Bio
Deborah Nielsen works in the watercolor and acrylic mediums. She began her adventures with watercolor and advanced very quickly. This inspired her to begin experimenting in acrylics, which became her second love. Deborah credits her success and love of these mediums to the local art instructors her in the valley, who helped her develop her God given talent.
Growing up point eh upper Midwest, first on a dairy farm as a little girl and then becoming a ranchers wife, inspired Deborah’s love and appreciation of animals and the beauty of the country atmosphere. Deborah, along with her husband Larry, is now semi-retired and living oil Wittmann, AZ. She is pursuing her dream of capturing the beauty around her and her love of animals. Deborah teaches both watercolor and acrylic classes on Arizona and for a few months in the summer she returns to Nebraska and helps work the ranch and teaches color classes at a local shop.
Deborah is juried onto the Art Club in Wickenburg, AZ and has competed on the Artisan Fair Art show during Gold Rush Days for the past few years where each year she has won honors in both mediums. In 2018 she was also juried into the Glendale Fine Art show with two of her paintings, “Blue Agave” and “Platinum Vintage”, and in 2019 with her painting “Bird of Paradise”, and in 2021 the painting “Tatonka”. The West of Center Art show in the Desert Caballeros Western Museum, in Wickenburg, AZ, also accepted two of Deborah’s paintings, “Chinks” and “Platinum Vintage”, for showing and sale.
Bio
Art has always been a part of my life. Forever learning and experimenting. I had never received any formal training until I met Pat Lambrett Hould, an abstract artist. I found my way to the human figure and portrait. I like subjects with attitude, confidence, and playfulness.
My art is mixed media and collage:
My art usually starts with a color palette, shapes, or an idea. I prep the canvas and add gold, silver, and copper leaf, papers, or a combination of all. Using the leaf as a reflective light source under acrylic glares that create constant changing images. My work is a process of building multiple layers of leafing, collage papers and acrylic glares. Anything goes!
I try to be creative on the edge of abstract. My goal is to be the best artist I can be, with quality in my work.
Cecilia moved to Los Angeles, CA with a degree in Commercial Art from Stockholm, Sweden.
She worked at Honeywell, Inc. and at several commercial print shops applying her creative skills as a Graphic Artist.
Cecilia moved to Arizona, attended painting classes in acrylic and watercolor at Yavapai College in Prescott. She has received awards at art galleries for her work.
Her paintings have sold at Phippen’s Western Art Museum store.
She is a juried artist with the Wickenburg Art Club where her art has received many awards.
In 2016 Cecilia fulfilled a longtime desire of becoming a sculptor and has completed ten bronzes.
In 2018, Cecilia was accepted into the 44th Annual Phippen Western Art Show & Sale for painting and sculpture. There she received THE PHIPPEN FOUNDATION AWARD for her bronze sculpture “In Trouble”.
In 2020 she was invited to participate in the Miniature Masterpiece Show and Sale and in the PAWs Show at the Museum during the month of May, Cecilia also participated in the Phippen Western Art Show and Sale during the Memorial Day weekend! Received the 1st PLACE AWARD in Sculpture with her piece “Saved From The Storm”! It was all done virtual due to Covid 19 safety guidelines!
She participated in the 48th Annual Phippen Western Art Show & Sale with her bronzes during the Memorial Day weekend in May 2022 and received the very prestigious PHIPPEN FAMILY AWARD for her bronze “MOMENT OF PRAISE”!
Cecilia will have all her 10 bronzes on display at the 50th Annual Phippen Western Art Show and sale in 2024.
Cecilia’s childhood dream was to have horses, which became a reality when she moved to Arizona. Her love for the Western lifestyle inspires her to create art of horses, cowboys and landscapes of the West. She is residing in Hillside, Arizona close to family.
Having been born in Phoenix and raised in Wickenburg, Arizona has been my home most of my life. Although, I spent 12 years in wonderful Wyoming raising my 3 children, I was happy to get back to the Sonoran Desert in 1996.
Art has always been in my life. My grandfather was an oil painter and my father was a great sketcher and saddle maker, tooling beautiful works of art. I was taught to appreciate artistic ability and quality from them, at an early age.
I have also dabbled in oil painting and sketching off and on through the years, but it wasn’t until 2019 that I found clay and it became my passion.
In early 2023, I became the chair of the Wickenburg Clay Group. I spend most days at the art club creating and enjoying the friendships I have made there.
I also enjoy getting out into the desert to ride our side by side, go camping and rock hounding.
My other joy is being the “Nawnie” to 7 grands and 4 great grands.
Artistic ability has shown up in my children and now some of my grands. I’m very happy that this part of my heritage is continuing on.
I was born and raised in Iowa and am a graduate of the University of Iowa in Related Art.
I see designs for my jewelry in nature, animals, and the vibrant Arizona desert. Colors for my work are chosen from the Arizona sunsets, desert flowers, mountains and Native American influences.
I design and make all my jewelry as one of a kind.
My passion is bead embroidery which allows me to create unique pieces of jewelry.
I work to understand the relationship between art & nature and how to apply this to my designs.
I am a watercolor painter and art teacher. I have worked in many media, but my passion is watercolor for its flowing pigments and depiction of mood.
Since going from southern California to Arizona, I have fallen in love with the Southwest and its dramatic landscapes and amazing skycaps.
While living in Tucson in the 80’s, I was “juried” into the Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild.
For the next 35 years life got in the way with my teaching career, children and who knows what else so my paint brushes lay dormant.
Recently, in southern California I was involved in the San Diego Watercolor society. Artists of the High Desert and Redlands Art Association.
You might say that my style is “impressionistic realism”.
Now that I am seriously painting again, I hope that I am communicating the awe that I experience in the creation around me.
If one of my painting helped you sense that awe, I am grateful.
I am an Idaho native, so most of my paintings reflect my love of the mountains that I was raised in and my life-long love of horses.
I began painting in 1974, taking tole painting lessons, and within a year I teaching painting.
I earned my degree in Art Education and Special Education in 1988. I taught special needs students while I was also teaching private lessons.
Teaching art fills my should. When I moved to Wickenburg, Arizona. I discovered a new world of scenery that I have come to love.
God has given us such beauty, and I want to honor Him by replicating our world as best as I am able.
An award-winning artist, Jane Skaar-Coleman enjoys painting the western landscape and its flora, mountains and animals, Horses are a favorite subject and Jane also accepts commissions for animal portraits.
Working in watercolor and oil, her style is traditional realism. She works in her studio and occasionally in plain air to stay fresh and capture the essentials of a scene.
Winning four Grumbacher awards, numerous “Best of Show” awards in exhibitions which include: the “Wyoming Watercolor Society”, “Women Artists of the West” juried shows, “American Academy of Equine Art” fall juried show, “Western Art Show” in Ellensburg, Washington, “Mountain Oyster Club” in Tucson, AZ, “Cowgirl Up” at the Desert Caballeros Western Museum in Wickenburg, AZ, “Wind River Valley Art Guild’s national show and the “Art for the Parks” top 100 in 2004.
Looking back at my life and the elements that have defined me, the one thing that stands out above all others is the deep-seated need to express myself through art. Art and the process of creation is the first thing I think about in the morning and the last thing that fills my mind at the end of each day.
As an essentially self-taught artist, I have been able to find my own truths and artistic paths along the way. I am naturally curious and fervid when it comes to understanding new techniques, making the self-learning process a challenge I enjoy.
Today, I continue with a concentration on the use and application of the many creative software programs that advance creativity, such as digital and original paintings and mixed media collage art. I have found that having a comfort level and understanding of the computer and its sophisticated software has provided an added opportunity for artistic experimentation and problem-solving.
Through the years, I have studied printmaking, drawing, painting, and graphic design, and I feel fortunate to have had a very successful career in that extremely competitive field. While art is by nature intuitive and emotive, my process is quite straightforward. I approach each new piece knowing that it requires a correct set of elements bound together with creative resolve, with the ultimate goal being a perfected visual exposition. I am experimental to a considerable degree, but my guiding goal is to create with a combination of intuition and a clear sense of artistic balance.
Tom Meade Painting Using photographs as reference, I paint landscapes with oils on canvas.
Lloree Ellsworth Painting "Art makes my heart feel good."
I am a recent transplant to Arizona, and I love it! I have always lived “up north” and worked in several different genres that mostly represented the area in which I dwelled, but I have always been drawn to the art and warm colors of the Southwest.
This move has inspired me to experiment with a new genre – metal embossing. By using various metal foils such as copper, aluminum and brass, I emboss them with a multitude of patterns using a rolling press, and color with alcohol inks.
Once dried and stabilized with a protectant coat, I then cut them into various sizes and shapes to achieve my design.
The mosaic pieces are somewhat like a jigsaw puzzle – I quit to design it and make sure all the pieces fit perfectly. Some of my work will incorporate leather and glass tile beads to achieve a multi-dimensional look.
“Art is spiritual for me and brings me a great fulfillment , which I hope is reflected in my work.”
