Author Archives: linda

John Maskey

Native Texan John Maskey received his first training at the Hunter School of Art, and later with many nationally prominent artists. His bold use of light and color weave a vibrant tapestry of the life and culture of the region. “The unique character of the land and people of the Southwest is rooted in powerful [...]

Edith Maskey

A native San Antonian, Edith Maskey has loved art for as long as she can remember. “Painting is the finest form of expression I know, and is my personal statement about the things around me.” Edith studied 5 years with Warren Hunter of San Antonio, and with many other nationally know painters through the years. [...]

Vicki Marshall

Vicki started drawing at about four years of age. As an adult she continued her art training under two of the world’s leading authorities on Old Masters techniques, which she now teaches at the Corpus Christi Art Community Center. Vicki paints still life and landscape but the main interest in her work is figurative: figures [...]

Gary Thompson

Five miles west of Dripping Springs on Lonesomesage Longhorn Ranch is the inspirational setting where Gary Thompson forges copper and brass into the shapes of native desert plants of the Southwest. Exhibiting his work as Designs by Thompson, Gary captures the unique raw beauty of cactus and yucca in both traditional sculptural forms and as [...]

Linda Nowell

After years of studying pastels and oil painting on her own, Linda Nowell enrolled in a pottery class in 1999. Excited by the possibilities of expression that a sculptural medium afforded her, she traveled to more classes in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma. She eventually settled in the Texas Hill Country, where she found a [...]

Wade Butler

Wade Butler has been painting Texas wildlife and landscapes for over 25 years. Like many of the other Texas Masters show artists, Wade loves Nature and has a background in the Natural Sciences. After receiving a degree in fisheries biology and chemistry, he served as a fisheries biologist for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department [...]