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Hundreds of artists and creatives of all kinds call the Pikes Peak region home, and our Artist Directory spotlights many of them. Please use the "search" function in the right column to find local artists by keyword, type, style, medium and/or location. *Please note that the Artist Directory is currently under development.

Holly Parker | Artist, Curator, Consultant

Visual Arts: Painting, Sculpture; Curator

Holly Parker is an Artist, Curator, and Consultant who works with artists, collectors, and organizations to perform projects such as collection management, exhibition production, installation, marketing and other creative project demands. More than...

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PAES 164

Media; Performing Arts: Radio/Television; Visual Arts: Film, Functional and/or Decorative, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Murals, Painting, Sculpture, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper

PAES164 is a local 719 artist who remains busy creating murals, tattoos, commissions and everything art related. PAES164 is currently working to revamp Knobhill Urban Arts District via large murals and other art projects.

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Chris Alvarez

Visual Arts: Painting; Oil Painting, Charcoal Figure, Watercolor

Chris Alvarez grew up in the small town of Silver City, New Mexico between alpine forests and the southwest desert where his artistic eye thrived in the magical light of the environment. His work is well known in the region for it’s romantic...

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Teri Atkins Brown

Visual Arts: Architectural Illustration, Graphic Arts, Painting, Photography, Visual Arts Instructor

I am a graphic artist and president of the Colorado Springs Art Guild. I paint geometric abstract forms in both oil, watercolor, and photograph beautiful landscapes. I am inspired by the beautiful Rocky Mountains and Smoky Mountains. If you like...

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Pegi Ballenger

Visual Arts: Graphic Arts, Illustration, Painting, Works on paper

Pegi Ballenger was born in Houston, Texas and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Newcomb College of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Pegi continued to study commercial art, radio and television at the University of...

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Laura BenAmots

Visual Arts: Painting, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper; Installation art, social advocacy artist

Of her artist journey Laura BenAmots says, “The disparate experiences of my life shape my art as I search for belonging and solitude. Time passes and I have found great freedom in the eclectic visual voices discovered in the search." Laura was...

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Jana L Bussanich

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Photography, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper; Public Art

SUMMARY 2004 - present Jana L. Bussanich is an artist who makes Fine Art Watercolor paintings. Teaches online and In-person watercolor classes—founder of the Yellow Couch Creative, Community, and Classroom. The author of Watercolor Technique and...

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Liese Chavez

Visual Arts: Illustration, Painting, Works on paper

Self taught. Painting since 2005, born a dreamer. Please drop in to my interactive studio gallery in Old Colorado City, Chavez Gallery! When I was small, I remember lying on my back under a side table in my Grandparents' house. The tabletop was a...

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Robin Cole

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper

Robin Cole, born in Denver, Colorado in 1985, is a painter, draftswoman, and encaustic artist working in the tradition of realism. Though related to the familiar genres of landscape painting and portraiture, her work explores a slightly unusual,...

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Richard Dahlquist

Visual Arts: Painting, Visual Arts Instructor

Richard Dahlquist was born and raised in the Northwest. His early interest in art eventually led him to study at the University of Washington and the San Francisco Academy of Art. After moving to Colorado he was introduced to and studied with...

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Richard Dahlquist

Visual Arts: Painting

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Marianne Danehy

Visual Arts: Painting

Marianne Danehy, a member of the Boulder Street Gallery, is an artist living and working in the Colorado Springs area. She paints landscape, still life, and figures from life. She finds painting from life both exciting and challenging, and...

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Julia M Evans

Visual Arts: Painting

I am excited to share with you my artistic journey--a journey that has blossomed into work I am extremely proud of. My work is abstract-expressionistic in nature. Some pieces are filled with bright, colorful shapes, exciting texture and movement....

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Lisa Fabiano

Visual Arts: Painting

Lisa Fabiano is a visual artist born and raised in southeastern Pennsylvania, living and working in Colorado since 1982. She studied Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, leaving there to pursue long-held artistic...

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Emily Fair

I love color! I love layering and juxtaposing the paint across the canvas. With a pallet knife, I build layers and layers using the wet on wet technique. This approach allows me to stay focused and present while creating a patchwork of color that...

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Jon Francis

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting

I am a Colorado native and have lived in Colorado Springs most of my life. I live and work close to downtown. When I’m not painting in my studio,you can find me going for a run around the neighborhood or hiking with my family in Palmer Park. I...

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Carmen Franco

Visual Arts: Ceramics, Crafts, Illustration, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Visual Arts Instructor; Batik

I paint from my life experiences and for fulfillment. It is in these paintings that I expose part of my soul into who I am and what I believe. Painting is the sheer satisfaction of knowing that I can. It is the essence of my being and being able to...

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Tara Gonzalez

Visual Arts: Ceramics, Illustration, Murals, Painting, Visual Arts Instructor

I am a Colorado Springs native and am just returning from San Francisco. I attended CSU for Art Education and then taught in Denver for a year. My next move was to the Bay Area, where I spent the last ten years. San Francisco inspired me to pursue...

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Sophia Hanna

Visual Arts: Painting

Sophia Hanna, 22, has grown up immersed in the arts community of Colorado Springs. Her first pieces debuted in the SPQR and Modbo Small Works show when she was only eleven. She has sold numerous works and commissions since, diving wholeheartedly...

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Cynthia Hauk

Literary Arts: Poet, Writer; Performing Arts: Dance, Vocal; Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper; Expressive Arts, Mindfulness, Creative Process, Intuitive Art

Cynthia Hauk (MFA, RYT) is the Founder/Instructor of Mindful Creative Muse. She is passionate about sharing simple, fun and inspiring mindful art activities to enhance self-awareness, self-compassion, and self-expression. Cynthia received a Master...

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Susan Jacobsen

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting, Photography

My name is Susan Jacobsen. I am an artist, art therapist, wife and mother; not necessarily in that order. In my art work I use oil, collage, acrylic, and photography as my personal narrative. As an Art Therapist, I have worked in out patient...

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Julie Kirkland

Visual Arts: Painting

Contemporary realism paintings of still lifes, people, landscapes, animals and a touch magical realism. Known for her watercolors with saturated color and intimate settings, Julie is currently exploring the pleasures of painting in oils. Her latest...

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Martha Lancaster

Visual Arts: Graphic Arts, Painting

MARTHA LANCASTER Born in Memphis, TN, Martha has lived in Colorado Springs, CO since 1978. As a graphic designer, she worked for Wellspring Advertising Agency eight years, producing a monthly magazine, brochures, newsletters, logos, and materials...

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Joanne Lavender

Visual Arts: Painting

"From my earliest memories I have had a continual connection to the beauty and serenity of Nature. When I came to Colorado the Western landscapes spoke to me as a person and an artist. I have worked to represent the open spaces with simple abstract...

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Valerie Lloyd

Visual Arts: Painting

Valerie Lloyd paints with both acrylic and oil on canvas and wood panel. She enjoys depicting still lifes into modern and simplified images, creating abstract paintings, and occasional works in an illustrative style. All three styles are often...

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Michael Malta

Visual Arts: Painting, Works on paper

Born in Dunkirk, N.Y., Michael’s first real contact with art came early in life. At age five, his grandmother, whose works hung in the Buffalo, N.Y. museum would make him sit and watch as she painted. At the age of 13, after her death, he was...

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Chuck Mardosz

Visual Arts: Painting, Visual Arts Instructor

Chuck was born in Poland and at a very young age realized a strong desire to draw and paint. My earliest inspiration was from the Polish painter Matejko. From there my training led me to paint and draw in the traditional style of the old masters, my...

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Elizabeth Diane Martin

Literary Arts: Writer; Visual Arts: Mixed Media

Inspiration and vision flow from the heart and cause us to create the work we love to do. Elizabeth found the source of her own creativity in the work of an artist. With the heart of a journalist, she writes from a perspective of wonder, marveling...

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Molly McClure

Visual Arts: Painting

Molly McClure is a portrait artist, residing in Manitou Springs, Colorado. Her talent is for capturing and conveying the beauty of the individual. McClure works with oils, layering with glazes making her work appear soft and fluid. She brightens her...

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Carol McIntyre

Literary Arts; Visual Arts: Painting

“I don’t like abstracts, but I like yours,” is a statement Black Forest artist Carol A. McIntyre often hears when people first look at her ethereal abstract paintings. What makes her abstract paintings compelling? Through her harmonic use of...

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Tammy Meeske

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting, Works on paper

Meet the Artist: Tammy Meeske Artist I am a Colorado native; a mountain girl at heart who loves to explore our beautiful state. As an artist, I love brush strokes, color, the play of light and shadow. I use a limited palette of red, blue, yellow and...

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Shannon Mello

Visual Arts: Painting

I’ve been creating art my whole life. I’ve also always been a lover of nature and the great outdoors since I can remember. The artwork I create, whether it is the materials or the subject matter itself, will almost always have a connection...

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Stephanie Merchant

Visual Arts: Crafts, Murals, Painting, Works on paper; Pyrography

Stephanie Merchant has been creating art for over 30 years and has become proficient in many mediums: acrylic, airbrush, oil, chalk, charcoal, colored pencils, graphite, and pan pastels. In addition, she sews, crochets, embroiders, needle felts,...

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