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I started photography when I was seven years old with an old View Finder Canon my father gave me. At the time I really only took pictures of my friends and landscapes.
In high school I was doing yearbook work and (with my father) worked for Glenwood School for Boys once a year for Flag Day.
As I moved onto my own places to live, and without a place for a dark room, photography became less and less part of my life, until computers and digital photography!
I came back to photography in 2000, with my Sony digital camera. I started with botany photography and moved back into the studio to work on my abstract work
Now, I am working almost entirely on abstract photography, my next goal is to start working on wild life and nature photography.
Ted is married to Joan and have two children, Doug and Tia. As a chemist, Ted spent most of his career in research, synthesizing new compounds for the pigment industry, working on light sensitive compounds and later in management.
He has always been drawn to photography but has many other interests including reading good books, writing and painting and is currently working on videos showing the work of other artists, a book of his photographs and a collection of short stories. Ted also writes a column about digital photography in the Lake County Arts Magazine called Ted’s Tips.
Along with the giclée’s he does for artists, he prints large images for other photographers and has his own advertising agency. Ted loves to learn and has been taking classes in oil painting for the past few years. He travels extensively, having most recently visited Greece and Turkey. He hopes to go to Yellowstone this year in his camper to photograph wildlife.
Photography has been my special and constant interest for a good portion of my adult life. Delving into different aspects of it – moving from photographing landscapes to models to jazz musicians and artist – always trying to find different ways of seeing everyday items has kept this hobby fresh over the years. Retirement in 2013 provided the chance to explore further, branching out into a fine arts approach and resuming teaching at the College of Lake County, Illinois. Experimenting with different techniques and taking advantage of available technologies has opened new worlds to explore.
I am a freelance artist with an endless passion for artistic exploration. My portfolio ranges from watercolors, oils, acrylics, pen and ink, collage, mosaics and stained glass.
I have a bachelor’s degree in Interior Design from Southern Illinois University, were I was introduced to many rendering and painting techniques. My interest in art led me to eventually study watercolors at the Art Institute of Chicago. I am self-taught in mosaics, and I have studied stained glass through workshops from Delphi Glass in Lansing, Michigan. Mostly, I have learned from reading books and watching an occasional online art demo.
My most recent work has been inspired by the charm and beauty of Antioch and its surrounding Chain of Lakes, where I have been a resident since 2010.
My artwork is inspired by the art of Northwest Coast Native Americans. That is, art from the region between Yakutat Bay, Alaska and the northern end of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The tribes of this region are the Tlingit, Tsimshian, Haida, Bella Bella, Bella Coola, and Kwakiutl (as named by the white explorers who first contacted them).
My current works are brush paintings on paper, using archival ink. I became interested in this art form while a graduate student and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle. I recall sneaking into lectures by Bill Holm, who is a world-renowned authority on Native American art of that region. His book Northwest Coast Indian Art – An Analysis of Form (University of Washington Press,1965, ISBN 0-295-19502-8) is a definitive text on this subject. Visits to the Burke Museum at the University of Washington, to the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology, and to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago solidified my interest in this art.
I claim no Native American ancestry and my work should not be assumed to duplicate exactly the form and style of the art which inspired it. In any case, differences between traditional and current day Native American art of that region can be substantial. I am drawn to this art because the unique elements of composition in this art form appeal to me and the style presents a challenge in creating balanced, coherent compositions.
Traditional Native American art of the Pacific Northwest is unique and immediately recognizable in several respects. The use of continually tapering formlines (1), ovoids (2), U-shapes (3), S-shapes (4), and eye (5), hand (6) or claw (7) depictions are particularly characteristic of this art, as are those of nose (8) or eyebrows (9a, 9b).
Where painted on flat surfaces this art was generally with two or three colors, with order of frequency being black > red > blue-green. The art as painted on surfaces does not convey perspective and rarely displays any overlapping of the design elements. The subjects are limited to animals or supernatural beings either for decorative purposes or as crest symbols. Plants and landscape features are not seen in the traditional art.
The degree of realism of the art can range from generally recognizable to near total abstraction, especially where parts of the animal are arranged to completely fill a given space. Accentuation of a few characteristics of a depicted animal is a characteristic of the art. For example, a cross-hatched, broad tail and two large, blunt teeth differentiate a beaver from a bear, which is typically shown with large, sharp canine teeth and a protruding tongue. Ravens are often depicted with a disc or more complex image of a sun or moon. This is an association with the mythology of Raven placing the sun or moon in the sky.
Symmetry is another characteristic of the art, both for entire figures and for design elements such as ovoids. Ovoids are symmetrical around a vertical axis, but not with respect to top and bottom. The non concentricity of inner and outer ovoids is a characteristic as well.
Symbolic ambiguity is also common. A whale figure, for example, may incorporate design elements that are clearly associated with another creature, such as a raven. Human faces or figures may also be included as a representation of a human association or spirit aspect of the animal that is portrayed.
My art does not always adhere to all of the characteristics associated with this system of art, described above. However, the appeal of the traditional art of Northwest Coast Native Americans is for me that while it is in some respects limiting, it is unique and offers many opportunities and challenges in creating balanced, visually pleasing forms.
Marjorie Krutsch is a charter member of the Antioch Fine Arts Foundation and Spring Grove Fine Arts Gallery artist and works in several mediums. Marjie is a stained glass artisan and an accomplished oil painter and watercolorist She studied with well-known teacher, Joe Teresi, where she was encouraged to study the masters and practice by copying their work. Her bold knife strokes couples with Rembrandt’s deep tones bring a richness of style and interest to her work.
Marjie has been featured in the White Room of the Antioch Fine Arts Foundation Gallery, featured artist at the Spring Grove Art Gallery, has been juried into the Woodstock show “Gallery in the Garden”, Old Town Art Gallery-Spring Grove, Lake Forest Art Show, and most recent, the University of Wisconsin at Parkside. Marjie also had her work in the Members Exhibition 2010 of the College of Lake County Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art.
Marjie also teaches stained glass at her studio on the lake in Antioch under the name The Glass Canvas.
How the passion for painting started…
After working as a Pipefitter for 40 years, I retired in 2009. I needed something to occupy my time. In 2011, I was watching a TV artist and decided to try my hand at oil painting. After many hours of trial and error, “things” started to take shape. (SMILE)…Loving Nature, I focused on landscapes. What started out to be a hobby has become a passion something I look forward to each day. NEVER say NEVER
My artistic creativity started in my early youth, which consisted of pencil and crayon drawings of my neighborhood. This led to colored pencil drawings and paintings of landscapes and human forms later in high school. My job became my focus, but now retired, art is center stage.
I am currently married to my beautiful wife and fellow artist, Mary. I enjoy acrylic painting, creating unique stained glass designs and woodworking. My woodworking skills range from furniture designs to antique sport sign recreations. Many of these works can be found exhibited in the Antioch art gallery.
Arts and crafting has always been a large part of my life.
I began taking lots of art classes in both middle school and high school and found many happy hours in drawing, painting and pottery.
After high school, a husband and career became my focus. As time permitted crafting and reading was how I spent much of my spare time. I have experience in many arts & crafts, like cross stich, crochet, paper arts, stain glass, ceramics, scrapbooking, quilting, sewing, knitting, jewelry making, PMC clay, glass bead making, silk flower arrangement, polymer clay, metal stamping, leather work and many others. You name it, I have probably given it a try.
I retired in 2015 after 33 years as an Executive Assistant at which time, I decided it was time to jump back into painting. Starting with various Wine and Paint events, I began to realize that I could paint something that I would actually be OK with hanging on a wall in my home. I soon gave it a try on my own at home. I began to spend hours contemplating and working on paintings. In no time, I decided to give oil painting a try and bam, I was hooked. I still enjoy puttering in many other different arts & crafts but painting is where my main focus is. I enjoy painting landscapes and still life.
Ken Lutgen has loved art and music from an early age. Returning from Vietnam in 1971, he received a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Not finding a job in the art field after graduation Ken used his creativity in marketing positions within the marine industry for 37 years.
Recently retired Ken has more time for his art, fishing and five grandchildren.
Ken loves the creation process and gets his inspiration from other artists. Many of Ken’s paintings are from local community recreation areas, fishing trips, personal photograph collection and En Plein Air.
Ken won first place in the 2011 regional and national Creative Arts Festival for a pastel painting. This event was sponsored by the Department of Veteran’s Affairs.
He is an active member of Antioch Fine Arts Foundation and has recently been studying under Thomas Trausch, master status in Woodstock, Illinois.
My paintings are predominantly based on cemetery angels
and the feelings that they evoke in my work. I have been
painting them since the Nineties. Art has given me a voice
in which to express my thoughts and feelings.
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Meredith is a busy nature photographer who has won several first prizes for pictures of such species as birds and frogs. A master gardener, she is also a flower show judge and past recipient of many floral design awards. Her background as a gardener feeds her passion to teach through her camera lens. Meredith’s practiced eye enjoys shooting views of the same scene or subject from different angles and grouping them together. By doing so, Meredith creates a dynamic which tells a much larger story than one could tell on its own; much as a choreographer develops a story through expertly executed dance movements. Her goal is to generate a greater awareness and appreciation of the natural world.
Bernita works in oils, having begun her study and practice of art about a decade before retiring from her job as a National Bank Examiner. She has a working knowledge of oil, watercolor, drawing and sculpting, and has developed her style over the years by incorporating techniques learned from classes taken at the Oak Park Art League, Oakton Community Collage and elsewhere. Bernita has an unleashed, realistic eye for beauty which is controlled and alluring, and it is inherent in the compositions she captures to canvas. Her passion is travel and her oil paintings reflect many places and scenes from around the United States and over a hundred foreign countries. She was particularly impressed with travels in India, Africa and South America. She finds inspiration in nature as well as in the peoples of the world. Her brightly colored pieces include depictions of animals, people, flowers and scenery. Her paintings have been displayed and sold chiefly through Oak Park Art League, Antioch Fine Arts Foundation and a shop in Northfield, Minnesota. Commissions have included imaginative depictions of places, in this case, cities with special meaning to the client.
Art has always been a part of my life. As a young boy I remember drawing and coloring with a next-door friend. He remembers far better than I, but he assures me that we spent hours in his upstairs attic playroom creating our first masterpieces. My family came from a small farming community south of Kankakee, Illinois. Small towns in the 1950’s did not usually have art programs and Clifton was no exception. I was always known as the best artist in the class, but I had no formal art instruction.
In high school I continued to develop my skills in the Drama Club by working on sets and posters. I discovered Jackson Pollack and sold my first painting to my History teacher. The painting was an abstract expression piece consisting of splattered and swirled enamel paint on a piece of wooden wall paneling.
One day my father came home and told me that a neighbor needed his name painted on his truck and this began my lifelong association with calligraphy and signage.
I have always been a painter first and a sign painter, calligrapher, printmaker, potter second. I have painted in oils, acrylics and watercolors. I currently work in watercolors on 140 lb. cold press paper. I began using this medium because space limitations in our house forced me to utilize my school classroom as a studio on weekends where I could set up my watercolor supplies and paint.
I have exhibited throughout the Lake County area. I have exhibited in the Anderson Center in Kenosha, CLC Gallery in Grayslake, Norris Gallery in St. Charles, the Campbell House Gallery in Geneva, Charlene’s Gallery 10 in Gills Rock, Door County, WI as well as several small exhibits in Waukegan, Gurnee, Lake Villa, Fox Lake and in Antioch.
I paint anything that interests and challenges me. I am pretty much a representational painter but have made several recent ventures in to abstract artworks. Barn scenes, landscapes, boats, vacation locations and florals cover the bulk of my work so far. I have done several murals and wall paintings in the Antioch Schools as well as in businesses and private homes in the area.
Is currently a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with prior history in the medical field for many years.
She has two wonderful children and one grandchild that brings her tremendous joy.
Having been an avid art collector all her life, she has gained a great appreciation of the skill and effort that goes into every piece of art.
Angela has an extensive travel history spending much of that time touring museums and galleries.
From a young age, Angela has always loved art and held a desire to paint.
As with most of our lives, time was always short and the opportunities to begin painting just never seemed to avail themselves.
One day while working at one of her clients offices, Angela noticed a painting on the wall at one desk which turned out to be their personal piece. This led to a discussion about painting and the different techniques involved.
That was it! An earnest search for an art class to fit the schedule was on.
One day in the near past, she was looking at some paintings and notice an advertisement for a painting class being held at one of the local pubs. The timing was perfect…the schedule right.
Attending the class that night an artist was discovered and not only was Angela’s passion found but also her tribe of people who understand her passion in art and painting.
She does enjoy sharing that passion greatly and hopes you will enjoy it as much as she does.
Beverly has always been able to see the art in the world around her. She started in oils, moved on to acrylics, but finally found the challenges of watercolor the most rewarding. Though Bev would not always have the time to expand her knowledge and pursue her goals in watercolor consistently, she is always drawn back to it, starting up again whenever she can. Bev has studied under various teachers with workshops and classes at the College of Lake County, the Adler Culture Center, the Sedona Art Center and other adult classes throughout the years. She finds inspiration in nature, animals, architecture and people. She has displayed her paintings in local restaurants and currently at the Antioch Fine Arts Foundation. Beverly Scott Walczak is a member of the Antioch Fine Arts Foundation in Illinois and the Sedona Art Center in Arizona. Several of her paintings are in private collections throughout the Midwest.