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James O. Mcintyre

James was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on January 7,1943. Like many children he was always doodling and drawing. He just never stopped. When he was ten years old he painted his first oil painting, a number painting Christmas gift which he immediatly made use of, to paint a completely different picture. Although he is colorblind, an unusual handicap for art, his family was impressed enough to give James a birthday gift of paint tubes, medium and boards. There began a life with art. After many attempts to combine painting time with various means of employment James decided to try painting full time. With the usual period of "starving artist" he began to become recognized as a rising artist in his community. The first ten years were spent selling
a painting to buy more paint and some groceries. From his own words "To jump from good amateur to professional requires full attention. The main reason for the struggles of the early years is that the art lacks that "professional" touch, the only answer is study, study. I have found art eventually invades one's whole life, with painting being my way of expressing my philosophys."
James is a founding member and past president of the Pigeon Lake Artists Society, a non-profit organization promoting the arts in his home community. He has had many one-man and group shows in Canada and the United States. His paintings can be found in collections throughout the world including numerous corporations, oil companies and government offices. An important commission was by the Alberta Government and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. In 1988 a painting of a bull elk appeared on
Alberta hunting licenses and the following year on a collectors edition stamp and print set welcoming the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation to Canada.
About the unusual signature:
" My signature originated as a protest when travelling to an art show. A psychologist being interviewed on a radio show remarked that people were left-handed because of brain damage at birth. The more I thought about that statement the more angry I became and decided that the right-handed author of that statement could get a mirror to read my signature. As time passed and I cooled down collectors said I could not change now. The signature had become a trademark. When I think of it now I laugh, I suppose I proved the psychologist right

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Afternoon Reflections

Across the Fields

Julie Hickcox

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A well-known and respected artist of the northeast, Julie L. Hickcox has been capturing her surroundings as a painter for her entire career. Hickcox explores the sanctuary of our common scenery. Working in acrylic, her impressionistic realism creates dramatic landscapes that beckon you to enter her world of filtered sunlight and dancing shadows. The vibrant and colorful body of her work captures a restful glow. It is here, in these familiar scenes that the artist ply�s her vision, putting forth unexpected and visually dynamic twists using color, light and space. The view is lifted, like a spirit, into reality, for all to walk into with startling truth.

Represented by galleries throughout the United States and Europe, Julie enjoys her career, always finding exciting ways to express her creative outlook. With honor, elected into membership with The Connecticut Watercolor Society, Allied Artists of American and the Hudson Valley Art Association, among many. As recipient of numerous awards, her following and sponsorship is of great pride. Honor graduate of Pratt Institute, Hickcox is presently producing large acrylic landscapes to be shown on exhibit worldwide.

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What You See is what you Get

Denise Rich

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Denise Rich, a San Diego native, is an artist who paints cows. Her interest in art was fueled by family. As a child her great-grandmother Warnock colored with her for countless hours. The smell of oil paints and turpentine still remind her of her Grandma J's studio and oil paintings, and watercolor lessons from her Father were the most valuable use of the dinner table as far as she was concerned.

At the age of 9 she was a founding member of a group at school that raised money for homeless animals. Combine her foundation of artistic expression with her ability to appreciate animals as individuals and it's no mystery that Denise is quickly becoming recognized as "one of the [dairy] industry's biggest up and coming artists..." (Holstein Foundations's Art Auction catalog.)

Each painting starts with a real live cow, first framed within the viewfinder of her digital camera and then translated in oil, in a style she calls "painterly realism" on either canvas or panel. Her specialty is capturing the character, personality, and posture of each cow in a way that everyone can truly appreciate, especially those who know them the best.

Denise has studied with several internationally known art instructors in San Diego and most recently gained a sizeable following for her cow paintings. She receives commissions to paint them as well. Her art is included in a "Cowlendar" for 2006, introduced at the World Dairy Expo, as well as licensed for commercial print use.

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