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Lloyd B. Cunningham has logged more than 320 dives in West Lake Okoboji exploring the bottom, making
photographs and recovering antique bottles, anchors, and ice harvesting tools. In 1996 he discovered a
sailboat lost on the bottom off Sunset Beach. Cunningham has been making underwater photographs in
Okoboji for more than 10 years. He begins early in the spring diving beneath the receding ice cover. The
still, cold water – the temperature then is typically 40 degrees – provides the best possible visibility,
sometimes more than 30 feet. |
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| › Betty Haight |
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Betty was raised in the Arnolds Park area and graduated from Spirit Lake High School.
Betty has worked as a lawyer and recently retired from that profession to enjoy her art. She now lives in Laguna
Beach, California and has the Blue Fu Studio. During the year she enjoys coming to the lakes area to visit her
family and friends. Betty has a great style and compliments the freedom of Abstract art, using women as one of
her main subjects. She uses the area for many of her pieces and her work adds a unique touch to the gallery. |
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| › Gene Hamilton |
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Gene Hamilton has shown his work in the gallery for twenty years. His lake
serigraphs and acrylics have been one of our best selling art pieces. Gene's unique serigraph technique has
made him recognized throughout the United States. His use of water scenes has been great appeal for the lakes
region. Gene has had two art shows at the Side-Street Gallery During one of the shows he spent a whole morning
doing personal character sketches of the customers children. His character sketches are just another of his
artistic endeavors. |
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| › Terrance Kennedy |
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Terrence Kennedy's art reflects his ongoing fascination with Nature. His work
is solely about appreciating the transcendent beauty through quiet, studied attention - being still and
looking deeply at the intricacy of simple, classical forms (fish, water, flowers and butterflies in recent
years). Each painting is a meticulous labor of love - he playfully tickles and teases the canvas or paper
with layers of translucent glazes and shimmering drops of pure color to extract luminous forms from the
surface. Oil paints and watercolors are used in a similar fashion - washes and seeping, blended, blotted
areas of unmixed, pure colors stright from the tube.
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| › Mona Majorowicz |
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Mona Majorowicz grew up in a small rural town in Minnesota. After attaining her
degree in Veterinary Technology, she worked for several years in an animal clinic and later at a wildlife
animal park. Mona has worked professionally as an artist since 1994. She and her husband move to Iowa to
farm organicly in 1995. In 2000, Wild Faces Gallery & Frame storefront was opened and is located at
209 Garfield St. in Rolfe. Mona is a self-taught artist and has a unique up close approach to her work. Her
paintings are done in two mediums and both have a distinct look from the other. Paintings done in water-soluable
pencil are highly detailed with every hair painted in. While her oil pastels pieces are looser with a dramatic
use of color and texture for a more painterly look.
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| › Anita Plucker |
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My watercolor and colored pencil paintings usually reflect my life
in the upper Midwest - rural landscapes, florals, architecture indicative to this area
(simple porches and barns to ornate Victorian structures). My approach to my artwork is
realistic and my style ranges from loose flowing brushstrokes to tightly controlled detail.
I paint, first of all, for my own enjoyment and expression. If anyone enjoys my work, that is an
added bonus for me. I look for spatial relationships within my subject matter, I love surface
texture, varied lines, negative spaces and the effects color can exude within a piece. I am
always striving to experiment, to learn more and to promote the arts.
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| › Jack Rees |
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Born in the Midwest, Jack has been painting since early childhood. A self-taught artist, he
has created his own individual but varied style. Jack works in both oils and acrylics to create contemporary and
traditional paintings. While his traditional realism can be nostalgic, his contemporaries are mixtures of Midwestern and
Florida landscapes. He is especially adapt at capturing the nostalgia of old and historic buildings and landscapes as seen
in many of his pictures of the Okoboji area. His interpretation can be very real and persuasive and authentic in detail or
sometimes impressionistic and imaginative. Jack and his wife Jamie now permanently reside in the Sarasota area.
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| › Mari Stewart |
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I have lived and worked in Arnolds Park, Iowa for thirty odd years and have enjoyed owning my own art
gallery and frame shoppe. It has given me the opportunity to promote other artists and show my own work.
I studied art in Sioux City Central High School and Wayne State Teachers College In Nebraska. I later finished
my art classes at Mankato State. My biggest influence has been Georgia O'Keefe, whom I had the privilege of
meeting several times. Now, I love to paint and work in the studio with the opportunity to represent other
area artists.
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| › Mary Von Schrader |
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Mary lives in the lakes area during the summer and Ottumwa , Iowa during the winter.
Mary's watercolors have very vivid colors and she has captured many of the area sites. These include the
amusement park, old fishermans wharf, lake regetta's and there are many others available. Mary has been
commissioned to do local cottages for our lake residences. |
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