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The Crossroads Art Center has included information about artists in residence on this page. You may click on an image of the art work to enlarge it.

All her life, Ann Marie Vaughn has found joy in sharing her art with others. Her first major recognition occurred as a high school student, when her drawing of a "Back Stage Scene" was selected to represent American art at the World's Fair in Brussels, Belgium. Now you may view her award winning paintings and prints in homes, galleries, and corporations throughout the United States and Europe.

Ann’s versatility enables her to accept commissions to paint any subject requested. From life or on location, realistic impressionism is her favorite style in painting flowers, figures, and landscapes. As a portraitist, she is known for ability to capture a fresh likeness while developing a fine art composition. She travels extensively and has discovered interesting people and motifs to paint in Hawaii, Mexico, Canada, Great Britain, France, Italy, and the United States. She works in oil, watercolor, pastel, charcoal and mixed media.

She holds a B.A. in art from Regis College, Weston, MA and a Master of Arts from Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Institute of Art. In 1989 she was certified to teach visual art K-12. Most of her teaching has been in the high school, community college, and private classes. Workshops and classes are now held in various parts of the country and in her studios in Goochland, VA.

Her biography has been selected for publication in the Millennium Edition of “Who’s Who in America” and “Who’s Who in the World”.

Photography is about seeing. We all view things differently. I enjoy sharing what I see through my photography. I hope that you find images here that move you or your imagination in some way to look at things differently. Remember that details do not simply reveal themselves to the casual observer. I have been active in the outdoors all my life so the natural focus of my photography is nature and outdoor activities. For more information about me and my photography please visit my website at dmwphoto.smugmug.com
I invite you to contact me at dmwphoto@mac.com

Originally from California, Kathleen Westkaemper has lived and exhibited in Richmond for the past 20 years. She has exhibited her work at Capitol One, WRIC TV 8 Arboretum Gallery, Shockoe Bottom Arts Center and Artspace Gallery in Richmond, VA. Kathleen's work has been selected for juried exhibitions at the Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Muscarelle Museum at William and Mary College, The Charles Taylor Arts Center, Mary Washington College, The Fredericksburg Center for Creative Arts, Montpelier Arts Center, Longwood College and 1708 Gallery. She has received numerous awards of merit that include jurors choice at the American Drawing Biennial 2005 and Hampton Bay Days 2004. Kathleen’s work has been purchased for the collections of Capitol One, Virginia Resources Authority and by many private collectors.

Statement

My work in oil stick has been evolving over the past 17 years. I begin by drawing with graphite and oil stick, working the oil sticks with my fingers and blending and mixing the colors directly on paper. I love the immediacy of working with oil sticks and their intense and textural color. To me it is a direct and enjoyable physical process. I feel this medium is ideal for expressing the essence and emotion of the images I feel compelled to put on paper. In the last two years I have begun exploring some of the same imagery in printmaking. I find the element of surprise intrinsic to this process very refreshing.

Kathleen's web site: www.kathleenwestkaemper.com

About The Artist
Jose Williams is a Chicagoan who relocated to the Virginia area. For ten years he lived and worked in the Caribbean with International Labour Office of the United Nations as a textile screen-printing specialist. Williams’ involvements included developing crafts for government of the Netherlands Antilles, Aruba and Curacao, providing technical assistance to the Craft Foundations on the Island of Saba, implementing training programs in silk-screen design, printing and production for the government of the Turks and Caicos Island, Grand Turk.

If you are interested in attending a seminar regarding Serigraphy, please contact Jose’ at 779-2705.

Screen printing, also called “silk screen printing” or serigraphy, until recently was confined to the professional art world and poster making. Because of the development of special inks and other screen-printing materials, amateur artists and craftsmen began taking advantage of this inexpensive method of printing. Serigraphy demands patience, a careful hand, and an eye for artistic effects. If you have these qualities you are well on your way to making good serigraph prints. The process itself is not difficult however it can be time consuming. The basic principle in serigraphy is quite simple in execution. It is basically a stencil process where the designs are placed upon a piece of fine silk, which is tacked to a wooden frame. The wooden frame upon which the silk is stretched is made about two inches deep so that it forms a box (with the silk constituting the bottom) within which the ink can be conveniently manipulated with the squeegee. The stencil is painted on the screen with a special liquid, or cut from stencil paper and attached to the screen with an adhesive. The specially made ink in the correct semi-liquid consistency is poured into the frame, the frame is then placed in contact with the surface to be printed upon, and the ink is rapidly forced through the screen with a rubber squeegee to color both the screen and the printing surface beneath the screen, The stencil blocks the ink from coming through certain places on the screen, leaving portions of the printing surface free of ink. The pattern, which is printed in the screen process, is what you have stenciled as a design.

Serigraphy as it is used today is not very old. It was formally introduced as artist’s technique at the New York World’s Fair in 1939. Since then it has become a medium for artist’s original prints.

To see Jose's Serigraphy for sale, please click on this link

Portraitist Linda Leah Wolitz paints portraits and wildlife because “I delight in capturing the inner self of my subject. Each one is special, and my challenge is to bring forth that uniqueness. Every painting is a celebration of life.” Click on an image to enter a gallery. Gallery links are also to your left. Enjoy visting all the online galleries.

Working in pastels, colored pencil and graphite, Linda’s award winning paintings reproduce the spirit of her subjects in a style that is almost three dimensional in effect.

Since 1987 when she began painting full time, Linda has painted commissioned portraiture and wildlife paintings in Virginia and Florida in addition to being the official portrait artist at Cypress Gardens and is presently showing her work at Art Works Art Center and Crossroads Art Center, both in Richmond, Virginia.

Linda’s work has won many awards and has been published by the Virginia Museum of Natural History and Virginia Tech. Linda and her artwork were featured in Mature Outlook magazine. Three six foot statues of swans bear her artwork as part of Lakeland, Florida’s “Swansation” project.

Linda’s portraits and wildlife paintings hang in private and public collections from Florida to Alaska.

A word about pastels

Pastels are a dry form of pure pigment mixed with a binder to hold the color together. These sticks and pencils are of the same high quality materials that make oil paints and watercolors, only without the addition of liquid. Pastels are framed under glass and kept out of direct sunlight, as with any fine art work. Pastels have maintained their beauty and vibrancy for hundreds of years.

Please visit Linda's website at www.celebrationsinpastels.com.

Joanne has been sharing her passion for art with students of all ages for over thirty years. Along the way, she accumulated allergies that eventually led her to work exclusively in the little known medium of Oil Pastel. The unusual technique she developed results in nearly photo-realistic paintings of the pieces of the visual world that attract her attention.

Joanne equally enjoys working in still-life, landscape and portraiture and is often commissioned to paint a beloved pet or the precious face of a child dear to the heart of her clients. The emotional connection created during this process is as rewarding for her as tackling intriguing subjects of her own choosing.

The small scale of Joanne's work and her use of bold contrast create a quiet drama in her paintings that invites unhurried observation. Whether as a respite from the pressures of daily life or as a reminder of pleasant moments, Joanne's artwork refreshes the spirit of the viewer.

Please visit her website at joannegillworth.com

Born and raised in Tucson Arizona, Juanita Diaz Wyatt (a.k.a., Jennie) is a first generation Mexican American and Yaqui Indian. Jennie's father migrated from a small town outside Mexico City and her mother, a full blooded Yaqui Indian, was born and raised on the Pasqua Yaqui Indian reservation located on the Sonora Desert in Arizona. Although there have been many influences in her life, Jennie considers herself a contemporary artist who has been particularly influenced by her Yaqui heritage which seems to be especially predominate in her many depictions of traditional Yaqui folk characters and Hispanic people in traditional settings.

A graduate of the University of Arizona, Jennie majored in Art Education and taught Spanish, Art and Photography at various private and public schools and facilities before her recent retirement from Chesterfield County where she taught high school for over 17 years. Although Jennie uses many different mediums in her works, she prefers the soft lines of pastels, pencils, and paints, as they seem to blend best with her characters.

Jennie has displayed her work in local shows including Arts in the Park, The Unitarian Church and several Chesterfield County Teacher shows. She has also displayed her work in several local galleries and currently displays at Crossroads Arts Center. She has taught multi-cultural diversity classes for adults at the Virginia Museum and for primary and secondary art teachers in the Richmond City School system. She also taught a Mexican Art workshop for parents, teachers and students of St. Catherine's private school.

Christopher Wynn is a painter of contemporary realism who currently works exclusively in transparent watercolor.

Originally from California, he majored in fine art at the University of Washington, University of California, Berkeley, where he graduated with a BS, and Otis Parsons in Los Angeles.

For much of his career, Christopher has worked as an art director and creative director for numerous ad agencies on the west coast. As owner of Wynn Creative since 1991, he has garnered over 25 international and domestic awards for his design work; from ADDY, to SUMMIT Awards, along with being featured in numerous publications: Creativity Numbers 26 and 28, American Corporate I.D., Prints Best Logos, along with many more. He also developed design campaigns for many of Silicon Valley's best and biggest firms; including Adobe, Phillips, Cisco, and Sun Microsystems to name a few.

After participating in juried art shows of Open Studios in Santa Cruz, California, Christopher made the decision to pursue his passion for creating his visions in watercolor.

He states, "The effects of atmosphere and time of day in a landscape has always fascinated and moved me. The design and layout of each painting, the rhythm and placement of elements, is somewhat instinctual because of my design background. But on another level, the atmosphere of a piece, whether crisp and breezy or warm and hazy, is very important to me in each painting. I try to capture what I was feeling on my skin at the time, and to express that through the overall tone of a piece."

Recently, in 2005 and 2006, he circled the globe for seven months, solo, to paint watercolors plein aire. Currently, he is painting the series in the studio in Richmond, Virginia where the work has been winning awards and is in many fine art galleries, such as Crossroads and Art Center.

Please visit Christopher's personal website to view more work at: www.wynncreative.com
email: wynnart@cruzers.com
or call: 804.747.3446

"GRIM POTTERY” was created in 1993 when Debbie Grim began an - apprenticeship under Robin and Bet Mangum of Sparta, North Carolina Now Debbie Grimm Yates keeps up her full-time business in beautiful Konnarock Virginia, near White Top Mountain, while still working part-time for Magum Pottery.

Like most potters, Debbie quickly became addicted to the clay. Her love of the work and resulting quality of finished pottery has caused her business to grow each year, and GRIM POTTERY now supplies local craft shops in Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee. She works primarily with stoneware clay making functional and decorative pottery, both WHEELTHRQWN & SLAB BUILT. Debbie's love of the clay also keeps her producing additional designs, in order to try new things and to provide more products for her customers.

Music also "plays" a large role in the life of Debbie's family. She & husband Tim currently perform together as "ACOUSTIC HERITAGE”. Both Debbie & Tim have over 20 years of professional music experience. They have just released their first CD together, “ THE MOUNTAINS ARE WHERE YOU LONG TO BE”. They grew up playing in family bands. ("The Konnarock Critters", John Yates and the Yates Brothers) They blend OLD TIME & BLUEGRASS music creating their own unique style.

For Debbie, There's just something about the pottery and music that go hand in hand, and fills our lives with inspiration

"My goal as an artist is to convey my inner vision through paintings of people and nature"
Contact: WatercolorsByGreg@Comcast.net
Visit Greg Youngs website at Watercolors By Greg

Love for Photography
Photography is a passion. What sets Stefan apart, first and foremost, is his love of taking pictures and his strive for excellence.

Stefan's goal is to provide each client with the highest level of friendly service, as well as excellent photographs. It is his goal to make each client a return customer. Stefan loves to travel and is willing to travel anywhere for the pleasure of taking beautiful pictures.

A recent client comment: "The pictures are fabulous. Honestly, I cannot get over how great the pictures are. The one of Charlie pitching was absolutely perfect - it was the "money shot!!" "

"Lifestyle Photography is my favorite because YOU know who you love and want to see in a picture. That is going to be the picture that makes your heart warm and I can help with that."
Stefan Yssel Photography Website

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