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Guadalupe Apodaca
Award winning artist, Guadalupe Apodaca, longtime member of the Pastel Society of America, affirms, “I love what I do. To bring life to a blank canvas in the form of a person, place, or thing is very exciting!”
Working in oils and pastel, Guadalupe’s portraits, figures, and landscapes go beyond the obvious to capture the feelings and emotions of his subjects, and the vibrant colors of nature. Born in Fort Collins, Colorado, Guadalupe has visually embraced a wide variety of people and landscapes. He has traveled throughout the United States, as well as Canada, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, and Italy.
Atalanta
While portraits remain her first love, Atalanta has been developing her own unique and somewhat monochromatic style over the last couple of years and her focus has been on figurative work with the female nude.
Atalanta, a native of England, also creates interesting abstracts and themed in her passionate style, that powerfully captures the emotions associated with a life fully lived.
Atalanta says, “The driving force behind my paintings is the translation of the palette of human emotions through gestures and movements of the body, face, hands, and eyes”.
James Ayers
James graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1991. He spent time traveling on foot with the semi-nomadic Samburu and Turkana people in Africa’s Great Rift Valley. He then traveled for two years to Native American Reservations from Maine to Arizona, living with the Iroquois in the Northeast, the Sioux in the Great Plains and the Hopi in the Southwest. These experiences have given him empathy with the struggle of indigenous people to survive in the modern world and a desire to keep the beauty, honor, and tradition of these vanishing cultures alive through his art. His paintings can be found in collections throughout the United States.
Robert Burt
Drama and serenity – these two words may seem at odds with one another, yet both aptly describe the uncommon work of Robert Burt. This dynamic artist, who has made such an impact as he moved from medium to medium, always deepens his technique and his talent, always expressing his sense of wonder and love for the world he observes and describes in his paintings.
Burt began his love of art in New York, coming into the city to study the galleries as he first studied under his uncle. He moved quickly to classes at the Art Students League of New York in Woodstock. Robert studies with Franklin Alexander, working from the model in charcoal and pencil. He also studied painting and art history at SUNY at Ulster. Soon he had his own gallery in Lake Placid, NY and later moving it to Asheville, NC.
Robert now spends his time living and painting in a new home in Huachinera, Sonora, Mexico and his paintings are collected internationally.
Rip Caswell
Brilliantly capturing and interpreting through bronze sculpture the beauty of the natural world; Rip Caswell is widely recognized and celebrated as one of America’s preeminent bronze sculptors. Rip has dedicated his life to expressing his love of nature, wildlife, and the human form through his art. Rip Caswell’s artworks can be found in public spaces and private collections throughout the U.S. and abroad, with numerous awards and honors highlighting a distinguished body of work which has established him as one of the country’s most respected bronze sculptors.
“Trust is the mind’s decision to let go of logic, forsaking reason for belief in hope that a conspiring universe is working on our behalf. Letting go, setting free, enabling our hearts to be vulnerable and exposed to the possibilities that await us.”
Bob Coonts
A native of Colorado, I currently reside in Fort Collins, Colorado. I graduated from Colorado State University in 1963 with a BA degree with concentrations in graphic design and painting.
For my career I worked 31 years as a graphic designer, owning my own studio for the last 20 years. I have also been affiliate faculty at Colorado State University since 1971. My teaching ended in 2003. I started painting in 1994.
I am developing a painting style that is unique to me. I want something that is different and that brings me pleasure in doing. It is stylized, often whimsical, always colorful, and strong in design and composition. Animals, plants, landscapes, and people provide a wealth of subject matter. I am also working on images that are strictly abstract and/or non-objective. The excitement of continual discovery is a major factor for me in my work.
Jess Davila
Jess Davila spent his formidable years in the beautiful state of Sonora, Mexico. He grew up exploring and appreciating the unspoiled beauty of the desert and mountainous regions of his homeland.
Davila focuses on exploring a unique contemporary style. A completely self-taught artist, Davila draws on his experiences with various mediums, which allow him to express and develop the many facets of his artistic talent and to further develop his creative being.
Jess Davila is also the founder of CachHeart and has generously donated his time and talents since the conception of our cause.
John Gawne
John Gawne was a successful options trader at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange when, in the early 1990s, his sketches and pencil drawings brought him to the attention of collectors and Western artists, such as Joe Beeler, who encouraged Gawne to pursue an artistic career. Gawne soon quit the financial world, devoted himself full-time to art, and today his work is represented by some of the most prestigious galleries in the nation.
Jeff Hepworth
Jeff Hepworth has been a professional educator and working artist for more than 30 years. His award-winning paintings are part of private collections in nearly all 50 states, Canada and abroad. His works are exhibited in numerous galleries and nationally, juried shows.
Jeff’s landscapes are created in an impressionistic, luminous style. Somewhat tonal, his works have an apparent atmospheric quality. Using soft edges, harmonious colors, and landforms saturated in diffused light, Jeff skillfully draws you into a dreamy, comfortable world.
Charles M Huckeba
Charles Huckeba is a contemporary painter with a fine arts degree and graduate study from the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he studied under an outstanding faculty of contemporary artists such as Larry Rivers and Irma Cavat. His influences are varied, including Paul Klee, Jean Dubuffet, Adolf Gotlieb, Cy Twombly, Wassily Kandinski and Joan Miro.
Charles and his wife, Jill, have spent years exploring and recording the rich lode of prehistoric pictographs and petro glyphs found in the Western United States Great Basin.
Dennis Jones
Through diligence, discipline, hard work and love of his subject matter, wildlife sculptor Dennis Jones has developed a talent and an artistry that is uniquely his own. His attention to detail arouses the innermost emotions of those who possess his art. This has earned Jones a worldwide following of wildlife enthusiasts and collectors.
Dennis Jones has won numerous awards and honors that range from being invited to Sapporo, Japan as a member of the U.S. Ice Sculpting Team, to recently being named “Artist of the Year” for both the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and the Mule Deer Foundation.
David Edward Kucera
Kucera finds people of the Old West to be visually and spiritually fascinating subject matter. Through a colorful rich palette, clever composition, and perspective his work comes alive.
Among his recent recognitions is the Award of Excellence received at the Oil Painters of America National Exhibition & Sale in May 2006. In 2007, Ed also won an Award of Excellence for a painting entitled “Her Grandson” at the Oil Painters of America National Show and Exhibition.
He is a signature member of the Oil Painters of America.
Pablo Milan
Pablo Milan is a recognized contemporary artist known for his powerful, brightly colored paintings. The images of his southwest heritage explode onto the canvas with loose brushstrokes revealing expressionistic versions of dancers, warriors and horsemen riding across the landscape.
The artist is renowned for his variety of painting techniques utilizing acrylic blends with broad brush strokes, heavy textures, bold splatters and delicate washes all in union to produce his own unique style of contemporary art.
Milan primarily is a self taught artist who grew up as a fifth generation New Mexican. The subject matter of his art came from spending his early years observing the rich culture of the Four corners area of New Mexico. His great aunt married a Laguna Pueblo man, and Pablo often attended pueblo dances and ceremonials inspiring some of the subject matter for his art.
Milan is less interested in showing literal images as painting the expressionistic eminence of Native Americans. His paintings have been selected to adorn the covers of books such as “Rebuilding Native Nations”, produced by the University of Arizona and Harvard University Project on American Indian Development as well as the cover of music CD’s by SilverWave Records, which produces contemporary Native American Music. His paintings also hang in the Foxwood Resort Casino in Connecticut, owned by the Mashan Pequot Tribal Nation.
Milan studied art at a community college in Dallas before joining the U.S. Air Force. In the Air Force, Pablo was stationed in Tokyo, and in his off time studied under master artists where he learned a spontaneous approach to painting. A recognized southwest contemporary artist, he owns his own gallery in Santa Fe and has exhibited in galleries throughout the Southwest, from New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona to Texas and Utah.
Pablo Milan, named Spanish Artist of 1997, currently resides in New Mexico. His art is in corporate collections such as Hyatt, Marriott Corp. and PacifiCare as well as private collections throughout the United States and the world, including Shakira, Columbian rock star; Ron Howard, producer and actor, and Tommy Lee Jones, actor.
Jason Napier
Jason is known around the globe for his stylized collection of wildlife sculptures. His smooth surfaces, graceful lines, and carefully selected high polished areas accentuate motion and give life to some of nature’s most beloved subjects.
Jason applies a patina finish to suit each animal and is so unique they have given him a reputation amongst his collectors and peers alike. His trademark patina finishes have taken years of experimentation to develop and along with his distinct style have gained him notoriety in the art world.
Jason is even more passionate today about his work and strives to make an impact with each new piece. The challenges of working in bronze, seems to be a driving force for Jason and continues to be his medium of choice. Its strength, permanence, and ability to produce color are important qualities. However, the expression of the form and the feeling it portrays is crucial and must be presented in such a way that it evokes emotion in all of us.
Jacques & Mary Regat
The animals are so real, that you might want to reach out and touch them. The people have so much expression; you might want to start a conversation.
They are the creations of Jacques and Mary Regat, who sculpt as a team. Inspired by their Alaskan backdrop, the couple creates breathtaking images that reflect their breathtaking surroundings.
“Living (in) and experiencing this land and people has contributed to our developing an appreciation and understanding of the primeval depth and spiritual richness of the land,” said Jacques. “Our determination is to reflect this in our art.”
Bill Shaddix
Bill Shaddix has committed himself since day one by donating several of his most powerful paintings to our auctions.
Mac Stevenson
Mac Stevenson is a Utah native. He received his Bachelors Degree from Weber State University and his Masters of Fine Art from Brigham Young University. After a 30-year career in art education, he is now a full-time landscape painter. He paints in oil on linen or canvas.
Mac has won many awards including being chosen as “Teacher of the Year, 1997” by Utah State University. He was also honored in 2002 by the University of Utah as one of the “Top 300 Artists” in Utah. In 2009 Mac received the Mayor’s award for his outstanding contribution to the visual arts in the city of Ogden.
Joshua Tobey
Sculptor Joshua Tobey’s animals and birds may be stretching, scratching, soaring, sleeping, curled in a ball, wrestling a salmon, or poised to pounce. Only an artist for whom the outdoors is a second home could capture these poses in bronze with such clarity, sympathy, and humor. Each piece is brought to life through a slight stylization of classic form and what are widely accepted as some of the most colorful and dynamic bronze patinas today.
“Recently, I have been working on sculpture that utilizes two or more compositions that together express my idea while being able to stand independently of one another. It is an amazing way to communicate my ideas through the relationship between multiple compositions. I hope that everyone recognizes a part of themselves in my art work.
George Walbye
Walbye was born in Rawlings, Wyoming and spent boyhood summers working on ranches near the area homesteaded by his grandfather at Whiskey Gap. The beauty and vitality of the West are qualities reflected in his art.
George is one of five founding artists whose work was selected by the Loveland High Plains Art Council for permanent display in nationally renowned Benson Park Sculpture Garden in Loveland, Colorado. His bronzes are in private collections throughout Europe, Canada, and the United States.
Wei Tai
Wei Tai was born in a rural village south of Shanghai, China. His father was a reserved sculptor in their homeland and taught his son both sculpting and painting techniques. Wei Tai went on to be a graduate from the Shanghai Fine Art Institute. He was also an Assistant Professor of Art and Fashion design in Shanghai College. The artist served as the Chief Designer of the China Silk Corporation for seven years. This allowed him to travel to Western Europe countries and become exposed to different cultures. These travels gave birth to his longing for new expressions in art.
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