Featured Artists

Matthew Moffett is a self-taught artist who paints for the love of painting.  He created M2 Studio when one of his dogs died suddenly of a brain aneurysm.  He decided he would use the talent encouraged by his artistic mother and paint his dogs.  The first portraits were very interpretive, but his friends were supportive and loved the idea.  From then on, Matt has painted all of his friends' dogs.  The commissions have never stopped.  Additionally, Matt has started a nonprofit art school for urban elementary girls called Tulsa Girls Art School (GAS) located near Ziegler's. 

John Baeder is one of the best known Photorealists.  His popular paintings of roadside diners so capture the pulse of America that his images hae entered the secondary market as reproductions on posters, calendars and postcards.  The Disney Company, Coca Cola, and fashion mogusl Perry Ellis, Liz Claiborne and Guess - at times even disregarding copyrights - have appropriated them.  "I am concerned with the process:  the revelation of a particular and poignant part of the urban landscape, and thus the preservation of a unique and rapidly disappearing icon of American roadside culture.  A significant aspect of the process is the quest, which basically is the transformation of documented archaeological findings - travel, investigation and gathering of material.  Painting is the mere act of transcendence; an end product that enters space and time; the final leg of the quest."

John Brooks Walton, now 78, has, over the last decade, built a second career chronicling Tulsa's residential history.  This fall he will release his eighth hardcover, The Architecture of John Duncan Forsyth.  In the interim, he has taken a plunge into the acrylic paint world with the encouragement of his long-time ceramics teacher, Ruthie Armstrong.  First he did a pear, then he added a bottle to the composition and then painted them both out and created a piece of art of colorful jugs.  "Today, I am creating my own style with acrylic paints which I am sure has been influenced by my many years of architectural training in composition and color."  His 2007 Festival of Trees painting uses Frank Lloyd Wright's tile with monogram and a Christmas ornament. 

Janet Duvall started her career as a hobby and "stress-reliever" in 1981 when she began oil painting in Burkburnett, Texas.  In 1996, a fellow artist introduced her to soft pastels and she says she has been hooked ever since.  The production of fine detail with the stumps of pastel, the creation of exact color combinations, and the achievement of depth to mimic reality continually motivates each piece.  She has been fortunate to be involved in numerous juried art festivals and shows.  Encore, the olives, always solicits a smile and become her signature piece.  SFdA Bell Tower received an award at the 2004 Red River Fine Art and Wine Festival in Red River, New Mexico.  She has also exhibited with galleries in Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico.  Her art hands in private collections in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, New Mexico, Florida and California.

Daniel Gulick, Jr. was born in Natrona Heights, Penna. in 1982.  He graduated from Oklahoma State University in the fall of 2005 with a bachelors degree in Studio Art and decided to pursue his career in the art world.  When asked to describe himself, he just laughs and asks, "Why are you asking me that?  You know I'm the kind to take over the world!  I just want people to play, create, laugh, have fun, be a kid, enjoy art, and most of all, be who you are.  There is a time and a place for work, but you shouldn't let that become your life.  If it does, just think back when you were young and how good it felt to laugh and run around with absolutely no worries about everything."  With the help of a great poet named Becky Pratt, the name for his art, CoughSyrupGreen, was born and a dream began. 

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