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LEEANN RHOADES

I am privileged to have grown up in a family of artists The happiest times were filled with LISA WALKER
art making activities, excursions to museums, and creative play. As a little girl I enjoyed
creating greeting cards for friends and family. This love led to serious art study including a
bachelor’s degree in art education and master’s degree in illustration. Later in life I earned
several certifications in various approaches to intuitive artmaking. These studies satisfied Like most people, my parents were big influences on what I like to do and what has
my interest in art therapy. meaning for me. My mother was a recognized, lifelong artist and a dedicated gardener.
My father raised us on a ranch where he was certain God existed all around.
While raising a son and daughter as a single mother, I taught K-12 art, waited tables,
coached synchronized swimming and often wonder how I survived. Upon retiring from arts Here I am, an artist, a retired Landscape Designer, a life-long fan of nature, and instilled
administration, I dedicate myself to finding personal voice in my art. with a spiritual feeling and deep respect for her gifts. My art applauds, embellishes
and sometimes rearranges nature’s gifts, into paintings and sculptures. Due to their
rich colors, tactile, and transparent qualities, encaustic, oil and pastel are my dominant
.
MARCIA ROBERTS media.

Marcia Roberts grew up in South Dakota and has lived in many other places, including
Spain, Maryland, California and Texas. She is the author of five books of poetry. Marcia
has a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and a master’s in English, and she studied poetics at
New College of California in San Francisco.
She began following her interest in visual art after moving to San Antonio and has taken
art classes at Southwest School of Art and with the artist Lyn Belisle, Marcia lives in San
Antonio with her husband Len. LEAH WILLINGHAM

Artist’s Statement
I am a self-taught painter focusing in encaustic and oil paint and cold wax medium.
My poetry is collage – my collage is poetry. Narrative drives both, reflecting dreams, Painting is my freedom, my outlet, my way to connect with the universe and all of
memories, love of nature and landscape. The joy of writing poetry and making collage the beauty that I find in it. The unpredictability of the wax helps me break out of the
comes from the discovery of what is found in the fragments/shards. confines of my everyday life.

Through the layers of wax and color I work to create a method of expression and
connectivity. I capture light and depth to bring the viewer into nature and the world
around me as I see it.
KELLY THORSON

Kelly Thorson is a painter from Penzance, Saskatchewan. She has been a practicing
artist for over 30 years and had her first solo showing in 1992.

Kelly is excited to explore different mediums and techniques and enjoys the chemistry
of making her own paints and substrates from raw materials and repurposing leftovers
and previously used items. The past few years she has been focused mainly on painting
with beeswax, resin and pigments. The history of encaustic as one of the oldest existing
forms of art is in keeping with her passion for ancient art forms and she finds the tactile,
luminous and spontaneous unpredictability of the fluid wax when fused with a torch
challenging and intriguing.

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