Featured Artists

Linda Thomasson is this month’s Featured Artist. She was born in central Tennessee but has spent most of her life in this area. Like many artists, she has had no ‘formal’ training, but has spent most of her life with a brush in her hand, in some manner or other, painting on such things as...

Kathy, a Registered Nurse at Jackson Purchase Medical Center in Mayfield, is from Reidland. She has lived and worked here her entire life. Kathy has been at JPMC for 25 years, starting first as an aid for 4 years. Kathy has two children, a girl and a boy. Nursing for Kathy, as for so many nurses,...

Back-to-back... Grady is back for a second month, with all NEW work! This time his collection includes acrylic paintings with one oil among them. Stop by and see his work when you get a chance. Night Reflections Kaleidoscope In the City Passing Through Shrouded City Sailing October 2021 Featured...

Grady had the following to say about his art: My art is all about color. It is rare that I have something specific in mind when I begin a piece. I listen to music when I create a painting and let it take me places and the piece evolves at will. I use watercolor straight out of the tube and let the...

Carol Hudson is originally from Sikeston, Missoui, but has lived here for most of her life. She graduated from Heath High School. She used charcoal and pencil a bit in high school but did not get serious about art until after her children were grown. Carol was able to take a couple semesters of...

Rosemary grew up in Elsah, Illinois, the eldest of nine children. Elsah was a tiny historic village on the Mississippi River. The local grade school was a two-room stone structure with no indoor plumbing until the year she was in the sixth grade. There were three kids in her class. She went to a...

Rebekah is a young artist a couple years out of college. She took art classes during her high school years, first at Reidland High School, then at McCracken High School. But she didn’t fall in love with painting until her time at WKCTC. She took classes from Randy Simmons, and Tanya...

Carol Couric Tribou was born in Florida, moved to Texas when she was 6 and grew up there. She loved art from the beginning, getting the funnies, as a child and trying to draw them. Carol earned a Bachelor’s of Art at then Dallas Baptist College. She and her husband Dick married while in college....

This month’s Featured Artist, Susan Lambert was born in St Louis but grew up in Harrisburg, IL. Her parents’ story was a true ‘Traveling Salesman’ story. Her mom worked as a pharmacist, finishing up her internship in a drug store in the area, when her dad, a Traveling Salesman (pharmaceuticals)...

Maryann Huebschmann is our Featured Artist this month. When I asked her how she got started as an artist she first said, oh let’s not go back that far and I said oh let’s. Wow! We had a great conversation. I need lessons in shorthand. Maryann says she started in high school, a Catholic run high...

Sandi Johnson, this month’s Featured Artist is originally from Clay and Whitley Counties, over in eastern Kentucky. 1 grandfather was a coal miner/cobbler/farmer and 1 a college professor born in Scotland and transplanted to our continent as a very young child. Her mother taught in 1 room schools...

You can usually recognize Harrietta’s art when you see it, by the strong brush stroke and her color choices, no matter her subject. She says when she has no subject in mind, but really wants to paint, horses are her go to image. She grew up on a farm in western Tennessee, swimming and riding...