Southern Oregon Visual Artists - Portraits & Figures

Showing Off, original oil painting by Jacksonville artist Dianne Erickson. Click to visit Dianne's website.

Dianne Erickson

  • Oil, Acrylic, Encaustic Painting
  • Dianne Erickson Art Studio
  • Phone: (541)261-0197
  • Jacksonville, by appointment
Expressive, impressionistic and colorful, Dianne's work was awarded First Place at Expressions West 2010, a juried exhibit of artists from the Western US, at the Coos Art  Museum in Coos Bay, OR. Specializing in figurative oil painting from photographs, she also enjoys experimenting with many mediums and subjects, including monotype prints, sculpture, and installation art.
Visit Mandy's website to learn more and see her online gallery! Click here

Maranda Louise

  • Scenes from Life in Oil and Gouache
  • Rubber Duck Artwork
  • Central Point, by appointment

Growing up a third generation artist, Maranda came to love the arts at a very young age. Pursuing art throughout high school, Maranda won best in state in the Junior Federal Duck Stamp three consecutive years. After graduating, she discovered oils and figures and hasn't looked back!
Visit Leah's website to learn more and see her online gallery! Click here

Leah Fanning Mebane

  • Portraits in Various Mediums
  • Fanning Art
  • Phone: (541)899-1448
  • 7400 Griffin Lane - 15 minutes from
  • Jacksonville, by appointment

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.
Visit Duane Sample's Opera-Ballet Mosaic Art website

Duane Sample

  • Mosaic Mandalas
  • Opera-Ballet Mosaic Art
  • Phone: (541)326.5168  
  • Jacksonville

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.
Visit Pegi's website to learn more, view her gallery and purchase online

Pegi Smith

  • www.pegismith.com
  • Phone: (541)951-1650
  • Ashland, by appointment


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.
Hills, original oil painting by Ashland artist Silvia Trujillo

Silvia Trujillo

  • Paintings in Oil & Acrylic
  • Phone: (541)301-0906
  • My work can be seen at the
  • Ashland Art Center

With a history in fashion design, Silvia Trujillo has 20 years experience in fine art study, painting, and teaching.  She is a master colorist; emphasizing color harmony, and works in impressionist, realist, and abstract styles. "My goal is to consistently produce paintings that are uniquely original and that express my love of nature."
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