasizing the quality of light that defines the shapes before her, rather than execute a literal copy of what she sees.

Carol Strock Wasson is a landscape artist known primarily for her work in the pastel medium.   She also works in oil, monotype prints and watercolor.   Much of her work spotlights the rural area she lives in.  She focuses on color, shape, and design in the plein air tradition as well as in the studio. 

Burneta Venosdel is a national, award-winning bronze sculptor and pastel painter.  Many of her sculpture subjects are inspired by her surroundings and life on her Oklahoma ranch.  She paints the landscapes of western Oklahoma and the wildflowers from the mountains west of Gunnison that she has trod for over 20 years.   

Cecy Turner is an award-winning artist who works in both watercolor and oil.   She prefers to paint en plein air, and does so almost daily   since she began spending half of every year in Colorado.   The effects of light and atmosphere are her favorite things to capture in paint.

Turner graduated from Vanderbilt University and did post-graduate study in art at University of North Texas.  She has additionally studied under numerous accomplished artists in both oil and watercolor

Linda Star Landon, has always created art in one form or another.  Her oil paintings are distinguished by her signature style use of vivid colors and bold textures created using a palette knife technique. 

Landon’s creations have been exhibited at juried art shows and have been recognized as Best of Show and won awards.  The artworks are loved by their collectors all over the United States.  Some have gone to other countries including Canada and China. 

Nationally recognized, award–winning artist, Jennifer Hunter, is known for her sensitive storytelling of American history through her art work.  Her paintings exude unique quality of light and rich luminous color in both watercolor and oil. Hunter finds that her working knowledge of the use of transparency in watercolor enhances her oil painting techniques; and working in oil allows for experimentation with textured surfaces using both transparency and opacity of paint to give life to her work.  

Gwen Meyer Ethelbah’s major focus of her artistic vision is the land.  Her intimate forest scenes are balanced by expansive lake and sky scenes.  She is an oil painter whose style is impressionist realism.  She is inspired and influenced by the work of two of her favorite artists, Maynard Dixon and Edward Hopper. 

Leslie Lambert (also known as Leslie Redhead) is a celebrated artist known for her innovative poured watercolors. With a keen eye for detail and a mastery of color, Lambert skillfully pours and manipulates pigments on paper, resulting in stunning and dynamic compositions of the West. Her artwork, characterized by vibrant hues, has garnered widespread acclaim and has been exhibited in prestigious galleries and exhibitions worldwide. Lambert’s ability to push the boundaries of traditional watercolor painting has established her as a trail blazer in the arts.

Anne Spoon is a realist oil painter.  She has spent the past two decades painting people, places and objects that have a quiet beauty; that are, perhaps, seemingly simple, and often overlooked until painted.  Her skillfully painted works have a dreamlike, soft quality that invites the viewer to linger and look more closely.   She attended The School of Visual Arts at Bronx, New York.