WAOW Artistry of the West
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Kim Casebeer • Kansas• waow
Kim Casebeer spent her childhood exploring the outdoors on her family farm and has a lengthy connection to the landscape. She travels across the United States to paint en plein air, gathering color studies for studio work. Kim’s work often focuses on big skies and open spaces of the western United States.
Kim received Honorable Mention in the overall 2012-2013 PleinAir Magazine competition. She received an Award of Excellence in the 2014 Western Regional Oil Painters of America Show in Carmel, California. Kim received the Ted Goerschner OPAM Memorial Impressionist Award of Excellence in the 2015 National Oil Painters of America Exhibition. Kim's plein air "Oxbow Light Triptych" received the Superintendent's Purchase Award in Plein Air for the Park July 2018, and is in the permanent collection of the Grand Teton National Park.
Brittany Lutz • California • waow
As an educator and artist, I desire to bring curiosity to the canvas and explore our world through Visual Art. As I step through the Looking Glass, I desire to reveal the glory and beauty in God's creation as He reveals it to me. I focus on color and light as I see it in God's majestic creations.
Nora Koerber • California • 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.
Bethany Stephan • Arizona • waow
Bethany Stephan is an American painter born in Hawaii and now living in Arizona. She creates landscapes and figurative paintings, working in oil on panels.
Joey Frisillo • Oklahoma • waow
Joey has immersed herself in painting and enjoys both pastel and oil as mediums for her realistic style
Kathy Falla Howard • Arizona • waow
Only beginning my art journey 10 years ago, it was born out of a desire to capture the beauty before me, especially with the immersive experience of plein air painting.
Sheryl Knight • Central Pacific Coast • waow
Sheryl Knight is an award-winning plein air artist.She is also known as the “Central Coast Vineyard Artist” and is best known for her vibrant oil paintings and strong expressive style.
Mary Frankel • Colorado & Texas • waow
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.
Jan DeLipsey • New Mexico • waow
Jan DeLipsey is an artist whose love of the land lives within each of her paintings. Her landscape work is elegantly honest. Simply put, Jan's paintings bring the viewer a feeling of intimate reverence of nature's quiet beauty though her language of light and color.