Featured Artists

Knowing since the early age of five that he would someday become an artist, Ken Moylan has been creating art his entire life. Ken’s artistic style is based in realism. His contemporary artwork is very precise, illusionistic and highly crafted. “I combine...

Kristie Bretzke is a realist oil painter and bronze sculptor. She loves both abstract and realist paintings but identifies most with figurative realist paintings. Kristie pursues a variety of meaningful themes in her art. “My work is very personal and based on...

Susan Novak’s love for art began during her childhood and has continued throughout her life. “I always enjoyed drawing as a child. I majored in art in college and was fortunate to be able to make a living as a graphic designer and illustrator,” she...

In his professional career, Carl practiced as an interventional radiologist; while his love of art museums during his youth sparked his passion for becoming an artist. Identifying most closely with realism, representational oil painter Carl Bretzke expresses his...

As an art teacher at Mounds Park Academy in St. Paul, Renee uses a variety of techniques and materials to teach. Her medium of choice for her own artwork is Sumi-e painting. Sumi-e is a Japanese word defined as ink painting, and the term encompasses many types of East...

Art has transformed the life of artist Jodi Reeb since she was very young. “At the age of five, I created poster drawings using crayons on blue-lined tablet paper and sold them throughout my neighborhood for a dollar. That’s when the idea was planted that I...

Throughout her life, Florence’s artistic talents have been inspired by nature as it appears in the moment. “As a child growing up where art education was not offered in school, I made “art” outdoors where I watched nature—who seemed to be my teacher....

Ruthann Godollei’s prints, created in a wide variety of media, contain social and political content that engages viewers. “My prints incorporate political and social commentary with a touch of ironic humor. I play text and images off each other and prompt...

Jack Dant is both an artist and, in his professional life, a medical device product development engineer and project manager. He finds balance and commonalities in these two pursuits. “I find that my love of art and painting is a great complement to this...

Graffiti, surrealism and cartoons are the inspiration for Barret Lee’s art. He uses acrylics and spray paint to create work that revolves around his love for these art forms. “Those three worlds I look to mold into one of modern escapism. I create...

Accountant by day, painter by night. Robin Westacott does both. Robin’s been a freelance CPA for 12 years and has been help Simpson Housing Services with contracted accounting work for about 7. But last year, she was inspired to learn how to draw and paint. She dove...

When Marilyn Jacobson starts a panting, she puts paint on the paper and then looks for what it will become. She prefers watercolors to acrylic because she sees the figures stronger in watercolors. “I put the paint down and look for characters,” she says. Children...

Larry Welo’s mother came from Norway and filled his childhood home with paintings, weavings and Norwegian crafts. This strong influence led to, what he describes as an “intense interest” in art. In college, Larry realized art was destined to be his career. “My artwork...

Kate Heegaard Hartfiel has always drawn, painted and made jewelry. “As a little kid I would draw on everything,” she says. “I would add more pictures to picture books. That didn’t go over very well…” Kate’s current work involves the classic image of the cowboy in...

“I try to look for the unique in the ordinary,” Steve Lackore says about his work. Currently working exclusively with transparent watercolors, Steve paints realistic depictions of landscapes and still life and is inspired by natural environment of Minnesota. Living in...

Since she was a very young child Rita Beyer Corrigan has always had an interest in drawing and painting. “It’s all I ever wanted to do,” she says. Rita discovered pastels in the 1980s and experiments with pastel over watercolor. She continues to enjoy oil and images...

Otters. If you ask artist Kat Corrigan about the themes she’s currently pursuing, she’ll tell you about the series of otter paintings she’s working on. “I see them as go-betweens for us humans to understanding death,” she says. “They live comfortably between water and...

Pat officially started painting in 2009 and has always loved the creative process. After retiring from teaching, she took classes and began to work with watercolors. She describes her style as evolving and she is willing to try anything from abstract, to pen and ink,...