Fascinating Facts About Artist Showcase Members

A Quiz to Help You Become More Acquainted with Artist Members 

Our Artist Showcase Members excel in their chosen styles and mediums, have achieved career success, and are also endowed with multi-faceted talents, interests and backgrounds. This article “Fascinating Facts about Artist Showcase Members” is a quiz to help you become more acquainted with artists from the Artist Showcase Gallery. It is part of a growing series of articles about our members.

Banner image: Artists Peter N. Van Giesen, Barbara Brown, and Gail Bach.

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1. This dynamic duo have many artistic skills. He was a ceramic, watercolor and lapidary artist. She was a weaver, software developer and program manager. They have always creating photographs for which they are now totally devoted.

2. She is a founding member of C.A.I.R.N., a NYC group of artists working with environmental issues. She served as the Director of Envirosite during 1995-1997, an Environmental Artists organization. The International Cow Parade organization selected her painted sculpture for its exhibition in Madison, WI.

3. This photographer has documented life in indigenous communities, dance festivals, archaeological sites, African wildlife, and the world of nature. Her art has been selected by the National Wildlife Federation for reproduction on their greeting cards.

4. She lives in a cabin that she and her husband built in the forest on a mountainside in the wild remote West Kootenay region of the Canadian Rockies. She describes it as “a haven for free-thinkers and people who have chosen alternative lifestyles.”

5.  In addition to being an artist she has also brought her creative energy to different modalities of movement, dance and working with others who have a desire to expand their Consciousness and “connect with their own soul.” She received an Art Review featured on The Healing Power of ART & ARTISTS website.

6. He won a Special Recognition Art Award from Manhattan Arts International in Our “Love, Peace, Unity & Hope” 2025 Exhibition. He is a masterful contemporary artist known for his “Capturing Nature’s Eternal Aura” paintings which shine a beacon of light to guide us on our life’s journey. 

7. Her artistic passion was ignited at a young age when she attended an art class with her grandmother, who was also an artist. She has been featured in numerous publications including The New York Times, Newsday, ArtSpeak, and Palm Beach Art & Culture. She served as president of Women in the Visual Arts, Florida.

8. Her art is influenced by the Japanese Art of Kintsugi. She is also inspired by Asian styles and philosophies, having lived in Asia for several years. She co-founded Purple Octopus Art, LLC™. Its mission: To provide a platform for art and expressive writing that address human and environmental ailments.

9. She is a contemporary Modernist artist who has been influenced by Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Anne Truitt, and Donald Judd,. However, she infuses pieces with a distinctly personal vision rooted in her extensive experiences, cultural explorations, and encounters with architecture gathered through her travels around the world.

10. She received a BA from Lindenwood College in St. Charles, MO, and an MPS in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University where she developed programs for both children and seniors. An artist who also brings positive change to the world, each month she gives a portion of her sales to non-profit organizations.

11. Born in the Czech Republic, at the age of 13 her family immigrated to Canada. Some of her sculptures are created for Women’s Shelters and Auctions to support an orphanage in Africa. Her many commissions include sculptures for the Nelson Mandela Legacy and Ottawa University, BHM; Women Excellence Awards; and Women Who Work Excellence Awards; among others.

12. She has served as an artist panelist for two Horasis International Conferences based in New York, and Germany. She is the author of “Peoplescapes – My Story from Purging to Painting” and is also a certified computer animator.  Her art received two awards from the South San Francisco Art Commission juried exhibition.

13. Born in Romania, she is American by adoption, and currently resides in Reno, Nevada. Her background is in literature and multimedia design, and her photographs can relate to poetry, in particular, haiku, “because they can operate with the same distillation of vocabulary.”

14. As a full-time artist and poet her inspiration comes from “red rocks, desert light, birdsong, the sounds of a rare river running through parched landscapes”. Like Monet, she often begins a painting en plein air and completes it in her studio, although her art follows a more abstract creative direction.

15. He was raised in the small farming community of Standardard, Alberta, Canada. He completed a degree in Studio and Humanities at the University of Montana at Missoula, USA. He has traveled extensively and lived and worked in New York, London, England and Sapporo, Japan, where he was a member of the Canadian Olympic Luge Team in 1972.

16. This California artist uses an iPhone and multiple applications to produce her painterly photographs. Her former career was in advertising and she founded a printing business with her husband.  Her favorite master women artists are Georgia O’Keefe, Helen Frankenthaler, and Vivian Maier.

Names of Artists with Links to Their Pages

1. Dick and Rosanne
2. Gail Bach
3. Sandra Belitza-Vazquez
4. Barbara Brown
5. Eva Breitfuß
6. Peter N. Van Giesen
7. Karen H. Salup
8. Rajul Shah
9. Karen Clarkson
10 Tommy B. McDonell
11. Denisa Prochazka
12. Nancy Calef
13. Susanna Patras
14. Mary Manning
15. Poul S. Nielsen
16. Anne Morrison Rabe

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