I became interested in jewelry design during my visits to Sedona, Arizona, which is known for
spiritual experiences and healing energy vortexes. I would visit ...
"I began playing in the clay before the age of seven. I played in the clay during high school, college, and in my career years. But it wasn't until I played in ...
Originally an artist working in metal and jewelry, George took several years of glass classes at Northern Arizona University, followed by study and work at the ...
Unlike those who received their calling late in life, Joe Beeler always knew he was an artist. “I could always draw.” He commented. “It just came naturall...
Bill is a Sedona based fine arts photographer specializing in creating richly detailed images of the American Southwest wilderness. He loves capturing the patte...
Elaine Belvin’s interest in photography was sparked by the beautiful landscapes she and her husband saw while hiking in the American Southwest. After a long c...
An abstract painter and mixed media sculptor with a love for exploring the creative process, I enjoy working with a variety of materials: glass, clay, metal, wi...
April Bower has always been fascinated by all the varied processes involved in metalworking. After receiving a Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree, she spent 18+ year...
For as long as I can remember I had an interest in cameras and photography. As a young boy I had the use of my father’s roll film camera, sometimes connecting...
I grew up in Pennsylvania, where as a child I enjoyed drawing and painting horses. When I was very young my parents gave me a “paint by numbers” set and I r...
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Betty Carr was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California and developed a love of art from visiting museums. For 23 years she taught art in public schools and di...
My paintings explore my personal experiences and observations of nature and people. I like capturing moments in time, happy, sad moments hidden in the commonp...
Inspired by the ever-changing light and colors found in nature, ML Coleman seeks to convey the essence of his subject utilizing a painterly form of realism that...
Growing up in southern California, Bill always had an interest in exploring nature and creating art. As an experienced rock climber, he spent much of his youth...
Ceramics
Rhonda A. Davis a Ceramic Artist who lives in Flagstaff, Az. I received my MA in Ceramics in 1992 while still teaching High School Ceramics at Flagst...
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Christine Debrosky has been inspired by the Southwestern landscape since moving here in 2008.
She grew up in New York state's Hudson Valley, where she honed he...
A Nebraska native, Jane has been a quilt artist for over 25 years. She enjoys the interplay of visual designs and the dynamic effects of bold colors and texture...
Don, a resident of Cornville, AZ, is a professor emeritus and retired director of the Advertising Management program in the School of Business at Portland State...
For almost 40 years, Lydia Dillon-Sutton has been using the ancient process of batik, painted with hot bee’s wax and dye baths. Beginning with woven cloth, Di...
Joanne's journey into creating art was a life-long hunt for a medium besides photography that inspired her. Color, texture and design were her inspiration to b...
Miro invites you to experience a world of two entirely separate and unique painting styles - landscape paintings and her signature abstract brush stroke paintin...
Fiber Artist
Mary Flaisig is a fiber artist who has lived and worked in Sedona Arizona since 1995. She earned her BA from San Diego State University. Before mo...
After beginning clay at the Sedona Arts Center in 2011, he began creating in his private studio. Foster has since established himself as a formidable potter and...
Having been born and raised in the quaint artistic town of Ojai, California, she learned early in life that images spoke louder than words to her. Even as a tee...
For me, nature photography is bringing the beauty of the soul into focus and offering the results to other people as a way of seeing into meaning together. Now ...
Mary Helsaple was raised in California, an avid birdwatcher, a national exhibiting watercolor artist who moved to the Southwest from Colorado in 2008. My ...
In 1991 they moved to Sedona Arizona to be closer to their parents who lived in the Phoenix area. Susan landed a job in another jewelry store and Paul started ...
Mary Heyborne, award-winning potter, poet and playwright, says: “Wherever I live I tune in to my surroundings and seek the influence of its uniqueness in my ...
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Meticulously torn bits of hand-painted papers, delicately put together, form the exceptionally vibrant collages created by Artist Elizabeth St. Hilaire.
My artwork combines man-made materials with nature’s own art. My use of color, texture and resin compels viewers to actually touch the surface of my pieces.
My goal is to create beautiful architectural art pieces that always are new and different in both design and material composition. By blending natural stone, gl...
Sue Horine has been creating bead embroidered art jewelry since 2005. She was born in California and much of her inspiration comes from her childhood family vac...
Neil’s current clay pieces meld thrown forms, slabs, altering, incising and sculpting. Glazes on the functional pieces, fired in an electric kiln, have been d...
Susan Kliewer is one of the Southwest's most acclaimed contemporary sculptors. A painter since the age of ten, Susan turned to sculpting in 1987, after working ...
Sculptor
Karla recently moved to Sedona after retiring from a career in beauty, as a boutique owner, dealer in fine jewelry holding a GIA certificate in diamon...
Painting and the fine arts have always been an integral part of my life. But it was as a weaver and clothing designer for many years—first in Sweden, where I ...
Artist Mariann Leahy’s inspiration comes from ancient myths and symbols. Using clay that contains a mica-rich surface, she carefully paints stories with glaze...
Gretchen’s work is inspired, not only by her love of painting, but from her ethnic heritage, teaching and the world around her. Combining the traditional wit...
Efren Lopez started Route 66 Images to enrich the traveling experience of visitors to the Mother Road by creating fine art photography to create calendars, post...
Justine’s paintings are charged with ever-changing light and color, and living texture that invites one to step into that vibrantly alive land and walk its ma...
Over the years I’ve learned to appreciate excellence although I rarely achieve it.
The closest I come is in the ephemeral areas of concept and integrity.
Bu...
"None of us perceive the world in exactly the same way. Our oneness lies in a yearning to touch and to understand. My work is an endeavor to share my thoughts a...
Painter
Margo lives in the red rock country of northern Arizona. Raised in a rural area east of Phoenix, her favorite subjects are Southwest in nature, includi...
Chikako Myers is a jewelry artist who creates dichroic glass, cast and fabricated silver copper and bronze jewelry. Her work is shown in Sedona and Japan.
I have the good fortune to be a full time painter. I paint primarily in plein air, however studio work has become a large part of my painting experience. Pain...
His watercolors capture the energy of the red rocks of the Sedona landscape with spatial illusions of shapes and colors that give the viewer the experience of b...
Dennis Ott has grown from being a ceramics student at the Sedona Arts Center, to a beginning wheel instructor, to heading up the Art's Center's Ceramics Departm...
Known for organically integrating landscape and abstraction, Christie Palmer’s acrylic paintings originate from a reverence for the beauty in nature. For her,...
From thrown clay to large form, thin-walled vessels—to hand-built figures, Jeff Perkins has been a master of ceramics for most of his life. Jeff studied under...
Ceramics
SEDONA, ARIZONA Ceramics Artist, Laura Pokorny, lives her dreams. Moving to Sedona from the Cleveland, Ohio area was a dream come true. Just as workin...
Phoenix artist, Julie Gilbert Pollard, paints in oil and watercolor in a fluid, painterly manner. Her painting style, while representational, is colored with he...
Jewelry
Happily tucked away in my art glass studio in Sedona, Arizona, I am a visual artist, playing with light, color, heat and glass. These are the elements...
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Hadley Rampton’s paintings are an amalgamation of her love of composition, color, mark making and being present in the outdoors. “I’m energized by the cha...
Cheri Reckers earned her BFA with honors from the Columbus College of Art & Design
and has been a professional silk painter for over 30 years. Her award-winnin...
"In the visual sense, when one views my art, he or she should be able to feel the rugged beauty of the southwest and the vitality and diversity of its people."
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Striving to produce dimensional replicas of some of the unique architecture of the Southwest the artist uses techniques and materials individually developed ove...
Izzy Simmer is a knitter of gorgeous, colorful high end garments that will make you feel beautiful inside and out. She loves creating with quality fibers like ...
In Jan's more than thirty years as an art instructor and professional painter, she continues her exploring and experimentation with many mediums. Her accomplish...
Geo is a native New Yorker who was transplanted to Lake Havasu, Arizona in 1972. He and his wife Suzanne (also an artist) now live in Sedona, AZ. Geo was inspir...
In addition to expressing her love of the dynamic qualities of glass through her unique style, Holly also enjoys her “adventurer” side. Inspiration from tre...
“Is that watercolor?” is a question Julie Ronning Talbot often hears from people viewing her work. They are surprised by the vibrant color and the precise d...
In the 1970’s, I had the privilege to teach elementary school on a Shoshone Indian Reservation in a one room school. I lived on the reservation in Indian Hous...
Fred Tomlin has been making burl tables since the early 1970’s. His tables can be found from the shoreline of Fisherman’s Wharf to central Texas to Wiscon...
As a self-taught artist, A O Tucker believes that fine art photography must both be inspiring and technically excellent. Born and raised in Arizona on farm land...
John Henry Waddell, born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1921, began teaching art to adults when he was 16. After Army service, he achieved his MFA and MAE from the Scho...
Williams' latest sculptures have an artistic style where he seeks to depict emotions and responses that his pieces arouse within a person rather than objective ...