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a fine art gallery and listening room
Depot District - Ardmore, OK 580.798.5046
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Featured Artists
Penny Thomas
Penny Thomas is a local artist who enjoys creating jewelry and other art pieces from antique and vintage buttons. “I am always drawn to the history and energy in antiques, especially handmade pieces. The buttons I use were crafted in the late 19th and early 20th century, each one a tiny piece of art; some are carved glass and others beautifully stamped, and colored metal or brass. I was inspired to create jewelry from the buttons to showcase their unique and forgotten beauty.”
Penny lives in Ardmore, Oklahoma with her husband Johnny.
DeAun Olive
Artist DeAun Olive grew up in Wichita Falls, Texas, and now resides in Oklahoma City. She began painting to deal with grief. As a child she wanted to be an artist but didn’t pursue it, until much later. Life got in the way of a childhood goal but was never forgotten. She took art classes at Rose State College. Olive developed a daily habit of painting. Her instructors urged her to start showing her work, and she began a second career in art.
Grace Hopkins
Grace Hopkins believes that their calling as an artist is to tell stories. To welcome audiences into narratives, so that viewers might find a safe place to explore the intricacies of being human. To do this Grace draws upon the stories of their own imagination as well as personal experience.
Alan Burris
Alan Burris is an art enthusiast. As an artist, he has produced a large body of work over many years, using a variety of media and exploring a wide array of subject matter. As an art instructor/lecturer for 23 years with Murray State College, Burris has taken a traditional academic approach to the history, creation and meaning of visual art from a western perspective. He remains an active participant in the art world as part of a long-standing artist critique group, by attending museum and gallery shows, as a former Advanced Placement/Art Portfolio reader, and as a local and regional judge for numerous art competitions.
Carolyn Arcure
Beads are condensed capsules of information, each with its own beauty, history and culture. Collecting handmade beads worldwide, Carolyn Arcure assembles them into Storybeads. These take many forms as unique jewelry, bookmarks, shrines and other blessings, all accompanied by tags and booklets telling their stories.
Christina Harmon
Chrissi Harmon Jewelry specializes in contemporary jewelry design made by using traditional metalworking techniques bringing quality and craftmanship to each creation. All pieces are hand fabricated, and hand finished using sterling silver, 14kt or 18kt gold, Argentium Silver, and genuine gemstones. Each piece is unique in both stone and craft, and handmade so no two are ever exactly alike.
Morgan Snyder
Morgan Snyder is the owner of New Hue, a local whimsical art company. She won Oklahoma's 30 Under 30 award for innovation and creativity in the arts world and has illustrated a children's book. Morgan paints impressionistic Oklahoma and Southern-themed landscapes in acrylics with a twist of vibrant and bright colors. She particularly enjoys painting landscapes as she grew up in West Texas chasing sunsets.
Featured Artists
L. A. Scott
L.A. Scott paints abstracts. He explores the convergence of paint, music, and energy. His pieces are composed to music and often the repeated musical selection will become part of the title.
Sharon Burris
Sharon Burris is a fine art photographer. Most of her work is printed on reflective aluminum, giving it a rich, luminescent depth not found in traditional paper prints. She works with what she calls "composite photography," the layering of elements of several self-taken photos to create a multi-layered work that invites viewer interpretation and closer inspection to find the multi-faceted details within the piece.
Barbara Meikle
Barbara Meikle has been an artist from childhood, sketching the horses she loved and to care of in order to ride. Her bright and vibrant work includes horses elegantly in motion or the expression of whimsical donkey or the dynamic beauty of the Western landscape.
Featured Artists
The Art of Africa - Desiree Reed, Curator
Nestled amid rough terrain and lush green land lives the Native Kamba people of the Eastern Plains of Kenya. These people are known for their authentic and artistic flare depicting everyday life in their village and surrounding areas. Each of the Authentic African Batiks are on pure cotton fabric with painting from various artists from the Kamba people.
Suanne Wamsley
For more than 25 years, Suanne Wamsley has loved horses and enjoyed great success painting the magnificent animals. Since childhood, her love of art and a natural attraction to horses have melded into an extraordinary talent. Working in colored pencil, she captures every detail of her subjects and brings to life the qualities that make horses some of the most beloved animals on earth.
Traci Wright Martin
Traci Wright Martin is a charcoal and mixed media artist. The overall narrative in her portrait and figurative work addresses the idea of representation, weaving contemporary realism with abstract design elements. Her approach to mixed media utilizes charcoal as the foundation and brings combinations of paint, patterned paper collage and other experimental techniques to the finished design.
Featured Artists
Jeremy Lowe
Hand-made custom wire sculptures of various animals. Jeremy won the International Art Award of 2008 from the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History.
Featured Artists
Chris Allen Curtis
Chris Allen Curtis is a singer/songwriter and a visual artist from Fort Worth, Texas. Chris began painting 25 years ago when he started studying watercolor landscapes and portraits with the brilliant Fort Worth artist, Judy Sager. He started painting his acrylic landscapes of the Texas Hill Country and Big Bend about 6 years ago.
Rob Mattson
Over the past 30 years, the work of Rob Mattson has involved multiple genres and subgenres within the realm of editorial visual story telling. His work has been published in newspapers throughout the world, mainly in the pages of the New York Times and Washington Post. Aside from periodicals, Mattson's work can also be found throughout the America 24/7 book project, via Florida 24/7, and Photojournalism: The Professionals' Approach, Sixth Edition. Mattson has twice earned the national honor of being AAEA's Photographer of the Year.
Jeffrey L Gullett
Based in Oklahoma City and working out of his studio, Catchlight Creations Art Glass Studio, Jeffrey L Gullett has worked with the medium of glass for 30 years and other mediums for much longer. He began working with glass in 1994 and has found it to be the most satisfying yet challenging medium he’s ever worked in. Beginning with stained glass and venturing into fused glass Jeffrey has been able to realize many goals he’s set for himself. Showing his work at art festivals and invitational gallery shows for many years, Jeffrey now primarily shows his work in selected galleries and has work in selected homes and businesses around the world.
Gregg Gibson
Gregg Gibson resides in Ocala, Florida. He has been interested in photography all of his life but became serious after he retired a few years ago. He likes to take digital photos and manipulate them using a program called Photoscapes. Gregg likes to take pictures of his wife, Patricia's art and make them into something new.
Featured Artists
Patricia Gibson
Patricia Gibson lives in
Ocala, Florida. She believes artwork is a reflection of her soul. The unique encounters and education throughout her life feed her ideas. She believes art is a process to create, enjoy, experiment and relax. Patricia's favorite materials and techniques include baling wire, batik painting and mosaics using broken pieces.
Bob Bowser
Bob Bowser is a wildlife photographer. His love of nature began when he was a small boy growing up in a midwest rural community. He has captured stunning photos of wildlife in their natural habitat. His work is printed on acrylic and canvas bringing the smallest details up close, drawing the observer's eye into the photo.
Lori Snowden
Lori Snowden has had a natural love and appreciation for art, in all forms, for as long as she can remember. She continues to expand her boundaries different techniques and mediums. Her passion is to create her own variety of artwork.
Lee Bocock
Known for her innovative compositions in oil and acrylics, Lee Bocock's paintings demonstrate masterful draftsmanship, an unerring sense of spatial composition and design and a bold exploration of new dimensions in color and texture. Her artwork exhibits the iconic connection of humanity to animals and the environment, the visionary presence of the mystical and the cultural traditions of the past.
