Cathey Cadieux was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She attended the prestigious American Academy of Art in Chicago and received an Associate degree in Fine Art in 1977. After post-graduate studies at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, she returned to her hometown. In Tulsa, she established herself as a portrait painter, predominately working in Pastels. The artist continued to broaden her horizons by teaching art classes and doing courtroom drawings for the local TV stations. Ms. Cadieux believes that one's art education is never finished. She has continued to attend workshops and seminars, with such notables as John Howard Sanden, Daniel Greene, Dan Gerhartz, Michael Del Priore, Richard Whitney, and Albert Handell. During breaks from portrait painting, Cathey began plein air landscape painting. After moving to Southern California in 1995, she pursued this art form with great enthusiasm. Settling in Newbury Park, CA.

Artist’s Statement: Passionate by nature, the artist feels she communicates best through her art. Given that painting is a visual language, technical virtuosity is a must. However, she doesn't believe in letting technique become more important than her subject.
"While it is desirable to have a distinctive style; it is of paramount importance that viewers feel the presence of the subject. To accomplish this, the artist must go beyond the academics of 'light falling on form.' All of God's creations, whether a person, flower, or a landscape, radiate their own light and energy. Depicting these ethereal qualities is my ultimate goal as an artist". Therefore, in her portraiture, Ms. Cadieux strives to capture subtle nuances of personality. Accurate draftsmanship and spirituality are interwoven to guarantee a breathtaking likeness. In the floral's, one feels that the flowers are alive , and in the seascapes one senses the crashing of the waves. crashing of the waves

Karl Dempwolf was born in Delmenhorst, Germany, immigrated to the United States in 1951. Dempwolf received a Bachelor of Arts degree from California State Northridge. He continued his art education by attending Art Center College of Design and at USC achieved a Master of Fine Arts degree. With an interest in art and photography, Karl made numerous educational films and Documentaries.

Dempwolf chief inspiration in fine art is drawn from the zenith of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, a time that he believes gave the art viewer. Dempwolf has won numerous awards for his painting, including the Art of California Magazine's Silver and Bronze Discovery Awards. He has been a finalist in the National Arts for the Parks competition each year since 1989 His works are included in the permanent collection of the National Park Foundation and at McGraww Hill Publishing Co. in N. Y. His work is included in a book on landscape painting published by Northlight Books. Karl is a Signature member of the California Art Club and serves on the Board of Directories as Documentarian.

Lynn Gertenbach graduated from the Colorado Institute of Art and then studied with the famed Russian painter Sergei Bongart, as well as Arul Raj in India and Bernard Dunstan in England.
Born in Racine, Wisconsin, Lynn studied at the Art Center Los Angeles, UCLA, and graduated from Colorado Institute of ARt in Denver. Upon completing her formal education she traveled extensively in the Middle East, India, China, Japan, Peru and Guatemala, painting landscapes and indigenous people as she explored the various regions of each country. She was invited by the Institution Cultural Noteramericano to have a one-woman show of her work in Peru, as well as in India and Switzerland. Though travel remains an essential inspiration for her work, Lynn calls California home. "I've often found inspiring subjects within a short distance from my home. Things I pass every day...then, suddenly see as dusk in a new light. I paint the environment I love to be in. My desire is to mirror positive and gentle emotions to those who view my work."
Lynn has completed over 20 one-woman shows, touring 9 cities in Japan. Each exhibition consisted of over 50 works, the culmination of her travels to Provence, Tuscany, Venice, Amalfi Coast, Giverny and California.
Lynn has received more than 30 gold medals from various California Art organizations, as well as the Life Achievement Award (Hall Of Fame Inductee) from the Colorado Art Institute. She has been a guest artist in the Artists of America exhibitions in Denver. Her paintings and portraits are in the collections of many well-known celebrities, including; Tippi Hedren, Zubin Mehta, Vin Scully, Diane Baker, Barbara Streisand, Marvin Davis, Burt Reynolds, and the Maharaja of Navanagar. Lynn is a signature member of: The California Art Club; Plein-Air Painters Of America; and Oil Painters Of America.

Bobbie Moline-Kramer is rooted in the Southern California Art Scene. She attended Cal State University, BA Fine Arts & Illustration, Long Beach, CA Art Center College of Design, Pasadena.She lives and now teaches in Southern California. Her ability to create life with her techniques and rich oils is astonishing. She has a great love and appreciation for reflecting surfaces because it allows her still life's to bend and break free from the restraints of reality.art has been in numerous group exhibitions.

Awards
825 Gallery, Los Angeles Art Association – 2003, Artist Award. San Diego Art Institute’s 44th Exhibit – 2000, First Place in Show. Salmagundi Club, New York, New York – 2000, The Joseph Hartley Memorial Award She won 1st Place in the 1998 and 1999 A Classic Competition at the Carnegie Art Museum. She's also been an exhibit Award Winner in the 1997 California Art Club juried exhibit and the Bausch & Lomb 1998 Annual Exhibit. Her work was shown in the 1999 Allied Artists Exhibition and the 1999 Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Open Exhibition, both in New York. In 2000 her art was included in the exhibit, Arts on the River, in Georgia. Her paintings are in a variety of public and private collections including Warner Brothers Studios in Los Angeles, The Wall Street Journal in New York, Jonathan Kellerman of Los Angeles, and the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. In 2001 Bobbie was elected as an Artist member of the Salmagundi Club in New York.

Juried Memberships
National Association of Women Artists Salmagundi Club California Art Club 825 Galley, LA Art Association
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Gregg Kreutz An award winning painter and author of the classic artist’s guide; Problem Solving for Oil Painters (now in it’s twentieth year of publication), Gregg Kreutz has been drawing and painting all his life. After graduating from N.Y.U., he pursued his training as a painter in earnest at the Art Student’s League of New York winning a merit scholarship. He studied with Frank Mason, Robert Beverly Hale, and, most significantly, David A. Leffel. After his training at the League, he signed up for the Washington Square Outdoor Art Show where we won best in show and from there was able to get in galleries and become a full time painter. He has won numerous awards including the Frank C. Wright Award, the Hudson Valley Art Association Award, 1986, the Medal of Merit (first prize in oils), Knickerbocker Artists; the Council of American Artists Awards, Salmagundi Club; the Grumbacher Award, Knickerbocker Artists; Most recently he won the Merit Award at the 2005 National Portrait Society of America.

He has had one man shows at Grand Central Galleries, New York, The Fanny Garver Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin,the Newport Art Association, Newport RI. and The Hilligoss Gallery in Chicago. He is currently represented by, Eleanor Ettinger Gallery (New York), Hilligoss gallery (Chicago), Fanny Garver Gallery, and The Wendt Gallery in Laguna Beach, California.
He teaches painting and drawing at the Art Student’s League as well as at The Fechin Institute in New Mexico, The Scottsdale Artist’s School, The California Art Institute, and workshops throughout the country. His videos are popular learning tools used by artists all over the world.

About making art Kreutz says, " For me, painting is an opportunity to learn what is meaningful. Each picture is a visual separation of the highly significant from the less significant. Painting is really a window into the essential.”
A quote from Problem Solving for Oil Painters. “Painters are fortunate in that they can convey large ideas with very modest means. And realistic painting is an especially rewarding endeavor, To actively go after it means to learn what makes art, and what the external world really looks like, and how the two can be fused.

He often does private commission work. Israel is a big admirer and studies the works of all the great turn of the century naturalist masters, as well as the great American Illustrators, and all the most respected representative artists working today. When not teaching or painting Israel likes to frequent book stores and is a collector of art books. Israel exhibits at various local galleries; among them, the Image Gallery in Westlake, Cal if.

Orbik has also worked for Marvel, Image, as well as for Universal concerning the “Hulk” movie; Sony for promotion of their Spiderman movie; created art for the “Dungeons and Dragons” games series as well as numerous book covers, most recently for two Ray Bradbury titles. Glen has just finished the new book cover for the latest Stephen King novel.

Tony Pro while completing his degree in graphic design at California State University, Northridge, also began to take classes at the California Art Institute, where he studied with the famed illustrator Glen Orbik. From Orbik he learned the value of figure and head drawing and how to apply strict study principles to his artistic life. He grew up surrounded by paintings that often portrayed Native Americans and cowboys in the old west but, Pro found that he was drawn instead to painting his contemporaries--people who are a part of his everyday life. Pro was influenced by the Russian Impressionists exhibits at the Fleischer Museum in Scottsdale, AZ (now-defunct) and the works and teaching of Richard Schmid.

Pro was such an admirer of Schmid that a few years ago he contacted Schmid about updating his videos. Pro worked with Schmid producing and updating Schmid's landscape video to DVD. Pro introduced Schmid to the 21st century of technology and Schmid gave him advice that changed the way he thinks about art. "He told me that everything I paint is a self-portrait. He really made me think about what I want to do and say".

Pro's recent painting "Mothers Love" won the Oil painters of America Best of Show award. He was included in the Southwest Art's "21 under 31" feature last year. This year he accepted the OPA honors and was one of ten finalist in the prestigious annual Portrait Society of America competition. For the last decade, Pro has pursued three careers working in graphic arts, teaching, and painting in his studio. Tony is featured on the cover of the September 2005 Southwest Art magazine which has also published an article about his terrific year on the show circuit.

For more information visit her web site at www.portraitartist.com/spinks

Lisa Towers is a classical realist oil painter. She has a BFA from the University of Miami where she studied filmmaking, photojournalism, and drawing. After college, she began studying still life painting with chiaroscuro painters such as David Leffel and Gregg Kreutz and portrait painting with Michael Shane Neal. In 1998, she began teaching painting and drawing classes at Cheekwood's Frist Center in Nashville, Tennessee and moved to California in 2001.

Lisa has been greatly influenced by the old masters of chiaroscuro painting and new masters such as Odd Nerdrum. In addition, Lisa developed an interest in the philosophy and compositions of the great American painter Thomas Hart Benton through her acquaintances with three of his students who taught her Benton's egg tempera painting technique.

Although she is known primarily for her floral still lifes, she believes that artists have a responsibility to describe the world we live in, and is cultivating a body of work that is thematic, and journalistic of our era.

Steve Walters, received a B. A. degree in Design from Cal State L. A. and studied Advertising Design and Illustration at Art Center College of Design. For many years, Steve worked for various corporations in the Commercial Art field as a Graphic Designer, Advertising Designer, and Illustrator. He has also, studied Oil Painting with Vernon Wilson, Watercolor with Jay Mosby and has participated in various workshops with Milford Zornes.

Currently, he works as a freelance Designer and Illustrator while also teaching Painting at the California Art Institute in Westlake Village and Watercolor for the city of Burbank. He has studied Oil Painting with Vernon Wilson, Watercolor with Jay Mosby and has participated in various workshops with Milford Zornes.

Steve is a signature member of Water West, Valley Watercolor Society and a long-time member of the the San Gabriel Fine Arts Association. In 1991 Steve was honored with the First Place Award in Watercolor West’s Annual National Competition. He has won six national awards as well as many “Best of Show” awards in regional competitions. He has also exhibited at the Lancaster Art Museum and has been affiliated with various galleries over the past 14 years.

He enjoys painting wide range of subject matter, including still life, landscapes, figures. Steve paints simplified compositions which create attractive graphic shapes, pattern and interesting color, express mood and emotion, as well as a strong sense of light. Currently Steve is affiliated with galleries in Glendale and Thousand Oaks, Cal if.