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Catherine Shepherd
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Cartherine Jones Shepherd received a BA from Mary Washington College in Fredricksburg, Virginia, and an MA in Theology from Southeastern Bible College in Birmingham, Alabama and an MA in Communication Arts from Montevallo University. She has enjoyed studying painting from numerous notable painters, including Alvin Sella from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She has two daughters and two grandchildren.
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Peggy Barnhart
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Peggy Barnhart majored in art at the University of Georgia, studying under Lamar Dodd. She received a bachelor’s in art from Samford University. She designed and created floral arrangements for thirty years before returning to painting and being invited to join The Village Painters. Her work ranges from intense landscapes and figure drawings. She is recently known for pet portraits and abstractions.
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Jane M. Branscomb
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Jane Branscomb has been a longstanding member of the Village Painters and participant in the Birmingham arts community. As a youth, she took WPA classes in Nashville and Richmond and later studied with muralist and pastel painter, Bell Worsham. She subsequently took courses at the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Colorado. In Village Painters, her studies have continued with Raymond McMahon of Birmingham-Southern College and Al Sella of the University of Alabama.
After majoring in art history at Randolph-Macon Women’s College, Jane did art education work at the Valentine Museum of Richmond and later at the Birmingham Museum of Art. She is a past officer of the Water Color Society of Alabama and the Birmingham Art Association.
Among her volunteer activities have been “quick sketch” pastels of children which led to commissions of larger work. These impressionist pastel portraits and expressionist acrylic and mixed media landscapes can be found in various private and public collections in Virginia and locally.
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Trent Caddis
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Trent Caddis is a native of Birmingham and graduated from Ramsay High School in 1961. She acquired a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a focus in metal sculpture from the University of Alabama in 1965. She then spent several years doing a postgraduate study with Bob Tucker at Birmingham-Southern College. She had two sculpture shows in the 70's and continued welding sporadically over the years. In the 90's, because of a health condition, Trent gave up welding, but began working with ceramics and discovered a love for painting in acrylics. She has participated in many exhibitions and Art shows over the past 11 years, including a one-man show at the Altamont School Gallery. Today, Trent paints everyday, sometimes in the middle of the night! Her enthusiasm for Art began quite by accident. The Registrar's Office at the University of Alabama mistakenly enrolled her in the Department of Art, rather than her intended Department of Interior Design. Being too complicate the change majors, she was advised to wait a semester to do so. This very fortunate mistake was the beginning of her lifelong love for art.
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Pat Carroll
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Pat Carroll is available for commission pieces, especially watercolors of wedding bouquets. Her paintings can be seen at Little House on Linden gallery in Homewood, AL
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Mary Kay Culpepper
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Mary Kay Culpepper devoted one career to creative expression and is now working on a second. After 30 years as a practicing journalist--23 of them at Birmingham's Southern Progress Corporation--she stepped down in 2009 as editor-in-chief of Cooking Light, America's largest epicurean magazine. Having studied drawing and painting part-time for the last several years, she sold her first painting and exhibited in her first juried art show the month she retired.
A student of Maine figurative painter, Judy Taylor and Pennsylvania abstract expressionist Timothy Hawkesworth, Mary Kay has for the last three years taken drawing from Alabama artist, Dori DeCamillis at Red Dot Gallery in Homewood. Mary Kay's work is in private collections from California to New York, and she is on the board of the Birmingham Art Association.
A graduate from the University of Mississippi, Mary Kay will begin a yearlong program in creativity studies at SUNY-Buffalo in Spring, 2010, and considers her experience in The Village Painters as an integral, exciting part of her studies.
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Tora Johnson
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Tora Johnson is a graduate of St. Mary's Jr. College and the University of Wisconsin with a BS in English and History. She began painting in oils Germany and then started painting in watercolors with Wayne Spradley and several watercolor workshops at Kanuga, Camp McDowell and in Pensacola. More recently she has been painting experimental abstracts with acrylic as water-media. Tora has had one-woman exhibits at The Berman Museum of World History, the Donoho School, Stringfellow Hospital in Anniston and St. Vincent's Hospital in Birmingham. She has been in multiple-artist shows at the Anniston Museum of Natural History and Jacksonville State University. She has also been juried into the Watercolor Society of America members’ show winning an honorable mention, in three “Mini-works” shows at Jacksonville State University as well as Experimental Artists of America on-line shows. Has been a member of the Art Works Gallery of Anniston Alabama, since its inception. She was a member of Work of His Hands, in Atlanta until it closed. To bring well-known art teachers to Alabama, Tora organized and has coordinated the McDowell Fall Watercolor Workshops at the Episcopal Conference Center, Camp McDowell, since 1998. Recently moving to Birmingham, she has been invited to join The Village Painters and looks forward to many more years of creating pieces of art.
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Carolynn Thomas Jones
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Carolynn Thomas Jones studied art at the University of Alabama, Samford University, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and George Peabody College, ultimately receiving a degree in art and art education in 1978. She taught art for several years and then started a family, later expanding her education to include nursing and clinical research careers. In addition to painting, she serve as an art instructor, mentor and arts retreat facilitator in a variety of settings as well as developing and teaching distance education courses in clinical research for physicians and nurses in low-resource countries and students at the University of Alabama, School of Nursing.
As a life-long learner, her art has been highly influenced by other abstract impressionist painters, including Al Sella and especially southeast artist JoAnn Williams Walker and Guido Frick in the oil painting methods of Sergei Bongart. Her paintings touch on her passion for living and spiritual things. Her artwork is found at The Commissary Design Warehouse near Liberty Park in Birmingham, Alabama, Canterbury United Methodist Church, in numerous private collections and on her virtual portfolio website. She is a member of several local art associations. She enjoys painting in en plein air, in her home studio and especially in The Village Painters Studio in their new studio in Hoover, Alabama.
www.carolynnthomasjones.com
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Kelly Kahn
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Kelly Kahn, a native of Albertville Alabama, has had a passion for art since childhood. At six years old she was drawing likenesses from book illustrations she enjoyed. Kelly practiced this interest in art mostly while sitting in the pew at church services. She then illustrated a cookbook during her middle school years which eventually lead her in the career path of art and aesthetics.
After college, a career and licensing in commercial Interior Design in Birmingham, Alabama, Kelly eventually leapt into the painting world in 1997 and attacked portraiture. She also has been teaching year round children/teen art classes for 10 years. Some of her students have won awards state wide as well as in their local school.
Birmingham, Alabama is where Kelly makes her home with her husband and two daughters. Nationally known artists Jan Kunz, Paul Leveille and Winslow Homer have influenced her knowledge and work greatly. Other local artists such as Frances Jones, Dori Decamillis, Rollina Ogelsbay, and John Lonergan have helped to develop her talents. She paints in all mediums but particularly in oil and watercolor. Her subject matters have been figurative, architectural, landscapes, still lives and portraiture.
www.kellykahnart.com
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Susan Levine
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Susan Levine gained experience as an art and creative director in retail, manufacturing, and television. In 1982 she opened her own design firm, Inhouse Designs, which served businesses, start-up companies and publishing firms. Susan helped organize a local chapter of AIGA in 1987 and served on the board as committee chair and president. During this period, she also served on other boards and volunteered with local non-profit agencies.
In 1992, Susan turned from promoting commercial products to using her talents in support of charitable organizations. Here she broadened the scope of her capabilities to include coordination of special events, and development. In addition, she taught graphic design for a year as an adjunct professor at the college level.
Throughout the years, painting, drawing and other creative activities were an important part of Susan's life. She and her daughter often collaborated on creative projects. Today she is pleased to be a member of the Village Painters and sharing her art with the public.
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Anita Ronderos
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Anita Ronderos was born and raised in Bogata, Colombia, South America. Has studied art at UAB under Edith Frohock and other notable Alabama art professors, including Alvin Sella of University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa; Dorothy Jones, renowned watercolor artist. Also studied art at Gallery de Art in Bogata, Columbia. She has shown at multiple juried shows at Space One Eleven and The Village Painters and Studio on 21st. She currently paints with two artists studios- Second Studio and The Village Painters. She works in watercolors and acrylics.
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Petey Scruggs
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Although Petey Scruggs did not start painting in earnest until her youngest child went to grammer schol, she has been an artist all of her life. "I see art in everything," she says, "from the ephemeral landscape of daily life to form and color on canvas."
As a child she watched and studied her father drawing, and etching and creating large wood-veneered panels. His detailed technique and concentration facinated her, and although her mature work in acrylic is abstract expressionist in genre, she learned from him that an artist must be able to draw before moving toward abtraction. Indeed her first works were very realistic etchings and watercolors of seashells, flowers and landscapes. Drawing in and of itself, however, lacked the boldness, movement and depth of color that she so admired of the Abstract Expressionist masters such as William de Kooning and Jackson Pollock.
While she continues to draw and begins each piece wtih charcoal outlining, it is now the layering of color, space verses line, and the very act of putting paint to canvas that inspires her work today. "I do not know what a finished piece will look like before I begin," she explains. "Often I'll paint a swatch of color on unprimed canvas, then spray it with water just to see the drips that form, then work with those drips, layering color and line as the piece takes on a life of its own." She works quickly, often finishing a large canvas in one sitting.
Some of her most current work incorporates the cherry and varying burl wood veneers left over from her father's work of the 1930's. "The veneers give a piece its final texture, balance and depth that pay homage to my father and the artistic nature he inspired in me," she says.
Having been creating for over 50 years, Petey Scruggs continues to experiment with space, color and materials - it's what keeps her young, vibrant and alive.
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