WAOW Artistry of the West
The WAOW Artistry is slowly being built to provide a page on our site to promote each artist. This project began late summer 2024. We have over 300 members to load here on their pages. You can search by name, location or by subject matter to find an artist.
Wei Zhang. Texas Artist . waow
Wei Zhang is a fine art oil painter with a focus on portraiture and figurative work. Her passion for art emerged early in life and built a classical foundation.
Nora Koerber . California Artist . waow
Ms Koerber spent many years in the commercial illustration world and has recently turned to creating fine art paintings and winning awards for her work.
Mary Frankel . Colorado/Texas
Mary Frankel grew up in the beautiful Colorado Rocky Mountains and studied architecture and design. In her early thirties, she moved with her family to London, where she traveled extensively throughout Europe in the incredibly rich artistic environment there. Frankel's artistic expression and desire was thus ignited into a passion for painting the landscapes and people passing through her world. Frankel now divides her time between Estes Park, Colorado and Texas.
Brenda Morgan . Arkansas
Brenda Morgan works from her studio in Dardanelle, Arkansas.
She has always gravitated toward the western genre and artists such as James Bama and Carl Brenders inspired her to paint realism. Having a love of equine subjects, adding cowboys, cowgirls and Indigenous Americans seemed a natural progression.
Laurie Pace . Texas
Laurie Pace aka Elle Pace is a contemporary painter from Texas. She is a member of WAOW and proud to be part of this incredible group of Women Painters. Together they bring their art to tell the story of yesterday and today of the west. This strong internationally collected artist from over 40 countries, enjoys painting Western Art. She has been an artist represented by Mirada Fine Art in Denver since it opened in 2010. Her past galleries were Jackson Hole, La Jolla, and in Park Cities. She loves doing commission paintings for her clients.
Vicki Pedersen . California
Vicki Pedersen has a life-long passion for art. She feels so fortunate that she is living the dream -- painting what she loves. She focuses mostly on painting the American West -- cowboys and cowgirls, Native Americans, and the beautiful landscapes of deserts, mountains, and everything in between.
Mejo Okon . New Mexico
Mejo’s studio walls are covered in paintings of cowboys and their horses, prize cattle, and agave cactus. She has worked as a graphic designer, illustrator, costume manager for traveling Broadway shows, and a courtroom sketch artist. Her inner voice said, ‘Paint. Run away and paint,’and since settling in New Mexico, she has found endless inspiration in cowboys, ranches and the landscape but then again, she has always loved horses and animals.