Monthly Archives: February, 2010
Denise and Diana Steinhagen
After years of pursuing jewelry making as a hobby and studying the work of other jewelers, getting laid off from their jobs almost simultaneously launched the professional jewelry careers of these sisters. One can tell from their finished product that the San Marcos artists are still having fun and a growing customer base will attest [...]
William Smith
William Smith was born and raised in South Texas, where he learned about ranching and cattle. A selftaught artist, William’s love of his Western Heritage is the inspiration of most of his paintings. He tries to create “memories” for those who view his art work. His paintings have been displayed in the Corpus Christi Art [...]
Bill Scheidt
Bill creates many of his paintings from his personal experiences. Influenced by his father at an early age, Bill spent much of his life hunting. He still believes responsible hunting is part of “nature’s balance,” an equilibrium determined by the Creator who placed us and all the creatures and plants on this planet. Bill believes [...]
Steven Napper
The vivid color of Steve Napper’s pastel paintings is so intense that it awakens the sense memories of the smells and sounds of the scenes he represents. This West Texas native began his career as a commercial artist in Los Angeles after receiving his BA and MA of Fine Arts at West Texas State University. [...]
Benito Loera
After 25 years in residential construction, Benito Loera decided on a change in lifestyle. In 1998, he pursued his life-long dream of designing furniture as a career. With the help of his son, Daniel, he started to build small furniture such as cedar chests and coffee tables. As his business grew, he began to concentrate [...]
Curtis Laudermilk
Curtis Alston Laudermilk has been turning wood for over a quarter century. He creates lamps, vases, bowls, platters, and crosses from native Texas mesquite. A retired educator with experience in both the public schools and the Texas Youth Commission, Curtis is attracted to mesquite because of its unique characteristics. Hard, dense and extremely stable when [...]
Gail Kincaid
Almost from her birth in the Texas Panhandle, Gail has pursued her dream to be an artist. She developed her talent in art classes throughout her formative years. In college, she discovered jewelry design and after more than 30 years of jewelry making, her sculpted pieces in gold and silver, set with gemstones are recognized [...]
Monroe Jackson
Monroe Jackson, who styles his jewelry creations as “One of a Kind by Drago,” began dabbling with silversmithing and gemcutting in 1967. Since then he has exhibited his fabricated, mixed metal, award winning work in galleries, tradeshows and juried exhibitions around the country. Monroe calculates that he has sold a piece of jewelry to a [...]
Jurgen Hasbron
A self-taught sculptor, Jurgen was born in Trier, Germany, but has spent most of his adult life in the southwestern United States. He began his art career carving wildfowl in wood, but soon moved on to stone and bronze. His fascination with nature and Native American culture is expressed in his sculptures which convey his [...]
Manual S. Franco
Born in Coyame, in the northwest state of Chihuahua, Mexico, Manuel’s academic training was as a mining engineer. After several years, Manuel left mining to pursue his love of art. His early artistic inspiration came from his mother, who worked with ground glass, creating images similar to sand paintings. His choice of subject matter ranges [...]
Melanie Fain
Melanie’s work allows you to get up close and personal with the smaller creatures that share their world with us. Like the other Texas Masters artists she’s had an intense, life-long interest in the natural world. Melanie spent her youth exploring the various natural habitats near where she lived, becoming familiar with the inhabitants and [...]
John English
John has always had an interest in art but decided to try making a living as a professional baseball player in the Houston Astros’ and Colt 45s’ organization. After three baseball seasons a shoulder injury ended his career. While earning his livelihood with an electrical utility company, he developed a passion for photography which led [...]
Randy Bryant
Randy Bryant has merged his childhood interest in rocks, fossils, Indian artifacts and love of the outdoors with his adult training as a draftsman to shape his professional career. This native Texan excels in creating his “One of a Kind Works of Art” of hand fabricated settings for his personally cut gemstones, including intarsia and [...]
Dan & Linda Baker
Daniel and Linda Baker exhibited at their first art show in 1974 and have been a fulltime jewelry-making team since August of 1976. They produce jewelry of sterling silver, various gold karats and platinum using lost wax casting and a variety of fabrication techniques, including: granulation, reticulation, and mokume gane. They’ve won many awards in [...]