JOANNE BRANDT

Working primarily in acrylic and watercolor, Joanne particularly enjoys painting portraits of family, friends and pets, and the challenge and beauty of figurative work.

“I love playing with color, light and shadow in an attempt to portray movement in my paintings, and hopefully also capture the personality of my subjects.”


Joanne is active in several local arts organizations, including the Mobile Art Association, the Watercolor and Graphic Arts Society, and the Alabama Miniature Art Society. She has shown her work at the Space 301 Gallery, the University of Mobile, the Eastern Shore Art Center and the Mobile Museum of Art, as well as local alternative art venues. Her work can also be seen at the Cathedral Square Gallery artists’ cooperative.Joanne is currently working on a series of cow portraits. She also enjoys painting with a local plein air group and the Downtown Figure Group.



"Life is Good"

 

"P.E.I. Cow No. 1 - Sweet Pea".



Plein Aire

email:  jubrandt@comcast.net


http://www.joannebrandtartspace.blogspot.com 

FRANCES ASHCRAFT

Frances is a native of Mobile, Alabama and has been drawing and painting for as long as she can remember.  Frances received a formal education with a B.S. degree but longed to pursue art.  She has studied art throughout the years. With the guidance and coaching of her teacher and mentor she has taken a more serious approach to her work.  Frances is inspired by a vast assortment of subjects and feels that her paintings are a way of preserving all things in nature and life.  She finds painting both enjoyable and fulfilling.  Painting, to Frances, is a reflection of the spirit within. 


Member:

Watercolor and Graphic Art Society of Mobile
Alabama Miniature Art SocietyAwards:
Spanish Moss Miniature Art Show 2008
     ~ Belk Award

Mobile Art Association Spring Show 2010
     ~ George Dubina Memorial Award

Mobile Watercolor and Graphic Arts Society
Spring 2010
     ~ Honorable Mention

Galleries:
Cathedral Square Gallery
Nolen-Schmidt Gallery
Koch Gallery
Southern Art and Framing

                        http://www.francesashcraft.com/

DENISE INGE

Denise Inge is a native Mobilian and attended 12 years of parochial school there. Her childhood summers consisted of “crabbing and soft shelling” down the bay at her cousin and her great aunts’ homes, sleeping on the “sleeping porch” and waking up to fried soft shell for breakfast…vacations at “the Gulf” and she and her brothers and sisters swimming in the bay because her “mother felt it was safe because it was shallow!” She is the proud mother of one daughter and “The Mimi” to two grandsons.

“ Loving watercolors, I started on my journey in 2002 and the

watercolors have been doing their own thing ever since…allowing me to grab on to “their” coat tails for the ride of my life…all the time being inspired by the beauty of my beloved Mobile and the South!”



White and Yellow Flowers in Vase


Denise is a member of the Mobile Art Association and holds the office of Secretary for the group, a member of the Watercolor and Graphic Art Society of Mobile and holds the office of Treasurer, Assistant Director for Cathedral Square Gallery in downtown Mobile and a member of the Eastern Shore Art Center.



See more of Denise Inge's work at http://dingeart.blogspot.com/

Contact Denise at dinge51@hotmail.com




Purple Hydrangeas on Window Seal







Mardi Gras Mask