Carolyn Heffelfinger - My paintings are an expression of my love of nature. As a child, my desire to draw began at an early age and I would put to use any paper surface my mother could provide for me. I hope to convey to the viewer the passion, beauty, and reverence i feel when exploring our magical natural world. Majoring in fine art at Kent State University, Carolyn focused on painting the figure. She worked as a graphic artist immediately after college and later for seven years as an illustrator's assistant. Close observation, photography and her almost daily treks into the woods, fields and along the Big Walnut Creek, over which her studio sits, have been the inspirational reference for her richly colored, realistic oil paintings. Carolyn has been included in local and national juried competitions in which she has been recognized and awarded for her paintings.

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I experience. Then, I paint. My art, like my life, revolves around my chronic migraines. Everything that I do follows the ebb, flow and crest of wellness. When a migraine comes on, even with my eyes closed, I "see" things. Colors and shapes flood my mind in fluid poetry. These mystical images recede, shift, radiate and pulse, becoming more vibrant and vivid with every capture! Frequently, I paint through a migraine, trying to quickly tap into what I see. When I can’t, I’m able to recall the imagery at a later time, and commit that to canvas. My work is a constant search to best represent the three and often four dimensional images of my mind onto a two dimensional, flat surface. Each piece I create evolves from a meditative and introspective process, wherein I become one with my art: It is being aware in that moment, being mindful, acknowledging the pain and chaos, and losing myself to the visual symphony that unfolds. Some notes are peaceful while others discordant. I've trained myself to paint through the pain and discomfort: my breathing slows down, my jaw unclenches, and my body slowly begins to relax. Often, completing a painting acts as a release, and reminds me that my mind can do more than just process pain: It can transform pain into beauty.

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Join us for our annual event celebrating the work of all of our visual artists at the Best of Hayley Gallery opening reception. Participating artists include:

Elizabeth Beattie

Marcus Blackwell

Luke Boyd

Todd Buschur

Justin Collamore

Steven Fisher

Marti Higgins

Pat Howard

David Hunt

Ann Kete

Ellen Knolls

Jessica Kovan

Eric Layne

Amanda McGee

Kate Morgan

Natalya Romanovsky

Mary Ann Sedivy

Brenden Spivey

Trish Weeks

Alisa Workman

Holiday give a little, get a lot. Announcing special holiday pricing on original paintings by fine artist Laurie Clements. Ten percent of all sales proceeds will help fund the amazing Buddy Up for Life organization.

Some older, some new paintings will be offered at holiday giving prices. Available to take with you or be shipped to a lucky recipient.

This event will debut on Thursday, Nov. 30th and continue through Jan. 10, 2024. Meet Laurie from 4-7 pm at the Opening Reception.

TO SEE ALL OF LAURIE’S WORK, PLEASE CLICK HERE

Robin Roberts- To me, painting is relaxing and my way of getting time with God and His creation. I want to soak it in, to understand it as well as I can, and then capture the special beauty in life as light and shadow splashes across the scene. I enjoy painting so many different subjects- everything from architecture to wildlife to cityscapes to rural scenes. Nature never fails to reward and challenge me as an artist with its constantly changing colors, light, and atmosphere. When painting, I depend on my design skills as a graphic designer, spirited brushstrokes and tonal unity. I also enjoy working in my studio in Ashland, Ohio when I can not get outside. Robin graduated from Ashland University in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science in Visual Communication after spending one year of intensive study at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. After years of work at agencies and as the head of graphics at Rubbermaid in Wooster, Ohio, Robin opened Red Red Design, a graphic design studio in Ashland, Ohio in 2001.

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Shannon Godby- Art is a part of who I am. Painting has always been my first passion followed closely by photography. For over twenty years, I have been creating works of art in both mediums, and I strive to become a better artist with each new painting and each new photograph. Over the last few years I have begun to infuse parts of each medium to create abstract paintings based on images found in nature. I never try to recreate exactly what I see, but to express the feelings I get from a scene. My goal is to portray the atmospheric qualities of a scene without giving away every detail. When I show a piece I want the viewer to connect with the painting by adding their own feelings to it as well. I want it to remind them of something familiar. This makes it more of a personal experience for them. When I look at my work I want to be reminded of what originally inspired me about it. Whether it was late day sun creating long shadows over a field or simply the way a group of elements work together, if I look at the painting and get that same feeling, I have accomplished my goal.

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Gina Wolfrum- Gina Wolfrum is a contemporary, mixed-media artist who returned to her artistic roots after leaving the stressful corporate world and relocating to a farm in rural Ohio. She instinctively transitioned back to the fine arts training she had received in her youth when an interior designer pulled her into the world of decorative art and murals. Wolfrum studied in studios around the country to develop her use of color, texture and natural elements in exquisite homes and businesses, both locally and throughout the US for a number of years. Her decorative art has been featured in books, trade journals, television and various websites. In October of 2018, her entry Amethyst Awakening, ranked in the top 25 at ArtPrize10/Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her work using natural elements, crystals, and glass have gained popularity in exhibits and have received monetary awards. Gina lives with her husband and a very large dog in Northwest Ohio on a quiet farm surrounded by flower beds and bird feeders.

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Craig Miller - Although I grew up surrounded by family with artistic talent, I was fascinated by rocks and chose to pursue a career in science and engineering instead. I have been dabbling in stained glass as a hobby for over 30 years, but early retirement in 2010 provided the opportunity to work on my art and creative ideas on a daily basis. I am thoroughly enjoying it, especially working with clients to create custom pieces that they treasure. Given my geologic background, I enjoy utilizing agates, fluorite, mica and other natural objects such as shells, fossils, bones and found objects in my work. I’m still working through a backlog of sketches and ideas that were put on hold for decades and which often come to me as colorful dreams.

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As an interior designer, Mary Burkhardt is surrounded by beautiful colors, shapes, patterns, and textures. These elements of design—along with a passion for travel, gardening, and fashion, naturally inform her art. Mary’s new work is a collection of whimsical themes including female figures in flowing dresses that move and swing, to a collection of captured bouquets featuring flowers and foliage straight from the garden. The use of classic patterns including stripes, dots, and flowers weave and repeat, creating a fluid connection in a cohesive body of work.  

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Briden Schueren - is an award-winning international queer trans artist, activist and business owner, who shares his life’s challenges and journey through his art. His works range in size and scale from 1” canvases to 40’ murals. He loves making art that pushes boundaries and makes people think outside of the societal norms. His art has a beautiful display of color, that makes you feel good, connected, and realize there is a deeper message behind it. Briden opened up BrickBox Studios, a local artist community space in Columbus Ohio in 2013. He is a member of the You Will Rise Project, an organization using art against bullying. Briden is the founder of the Trans Pride Committee, which was born from his time on the board of Stonewall Columbus, where he created Columbus’ first annual Trans Pride March.

A PORTION OF THE PROCEEDS FROM BRIDEN'S ART SALES WILL BE DONATED TO THE OHIO SUICIDE PREVENTION FOUNDATION

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Anna Sokol - Anna explores the relationship between her identity and her relationships through art, using mixed media. Color, music, and literature all impact what emerges on her canvases. As an Aries, Anna experiences life by feeling profoundly and thinking reflectively. Various artists have influenced her: Georgia O'Keefe, India.Arie, and Julia Cameron, among others. They have offered her diverse perspectives and invited her to synergize in her artistic designs.

Since she began her professional career, she has been moved to ever more fully create, understand and practice openness through art and music. What starts with the need to capture some reality on a surface evolves as she layers colors and brushstrokes, hoping that what emerges is both interesting and meaningful. It's the "why" of her art, and she hopes it enables her to connect profoundly with all who appreciate and collect her work.

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Dalia Koppes - As reflected in her paintings, Dalia, a self taught artist, comes from a diverse and colorful background. Born in Israel to a French Moroccan father and a Spanish mother, Dalia has always been greatly influenced by nature and the environment she lives in. She believes that art is a form of therapeutic solace and her imagination plays a great role in her work. She offers the viewer a visual feast by incorporating layers of organic, energetic shapes and vibrant colors as a way to escape for a moment in these turbulent times we live in. Along with being a full time artist she is also a designer and mother to two boys.

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Ray Mckenzie - Growing up in Michigan on the Great Lakes, the natural world had a significant influence on my development. As a teenager I spent many days sitting on the shores of Lake Erie and watching the horizon, especially that space where the air touches the water. This visual became the background for daydreaming about my future. “Who did I want to be? Where would I go? What would I do? What would the world be like there?”. It was in this depth of cloud, water, land, and air that I would find myself and more importantly find dreams of who I would become. When I wasn’t at the lake, I would be riding my bike through country highways. Whipping through wooded areas and seeing the stretching farmlands. Riding as fast as I could, imagination taking me to all the places in my books, the landscape became blurs of color and patterns. My paintings are only roughly planned before I start, I know the palette of colors I’m using and an idea of an emotion I want to evoke. Sometimes that feeling changes as the painting evolves and takes me somewhere else. I use a combination of thick viscous paint worked with a palette knife with washes applied with house painting brushes. This combination allows me to work the paint in different ways in between layers.

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Ped Dragich - Born in Serbia, Ped immigrated to the U.S. with his parents in 1973 at age five. As with many immigrant families, hard work became the norm, with his father working construction. While most kids spent summers swimming, Ped's father took him to work and taught him every phase of construction. He later joined his father's company after college.Never giving up on his dream of being an artist, he began stretching his own canvases and built his own frames. He displayed his work and to supplement his income, he started his own company called, The Tile Guys, still around today after 20 years. He also played professional soccer for the Columbus Invaders. He got married, had two daughters and coached soccer. Life was happening but art remained in his heart. While building a round shower in his new house in 2006, he had the idea to create a painting surface that was not flat but instead lightweight and flexible with a hard surface covered by canvas. This resulted in his filing a U.S. patent application for the very first curved (wavy) canvas, opening an avenue for a new method of painting. Ped's long journey from immigrant to learning construction to opening a tile business, to building his family's home led him back to his real passion - Art. He creates art with the same vigor and enthusiasm he does with everything else in his life - with ingenuity, drive and hard work

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Judith Vierow - Judy passed away in January, 2022. Per her wishes, all proceeds from her art sales will be donated to her favorite charities including:

Goodwill Columbus

Ohio Designer Craft Museum to support the Judith Vierow Lunch and Learn program.

Community Kitchen - Columbus, OH

Friends of the Shelter - Franklin County, OH

Salvation Army

Her real work was her first love – creating art. She had a studio on the second floor of her very old home in downtown Columbus that was once an extra bedroom. Her background a zillion years ago was in painting at the University of Oklahoma. She went from there to The Ohio State University when she received a Master’s Degree in Fine Art. After school she was a weaver and specialized in quilt making and batiking. Once she discovered acrylic paints about a decade later, she never went back to quilting. Usually she did not have an idea of what the finished piece will look like when she first started painting. She got in a zone somewhere and let the ideas flow through her and onto the paper. That’s part of the fun of being an artist – not having a solid idea where you are going at the beginning – just letting it come naturally.

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Marti Higgins - As a painter, I adore color and shape. Growing up near New York City in the 1960's and 70's, I was moved by the strong, bold, gestural compositions and the seeming spontaneity in the work of the abstract expressionists. The bold colors, rhythms and subject matter I attempt to express in my artwork are due to these early influences. Living now near Cleveland for 35 years, I call it home. I like to experiment with the relativity of color; how colors influence each other by proximity. I expose relationships in color by working in layers. Many under layers are not immediately visible in a given piece. These initial colors and shapes, however, ground the finished product by influencing colors yet to be applied and by showing up in glimmers and slices. I like to include a surprise color which at first glance may seem incongruous but has a way of solidifying the composition. My finished pieces are impressionistic landscapes and abstractions. All of my subject matter is derived from my observation of nature, including my flower gardens. I am inspired by the sense of disorder, yet perfect organization, I feel when in nature. My mediums are acrylic on canvas, acrylic and paper collage on canvas and encaustic.

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David Lane -Graduated from the Columbus College of Art and Design and the Ohio State University. As a retired art teacher David currently focuses on his life long goal of making art. His art is about searching for aesthetics in industrial age objects against the counterpoint of the twenty-first century. Born between the Baby Boomers and Generation-X so He is very aware of how futile nostalgia is and yet not quite cynical enough to rebel against it. “I love to shop at antique stores looking for objects that are almost ‘accidentally’ beautiful. Their beauty might come from the original designer or the tradesman who used it or even its remaining unique colors and shapes. I see my visual sensibilities as neither advertiser nor pop artist nor even tradesman. With sophisticated and intentional naivety I enlarge and frame these objects to glorify their history and future, and to relate them to a contemporary audience.”

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Eric Layne - We are all born artists. I was lucky to have had the kind of encouragement and support that allowed me to stay connected with that part of myself into adulthood, even if it was a pretty loose connection at times. During my high school years I was interested mostly in drawing and I spent a lot of my time in the art classroom. I considered pursuing art as a career but ultimately went to medical school. Through those years, art largely fell by the wayside, but as I settled into a career as a psychiatrist and had two daughters who were beginning to draw and play with watercolors, I began painting along with them and eventually spent more and more of my time visiting museums and galleries, reading and watching videos, and learning the craft of painting. My foundation in drawing and composition helped greatly. I spent about eight years practicing, and through that process, I began to find my style. I paint in oils and tend to use a fairly limited palette of five to seven colors, which has challenged me to develop skill at seeing and mixing colors accurately. I am drawn to paintings that contain high contrasts and so find myself choosing subjects in which I can showcase contrasts in light, colors, and edges. I’ve learned that, even as an adult, I still need support and encouragement to keep making art, so for that, I owe everything to my wife Ashley.

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Justin Collamore - I am fascinated by the interaction of architecture with the natural environment. I use my training in Architecture and Landscape Architecture to explore this connection in my profession as well as my paintings. I spent my childhood in rural northwest Ohio which gave me a deep respect for picturesque barns and farms found throughout the state, but I am also intrigued by urban and even industrial locations and the edges and transitions between these types of environments. Most of my work is completed ‘en plein air’ which creates the additional challenges and excitement of quickly changing light, weather, and varied physical environments. I travel all over the US and Europe participating in plein air painting competitions. I am a member of the Worthington Art League, Central Ohio Plein Air and President of the Ohio Plein Air Society.

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Britt Hallowell - mixed media encaustic paintings are highly textural and usually focus on organic themes such as nature, animals and trees. She uses beeswax, damar resin (a natural tree sap that acts as a hardening agent), oil paint, India inks, collage, and antique found objects. Each layer is carefully applied and heated with a blowtorch to fuse the layers together. The results are multi-dimensional and can never be duplicated. “I love creating heavy textures because it allows me to create minimalist designs with bold contrasts that are simple and yet very intricate in their nature.” Her goal is to evoke positive emotions through use of imagery, color and tactile sensations. Britt tries to create art that is warm and inviting for the viewer. Britt is a self-taught artist. “I did not want to be taught someone else’s way to create. I’m not constricted by rules, but instead I’m able to try anything and everything and learn from my own successes and failures rather than someone else’s. Oftentimes it’s the mistakes that make something beautiful!” Britt lives in Columbus Ohio with her husband, daughter and dog. When not painting or exhibiting at art festivals, she loves to travel the world, decorate and drink a good glass of wine (or two...).

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Chad Kessler - The term “Self Taught” is a somewhat misleading one. We all learn, borrow and steal ideas from others and put the pieces together in a way that makes sense to us. I recently had a friend describe my work as “Aleatoric”. Aleatoric: adjective: ale·a·tor·ic | \ ˌā-lē-ə-ˈtȯr-ik , -ˈtär- \ Definition of aleatoric : characterized by chance or indeterminate elements. Aesthetics is always at the forefront and I’ve always been drawn to grit, decay and random beauty in the world. I love incorporating found objects but have no qualms finding an image online and manipulating it to fit what I’m after for a piece. Largely influenced by DIY skate, punk and street culture, my work bounces between having a direct message and something a little more vague, inviting the viewer to find their own story. As for the process itself, I almost exclusively work on wood panels I build myself. Starting with an abstract base of acrylic and spray paint, I’ll then build up layers through a combination of collage, image transfers, photography and found objects.

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Suzanne Robinson - I draw most of my inspiration from what I observe in and around my home which is nestled in the woods of Pataskala, Ohio. It's a privilege to be able to express on canvas the peace and harmony conveyed in nature’s beautiful backdrop. My landscapes offer the onlooker an appreciation of the majesty of vistas that change from one season to the next. Crystal blue seascapes take me back to wonderful beach vacations shared with my family. One doesn’t have to go to the country or seaside to appreciate nature’s calming beauty since Robinson’s work aptly expresses the peace and harmony that can only be conveyed in nature’s backdrop.

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Jessica Kovan - Is a mixed media artist and educator. Her art is characterized as thoughtful, storytelling and layered. Drawing inspiration from the world around her, Jessica's work is personal, expressive and focused on making the spirit of the times visual. Infinitely optimistic, she enjoys expressing in her paintings what is occurring in her heart.

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Join us for our annual event celebrating the work of all of our visual artists at the Best of Hayley Gallery opening.

Artists Include: Shawn Augustson, Marcus Blackwell, Luke Boyd, Todd Buschur, Laurie Clements, Steven Fisher, Shannon Godby, Dana Grubbe, Carolyn Heffelfinger, David Hunt, Adam Kolp, Dalia Koppes, David Lane, Chuck Marshall, Kate Morgan, Jurate Phillips, Kyndall Potts, Priya Rama, Robin Roberts, Natalya Romanovsky, Mary Ann Sedivy, Demi Shostak, Anna Sokol, Brenden Spivey, Jenn Stewart, Trish Weeks, Gina Wolfrum, Man-Wai Wu