KATHY BEEKMAN

Kathy Beekman has been an artist since the age of four. She has been painting predominately in pastel since the year 2000 after a trip to Mexico. She is a youth and adult art instructor at the Foothills Art Center in Golden, Colorado, the Center for the Arts-Evergreen, and instructs privately. A graduate of Siena Heights University, Michigan, Kathy returned to college to study archaeology in Indiana. This in turn found her marrying an archaeologist and working in the field in Mexico nearly every year.

Now an active Colorado artist, Kathy is President of the Evergreen Artists Association and a member of the Pastel Society and the Art Student's League of Denver.

She is also the illustrator for the Llano Grande and Navajas archaeological projects in Jalisco, Mexico. Currently she shows with galleries throughout Colorado and in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Debbie Kerr

Colorful landscape and still life images are brought to life in Evergreen artist Debbie Kerr's impressionistic oils and acrylics.  Although largely self-taught, she has studied with various artists over the years.  She attended Red Rocks Community College where she studied acrylic and water-based painting under Boulder artist and teacher Don Coen. 

For the past 5 years she has studied and painted at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, New Mexico where Georgia O'Keefe lived and painted for many years. She currently studies at the Denver Art Students League with Doug Dawson and at Foothills Art Center with Steve Tracy.

Ms. Kerr paints en plein air and also takes photographs which she uses for studio paintings.  Currently Debbie is now in her forth year of teaching art to middle school children at Rocky Mountain Academy of Evergreen and is a member of the Evergreen Artists Association.

Debbie Jaggers

Debbie believes that life is a journey, and she is constantly evolving as an artist. She has traveled internationally for 20 years and now makes her home in Colorado. She paints with passion in both watercolor and oil. She finds beauty in many subjects and puts her emotions into her work. Her paintings reflect her mood, whether it be intense excitement or total calm and serenity.

She began her studies in art by taking drawing and composition classes at the Open University in London. She continued with color theory and design classes in Texas. When she moved to Colorado she took watercolor classes from David Cuin, Alice Carol, and Theresa Smith. She then took oil painting classes with Doug Dawson, Pem Dunn, Bonnie Iris, Don Sahli and Steve Tracy.

Autumn on Squaw Pass

Marjie Eakin-Petty

Marjie has painted in several mediums including acrylics, gouache, oils and most recently, pastels. Each medium evolving to the next. Working with pastel has opened up a new dimension to her work. "I am intrigued with the flexibility and immediacy of pastels and look forward to years of discovering new applications."

"I strive for my images to convey a deep stillness and peace that I wish to experience by both painting and by viewing. Creating a quiet place where one’s spirit may rest and reflect on its own innate stillness, remembering our connectedness through the grace of natural beauty.”

Last Spring

Marjie has studied at the San Francisco Academy of Art, the Sahli School of Art, Denver Art Museum, Denver Botanic Gardens, and Foothills Art Center. She has studied with Don Sahli, Chuck Ceraso, Jan Myers, Peter Heineman, Dennis Rhoades, Kathy Beekman, Steve Tracy and Bruce Gomez.

March 10, 2008

Christina Coyle

Chris specializes in landscape and wildlife inspired by our beautiful mountain environment. Painting outdoors and from her own photographs, she strives to capture a fleeting moment of time in either pastel or oil.

Chris has a Bachelor of Arts / Fine Arts degree from the University of South Florida and is a graduate of the Rocky Mountain School of Photography (RMSP) in Missoula, Montana. It was at RMSP where she completed an intensive photography program stressing black and white Zone System of photography. After completing the program, she opened a small photography studio offering portraiture, table-top and architectural photography services.

After moving to Colorado, she focused on fine art photography exclusively, especially black and white, infrared and hand tinted works. Her photographs were sold at several local galleries including Hiwan Gallery, Evergreen Gallery and Shadow Mountain Gallery.

Jane Christie

Jane Christie has been an active artist practically all of her life. As a child she attended art school at the Atlanta High Museum of Art. At the University of Georgia, Jane was working toward a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in Home Economics, but her love of painting drew her to the art curriculum instead. Her focus shifted to attending as many art classes as her major would allow.

Today her love affair with painting continues. In the past three years, she has studied pastel painting under Jan Myers, Peter Heinemann, Dennis Rhoades, Steve Tracy and Kathy Beekman.

Jane's painting "Carts Gone Bye" was recently awarded "best of show" at the exhibit "Value Judgments, an Exhibition", located at the Foothills Art Center, Golden, Colorado.

Diving Feminine

In September 2005 at the "Arts Alive over 55" show in Conifer, CO, she received first place in her category and an honorable mention. Jane's paintings have been accepted at many juried shows in and around Evergreen.

Carolyn Evans Campbell

Carolyn's vivid oil paintings are alive with fantastic figures and vibrant color. Each painting tells a fascinating story that will leave you with a smile and a sense of adventure!

Cherry Soda