Type of Facility: Public Studio/Gallery
Address: 1076 N. Elm Road, Ellison Bay, WI 54210
Phone: 920.854.6866
Email: greatart@rdbentley.com
Website: www.rdbentley.com
Primary Mediums: Oil
Gallery Representation: AMO Gallery, Sturgeon Bay; RD Bentley Studio/Gallery, Ellison Bay
A portrait artist internationally for 30+ years, Rob has a cartoonist background ("Yale Record" humor magazine editor) which surfaces in his "Flight of Fancy" paintings. Work includes a "French Chef" series, "The Villages of Door County" series, and the "Lighthouses of Door County" series. Commissioned work included landscapes and "portscapes" (small portraits in landscape environments). I paint a lot!
Type of Facility: Treetop Private Studio
Address: PO Box 427, Sturgeon Bay, WI, 54235
Phone: 920.743.1737
Primary Mediums: Watercolor, Ink, & Oil
Gallery Representation: Gallery of the Door County Art League, Top of the Hill Shops, Fish Creek, WI, 54212
Description: "Trees in Autumn" -- an oil painting using a palette knife. Subject of painting is the Shivering Sands area of Door County.
Type of Facility: Public Studio/Gallery
Address: 9930 Highway 42, Ephraim, WI 54211
Phone: 920.854.5215
Website: www.artdoorcounty.com
Primary Mediums: All
Type of Facility: Interfibers Gallery (Public Gallery)
County Road F,
Fish Creek, WI 54212
Phone: 920.746.0680
Email: wendy@interfibers.com
Web: www.interfibers.com
Primary Medium: Fiber Art
Gallery Representation: Self
Description:
Fiber art wall sculpture by Door County artist Wendy Carpenter...work that expresses a connection with nature through form, color, and tactile material. 2010 featured artist Daryl Ashbury...a tonalist oil painter often depicting the fleeting light of Dusk & Dawn, combined with his sense of the primordial.
Wendy works in a mix textile media consisting of weaving, dyeing, papermaking & basketry. Her client-commissioned work provides a personal opportunity for custom artwork. Wendy studied fiber sculpture in Olympia, WA in the mid 70’s, tapestry weaving in Taos, NM and completed her BA through the University of Wisconsin studying with paper artist Karon Winzenz. She received a liturgical study grant in 2004 and has since been commissioned by various churches and fellowships nation wide. Wendy spends her winters in Central America working with other artists weaving ikat fabric and dyeing with indigo plants for her clothing designs. Her stunning 2010 classic jewelry collection consists of custom cut and polished jade stones and Door County geodes.
Daryl's expertly crafted paintings are imbued with emotion and tend towards dreamy sentimentality of remembered interactions with nature. He paints from his memory and his paintings capture the character rather than the details of a particular memory. Sometimes his source is the recollection of a specific moment and other times he simply recalls a general impression. The result is an image loaded with emotion, often moody but consistently rich and deep.
Interfibers… an array of mix media artwork conveying nature, emotion and color!
Type of Facility: Private Studio
380 W. Briar Lane
Allouez, WI 54301
Phone: 920.632.4027
Email: martha@new.rr.com
Web: www.marthacoatyphotography.com
Primary Medium: Fine Art Photography
Gallery Representation: Self
Description: "Friesian," May 2010 (Miller Art Museum's 35th Juried Annual Exhibition)
Type of Facility: Private Studio
Address: PO Box 35, Baileys Harbor, WI 54202
Phone: 920.559.2559
Email: myrnaleigh@gmail.com
Web: www.myrnacohn.com
Primary Medium: Oil
Gallery Representation: Gallery Ten, Gills Rock, WI
Description: "I was in an upbeat mood, loving the beauty and the quiet of the day. I chose a swinging Frank Sinatra as background music and it was perfect because I knew all the words and could sing along with Frank. As I faced the canvas, knife in hand, I did not have any thoughts about what I might be painting (although on some level, I knew it would be abstract and have a lot of red and black in it). I took my large knives, set them on the little roller cart, and began the process of picking up paint and making marks on the canvas, occassionally using a paper towel to push or thin out the paint in spots. Once in awhile, I'd use my latex-gloved fingers to make additional marks. I felt elated and very free.
The next day, returning to my canvas, I was in a completely different place. My left brain was in overdrive. My right brain was asleep at the switch...but, I decided to paint anyway (this time with Rod Stewart as my accompanyist). I was trying to figure out how to "continue," what shapes would "fit," and what new colors might "match." I felt frustrated, then anxious and ready to quit -- but I didn't. I perservered, painting and scraping, adding and subtracting until I finally finished the right side of the canvas, integrating it with the left, adding orange for a "pop." It was a definite challenge.
Type of Facility: Private Studio
Address: 10455 Oakdale Drive, Almond, WI 54909
Phone: 715.258.0195
Email: jsdavenport@toast.net
Web: www.johnrobertdavenport.com
Primary Medium: Oil, Pastel
Gallery Representation: Woodwalk Gallery, Egg Harbor, WI
Description: "About Painting"
The inspiratiion for many of my paintings is my attraction to the wonders and mysteries of the Ice Age landforms where I live. But there is more to this attraction. Painting for me is about getting the "feeling of the place" and reacting all the while to color resonance and light. Painting for me is about the invention of color equivalents, a color that is often a variation of the actual color viewed. Then, there is the physical act of painting, applying oil paint to linen. In a way it doesn't matter what I paint. What matters is the painting. "Painting" in this case becomes the "representation."
Type of Facility: Private Studio
Address: 4541 Rock Ridge Road,
Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235
Phone: 920.746.0680
Email: gmgerbs@charter.net
Primary Medium: Oil
Gallery Representation: The Paint Box Gallery (Ephraim, WI)
Description: I have always been inspired by the beauty of nature. If I am out stream-fishing, golfing, or walking in the woods, I am drawn to the landscape. In my paintings I try to convey the sense of being there by capturing the intimacy and freshness of the place. My painting style varies from realism to impressionism to achieve this goal. -- Glenn Gerber
Type of Facility: Private Studio, "The Picket Fence Studio at Eames Farm"
Address: 7842 Eames Farm Road
Egg Harbor, WI 54235
Phone: 920.868.3810
Email: lizdoorcounty@gmail.com
Web: www.elizabethhellerartist.com
Primary Medium: Oil on Canvas
Description: I am a Door County artist who is continuously seduced by the beauty it has to offer! I love the "off the beaten path" roads that lead to ponds, interior lanes, quiet woods, and rolling farmlands as well as the escarpment and varied coastline of the Peninsula. My paintings can also be seen at Woodwalk Gallery in Egg Harbor, located at 6746 County Road G, Egg Harbor, WI 54209.
Type of Facility: Private Studio
Address: 5617 County S, Oshkosh, WI 54904
Summer Phone: 920.279.1395 (Sunday through Thursday)
Winter Phone: 920.582.4493
Email: sue@susanstextileart.com
Primary Medium: Textiles (Fabric Collage)
Gallery Representation: Gallery Ten, Gills Rock; The Bindley Collection, Middleton, WI
My goal is to create art that represents the world around me in a realistic way, using fabrics to "fool the eye." When the casual observer first sees my work, I want them to think they are looking at a painting. Then I want them to be drawn in when they realize the piece has actually been created by layering hundreds of intricately-cut pieces of fabric.
Many people have asked me why I choose to work in textiles, as opposed to more traditional mediums. I tell them we are all connected to fiber - we wear it, we sleep on it, we rely on it for many types of daily needs. It is an essential part of our lives. And as an artist, I find textiles to have many textures and responses to light.
I like to say that my process usually begins with a camera and a bucket! Starting with a photograph I've (usually) taken in Wisconsin, I hand-dye the background fabric using procion dyes in a low water immersion technique (Sometimes a piece requires a hand-painted background and I use acrylics to get the desired effect). Working on a design wall, I begin "building" each piece using fabrics I have collected over the last several years. I use three different types of scissors in the cutting process and finish every piece by shading and contouring with pastels.
Type of Facility: Private Studio
Address: 4541 Rock Ridge Road,
Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235
Phone: 920.746.0680
Email: gmgerbs@charter.net
Primary Medium: Drawing/Mixed Media
Description: I enjoy drawing. My drawing was all done in black and white for years, but now I use color. I will often produce a black and white picture and then a similar colored one. I am most at home drawing people and flowers. My colored works are created using colored pencil. -- Marty Gerber
Type of Facility: Private Studio
Address: 3050 Cedar Street,
Ephraim, WI 54211
Phone: 920.854.9812
Email: lyleandnancy@earthlink.net
Web: www.reddoorgallery.com
Primary Medium: Oil, pen & ink
Gallery Representation: Self (Ephraim, WI)
Description: Visit the treetop studio with the red door, located on Cedar Street in Ephraim's Historic District, You'll view oils featuring the beauty of Door County as well as incredible pen & ink drawings of Door County and the enchanting Cotswolds area of England. Open by appointment year-round.
Type of Facility: Private Studio
Address - Full Time: 95 Golf Parkway Unit C, Madison, WI 53704
Address - Part Time: 9307 Fieldstone Court, Fish Creek, WI 54212
Phone: 608.347.4402
Email:rfminckinl@wisc.edu
Primary Medium: Photography
Description: "Migrating Swans" (November 2009) was taken along a trail between Europe Bay Road and Europe Lake. I photograph the swans from this location every year but this is the first time I caught one praying for safe travel. What a treat. Device: Nikon D80 Lens VR18/200 mm • F/3.5 focal length 200 mm • 150 100 Shutter Speed 1/400s • Apeture F/5.6. Minor corrections made.
Type of Facility: Studio (call for appointment)
Address: PO Box 515, Ephraim, WI 54211-0515
Phone: 920.854.9369
Email: mnickols@charter.net
Web: www.woodennickols.com
Primary Medium: Water-based oils and watercolor
Gallery Representation: Charlene's Gallery Ten (Gills Rock, WI), PKJ Designs (Ephraim, WI), & the Gallery of the Door County Art League (Fish Creek, WI)
When I am painting, I find that I am not content with just making the painting look like the scene that I am viewing. I want to make the viewer totally feel what they are looking at. I want to push the envelope with the colors and the composition. The colors will often not be what the viewer expects, but I just let them appear on the canvas as my instinct and emotions flows onto the canvas. Color combinations can invoke emotions within the viewer and they may not even realize what is creating that feeling. Just like a writer will take liberties and make a story their own. I just cannot copy what is there exactly; it would not be me if I did. I love water and you will often see it in my work. It changes constantly and reflects all the colors. Sure people think it is blue, but is it really? Are any of the colors in nature the colors most think they are? They reflect what is around them and change with the light. The shapes change too, as does the composition when the shapes change. I start with the scene, but it changes as I go through the painting process. I know what I want when I am finished, but it is the journey to finding what I see in my mind and emotions, which is the challenge for me. When I finally achieve what I am looking for then the painting is complete.
Type of Facility: Private Studio
Address: 8372 High Plateau Road, Baileys Harbor, WI 54202
Phone: 920.839.2722
Email: cullpepper@mail.doorcounty-wi.com
Primary Medium: Acrylic, pen, and ink
Gallery Representation: George Burr Gallery
Type of Facility: Public Studio
Address: White Rose Healing Arts Studio, 9281 Maple Grove Road, Fish Creek, WI 54212
Phone: 920.421.2344
Email: galeritchey@yahoo.com
Web: www.artofhealingintuition.com
Primary Medium: Fractal Artwork
Gallery Representation: White Rose Healing Arts Studio (Fish Creek, WI), J. Jeffrey Taylor (Fish Creek, WI), & the Gallery of the Door County Art League (Fish Creek, WI)
Healers from as far away as Pondicherry, India and Canada have felt and sensed the energies emitting from the fractal portals that Gale creates. Master Chinese healers have stated how unique this form of healing energy work is -- it is a gifted disipline to be able to channel pure healing energy through a painting or other form of art. Bringing to light the unusual forms of confimation necessary for this artist's unique art form phenomenon. Throughout her life, her lessons of fractal awareness and innate connections into the sacred and secular have been transformed into profound forms of knowledge and holographic insight and life force (qi) awareness. Lifelong confirmations of innate lessons learned taught her discernment, trust, and integration healing within the living wave of guiding Light, progressing her psychic facilities to mystic levels. This has resulted in the offering of her unique services to others through her healing arts as fractals, sessions for individuals and animals, as well as creating/facilitating workshops for Wholeness of Being and Expanding Creative Potential (both copyrighted ideas). Withstanding many initiating journeys into quantum awareness and her personal dedication to her individual creative path, she has progressed her innate gifts of higher psychism, spiritual enlightenment and creative (qi) energy streaming into her becoming a unique leader in this advanced form of healing holomovement art.
Type of Facility: Public Studio
Address: 2050 Muirfield Way, New Franken, WI 54229
Phone: 920.866.3608
Email: smallrupp@gmail.com
Web: www.inkdroparthaus.com
Primary Medium: Watercolor
My watercolors are a reflection of my own interpretation of the natural beauty of Northeast Wisconsin. I am inspired by the ever-changing seasons and moods created by nature. Fresh, charming, and peaceful are all words used to describe my work.
Type of Facility: Private Studio, Virtual Gallery
Summer Address: 7094 All Creatures Lane, Baileys Harbor, WI 54202
Winter Address: 7324 Kings Drive, Ellenton, FL 34222
Phone: 920.839.5457
Email: wareckib@gmail.com
Web: www.gyotakufishart.com
Primary Medium: Mixed Media
Gallery Representation: Self
Looking at Bonnie's artwork may be an uplifting and rewarding experience for many, but for those who really "know the artist," her work with fish and aquatic environments goes far beyond art. It is uniquely an art which culminates her life experiences.
While art, fishing, and the call of "open water" have always been an integral part of Bonnie's life, it's been a love shared by her entire family. Her husband and sons are all former commercial fishermen in Door County, and even today hold licenses as charter captains.
More significantly, Bonnie owns and oversees a research-focused, fish hatchery and rearing facility with its website at www.stockyourpond.com. Unique and innovative research at her farm recently led to the award of a US Patent to Bonnie for a new, high-intensity aquaculture system known as a "Superior Floating Raceway."
To facilitate dissemination of this technology, she formed and serves as the CEO of Superior Aquaculture, LLC, with its website at www.superiorraceways.com. Bonnie's creativeness now enables eco-friendly fish production in millions of acres of water formerly unusable. While Bonnie acknowledges that the above holds great promise for revolutionizing fish farming internationally, she likes to stress that her efforts are really focused on improving public health (especially for the poor) through improved nutrition. Bonnie is thrilled that her passion for art can provide an additional, integrated platform for further education, discussion, and action. In this regard, she enjoys closely working with her home church in Florida and other non-profit, environmentally-concerned groups.
Type of Facility: Private Studio
Address: N9590 Sunset Drive, East Troy, WI 53120
Phone: 262.949.2966
Email: suzannechojnacki@gmail.com
Primary Medium: Oil
