Virtual Gallery
Featured Artists
Robert Kamper
Bob Kamper has been involved with music ever since the 7th grade, when a female clarinet player took a liking to him. He has written and sung songs for about 60 years now, avoiding fame and fortune. He has written poems, a few short stories, taken a lot of photographs and discarded too few, and a memoir title "True Stories, False Memories, and Outright Fabrications," a bowdlerized account of his so-called life. He was in several "Florida Room" bands in high school (we didn't have garages in Key West), more or less taught himself to play guitar and piano, and led his first choral group on the Psychiatric wing of Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami Florida. His photography mainly focuses on nature, but he has been known to capture examples of feminine pulchritude with his lens.
Matchi, an Austin, Texas artist, combines the influences of her German upbringing in her hometown of Bogalusa, Louisiana with the colorful Mardi Gras spirit of nearby New Orleans. This paradox coalesced within her to produce a body of work which combine into a mixture of German expression with a burst of Warhol-like vividness and color.
Matchi has studied at the University of Texas at Austin, from which she received her BFA, Long Island University in Southampton and the University of Virginia.
Kathy Kelsheimer
As an artist, my journey began in childhood, fueled by a passion for creativity and expression. I specialize in various mediums, including painting and glass, and strive to evoke emotion through my work. I have shown and won many awards for my art throughout the Southwest. Nature, culture, and personal experiences greatly influence my artistic vision. I draw Inspiration from the world around me, translating it into unique pieces that resonate with viewers.
Keri Shaw
Keri is an “accidental” artist who discovered painting as a lifeline after being diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson’s. Sleepless nights led her to pick up a brush, and what started as a way to pass the time grew into a vital outlet. Painting became a way to clear her mind, embrace chaos, and reflect life’s unpredictable, messy nature.
Cecil Bogan
Diane Sandlin
Diane Sandlin is a visual artist from Georgetown, TX. Working in mixed media painting, her interest is in the nuanced language of abstraction. Imagery often is informed by daily observations – landscape, skies, interactions with people, decay and growth. Her goal is to create wholeness of an experience in a single painting, much as a single- frame snapshot or a one-sentence poem.
Abstract art provides mystery, challenge and a continual revealing. In addition to painting, Diane calls herself a stealth poet and finds that the two mediums inform the other. Her goal is to create paintings that communicate fully and authentically not only to herself, but to the viewer who pauses and observes.
Linda Rhea
Linda developed an interest in sewing clothing in high school. As a mother of three girls and grandchildren, Linda got lots of practice. My tremors made it difficult to cut fabric, but after DBS surgery she was able to be more creative. She’s working again with lots of different colors and designs to create quilts.
Del Jester
Del creates hand crafted fashion wear for work, play or special occasions.
Clare William Andrus is a native of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, and grew up observing and exploring nature surrounding him. He studied psychology at Florida International University and architectural drafting in Austin, Texas, resulting in utilizing both right brain and left brain as a way of seeing. He has enjoyed a life of artistic sensibilities, utilizing with acrylics what he notices in nature and the synthesis of life experiences in abstracted form, giving his work a compelling quality. Clare and his wife, Lynda, reside in Austin.
Renee LeVerrier
Renee has been playing with paint ever since she was diagnosed with PD twenty-two years ago.
Sondra Crowley
Sondra has been painting on porcelain for over 40 years and taught for a number of years. Her painting is “overglaze,” which is different from most pottery which is painted under the glaze. Paint is applied in thin layers and fired multiple times at 1500 degrees. Sondra has had PD for over 10 years, with one of her symptoms being a tremor in her right hand. She is extremely grateful that she has been able to control it and is able to continue painting.
