Artist Members
* artist accepts commissions
Sean Bodley
State College, PA
Kim Gates Flick *
Howard, PA
Jill Foster
Pleasant Gap, PA
Email: fosterfineart@verizon.net
Phone: (814) 359-3112 |
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"Picking Beans"
Soft pastel
"Farmers' Market Series: Salad Makings"
Soft pastel
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Holly Fritchman
Bellefonte, PA
Email: holly.fritchman@gmail.com
Phone: (814) 574-0063
Holly is a self-taught artist focusing on landscape oils and watercolor botanicals. Holly has lived in central Pennsylvania her entire life and has watched how quickly the corn fields can change to house fields. Bringing awareness to the beauty and importance of our local farms is the awareness she hopes to reflect her art. Holly is a member of the Philadelphia Sketch Club, Art Alliance in State College and The Farmland Preservation Artists of Central Pennsylvania. |
Oil
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Watercolor
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Marianne Fyda
Troutville, PA
Susan Nicholas Gephart *
Bellefonte, PA
Susan Nicholas Gephart, a 1979 BFA graduate of PSU and nominated Distinguished Alumni from Montgomery County Community College, has been painting award winning landscapes “Plein Air” for thirty years. Susan’s deep appreciation of the earth is seen in her colorful, impressionistic pastels and oils, mostly painted "Plein Air." Susan has shown with The Pastel Society of America, The Art of the State of Pennsylvania, won Best of Show in The Central Festival of the Arts, and is in the permanent collections of The Penn Stater Conference Center, Penn College, Lock Haven University, and The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art. Susan organizes May and October annual artist retreats at Hameau Farm Studio in Belleville, PA., where she supports positive alternative uses of farmland.
“Focusing on the landscape, my goal is to capture the beauty of our fragile earth and convey a message of importance. Keeping my mind’s eye open for unique, electric reactions in pastels and oils continues to excite and rejuvenate my ongoing love of painting Sky, Water, and Earth.”
Website: http://snicholasart.com
Email: Snicholasart@aol.com
Phone: (814) 355-0277 |
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"Past the Old Pine"
Oil
"Blue Mountains at Meyer Dairy"
Pastel
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Anne Kenyon
State College, PA
Elizabeth (Betty) Kirchner Founder
State College, PA
Karl Eric Leitzel *
Spring Mills, PA (Brush Valley)
Karl Eric Leitzel is a lifelong resident of central Pennsylvania. He currently works primarily in oils and acrylics, concentrating on landscapes and rural life.
Karl is a member of International Plein Air Painters (IPAP) and Oil Painters of America (OPA). He is also the founder and director of Landscape Artists International, an online collective of more than 200 artists from around the globe. Call or email to discuss a possible landscape, animal, or portrait commission.
Website: http://keleitzel.com
Email: karl@keleitzel.com or karlericleitzel@gmail.com
Phone: (814) 422-8461
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"South of Aaronsburg"
10x10in, Acrylic on panel
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"Tait Farm Market, early Morning"
18x24in, Acrylic on canvas
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Pat McDannel
Dubois, PA
Jeff Mathison
Spring Mills, PA
Email: jcmaps@mac.com
Phone: (814) 422-8651 |
"The Old Yellow Truck"
Watercolor
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Sharon McCarthy (in remembrance)
Bellefonte, PA
Email: sbmc260@aol.com
Phone: (814) 383-0039 |
"Nittany Valley"
Pastel
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"November Grazing"
12x15.5in, Pastel
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Barb Pennypacker *
State College, PA
Barb Pennypacker was a faculty member in the College of Agricultural Sciences at Penn State and held the rank of professor of Agronomy and assistant Dean of the Graduate School before retiring in 2005. She soon realized that the farmland she loved was rapidly disappearing as farms became housing developments. While not yet an artist, she wanted to draw and paint the endangered barns, which she considered priceless windows into our agricultural past. To realize this dream, Barb took a total emersion, month-long, drawing class. The studio was an abandoned farm with a crumbling barn, which has since been razed. She spent that summer plein air drawing the old barns on Centre County farms. Barb currently enjoys using oil to express her love of landscapes, farmscapes and farm animals. She finds a great inner peace when painting. She is a member of the Farmland Preservation Artists, the Art Alliance and the Bellefonte Art Museum Artist Registry. She accepts commissions.
Email: p1q@psu.edu
Phone: (814) 278-7749 |
"Inquisitive Cows at Bear Meadows Farm"
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"Autumn Comes to Bear Meadows Farm"
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Jennifer Shuey
Pleasant Gap, PA
Milt Trask
State College, PA
Denise Wagner
State College, PA
webmaster karlericleitzel@gmail.com
page last updated 5/20/13
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