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 Amanda Blake
Portland
Amanda Blake lives and works in
Portland,
Oregon. She received her BA in fine arts from the
University of
Oregon, studied watercolor in
Siena,
Italy and oil painting and print making at the Chautauqua Art Institute in
New York . Inspired by religious and literary symbolism, art history, superstition and found photography she works to create narratives that are at once familiar and mysterious. Her paintings often features groupings of figures; families, couples, siblings, friends, both to explore the dynamic that can be created in a piece through small gestures and glances and to create a narrative people can identify with emotionally. Current obsessions and inspirations include imaginary friends, consumerism, superstition, fortune telling, wildflowers, places she's never been or ever plans to go, the colors of faded Polaroids, and other people's family snapshots.
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 Amy Ruppel
Portland
Amy lives in beautiful green
Portland,
Oregon, where she works in her studio as a full-time artist, illustrator and surface designer. She was born and raised in rural
Wisconsin, where she was left mostly to her own imagination, always dragging a stack of paper and a slew of pencils and crayons to her fort in the woods. Color and shape have always intrigued her, and to this day, is still searching for that perfect oval, that perfect orange-yellow and grassy green. Not being represented by any one gallery or rep, she is free to show and work with any and all who share a love for the colorful. She also sells smaller artworks through her own web site on a regular basis, helping to make her art accessible to everyone. With every online sale, Amy buys a work of art online from another artist, to give back as thanks for the support, and to help support the burgeoning online art community. Amy has worked with the good folks at Uniqlo, Blik!, Aladdin, Ace Hotel-Portland, Nike, Adidas, Converse, Burton Snowboards, Gnu Snowboards, Target, Kid Robot, Tamara Henriques, The Mercy Corps, design*sponge, Klutz, Vigo Cards, Modern-Twist and many others. Amy Ruppel was the 2007 US Artist for the Oilily Artisan Series (
Netherlands). She was also the artist/illustrator for the 2007 Holiday Season at Target.
 Betsy Walton
Portland
Betsy is a native Kansan who now calls
Portland,
Oregon home. She left a full time job in October, 2006 to become a painter and illustrator. Since then, she has been painting day and night, answering emails, shipping packages, and meeting fascinating new people at every turn. Betsy’s work explores the tension and balance between the mysterious nature of our existence and the objects and environments we find in everyday life. We can experience the sublime in the same room where we fold the laundry, and perhaps at the same time. Her style is informed by a range of influences including Byzantine icon paintings, American folk art, geometric abstraction, and the work of many contemporary illustrators and painters. Betsy’s illustrations for clients of all shapes and sizes appear on products, in print, and online.
Diana Sudyka
Chicago
Diana Sudyka lives and works in the Chicago area. She initially worked as a master printer for Chicago artist Tony Fitzpatrick at Big Cat Press, and at Landfall Press, until getting a Masters of Fine Art from Northwestern University. She then worked with archives including the John M. Wing History of Printing and Book Arts Collection at Chicago's Newberry Library. Currently, she works as a full time illustrator, creating work for everything from book covers, album artwork, screenprinted rock posters, to watercolors for her avian blog, The Tiny Aviary, that documents her volunteer work for the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History. Some bands that she has cr eated posters for include: The Decemberists, Feist, Iron and Wine, Andrew Bird, Modest Mouse, Pearl Jam, Tortoise. Chicago has a great printing tradition and community and she's proud to have ink under her fingernails.
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 Elizabeth Bauman
Keizer, Oregon
Elizabeth lives and paints in
Keizer,
Oregon. She graduated from
Willamette
University with a degree in art. While a student,
Elizabeth focused on sculpture even though she prefers painting these days. Although she has been painting for years, Elizabeth only began offering a significant level of her work for sale in 2006. The nature of online commerce and galleries enabled her to share her work with a broad online audience. We have seen a steady increase in interest in
Elizabeth’s work. Her paintings have been featured in “The Salem Project” and “Downtown LA Life Magazine.”
Elizabeth is inspired by vintage photographs, early American portrait painters, and early 20th century artists. Her work is primarily from vintage photographs that she finds (seemingly discarded or forgotten by original owners).
Her paintings communicate the grace involved in giving her subjects new and enduring life.
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 Evan B. Harris
Portland
Born among the briars & brambles in backwoods of
Medford,
Oregon, Evan Benjamin Harris grew up with little knowledge of the bourgeois big city fine arts. So, he dove into the recesses of his own imagination and embraced the fables and folklore that fascinated him. With little to do but draw, he did exactly that. Now older, things haven’t changed much. The stories he created as a child are still present in his paintings. With diligence and hard work, Evan’s crude stick figures became the more clearly defined images you see today. With no formal art training, he creates on his own terms. Broken boards, oil and acrylic paints, charcoal pastels, plastic resign, and melted waxes are among the mediums Evan uses. Then they are beaten, brushed, sanded, polished, and hung. Most would cringe at the idea of scratching or sanding something they spent hours upon hours painting, but that’s Evan’s favorite part- creating the appearance that this wasn’t made in the 21st century, maybe in the 20th. So, behind every scratch and claw mark, there is a story to tell.
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 Leah Giberson
Boston
After receiving her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art in 1997, Leah made her living as an interactive designer and art director in Boston for over ten years, painting only periodically. Thanks in great part to the audience she's found through various online art sites, she has been able to paint almost full time since the spring of 2008. Her current body of work falls somewhere between the worlds of photography, painting and collage. She begins her pieces with photographs of seemingly ordinary and mundane scenes, which she then paints directly upon to distill and reveal the visually poignant moments that exist all around us, but are usually overlooked. Despite all the suburban scenes and mid-century modern design in her work, she was actually raised by artists deep in the woods of NH and now lives and works on the top floor of a sunny triple-decker apartment in Boston.
 Matte Stephens
Portland
Matte Stephens works and lives in
Portland
Oregon . Matte loves modern design and is inspired by anything Charles and Ray Eames, Alexander Girard, George Nelson/Irving Harper and artists like Ben Shahn and Paul Klee. Matte has done Illustration work for Herman Miller, American Express, The Boston Globe, The Eye Weekly, Glow Magazine, Endless Vacation Magazine, Ipop and Woodmanstern to name a few. Matte has shown all over the place, you can find original work on a regular basis at Jonathan Adler.
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 Ruth Shively
Portland
Ruth grew up in
Nebraska, receiving her bachelors degree in fine art with an emphasis in drawing and illustration. With a curiosity to see beyond the plains of the mid west, Ruth ventured to
Europe where she lived and worked in
paris for a year. She moved back to the states where she settled in
New York city. While in
New York, she apprenticed for illustrator Steven Guarnaccia and pursued the illustration market. Over the years, painting became more appealing in her life, strongly attracted to the human form and facial features, she has concentrated on portraits. In recent years, she's loosened her style with practice and inspiration from such artists as Egon Schiele, Lucien Freud and Neil Welliver. Ruth has exhibited her work in many solo and group exhibitions. She has recently settled in
Portland.
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 Sabine Timm
Duesseldorf,
Germany
Sabine is a German artist and illustrator. She works in her own studio in Duesseldorf, where she finished her degree at the famous
Academy of
Fine Arts. When she takes a beach walk, she always comes home with a bag filled with inspiring stuff. She likes to create three dimensional objects made of stranded things. But most of all she works in her studio, where she is surrounded by vintage books, brushes and colors. Sabine creates her own world with its own sense of humor and meaning. Her pictures tell stories, which she has created in her tiny sketch-books and in her stage-like three dimensional scenes. The Bologna Children’s Book Competition selected her illustration works in 2006. Sabine has also shown her work in Duesseldorf,
Frankfurt,
Berlin,
Bologna and
Tokyo.
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 Trish Grantham
Portland
Trish Grantham was born and raised in the Southwest. She moved to the Northwest in 1998 and started painting for the first time at 28. She has now shown all over the country, was exclusively represented by a New York Gallery, and Exhibited in Tokyo and Paris. Grantham has also been part of many National Campaigns including: Urban Outfitters, Target, Converse, Adidas, Brooks, Visa, and Starbucks. Trish Grantham Lives and Paints in Portland Oregon with her chihuahua Pablo and her kittens Savannah Georgia and Arlo Cliffton.
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 Vivienne Strauss
Portland
Vivienne lives and works in
Portland,
OR. She has a degree in Philosophy and is a self taught artist. Vivienne is primarily a painter but also likes to work in other mediums such as collage and embroidery. She is inspired by classic films, both foreign and American, vintage photographs and fashion as well as by what she reads or hears. Often a well written phrase or an interesting sounding name will develop into a painting or even a whole series of them. Vivienne fills her paintings with whimsical details and humorous stories. Her characters seem to write their own dialogue as she creates them in paint. She has shown her work in Manchester, UK, NYC, Seattle, and Tokyo.
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