Treasure Valley Artists' Alliance

Jaki Katz Ashford

Jaki Katz Ashford has been a painter and sculptor for over 38 years. Her talents have earned her a stellar reputation in the field of medallic arts, having sculpted over one thousand medals during her career. Among the many important pieces to her credit is the Century IV medal for the City of Philadelphia, the United Nations Peacekeeping Medal and coins of the realm for many foreign nations.

Jaki's whimsical imagination has also earned her an international reputation as a sculptor of fine collectibles.

Jesse D. Bateman

Recently, I moved from Florida to Boise, finding it to be a gorgeous and inspiring state. Few lessons and mostly self taught, I love to paint. My process is to splash some color on a canvas, see something, and bring it out. This is so freeing and spontaneous! Indeed, it’s truly great. I, also, love to capture the essence of this tremendous planet in my art! No subject is off limits. If I haven’t done it yet, it’s an opportunity to do now! Always check out what’s new. Thank you. Enjoy!

Click here to visit Jesse's website.

Cate Brigden

Cate Brigden is a painter, photographer and printmaker. Her work is an investigation of the land, trees, sky and views that surround her neighborhood. Often working in series, Brigden will paint one intimate view again and again, creating a narrative of varying changes in light and color.

Cate has been exhibiting work in the Northwest for over 25 years, and is included in numerous private and public collections throughout the Northwest.

Click here to visit Cate's website.

Dawn Boswell Burke

As a disabled artist, my work is about exploring what I can readily do to create art. I constantly change media as I become unable to work with certain material.

I often use rats as muses. Because my disability is hidden inside a healthy appearance, I relate to the misunderstanding they also experience in our society.

Onlookers do not realize that first glance does not provide information needed to make fair decisions about either of us.

Donna Bernstein

Creating my urban equine art is a bit of a bareback ride; I combine mediums in new and
regenerative ways that evoke movement, energy and life.

What gives my work its edge is a deep personal familiarity with the physical horse…
and an expansive sense that the movement is bigger than what you see.

Please visit my website at donnabernstein.com.

Theresa Burkes

I want to communicate emotionally and truthfully to others, but some things are too mysterious and difficult to talk about straightforwardly. So, I try to communicate these things through art.

My devices are emotional and cognitive: artifacts from childhood, charged spaces or moments, personal and historical references, visual and verbal metaphors, whatever it takes.

View more of my work at theresaburkes.com.

Jean Calomeni

I work in watercolor on paper, with a strong underlying pencil drawing foundation. My themes deal primarily with human and animal relationships and the difficult issues that often make each of us ask, "What the heck?"

View more of Jean's work at snoringdogstudio.com

Michael Chambers

Michael lives in Boise and shows his work at the Gallery at the Linen Building in Boise and at the Carol Robinson Gallery in New Orleans.

Click here to view more work on his website.

Lisa Cheney-Jorgensen

Fine details and textures intrigue me. Especially the luscious details from tiny, often overlooked, forms. When one truly sees an object for the first time, the beauty that is found is inspiring. I integrate this fascination into all areas of my work, be it printmaking, painting, drawing or my visual journals.

My aspiration is to share these snippets of life with others in hopes that they also can enjoy the beauty of the seemingly mundane..

Bev Chick

Animals and nature are a strong theme in my artwork. They have the power to inspire and renew the human spirit. There is a simplicity that cuts through the claustrophobia of clutter that is sometimes our lives and helps us to get back to the basics of what is important.

I am a freelance artist and art teacher, and also a part-time BSU student working towards my BFA in art education. I work primarily with colored pencil and Turpenoid and enjoy combining it with other media.

Visit my website at chickartisticcreations.com or send me an email at bevchick@cableone.net

Kellie Cosho

I paint things that interest me with ink, acrylic, or anything that works!

Email Kellie at kelliecosho@gmail.com

Cosmic Nine

My name is Cosmic Nine, I'm a freelance graffiti artist. I do murals, canvases, illustrations and digital art with a mildly street theme. I try to keep things gritty and raw, yet always me.

See more by Cosmic Nine by visiting his website.

Pam Demo

I steal color and shapes from Nature: buff and rust sandstone, dark and orderly columnar basalt, the rhythmic faulting of Idaho’s Basin and Range. Other cultures, past and present, also intrigue me: clothing, jewelry, religion, graven image. I steal these details too.

E. Rose Elkovich

I prefer to paint en plein air from life on location and create both quick studies from which to enlarge upon at my garden studio and/or complete a small piece alla prima that day. I am fond of colorful renditions with a dramatic flair for composition and values.

Frequently I find landscapes of memorable places that inspire me but enjoy adding figures or doing portraits and still lifes as well. I currently use oils because I love the texture and glisten they provide. Click here to visit my website.

Julie Erb

I am a painter living in Boise and currently working in oils. I am also a graphics designer, working in web and print. Painting is where I can do whatever I want. My work has been in the Basement Gallery and in several art shows around the Valley. I am currently building up a new painting inventory.

Please visit my website at julie-erb.com

Gerilyn Feustel

While living in Japan with my husband in the military, I was intrigued with the work of a well known Japanese artist. That was my introduction to painting in oils. We transferred to Italy, which was an opportunity to spend 3 years painting with great teachers.

Returning to Idaho, I showed my work with the original Ambercrombie & Fitch, which in those days was a safari outfitter. It was a great place for displaying my wildlife painting.

Please click here to visit my website.

Sunny Freeman-Genz

As a young child in Wyoming, Sunny spent countless hours in her room creating unicorn and rainbow calendars, and writing and illustrating books. She built and painted tables and chairs using materials from her dad's scrap wood pile. She took art classes in school, and was most influenced by Chris Amend, her high school art teacher and mentor. Early on she painted in watercolor and guache, but more recently she has been working in acrylic. Never really fully embracing life as an artist, she has painted minimally throughout the years. Her love of painting recently emerged as a powerful voice calling her to go deeper and create more.

Sarah Anne Graham

Sarah Anne Graham graduated from Oregon State University with a BFA in painting/printmaking in 2003.

Her paintings focus on physical landscape, but also incorporate common objects and imagery to evoke psychological spaces. Her work has been displayed throughout the Northwest and Southern regions of the United States, as well as New Zealand. Paintings from The Bed Series and student work were published in CALYX: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women and The She Project.

Her printmaking focuses on organic forms derived from landscapes and patterns in the natural environment. For more information visit www.sarahannegraham.com

Katherine Bajenova Grimmett

Katherine Bajenova Grimmett uses color, line, and personal imagery to express what she wants to interpret in her work. She focuses on figurative work, still lifes and evocative places to paint. Alongside oil painting, printmaking and drawing, Katherine explores collages and more complex compositions.

Her work is in collections around the country including Idaho, Washington, Arizona, New York, and California.

Andrea Harris

Being a 2-D artist and a theatrician have contributed to my respect for the importance of communicative relationships in life and in art. Even though my subject matter varies, it is secondary to expressing what most absorbs my interest: designing contrast, color and the play of light to express those relationships as they infuse an irreplaceable moment with meaning.

For more information, visit Andrea's website at andreaharrisart.com.

Heidi Haislmaier

Heidi’s paintings are evidence of her enthusiasm for the tradition of American landscape painting, yet reveal a touch of Impressionism. They are unrestrained, energetic and filled with confident brush strokes. Her paintings bring us closer to the infinite splendor of the West by providing an identifiable representation, ordered by her own personal vision full of meaning and intent.

Visit www.heidihaislmaier.com or HeidiHaislmaierFineArt's facebook page.

Teri Hiatt

I majored in 3-D design at Mississippi Gulf Coast Jr. College in Gulfport, Mississippi at the University of Southern Mississippi and at the College of Charleston. I have worked most of my life in the arts, as a freelance graphic designer and as a stone carver for ten years with Georgia Marble Co. in Tate, Georgia.

I draw and paint and also do sculpture in stone, wood, and clay. I live in Nampa.

Click here to visit my website or email me at highmont@q.com

Lee Higman

Lee Higman is a lifetime artist and received an MFA from Claremont Graduate School and a BA from Scripps College. She paints with oils on paper and likes the medium because it readily combines all the attributes of oil from transparency to opacity and has a spontaneity and freshness about the paint process.

Lee lives on a ranch in Custer County, Idaho.

She is inspired by the natural beauty that surrounds her, the peace found in isolation and grandeur and the comfort and joy of living with animals. Her paintings reflect an "interbeingť" theme, finding peace, joy, and connection with all life.

Sue K Hill

Born and raised in Idaho, I try to see the creativity in everything around me and let that inspire me. I love oil paint and sometimes if I feel the need to mix it up a bit I may work with oil chalk and acrylic, but oils are my favorite. I hope to be doing this for the rest of my life, to create something that can be enjoyed by others is the most rewarding thing for me.

Stuart Holland

Stuart Holland is currently a printmaking major at Boise State University. He works in a variety of media including pen and watercolor, chalk pastel, and relief printing focusing mainly on pieces of wildlife. With several screen prints coming soon, he is also available for freelance work.

Contact Stuart at wormwoodstudio91@gmail.com, and at Wormwood Studio on Facebook.

Luma Jasim

Luma Jasim is a ‘Sumerian’ woman from the ancient city of Baghdad, Iraq - the cradle of civilization - called the Mesopotamian Treasure Valley. I was born, raised and I have lived most of my life there until I left for Istanbul, Turkey in 2006. Then I moved to a beautiful valley called Boise, in August of 2008.

My artwork reflects many things I have experienced through my life.

Visit my website at www.lumajasim.com.

Patrick Kilby

Pat paints Idaho and northwest landscapes with bold color and a quirky, off-kilter perspective. He works primarily in oil on canvas.

Learn and see more at www.patkilby.com.

John Killmaster

One focus of my art has been the human condition: cultures, ethnicity, individuals. I find faces and figures present multiple levels of expression and insight into which we paint configurations extending beyond the subjects themselves. Landscape, abstraction and working in multiple mediums, two and three dimensional are an additional focus.

My enamels have been exhibited nationally and internationally: the Smithsonian,the Denver Art Museum, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and New York galleries and in Russia, Italy, Germany, Israel, Spain, Australia and Japan.

Anne Peterson Klahr

I am a painter. I have a BFA, MFA and a secondary art education degree. I taught art in the Boise Schools for thirteen years.

My recent series Cloaks and Robes studies draped human forms. This attire elevates the wearer. A judge, angel, healer, royal, mystic and graduate are all robed subjects to be explored. Cloaks and robes also appear in costumes for fictional and mythical figures.

Remember donning a cape as a child and immediately becoming more powerful?

Heidi Lesur

Whether in painting, drawing, photography, make-up, or the occasional mural, the expressions Heidi Lesur creates impart to the veiwer a deep perception of beauty inherent to every passing day.

Her work harnesses visualized thoughts to revitalize our lives and surrender life's mysteries to our gaze.

PennyLea Mackie

PennyLea is a painter who works with visual healing traditions and likes her art to touch consciousness.

To see more of her work click here.

Email PennyLea at pennymackie@yahoo.com

Kathy Harrison Mahn

I am a painter who envisions subjects as they exist in light, shadow and space. The human figure is the major element in most of my work. I gain insight and energy by drawing models from life. My goal is to translate the unique beauty of everyday life through gesture and composition.

Visit my website here to see more or send me an email at kathy@kathyharrisonmahn.com

Mark W. McGinnis

Mark W. McGinnis resides in Boise. His primary media are acrylic, black ink, and watercolor. His interdisciplinary approach to art in the past has included paintings, artist's books, sculpture, printmaking, installation, video, performance, essays, and interviews. His projects have been featured in over 120 solo exhibitions nationwide.

Mark's print books and eBooks are available from iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, and fastpencil.com. Click here for Mark's website, click here for his blog, and contact him at markwmcginnis@gmail.com

Nancy Panganiban

I am interested in how the juxtaposition of colors alter the way they are perceived. I like to focus on often over-looked and seemingly insignificant subject matter, and how structure and concepts are interconnected and universal.

Dee Feliz Miller

I was born and raised in Fresno, California and spent my years as a young adult in the coastal community of Ventura. I moved to New Mexico to complete a nursing degree and there I worked with Native American patients. I subsequently lived in Santa Monica, Tempe, and San Jose before moving to Boise in 1990.

I have been influenced by the diverse surroundings and the art communities I was part of in each place. I have studied with Scott Christensen, Ovanes Berberian, Robert Moore, Gina Leyton and Mike Lundstrom and am currently painting in my studio.

Bonnie Peacher

Bonnie is a painter. Having exhibited in over 100 shows nationally and earning many awards, Bonnie works mostly in acrylics and pastels.

Her subjects include portraits, figures, travel scenes, and nature. Bonnie also does commissions.

Contact her at 208-867-1219 or by email at artbypeacher@gmail.com

Click here to visit Bonnie's website

Christine Raymond

Christine Raymond holds an MFA from the University of Idaho and has been a recipient of an Idaho Commission on the Arts Fellowship. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Boise Art Museum, the Hewlett-Packard Company, the Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, as well as in numerous private collections.

Click here to view Christine's work in Enso Artspace.

Michael Rusnack

Michael finds painting a creative outlet when compared to his training as an engineer. He began in the visual arts as a stage set designer. This led him to study painting in England and sculpting in Italy.

He developed watercolor skills under Dwight Williams and recently has taken a renewed interest in oil painting under the direction of Fred Choate. He resides in Star, Idaho.

Cassandra Schiffler

Cassandra Schiffler is a painter and printmaker living in Boise. Her work is focused on the way in which shapes and lines can visually and intuitively interact to create meaning.

She strives to find a delicate balance between harmony and tension in all her work. View more at cassandraschiffler.com

Brian Schreiner

To me the world is like a kaleidoscope, constantly changing and evolving, providing endless sources of inspiration in the process of creating art.

My artistic expression and technique vary as my art speaks and relates to each viewer – stimulating a unique visual experience.

I interpret what I see, tell a story, and have some fun in creating paintings, murals, etc. of permanent materials to last a lifetime. “Creating art is like alchemy: (a process of combining various elements into gold).”

I’ve had many shows in the West and I’m represented in many private collections and public spaces of art appreciators.

Carol Elliott Smith

Making art has been part of my life from my earliest memories—probably my parents were pleased with my crayon drawings and I thought I was on to something! I received a degree in art from ISU and have taken many classes and workshops.

At this point in my life, it is very satisfying to paint work that communicates with others. I appreciate the communication because it is personal and it makes art unique and yet universal.

See more of Carol's work on her website at www.celliottsmith.com

Sherri K. Young Stehle

I have only been an artist for a short time but am enjoying myself immensely. Color has always been a passion and so it spills over into everything I do.

I love mixed media and abstraction. My projects gravitate towards acrylic on any surface utilizing found objects. So much to learn, so little time!

Visit Sherri's website by clicking here.

Patt Turner

Nature informs my work. She lends images with which to explore color, shape, and space relationships.

It is not my intent to portray a specific place but to use the natural world as a catalyst to express something deeper than its visual aspect; perhaps a mood, feeling, memory or impression.

I collect her images and then use them to create my own world and invite the viewer in.

Rena Vandewater

Rena Vandewater holds an MFA from Central Washington University and a BFA from Boise State University. She has been the featured artist with Opera Idaho and her work is in the permanent collection of Saint Alphonses Regional Medical Center, the Ronald McDonald House and the WCA as well as numerous private collections nationwide.

She has exhibited with J Crist Gallery and Basement Gallery in Boise, Idaho; Wildmeyer Gallery and Meyers Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona; and Grimshaw Gallery in Taos, New Mexico.

Click here to visit Rena's website.

Steve Washburn

I am an artist in Idaho and a caretaker at Cleo's Ferry Museum. My starting point as a painter was seeing a prism radiate the spectrum. I received formal fine art training at Maine College of Art.

Click here to visit Steve's website.

Tarmo Watia

Tarmo Watia is a prolific artist whose work can be described as colormorphic compositions that can grab the eye and pull the viewer into a whole other realm.

Click here to visit Tarmo's website or email him at tarmo@watiagallery.com