CAG Member Gallery

With a camera in one hand and a deep reverence for nature in the other, Glenn Rieker captures the quiet beauty of the outdoors through both traditional photography and drone perspectives. A professional landscape architect/gardener by trade and FAA-certified drone pilot, Glenn's work blends decades of design expertise with a love for storytelling through light, shadow, and sky. His images celebrate the soul-soothing power of wild places, winding trails, still waters, and timeless gardens—each frame a quiet reminder that motion truly is lotion for the body and soul.

Long time watercolorist- adding rice paper has been my recent mode of painting. I also am using oil/ cold wax for my landscapes.

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Of all the art forms I find the most pleasure exploring the watercolor medium. My subject matter reflects my love of nature, the Midwest landscape and travels to France and Italy. Plein air painting has helped me discover the amazing palette and sunlit colors of the outdoor landscape.

Lynn Rix began painting in 1995 while living in the south of France. She was physically and emotionally compelled to try to put down on canvas the beauty of the area. An inspiration that has sustained her in the pursuit of creating the fresh canvas in an impressionistic manner “en plein air“.
Rix paints because she loves the challenge of looking at a familiar scene and simplifying it into shapes, colors and her own vision. Painting from life outside, with quick brush work and a limited palette, she is forced to work spontaneously before the light changes. The Wisconsin rural landscape and small towns in all four of its unique seasons, gives her endless inspiration. In a boat in the summer or on the ski hill in the winter, Rix embraces it all with her joyful painting.
Rix has been juried into many shows and has won many awards. Her work can be found in hundreds of private collections.

Lynne has lived in Cedarburg for over 45 years. As a kindergarten teacher her artwork was dedicated to enhancing the learning experience of the children that she taught. Retirement allowed her to take painting classes and expand her artistic expressions. She loves the freedom and flow that watercolor painting allows. She likes to capture all aspects of nature, and especially loves to include reflections and the play of light on objects.

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Mary’s passion for expressing her creativity began in retirement, as she explored what it really meant to be creative and to express that creativity. Realizing that we all are creative beings – each of us in our own unique way - prompted her to follow her heart and begin painting. In this process she finds joy and life! Mary hopes the color, shapes, and whimsy in her work will bring you that same feeling of joy and life!

Laura (Lace) Schwenn
Oil

Laura (Lace) Schwenn is a visual artist with a natural penchant for realism. Whether she is portraying figure or portrait, human or animal, landscape or still life, Schwenn has a singular approach to her work: "My intent is to find and express the unique spirit of my subjects."

Schwenn's intent drives her to create works that go beyond mere likeness, and instead to capture a moment in time, evoke a state of emotion, or convey a sense of mystery.

​Schwenn earned a Bachelor of Fine Art degree with a concentration in Painting, Drawing and Printmaking from the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, FL. Now living in the beautiful state of Wisconsin, Schwenn creates in her home studio or outdoors en plein air, using a variety of media to explore the human, animal and natural worlds.

laura.lace.schwenn@gmail.com

I am inspired by color, and incorporate bold colors in my paintings. I try to convey warmth, optimism and fun in my paintings. While I love the process of painting - creating and watching the painting unfold - my greatest joy in painting is when someone else enjoys the piece.

Pamela is best known for her bold and vibrant oil portraits of barnyard animals including cows, roosters and sheep. Collectors say her paintings capture the personality of these furry and feathered friends.

She grew up on a dairy farm outside of Blanchardville, WI. As a young child, she fed the pigs and chickens as part of her daily chores and even helped raise orphan piglets under a warm heating lamp. As she grew older, milking the cows and helping with crop harvest became part of her everyday life. Needless to say, agriculture and the love of animals is in her heart. She never imagined as a young child that these experiences on the farm would play such an important role in her painting career.

Often you will find Pamela driving down country roads searching for that next inspiration to set up her easel and capture some friendly Wisconsin cows or snow filled landscape on canvas.

Hiking in nature daily I photograph scenes that appeal to me as protentional subjects for a painting. My photos could stand alone as art, but I love to render them on canvass in acrylics. I do a simple sketch on the canvass; so light washes of paint and then start adding details. I also work in mixed media that are often nature inspired with adds from found objects

I discovered pottery after heartbreak and from that first moment my hands touched the clay I knew I had found my passion!

Soon afterwards my father shared that pottery was in my blood through his mother, my Grama Nancy “Piscatello” Shaw. You can learn more about my family’s history with clay on my website.

My family history adds to my passion as I sit at my wheel or hand build decorative, functional pieces. When I sit down at my wheel with a raw ball of clay, I have a general idea of what I’m looking to create, but the clay ultimately tells me what it wants to be.

All of my pieces are food, microwave and dishwasher safe.