Mary Ann Sedivy - The landscape and the beauty of nature are intriguing and rich sources of inspiration for my paintings. It is a joy to live in Northeast Ohio, specifically in the snowbelt region. The surrounding landscape is rich in natural beauty, with it’s gentle, rolling hills and abundant farmland. Due to the variety of colors, textures, shapes, light and sounds through each season, the natural world always provides incentive for creativity. This awareness is stimulated by a deep connection I feel with the outdoors. Painting is a means of preserving and highlighting what we are rapidly losing in a rapidly changing world. For me, expressing the landscape isn’t confined to one means. Sometimes a plein air painting, other times a studio painting with abstract elements. Always with expressive brushwork and strong elements of color exploration. Exploring surface texture, drawing on the paint surface, interfacing collage media with paint and keeping the brushwork energetic are at play as I create. Consideration of textures, lines, shapes, color experimentation and developing figure ground relationships guide me while I investigate the bridge between the natural world and the painted surface.

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Susan Mahan - My mixed media work is inspired by my love of color and pattern. Photos and random bits of found paper enhance my work in unexpected ways; especially when combined with layers of paint. Paint is applied both over and under the paper and in loose washes as well as tight detail. The many layers of my work engage the viewer and encourage closer examination.

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