12th Annual Park Hill Art Festival May 31 & june 1

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Stefan Geissbuhler works in acrylic and prefers to paint on hardboard. The rigidity of the hardboard provides a stable, durable surface that supports his technique of painting with stiff spackle knives and brayers. He textures the hardboard using an acrylic gel medium. He then does an underpainting and starts layering the paints by applying and then scraping the paint off to reveal the colors below. This gives the painting texture and visual interest.

www.stefangeissbuhler.square.site

Amy's work is inspired by her hobby as a Colorado beekeeper in Gilpin county. She electroforms individual specimens of honeycomb into unique pendants, rings and earrings. 

Additional mixed media work utilizes the beeswax encaustic method, where she harvests native wildflowers and plants of the Rocky mountains, dries them and incorporates them into organic, whimsical designs.

Shaun Downey’s Photography is about the 'Art in Nature,' with emphasis on how each photograph makes the viewer feel. An intricate understanding of the visual balance between light and composition, allows Shaun to craft beautifully done artistic portraits of wild animals and breathtaking landscapes of the West. His pieces are produced on the finest metal and come ready to hang. The difference between Shaun and his peers is that his portfolio is more diverse, offering a bit of nature for everyone. www.shaundowneyphotography.com

Kathy Anderson has made jewelry for over 40 years with her own very unique designs out of silver and gold using precious and semi-precious gemstones. Her work is all fabricated by hand and is the highest quality. https://www.etsy.com/shop/GoldenRamMetalsmith

Julie Leidel is a  Roycroft Renaissance Master Artisan inspired by The Arts & Crafts  Movement (1880-1920), the Art Nouveau Movement, and the WPA era of the  1930s. Julie's artwork evokes a feeling of yesteryear, and her revivalist  approach calls upon the spirit of the Arts &Crafts Movement - at  its center was the principle that the head, heart, and hand should  ideally work as one.

https://www.thebungalowcraft.com/ 

Karen looks at metal as a beautifully malleable material—a medium that can be cast, formed, folded, and etched in a variety of ways. During the finishing process, she delights in exploring color and texture—from red-hued copper patinas to oxidized silver. She specializes in jewelry that is decorated with precious and semi-precious stones. Her jewelry embraces the fine artisan craft of silversmithing using various techniques and plays with mixing silver with gold. The final piece has an organic classic feel.

Website: www.karenedgestudio.com

Zander presents a unique view of his imagery through intaglio and monotype printmaking.  His subject matter includes landscape, abstract, and people. www.brucezander.com

Deb Fine designs and creates one of a kind natural colored gemstone jewelry.

www.debfinedesign.com

Michael has been exhibiting his fine art color photography at juried arts festivals for over 40 years. His iconic work evokes painterly architectural images from the US, western Europe, and Mexico.

http://afterimageart.com

Brian has created a unique take on bas relief with Carved Canvas.  Through graphic design and virtual sculpting, he transforms a two dimensional image to 3D, then carves that image on a wood "canvas" with a CNC Router.  Each carving is then torch fired, hand painted, and distressed to create beautiful wall art.  More of his work can be found at www.carvedcanvas.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. 

 www.nzalamba-artworks.com 

Judith considers her love, passion, and ability to create and reproduce beauty to be a truly spiritual experience. She is thankful that God has entrusted this gift to her to use and to share with others.  Judith began painting in oils at 8 years of age under the tutelage of an artist who observed her talent and offered to teach her. She has been fortunate to continue her art education through the years working under some top artists, most recently Craig Tennant, Anthony Ryder and Michael Shane Neal. Judith has been featured in Southwest Art Magazine, Art Collector Magazine, and Art of the West Magazine 

www.judithdickinson.com

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

Michael Krob creates handmade custom steel art that is cut with plasma. He then carefully torches and brings out 32 Natural colors inherent in the metal after which he clear coats with a durable UV powder coat finish.  Michael is proud to say he is a local family business that he runs with his wife and 3 sons.

Michael's work is one of a kind unique metal art.

Michael's Website:

www.reflectionsinmetal.net

www.lookingfarther.photo

Mike's hotography covers primarily landscapes, Americana, and travel in the American west.

Subjects include wild horses, old neon signs, cowboys, and unique western landscapes. Find your Western spirit!

Ty is a Montana native and has an eclectic passion for natural beauty. His taste in subject varies wildly depending on what catches his eye. Ty is self taught in all elements of his art, drawing, painting, and sculpture. 

Bead weaving with a twist! Ammonite by Go-Go Vivo creates wearable works of art utilizing artisan crafted beads from the Czech Republic and weaves them onto leather cord. Exhibiting live around the Denver metro area, additional work can be found at www.Go-GoVivo.com

Carolyn Miller's work is done using Oil Paint and Cold Wax Medium.  Curiosity and her love for the creative process using this medium has become one of her joys of life. 

www.carolynm@faso.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

“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