Bio
I have loved art since I was a kid, and my earliest memories involved re-arranging mud in dried up puddles. This was the beginning of a journey that would lead me to try out different types of art, each offering a unique way to see and interact with the world.
My work. reflects my journey, exploring form, color and material to capture the human spirit and world around us. Each piece is a testament to the power of art and it’s ability to reveal new ways of seeing and understanding.
Bio
Angus Ross is a local resident here in Wickenburg, having moved here in 2021 from Newport RI. Prior to that he was a career naval officer (25 years) in the British Royal Navy, before coming to America and the US Naval War College as a faculty member in 1996.
He became a naturalized citizen in 2013 and continued to teach at the College until his retirement from full time work in 2021. Today, he continues to teach for the College on-line, in a part-time arrangement from his home.
Now that his family are grown and he has a little more time, he has recently re-kindled his love for painting and drawing, something that had to be put aside during a busy career.
He was last active (in sketching) in the 1980s, when he took to sketching sights seen around the world during his 25-year naval service.
Watercolors are essentially a new challenge for him, and he is thoroughly enjoying the experience. The unforgiving nature of the media, the very “natural” look of the pigments and the wonderfully “fluid” way in which contrast and color are applied, are a source of endless fascination to him.
He is currently trying all sorts of subjects, although wildlife, marine scenes and landscapes will probably end up being his favorites
I’ve always been a bit of a creative soul. When I was a kid, I was drawing, imagining, and creating all the time.
As an adult, I decided to take the plunge and enrolled in a fine arts program at a college in Traverse City, Michigan.
I took classes in drawing, design, and pottery. I did really well and loved all my classes, but I realized that becoming
an artist wasn’t going to make me rich, so I decided to switch gears and get a business degree.
After moving to Colorado in the 1990s, the beautiful scenery inspired me to pick up the arts again. I started taking pottery
classes in Boulder and Golden, Colorado. And then, after I retired in Colorado, I started sketching and also started making
landscape quilts. I’ve had a sewing machine all my life, and I have a machine set up along with an art table, so I’m ready to go wherever inspiration takes me. I’m rarely at a loss for something
to do.
Now, I often find myself watching and practicing watercolor and quilting techniques on YouTube. They’re like rabbit holes that I can’t seem to get out of! I really enjoy them.
Since I moved to Wickenburg, I’ve been taking watercolor, acrylic, and oil painting classes. I’ve even been juried into the Wickenburg Art Center for mixed media and have exhibited in a few shows there.
In 2025, I was lucky enough to be exhibiting in the West of Center art show at the Desert Caballero Western Museum for the second year in a row. I entered a landscape quilt and two watercolor paintings. My watercolor of Vulture Mountain was even selected to be on the literature for the show!
Bio
My paintings are mostly with oils, but also do watercolors and acrylics. I started oil painting at the age of 16, painting wildlife on paper plates with an oil paint set that a neighbor had given me.
Someday I’ll paint that! Now it’s time. I am inspired by a lifetime of artistic memories, experiences and want to paint the picture. Retired after 40 years of being advertising art director and graphic designer, I then began to seriously paint.
One of my favorite things to paint is photos of history. Finding old black-and-white photos and paint them in my colors. Photos that I have taken from the western history places that I’ve discovered.
In high school, I was mostly interested in the art classes and and the drama classes. My formal art education began after high school at the Central Academy of Commercial Art in Cincinnati, Ohio, plus 40 years of advertising art direction and marketing.
I like coming back to Wickenburg each winter for the art club, it’s helpful members and being able to paint outside in the AZ desert.
Some of my work is exhibited at the Platte Canyon Artist Guild’s Fall Fine Art Show in Bailey, Colorado, also at Wickenburg Art Club’s Fine Art Show and in their gallery.
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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.
I was born in Oklahoma City, moved to Idaho as a child.
Found my way to Wickenburg, Arizona, twenty-one years ago — “snowbird.”
I’m self-taught with a mentor. Pat Hould, an abstract artist, guided me to my path of a figure painter.
I work in mixed media, collage with acrylic glazes. Influenced by southwest colors.
I’m represented at:
Manos Gallery in Tubac, Arizona
Rancho de los Caballeros Spa
Allender Studio
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.
After graduating from the University of Denver and teaching art for six years, I began painting full-time. Working in watercolor and oil, my subjects are the diverse beauty of the western landscape and its wildlife, animals, and the western lifestyle in Wyoming and Arizona.
Major exhibitions have included the Desert Caballeros Western Museum’s Cowgirl Up! exhibition, the American Academy of Equine Art , Women Artists of the West, The Mountain Oyster Club, Cheyenne Western Spirit Art Show, and formerly the C.M. Russell Auction and Quick Draw in Great Falls, MT and the top 100 “Art for the Parks” competition formerly held in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Her awards include a second place in two-dimensional work at the 46th Annual Women Artists of the West (WAOW) exhibition at the Hanna Gallery in Fredericksburg, TX. Other juried exhibitions include the 48th Annual at the Price Tower in Bartlesville, OK, the 49th National Exhibition at Mary Williams Fine Arts Gallery in Boulder, CO. and 51st Annual held at The Museum of Western Art in Kerrville, TX. Her paintings were also juried into the Oil Painter’s of America’s Virtual Western Regional Exhibition at the Illume Gallery of Fine Art, St. George, UT, and the 2021 Western Regional Exhibition of Traditional Oils at the Mark Arts Gallery in Wichita, KS.
Permanent collections in Wyoming include the Governor’s Mansion, Wells Fargo Bank, Central Wyoming College Foundation, Bonneville Transloaders Trucking, Inc., Community Fine Arts Center in Rock Springs, the Dubois Museum and Community Headwaters Center, and many private collections throughout the United States and Europe.
Donating to charitable events are my way of giving back to the community.
