Peter

Peter is a member of my church ward. I always find his look with the beard and long hair interesting to paint. I asked Peter before he cuts off his bread and hair (which he did after he had the look for awhile) that I would like to paint him.
-Laura Romero

Peter

Oil on Panel

14" x 11"

Your Price: $650

Blue Horse in Sunlight

My painting friends and I headed to Wallsburg to do some Plein Air painting late last summer. There ended up being some scattered showers, and we spent some time driving around taking photos before we were able to paint. One location was really intriguing to me. The way the light was hitting the trees, and the backlit horse eating in the field. I knew I wanted to paint this scene, but the challenge would be getting the lighting right. I worked it and reworked it, trying to get the colors, values, and lighting correct. Being able to paint a horse blue was an added bonus, and a lot of fun.
-Kathryn Roberts

Blue Horse in Sunlight

Oil on Panel

11 3/4" x 18 3/4"

Your Price: $490

Bird on a Watermelon

Bird on a Watermelon was a fun painting to do. The watermelon turned out to be a strong visual and I couldn't resist painting that bird with his expression. I didn't know if the viewer would think that the bird was just resting on the melon or thought it was trying to hatch it. The vibrant colors and quirky subjects are why this is one of my favorites of the show.
-Jenae Green

Bird on a Watermelon

Oil on Canvas

11" x 14"

Your Price: $450

Emma - Navajo by Laura Romero

I was attending a Stake Conference in my church when I noticed Emma. She was with her son and husband when I noticed her turquoise earrings that she was wearing. After the meeting I went up to her and introduce myself as an artist and wanted to paint her. Emma smiled shyly and said that would be fine. Emma with her husband came to my home so that I can take pictures of her and make this painting.
-Laura Romero

Emma - Navajo
Oil on Panel
14" x 11"
Your Price: $550

Cantaloupe with Bird

Cantaloupe with Bird was fun to paint (after some frustrations) because of the different textures and surfaces. The metal spoon and white ceramic dish are both reflective. The lemons have a transparent quality with the light coming through and the cantaloupe looks nice and juicy. Then there are the birds feathers, which I didn't want to paint too tightly with every feather perfectly placed. It was fun to make him a bit more messy, like birds are. -Jenae Green

Cantaloupe with Bird
Oil on Canvas
16" x 20"
Your Price: $495

Green Exhibit

Shrine for a Green Magic Stone with Critics
by Frank McEntire

McEntire scours garage sales, thrift stores and salvage yards for discarded things magical, miraculous and spiritual. Angels, crucifixes, miniature temples, vestments, scriptures, prayer and hymn books; small figures of Christ, Hindu gods, the Virgin Mary, the Angel Moroni and Buddha; also things banal: wooden boxes, farm implements, lenses, mirrors, pop icon figurines, mannequin parts, feathers, embroidered cloth, traps, cages, sticks, stones, old typewriters and bones; and things not so banal: a bird wing, a stuffed rabbit head, a World War II gas mask and a divining rod. These crowd his studio until they whisper a voice of spiritual renewal, inspiring an assemblage of objects sacred and ordinary, born again in exultant layers of the undogmatized divine: meditations, incantations, visions, blessings, celebrations, imaginations, divinations, salvations, exaltations.

-Allen Bishop
November 2005
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Small Acts of Devotion

Mixed Media
17.5" x 10" x 6.5"
Your Price: $1,800

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Zarya-Evening
by David & Jeanne Gomm
This is the third piece of the series, the three Zarya's are the guardian goddesses in Slavic Mythology. Zara-Evening, closes the gates of heaven each night as the sun returns home.

As we were building this beautiful piece, Jeanne mentioned that when you get it right, you just can't quit smiling as you build a great window. The background glass is a clear that has swirls a movement throughout the glass.
-David Gomm

Stained Glass
29 3/4" x 18 3/8"
Your Price: $1,515

See more stained glass at Gomm Stained Glass Studios.
Tell them you saw it at Terra Nova Gallery

-David

Heaven Scent (not a misspelling) was inspired by the birth of my first grandchild, an allusion to the unique scent of a newborn. Having worked with the non-objective pages of monotypes and collagraphs I discovered this sense of joy.
-Marcus Vincent

On exhibit now in Seeing In Side Out at Terra Nova Gallery.
-David