WAOW Artistry of the West

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Teanna Kurtz • Washington • waow

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.

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Deborah LaFogg–Docherty • Florida • waow

Deborah LaFogg–Docherty is best known for her detailed, photorealistic paintings that celebrate wildlife, landscapes and the natural world.  She works in pastel, oil, and acrylic.  Her art practice is driven by a lifelong commitment to nature and conservation. She has participated in artist expeditions, including conservation-focused travels to Kenya to support efforts for endangered species.

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Nancy Peach • Maryland • waow

Nancy Peach is an oil painter who creates luminous paintings of landscapes, nocturnes, marine and coastal scenes.  Her quiet, light-filled landscapes and coastal scenes reflect her deep connection to natural settings and the maritime environment of her youth. Her work bridges traditional realism with a luminist focus on light and atmosphere.

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Mary Jabens • Utah • waow

Mary Jabens lives in Southern Utah and her passion for art is fueled by the scenes around her.   She seeks to communicate with the viewer the joy she sees in nature — not only the grand views, but also closer observations of her subjects that others may not see. Her use of color, texture and brushwork convey the beauty of the land while she endeavors to show the immediacy of the moment.  

Jabens strives to have a “plein air state of mind” when painting in her studio.  It has allowed her to hone her artistic skills and focus on replicating in her artworks the living senses of seeing, feeling, sound and smell that she experienced painting outdoors.  

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Carolyn Mock • Oklahoma • waow

Carolyn Mock is a realist artist, who has painted wildlife and western themes for many years.  She has always worked in oil because she enjoys its creamy feel and the slow drying time that allows her the opportunity to work and blend the colors as the painting evolves. Her choice of wildlife grew out of a firm belief that nature, as well as everything in it, has the right to exist.  She works to show the dignity of each individual animal and the awe of them she experiences as she paints.

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Martha Inman Lorch • California • waow

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.  

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Sarah Kennedy • Arizona • waow

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.

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Marie Kash Weltzheimer • Oklahoma • waow

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.

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Reenie Kennedy • California • waow

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. 

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Renée Kelleher • California • waow

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. 

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Carol Strock Wasson • Indiana • waow

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. 

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Burneta Venosdel • Oklahoma • waow

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.   

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Cecy Turner • Texas & Colorado • waow

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

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Linda Star Landon • Arizona • waow

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. 

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Jennifer Hunter • Illinois • waow

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.  

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Leslie Lambert • Idaho & Washington • waow

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.

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Anne Spoon • Oklahoma • waow

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. 

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Shuli Wang • Illinois • waow

Shuli Wang is an accomplished artist residing in the vibrant Chicago metropolitan area. She was born in Inner Mongolia, China.  She exhibited exceptional talent and an unwavering passion for the world of drawing and painting from an early age.  Wang possesses a remarkable versatility, working fluently with an array of artistic mediums including pencil, charcoal, pastel, watercolor, acrylic, and oil. Her artistic style can be aptly described as impressionistic realism, where vibrant brushwork often reminiscent of traditional Chinese freehand paintings infuses life into her creations.  The subjects of her work are as diverse as her mediums, spanning landscapes, still life, and portraiture.

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