"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Footballers

"I talked my good buddy, Sandra Phillips, into marrying me about sixteen years ago. We live in a pretty good house on the beach of ancient Lake Bonneville overlooking Utah Valley. Sandra paints watercolors in an upstairs studio. I have a studio behind the house that functions nicely. Adrian Gottlieb called it, "The most awesome a studio can get without actually being Frederick Leighton's studio"

We have paints, brushes, books, props, easels, crates, paper, canvas, pencils, solvents, costumes, computers and banjos everywhere.

We are fixated on art. We are boring company."

~ William Whitaker

As a Professor of painting and drawing for over thirty years in Eastern Kentucky, Ron Isaacs has quietly developed a rich and highly refined body of work. His pieces, composed of Finnish birch plywood and acrylic paints, deal with the same issues of illusion, shadow and texture found in much of 16th and 17th century Dutch genre painting.  However, instead of the flat plane, Isaacs creates works in three-dimensional forms. These works are constructed solely by additive methods that may sometimes require several hundred pieces of wood to construct one work.

"I dream of painting and then I paint my dream."

~ Vincent Van Gogh

"Movement and dance are my greatest inspirations, and I somehow try to blend these dynamic forms of beauty with colors."

~ Renata Brzozowska

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Imminent Grace

"Art is never finished, only abandoned."

~ Leonardo da Vinci

Darryl Trott achieved a feel and flow with watercolour that no other medium comes close to. The Australian born artist was inspired from the very young age of six when he received his first set of watercolour paints for Christmas. From this early age he knew that his fingers and watercolour paint were a natural combination. But it was thirty years or more before his childhood love of flowers and art were brought to the surface by Ruth Tuck, a great Australian floral artist and teacher.

~ Landsborough Galleries

Casablanca Lillies

"I create large icons such as a Buddha or a traditional vase, using materials from the fashion industry. The process of building large installations are time consuming and repetitive and it requires manual effort which provides a form of self-meditation. I hammer thousands of pins into a wall like a monk who, facing the wall, practices Zen. My works are divided into two groups. In the first, pins are used to hold buttons remain free to move and suggest the genetic human tendency to be irresolute. I choose buttons, which are as common and ordinary as human beings. In the second group of works, a massive number of pins connect yards of thread creating a negative space of the presented images, threads suggesting connections between human beings and a communication network between seemingly unlinked human experiences. The filled negative space in the absence of the positive space suggests mortality at the heart of self-recognition."

~ Ran Hwang

Sweet In Yean