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Sheri Morris
David Jenkins
Ray Short
Lorissa Longfellow
Harris Allen Stein
Bob Needham
Judi Pence
Doris Lightwine
Herberta Schroeder
Barbara C. Jones
Sheri Morris
I have loved to draw and paint as early as I can remember, and had a wonderful art teacher at West Phoenix High School that entered my work in many student shows. I majored in Textile Design at the University of Arizona and minored in art, teaching Home Economics and art in high school. For many years I was a juried member of Arizona Designer Craftsman. At that time Batik on silk was my medium. Just before I retired from education, I took a short workshop in pastels, and was so entranced that it became a passion. The colors and ability to redo until everything was perfect, still keeps up my joy of creating.
My first workshop was in Santa Fe with Richard McKinley, and he still influences my work. I also studied with Deborah Secor and attended every workshop I could at the last two Pastel Conventions. The Pastel Journal and McKinley’s blog have also been a great help. The “Impressionists” are my real inspiration, as is Ann Templeton.
I love creating anything and everything. I am designing quilts from some of my abstract designs, but as long as color is involved I am there. Impressionistic renditions of old trees and buildings are my first love, although running water and reflections are a close second. Lately I have been turned older, unworthy paintings into abstracts. That is just plain fun.
Wallis paper is my first choice of papers, and I have enjoyed doing water pictures on black Richeson paper. I prefer the softer pastels like Terry Ludwig’s, Sommelier and Great Americans. I have a large studio easel and French easel for plein air painting. I have easel lights, but find that my paintings are too intense when I use them during the day.
I display in my home and at many local competitions and shows. During November, I have a one women show at the Mohave Museum of Art and History. A future goal is to show in a big city gallery.
My first big award was a Best of Show at the Fountain Hills juried show in 1976. I was also an Artist in Residence at the Grand Canyon in 1978. More recently I accrued 25 points toward signature members in the Pastel Society. I have won a first and second ribbons at the Lake Havasu Juried Spring Shows and numerous firsts and Best of Show, Best of Class at the Mohave County Fairs.
As for inspiration, paint for the joy of it all, the friendships and success will follow.
David Jenkins
In the mid 1990’s David discovered that engineering computers could also be used to create artistic forms. That discovery was an epiphany which changed his life, leading to the creation of Lifescape Design.
Arthur Clarke (2001 A Space Odyssey) described fractal geometry as the mathematics of nature. David takes it one step farther and defines it as the mathematics of the soul. Each of his images is a reflection of one aspect of his imaginative spirit that ranges from the deeply thoughtful to the curiously whimsical.
David uses high technology GFX workstations to create his images and employs a variety of methods from giclée prints on canvas to 3D holography to reproduce his work.
His works have been seen on the cover of magazines, on television shows and in galleries locally and in Europe. David’s art has won several awards; most recently his work has been selected into the “Top 40” at the 2008 LA Center for Digital Arts exhibition.
Ray Short
My background is in business, education and technology. During my young(er) years, I was a construction contractor in Kingman, AZ. When the economy turned to mud in 1980, I went back to ASU and obtained a B.A. in Psychology and then to NAU for an M.A. in Education (Guidance & Counseling).
After bumping around a few years, I went to work for Eastern Arizona College at the Globe campus as a college administrator running training and vocational placement programs for eight years. When all the contracts ended, I started an office supply retail store in Globe which I sold after two years, and moved to Phoenix.
I had taught myself computer programming in the meantime, so I went to work for Uhaul as a programmer for the next 13 years. Tiring of the big city life I returned to Kingman like a homing pigeon in 2005. I now work for a large construction company as a computer programmer. I have also written a point-of-sale construction application which I hope to sell commercially someday.
However, the most interesting event of my recent life was when I began to play around with photography in July of 2008. Almost immediately I was hooked. For me it is the digital manipulation of images to create a piece of art, that is most captivating. It doesn't matter if I am photographing a beautiful flower with a powerful macro lens or a landscape shot of an otherwise gray desert terrain, it often can be manipulated into a work of art. Even the simple and drab can be turned into a photo masterpiece.
A beautiful web design is made possible by beautiful, relevant images. When I am not working at my job, I am photographing or working on images I have already taken. When I am not doing that, I am studying the art and science of photography. I am blessed to have top level state-of-the art photographic and printing equipment.
Will I ever make any money with photography? I don't know. I was a computer programmer for five years before anyone ever paid me for that. I used to teach my students in the part-time classes I taught at EAC to find something you are willing to do for free just because you love it. Put all your heart and soul into it and someone will eventually pay you for it. I think being an artist is not about making money but about the act of creation itself. When you stand back and see your finished work and others see it and appreciate it and are uplifted in some way..it is good. After all, isn't that what the Great Creator did?
Lorissa Longfellow
My photographs include images of ghost towns, National Parks of the southwest, machinery and cars left abandoned, and images of buildings on sections of old Route 66 in the Mohave Desert. I hope to make the viewer feel the past grandeur of the objects, see how beautiful the objects can be as nature reclaims them, and, in general, see the beauty of the natural landscape of the area.
Photography to me is more than documentation, but an exploration of light and composition. New work includes my “Study of Motherhood” series, inspired by my own experience as a new mother. These photographs express the emotions and bonds between mother and child.
Harris Allen Stein
I'm a self taught wood and metal artist. I grew up in Pennsylvania and learned the craft of fine woodworking when I was about 34 years old. I have been living in Arizona since 2002 and I have expanded my skills to include metal working and stone cutting and polishing.
I enjoy working with various natural materials to create beautiful works of functional and fine art using motifs inspired by and reminiscient of the Southwestern United States.
Bob Needham
I’m a retired Geologist and Mining Engineer, but photography has always been a special interest. Reflecting on my career and my love of the outdoors, much of my work involves rural landscapes with the touch of man - be it an old car or a Scottish castle.
Over the years I’ve evolved from 35mm color photography to medium and large format black & white photography using traditional equipment and processes. My early color photography was about capturing beauty as seen by the eye. Black & white photography is about emotions and mental abstractions. The difficulties restrict my portfolios, but the results are rewarding. Enjoy, and let your mind wander.
Judi Pence
I am Judi Pence and live in Golden Valley, Arizona with my husband and we are retired. I recently joined the Mohave Art Guild in Kingman, AZ and am looking forward to a lot of fun!
Being mostly self-taught I have studied with several artists in oils, watercolors, acrylic and pastel. I have drawn and painted most of my life and use the chalk medium, in church, to teach children. (with blacklight)
I am a published author and am now working on a children's book. "The Saga of Jeremy Boggs". After many years of painting, I finally have my own studio to work in! I paint, draw, make puppets and display my work. Since I live in Arizona my passion is the Arizona desert and Cactus Flower Studio speaks to that in it's decor.
As a very young child I began drawing and studied pastels and watercolors in California with Rene' Murphy. As a teen I began sketching fashions and as a seamstress went on to own my own Sewing business. Over the years I have designed period and dance costumes as well as wedding gowns. I had fun designing and making 1980's costumes for "Helldarado" in Tombstone, AZ.
I found my real love in 1966 when my husband bought me my first set of oil paints. I studied with Dale Boatman in Southern Arizona as well as Maxine Parsons. My favorite medium is oil but prefer acrylic's for painting flowers and animals.
Doris Lightwine
Doris studied art at L.A.Trade Tech, Chouinard Art Institute, NAU and with Don Stone and Roy Purcell. A native of California, she and her family moved to Kingman in 1965. She is a charter member of the Mohave Artists and Craftsmen's Guild, has served on the Kingman Arts and Humanities Commission and as an instructor at Kingman Jr. High and in the Comminuty Schools program.
Doris was the director of the Mohave Museum of History and Art from 1973-1976, where she had the responsibility for development of new exhibits as well as operation of the museum. Since 1979 she has owned and operated her own gallery.
In 1988 she was the proud recipient of the Women Making History Art Award. Doris has won many ribbons and prizes for her work at art shows, county fairs and the Arizona State Fair. Her great grand-daughter, reading and travel are her favorite hobbies. Inspiration for many of her paintings comes from her travel memories and photographs.
Doris works exclusively in acrylics, but her painting subjects run the full range from portraits to landscapes and everything in between.
Herberta Schroeder
I was born in Needles California. I was given the name Herberta Holly. Some people can't pronounce my name
even though it sounds like it looks. I got tired of repeating Herbert with an A. So I shortened it to Herb. It is
easier to remember as well as spell.
My father loved photography. He was always taking pictures. When I was a few weeks old, there was a neighbor
that came over every day to take a picture of me with his camera. I still have most of those photos. What a
treasure. Some were of me and my dad, others with my mom. My sis was 14 years older and my bro was 10
years older, needless to say, I was a surprise.
I have always taken photos. I grew up with it. That means, I annoyed everyone! I gave it up for a while, life got in
my way. Then when the lemons rained in my life, I decided to make lemonade and take it back up. I have not
regretted it. That next cool picture makes me keep on going. I guess that is what it means to have passion, To
want something so bad that nothing stops you from it.
I am a photographer, a student of all that surrounds me. I am always amazed at the images I see. How a pillar of
rock can look like a person one way and, another direction, look like a craggy spike of stone. This is who I am. I
am also married to a man that is pretty darned patient, and that is where the name Schroeder comes from. And
yes, he refuses to call me Herb.
Barbara C. Jones
Born in Augsburg, Bavaria, West Germany – a 2000 + year old city, founded by the Roman Emperor Augustus – Augsburg lies on the old roman trade route from Rome, Italy, to the port city of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. This stretch of road is now also part of the German “romantische Strasse”, ( romantic road ) through Rothenburg o.T. (most medieaval town) to Fuessen and King Ludwig’s fairytale castles Hohenschwangau and Neuschwanstein in the Bavarian alps. Augsburg is the second oldest town in Germany after Trier with its porta negra.
Barbara came to the United States on her own whim and wanderlust in 1964 after spending a year as an “au pair” in Bordeaux, France, working as a steno-dactylo/translator at a wine import/export company. She also “toiled” with much enthusiasm cutting and stomping grapes at the 16th century chateau of Michel de Montaigne, all the while studying and observing French life and culture.
Once in California, she worked her way through college at the Pacific Telephone Co. in Chico, where she received her lifetime teaching credential K-14 and Bachelor of Arts in French, German and Speech at Cal. State University, Chico. Her M.A. in International Education followed a year later.
Barbara taught high school classes in English, German, French, Speech, Home Economics, and Arts and Crafts, such as loom weaving, macramé, trapunto, collage, Decoupage, acrylics and woodworking in California, and college classes of French in Texas.
Member: United States Armed Forces, Army Reserves, 1977-1985, Camp Parks, Pleasanton, CA.
Instructor of Basic and Advanced NCO ( non-com-officers) classes, Army depot, Sacramento, CA.
Numerous first place prizes for Fiber Arts at Silver Dollar Fair, Chico, CA.
-Weaving workshops from renowned California weaver Josie Otwell.
-Jewelry classes at Cosumnes River College, Elk Grove/Sacramento, CA.
-Sculpture workshop, Cowboy Artists Museum, Kerrville, TX
Who’s Who of American Women, Marquis Who’s Who in America/ the world.
Hon. Member, Turtle Creek Pioneer and Ranching Women, Kerrville, Tx., Member, Kingman Social Club, membership secretary,
Member, Arts and Craftsmen Guild, Kingman, AZ
Member, Kingman Performing Arts Center, Kingman, AZ
Hobbies: - World travel, Mosaics, fine art seri-and lithographs by Chagall, Picasso, Tarkay, Kinff, Bev. Doolittle ( camouflage art),Western art bronze sculptures, pool and garden art, painting, decorating, fiber arts embellishments.
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