Women's Works

It is wonderful to see a website dedicated to Women's art. I know many wonderful woman artists that have inspired me. I worked for 17 years at a Commercial Artists for the US Postal Service and now I am concentrating on working as a Fine Artists with my realist Oil Paintings. I aspire to enhance the beauty around me and bring life to the animals and figures I paint. The older I get the more I want to use bold bright colors, light and shadows to express what I want to create on a canvas. Thank you for the opportunity to share with this website.

I was an advertising and children's book illustrator for many years and am now an emerging painter. I found this site while cruising the net, looking for show and contest opportunities for 2012. See my work on my my website or blog.

My forests of unusual, surreal trees offer viewers a respite from the every day. My original photography combines with my skills in digital media to create warm, Impressionistic scenes that invite you to escape to a dream-like world where edges are as soft as a pillow, and colors refresh and sooth.

If you love the ocean as much as I do check out my work at
www.amberayresart.com
Thanks for looking
Amber Ayres

After schooling for an associates degree in Drama, I ran away and joined the Circus. I am an actor, dancer, stilt-walker, mime, and best known here in Seattle as a Fire Dancer and my role as the Demoness of Aeterno Elementum: a heavy metal opera by Ara'Kus. I am currently writing and seeking funding for my stage adaption of Goethe's Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily. Links for all ~

www.heavymetalopera.com
www.greensnakebeaulily.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/Heartsinspyre

http://www.maryhurstartist.com

Loving the looks of this site! Thank you for showing support and respect for art and women artists!

My oil paintings can be seen on my website. Thanks for looking!

I am a portrait artist, illustrator, public artist and art teacher based in Chicago's Ravenswood neighborhood. After twelve years in management consulting, I turned toward my passion for art. I complete 10-12 commissions per year, teach weekly Elder Art classes, create large-scale pavement chalk murals and am an active arts advocate, participating in local exhibitions and volunteering for the community to use art to raise awareness for a range of social issues.

Check out my website: <http://www.nancypochisbank.com>
Follow me on facebook: <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Art-Studio-of-Nancy-Pochis-Bank/178713792166436>
Read my blog: <http://nancypochisbank.blogspot.com>

Great to find a site for women in the arts.

I'm an editorial illustrator for the Chicago Tribune with a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I look forward to Womens' Works every year.

sculpture at http://loriandersensculptor.com

Thank you for supporting women in the fine arts. As an older woman artist working in metals and sculpture I have had to go toe to toe with men working in foundry and welding areas. I encourage all young women to pursue your dreams and know that times have changed and you can do anything!

What a great website-encouraging and informative!

www.HollyElkins.com

Thank you for developing this opportunity for women artists. Please visit my site to check out my paintings.

Thank you for encouraging women artists!
danutaloane.com

Hi,
Nancy Merkling

Hello and thank you for developing this site! I am a designated Illinois Artisan in Fiber, but I also create mixed media and digital photography. I'm a long time Woodstock resident and hopeful that now that the City of Woodstock has taken over the Old Courthouse we will continue to see programs like Women's Works and commitment to the Arts.

I am a painter and assemblage artist. Currently I am searching for Illinois women artists of color who should be better known because of the significance of their work for a panel discussion at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago. Along with exhibiting I am an art professor, curator, judge and juror for various exhibitions and art fairs and have exhibited on four continents. I have a BFA from Howard University and an MFA from Yale University.

My medium is primarily glass, stained glass panels due to my interest of everchanging light. I prefer using the copper foil method as I feel that it allows for more flexible design . & Often use sandblasting on the glass as a tool for carving and thereby changing the depths for shadowing and creating form. Incuded in my interests are photography, mainly exploring organic colors, forms and the beauty of nature. With these, I create cards sometimes incorporating a variety of mixed media. My first love was drawing, and that naturally leads to my interest in the other types of medium. Meeting a woman from this encouraging site, I hope to learn more of her works as well as being inspired & motivated by what I see from others. Always trying to retain the gifts of other artists by their creativity with gratitude.

I am a Canadian artist working in mixed media and collage. I am interested in colour and texture as a means to convey a feeling or mood in either figure work or abstracts. I enjoy building my surfaces with several layers and then working back into them with tools other than brushes. Having a direct connection to the surface I am working on with simply my hands allows me an immediate expressive means.
Please visit my website at www.deborahcatton.com

I am a Canadian artist working in mixed media and collage. I am interested in colour and texture as a means to convey a feeling or mood in either figure work or abstracts. I enjoy building my surfaces with several layers and then working back into them with tools other than brushes. Having a direct connection to the surface I am working on with simply my hands allows me an immediate expressive means.

I am a sculptor and painter working in a variety of mediums. My focus is the rythyms and shapes in nature. My website is www.pamelaleestudio.com

Thank you for encouraging women in the Arts!