Exceptional Art and Contemporary Craft

Simple figurative, and animal subjects, leashed and unleashed, are the subjects of her work.  She believes that push and pull are recognizable experiences.  Her painting style is a fine balance between storytelling and the rough elegance of form, line and color.

Patricia Canelake lives and works in Knife River, Minnesota, a small fishing village on the north shore of Lake Superior. She works on her painting and printmaking in her two small renovated studios. These small rural studios inform her practice immensely and her work often spills out into a large yard where she can stretch canvases outdoors or bring canvases to dry in the northeast winds.

Paula Gustafson is a landscape painter from Grand Marais Minnesota. It is the love of painting combined with the love of nature and the built world that drives her work. Rarely painting inside  she opts to paint on location plein air. Only very cold Minnesota weather will keep her in the studio." Painting outside may also provide a lively story or two to go with the painting". In fact many of those stories are catastrophic events that range from weather challenges to animal and bug encounters to sometimes," having to follow my easel and painting into a lake, taking a bath as it were for arts sake".

Paula's art invokes all the power and energy of the scene she has painted while leaving the viewer with a sense of serenity. 

An artistic career that began  in the early sixties continues today with an ever renewing creative spirit.

Stone as a central element in the works of Ron Piercy:   With the first silver and gemstone ring back in the 60's to the large scale marble and granite sculptures completed between 1990 and 2012,  stone has been the focus.

Returning to his roots as a silversmith  Ron Piercy is once again focusing on the stone. Each day he creates one of a kind jewelry in this gallery studio where you can watch the process from start to finish.

Cheryl was raised in a small house in a rural area in northern Michigan.  Her mom would shove Cheryl and her siblings out the door on most days, to spend the countless hours in the fresh air and sunshine.  This is where her love of the natural world began, these young years spent investigating the surrounding fields and woods.

It is no wonder than that Cheryl became a Plein Air Painter.

"Painting outdoors is such a rush", "Capturing the light before it shifts and fades, all the while focused on this small canvas semmingly carved out of the greater natural world"

Cheryls art conveys the feeling of presence, as though you were standing at that curve in the road or listening to the splash of the never ending waves upon the shore, the silence of a lone tree in a medow.

Oil on Board   detail