There is endless beauty to be found in the natural world. Unless that beauty is directly perceived with one’s own sight, it is filtered, interpreted, and represented, either by an artist or a machine. For many years, the only way one could witness distant lands was through the interpretation of a painter’s brush; but now, after the advent of mechanical […]
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A tradition since 1971, the Governor’s Awards showcase and celebrate exceptional Ohio artists, arts organizations, arts leaders and patrons, and business support of the arts. Award recipients are presented with the only arts award in the state that is conferred by the governor. Awardees were honored during a ceremony on May 17 in Columbus. Cleveland-based portrait and figurative artist Tricia […]
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Artist Tricia Kaman is known for more than her portraiture studio in the Murray Hill Schoolhouse, where she hosted the Murray Hill Life Drawing Group for 24 years. She also built Kaman’s Art Shoppes with her husband Rich. At its peak four years ago, Kaman’s had 2,500 seasonal employees drawing portraits in the Kaman style, and offering other creative services, at amusement parks across […]
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Back in March of 2018, Jolee Klugherz of Solon Center for the Arts reached out to me saying, “I noticed your work recently in the show at Lakeland Community College and was wondering if you would be interested in showing your work in our gallery? I am always looking for great local artists to exhibit in our Solon space.” And […]
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Portraitist and figure painter Tricia Kaman has been developing her craft for four decades, and the results of her experiments and refinements are on display at Ursuline College’s Wasmer Gallery. “Women in Reverie,” now in its final two weeks in exhibit, gathers 52 of Kaman’s oil and pastel images of women and girls. The artist captures women in many activities—conversing, napping, […]
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Before I learned to paint, I played the piano, and the songs I enjoyed the most were not the ones with crashing crescendos and fortissimos, but rather the quiet Reveries. Those dreamlike pieces of music led me to a place of inner peace and reflection. Likewise, as a painter, I have enjoyed capturing on canvas the same dreamlike “states of […]
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