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When starting down his path, BenJamin was given the words from another artist, "make what you like" - from those words Ben Jamin has found that the warm energy we all feel in great art comes from the artists who truly love what they create.  Ben creates his work using a plasma torch to create relief in thick steel plate. He then refines and polishes each piece before adding some color by way of chemical reaction, or patina. Ben has been refining his techniques for almost 15 years, and the quality of his patinas and finishes reveal just that. Be sure to take a look at his web site www.BJaminCustoms.com

Landscape painting is the primary subject, utilizing color and textures to release the beauty of what is seen in nature. John Dear focuses on bringing the observer into the scene and capturing a breathtaking moment in time to elicit an emotional connection.

Custom wood geared floor model clocks    Sculptingtime.com

Piper was born and raised in Colorado where she fell in love with the outdoors at a young age. Later in life her love for the outdoors and fly fishing combined with her love of art. Piper creates highly detailed fish and wildlife art inspired by the beautiful outdoors, she creates her art on both reclaimed pine beetle kill wood and canvas. Piper believes that art is a powerful tool that connects and inspires people. As an artist inspired by nature, she aims to connect others to our natural world and use her art as a conservation tool.

www.pipernunn.art

Hand cut and stitched custom made leather goods for home and travel. From Jordan "As the owner and craftsman of Product 127 nothing  is more important to me than ensuring that every client & every  product receives the attention it deserves. This means that nothing I  craft, whether a creation of my own, or a commission from a client,  leaves my shop unless it meets my high standards for quality and  attention to detail."

Carole works primarily with porcelain and uses glaze to mimic the flowing nature of watercolor where glazes interact to create abstract landscapes. She juxtaposes matte and shiny glazes, brushed, dipped, and poured areas as a way to create visual and textual contrast. She applies glaze in multiple layers using a sponge to help create more visual texture and depth. It is her hope that when you lift one of her creations and turn it in your hand you find something that intrigues with each rotation.

Peter Lawlor is a Colorado resident who specializes in the adaptation of our world through photography. He is known for imaging on creative substrates and new techniques. People comment on his use of vibrant color and unique perspective, to elicit emotional responses at gallery shows.

www.photosbylawlor.com

Steve Valdes is a Fort Collins resident who hand crafts jewelry boxes in a wide variety of designs from exotic and domestic hardwoods. During the first Covid lockdown, like so many others, Steve was at a loss for things to do, so he decided to clean out the basement. After 12 years of accumulated miscellaneous junk was given away and disposed of, he discovered some woodworking tools that had been sitting idle in various corners for over thirty years. Still needing something to occupy his time, he decided to re-learn how to use them. Many YouTube carpentry videos later, he started making small jewelry boxes using a vintage bandsaw. One of the videos he watched warned that making boxes was “addictive.” Little did he know just how true that would be for him and how many hours of enjoyment he would get from it. What you see today is the result of a YouTube start and hundreds of boxes of practice.

Andrée Ferguson is an artist based in Colorado Springs who paints alla prima in oils in the Impressionistic style. Her work is heavily influenced by the ten years she lived in Europe, and she enjoys painting all the things she loves about traveling - the beautiful architecture, the colorful landscapes, and the interesting people. www.andreeferguson.com

Cher Devereaux's work can be described as  “energetic”, “organic”,  “intuitive”, and full of movement. Her passion to create comes from the desire to communicate and the responsibility to respond to the call on her life as an artist. She captures the energy of the subjects she is painting through line, color and gestural strokes of paint.

Monica's work is a creative expression using natural leaves that would only last a season in nature. She extends their presence in an artful way, using a special mixture of cement and sand that is applied to the back of the leaves. Her technique has evolved over the past 5 years in the way that the castings are shaped, sculpted, cured, and then painted, so that each 'leaf' can be enjoyed for many seasons to come both indoors and outside.

Www.moonlightgardendesign.com

Andrew Barker is a mixed-media artist who creates intricate, illustrative works that are themed around the flora, fauna, and landscapes of the Rocky Mountains and the American West. His primary medium is watercolor, which he often combines with ink, gouache, and colored pencil on either traditional fine art paper or wood. 

www.ovoworks.com

Laura is a self-taught metalsmith and she uses her family's heirloom tools to create unique jewelry for the modern collector. Working with sterling silver & gold, Laura combines rare gemstones and rich textures to create contemporary designs inspired by traditional southwest style and her love of nature.

www.anvilriverjewelry.com 

Artist Emily Lange is a semi-realist digital painter who loves incorporating nature and the fantastical into her enigmatic portrait and landscape work. With a geology background, she aims to stretch her creative limits by blending the creativity of her mind with that of nature's elements.

www.elangeart.com

Julie creates mountain inspired pieces using reclaimed wood and resin. Her artwork is inspired by her mountain lifestyle in Evergreen, Colorado. She highlights some of her favorite things about the Rocky Mountains- snow capped peaks, brilliant starry skies, and forest tree lines. Her artwork is made in layers, so it gives depth and dimension, and no two are exactly alike. www.modstikdesigns.com

Dean has had a love affair with the mountains ever since he was a boy growing up in Colorado. After a profound personal tragedy, and many years working jobs that were ultimately unfulfilling, Dean gravitated toward photographing the mountains as a form of therapy. He has dedicated his time perfecting the skills needed to be a wilderness photographer, skills that include the ability to safely navigate and camp in extremely harsh winter conditions. The mission of his brand, Creation Images, is to explore, capture and share the beauty of God’s creation to inspire faith, hope and goodness. As an artist he dances between the outer landscape of the natural world with his inner landscape of emotions. While his photos represent what he experiences in the real world, he takes pride in intentionally using visual tools to communicate a story or a mood.
www.creationimagesphotography.com

Elevate your self-expression with our artisan-crafted wire-wrapped and beaded jewelry. Jennifer of Force of Nature Wild-Inspired Art specializes in creating unique pieces that beautifully display your personal style. Expertly made and designed to be a conversation starter, our jewelry is the perfect way to showcase your artistic side.

Marjorie Braverman has been working as an artist since she graduated in 2007, earning her BFA. Her whimsical pieces will add a touch of fun and creativity to any space and are perfect for those who want to make a bold statement. The vibrant colors and playful imagery are sure to uplift your mood and add a pop of joy to your life.

www.MarjorieBraverman.com

“Distinguished Excellence“ category award winner! "Elemental Materials"

Tina Hoffer is a unique woodworker by blending two of natures alluring elements; wood and stone. Tina  creates functional, culinary accessories with her Cutting Boards, Gathering  Boards, Serving Platters and Dipping Trays that will elevate your daily or  special occasions. 

Tina meticulously searches through  arborists’ wood lots looking for the perfectly flawed, cracked and knot  filled hardwoods that other woodworkers pass by because of these  deficits. She chooses smaller pieces of wood that will be enhanced with  Stone like turquoise, lapis, malachite or chrysocolla, and inlays these  into the cracks and voids. She follows the Kintsugi method of Japanese art , where broken and fractured pottery is mended with gold  or silver dust, there by restoring the fragments to a functional and more  beautiful piece.  

www.knotswoodandstone.com

“Mixed Media Outstanding Innovator“ award winner!

Marilyn's art is reverse painting on acrylics. Yep, she paints in reverse from the most forward elements of the piece to the furthest back. This unique approach garnered Marilyn our  winner from ColoradoArtWeekend.com

You have to see it in person to truly appreciate its magic. Her work is inspired by the natural beauty that surrounds her home at the base of the Mt. Evans wilderness area in Idaho Springs, Colorado. Painting in a modern impressionist style, Marilyn's art is infused with brilliant light and color. Her use of textured, bold brush strokes magnifies the vivid impressionist style.

www.marilynquigleyart.com

Deidre Sappington is a progressive custom stained glass artist, specializing is stained glass pet portraits. 

 She  has been creating stained glass windows and panels since 2015. Her  inspiration comes from the transference of light and the emotion that it  evokes through Stained Glass.  Her love of animals led to specializing  in stained glass pet portraits and memorials, where she expertly  captures the essence of our adopted family members. Deidre also enjoys  creating custom works for her clients, including up-cycling old items  with stained glass to give them new life through art. 

 www.Brokenglass.design

Dark-River metal designs makes authentic hand crafted wall hanging metal art. The embodiment of art is natural and nature themed. Examples would be; mountains, animals and mandalas. All art is framed in wood and hand made with a plasma cutter torch, oxy-acetylene torch and more. 

www.darkrivermetaldesigns.com

Holly Olive is a Colorado-based painter.  She was born in North Dakota, but has lived in a wide range of landscapes from the Mojave Desert to New England.  This variety of landscapes is evident in the paintings she creates today.  Inspired by dreams of altered worlds, her paintings embody the movement and color of an altered universe.  Using acrylic and alcohol ink, she creates abstract landscapes of a world that is just outside her reach.  She casts out her brush as if it were a wizard’s wand in unpredictable strokes to inflict a visual experience that stimulates the mind to ask “What world is this?”  She uses a palette knife with an intentional splat to cleave into the fabric of time and space.  She works back and forth, layer to layer, until she verges on falling from the precipice to a new and precious universe.

For purchasing Holly's work, go to www.villainhatter.com