Our Studio Artists

  • Kari Anderson

    Mixed

    Kari believes it is essential for an artist to have a willingness to learn while embracing the encompassing challenges. Accepts commissions.

  • Andy Bass

    Oil

    “Andy’s paintings explore design along with light and shadow with architecture being one of her passions.”

  • Lora Lea Dawson

    Oil

    Lora Lea works in oil and paints landscapes and still life with strong expressive brushwork and color.

  • Ronna Fisher

    Acrylic & Oil

    Ronna is a landscape and wildlife artist working in a style that focuses on atmospheric effects to create mood and the beautiful moments in nature.

  • Cissy Hamilton

    A lifelong Kentucky artist, Cissy paints a variety of subject matter with an emphasis on equine.

  • Darrel Ishmael

    Acrylic, Coal, and Sand

    "I utilize natural elements such as Kentucky coal and Kentucky River sand to create unique, contemporary dynamic equine, landscapes, seascapes and abstract paintings.

  • Zanne Jefferies

    Through the visions that I create in my pastel paintings, collages and acrylic paintings, I hope that I inspire new ways of appreciating and seeing the beauty of the world that surrounds and embraces us each day of our life. My art is influenced by the people, places and textures that make up the fabric of my life and is a product of the real and sometimes imagined landscape of our world.

  • Bre Kort

    Oil

    Bre Kort focuses on bringing out the beauty of wildlife in her artwork. She works towards bringing more awareness to wildlife preservation and primarily works in oil and pyrography. Accepts Commissions.

  • Sandra Kryst

    Oil

    “The act of creating a painting helps me communicate with and experience the world on a deeper, more intimate level.”

  • Marianna Mcdonald

    Pastels & Oils

    “Marianna McDonald is a landscape artist using pastel and oil paints to depict the light and beauty of the land around us.”

  • Dan McGrath

    Oil

    Dan enjoys the outdoors: hiking, kayaking, and Plein Air Painting. He is drawn to out of the way streams, fields, and marshes and barns. The coastal areas of California, Georgia, and the Carolinas are a rich source of subjects reflecting the many moods of marshes, sea and sky. He is a second-career artist, painting since 2001. He is president of Plein Air Painters of the Bluegrass.

  • Mary Neely

    Oil

    “Mary has studied extensively in France, paints in the impressionist style and teaches classes in oil painting.”

  • Marsha Icko Paris

    Oil

    “Figurative portraiture and equine art with a contemporary impressionistic style. Accepts commissions. “

  • Robert Sandford

    Oil

    Bob is inspired daily by the landscape, and the exhilaration of seeing his vision makes him want to paint it all, and he will for as long as he can hold a brush.

  • Marium Van Meter

    Oil and Watercolor

    “Looking at nature through its flowers helps me not only recognize, but realize its beauty and that beauty encourages me to paint.”

  • Sheri Seckman

    “Painting for me is a creative process of expressing what I see in my mind as I observe the world around me. I like to create texture and form through brush strokes and variations of strokes and color in both my watercolor and pastel paintings. Taking a blank sheet of paper and transforming it into a work of art is both magical and all consuming.”

  • Susan Smith Sargent

    Susan is a contemplative painter who finds magic in the ordinary and channels it into vibrant works on silk and in acrylic mixed media.

  • Debbie Winbun

    Watercolor, oils, pastels, colored pencil

    Debbie has been painting for over forty years and teaching for more than twenty years. She loves seeing that "ah ha" moment in her students. She considers her art practice to be a journey that she loves to share with others. She likes being a "Jack of all trades" and enjoys venturing into different mediums and subjects.

  • Tammy Lair

    Tammy Lair is an animal and landscape artist, painting in a contemporary and impressionistic style. She works in oils. Accepts commissions and teaches.