Southern Oregon Artists Resource

Metal artist Cheryl D. Garcia draws inspiration from the natural world, creating functional and fascinating sculptures for the home and garden using a variety of metals. Reclaimed steel is a favorite medium with copper, stainless steel and aluminum accents. Cheryl has made the Rogue Valley her home for 15 years.

A member of the Watercolor Society of Oregon, Anne's award winning watercolors have been displayed throughout the West Coast. She has taught drawing and watercolor for 15 years, helping to develop many prize-winning artists, and recently formed Art Presence, a group promoting Jacksonville visual artists.

Alicia came to the US from Poland in 1969 at age 16, later graduating from the Univ. of Maryland in art and Johns Hopkins in liberal arts. She writes: "Creativity is often squashed by trying too hard. But, as I set aside rational mind, my hands can express the subconscious. This mysterious process guides the results."

Leah exhibits her abstract and portraiture work nationally and internationally and has been commissioned for over 400 paintings over the past 15 years. Her studio is outside Jacksonville where she teaches painting, drawing, art marketing and making natural earth paints.

Duane Sample's "Mosaic Melodies" portray figures and faces of dancers and classical opera singers in his dynamic large scale mosaic panels. The visual arts, classical music, dance and opera have long been his "food for the soul." "I love to show movement in this medium because movement is life itself." He also creates mosaic mandalas and unique decorative urns.

A self-taught artist whose evocative style is accomplished with acrylics, inks, metallics and pigments. Pegi's paintings are in private collections in Switzerland, Australia and throughout the US, and were featured in the 2009 edition of "International Contemporary Masters." Her work is often available at many galleries and artisans' markets all along the West coast.

Artist Mae Wygant creates from her studio in historic Jacksonville. Profoundly inspired by Nature, her fertile imagination and mastery of style, medium and technique have produced a substantial catalog of work from very literate to full modern abstract, a style she focuses upon now.

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