December’s Featured Artist: Jane Wertanen, MFA
Teacher and Artist My paintings are usually created in oil or acrylic paint but occasionally in watercolor. Using brushes and/or pallet knives, the paint may be applied on stretched canvas, canvas panels or wood. The finished art is usually varnished to improve longevity. Using bold color my artwork is often a visual a shout of…
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November’s Featured Artist: Spencer Hahne
My art is influenced by the unique landscapes and wildlife of my home in Northern Minnesota. My paintings are based on sketches or photographs I take in nature, I then work on the final paintings at home. I mainly work in oil on canvas, but sometimes use acrylic or pastels. I hope to represent the…
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October’s Featured Artist: Catelin Vaida
Catelin, creator of Waves and Wags Studio, is an alcohol ink artist known for her colorful and contemporary paintings of fish and dogs. Born and raised in Northern Minnesota, Catelin has embraced art as a constant throughout her life. Driven by a vivid imagination and boundless energy as a child, she sought creative outlets…
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September’s Featured Artist: Sandra Markovich
Her art is her sweet spot and it’s what she loves doing. Sandra says “Find your sweet spot. If what your doing doesn’t serve you any longer, move on and find what does. Do what you loved to do as a child.” Sandra went to fine arts school in Milwaukee after high school. She remembers…
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June’s Featured Artist: Bekah Lunn
Name: Bekah Lunn Location: Ely, MN Medium: photography I work in multiple visual mediums, most of them having roots in photography, which was my first and still my most consistent outlet for creativity. Photography is a tool for me to explore and understand the surrounding environment at a deeper level. When I look through…
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March’s Featured Artist: Linda Jensen
Linda Jensen Medium: Acrylic 1. Why do I make this type of art? During Covid like many of us, we were bored at least I know I was. I live out in the country and I started watching Bob Ross on TV. He made it look so simple, so I bought some brushes and paint…
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February’s Featured Artist: Sandra Markovich
“My artwork represents my soul. I have done many mining paintings. Mining is in my soul. Sometimes I am serious and want to get a point across and other times I just want to play or do landscape.” Sandra is inspired by impressionists and other lesser known artists. Her artwork is usually made on canvas…
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January’s Featured Artist: Pamella Schultz
Pamella Schultz is a Minnesota realist oil painter of portraits of living beings and intriguing scenes. Her artistic skills are self-taught. Her primary inspiration for her subjects come from her own photographs from journeys to other countries b intricate detail capturing the personality of her subjects.
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December’s Featured Artist: Sandra Markovich
“My artwork represents my soul. I have done many mining paintings. Mining is in my soul. Sometimes I am serious and want to get a point across and other times I just want to play or do landscape.” Sandra is inspired by impressionists and other lesser known artists. Her artwork is usually made on canvas…
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