Winter Pelican
Graphite and colored pencil
Available at South Street Art Gallery

Sue deLearie Adair’s artwork is inspired by her love of the natural world and all creatures great and small. She has been an avid birder for thirty years. Sue is fascinated by everything in nature and portrays many different animals, but birds are her favorite subject and comprise the majority of her work. She features detailed subjects with simple, sometimes even stylized, backgrounds. Sue works in graphite and colored pencils.

Most of Sue’s drawings are small works, but in 2018 she decided to take this scale one step further and began to draw traditional miniatures in graphite pencil. These delicate and finely detailed works demonstrate all the important aspects of fine art and can be held in the palm of the hand.

Sue’s work has been included in many prestigious national and international exhibits including Birds in Art (Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum), Art and the Animal (Society of Animal Artists annual exhibition, various venues) and Art of the Animal Kingdom (Bennington Center for the Arts). She has received the Society of Animal Artists Award of Excellence, and her graphite and mixed media drawings have been selected for publication in five of North Light Books ‘best of drawing’ series Strokes of Genius. She is a signature member of the Society of Animal Artists and the Colored Pencil Society of America and a Master Pencil Artist with the Pencil Art Society.

View more of Sue’s work online.

The Brothers Three
14 x 8 in. sketch
Acrylic on canvas with genuine silver leafing
$975

Bregelle Whitworth Davis was born in 1985. Raised in a small town in Idaho and growing up near Jackson, WY and Yellowstone National Park, she gained a great appreciation of fine art inside galleries and outside in the wonders of nature. She grew up surrounded by a family passionate for art, adventures, and animals, especially wildlife. She still ventures out as often as she can to study and photograph wildlife to use for her paintings. Over the last 10 years, Bregelle has been featured in many solo and group art shows across the country including; dozens of galleries, the Springville Museum “Annual Spring Salon”, the National Museum of Wildlife Art “Western Visions” show, and the Hogle Zoo’s “World of the Wild”. Hogle Zoo also selected her to be their Featured Artist in 2014. She has been blessed with wonderful collectors from all over the World, some as far away as Australia, Norway, and even China. Her artwork has also been featured in multiple magazine articles.

View more of Bregelle’s work here: www.wildlifeart.org/artists/bregelle-whitworth-davis

About Western Visions:
More than 200 paintings, sculptures, and sketches by living Artists will be on display and available for purchase during the 31st Annual Western Visions®. The Museum has carefully curated the work of some of the top living artists depicting animals today, both traditional and contemporary. Proceeds from the Western Visions Show & Sale benefit the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s educational mission to enrich and inspire appreciation and knowledge of humanity’s relationship with nature.
View the Western Visions calendar of events here: www.wildlifeart.org/western-visions/western-visions-calendar

River of Stars
24 x 18 in., watercolor

Robert Dalegowski (1948-2018), a Flagstaff, AZ native, grew up roaming the forests and canyons of northern Arizona, developing a deep respect for the solitude of the wilderness. During his lifelong love of the Grand Canyon, he explored and painted some its most remote places, often using whatever water was available to create his magical watercolors.

Dalegowski has been a participating artist in the Grand Canyon Celebration of Art starting in 2011, often spending time at Indian Garden, where he shared his vision and knowledge with hikers who happened upon him painting on the trail. His watercolors with their expressive brushwork and vibrant colors capture the essence and light of the moment and place.

Robert Dalegowski passed away on June 17th after a long and valiant battle with cancer. He will be missed by all that knew him and knew his artwork. His spirit lives on in his art.

River of Stars was inspired by a raft trip through the Canyon that Dalegowski took with a few other artists in the spring of 2017, capturing the brilliance of the Milky Way over the Colorado River. He explained:
“Deep below the rim in the bottom of Grand Canyon the horizon skyglow is obscured by soaring walls, silence broken by the muffled roar of Deer Creek Falls at Colorado River Mile 136.5, as magical starlight reflects from the dark river surface.”

The 10th Annual Grand Canyon Celebration of Art will feature the work of 24 painters (including that of Dalegowski) and 2 sculptors. The plein air event will take place at the Grand Canyon September 8-16, 2018 with artists painting at various locations around and in the Canyon. An exhibit and sale of their work will open on September 16 at Kolb Studio on the South Rim, continuing through January 21, 2019.

For more information and a schedule of events please visit:
www.grandcanyon.org/events/celebration-of-art-2018 or contact Kathy Duley [email protected] 480.277.0458

The Sister I Never Had
10 x 8 in.
Acrylic on linen panel
Available through Richland Fine Art, Nashville

Chantel’s passion for art began flourishing at age 12 when she was mentored under local San Diego artists. She continued to study art, largely self-taught, while living in Newport, Rhode Island, and Keflavik, Iceland. While enrolled in a college art course, a fellow student introduced her to acrylic paints, and she soon found it to be a medium dominated by abstract art. But her first love was portraiture for which she found little advice. As she dreamed of perfecting her skills as an acrylic portrait artist, Chantel continued to learn from professional oil painters and translated their teachings into acrylic techniques. All the while, she remained active in local art communities, including serving as President of Artists’ Link in Memphis, Tennessee.

In 2006, Chantel opened her own art business called Chantel’s Originals near Memphis Tennessee. Chantel soon benefited from workshops and demonstrations with outstanding artists including Dawn Whitelaw, Michael Shane Neil, Suzie Baker, and Marc Hanson. Chantel is currently the National Coordinator of the State Ambassador program for the Portrait Society of America, and is also a member of The Chestnut Group, and the National Oil & Acrylic Painters’ Society.

Chantel has been featured in solo art shows and juried exhibitions. Her award winning paintings are in private and public collections throughout the United States and overseas. Her work is published in Acrylic Artist magazine, American Art Collector, Southwest Art, The Artist’s Magazine, Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, International Artist and several books. She regularly blogs at chantellynnbarber.com. Chantel resides in Bartlett, Tennessee, where she teaches online and in workshops throughout the United States and Canada.