January 2016 Featured Artists
Best in Show Winners
Traditional Art
Graham Coulthard
“Pedro the Jockey”
Oil on Canvas, 24″ x 30″, $950
Graham Coulthard is a mid career, fine artist. He has worked in the advertising and marketing field as a graphic designer and commercial illustrator for 30 years. During that time he has worked at a variety of different design firms throughout the lower mainland. As an illustrator he has freelanced for companies like Vancouver Sun and the Province newspapers and has spent time working as a courtroom artist for CBC. For the last 25 years he has been illustrator and art director for WorkSafeBC.
He is married, has two young daughters and lives in North Vancouver, BC Canada.
Please email Graham directly if you are interested in purchasing his winning piece or visit his website if you are interested in seeing more of his work.
Photography & Digital Art
Jessica Manelis
“Downtown”
Digital Painting, 10″ x 14″, $200
Like most photographers, Jessica is always looking for that unique perspective or “special something” in an image. Her work embraces various styles from clean crisp well-defined images with an interesting and vital point of view to compelling composition and fresh simplicity. Her aim is to entice the viewer to look at the details to become aware of the color and form of the subject. Even when using textures to enhance a photo, the viewer is drawn in and the subject maintains its focus and importance.
Jessica has been creating art since grade school. At age 11, she began taking art classes every Saturday afternoon. Throughout high school, she continued drawing and painting in a variety of mediums and ultimately settled at Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia, pursuing a career in the professional arts.
Self-taught, she fell in to photography as a means of generating reference photos for future art projects. However, she found the photo process was more fun. Embracing the medium, her work has been exhibited in several group shows in New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Florida.
Currently she lives with her husband, two kids, two dogs and eleven koi in southern New Jersey, where she continues to photograph the world around her.
If you want to purchase this award winning piece or to see more of Jessica’s artwork, please visit her website or email Jessica directly.