Husa is a mixed media artist born and raised in NYC. She grew up influenced by the subway/street arts of Keith Haring and the Neo-expressionism of Jean Michele Basquiat. Husa attended High School of the Performing Arts, with a BFA from NYU, Tisch School of the Arts and a focus on Visual Arts from The Crafts Students League of NY. After years of performing, Husa relocated to Maui in 2004. Her Visual Arts focus is in encaustic, jewelry and printmaking.

Tina’s art is inspired by ancient Hawaiian legends, natural places of mana (energy) and the possibilities of fantastical worlds existing in hidden corners of the forest and ocean. Her works of art draw the viewer to look deeper for hidden objects and meanings. 

“I wish for the paintings to weave a sense of place, the history and legends, as well as the possibilities of what may exist that we have forgotten to see.”

My goal is to paint a window into Polynesian culture, folklore and history. I humbly and with intense gratitude try to use my art to bring the culture alive for future generations. That is my responsibility and also my privilege. My goal is to give back to this beautiful community far more than I could ever receive.

George is regarded as a premier artist on Maui. Originally from Australia, he traveled extensively in Russia, Europe, North and South America. While residing in Austria for eight years, he spent summers studying art in European museums. Arriving on Maui in 1973, George soon became a major influence on the art scene and with two friends in 1979, he started Art Maui, the prestigious juried show now annually at the MACC. His palette knife work is legendary, and his students at his Hui classes benefitted for many years. George is adept at capturing the cultural life of Maui as well as the natural surroundings that continually inspire him.

100 of George’s paintings of island life grace the lobby of the Castle Theater at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center. Four of his paintings are in the collection of the Hawai’i State Foundation on Culture & the Arts and many in corporate collections. He has also had many one-man shows in Hawai’i and California.

Mary Beth blends ancient techniques with modern concepts, and she specializes in creating unique pieces with dimensionality and texture. Living in Maui, she is surrounded and inspired by the patterns, designs and textures that nature creates, and often works with stone and glass together to reflect her surroundings. Her passion is to take a solid and static medium, and then create with it a piece that shows movement, flow, energy and softness.

As a longtime hula student she is respectful of the values and culture of Hawai’i, which is intricately connected to the land and environment. In her work she strives to not only convey the beauty around her, but also share the stories of the culture. She feels that glass brings another dimension to art in and about Hawai’i, and her hope is to use it as a bridge between cultures.

Jeanne Bitz is an internationally collected and award-winning artist living and working in Maui. With a foundation in engineering and years studying under modern-day masters, Jeanne combines care and craftsmanship with classical training to create visually engaging works of art. The invitation to experience cultures coming together and being in balance with nature is told in ancient pictograms within my paintings, with stories of abundance, voyages, knowledge shared through generations, and challenges met on the land and the ocean.”I hope the solid, pure joy in the journey comes through as delightfully as I feel it.” 

Joëlle C. Perz was born in Paris and earned her fine art education at University of Aix-en-Provence. Her path includes the study of mural painting in Mexico and printmaking in San Francisco, finally making Maui her home. Over the years she has become an influential figure of the Maui art scene.

The essence of Joëlle’s artistic journey is pure and focused. She travels the artist’s path through finest craftsmanship in each artistic exploration. Joelle challenges herself, continually pushing boundaries of her knowledge and imagination.

She has developed a new approach to painting through a technique, inspired by woodblock prints, of carving into wood panels as a support for her art. Her choice of subject matter expresses her joy in living close to nature – her daily immersion in the colors and light of Maui, as well as her interest in traveling around the world and relating her personal spiritual journey.

« A sense of celebration, a recognition of the profound order of the natural world, and a fundamental feeling of peace are somewhere present in each of the artist’s works. »  Maui News

Born and raised in Honolulu, moved to Maui in 1973… now lives in Waikapu.

With over forty years experience, Todd is considered a master in his field of turned wood fine art. His work is inspired by many cultures, including those of his heritage – Chinese, Hawaiian, and Scottish. Todd has developed advanced woodturning methods, creating massive, simple shapes that reveal the beautiful and intricate designs of nature. Working primarily in Norfolk Island pine, Todd infuses his pieces with a strong sense of traditional Hawaiian craft. Each piece requires approximately 9 months of preparation and crafting. His completed art pieces with a hand-rubbed lacquer finish are maintenance-free, massive, functional and glowing with the warmth of the artist.

Dennis Chamberlain received a B.A. degree in Sculpture in the late 70’s and a M.F.A. degree in Art, (metalsmithing), in the mid 90’s, both from San Diego State University. He taught at several colleges in Colorado including Metropolitan State College of Denver where I was head of the foundations program and, for a couple of years, the sculpture program. In 2003 he headed for Maui, Hawaii and he focused then on making art. Dennis work revolves around the interplay between light, color, and form.  He utilizes dynamic patterns and intense color combinations with the intent to draw the viewer in for closer inspection.  Up close the macro view gives way to intricate designs and complex interactions between layers of colors, their saturations, and intensities. His artwork has been exhibited internationally and throughout the United States.

A Maui resident since 1987, Michael sees the world as a parade of light, color, and value. His deep study of landscape, explored through the mediums of pastel and oil painting, has proved him a master. He began drawing and painting as a child and has since studied with many accomplished painters. You can often find Michael painting en plein air, outdoors at surprising and also well-loved locations.

“I am honoring the tradition of painting from life outdoors, recording a fleeting moment in time, as many of the world’s artists have done before my time. I am part of a long line of artists that have become smitten with the beauty of life around us and the incredible light and color of our world.”

“Michael Clements captures Maui’s light and atmosphere with remarkable delicacy and intensity. His works are clear, direct and oh so brilliant. He works in pastel, and while few painters attempt this challenging time-tested medium, he is an acknowledged master.”

Jean Stern – Director, Irvine Museum Collection at the University of California, Irvine , Institute and Museum of California Art

Having been born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, to immigrants from the islands of Cape Verde, Susanna Leite Cromwell grew up with a fascination with the island life her family told stories about. In 2007, Susanna married a “Surfer Boy” living on the North Shore of Oahu and therefore moved to start an island life of her own. Today, Susanna works as an artist alongside her husband Reed, who handcrafts the frames for her artwork while raising their four young children on Maui. 

Susanna’s work is inspired by the island’s flora, fauna, and marine life. Her medium of choice is printmaking using a non-conventional combination of Indian and Japanese printing techniques. Her most recent works have turned toward mixed media with an innovative presentation she calls “Paper Quilts”: Original block printed botanical and marine patterns that have been hand torn then reconstructed using expressive embroidery.

Tracy graduated from the Ringling School of Art & Design in Florida. After a Maui windsurfing vacation, she made the island her home and began her exploration of the natural world of Hawai’i through her paintings. Living on the north shore of Maui, she explores the rugged landscapes and waters with her mountain bike, paddle board and…paintbrush! She spends much time on the ocean, which gives her work an intimate interpretation of patterns formed by wind, clouds, water currents, and the ever-inspiring waves. Colors and patterns, often unexpected, combined with skillful rendering, invite a path to viewing the natural world with a unique focus. Although fluent in the arts of watercolor and printmaking, Tracy works primarily in oil and acrylic on canvas or panel to create her unique vision.

For the last twelve years while living on Maui, Kate has enjoyed sharing her time between making pottery, working as an American Sign Language/English Interpreter, and exploring the wonders of the island. Introduced to clay in high school, she continues to be amazed at the creative possibilities it has to offer. She continued her art interests by attainting a degree in Art Education, and throughout the years she has attended numerous workshops in Wisconsin, Maine, Hawaii and Italy.

Carmen’s watercolor and oil paintings are a luminous tribute to the people, special moments, and natural beauty that make Maui “no ka oi.” Having lived on the island since the early 1980s, Carmen’s path has included work in radio and the performing arts. Her journey led back to her first love of painting. Carmen finds great joy in exploring new ways to paint the culture and loves sharing what she has learned by teaching art classes.

“For me, the deeper meaning in what I paint lies in my passion to share the Maui we treasure:  The greens are greener here, the ocean bluer, the skies full of drama and light . . .  Maui is teaching me to see.  I hope to continue learning to view Maui not only through the eyes of an artist, but through the eyes of her beautiful people, and that I may one day come close to adequately saying with color and shapes that for which I have no words.

Originally from California, Bob studied art at San Diego State University. He found inspiration in working with wood, seeking to understand characteristics inherent in this organic material as he worked in building furniture, homes, and creating sculptures.

Bob moved to Hana in 1967, immersing into the world of traditional Hawaiian outrigger canoes. His fine woodworking moved deeper into cultural motifs using exotic woods to create his one-of-a-kind paddles. Koa, Mango, and Kamani are hewn, shaped, and varnished into objects of beauty. Using techniques such as matchbook, sunburst, and intarsia, Getzen honors tradition with the hand and eye of a devotee.

Bob Getzen is a paddler of outrigger canoes in the tradition of the ancient Hawaiians, and in turn, has moved his artwork toward the creation of paddles that are representative of paddles that were in use until about thirty years ago.

Jett Green works in oils. Her background is in traditional realism but always expanding, developing, loosening up with the energy for impressionism. Her love for painting started at 19 years of age.  After studying at the Art Center College of Design for couple of years at U.S.C., she landed a job in the Movie industry in 1983 at Lucasfilms, Industrial, Light and Magic. Working on movies such as “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”, “The Never Ending Story” and “Star Trek 3”. My career as a matte painter extended out for the next 30 years.

“My love for planet earth inspires me.  My work comes from this inspiration and love for the process of painting.  The beauty of how the sunlight creates stunning wordless visions,  beyond me… I paint and create these visions to inspire the viewer to enjoy beauty and to feel connection and embrace with the earth.”

Leonard Guidroz has spent over five decades honing his craft as a woodworker here in Hawai’i. It all began back in the 1960’s when he moved to these beautiful islands to chase his passion for surfing. Little did he know it would also lead him down the path of woodworking. Over the years, the artist has become deeply connected to the local woods, as well as wood from around the world, finding inspiration in their natural beauty and unique characteristics. Each piece of wood tells its own story, and he strives to bring out its inherent qualities in his work.

Karl grew up in Southeastern Pennsylvania to a PhD research Physicist father and an accomplished Watercolor artist mother. He holds a BFA in design and crafts/glass from Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia. His work has been included in the Corning Museum of Glass, a showcase of significant works in glass.

The artwork of Karl reveals the mind of an explorer creating in the medium of glass. He has designed ways to join components into an organic-shaped web or network. These constructions include blown, fused, and slumped glass and are flexible – able to move like heavy drapery panels that reflect light and cast shadows. The glass elements reference forms from many spheres, and like webbed redwood roots, the network is flexible and stronger than the individual. Karl has always enjoyed the place where science and art meet.

His recent works exhibit a notable change in reflected or transmitted light and cast large shadows onto adjacent surfaces, creating a dramatic impression as if they were part of an Indonesian shadow puppet theater of the microscopic world.

The female figure is Honeycutt’s lifelong vehicle for works of presence and intimacy. The glow and changeable oxidizing nature of her copper pieces lead nuances of color, light and movement into an adventurous experimentation. 

Traditional graphite, oils and etched lines directly onto copper and other materials are brought forward from her illustration and printmaking background, as well as her works on paper, wood and translucent cloth and acrylic sheets. She has a degree in illustration and printmaking and worked 15 years as an illustrator for book covers in the publishing world.

“Your work is an essential element that should have its own square on the periodic table,” a collector wrote. “The square should be between oxygen and carbon – what we all need to live and what we are all made of.”

As a contemporary landscape painter working in oils and encaustics, Houck aspires to capture not only the scene, but also the moment and mood, relying on her study of the classical principles of directly observing color, light and form in nature.

She has studied with contemporary realist painters at the Atelier of Classical Realism in San Francisco with David Hardy, the Academy of Fine Art in Seattle with Anthony Ryder and most recently, in France, at the L’Ecole Albert Defois with Ted Seth Jacobs. Houck studied en plein air with John Cosby, Kevin MacPherson, Don Demers and Kim English.

Houck’s landscapes reflect the influence of these artists as she hones her classical technique of painting in numerous transparent layers in order to recreate the subtle play of light on the scene. Her desire to capture the essence of the landscape is evolving into compositions dissolving into only the barest, most minimal components – the sky, horizon and land.

Dewitt is an extraordinary photographer. Twenty years with National Geographic, two Academy Award nominations, ten books, countless awards and a Tedx talk with over a million views, he has a stellar reputation.
But it is unique vision that has made him an integral part of Viewpoints Gallery since 2006. His work is both intimate and cosmic, lyrical and awe inspiring. He is always pushing the edges of photographic art.

“My images attempt to illuminate not just the beauty of these islands, but also their spirit. The images are rendered with a number of photographic techniques, some more literal, some more painterly, all striving to capture not the specific image in front of the lens, but the essence beneath it. Not this hula, but all hula. Not this wave, but all waves. Not this moment, but TIME SUSPENDED.”

Elizabeth Keller is drawn to the old buildings of Maui because they usually contain history that fascinates her. Old architecture can have a kind of purity or dignity that speaks to the artist even though the buildings might have seemed strictly utilitarian when they were built. In the case of the sugar mills in Pai’a and Pu’unene, they are slowly decaying, rusting, and subsiding into the earth. When that happens, their disuse and abandonment have a kind of poignancy. And that they are still standing says something about Maui’s patience and reluctance to remove the past in a hurry; that is also very appealing to the artist.

Sarah’s award winning work has been juried into many juried shows over 30 years, recognized by the Hawai’i State Foundation for Culture and the Arts, and purchased by the permanent collection of Calvin University and Honolulu Museum of Art. Because of her interest in patina, she prefers working on wood panels with acrylic paint, collage, and other elements that can be distressed. She has an enduring desire to showcase the unique natural and cultural aspects of Hawai’i. 

In Brandon Kralik’s latest series of oil paintings he focuses on Lahaina and takes on the role of a visual historian, preserving the beautiful Lahaina light and celebrating the town that we all knew and loved.  

Having exhibited on Front street and called Lahaina home for many years, he is able to give us a warm reflection of Lahaina through this personal portrayal of the town. He was there on the day of the fire – and so, these paintings are part of his own healing process. They are for everyone.  By painting his unique pictorial history, he is preserving the rich cultural heritage and evolution of this historic town for all of us. It allows future generations to appreciate and connect with the town’s unique legacy, ensuring that Lahaina’s story endures for years to come.

Brandon Kralik has lived by the sea for the most part of the last 30 years, has studied the effects of the sea and recorded his impressions in sketchbooks and on the canvas.  From his first exhibition as a student in New York, working and living on boats in Alaska, studying with Odd Nerdrum on the coast of Norway to his own studio in Stockholm and back to Maui, the sea is a constant companion that seeps into the motifs he creates.

Jaeok began her studies in art in Seoul, Korea, as a young child, originally focusing on drawing and watercolor painting. She moved from Korea to the U.S. as a 20-year-old, and began her studies at U.Mass.-Boston. She then fell in love with ceramic arts while taking a course at Framingham State University in her mid 20’s. Later she continued at the Mass. College of Art, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Starting in 1995, she pursued ceramic arts at the Harvard Ceramic Studio, where she focused on hand-built ceramic forms.

Born and raised on the east coast of the U.S., Diana first experienced Maui on a Henry J. Scheidt traveling scholarship upon graduating from Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia. Much of Diana’s work is focused on elemental forms of matter as she searches for that “perfect moment of order that can occur in the midst of chaos”. Her deep commitment has made Diana a master in the fusion of watercolor and pastel, creating paintings with visceral impact.

Her bold, luminous and atmospheric landscapes as well as her exploration of virtual media place her in the fore front of the Contemporary art scene.

“Exploring light and space in movement, within natural phenomena and the patterns that result, is a predominant theme in my work.  At times my subject is epic; other times I find my trove in subtler happenings.  Although I am sometimes drawn to the dramatic, I have learned that great drama is taking place all the time in nature, even in the subtlest of happenings.”

Mary Ann has a rich background of art education which has led her artistic journey since she moved to Maui, into numerous recognition awards in the State of Hawai’i.

Seeing magic in the world, Mary Ann strives to translate the concept into ceramic artwork. Having studied ceramics in college, she delved deep into exploration of this medium when she moved to Maui where she found inspiring teachers and started a ceramic studio. Mary Ann uses shape, texture, and pattern in response to nature – earth, wind, water, and fire.  Using a variety of clays, surface techniques, and glazes, Mary Ann entrusts her creations to the final step of the process, the firing of the kiln, and loves the surprise of unique characteristics that occur. The more complex the idea or process, the more she delights in the art object when planning; luck, determination, and serendipity come together.

Anna Lindberg is a professional Swedish artist living on the beautiful island of Maui, Hawai’i. She has studied Fine Art extensively at several Art Schools: Helliden Art School, Vardinge Art School, Atelier Maui, Florence Academy of Art and she earned a Bachelors Degree at the University of Stockholm. She exhibits her art regularly, both in Sweden and on Maui, and she has participated in a number of juried exhibitions.

Anna is a curious creator, she loves to learn and try out new skills, and she experiments with a number of different techniques and materials in her artmaking. She usually paints in watercolor or oil, and really enjoys making collages, linocut prints and textile sculptures too. 

The Divine feminine is Anna’s main source of inspiration. She is a book lover and a research nerd, and Goddess myths, attributes, symbols and patterns from different cultures all over the world fascinate and move her. She studied Religious History in depth on a postgraduate level at the University of Stockholm, only to realize that it was Her-story the artist really wanted to learn and make art about. Since Anna moved to Maui, it’s the Hawaiian Goddesses who have beckoned her, whispering of myths and adventures yet to be depicted.

Terry’s unique use of optical color mixing, action lines, and decisive paint strokes are influences of importance that California artists introduced to her while earning an MFA at University of California Fullerton. Terry’s work is a distinct visual language addressing environmental and social concerns of local culture and the environment of her Maui home.

Terry’s current body of work focuses a finely tuned, artistic eye upon Hawaiian culture. Influenced by local heritage and tradition, she reveals an inspired view of vintage buildings and landscape. As an interpretive painter, she explores her subjects through mediums of oil paint, archival inks, acrylic, resins, and encaustic on panel or canvas. Terry explores pattern and color choices, sometimes through a subtle graphic style, and the perspective of a contemporary artist.

As a self-taught artist, Casey aims to capture everyday moments on his island home of Maui. He works in a loose impressionistic style in oil on canvas and panel. Casey’s extraordinary skill with nuanced value and color was hard won through serious practice with color charts and rigorous study of mixing color. He is fascinated with how memory distills the visual, and he seeks for his paintings to do the same. What ever his subject, Casey’s work communicates his guiding principles of simplicity, truth, and beauty.

“Our memory has a way of simplifying things. It strips away thousands of details that at the time seemed major, and it leaves only the big outlines – the essence. I think a successful painting does the same, and I hope the viewer can see into the ‘soul’ of every one of my paintings and share with me the essence each painting is attempting to evoke.”

Daniel Moe was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1967. He received his Fine Arts degree in Hot Glass from The University of Wisconsin in 1991, where he continued to study and teach glass until 1999.  He was then invited to work at Pilchuck Glass School by Ed and Elena Schmid and Karen Willenbrink.  There he was introduced to the greater world of master glass blowers and sculptors from Pino Signoretto, to Dale Chihuly, Lino Tagliopietra, and William Morris. In 2000 he moved to Hawai’i and began his professional career making his glass art. 

Shauna made Maui her home in 1992. She finds great inspiration living and creating jewelry on this beautiful island, and feels the influence of ocean, sunsets and the drama of Haleakala in her creations. She is happiest creating new designs, merging the curvilinear lines of Scottish celtic jewelry with the modern, and working directly in the metal. It is the final stage, the relationship between the wearer and the jewelry that is most important to her. For only when the pieces are worn do they become alive and transformed into moving sculpture.

Art is part of Mydock’s earliest memories. He watched, and was greatly influenced by his godfather – a woodworker and boat-builder. In the 1960’s Mydock studied art in Miami with master sculptor Duane Hanson. Forty years painting custom motorcycles and antique cars have had a direct influence on his current artworks. With highly developed skills in airbrush, pinstripe, gold leaf, and sculpture, Mydock embellishes wooden vessels with focused attention to detail. His current passion is pyrography, which is woodburning with sophisticated tools. He incorporates intricate layers of original designs influenced by nature, Polynesian tattoo art, and visionary art. Mydock interlaces and weaves these images into a distinctly unique and dynamic style.

Hawaii has inspired the ideas while his professional training on the mainland has given him the tools, techniques and aesthetic options to create his works.

Certainly one of the most influential years in his career was spent studying at Yale with Josef Albers, the famous Bauhaus artist and colorist. While there he began to recognize the color relationships and phenomena that create the illusions of veils, transparencies, surface textures, light, and most especially the luminosity evident in his work. From this he developed a visual grammar that is the basis for his paintings. Visual qualities of the land, sea, and sky have given rise to abstraction in his work.

Joseph Albers work appeared on a US postage stamp with the quote “Learning Never Ends” Dick Nelson has made that statement his life’s work – sharing new discoveries in color with countless students for over 50 years.

Born and raised on Maui, Wayne is a self-taught artist who began bowl turning in the early 1980’s. He uses Maui island woods, such as Norfolk Island or Cook Pine, Koa, Milo and Kamani. 

His work is in private national and international collections, and has been juried into prestigious exhibitions, such as Art Maui and Hawai’i Craftsman Show. 

Suzy was born in Memphis and moved to California when she was two. She was steeped in the art world early – growing up with an artist mother who was accomplished in watercolor and sculpture. Her father founded the Laguna Beach School of Art and Design in Southern California. She began her studies at a young age, exploring diverse inquiry such as world literature, decorative painting, watercolor, and anthropology. With this strong foundation, her work has evolved into some of the most coveted figurative painting in the Hawaiian Islands. Suzy concentrates her efforts on recording the renaissance of the Hawaiian and Polynesian cultures through figure and portrait paintings.

Her collectors are many, from local Hawaiians to all lovers of Polynesian culture. Nainoa Thompson, Navigator of the Hokule’a owns one of her works. She has had many one woman shows and has been a part of many juried shows like the prestigious Art Maui and the Hui No’eau Annual. Suzy was commissioned to create several mural projects including one at the San Francisco International Airport and has won many awards for her art work over the years.

Pam is a mixed-media fiber artist and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Design at the University in Hawai’i. Born and raised in Hawai’i, Pam is part Hawaiian. Her deep love of Hawai’i is at the root of her artistic creations – the love of the island heritage – the people, the ethnic diversity, the music, the food.

The cape of Hawaiian royalty is a focus of her art study and a motif connected to a story from her ancestors.  Her grandfather was part Hawaiian of Alii descent.  He had inherited one of King Kamehameha’s smaller feather capes, and was very proud of his lineage, and inheritance.  He put it into a Trust company in Honolulu for  “safe keeping”, and it disappeared from the family… for one hundred years. However, the good news is that the cape has re-appeared through a donation to the Honolulu Museum of Art.  We know that our ancestors would be happy about this, as her grandmother was a flower arranging artist there for twenty-five years.

Pam is grateful for the inspiration that this history has given to her, and she will continue to work on a similar theme.

Christina Seefeldt and Thomas Fistler are the two artists and jewelry designers behind the name Pratima Design: the name means beautiful image, and that is certainly reflected in their designs. With a love for simplicity and a reverence for detail, their jewelry is not an overloaded accumulation of precious metals and gemstones, but rather a carefully handcrafted, proportionally balanced and inspired creation that uses materials consciously. This is the reason why their jewelry has an appearance of serene modernity and classic elegance.

Coming from the European tradition of jewelry making, they still hand-construct many of their pieces in the old traditional way, while integrating modern technology. This way of manufacturing, along with a love for precision and a perfect finishing by hand, make their jewelry unique and exceptional.

Their collection combines the artists’ love for simplicity and detail with the synergy of precious metals and jewels.  Each creation is an inspired fusion of elegance and alchemy, quietly rich in design, their work of finely constructed jewelry is a seed for timelessness.

Jamie uses atmosphere and light to define his work. Living on Maui is a landscape artist’s dream. He is inspired by his surroundings, and sometimes from the most unlikely sources. From the ocean and upcountry scenes, to the ever changing cloudscapes, plantation homes, and the sunsets, are all subjects he loves to paint. “I hope to capture a moment in time that resonates with the viewer.”

Karuna’s love for kiln-formed glass reflects her fascination with the different properties of the medium: fragility and strength, vibrant color and translucency, along with its unforgiving, somewhat unpredictable nature.

In addition, she studied color interaction with Dick Nelson which led her to say: “Once I took a class with Dick, I never looked at colors the same way again! Magic started to happen when I started to get an inkling of how colors interact to create luminosity. His lessons are a continuous inspiration in my work with glass.”

With her unique glass work, she has been exhibiting and selected in numerous prestigious shows, and in 2012 received a Recognition Award by Hawai’i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

For Maui artists Carol and Michael Schwarz, life is a magical adventure. This becomes obvious whether one gazes upon the harmonious, environmentally inspired pieces created by Carol, or the meticulously crafted masterpieces by Michael. It was kismet that brought the two together over thirty five years ago, Michael having just arrived on Maui from Austria in search of the place where his natural abilities as a self-taught jeweler could evolve to their full potential. Carol’s background was in arts and design, with a natural affinity for handiwork.

In Michael she found a best friend and a mentor.

As with a fine wine, the passing of time has brought Schwarz Jewelry to a well developed stage of maturity. These days, many of their pieces are worked on in tandem, blending the strengths of both artists for an end product that is magically derived, and meticulously crafted.

Motivated by a lifelong passion for ke kai (the water), an abiding respect of Hawaiian culture, and a family tradition of working with wood, artist Kirk Scott crafts each one-of-a-kind wood paddle as a love song to Hawaii. 

Kirk’s work is inspired by the juxtaposition of the tranquil beauty and majestic danger that has always called him to the sea.  Having spent a lifetime on the Pacific Ocean, Kirk is challenged, calmed, and renewed by the ocean’s water.  As a paddler of a six-man outrigger canoe, Kirk has crossed all the channels connecting the major Hawaiian Islands and is in the process of circumnavigating all the islands in the chain. 

His work pays homage to the Hawaiian and Polynesian cultures in the design, shape, styles, and traditional patterns reflected in each hand-crafted piece.  His choice of materials, the rare and beautiful koa wood found only in Hawaii, was made as a tribute to the islands and the culture.

Christina grew up in New York with a deep appreciation for her alternate universes, the borough of Queens and the rural tip of Long Island. In the early 70’s, she worked with several TV networks, becoming one of the first ever female network TV camera operators, and winning an Emmy nomination for her work. Despite her Hollywood successes, Skaggs left her career midstream and in 1990 moved to the quiet serenity of a rainforest on the Big Island of Hawai’i. There, she says, “I was able to strip away the inessential and so discover the process in which to paint that which I had only encountered in my own mind.” Christina’s paintings are created with mixed materials and techniques incorporating a unique method of using glazes to build up a surface.

Much of her inspiration comes from carvings, weavings, and the cultural gravity imbedded in all ancient cultures.“The ancient symbols referenced in my work are embedded in our DNA and this is why we see them as evocative and beautiful. They are a silent prayer to the interconnectedness of all living things. I have carried these fragments in distant memories since childhood, and now they ascend to the surface manifesting in colors and textures.”

Damian is a realist oil painter from Philadelphia, PA and currently residing in Maui, HI. Former professional skateboarder.

Studied the academic tradition of painting with emphasis on figure, portrait, and still life at Studio Incamminati, a contemporary realist art school founded by artist Nelson Shanks.

“My recent paintings are on-site, representational landscapes. The familiarity I experience with my surroundings while painting has become my greatest reward as an artist. I dedicate my time studying brief lighting conditions and surrender to the time restrictions they present. My works begin with an initial intention that evolves with the middle stages and the purpose behind the painting is revealed through the time invested.”

Kathleen’s primary medium is acrylic paint, perfect for spontaneity and exuberance. More recently, she has added slow-drying fluid mediums which allow her to create more depth and nuance through glazing and finer-detailed brushwork.

“I think of myself as a painter of reverence, as I am attracted to what I find moving, honorable and worth deeply meditating upon. Rendered almost exclusively in acrylic, my paintings are representational, sometimes playful, and tend to be quietly mysterious with subjects emerging from shadow. I’m interested in the interplay of realism with looser suggestion and sometimes include flat, decorative or abstract marks. To me, it is thrilling to see the hand of the artist, so I leave hints of drawing or revision. I am constantly amazed by the journey whether by research or process, and I find it compelling that the painting itself bears witness to that experience. I’m currently inclined to paint my hope for our future, one that gives access to, listens and internalizes the wisdom of native Hawaiian knowledge—one that creates a knowing of the land and beings as not separate but interconnected, deserving of care and reverence.”

An avid, lifelong learner, Kathleen Storm sees life as a continual path of discovery and her art often fuses immersive or direct study with imagination. Originally from Atlanta, Kathleen began painting professionally when she moved to Wisconsin in the 1990s. Her work is held in private collections across the United States and in Europe.

Kathy achieved a Bachelor of Fine Arts with the Highest Honors at University of Hawai’i at Manoa in 1989. Since then she has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Hawai’i Handweaver’s Hui Award, Hawai’i Craftsmen 50th Anniversary Exhibition 2017, the Award of Excellence, Hawai’i Craftsmen in 2009 & 2005 and the Holly Award (Best in Show), Honolulu City Lights Wreath Contest 2010 & 2009.

Although her art falls into three distinct categories, it all shares one characteristic – it identifies her, first and foremost, as a colorist.
The three categories are wool tapestries,  fiber sculptures and color pencil paintings.

“My art is born of a desire to experience life on a deeper level.  It is a craving to express my inner self, my internal rhythms, my spirit.”

Christy’s family moved to Hawai’i before it became a state. “Hualani was the name of our street and no one in our neighborhood could tell us what the word hualani meant. There was no one who could speak or understand Hawaiian… Hawai’i is a place of great physical beauty, but what Hawai’i really means to me is its multi-faceted culture. It’s wonderful to live in a place with a culture that is alive and growing especially after that culture has been so close to dying out.”

Christy’s ceramic vessels have a sense of being treasures from the past. Her work is often inspired by dream images. The creative processes – the tactile and technical aspects of creating with clay – inspire her more than the finished pieces. Her technique includes imprinting the clay surface with all manner of found objects. Although the surface is often covered with writing and illustration, these create an interesting surface with no intention for the surface to be ‘readable’.

“I like the idea that, three thousand years from now, someone finding a shard of my work might slip it into their pocket simply because, like finding an old, foreign coin or medal, they find it intriguing.”

Combining sculpture and cabinetry, Ricardo moves fluidly among design, sculpture, furniture, and fine art. Ricardo chooses materials that relate to Polynesian canoe making – Hawaiian koa, curly mango, ‘Ulupalakua pine, bamboo, and coconut lashing. The sources of his inspiration are years of living on sailing vessels and the intrepid tenacity of the original explorers of the Pacific.

“With this work, I pay homage to all voyagers, present-day and those from ancient times – Hawaiian, Polynesian, those from many places.” 

Peter is an internationally recognized artist with studios in New York City, Maui and Italy. His work spans from the traditional hand to the digital domain and from the purely aesthetic to scientific research. He has also lectured, published and developed computer generated antemortem facial reconstruction methods and algorithms.
Peter Voci has worked on special assignments for NASA and has created two Masters programs at the university level which he led for over two decades.

A highly accomplished sculptor, Peter works with Hawaiian hardwoods and marble. His unusual fluid sculptural expressions seem to nearly defy physics, in his stream of conscious sculpting by hand. The titles of his artworks reflect a strong influence of the natural surroundings of the Hawaiian Islands.

“It is by great fortune that any of us become practicing artists. The creative experience appears to fill the sails of our lives and we celebrate by realizing that there is a greater quality in our existence. In my work, I direct my efforts to the study of forms through minimal and monolithic constructions that evoke a sense of visual sensuality.”

Invention, harmonious colors, a strong composition, combined with the contrast of light and dark values, is a recipe for a successful painting. As an artist, Christine has been training herself for as long as she can remember to carefully observe the subtle charm of her surroundings bathed in an ever-changing story of light. Her engaging images convey her thoughts, feelings, and imagination.

Inspired by her rainforest home in Maui, where she lives with her husband, she likes spending time taking care of her garden, hiking, and being near the ocean. Reflections of nature can be the subject of many of her paintings. Other subjects include people, wildlife, landscapes, and objects of interest.

Christine’s work has evolved to include multidisciplinary approaches. Watercolor, oils, pastels, oil pastels, and encaustic all have their own allure. She often has several pieces in process at any given time and sometimes mixes mediums. “Painting allows my head to empty and free itself for new ideas.”

Living as a child in Honolulu, Tony suffered from a faulty immune system.
At age nine Tony was lying in an oxygen tent when he had a life altering vision. “I realized I had the power to ask for healing”.

Being impaired physically and often out of school, he was lucky that his mother, Honolulu sculptor Mildred Toni, exposed him to an extraordinary education and stoked his interest in art.

“My works are the distillation of a years’ worth of experience, a year that put me square in the face of my own mortality to find healing grace within, that is also the font of creativity. To see through the portals of your eyes to understand a truth that is not other than what you make of it in the moment, not of looking but of seeing.“

Commissions and awards being numerous, Walhom’s luminous, subtly textured canvases ennoble private collections and public spaces worldwide.

Linda began a lifelong relationship with watercolor painting at the age of eight. Her late mother was Margaret Bedell, a well-known painter on Maui.

Linda Whittemore grew up in Laguna Beach, California where she extensively pursued art studies until she moved to Hawai’i and earned a BA in Liberal Arts at University of Hawai’i.

Linda has worked in many printmaking techniques, including traditional intaglio. The viscosity monotype is her current fascination and her original monotypes are printed in oil-based paint and sometimes include mixed media with pastel and acrylic. Linda’s background as a painter is apparent in her monotypes of abstract landscapes. Each piece is different; an original artwork.  “It is all a process, one medium leads to the next. We create from what we know or don’t know. My paintings are who I am.”

Michael started creating objects of clay from the Chesapeake Bay early in life. His studies in the U.S. Southwest also inform his current ceramic pieces. Made with meditative care and a contemporary sense of design, Michael’s pieces speak of elemental forces of earth and fire.

“My creativity is sparked by contact with the natural world. Plants, flowers, clouds – time spent in nature seems to touch something in us, reaffirming our connection to everything. That experience resonates inside and collaborates with our life experience, moving us to express the feeling in a visible form. I love being a part of the process.”

Martha explores light and the color spectrum, polarity and energy dynamics, physics and metaphysics, and the imagination.

“I believe the imagination is a new frontier in human evolution, and we have yet to recognize its infinite potential.  I want a piece of artwork to give the viewer freedom to explore their own imagination.  How we frame things in with our mind and our thoughts, creates our view of reality, the imagination can help us update and evolve our perception of life.”

Her work is in many private national and international collections, and has been in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Hawai’i and across the U.S.