Meet Our Artists
Ruby Annette
With a background education in Environmental Engineering, Ruby Annette Gonzalez naturally adopts sustainable best practices into her daily life and painting practice. As a minimalist, she lives in a 38-foot Motorhome with her husband and two huskies in Fredericksburg, Texas. She is a member of two non-profit organizations, Fredericksburg Art Guild and Die Künstler von Fredericksburg. Her art studio is located in downtown historic Fredericksburg and it happens to be bigger and taller than her home, giving her the opportunity to focus on her most important priority, painting large scale portraits of people that inspire her and have positively impacted her life.
Ruby Annette practices the three R’s – reduce, reuse, and recycle in her tool selection, which consists of recycled dowel wood sticks, repurposed wine corks, and toothpicks. These minimalist tools help her create consistent dots in her pointillism paintings. She dips the rounded top surface of these tools into acrylic paint and applies one dot to the canva at a time until it is covered by thousands of dots.
Pointillism evokes a constant natural movement of disruption which fascinates her. It is necessary to constantly step away and view her work from afar to verify the accuracy of the optical color mixture applied to the appropriate areas of the canvas. By doing so, it unifies the individually applied dots and the portrait comes to life when seen from a distance.
It took Ruby Annette two decades of experimentation, practice, research, and a pandemic to find her true voice and technique. You can follow her work on instagram @ rubyannette.artist and visit her website to purchase original artwork https://ruby-annette-artist.square.site/.
Sheila Bingham
Sheila Bingham, a Fredericksburg native, was raised on her family’s ranch with a view of Enchanted Rock, cultivating in her an appreciation of nature’s beauty. She received a blend of both public and private art training. Graduating in 1973 from Fredericksburg High School, she attended the University of Texas in Austin. Initially majoring in art and later switching to math education, Sheila earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1977. In her art, Sheila focuses on colored pencils and acrylics. Her other hobbies include dancing and gardening.
Patrick Boppel
Molly Burnette
Residing in Fredericksburg, Texas, Molly has a BFA in Studio Art from CU, Boulder. She has been an artist since she was a child growing up in Georgetown, TX. Her mother nurtured and supported her artist self and has been a great influence all her life.
She is an Abstract Expressionist using meditation and her spiritual practice to inspire her paintings. Also influencing her are her daily walks with her two Corgis.
Always colorful and often full of movement, her paintings are definitely unique.
Visit her website:
www.mollyburnette.com
Check her out on Instagram:
@mollyaburnette
Facebook: MollyBurnetteArt
Judy Earls
Truby Hardin
Nancy Hardison
Erica Haupert
Erica Haupert was raised in Houston, Texas, spending her childhood cultivating a love for architecture, pencil drawing and oil pastels. Other than being mentored by her art teacher and childhood best friend’s mother, Ms. Patsy Pearson of Houston, she is primarily self-taught. She graduated from Arizona State University with a BA that included two years of architecture training in the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture and Design. She went on to pursue a career in the Arts (fashion/film/television as a model, actor, in production and rights management) while painting remained a deep passion. She spent twenty-two years in Los Angeles, California where her company Wing Light Art Designs was born in 2019. During Covid lockdown, she and her husband moved their four young children to the Texas hill country to be closer to her family who live in Georgetown, Austin, and Lufkin respectively. Undoubtedly, her passion for creating acrylic paintings on large canvases is where she explores intricate technical elements, most notably gold accents, and sacred geometric images. She uses her architecture training, meditation, and spiritual practices as inspiration. Erica has a profound reverence for world religion, mythology, religious symbolism, deities, and sacred geometry. She also loves to do watercolors and abstracts, focusing mostly on whimsical concepts.
Erica has several online stores that feature her artwork on various products including candle labels, clothing, home goods and décor. She has worked with several business owners on commissioned art and partners with brides on wedding gift options. She is most happy while painting alongside her four kids, dog, Spike Lord Business and cat, Jeffrey Lord Vader in the studio that sits by her husband’s home office.
Visit her website: www.winglightartdesigns.com
Check out her Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/winglightartdesigns/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WingLightArtDesigns
Online products created from her art can be found at:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/WingLightArtDesigns
Nan Henke
Svetlana Hipsky
Peggy Joyce
Chris Johnson
Mary Lee
Marion Loucks
Marion Loucks paints landscapes in oils. She has a B.F.A. from the University of Tulsa, post graduate work in Arts Administration and independent study under Nancy Bush, Ann Templeton, Albert Handell and Jill Carver.
Her subject matter reflects the Texas Hill Country where she lives and the southwest where she frequently visits. Her work is in public and private collections.
"I am compelled to paint the landscape for many reasons but especially to record my joy in the natural world around me. I think beauty is a good thing and I want to capture it - if just for a moment."
Joyce Malatek
Michael McAleer
Jan Miller
Tom Miller
Suzanne Morhart
Jean Northington
Cathy Pankratz
DJ Roche
Nancy Skoog
As an artist I am exploring, experimenting and simply thrilled with expressing myself in my art. Since moving to the Hill Country in 2009 from Michigan I’ve been lucky enough to find a supportive art community where I am continuing to develop my style and hone my skills. Originally I was drawn to oil painting and have recently found that the looseness and expression found in acrylic pouring techniques have become my passion.
I strive to put on canvas the feeling of what I’ve created and have the viewer make a connection. Each of my pieces becomes a little story. I’m interested in a variety of subjects and am a member of the Fredericksburg Art Guild and Die Kunstler von Fredericksburg.
I hope you enjoy my art – it’s immensely enjoyable to create.
Nancy Skoog
231-829-2444
Ninapina3@yahoo.com