2D BEST IN SHOW AWARD for “BEE WILD”

ARTIST -Lori Mccoy resides in Henderson, Nevada and is a self taught, award winning acrylic portrait and surrealism painter. Her unique and distant style is strongly influenced by artists such as Norman Rockwell, Stephen Gibb and Ray Roberts.

 Her fever-dream paintings are saturated with color, symbolism and faces that somehow always seem familiar. Each painting is meant to snake charm you, evoke emotion, not only by their evocative colors but by the spell it casts, taking you deep into a world of symbols and meaning, sharing a story with each brush stroke.

 Born in Henderson, Nevada, she has traveled extensively. Lori’s artwork reflects the experiences, vibrant life and the cultures of various places yet the desert is always in her heart. 

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WEBSITE - www.artistlorimccoy.com

INSTAGRAM - @artistlorimccoy

EMAIL - artistlorimccoy@gmail.com

2D 1ST PLACE AWARD for WHITE SANDS

ARTIST - Seth Barnes is a two-dimensional artist primarily working in oil painting. He received his Bachelor of Arts from the Univeristy of Indiana Pennsylvania. Now residing in Henderson, NV, Seth is inspired by the stunning desert landscapes that surround southern Nevada.

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WEBSITE - sethbarnesart.com

INSTAGRAM - @sethbarnesart

EMAIL - sethbarnesart@gmail.com

2D 2ND PLACE AWARD for “JUBILATION - SCOTLAND”

ARTIST – Mr. Michael Mahue Moore is “Born and Raised” on the North side of St. Louis, Missouri.  Mr. Moore began his debut in the creative world on day when he was just a small lad of five years of age, while visiting his grandparent’s home in Albany, Georgia.

They were about to go home to begin the school year when he noticed an uncle free handing a cartoon character named “Yacky Doodle” whom he often watched on Saturday morning. Mr. Moore asked, “Wow can we all do that?” His uncle, who wasn’t but two years his senior said in his “Yacky Doodle” voice, “Sure Chopper, if you want to.”

Mr. Moore couldn’t wait to get home and try out this new toy. He took a comic book, looked at the images and while looking through the book he noticed an ad on the back of the comic book that read: “Draw Lucky”. He drew Lucky so well that Art Linkletter called his house and offered him a scholarship to learn to draw at one of his studios.

Well, this didn’t sit well with his mother, and she declined, but Mr. Moore persisted and began drawing the characters in the Marvel Comic Books. At the age of six he could draw the Hulk, Captain America, Wanda the Witch, the Silver Surfer and his favorite hero to draw was the only Black hero in the comics at the time “Power-Man”. He knew that they were good because his brother began stealing them out of his collection and selling them for lunch money, until he caught him.

Mr. Moore attended the Visual and Performing Arts High School (home of the Falcons) where he met a woman named Billie. Ms. Billie Phillips was his favorite teacher in the building. As his art teacher she never paid attention to him as a freshman, but always said, “Class, draw big and bold. Don’t be those little puny faces. I want to see your work!” By his senior year Mr. Moore was the most effective artist in school. Landscapes, people and still lifes were his specialties.

Mr. Moore used to say that at home art wasn’t considered something that would cause one to earn an income, but at school Ms. Phillips taught Mr. Moore that art was the actual key to open all the doors to all the destinations that he could dream of. So, he continued painting.

Mr. Moore was as equally talented in athletics as he was an artist. He excelled in basketball, cross country and baseball. Mr. Moore earned an academic scholarship after scoring exceptionally high on the SAT battery. He also had several baseball scholarships offers but decided to take the academic scholarship and major in Graphic Designs at Savannah College of Art and Designs. Better known as SCAD to most.

Being under the tutelage of Ms. Phillips, Mr. Moore was over-prepared for college. He would create his lessons in fifteen minutes and receive an “A” for his efforts. He knew that he needed some stability, so after a few years he enlisted in the US Navy. The Navy took him to places such as the Philippines, Guam, Hawaii, California, and The Mariannas Island. Here is an interesting tidbit. Did you know that Mr. Moore was a boxing champ on the island of Guam for two straight years, until he was relocated to another duty station? He proudly served the military for eight years with an Honorable discharge.

Mr. Moore taught art in his studio to more than 70 children and adults for a period of time while he lived in Birmingham, Alabama. He is an accomplished Mural artist and has held positions as Birmingham Art Association, Vice-President of Membership. Through his efforts more than 75 families joined the first month of his term in the position. He is the brainchild  of programs such as “Random Act of Art”, “Art Walk”, “Art in the Park”, “Critique” and “One Student, One Professional Artist”.

He is the proud Daddy of Two daughters, four grandchildren and a plethora of nieces, nephews, great nieces and nephews.

Mr. Moore is currently residing locally in Las Vegas, NV since 2022 in the lovely RHODES RANCH subdivision. When he is not painting and creating, he has worked in the Computer Industry for the last forty-four years.  Merchant Mariner, serving as a Master Electronic Officer onboard USNS Naval, Army and Marine vessels. 

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EMAIL - mahue246@gmail.com

3D BEST IN SHOW for GLOBAL ELDORADO STYLES COWBOY HAT

ARTIST - Cheri has 20 plus years of experience in the art and design business.  She is a Graduate with Honors in Interior Design from College of Southern Nevada in 2004. She Published in  Cambridge who's who2 and worked for a commercial design firm who supplied office furnishings and cubicles for businesses in Las Vegas after graduating. She was a Graphic Design artist for Aesthetic Impressions from 2005 to 2014 where she created and designed images for etched , carved, painted, and guilded architectural glass  for high end casinos, businesses, and high profile homeowners in the Las Vegas Valley.

Cheri became licensed with the branches of the military during the pandemic to create one of a kind military appreciation gifts for those who serve with woodworking and special one of a kind details for branding and for personalization as well. With her love for her family and friends and those who serve in the military she specialized in patriotic artwork for many years and her first acrylic painting called Welcome Home was a depiction of an eagle and american flag painted for her father who was an Air Force Vietnam Veteran. She has no formal training in painting but greatly enjoys painting murals and hats and other surfaces to make them unique and one of a kind. 

She is also self taught in carpentry and millinery hat making.  She enjoys usings fabrics and textures to create one of a kind steampunk hats. She hand stitches and forms cowboy hats as well as painting them and designing one of a kind bands for them as well. 

Her inspiration is to be one of a kind, aim high, and select unique hard to find materials to create one of a kind special details in her projects for her customers. She thinks of hats as the icing on the cake and the most exciting and important of all accessories and always loved the class of Audrey Hepburn and she herself has been wearing hats since the age of 3. 

You can see more about what she can offer at route44signs.com

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WEBSITE - route44signs.com

EMAIL - cheriroute44@gmail.com

3D 1ST PLACE AWARD for “THE HUNT”

ARTIST - I graduated from San Jose State University with a B.A. in Design studies and a minor in Advertising. I primarily work with wood and metal as a pyrographer and engrave.

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WEBSITE - kylefogarty.com

EMAIL -kylefog@msn.com

3D 2ND PLACE AWARD for “AFTER THE RAIN”

ARTIST -Bio - Jeanette Montero is a mixed-media artist based in Las Vegas with a mission to infuse art with joy and gratitude. Her work explores the theme of finding beauty in the mundane. After obtaining a BFA degree from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1989, Jeanette’s attention shifted to raising her four children. She returned to her artistic practice in 2018, working in series to deeply investigate ideas and refine her techniques. 

Jeanette's work has been featured in renowned publications like Cloth Paper Scissors Magazine and Art Journal Kickstarter. She is also a five-time finalist in the prestigious Art Comes Alive competition, an achievement spanning 2018 to 2022. Her work has been exhibited in commercial galleries such as AW Gallery and Jana’s Red Room in Las Vegas, Blink ArtExhibit in Cincinnati, Ohio and The Pretentious Collector in Athens,Georgia. 

Discover more at https://linktr.ee/jeanettemontero.art

ARTIST- Statement - My brightly colored mixed-media paintings feature a joyful variety of patterns and textures. They are inspired by my appreciation of commonplace objects or scenes, such as the shapes of leaves, the wrinkles on an elephant's skin, a butterfly’s wings, or the fleeting hues of a sunset. I cast a spotlight on ordinary or overlooked forms of beauty.

I use a variety of art mediums, such as alcohol ink and resin, as well as unconventional tools like Q-tips or firepit glass, in a process that is spontaneous and allows for a certain degree of random outcome. This interplay of the planned and unplanned becomes a dialogue between myself and the canvas, during which I experience a range of emotions - joy, frustration, triumph, tragedy, failure, elation - mimicking the ups and downs of life. The results are unpredictable and dynamic artworks that keep me excited about the process and the outcome.

At the heart of it, my paintings express my gratitude for life’s blessings, and aim to spread happiness to those who see them. They are my interpretation of God's creativity and hopefully, serve as a reminder to embrace joy and gratitude in our daily lives.

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WEBSITE - jeanettemontero.com

EMAIL - bonsaifi4@gmail.com

HONORABLE MENTION AWARD for “FRENCH QUARTER MIME”

ARTIST - I have been painting my whole life and am influenced by the art of beauty everywhere we look. I usually paint in oils which have a beautiful depth of color as well as incredible flexibility and are easy to manipulate. I paint in a range from portraiture, landscapes, still life, and furniture and anything that can be painted.

My accomplishments include magazine featured articles, selling 100's of works on cruise ships, 100's of commissions and Awards of Excellence.

I have a wide range of works and every single piece has an inspiration. This particular piece was inspired by the centuries old graceful iron designs of the old South that have withstood the wear of history, storms, life and yet still stand as beautiful as ever.

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WEBSITE - meeganboirosfineart.com

EMAIL - meegansart@meeganboirosfineart.com

HONORABLE MENTION AWARD for “ANGELICA”

ARTIST - Renata Bosnjak was born in Bosnia and Hercegovina in 1976 and currently lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. She understood the essence of beauty from a very young age, and thus painted her first painting at seven years old; a girl holding a dog. Growing up, Renata always heard stories about her grandfather, an Austrian-German man with an affinity for art. Even though she never met him, those stories carried her through her passion. She continues evolving through all of her personal and professional experiences, developing her love for her craft; and mastering her Artistry.

Renata's art has been in many gallery exhibitions including the Laguna Art Gallery, the Vegas Wonderland Gallery, and New York Art. Her work was displayed in a solo exhibitions by Gallery Steiner, in Vienna, Austria and at Summerlin Art Gallery, curated by Darren Johnson. She has received several awards from critically acclaimed art curators including the Frida Kahlo International Prize award and the International Prize of New York City. Her art has been published in several books and magazines including Current Masters, among others.

HONORABLE MENTION AWARD for “MALE GLAZE”

ARTIST - I've always been surrounded by photography. My grandfather operated a rural small-town's local photography studio (he specialized in gauzy, hand-tinted portraits of Gladiolus Festival Queens and beaming brides). He had a shingle hung in front of his house announcing "E.Butterfield Photography," so I come by the name honestly. My great-uncle was a photo analyst in WWII, and my father was a staff photographer for a suburban Chicago newspaper for many years after he retired.

For a while, I was obsessed with Steampunk-themed photography, and took a strange delight in dressing up models in pseudo-Victorian clothing and equipping them with mostly hand-made eye-wear, props and weapons, all of which looked like something Jules Verne might have designed during a fever dream. The accessories and props I created were made to appear old, rusty, and battered, and I manipulated the images to make them look like something that had been forgotten in a workshop or the back of a drawer for a century or two. My models were primarily male, and their pseudo-Victorian clothing was frequently minimal, launching a new niche of "steampunk beefcake" that sent ripples of both delight and outrage through the  community. I published a couple of books of Steampunk photography, complete with fictional biographies of the "characters" my models and I had created.

Over time, though, I learned that my aesthetic vision was not strictly anchored to the weirdly neo-Victorian, but was in fact simply...weird. I have thrown myself enthusiastically (and sometimes messily) into creating unique props, headgear, accessories, and eyewear with no discernable usefulness. Elaborate Steampunk goggles evolved into just strange facial appliances. And my work became significantly odder, darker, and more (artfully) erotic than when I started. I've been fortunate in finding my models (or being found by them), and they're usually enthusiastic about something unique for their portfolios. I've become fairly obsessed by the use of selective color, both for its dramatic effect and for how it equalizes the model and the prop as distinct parts of the artistic whole.

I'm a retired attorney and have held reasonably responsible and respectable jobs in education, publishing, and managing most of a nonprofit scientific association's products and operations.  After retiring from the publishing world, I have been teaching an online criminal intellectual property course at Arizona State University for five years. I still have a weird (and perhaps selfish) fascination with intellectual property law, especially as it applies to creative works. I'm the author of Copyright for Creatives, a practical, informal, and hopefully entertaining guide to copyright law for creative people who make stuff, now in its second edition. I live in Summerlin with my husband (who gave me my first Nikon more years ago than I'd care to discuss) and a cat, who tolerates the disruption caused by my photoshoots.

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WEBSITE - is www.ebutterfieldphotography.com

EMAIL- ebutterfieldphotography@gmail.com

HONORABLE MENTION AWARD for “SAX MAN LAMP”

ARTIST- Rene was born in Algeria when it was a French territory. During the war in the early 1960's his family escaped France where he became a Master carpenter, motorcycle racer, bicycle racer, and an auto mechanic. He retired from the National Gas & Electric Co. having been in emergency services. After retirement

Rene moved to a small island where he remodeled homes. In 2009 he immigrated to America and in 2017 he became a proud US citizen and married the love of his life, Kathy. He began making creative designs for her and she encouraged him to expand his art and make it available to others.

Rene now lives in Henderson, NV and recycles and upcycles everything. With his background in carpentry, building, electrical, plumbing and welding, he reimagines items that others discard and is inspired to create delightful art.

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FACEBOOK - facebook.com/creationsbyrene

EMAIL - creationsbyrene@cox.net

HONORABLE MENTION AWARD for “MYSTERIOUS HISSER”

ARTIST - Wendy Ann discovered Chinese Brush painting in 1991 and has been addicted ever since. She joyfully came under the tutelage of Nan Rae in Burbank and quickly discovered the “Guru” of Chinese Brush Painting for Southern California, Ning Yeh who founded the American Association of Chinese Brush Painters. She also studied Calligraphy with George Huang until he returned to China.

The Chinese Brush Painting of Wendy Ann reflect her understanding of rhythm and harmony captured by her deft and rapid brush strokes, “Chinese Brush Painting is about line and movement through space, executed from the heart.”

Wendy Ann’s use of space is the unifying and harmonizing element of her paintings. In Chinese Painting “space” is a spiritual solid with its own life.

“Wendy’s brush, swift and sure, creates a dance of its own expressing a joyful freedom of movement.” (Nan Rae)

Because of her dance background, Wendy Ann quickly found this art form translated to movement on paper. Chinese Brush Painting requires posture, position, and specific brush holding techniques as well as precise execution of movement. She finds the art to be a balancing act of strength and delicacy, the Ying and Yang, wet and dry brush, boldness and detail, much like the execution of good choreography.

Although a westerner by birth, she began her painting life with Chinese Brush Painting and has found it to be a distint advantage. Not having to unlearn Western techniques freed the artist in her to fully embrace the Eastern Art form.

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WEBSITE - wendy.ann.art

EMAIL -wendyannderycke@gmail.com

HONORABLE MENTION AWARD for “PARCHEESI”

ARTIST - Bobbie creates tile art on ceramic, bisque and terra cotta tiles. She began her journey in a tile class offered by the local community outreach program in 2012. Her first creation was a fat and jolly penguin, inspired by her trip to the zoo.

She has developed a real passion for tile design and creating tiles using the Cuerda Seca technique. She loves the many opportunities to create tiles that are useful such as trivets, wall hanging, coasters, etc. She has created board games, old and new, tabletops and has entered her pieces in exhibits that have really challenged her creativity.

She loves teaching others about the Cuerda Seca technique and has conducted many successful workshops. These experiences have helped her grow as an artist and has given her inspiration to continue creating and building relationships with other new and experienced artists in her community.

WEBSITE - TILES BY BOBBIE

EMAIL - bmaxvill@gmail.com

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD for “SUNRISE @MESA ARCH”

ARTIST - Jenny was born in Taiwan and immigrated to the United States in 2013.  To relieve some of the daily stress of her life and find a better balance Jenny started learning how to paint.  She found her new passion when she was about 35 years old.  She learned to paint from Master Pang, Jiun and had several exhibitions, either in Taiwan or in the United States. 

Her artworks have been elected to join the International Grand Prix in Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, in Japan for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024.  Jenny is also a fantastic artist in the USA and is showing her artwork, in Las Vegas, Nevada and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

She also devotes herself to education.  She established AJ Studio in Lan Tian Cultural Center in Las Vegas and is contributing her talent to the next generation as an art instructor.  Today Jenny continues to pursue fine art in order to show the beauty of the world.

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WEBSITE - https://artistjenny.com/

EMAIL -artistjenny@gmail.com

MEMBER’S CHOICE AWARD for “FIRE SKY”

ARTIST - Artist Kimberly Panfil, was born in Chicago & has been a natural born creative artist since the age of 4 yrs old. Her childhood was filled with art, music, dance & her family's strong influence from their Martinique, Drury Lane Theatre, producing plays and giving this young child 'artist' the opportunity to meet so many famous entertainers, watching rehearsals and many plays.

Kimberly quickly developed her art talent, drawing and painting behind the stage. She had no fear of asking questions to learn all she could.  Then learning to sew was fun to make things from her drawings. Watching the costume designers and the play, seamstresses sewing back stage was interesting. Kimberly began sewing, drawing costumes and making pattern designs. At age 12, Kimberly was designing clothing for all her dolls and making her own costumes, accessories, shoes, fashions and creating her own jewelry line for herself and friends. Soon her family's home was full of Kimberly's art and her paintings that her parents were proud of.

Entering High School, Kimberly's art talent and her own creative drawing and painting ability was immediately noticed by her high school counselors and art teachers. At age 14, she was placed in a National Golden Key Art Scholastic Program, to develop her art and a professional art portfolio. Kimberly won several National Golden Key Scholastic 1st Place art awards. Graduating from Thornridge High School, with Honors, on the straight 'A' honor roll, Kimberly was ready to enter a junior college.

Kimberly attended Thornwood Junior College for 2 years, graduating and receiving an AA, Associates Art Degree, in Design and Illustration, Kimberly studied with Professor Margaret Wallace, a Who's Who Painter in American Art. Based on Kimberly's Portfolio, at age 19, Kimberly won a 4 year art scholarship to 'The School of the Art Institute of Chicago', SAIC, where Kimberly graduated with a BFA in Art History & Fine Art, majoring in Art History, Drawing, Painting & Fashion Design, studying with SAIC'S, most profound Painter and Art Professor Elizabeth Ruprecht. Kimberly also studied with Fashion and Textiles designer, American Educator, Professor Leah Bowman, then working with Leah Bowman, as her Fashion Design assistant.

Kimberly's added talent included her creative business side. This artist entrepreneur created her own company called 'B'Yonda Designs' graduating from SAIC in Chicago in the early 1980's. Creating art fashions, one-of-a-kind wedding gowns & accessory designs. Her clientele seen wearing Kimberly's glitzy designs included Oprah Winfrey, Dolly Parton, Paula Abdul, Melanie Griffith, Invana Trump, Cher, Melissa Ethridge, Tanya Tucker, Sheila E, Phyliss Hyman, Katey Sagal & Tammy Fey, to name a few of the entertainers. Kimberly also designed for many Miss America Pageants, contestants and pageant winners. Her designs were in the movies Coming to America, The Untouchables and Straight Talk. Along with a fun line of jewelry she created for Dollywood from her Newberry Plaza design studio.

At that time movie director Michael Mann's mother, Esther Mann, took Kimberly's B'Yonda Designs under her motherly wing in the Chicago Apparel Center, telling Kimberly Panfil she was going to place her designs on the map. And Esther Mann did just that. Esther Mann told Kimberly to bring her designs into her showroom. Kimberly did that one week later. Esther Mann, one of Chicago's TOP fashion and art representatives, was representing Kimberly's art, fashions, jewelry, limited editions and One-of-a-Kinds pieces to the best buyers in the industry, It was non-stop designing for 15 years nationwide. 

Kimberly designed glamorous jewelry for Cache' Boutiques and sold her designs in person at several trunk shows for Nordstroms, Saks 5th Avenue, Bullocks and Macy stores. Specialty shops and salons sold  B'Yonda Designs jewelry line and fashion illustrations in couture boutiques throughout America especially in New York, Dallas, Boca Raton, Miami, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Chicago, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Malibu, San Francisco, Laguna Beach and Sausalito. B'Yonda Designs could be seen on several TV shows, Married with Children and commercials.

Beyond Kimberly's love to design fashion and jewelry, painting is her true passion. Painting is in her blood and soul. Painting on leather was incorporated in her designs. Painting animal prints. Painting on dance and ballet shoes. Painting dance wear. Painting while dancing. Painting leotards. Painting for rock stars. Painting for many ballerinas. Kimberly understood dancers and how dance wear moved on stage. Kimberly's dance wear was designed and sold. 

The art gallery shows and fashion events became a ritual. Artist Kimberly Panfil began coordinating top fashion designer's garments with her accessories and jewelry designs. Show background sets were designed and painted, music was selected, models were chosen, and runways were painted. It became a mood, a feeling to be presented with the garments. Kimberly's art and designs adorned over 175 runways and stages. It was sheer, utter chaos backstage and a sleek, smooth performance to the public.

Kimberly artistic choices did not miss a beat. Her experience with her family's Martinique, Drury Lane Theatre and play rehearsals as a child and teenager taught her a lot. Her past experiences set the rhythm. This artist could see now why she experienced so much entertainment and watched the play directors in rehearsals tell everyone what to do. At age 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, Kimberly watched the producers and directors as she sat in the theatre quietly. She absorbed how to set the stage for ART. For ART shows and performances. In her childhood, she was beginning to be prepared for her future artistic lifestyle. 

Everything fell in place. It was all creatively meant to be. Today, Kimberly is a professional artist, painter, colorist, fashion and jewelry designer. This artist is not shy. Strong colors and detail are dominant in her art work. Kimberly mainly creates with 'Soft Pastels, Oils, Acrylics, Gouache, Watercolor, Pen & Ink and Pastel Pencils'. Plein Air painting is her favorite to capture natural light and mother nature's artistic settings. Kimberly's art often relates to painting nature, florals, landscapes and painting anywhere with ease, adding a contemporary flair in most of her paintings. She does not stop there. Kimberly loves painting portraits and people too. You will find Kimberly has a very deep infinity and love for any animal. Kimberly has a special connection with animals and loves to paint magnificent horses, dogs, birds and curious cats.

Then there will always be a place in Kimberly's heart to draw, illustrate and paint fashion. Paint fabrics and paint free form designs. You name it. This diversified artist will never say, "NO", to any type of medium to paint with or any painting style. Being a true artist, creative challenges are simply a part of their life. Just name it, this artist will paint it.

Speaking of ART challenges, talking to Kimberly you will hear her say, "I love teaching art to the person who says they have NO art ability". Kimberly will teach anyone to draw & or paint. Kimberly is a certified 'Grumbacher Acrylic Instructor'. Besides acrylics, she can teach anyone to paint in any art medium. Kimberly will tell you, "I studied Fine Art, Painting, Color Theory, Fashion Design, Pattern Making and Art History with so many students at SAIC, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where I received my BFA in Art History, Painting, Color Theory and Fashion Design. I experienced that every person has their own art ability. No person should ever be judged on their art. Art is within you. Art is personal. Art is a feeling of your passion. Life is about finding your creative passion. We are all artists.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN PURCHASING ARTWORK FROM KIMBERLY PLEASE COMMUNICATE WITH HER THROUGH HER EMAIL LISTED BELOW.

EMAIL - topprosales1@gmail.com

ARTIST - Edward Achey Is a painter from Las Vegas, Nevada.

About the Artist - I like surprises and finding new ways to lose control of my process. My paintings don’t intentionally convey a deep feeling; they don’t tell a personal story. But they can be evocative and the accidental results can appear to capture some complexity.

Artist Statement/BIO - I’ve been a painter for over 40 years working primarily with acrylic on canvas. My earliest work was driven by psychological expression. My turn-of-the-century paintings were part of my activism toward ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (E.R.A.). Since 2004, my interests are purely non-representational, gestural color explosions. My control is randomness and my process is refined to the point of maturity. I know how to orchestrate happy accidents in my work.

My educational background includes advanced study in psychology and the science of well-being. I took a 7th grade art class, but refused to stop working on my very first project while the rest of the class moved on to tackle other assignments. Decades later, I took a basic drawing class at the College of Southern Nevada taught by fine artist Lisa Mack.

I own easels, but I use them as tables; I want my diluted paint to soak into the canvas laying flat. More recently, I’ve been working with a process that I call ‘Dumpster Residue’ which involves pressing wet painted canvasses face-down into large plastic (Sterilite) tubs like those used by parents to store toys under children’s beds. After drying completely in the tubs, I remove them by force and unexpected outcomes are revealed, often with excess dried paint dangling over the edge of the canvas. Great fun!

Conceptually, Dumpster Residue was inspired by my desire to throw blank canvasses into a busy dumpster for a few days. Not wanting to actually experience the smell, I began to simulate the process using the scentless, plastic tubs.

What’s next? I want to acquire some ornate, antique (gilded) frames and somehow join them with my Dumpster Residue series of paintings. 1000 smiles!

SOCIAL MEDIA - instagram.com/edwardacheyart

EMAIL - edwardachey@yahoo.com

ARTIST - Sylvia Aldebol is a visual artist raised in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. From a young age, she was exposed to music and art, this was the catalyst that made her study Fine Arts at the Inter-American University of Puerto Rico. Since then, painting and graphic design have been a part of her everyday life. 

She started her own company, SA Art & Design, and thanks to it, she has been able to expand her reach. Her paintings have been sold and shipped around the world, allowing Sylvia to connect with fans of diverse communities and backgrounds. 

She now resides in Henderson, Nevada, where she’s a former president of the Las Vegas Art Guild and active member of Boulder City Art Guild & Gallery. There she has helped create an environment of growth and community for local artists.

Her work is an invitation to introspection, it welcomes an adoration of the soul’s existence and its relation to the world that surrounds it.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN PURCHASING ARTWORK FROM SYLVIA PLEASE COMMUNICATE WITH HER THROUGH HER EMAIL LISTED BELOW. 

WEBSITE -https://www.artdesignsa.com/

EMAIL -sylvia@artdesignsa.com

ARTIST- Rebekah Kent is a fine artist known for her captivating and thought-provoking works. Born in Las Vegas, Nevada, Rebekah discovered her passion for art at an early age. She started on her artistic endeavor in 2012 and has been creating ever since. After achieving a bachelor’s degree in animation in 2021, Kent has been working as a graphic designer. She blends her love of fine art into her graphic artwork. Rebekah’s unique style blends various mediums, including painting, drawing, and graphic arts. Her works often explore themes of identity, nature, and beauty, inviting viewers to contemplate the complexities of the human experience.

Rebekah’s artistic practice is driven by a deep exploration of the human experience and a desire to connect with others on a profound level. Through her work, she seeks to evoke emotions and to provoke thoughts. Drawing inspiration from the complexities of life, she delves into themes of identity, nature, and beauty. She is inspired to create by seeing the world around her and noticing all aspects of life. She finds inspiration through everyday life. Her goal as an artist is to inspire and foster a deeper understanding of ourselves and the world around us.

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WEBSITE - Rebekah E Kent Studio

EMAIL - rebekahkent10@gmail.com

ARTIST - Kimberlee is a Henderson-based fine artist crafting narrative works and landscapes with acrylic, oil, and digital paints.

Her path to dedication to painting could accurately be described as meandering. After completing a Bachelor’s degree in English Composition, she dabbled in a few different areas, including law, yoga, graphic design, and branding. Painting was always the outlet she turned to at the end of the day.

Inspired by both the natural and the supernatural, Kimberlee uses color, composition, and symbolism to create stories that explore the human experience. Her style leans into realism but often includes a bit of magic.

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WEBSITE - https://kimberleela.com

EMAIL - kimberleelallen@gmail.com

ARTIST - I was born in the former Soviet Union and moved to US in 1989 as a refugee.  I have a degree in engineering, but art always been my passion.  I grew up on the beautiful art by Russian masters like Serov,  Repin , Fetchin, Korovin.

I attended art school in Honolulu Art museum and took multiple classes like drawing, oil and pastel painting. My preferred media is oil.

I participated in many shows. Have multiple awards.  My paintings could be found in a private collections and businesses.

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EMAIL - marinalevy0801@gmail.com 

ARTIST - Sumon Methangkool is a landscape painter living in Las Vegas, Nevada since 1983. Sumon lives on the hill overlooking Las Vegas valley where he can observe the openness, light, color, and all the excitement and drama of nature. The warm glow of last light of the day and serenity of the desert inspire many of his paintings.

A native of Thailand, Sumon has been living in the United States since 1973. Although he has a BFA from a university in Thailand and MFA from Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, Sumon never made a living as an artist. Instead, he worked as an entrepreneur in the restaurant business. A family man, he worked hard to support both his daughters through college. Art, however, has always been his passion. Sumon returns to his easel every chance he gets and has had several one-man shows as well as group shows.

Now at retirement age, Sumon is committed to fulfill his passion to become a full time artist. And on his canvas, he explores deacades of accumulated ideas. His main inspiration comes from his love of nature. He is fascinated by the wide open spaces and the simplicity of the desert southwest, the vastness of the open sky, and the color of the sunlit mountain in the early morning. Moody and atmospheric scenes play a significant role in his paintings.

Although most of his paintings are inspired by the landscape of the southwest, Sumon likes to describe his style as combination of abstraction and impressionism. This combination developed from his interest in European Impressionism and contemporary abstract style. Sumon enjoys the simplicity and loose brush work in his compositions. Some of his work are soft and tonalistic while others are portrayed by exciting and expressive brush strokes. Most of his artwork are not exact representations of specific locations or scenes. Rather, they are a composite, a work of creativity.

If you interested in Sumon’s artwork or would like to know more about his paintings, feel free to contact him.

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WEBSITE - sumonart.com

EMAIL -smethangkool@yahoo.com

ARTIST - Eriika Muecke, is an acrylic painter who grew up in the Pacific Northwest with a love of all things art.  She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Arts, Media, and Culture from the University of Washington.  Moving to the Las Vegas area in 2014 she has since found a home in teaching Art at local studios.  She makes her Art come to life in Henderson, NV.

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WEBSITE - https://www.erikamueckeart.com/

EMAIL - whereyourartis@gmail.com

ARTIST - Julie Notaro is a contemporary abstract artist living in Las Vegas. Her work spans a range of mediums incuding encaustic, acrylic and mix media.

Her work is harmonious dance of color, line, geometry, and orgnic shape, blending texture, creating depth and dimension. Julie’s art is characterized by bold compositions that play with changing shadows and shading to difine shapes, creating a dynamic interplay of light and form. Her pieces often evoke a sense of movement and fluidity, as if the colors and shapes are in constant motion.

Julie’s work is known for her intriguing palettes that draw the viewer in and invite them to explore the intricate details. Her use of texture adds tactile quality to her paingtings, making them not just visually engaging but also invoking a rich sensory experiene.

Julie’s ability to balance the structured elements of geometry with the fluidity of organic shapes results in artworks that are striking and emotional.

Julie has a studio in The Arts Factory in the Arts District of Las Vegas. She has participated in group shows and her work is in homes all over the world.

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WEBSITE - www.fraichearts.com

EMAIL - janotaro@gmail.com

ARTIST -I paint because I love to. I love combining ideas, colors and composition to create something that is pleasing and brings joy to the viewer.  I started painting when my mother gave me a set of watercolor paints when I was older. I started playing with the paints and I found that it was something that I could do with my mom. We went on several workshops including at Yosemite and in rural Wisconsin where my family moved when they immigrated from Norway in the late 1800's.

I have expanded from those first days not only doing watercolor but incorporating other mediums (acrylic, mixed media, pastel and collage) and continuing on my journey to explore how to express my love of painting. Some have called me a "semi-abstract colorist". Throughout my journey, I have met some amazing people, both artists and art lovers, which may be the most rewarding of all.

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EMAIL - kkorton@gmail.com

ARTIST - Working mainly with acrylics and oil, my works mirror the beauty and turmoil of life, as I experience and appreciate it. Hence, landscapes, feng shui inspirations, figures, still life and abstract pieces fill my body of works. Being a recent transplant from New York, I am excited to paint, work and grow more with local artists. Having taken up Art Studies and Art Education in college, I dream also of having a lot of spare time to travel to intensively study and do more art. In the meantime, I am enjoying being alive and able to paint from my heart and do wonderful work with my art group, LVAG—when I’m not tending to my food truck and doing the 1,001 errands that mothers do every minute.

Life is very beautiful, with all its joys, challenges and sorrows. As a wife, a mother, a daughter, and a sister, I have my fair share of life’s ubiquitous fast balls, that could sometimes be too fast that it’s crippling. I am so grateful however, that as an artist, I am able to somehow catch these balls (or at least most of them) and transform them to many different themes, colors, lines and figures in my head and in my canvas. These fast balls, and curve balls that life throws my way, and the quirky, funny and happy everyday scenes I have the privilege of experiencing, motivates me and are the mainstays in my inspiration chest. I may not have the time to make them into art works right away, but the inspiration photographically stays in my head and torments me until I at least make a draft— and a promise to do them.

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EMAIL -
nmpecho@gmail.com

ABOUT - Leonor Santos aka LenLeRu is a passion driven artist, an executive producer of her own film project. She is an author of “MARINA A BOOK OF COURAGE.”

Leonor went to film school at the Academy of Arts University in San Francisco in 2014 and decided to moved to Las Vegas Nevada  in September 2018 for good to make a difference as an artist. She has skills in Arts Music and Film, Painting, Drawing, Media Editing, Screenplay Writing.

 As an Art enthusiast, she became a member of Las Vegas Artists’ Guild in February 2019 and a proud returning member this month of January 2025. When the world shut down during Covid, she became a stay home media artist. In July 2023, She joined  Stage32, a Filmmaker’s network which allows her to share her talents and computer skills as a Video Editor.  In January 2023, All her 45 video projects  about 3-4 minute in length are currently featured on Film Soundtrack Composer’s You Tube channel : MH Film Music Composer.  

The most recent community group that Leonor joined In July 2023 is the Las Vegas Professionals Lions Club. Within three months upon joining, Leonor was highly recommended to chair the Club’s yearly World Peace Poster Contest.  She felt honored to received the Lion of the Year Award in 2024.

Leonor has a creative partner and a consultant since April 2021 to present. Both she and her creative have a dynamic creative partnership working on their current first film project titled MARINA…A WWII Story based on true to life events,

As a Producer and as a Screenplay writer, she is inspired and self motivated to complete her MARINA project as a promise to her late mother MARINA who lived with memory loss for 10 years since 2014 to 2024. Leonor was her Primary Care provider.

In Summary, Leonor is a passion driven artist was a compassionate caregiver to her beloved mother Marina from 2014-2024. She has the burning desire to share her talents to the community.

WEBSITE - lerufilminternational.com

EMAIL - lerufilms@gmail.com

ARTIST - Ellen L. Stark retired in 2010 and relocated to Las Vegas from New Jersey in 2011. Her dream was always to be a photojournalist to document what she encountered in her environment while developing her creativity.

To further her dream of being a photographer Ellen enrolled in, and completed, courses in photography and photo software editing at University of Nevada Las Vegas to improve her skills while at the same time learning techniques from other photographers. Her art is a collection of different and various themed photographs (landscapes, animals, people & objects) that captured her attention and evoked a feeling.

In 2019 she published her first photobook titled: “The Other Las Vegas: Where We Live, Work, and Play,  (available through Blurb.com; eBook version available on Amazon).  Ellen is now working on her second photobook titled: “Ginger’s Adventures” and she is planning on publishing a third book.

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EMAIL - ellenstark10@gmail.com

ARTIST - Terri Anne Thompson is an award-winning journalist, photographer and painter, specializing in watercolor and acrylics.

A former reporter and editor at U.S.News & World Report and BusinessWeek, Terri taught business journalism at Columbia University in NYC for 25 years, and is the author of “Biz Kids’ Guide to Success” and editor of “Writing About Business” (published by Columbia University Press). Her first job in a newsroom was as graphic artist, typesetter and darkroom assistant at a weekly newspaper in Iowa, which is where she grew up.

Born in California and raised in Iowa, Terri spent most of her adult life in the big cities of the East coast (Boston and New York), and now she resides most of the year with her husband, Ralph Acerno, in the desert of Nevada, not far from the Las Vegas strip. These diverse locations and others to which she has travelled, combined with her journalism experiences and curiosity, are reflected in her photographs and paintings. Through careful composition, design and use of colors and tone, her works tell a unique story.

She studied at the University of Iowa, Northeastern University in Boston, Berklee School of Music, Fordham University and completed her undergraduate degree from New York University in New York City. She earned a Masters in Journalism from Columbia University, where she studied photojournalism and fine arts photography under the tutelage of famed photographer Thomas Roma. She continues her studies today with watercolorist Joan Iaconetti, landscape artist Rod Moore, and Olga Furman’s Paint Your Heart and Soul. As a graduate of the LearnTo Paint Academy, founded by Rod Moore in Australia, she is certified to teach the Moore Method of Painting.

She is a member of Nevada Watercolor Society, Las Vegas Artists Guild, American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society, Transparent Watercolor Society of America, Laguna Plein Air Painters Association, and City Lights Art Gallery in Henderson, NV.

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WEBSITE -territhompsonart.com

EMAIL - tthompson1952@gmail.com

ARTIST - Mai K H Zimbleman was born in the Land of The Midnight Sun, and grew up in the valley of Saltdalen, north of the Polar ( Arctic) Circle in Norway.  She later moved to Oslo, the capital city of Norway. Mai left for New York at age 18, and shortly thereafter headed for Southern California’s coastal regions where she lived and worked for many years.  She later travelled the US driving from east to west, north to south with her sketchbook in hand. She is greatly inspired by her childhood memories of Northern Lights flashing across the skies in winter followed by tropical warm summers.  Her work shows a great variety from both counties she lived in. Mai is also a commissioned portrait painter and has taught portrait painting at the City of Oslo Evening Academy.(1988/89)  Mai now lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.  She has been featured in the Celebrating Life Juried Masters Exhibits, Charleston Heights Art Center. Her mediums are oil and watercolour.

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WEBSITE - https://www.maizart.com/

INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/mai_kh_zimbleman/

EMAIL - maizimbleman@gmail.com