Wilkerson Fine Art and Consulting

 

I enjoy the outdoors—plein-air painting is a lot about surviving the elements. Feeling the heat or cold, the bugs, the wind, all somehow become translated into the paintings. I also work in the studio, but all my work is based on time I have spent outside.

Eric is engaged in art, both as a career and a means of greater consciousness.

Eric Zschiesche (pronounced Z-she) and his wife Faith, live in Ogden Valley, Utah. 

It is an awesome place to live…wonderfully inspiring.

Many paths can lead to a fuller understanding and love of this journey on earth; one must simply have an openness of mind and heart.  For me, painting is a means of striving for fuller sight / insight. As for specifics of the style of work, I refer to it as abstracted realism.  I try to convey a sense of the world around us, without becoming overly fixated on details…everything is in a state of transition, no beginning, no end,…no boundaries.  About 1 ½ years ago, I jettisoned the use of photographic references; the current body of works are created through direct observation and analytical imagination.  Art is a form of human expression, that attempts to address our condition of being alive… go on indulge yourself, and happy trails!

Alison Benjamin is a new transplant to the valley, originally from the U.K.   She arrived two years ago via Big Bear Lake, CA.  From her earliest memories she fancied herself an artist like her father.  As an adult this has manifested in the form of her painting, poetry and her design and manufacturing of jewelry.  Her love for design, color and pattern is the genesis for her current work.  She creates her art while caring for her husband and children in her Liberty kitchen.  Alison strives to communicate her thoughts through her art and is inspired by her discipline of meditation

Garry Mealor's watercolors challenge common perceptions of realist images. The accidental or arbitrary mingles with the intentional, going beyond realism to give the work a life of its own. Mealor's watercolors are large, smoothly executed and jammed with contradictory details. Each painting suggests as much as it reveals.

"All Nature is but art, unknown to thee, all chance, direction which thou canst not see…" - Alexander Pope.

Standing in a meadow, my five senses satiated by all that nature brings including brilliant color, peaceful sounds, ever changing light and temperature, my soul is replenished and invigorated. I lay out my palette of oil colors based on a combination of what I see and feel. My first step is to stain my canvas with a warm hue, a color that will provide a rich base for the strokes to follow. I paint from thin to thick, my broken strokes first applied with a brush, then palette knife. As the painting progresses, I look less at my subject, listen less to my intellect, and allow the sometimes chaotic brushwork to take over. Sometimes my strokes become too chaotic and the painting loses itself. Other times, I am too tight and the painting dies. But when the painting takes a life of it's own, often surprising me, I have made a connection with the moment and instinct prevails.

Eustace Paul Ziegler (1881-1969) was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1881 and died in 1969. Ziegler studied at the Detroit Society of Fine Arts, at the Yale Society of Fine Arts, and with Ida Marie Perrault. He was a painter of the Northwest, a muralist, printmaker, and teacher.

Bill Barber is an award winning sculptor and painter of the Magic and History of the American West. His desire is to tell a story and put his subjects into mood, lighting, or places that move the spirit. His bronze sculptures are designed to have action or gesture that are natural and flowing.

Artist Steve Songer resides in Huntsville, Utah, where he and his wife, Pat, raised their six children. The area surrounding his home in this mountain valley has inspired many of his paintings through the years.

Kelli J DePue-Wemple was born in Missoula, MT and raised in the Bitterroot Valley. She chose to return to school in her mid-thirties to pursue her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the U of M. Prior to her university studies, she was self-taught in the art of drawing and acrylic painting.

Primarily a landscape realist, she naturally focused on the landscapes she grew up around. Kelli's fascination with the work of Picasso as well as other early abstract artists influenced her desire to explore the genre in her studio courses- first in acrylic painting, then on paper using colored inks and charcoal.