The Highlands Art Festival June 7 & 8

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“Master Artist” award winner for the 2022 season winner! Peter Freischlag's free-flowing style makes  his watercolors unique. Peter is a mood painter creating an impression  of his sublet matter through the use of bold and energetic colors.  Peter's greatest satisfaction comes from the donation to worthy causes  such as Habitat for the Humanity, the American Heart Association, the  American Breast Cancer Society, Children’s Hospice House among others  and was commissioned by Johns Hopkins in Baltimore where he produced  some 50 originals for their surgery wing, Recently,  Wake Forest’s  University’s new neonatal center approached Peter to paint the signature  piece for the entrance to their new center and his 48 x 60 inch “Baby  Bear” adorns the entrance. His work is bright and bold watercolors that  adhere to wood panels treated with a preservative.

 https://peter-freischlag.squarespace.com/

 Sharon's contemporary abstract paintings are a reflection of her inner world. She uses color, shape, and form to express her emotions, thoughts, and experiences. She is not interested in creating realistic representations of the world around her. Instead, she wants to create something that is purely personal and expressive. Sharon's paintings are often based on memories, dreams, and visions. She trys to capture the essence of these experiences in her work. Sharon hopes that her paintings will evoke a sense of wonder and discovery in the viewer. She wants them to be a source of inspiration and reflection. Art has the power to connect us on a deeper level, and she hopes that her work can help to create a more understanding and compassionate world.

www.spillarstudios.com

Justin Thornton's work deals with nature, its history of  scientific study and presented as a reminder of the importance it plays in our lives.  He uses an old photographic process, cyanotype, that was used to catalog botanical specimens. With a selective chemical application and gold paint and leaf after the fact he creates a striking image to focus your thoughts on the natural world.

www.justinthornton.com

AFRICAN  BATIK ART ON COTTON, ALSO REPRODUCED INTO LITHOS AND ARCHIVAL PRINTS.  THE ARTWORK IS BASED ON THEMES CREATED BY CO-ARTIST, LUNGALA RUBADIRI.  EACH IMAGES REPRESENTS A UNIVERSAL VALUE, SUCH AS FAMILY, FRIENDSHIP,  HOPE, HAPPINESS, PEACE AND LOVE. 

website is www.nzalamba-artworks.com 

www.lookingfarther.photo

From Mike "My Photography covers primarily Landscapes, Americana, and Travel in the American west.

Subjects include wild horses, old neon signs, cowboys, and unique western landscapes."

Working with both gold/silver smithing and lapidary. Jordan Borek hand-cuts stones and create rings, pendants, earring etc to compliment the finished stone.

www.BorekJewelers.com

By collecting and preserving a variety of leaves, flower petals, and grasses, Alycia brings the personalities of all kinds of creatures to life in original pieces that last a lifetime. Her company name is Pure Flora Creations and her website is www.purefloracreations.com 

From pencil to pen, tracing to clear plastic, Laura Schmoll creates hand drawn designs that are turned into screen prints without any digital input. They are then screenprinted artfully on the ever loved hoodie. Wearable art.

Michael W. Vacchiano is a Denver-based artist with a primary focus in figurative oil painting. His work explores traditional tropes with a contemporary edge. Michael’s current work explores the turmoil and inequality within our country today. The allegorical narrative within these paintings reference this uniquely American concept of something being “Western”. By using a contemporary western aesthetic he confronts outdated notions of the American experience and addresses the social and political upheaval within America today. 

www.vacchianoart.com

Using quality quilting fabrics and vintage kimonos, Paula cures her base fabric by melding 2 pieces of fabric, then lacquers and wet sands the fabric 6 times over the course of 7 weeks.  She, then, manipulates the fabric to the design she wants and completes it with Asian coins, Swarovski crystals and found objects.

Travis Lemons, Arizona native, father,

husband and creator. After 23 years of working the  9-5, he decided to pursue his dreams in Metal Art.  Travis's goal is to make creations that are interesting and one-of-a-kind. Without a doubt no two items of his are alike as he believes that custom creation carries the most meaning.

www.metallemonartistry.com

Anya approaches each piece with an open mind, allowing the colors and shapes to evolve organically, responding intuitively to the marks and gestures on the surface. The layering of ink and watercolor create a dynamic interplay of fluid and defined shapes accentuated with acrylic and gold or silver leaf. 

Unique glass crystal mobiles with Swarovski & Asfour 

crystal chandelier pieces, semi-precious gemstones,

handmade beads and feathers. Jewelry for the house!

www.crystal-fantasies.com

Terry's art is an exploration of the intricacies of the human experience, a visual narrative that seeks to capture the essence of existence. I am driven by a deep-seated need to communicate the unspoken, the hidden, and the profound. 

Through my work I aim to convey the beauty, vulnerability, and raw power of nature and how I relate to it as a human. I draw inspiration from the ever changing kaleidoscope of life around me. In the chaos I see patterns, in the mundane I uncover the extraordinary. My art is about exploration and self discovery, a journey into the unknown and a dialogue with my inner-self.

www.tstolz.artspan.com

Steve creates hand forged or shaped metal scultpture using plate or sheet steel and patinas to give the pieces color. Some pieces have epoxy as a compliment to the steel. His art ranges from pieces depicting Native American art all the way to renditions of ammonites or the human form.

Michael Moore creates art - portraits, landscapes, wildlife, etc. - from wood using a scroll saw. All of his art is cut with old fashioned hand eye coordination using tiny blades on a powerful scroll saw. He does not use a laser or CNC router in the preparation of his art pieces. He uses various types of wood ranging from 1/8th inch Red Oak and Baltic Birch plywood to 3/4-inch Maple and Baltic Birch plywood.

“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

“Distinguished Excellence“ category award winner! - Painting

Mark  Jennison uses brush and palate knife work to create impressionistic and  expressionist landscape. Trees and mountains play an important in role  in most of Mark’s work. 

“I fell in love with Colorado on my first visit in 1980.”

The  Colorado landscape has had a profound personal impact on him and is a  dominant theme in his paintings. He aspires to capture light, texture  and patterns of nature and convey grandeur and depth in each painting.

Mark  has found a sense of tranquility in painting.  His works are a tribute  to the inspiration of nature and he hopes that others can find the same  peace and solitude through his artwork.  He has  sold his artwork throughout Colorado and the US, as well as in Europe

www.markjennisonart.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