2025 CAG Member Gallery

The natural world calls to me. It's beauty and spirituality, the wonder of creation itself is my muse. I use the gifts of nature to create my art. The magical material of wool and silk help me express the living world in sculpture and pictures.

Hello! I'm Julianne Hunter, also known as 'The Glittering Squid'. I'm an artist living on an 1880's farmstead in southeastern Wisconsin. Inspired by nature, I strive to express the vibrancy and rhythm of life in my work. You'll often find dashes of brilliant color in what I create, and perhaps even a little glitter!

Miranda has been making art as long as she could remember. Her favorite subjects vary from landscapes to animals. Miranda’s stunning landscape paintings will suck you in and make you feel like you are there in the moment.

Batik eggs are a fusion of fine detail and timeless symbolism, their intricate designs brought to life through patience and precision. My work draws inspiration from traditional Ukrainian pysanky while also embracing my own artistic interpretations. Some are drawn to the meaning behind the patterns, others to the craftsmanship, but each piece offers a lasting connection to this remarkable art form.

“Every canvas is a journey all its own” – Helen Frankenthaler
My work is a response to subjects that are often more felt than named, filtering out the need for illusion and representing the essence of animage, pre-verbal. Tapping into unconscious memories, a halfway world, leads to abstract shape, textures, colours, and marks in my art; this evokes the impressions of the internal and external landscapes we have travelled.
My paintings are a study of the mystery that is our understanding and experience of Nature that is bare and primal. We tend to anthropomorphize Nature, to lay our fingerprints upon it, but I search for its beginning. Texture, colour, layering, excavation, visual and physical depth play a role in my storytelling and support my deeper exploration of the natural world. I use a squeegee, palette knives, stencils, brayers, monoprinting, bold shapes, gestural lines, incision, compressed textures, and layers to achieve the intention of each piece I create.
I hope viewers see the rawness and a leave-taking of imagery that has inspired the work; colour; vitality, intuition, and depth of expression define my painting. Creative work that transports the viewer into other felt places is deeply satisfying and celebrates the forces that are often hidden to our eyes but intrinsically felt. By the time the painting is complete, much of my energy has been transformed into the painting’s layers and marks, whether revealed or obscured: they have stories to tell.

Hustedde considers artmaking a form of "self care" inbetween working full time as a high school art teacher and caring for her son. Her figurative works reference and explore femininity, motherhood, spirituality, loss and mythology. She creates in a variety of media including charcoal, colored pencil, ink and pyrography (wood burning). She enjoys portraiture of human and animal alike and keeps a side hustle as a caricature artist for events and individuals.

Influenced by ever-changing patterns found in natural forms, Judith’s work expresses movement and a deep connection to nature. Her work can be abstract, intuitive, or realistic. In her studio Artscape Studio at Cedar Creek Settlement she works with various mediums which include painting ,printmaking and jewelry.

Kerri Knapp has always had a passion for painting and color. She is known for her colorful acrylic paintings, either en plein air or from photos, inspired by the landscapes of Wisconsin. She loves to make a roadside stop to capture the beauty of light in nature with a photograph for future paintings.

Joan Hollnagel is a mixed-media artist. Her paintings and clay sculptures often anthropomorphize nature and life with humor and insight.

I find the ordinary extraordinary. I will pass on the opportunity to paint a beautiful beach sunset to find my composition in the shadows it casts on the culvert in the parking lot. I paint in oil to capture the impression of real life, still life and landscape. My scale is usually large (even if my canvas is small) and my pallette is often saturated and bold. I like to play with the rules of composition which often results in my subjects falling off the sides of the canvas.

Bronze figurative sculpture was always my main area of concentration. Continued with silver smithing , and gold leaf enhanced watercolor.

In a world of mindless consumption, fast-paced meals in disposable dishes while on the go, Rebekah seeks to elevate the experience to transform it into a daily ritual of eating, drinking, and reflecting. Slow down, think, remember, feel, and most important “use the fancy stuff”.
She is currently working on rococo inspired functional pieces, while exploring the juxtaposition of the “ornate” and “dark”