PAINT PARKVILLE 2015
"Art is not a thing; it is a way." Elbert Hubbard
Participating Artists
Here are the artists participating in our Paint Out, Juried Art Contest and Art Auction. Here you will find more information about them and their art styles. We will be adding more information and artists every day.
Please check out their websites and other works.
Joan Parker, is a Plein Air landscape painter and a native of California. Her artistic abilities were discovered early, and she received multiple scholarships and awards at a young age. Parker's keen eye for design first took her to Paris to study hair and fashion, and afforded her the opportunity to own a highly successful, upscale salon and fashion consulting business in California. When the world of fine art beckoned her, she added work as a freelance artist to her already busy schedule as a business owner. With her interest piqued in a career as a painter, Joan received her Bachelor of Fine Arts with honors from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
During Parker's work as a freelance artist, she had the opportunity to use her skills in the motion picture industry. This included creating conceptual designs and freehand illustrations for computerized puppets and "angels wings," in the movie "Michael," with John Travolta, and producing five classic 18th Century style paintings in varying degrees of completeness, for the movie "Sara." Parker moved to the Kansas City area in 1996, when Hallmark Cards recruited her to create original greeting card artwork. Six years later, she left Hallmark to pursue painting, specifically Plein Air full time.
Parker has been instrumental in establishing Plein Air painting events in both Missouri and Kansas. “Because the prairie is very stark, paintings of it tend to convey an abstracted feel of color and light,” said Parker with reference to her work. “They’re a middle ground between landscape and contemporary abstraction.” Parker is represented in galleries from St. Louis to California. She has participated in twenty-six group exhibitions, national juried shows, and several one woman shows. Joan holds seasonal Plein Air painting workshops throughout the Midwest. She has a passion for the immediacy of painting outdoors and enjoys sharing her love of Plein Air with others; bringing this post-Impressionist movement, known for its beautiful outdoors (or Plein Air) scenery, to the public.
Brent Seevers was born and raised in Saint Joseph, Missouri, a historic city on the riverbanks of the Missouri River. Like many from the Midwestern United States, he is of Old German (Siebers) and Irish descent. He is an Impressionist of the Missouri River Valley and a founder of a fine art society.
Seevers is primarily a self-taught artist with very little formal art training. Though, he studied art during his first two years in college, he ended up graduating with a business degree instead. Drawing has always been a niche in his life, a natural in draftsmanship. Throughout his youth he worked in graphite and charcoal, a basic drawing medium emphasized through the public schools. It wasn't until later in his life he became interested in working with color. Since 2004, Seevers has studied and taught himself, entirely on his own, how to interpret the world in pastels. Quickly mastering this method of drawing, it gave him opportunities to exhibit his work and has become his primary choice of dry medium.
Seevers portrays life of the Midwest. With the figurative and the landscape as his pride and inspiration, the valley area of Northwest Missouri is his most notable subject. His work are interpretations of both rural and urban scenes of Saint Joseph and nearby Kansas City.
Out of the few Saint Joseph Impressionists, Seevers is the only one who is among the Impressionists of Kansas City---these are some of KC's finest artists. He is a leading member and a co-founder of the Missouri Valley Impressionist Society---Seevers and the MVIS.
Seevers exhibits his work frequently throughout the Kansas City metro, one of the regions largest art scenes.
Tatyana was born in Russia and immigrated to America in 2000. She started her professional training at the age of 11 years old, later completing her art education at the art college in the city of Yoshkar-Ola, Russia and earned a degree in Fine Arts and Interior Design.
For the past few years Tatyana Robberts has been doing mostly Plein Air painting in oil, but has been working in other media when the mood strikes. Her works can be found in Europe and America.
Two dimensional art is fairly new to me. Whereas three was easy and natural. I had to learn to draw and paint from scratch. My biggest problem was learning to control my emotions. I paint what I feel about what I see, not what you may see. I think this is called expressionism. This is the direction in which I wish to go.
I perhaps learned a little too much control and became tight. My most successful paintings are when I get the balance right.
I have been trained by two teachers in the tradition of seeing color. My most recent work reflects this training with gusto. My paintings have been displayed in the Rockport Center for the Arts and in the gallery of Main Street Art in Rockport, Texas. I spend my winters there and have more time to paint then. I have also been in shows put on by Stems at Tomahawk Ridge and at UMKC by the MVIS. Both of these are juried shows locally.
Jane Flanders is an oil painter and ceramicist. She enjoys "plein air" painting, being on site to capture the scene. Jane paints the Urban Landscape; architecture provides an interesting challenge. Topeka has been Jane's muse for the past 2 years as it is just the right size city for a plein air painter.
Jane grew up in Topeka and received a B.F.A. from the University of Kansas. She has been a fulltime artist since 2004. Currently she has a studio/home in Lawrence, Kansas.