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.

I find myself constantly inspired by light, color, and the sense of atmosphere found in western landscapes- from grand vistas to simple scenes with interesting light. My goal is not strict realism but rather to convey the 'feel' of a particular place and time; I want to share the sense of excitement with you that made me want to paint that scene in the first place!

I'm a Southern California artist who has returned to an early love called painting. I have a BFA in Illustration from CSULB and worked in a corporate art department before taking time off to raise a family.  I picked my brushes up again during the COVID epidemic, and am now happily wrestling with the challenges and pleasures of painting on location (aka “en plein air”) and in my studio.  

I have always loved the creative process, currently including painting in oils, pastels and watercolor.  In my artwork, I try to convey my deep appreciation of the natural world. I hope my paintings share the excitement I feel outdoors and the exuberance of creative activity.

On my best painting days, I lose track of time and get into the flow of what I am doing, then look up and discover that I have been painting all day.  My favorite subjects are landscapes, often small paintings painted plein air or larger paintings painted from my plein air studies. I love the richness and depth of oil on canvas and I also love the fluidity and delicacy of watercolor on paper. I have recently added pastels to my repertoire and I'm becoming comfortable with them.

If I can give the viewer a magical view of a special place and time of day, my art has fulfilled its purpose. Joy Gonzalez

Teanna Kurtz creates pastel paintings of landscapes, light, water, skies and wildlife, primarily on suede substrate.  She loves pastel for the available rich pigments and the expressive quality she is able to achieve with them.  Her goals for her artworks are purity of form and technique while capturing atmospheric moments of peace, serenity and calm in nature.

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 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 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 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.

Julie Gowing Hayes creates oil and watercolor paintings of things and scenes found mostly in nature in a representational style sometimes with hints of impressionism. Growing up on a farm in Southwest Iowa was instrumental in her development of a deep-rooted love for the outdoors.

Scenes of the American west, Places Stephanie Burk loves, with animals she adores and people she loves. Between two points of home in Texas and her cabin in Colorado, she paints until her heart is full all the landscapes and culture of the area. I

“Light Falling across an object, tree, beloved pet. . . .

The broken color and textures created with pastels and oils. . . .

These are the things that excite me, and call me to paint them. I hope they excite you too.” Addren Doss

“It is the seeking of the soul that inspires me to create. The connection with the incredible beauty and calm of nature is what my collectors say they love in my paintings. While painting I move from observing the light as it defines an object into a place that eludes time and space. This is when I feel a connection to our Creation because the scene I am capturing is filled with such beauty it makes my soul sing. When a collector expresses what I emotionally felt while creating the painting I know I have succeeded. “- Amy Evans