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FREDERICKSBURG TEXAS

WILLI BAUER
Born July 7, 1923 in a small village in Germany, Bauer studied under well-known professors in Berlin and Frankfurt. His painting technique is a transition between rich impressionism and controlled expressionism. The brush strokes and palette knife are handled in complete control to achieve the desired effect: namely, the effect of light itself. Today, Willi Bauer is well known as an artist who is a credit to his native Germany. His paintings are in many private collections throughout Europe and the United States.

AL BARNES 1937 -
Al Barnes lives and works in the Rockport/Fulton area on the Texas Gulf Coast. He has had numerous one-man and group exhibitions and his work is displayed extensively in private and corporate collections around the world, including the Wildlife Museum in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. A member of the Society of Animal Artists, his main subjects include fish and aquatic imagery, landscape and wildlife.

A.D. GREER 1928 – 1998
Born in Oklahoma in 1904, A.D. Greer came to Texas in 1928, eventually settling in Austin. Greer painted still lifes, landscapes, portraits, female nudes, westerns and animals. His work “Cattle Country” was purchased by Lyndon Baines Johnson and exhibited in the White House during his presidency. Greer was made an honorary Texas Ranger in 1980 and lived in Austin, Texas until his death in 1998.

PETRONELLA GREER
Jewelry designer,, Petronella Greer, was born with a passion for the arts. She feels she is a natural artist and can see beyond the human scope. Petronella says, “My creations are my dreams. I celebrate the gift of life through my individual designs.”

Each unique piece of jewelry is one of a kind and handcrafted with great care. Petronella’s creations are enchanting combinations of semi-precious stones, new and vintage beads, shells and art glass.

MARY LINDSEY
Mary Lindsey is an artist living in Fredericksburg. Texas, in the heart of the beautiful hill country. She studied art and interior design at Louisiana Tech University and has spent twenty five years as an interior decorator.

Deciding to return to painting, she studied with Robert Johnson, Carolyn Anderson, Gregg Kreutz and Sherrle McGraw. She has developed her own combination of the principals of design she has used for many years, traditional oil painting techniques, and her personal way of looking at the world around her.
Mary's interests are focused on magnified still lifes. "I love the endless designs that can be found in simple arrangements of still life objects."

Her latest works combine her previous career in Interior design with the painting of Imaginary room scenes. The paintings all lead the viewer into a room through an open door with light and shadow, which guide you through rooms that speak of comfort and serenity.

BOBBIE BROWN MARSH
Having chosen painting as her road to self-expression, Bobbie Brown Marsh is continually seeking to grow and explore. Self discovery and discovery of the world around her are a priority for Bobbie. She believes discovery is mystery, heart, spirit, humor, hope and much hard work - a learning process that invites and challenges the artist to mature – always working toward completeness. It is a God given journey that has the blessing of a beginning but no end. Bobbie invites all who view her work, sit in her classes or share their own creative expressions to celebrate with her in the wonderful world of creativity.

Bobbie’s fields of endeavor have included technical illustration, publishing house artwork, freelance commercial design, portrait commissions and teaching. Watercolor is her first love but she has enjoyed the intricacies of other media including oil, pastel, pencil and acrylic.

Over the past 35 years, Bobbie’s professional experience has included the following:
• Portrait sketch artist for Six Flags Over Texas 1961-1962
• Technical illustration and free lance commercial design 1963–1980
• Free lance design work for Neiman Marcus in Dallas, Texas 1980–1992
• Maintaining a studio-gallery at the Tandy Center in Fort Worth, Texas 1981-1982
• At the Imagination Gallery in Kerrville, Texas 1983-1986
• Maintaining a retail studio-gallery in Fredericksburg, Texas 1987-1996

Bobbie’s paintings have won numerous awards and are in many private and corporate collections. Currently, Bobbie is happily retired but still painting.

BUNNY OLIVER
Texas hill country artist Bunny Oliver creates her colorful, fresh images from her Dripping Springs Studio. She began her career in 1987 having been inspired by New Mexico artist, Ray Vinella. After her workshop with Vinella, she was consumed with a passion to paint. She read, studied paintings in museums and galleries, and took classes and workshops. Bunny paints in a direct manner with vivid colors and bold brushstrokes. She strives to portray the beauty in every day things and scenes and to encourage the viewer to slow down and appreciate the way the light falls on a garden path or the brilliant colors in a simple vase of fresh picked flowers.

In just two years, her work was beginning to show up in juried art shows, and soon she was winning awards. In 1990, Bunny was presented with an award from the Hill Country Arts Foundation in Kerrville, followed by Artist of the Year from Benefits Design in Austin. Many honors followed including Best in Oils at Fiesta from the Austin Museum of Art in 1996, a One Person Show in Vail Colorado in 1999, Texas State Society Black Tie & Boots Inaugural Ball in Washington DC in2001 and the Susan K. Black Foundation Grant for Workshops in Wyoming in 2003, only to mention a few.

Bunny’s work is featured at Cogswell Gallery in Vail Colorado, Squash Blossom Gallery in Colorado Springs, Griffith Fine Art in Salado and Jackson’s Uptown Art and Antiques in Fredericksburg.

LILLI PELL

LYNN SPEIER
Lynn began making jewelry in 1999 in Taos, New Mexico. Already an award winning weaver, Lynn found a new outlet as a jewelry designer incorporating stones such as turquoise, onyx, bone, antique Tibetan beads, and Venetian glass. Her most recent creations are dramatic necklaces designed with Roman coins from the Byzantine, and Constantine periods, making these pieces unique and beautiful.

Lynn started weaving in 1994 when she was living in Taos, New Mexico. She studied at the Taos Institute of Art and soon purchased the first of several looms, eventually taking classes in Tapestry from Denise Miller of Taos and Rebecca Bluestone of Santa Fe. Next, she studied privately with James Koehler of the Taos Institute of Art, where she learned color gradation and design. Her expertise grew when she spent a week with a Navajo family in Arizona. Lynn was awarded 2nd place in weaving at the Taos Wool Festival. She makes all her own vegetable dyes and uses only Navajo Churro wool from New Mexico.

W. R. THRASHER
Rolling Central Texas Hills, alive with native flowers, pheasant, quail, sun slanting through towering pecan trees on lazy rivers, are the heritage of many young Texas boys. Even as a child, W.R. Thrasher had the desire to portray this heritage in pictures.

William Robert Thrasher was born in Lamar Co. Texas in 1908. All his earnings as a boy were spent on brushes and canvas to satisfy his desire to paint. When he was 21, he and his mother were left alone forced to hold an auction to sell all their possessions. The demand for his art was great and he decided that art could be his career as well as his love.

A formal education not being possible, he redoubled his efforts, resulting in fine, realistic quality of his paintings.

His paintings of Texas bluebonnets on rolling hillsides, interspersed with prickly pear, Indian paintbrush and stately live oak trees often impart the viewer with a glimpse of Texas that was…And is now fading away slowly as to hardly be noticed…All his paintings, regardless of subject, reflect a sold, quiet strength that is part of a man.

His paintings are in the hands of private collectors throughout the Southwest and are shown by some of the leading art galleries in Texas. His work hung in Washington in the offices of Congressmen Wright Patman, Bob Poage and various others, in State office in Austin and various universities throughout Texas.