Entries by MichellePoolet

Rick Howell, Artist of the Taj

After receiving a degree from Colorado State University in Biology, Howell pursued a successful career managing stock brokerage firms in Denver. Primarily a self-taught landscape painter, he left the business world in 1993 to become a full-time artist. Rick’s Home and Studio He lived in a 150-year-old adobe home and studio that he renovated in […]

Molly D. Davis, Artist of the Taj

Molly D. Davis Born 1954, Newport News, Virginia Education East Carolina University, N.C., B.F.A. Affiliations Rocky Mountain Plein Aire Painters, Assoc. Member, Rocky Mountain Water media Association Member, Colorado Watercolor Society Member, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. Awards and Honors in Selected Shows 2004 Selected Top 200 Artists, National Park Academy […]

GENE COSTANZA, Artist of the Taj

 Over twenty-five years of Gene Costanza’s life was spent in Law Enforcement in such specialties as SWAT, K9 Handler, K9 Supervisor, Patrol Supervisor and Detective.  About mid career, the desire to return to artistic endeavors surfaced after having been abandoned in his early twenties.  Though dormant, there was a constant underlying desire to again delve […]

David Montgomery, InPleinSight 2016

  David Montgomery, Alamosa Colorado     A native Coloradan and avid artist since childhood, David Montgomery spent his formative years beneath the looming presence of Pike’s Peak, the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and later the remote environs of the San Luis Valley of southern Colorado. He strives to commemorate the amazing vistas that Colorado […]

Clare Scott, InPleinSight 2016

  Clare Scott, Lafayette Colorado   Clare Scott is an emerging artist with a primary focus on plein air painting.Using pastels as her preferred medium, Clare enjoys painting the intersection of the farming community and urban life that she finds unique to Boulder County.   She studied art at Northern Illinois University and the Art […]

Janeice Linden, InPleinSight 2016

Janeice Linden, Littleton Colorado   Painting landscape and wildlife has been Janeice Linden’s passion for more than 20 years. She has participated in the Southeastern Wildlife Art Show, Natureworks Art Show and Out West Art Show, and her work has been featured at OPA Salon Show of Traditional Oils, OPA Western Regional Show, Society of […]