Glen's style is representative but with enough abstraction to create a painting, that has some mystery to it. Plein-air is his preference but when the weather doesn't cooperate his photos and sketches are used in his studio. His interests and subjects are varied and collections throughout the world. Most recently, he exhibited at the Poriginal Gallery in Finland and at the Washington State History Museum. He currently exhibits in Seattle at the Fine Impressions Gallery.

A late-starter in the arts, for the past 19 years Ted Pankowski has studied with such notable painters as the late Patricia Raab,  Deanne Lemley, Diana Shynne,  Henry Stinson,  Ned Mueller, and  John Ringen. Workshops have included John Budicin, Jim Lamb, Peggy Kroll Roberts, and Camille Przewodek,  Ted’s work is consistently juried into local and regional shows where he has been an occasional prize winner.

In 2004, his painting “Marymoor Morning” won the purchase award at the City of Kenmore annual art festival. He recently won the prestigious Joanne Rosenberg Memorial Award at the 2007 EAFA (Eastside Asso-ciation of Fine Arts) members show at Trilogy of Redmond Ridge. One of his painting “Skiffs at Ease” has been featured in the “Artist’s Photo Reference-Boats and Nautical Scenes” by Gary Greene and in “The Ultimate Guide to Painting from Photographs”, North Light Books.

Ted teaches beginning oil and acrylic painting at Arts Umbrella in Bothell’s Country Village, and maintains an independent studio in Woodinville with his wife Lynn Wilson. His affiliations include: Eastside Association of Fine Arts where he is a recent past president;  NW Watercolor Society where he gained signature membership in 2006; Sammamish Valley Art League;  and Washington Plein Air Painters. He  chairs the Finance Committee for the Puget Sound Group of NW Painters.

Ted’s work is represented by the Kaewyn Gallery (aka Framewright) in Bothell.   

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Harold W. Petersen  is a member of the Seattle Art Directors Society and Puget Sound Group. Studying at both the University of Washington and the Burnley School of Art, he worked under Paul Immel, Edwin Burnley and Ernest Norling. His paintings have appeared in shows of the Northwest Watercolor Society, the Frye Museum, the Bellevue Arts &Crafts Fair and the Edmonds Art Festival

Washington Art Association and Puget Sound Group. Involved with developing art curriculum for the Seattle School District. His teaching experiences include Visiting Professor (Art Education), assignments at the University of Washington, U.C.L.A., The University of British Columbia, Seattle University and Seattle Pacific University. His paintings have been shown in many Pacific Northwest shows including the Northwest Annual at the Seattle Art Museum, the Northwest Watercolor Show and the West Coast Oil Competition at the Frye Museum. He has had several one man shows and has authored "Exploring With Paint".

Brian Picard  was born in Minneapolis in 1954. He studied art with Alex Powers and Ned Mueller. Examples of juried exhibits and awards are: 1st Place -Federal Way Art Exhibition, Seahurst Gallery Annual Show; Western Washington State Fair; Northwest Watercolor Society Members Show, and Pacific Gallery Artists 1994 Purchase Award.

Brian works mainly in acrylic medium and his typical subject matter is figurative art. He is also a portrait artist.

Better known as “Rusty” to his friends, he graduated with honors from the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, California. He has been a painter in the Seattle area for the past thirty years and prior to that in Los Angeles.  He is currently, a life member and past president of the Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters and a Signature Member in the Northwest Watercolor Society.

Rusty’s paintings have appeared on calendars and greeting cards, in numerous publications, and in shows and exhibits throughout the United States, including the Puget Sound Area Exhibition at the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington and the Northwest Watercolor Annual at the Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington. As a result, his paintings are enjoyed in many private, corporate, and public collections. For four years, he was an Air Force Artist through his affiliation with the Society of Illustrators in Los Angeles; thus, some of his paintings are in the U. S. Air Force Art Collection, in Washington, DC.

In 1962 I had broken my arm playing football and while sitting around listening to a Husky football game I was looking for something to do. I picked up a magazine that had a picture of Katherine Hepburn on it and began to draw. When I finished the drawing I noticed how good it made me feel. Then, as I was being praised for that work, I realized how much I also enjoyed that. I began to see what the future had in store for me.

Now, a number of years later, I'm an artist. I wish I could tell you how wonderful that feels. I spend time creating images that seem to be pleasing a lot of people and in most cases raising a lot of money for charity. I'm now able to say things that don't always come easy, with my art. I once told a reporter that "I felt that I'd been given a gift and I hope I'm doing what I'm supposed to with it. You be the judge. Life is wonderful!

Darren Rice is quickly establishing himself as one of the premier realist painters in America today.  Receiving his art training at Yale University, Mr. Rice has since earned a reputation for both his bold, confident brushwork and his keen ability to capture the nuances of light on canvas.  Rice's masterful treatment of light is due in large part to the countless hours he has spent painting from life outdoors.  Mr. Rice currently divides his time between landscape, still life and marine-oriented subject matter.  Rice's recent appointment as Official Artist To The United States One World Challenge for The America's Cup is a compliment to his talents that opens up great prospects for his continuing successful future.  Additionally, Rice was recently selected as one of the "Top 100" in the prestigious Arts For the Parks contest, an international competition. 

Born in Cincinnati Tom Ries began a life-long journey as an artist at an early age. His formal entry into the arts came during high school when Ries studied with number of prominent local artists, including Paul Chidlaw at the Cincinnati Art Academy. The early years transitioned into a commercial art career, television and enlistment in the Marine Corps during the Korean Conflict.

For many years Ries lived and worked in New York as an Art Director, Designer and freelancer. He owned a small art studio and eventually became a principal in an ad agency representing many companies including American Airlines, St. Regis Paper and US News.

Drawn west to remain close to family Ries retired from the hectic pace of New York to settle in the Northwest. Ries was welcomed as a member of the Puget Sound Group in 2003 and looks forward to a rich and continuing journey pursuing artistic excellence.

I love a good drawing. I’ve been drawing as long as I can remember and won my first drawing prize when I was in the 6_^th grade. Even though my professional career was in the Engineering and Computing fields I maintained an interest in art by attending monthly drawing sessions from live models throughout my working years. After my retirement in the late 1990s I took on art as a full time endeavor. I paint in Watercolor, Pastel, Acrylics and Oil but even in my paintings the underlying drawing is always evident. In the last half of the previous century drawing pretty much fell out of vogue. Many art schools even shunned drawing.  Fortunately, I was off of the main track and kept up with drawing throughout my career. Today drawing from life is enjoying a new resurgence and I’m happily involved with several drawing groups.

I love a good line. The capture of a look, a gesture or an emotion with the simplicity of a clean line is almost magical to me. I’ve always admired the great artists from antiquity to modern times who, with a few pencil strokes, can evoke feelings of passion, excitement, humor, grace and elegance in the mind of the viewer. A simple line from a master artist can be as powerful as a great sentence from a gifted writer.

I love dimension. Line can be thought of as the first dimension; it has length but no width or height. In a painting, the second dimension is represented by anything that emphasizes the flat surface, including flat tone, writing on the surface, texture, splatter, abstract patterns or other such effects. Against this background of 1 and 2 dimensions might emerge a fully 3 dimensional subject with tone, shadow and other techniques that make the image seem to pop out from the flat surface.

I love tonal value. Some artists are passionate about color and are able to evoke emotion just from skillful blending of colors on the surface. But I am much more excited by rich patterns of dark and light in a drawing and a full range of shades in between.

I love people. I enjoy doing portrait commissions, figure drawing, people working, people in interesting situations, people displaying emotions (joy – sadness – anger – whatever). At least nine out of ten of my paintings involve people doing things.

I love associating with artists. I’m very active in the local art community, particularly with the Eastside Association of Fine Arts, and have served as the president of that organization. I am also active with the Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters, the American Portrait Society, the Cottage Lake Art Guild, the Northwest Watercolor Society and the American Society of Marine Artists.

John Ringen earned a Masters of Fine Art in Painting from the University of Washington. He is a retired Seattle Art teacher and Illustrator.  He presently teaches painting at North Seattle Community College and is a past president of the Puget Sound Group and the Northwest Watercolor Society. John is considered by his peers to be an artist ’s artist. 

A studio artist, he has shown extensively in the Puget Sound area since 1989, as well as Baltimore, Nashville, and Cleveland. He is a graduate of The Art Institute of Seattle, School of Visual Concepts, and The Illustration Academy. More recently he received his BFA at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, and he is now currently pursuing his MFA in Painting at UNH. He has taught figure drawing and figure painting at Kirkland Arts Center and the Bellevue Art Museum, and is part of a small group of young artists making a strong impact on the Seattle art scene.

Born Los Angeles he is a past member of the  Board of Advisors for the  Pratt Center for the Arts and member of the Puget Sound Group. As a painted and sculptor he is a frequent exhibitor in regional art shows.  His work has appeared in the Northwest Annual at the Seattle Art Museum; the Bellevue Arts and Crafts Fair; the Puyallup Fair and the Boeing Art Club Shows, and is part of many private collections. He studied art under such instructors as Jess Cauthorn,  Dannie Pierce, Bill Cumming, Steven Fuller

Bill was born 1936 and graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. He is a member of the American Society of Marine Artists and PSGNWP. Bill is listed in Who ’s Who in American Art,  the18th edition and the Dictionary of Sea Painters