Ric Dentinger 

The inspiration for a piece usually comes the second I see it! Either it’s there or not –

Unfortunately, it doesn’t always happen like that. Many times I search for that subject that moves me to paint. I am always amazed when a subject seeks me out. Whether I am traveling or working in my studio I typically paint a subject by the way it makes me feel. It is an emotional connection first and foremost.

When I begin my sketch, and get to know my subject, it is then that I discover why I was so compelled to paint it.

I make artistic modifications in my value sketch, in order to push the light and colors further, and then begin the painting process.

Inspiration is all around us - calling…open up and go for it!

"Cupcake Falls" by Ric Dentinger, Watercolor

"Have a Seat" by Ric Dentinger, Watercolor

"Iron Gates" by Ric Dentinger, Watercolor

Caroline Korbell Carrington (1969. San Antonio, Texas) grew up in a family which cherishes and values the land and wildlife of Texas. She spent much of her formative years in the Texas hill country where she began to create works of art. Over time the art became a passion and in-turn has led to her successful career as a landscape painter.

Greg Johnson 

I was born and raised along the Texas Gulf Coast in the Houston / Galveston area. Unlike a lot of people, I never forgot how to make art as I grew older. After a painful detour through a Business degree at Texas State University in San Marcos and getting lost in the labyrinthine Cubicle world, I returned to the pursuit of art and earned my Bachelor of Fine Art degree at Texas A&M, Corpus Christi and my Master of Fine Art degree at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. I currently work at the Southwest School of Art and Craft as a teacher and Studio Manager.

I've begun to think that, as an artist, I am like a radio tuner searching through the ethers and focusing in on some juicy part of an ongoing story that writes itself as I draw. The story finds life in images that I stumble across accidentally. Old photographs of nameless people found in a box in a junk store, images that haunt me and ache to fit into some narrative, open a channel to the story. Some direction for the story might be encouraged by something I've read in a poem, or something churned up in a daydream, or something that comes up in a conversation, or even the music that I listen to when I work. As the crayon, pencil, or brush moves across the paper, the story evolves to the place where I have to leave it, translated into the form of a finished drawing.

Featuring Susan Beiner, Rebekah Bogard, Rebecca Hutchinson & Anne Drew Potter; curated by Ovidio Giberga