Fine Artists
Loretta Domaszewski
Oil Painting
As a contemporary artist, Loretta creates visual poetry through her paintings of landscapes. The spirit of place is her inspiration for a deeper, psychological interpretation of the personal quest. Through her use of bold colors and dramatic compositions, she encourages the viewer to experience the power, spirit, and beauty of nature.
Amanda Krolczyk
Reclaimed Wood Art
Trained as a ceramic artist, Amanda currently works with reclaimed and recycled wood that she scavenges from across Montana. Amanda creates upcycled wood landscapes of specific mountains and ranges across Montana and the West.
Carol Patterson
Graphite on Paper
Carol Patterson has a deep love of and passion for wildlife. She feels lucky to live in Montana, a part of the world where we still have good populations of many wild species. Watching wildlife and quietly observing the landscape brings her great joy, and her drawings of the creatures she glimpses during these times.
Barb Schwarz Karst
Oil, Acrylic, and Mixed Media
Barb Karst views art as a narrative, and her work is deeply inspired by the ordinary life of Montana. Her subjects include rusted cars, abandoned farm equipment, and buildings that are falling apart. Her work varies from abstract to figurative pieces. She has been an art educator for more than 30 years.
Cathy Berendts
(Cultivations by CB)
A Montana made artist, Cathy Berendts gains motivation from her natural surroundings. As a self-taught artist, she appreciates the use of mixed media and bringing beauty to unexpected avenues. Cathy finds and paints the skulls of bison, cow, deer and elk with iconic images of the west such as a howling wolf or an indian paintbrush flower.
Chip Mesec
Looking for a way to capture the majesty and grandeur of Montana’s beautiful mountain panoramas lead Chip Mesec to experiment using wood and paint to reflect these stunning peaks. He settled on a method of stacking individual acrylic on board paintings to bring mountain ranges to life. Chip lives in Southwest Montana and is a self-taught painter and woodworker who creates unique artwork and furniture by commission.
Karen Garre
Impressionist painter with her own unique style, Karen most often builds her paintings by first putting down a bright colored underpainting, then applying arbitrary color as she sees fit for the emotions she wants to portray about the scene. Karen lives and works in Livingston, MT. Her work has been shown and collected world wide.
Kari Maxwell
Mixed Media & Acrylic Painting
Relying on intuition and allowing her work to flow, Maxwell finds that when she becomes one with the process her paintings take on their own unique expression. “When a painting is complete, it reveals an answer to a question or confirms a recent emotional or spiritual understanding or growth within myself.”
Scot Herries
Scot Herries grew up in Bozeman, MT and graduated from MSU with a degree in Graphic Design. Drawn to working with his hands, he designs and builds furniture and heirloom boxes using both veneers and solid wood. In addition to working with wood he also creates art using mixed media collage and serigraphy.
Kelsey Dzintars
Rooted in personal experiences in remote landscapes, Kelsey’s art reflects the elusive wilderness in which our inner psyche finds its interconnectedness with the outer world. Utilizing vibrant palettes in her unique brand of modern expressionism, her hope for her artwork is to not only invigorate the viewer with the emotions of real memories or imagined dreams in these settings, but also to fuel conversation and action in conservation.
Tom Thornton
Oil Painting
For 36 years, Thornton was primarily a bronze sculpture artist. However, paint was always a medium he wanted to explore. His most recent series of paintings started as a process of reconnecting with past experiences, and many of the images are of memories from his days of riding, ranching, and hunting. He views painting as a sort of alchemy of transformation, coaxing his memories onto a flat surface without interfering with the energy that generates the image.
Elly McFarland
Watercolor and ink prints
Elly McFarland is inspired by the intricacies of ecosystems and the feminine qualities of nature. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Science from Western Washington University. Her studies in ecology, geology, biology, and natural history are extremely influential in her work as an artist.