SHAPE - Member Artists

This section features our members who are artists.
We will provide a page to any member who wishes to display
samples of their artwork or links to their personal websites.

Anne Cherry
Media: Photography, Digital Photography, Digital Art
Web: www.naturalabstracts.net
Email: info@naturalabstracts.com

As a photographer I have always focused on composition, looking for just the right balance of color, light, and position. I have also been fascinated with these same elements in abstract art. With the advent of digital photography, I now find it artisically rewarding to combine these two art forms. Natural Abstracts are my photographs of plants and flowers digitally manipulated to create an abstract image which takes the observer deep into the beauty of nature.

Staci Grimes
Media: Photography, Color and Black & white
Web: www.sunsongphotography.com
Email: staci@sunsongphotography.com

"My first point and shoot digital camera transformed my casual interest in photography into a persistent need to frame my world in two dimensions. That little camera has traveled around the country with me and still works well, despite the fact that it is carrying sand from the desert and the shores of two different oceans. My current equipment includes an Olympus digital SLR camera, as well as a Canon film SLR camera." - Staci

Veronica Jackson
Media: Oil & Acrylic Paint, Drawings, Mixed Media, Digital Art
Email: contact@veronicajackson.com

Veronica was born in Argentina in 1960.
She has been in the United States for over seven years now. Visit her website to experience her surreal, expressive vision and immerse yourself in the soul of art.

Jean Macaluso
Media: FIne Art Photography
Web: www.jeanmacaluso.com
Email: jean@macalusos.net

When I photograph, I want to evoke a sense of place, illuminated by light that reveals the past history that I feel still inhabits the buildings, structures or places by conjuring up images of spirituality, mysticism and otherworldliness. I want to evoke an emotional response from the viewer rather than a depiction of fact and strive for these unseen histories to provide a new atmosphere of thoughts and experiences.

Al Mason
Media: Digital Photography
Web: www.shippenbirds.com
Email: al@shippenbirds.com

Al spends much of his time wrapped up in photography, a carryover from his days as a PR consultant. One of his birds (201. Chipping sparrow on branch) made it onto page 21 of the January 2009 issue of Birds&Blooms Extra magazine. Then a pair of fighting pine siskins made it to page 28 of the January 2010 issue of the same publication. "In each case, I was aiming for the cover, but overshot it by more than 20 pages." Al has spent many hours in a blind using a Nikon D2X digital camera with an 18-200mm digital zoom lens and electronic flash system to help capture those split-second moments, his lens less than three feet from the bird.

Deborah Slocum
Media: Oil paint, watercolor, pencil, charcoal, & mixed media
Web: www.bluetwilightstudios.com
Email: deb_slocum@yahoo.com

"What do you see?" "What do you want to see?" Those two questions form the foundation for all my artwork. Some artists strive to show the ugliness of the world via shock value and that has never appealed to me either as an artist or a viewer. I make a choice to portray subject matter that I find beautiful and uplifting, or find a way to take the sorrow and pains of life and portray them in a way that people can relate to but still find worth in. Art is a marriage between reality and perception and I hope that through my artwork others will find a connection between the two that is beautiful.


	Kurt F. Smith Media: Oil Paint, Drawings, Photographs, Digital Graphics Web: www.thevivideye.com Email: prints@thevivideye.com I strive to invoke in the viewer an alchemical moment when emotional introspection and sensual input are transmuted into self awareness through color and form. By causing the viewer to observe reality in a way never seen, each sees something different, conjuring images from their own minds to fit the images in the art, as if recalling a dream. As with dreams, the images seen are symbols that reflect our own inner voice. See what you want to see; not what you think you should see.


If you are a member of SHAPE and wish to take advantage of this display, please contact webmaster@shapeart.org. We will respond with instructions. If you are not a member of SHAPE and would to be displayed on this page, please contact webmaster@shapeart.org for rates, or just become a member!

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