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Bud Clayton
APT Associate Artist Member
www.budclayton.com | info@budclayton.com | 325.660.7798
Bud Clayton was born in Abilene, Texas in 1984. He was raised in a rural area in West Texas where the lack of artificial light revealed vibrant night skies. This atmosphere lead to his early exploration of aesthetics and beauty. After studying Fine Art and Music at Hardin-Simmons University, Clayton remained focused on a career in Fine Art. Clayton is a full-time artist and has exhibited his lively, large abstract paintings in various venues and galleries throughout Texas and the U.S. The Bud Clayton Studio is now located in the heart of the Big Country where the West Texas scenery continues to inspire his work. Clayton's work concerns itself with textures found in every day life such as the physical distress on surrounding concrete, fences, rusted metal and deteriorating painted surfaces. Often working with over-sized and shaped canvases, commanding in size and presence, Clayton's paintings have garnered a regional collector base.
Terry Cockerham
Light & Bytes, Inc. | 972.566.6782 | 972.489.4601
7777 Forest Lane Bldg C, A94, PMB 154 | Dallas, TX 75230
www.lightandbytesphoto.com | terry@lightandbytesphoto.com
Terry Cockerham is a professional photographer with over 30 years of experience. While working as a professional photojournalist, he extended the scope of his work to include corporate, web and fine art projects. In 1996, he started his own freelance photographic business, Light & Bytes, Inc., located in Dallas, Texas, and continues to provide photographic and graphic arts services to clients in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.
In the area of fine art photography, Terry is interested in unique, non-traditional portrait and landscape photography. Terry’s strong affinity for the barren land of West Texas has produced a large body of landscape work that focuses on the Big Bend area. The black and white images in the Big Bend portfolio have been described as “Nature Noir,” and fifteen of those images are included in the permanent collection of the Grace Museum in Abilene, Texas. The Big Bend project is ongoing.
Kay Barber Dalton
Dallas, Texas | www.kaydaltonstudio.com | kaydalton@sbcglobal.net
Kay began taking adult oil classes at the age of 12, and went on to earn a BFA in Studio Art/Painting from SMU in 1981. She then began an 8 year business career working for St. Paul Hospital as a Media Artist/Medical Illustrator, and as an EDS Graphic Designer. Kay began painting again in 1990 and continues to paint in all mediums in her north Dallas studio for private commissions. Her work hangs in homes as well as businesses throughout the country.
Kay has been a docent for the Meadows Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art and currently at the Jesuit Dallas Museum. As a past teacher/volunteer for Big Thought, Today Marks the Beginning, and a board member for Artreach, Inc., an organization dedicated to bringing art to the disadvantaged Dallas community, she stays aware of the abundance of cultural opportunities that are available, and works to bring them into the lives of those in need. “When viewing a work of art one should be elevated to a higher level of consciousness. That is what I hope my art will do for others.”
Linda Chidsey
214.783.5193 | lindachidsey@lindachidsey.com
World Trade Center | Hemisphere Design Gallery | Showroom 9009-38
2100 Stemmons Freeway Dallas, TX 75207
Studio | 815 Woodhaven Drive | Dallas Texas
Now retired from IBM, Linda creates jewelry, pottery and sculpture using the Raku firing technique. In 2010, 2011 and 2012, Linda was awarded Best in Show for Sculpture, Jewelry and Ceramics for the Dallas Business Council Corporate Arts Competition. Her work has been exhibited in several juried art shows, including the Denton Art and Jazz Festival, Plaza of the Americas, the American Airlines Center, LuminArte Gallery, McKinney Arts in Bloom, the Artist Showplace, the Lewisville Grand Theater, Dear Clark, Oxide Gallery and Premier Gallery events. Linda was selected to participate in the Super Bowl ArtBowl, Cloud 9 Art Gala, ArtQuest and the Cross Timbers Artist Guild Tour, with work featured in the 2012 and 2013 Dallas Fine Arts Engagement Calendar. She is a member of the Visual Arts Society of Texas, Texas Visual Arts Association, Texas Sculpture Association, Lewisville Visual Arts League, Cross Timbers Artist Guild, the Grapevine Art Project, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Texas Women's Caucus for Art, Plano Art Association, and the Irving Art Connection. Her works are available at the World Trade Center in the Hemisphere Design Gallery by appointment.
John Borys
www.johnborys.com | info@johnborys.com | Austin, Texas
I received my Bachelor's of Arts in fine art and commercial art from North Texas State University, and have been a commercial artist and creative director in the advertising industry for over 30 years. My paintings are in private collections throughout the United States, Scotland, Singapore, and elsewhere abroad.
Artistic sensibility is intuitive, learned, and connected to something bigger than one's self. Art is not created just to satisfy the artist. I create so that others might see and experience something that they (had I not created it) would not have seen or felt. It is a gift to share that is greater than myself.
A painting may start out with a well planned idea, or no real clear direction at all. In either case, during the "process" of creation, a concept becomes visual and tangible. Like it or not, the artist's understanding of art history and the artist's awareness of the current avant-garde are also factors. And finally, there is the painting itself. I am interested in the visual dialogue between all of these. In the end, artistic judgment and the ability to listen with your eyes to what the painting is saying, trusting the painting, following its rhythm and working in tandem with it—all these help the artist and art become one.
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