These are some of the artists whose work is available from Artistic Images of Prescott. The work ranges from the realistic to the abstract, serious and whimsical. In the main these are Arizona or Southwest artists, but the gallery represents artists from across the United States.

Multi-talented Arizona native Briggs is an accomplished musician as well as a gifted watercolorist; he performed with the Phoenix Symphony, among others, for several years. A lifelong interest in the visual arts led him to study with many of the country's finest watercolor artists, including Diane Maxey, Dick Phillips, Tom Lynch, Timothy Clark, Wei Tai, Frederick Wong, and Marilyn Simandle. His works hang in private collections throughout the nation.

Evans's work focuses on the female figure, dealing with emotions, with sensitivity, and with life itself. She expresses the fragile existence and vulnerability of the female, often involving her own life experiences. Her work has been enthusiastically reviewed in the Phoenix Gazette.

After studying science at Iowa State University, Patterson began to pursue his true passion: he completed an apprenticeship under professional glassblower Garth Mudge at Glassworks Studio & Gallery in Estes Park, Colorado. Patterson is now a full-time artist at Glassworks, where visitors are invited to watch him transform red-hot molten glass into unique bowls, vases, and ornaments. His breathtaking mountain setting offers abundant inspiration for his elegant creations.

Bautzmann's paintings have shown in many East and West Coast galleries. She earned a degree in fine arts from Westminster College in Pennsylvania but did not originally work in the oils and watercolors that have now won her several awards. While working as a graphic artist in advertising she studied under noted painters Hans Axel Walleen, Gloria Malcolm Arnold, and Gunter Korus. By 1990 she had left advertising to pour her soul into painting. She moved to Arizona in 1994, adding desert scenes and flowers to her portfolio.

With a fine arts degree from U of Arizona and influences such as Whistler, Velasquez, Remington, and Gericault, Hambly has presented in galleries and juried shows from Laguna Beach to Cody, Wyoming. His work hangs in Arizona galleries and in collections throughout the country. A fifth-generation Arizona native, he has portrayed the horse and cowboy in his art since childhood: "I don't believe I could paint anything else, it must be in my genes."

A traditional oil painter of the old and contemporary West, Shaddix was a child of the Depression whose family moved from Oklahoma to California. There, at Whittier High School, he received the only formal art training he ever had. Through his career in the sheriff's department and D.A.'s office of Orange County, he painted in his spare time. In 1960 he began a full-time career as a professional artist, where he has established himself firmly at the forefront of contemporary Western painters and enjoys working in other media, including sculpture. His award-winning work has shown in juried events such as the Celebration of Fine Arts in Scottsdale and the Phippen Museum Western Art Show and is collected nationwide.

Since he began exhibiting formally in 1958, Chatham has had roughly four hundred one-man shows at museums, art centers, galleries, and educational institutions throughout the West (Sun Valley, Aspen, Santa Fe, and Denver, e.g.) as well as in metropolises nationwide, Europe, and the Orient. Regarded as one of the world's foremost lithographers, he has been profiled in Esquire, Southwest Art, People, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NPR's Morning Edition and Fresh Air, PBS, and CBS Sunday Morning, among many others. Publications about Chatham include catalogues The Missouri Headwaters (original lithographs) and One Hundred Paintings. Five new books were scheduled for release in 2003. The roster of Chatham's private collectors is lengthy...

Kordash produces award-winning contemporary paintings in media ranging from watercolor and acrylics to oil pastels, collage, and monotypes in oil-based lithographic inks. She has exhibited in regional and national shows in New York, Oklahoma, and Kansas and is a member of the Greater Kansas City Art Association and the Kansas Watercolor Society, as well as the International Society of Experimental Artists. A past student of such artists as Zoltan Szabo, Douglas Walton, and Robert E. Wood, she is listed in the editions of Who's Who for America, the Midwest, the world, and American Women, and in The World Who's Who of Women; in Outstanding People of the 20th Century; and in the Dictionary of International Biography.

He may have been born in Frankfurt, Germany, but thoroughly American Willison presents a vivid and whimsical take on the world of Wild West heroes. His fiery colors and sometimes humorous approaches to his subject matter find their inspiration in the vintage days of Hollywood cowboys. A self-taught pastel artist, Willison balances the spontaneity of pastel work with more detailed creations in color pencil. His work hangs in log cabins and penthouses.

Brady has been painting and sculpting for twenty years. He completed his formal art education in 1988 at Utah State University, focusing on fine art and illustration. Before becoming a full-time artist, he worked for thirteen years in the fields of graphic design and illustration. His work has appeared in a number of juried shows, and two paintings were selected for a statewide traveling show for animal awareness.

Welded steel is sculptor Foss's favorite medium, allowing for intuition and the happy accident. She sometimes enjoys creating sculptures that are suggestions, not detailed replicas, of nature, as if sketching in steel, capturing the spirit. Foss sees her intimate association with animals as the main force behind her art; she is pleased to sculpt the creatures that have enriched her life, and to provide a tactile experience to other animal lovers.

Krol's thirty-five-year creative career has brought her international recognition, with over 750 pieces in private collections throughout the world. Her works, in media from bronze and stainless steel castings to marble carving, drawing, and painting, range from massive sculptures to fine jewelry. Her sculpture Olympic Rhythms was reproduced in 1988 by the Pageant of the Masters, an event of international renown in Laguna, California, honoring only one living artist per year. Krol is legendary in her hometown, Prescott, Arizona, for her magnificent four thousand pound stainless steel casting of a bucking bull. Kicking ten feet high and measuring fourteen feet long, Silver Tornado balances only on his front feet.

Due to his father's career, Soderberg spent his youth in South and Southeast Asia, traveling the world, and absorbing the world's great art. Aware early on that he was an artist, at twelve he studied teakwood carving with Thailand's leading master. Martial arts study put him on the path to capture human motion in sculpture. He returned to the US, and to culture shock and cultural upheaval, in 1968; the People's Park riot in Berkeley found him painting a picture in the street. A year later he joined the Marines, and upon discharge he began working with metal, learning the craft of bronze in a Flagstaff foundry in 1976. After some "starving artist" years he achieved professional status and served as Artist in Residence at Northern Arizona University. Internationally collected...

Van der Heyden never drives past a junkyard without casting an eye for potential sculptural material. What others call "leftovers" provide inspiration for the creative woodworking that, for van der Heyden, is always associated with music.

During the fifteen years Linscott has actively pursued her art career, she has seen her work accepted in many juried shows throughout the U.S. and has won awards for her paintings of flowers and children. The three books she has authored are published by Scafa Fine Art Group. An art teacher and frequent demonstrator for art groups, Linscott is a signature member and past president of Women Artists of the West. Originally concentrating in watercolors, she now explores oils; her years of striving for artistic perfection, both technical and aesthetic, endow her work with enduring quality.

A glass artist, jazz musician, writer of humorous short fiction, and landscape painter, Lee Baldwin has since 1963 produced paintings distinctive for their resonance with the edge of vision. Self-taught in all media he pursues, Baldwin is now exploring a key concept he calls "hard-edge impressionism." This search leads him to representations of scene and form which can appear quite random before coming into focus. As a result of this inquiry, Baldwin's images walk a fine line between the realistic and the abstract; new relationships appear with every viewing.

Slayton's extensive art education has encompassed studies at the University of Arizona; the School of Fine Art, University of Madrid; Pierce College, Los Angeles; Scottsdale Artist's School; and California Art Institute. A plein air painter, he produces still lifes and figure studies as well as landscapes. His paintings hang in private and corporate collections throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East, in the collections of General Motors, Prudential Life, the West Wing of the White House, Paine Webber, A.G. Edwards, Harris Corp., Paradise Orchids (Fiji Islands), Chad Everett, Billy Joel, and Mary Matlin, among others. A long-time illustrator who tired of meticulous painting, Slayton developed a loose, wet, bold...

Born in Poland, Jablonski and her husband moved to South Africa in 1981 to protest the communist regime. Fourteen years later Jozef Jablonski was offered a position in California; once relocated in the Simi Valley, Irena Jablonski could not find work in her field of structural engineering. "Some powerful and mysterious forces made sure my new career would be in fine arts," she relates; deciding to continue her fine art studies, begun as a hobby in Pretoria, she signed up at the California Institute of Art. It was love at first sight; she felt she had come home. Inspired by the masters she loved in childhood in the museums of Europe, she turned to oil painting. Jablonski's paintings have been represented at the American Art Gallery in Deauville, France...

Craig's exhibitions include the Mountain Oyster Club in Tucson and several juried art competitions, such as the Oil Painters of America national and regional shows. He has studied with such notable artists as Zoltan Szabo and Dick Phillips. Craig's love of the outdoors has taken him to Montana, Idaho, and British Columbia to collect ideas. His oil paintings of old pickup trucks, rusty tractors, and other country subjects are well received by collectors.

Long years as a working cowboy and bull rider on the Navajo reservation informs the "authentic surrealism" of Powers' Western art. Entirely self-taught, he has created a large body of work in watercolor, oils, and sculptures in stone, wood, and saguaro. The unique, magical quality conveyed in his treatment of a largely traditional subject matter was born in 1984, when Powers was invited to create a mural of the gold fields for the Yreka, California, historic district. He went on to a career in commercial art, meanwhile creating art that has hung in galleries in Santa Fe, Sedona, Durango, and Scottsdale and is also displayed in Baltimore's Maritime Museum and at the Ronald Reagan Ranch. Powers is known for finely detailed portraits of key Indian leaders.

Among her memberships Odum lists the Pastel Societies of America, the West Coast, and New Mexico, and the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club. Known for her award-winning wildlife paintings, she has exhibited with Ducks Unlimited, Safari Club International, and the Mountain Oyster Club in Tucson, and published limited edition prints of many of her paintings. Odum was commissioned to do the 1994 Tucson Fiesta de Los Vaqueros poster. Born in Rouen, France, Odum attended art school in southern France and studied under Zoltan Szabo and Tom Hill. Her lifelong fascination with the outdoors has led her exploring as far from her home as Northern Idaho and British Columbia. She has recently added Western subjects to her work, drawing on the rich heritage of the Southwest.