Emerging Artists

California artist Elizabeth Barlow is one of this year’s honorable mention award recipients

Communing with nature

Big, bold & beautiful

TEXAS ART EDUCATION: At 15, I began studying oil painting under Dalhart Windberg. I’ve since studied art and architecture in Italy and received a bachelor’s degree in environmental design from Texas A&M University. STYLE: Traditional. SECOND-CHOICE CAREER: If I couldn’t be an artist, I think architect would be the next best thing. BEST ADVICE RECEIVED: [...]

SOUTH CAROLINA ART EDUCATION: Bachelor of fine arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia and a Hudson River Fellowship. STYLE: Contemporary realism. INSPIRATION FOR YOUR WINNING PAINTING: An old Texaco store that I would pass driving to my fiancée’s parents’ house in South Carolina. Every time I would pass by, it [...]

CALIFORNIA ART EDUCATION: Bachelor of fine arts in design from the Chinese Culture University, Taiwan. From 2007 to 2009, I studied the foundations of drawing and painting with the artist Yimaukun. In the fall of 2009, I came to the United States to continue my studies. Currently I am pursuing 
a master of fine arts [...]

MONTANA ART EDUCATION: I took three years of formal drawing and painting at Palomar College in San Diego. Two of my strongest influences and mentors have been Michael Steirnagle, with whom I spent three semesters in California, and Robert Moore, whom I have studied under for the past year. In 2008 I began painting full [...]

PENNSYLVANIA ART EDUCATION: I decided to completely submerge myself in art approximately two years ago. I started by attending the Angel Academy of Art in Florence, and currently I am an apprentice at the Àni Art Academies Waichulis, where I will complete my studies. STYLE: Representational/experimental. INSPIRATION FOR YOUR WINNING PAINTING: I saw an episode [...]

CALIFORNIA ART EDUCATION: Associate of Arts and Sciences degree in graphic design from Colorado Mountain College, Glenwood Springs, CO. Master’s degree candidate at the Laguna College of Art & Design, Laguna Beach, CA. STYLE: Figurative representation. My background is in graphic design, so I often fuse a little of that into my paintings. INSPIRATION FOR [...]

PENNSYLVANIA ART EDUCATION: Àni Art Academies Waichulis. STYLE: Realism. INSPIRATION FOR YOUR WINNING Piece: The blissful feeling of the first sunny days of spring. I draw inspiration from human emotion. My work reflects my efforts to understand my relationship to the world, its people, and how we all relate. It’s my hope that the resultant [...]