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Nancy Berkhouse, The Artist 
"I attempt to teach my students necessary technical skills in handling and applying oil painting materials so that they can use that skill to express their own personal emotions and imaging.  I may teach a person how to paint, but I cannot make him an oil painting artist.  He himself supplies that ingredient".
   For over 20 years, Nancy A. Berkhouse has been in pursuit of the above proponents...acquiring skill and using it to express her personal response to beauty.  Her education at Waynesburg College in Western Pennsylvania provided her a teaching background, but the artistic bent "evolved" after a move to East Texas in 1960, through a life entrusted to God and a desire to portray His creation.  Because she has painted such a wide variety of subjects, Nancy has a rich wealth of experience in helping student painters accomplish their choices.  She has also successfully acquired skill in using different mediums and has experimented in various techniques and styles of paintings.  Pastels and acrylics are comfortable tools for her, but oil painting is for her "the most relaxing and controllable" of mediums.
   The paintings of Nancy Berkhouse reflect an expert knowledge of mixing colors, some soft and subtle, some vibrant, but always rich and harmonious.  Her style is traditional with an impressionistic flavoring.  The compositions are flowing and easily absorbed.  After spending many weeks in the Texas Hill Country she caught the fever of the area and the resulting landscapes are in demand by collectors and visitors to Texas.
   Throughout the years the popularity of Nancy's works has grown.   Paintings have been purchased by art lovers all over the country and have won countless awards, ribbons, and honors.   Although the request for paintings by galleries and individuals is growing, teaching is still an important part of the artist's life.  She considers it a way to spread the joy she has come to know through art, and her students attest to her patience and adeptness as a teacher.

                                                                           D. Lee Robbins   

Karen King, "HOME STRETCH"

JOHN ANDERSON, represented by Gold Leaf Gallery, currently resides in the Tyler, Texas area. His reputation as a portrait artist is unsurpassed. His works of such notables as Frank Sinatra and Mrs. Billie Ruth Galef has verified the fact that he is a gifted painter. His early training included studies with John Howard Sanden, Daniel Greene, and three years with Dick Turner. Then he met the Hungarian master, Lajos Markos, and began an eight-year tenure as his protege.
   Mr. Markos died in June of 1993, delegating Anderson to carry on his love of fine art: accepting no compromise; to teach and paint as few in this country can, using theory, theory, and more theory! "You must learn theory," said Mr. Markos, "Without it you can only go so high, but with it you can go as high as your talent can take you." Mr. Markos paintings hang in Museums throughout Europe and the United States.
   Some of John Anderson's significant portraits include: Frank Sinatra, Buddy Hackett, Mrs. Vic Damone, Ken Davis, Oil & Gas Producer, Jay Haas, Golfer, Alan Brown, C.E.O. Simon Corp., and Dr. John M. Knox, Baylor College of Medicine.
   Some of John Anderson's mentor, Mr. Markos' s significant portraits included such greats as: Gen. David Sarnoff, Cardinal Antonietti (Hanging in the Vatican), John Wayne, the Henry Ford Family, Pres. Ronald Regan, Pres. George Bush, and Robert Kennedy.
   Call Gold Leaf Gallery to set up an appointment for a John Anderson commission portrait today.

SUZANNE FIELD, represented by Gold Leaf Gallery, an accomplished professional visual artist with a unique ability to exploit multiple mediums, including oils, pastels, watercolors, and pencil. Ms Field began developing her artistic skills at the age of five, creating portraits and depictions of wildlife. As a teenager, she painted a portrait for astronaut Gordon Cooper at Cape Canaveral in Florida.
   While living in Ft. Worth, Texas, Ms. Field was commissioned for many artistic renderings of horses with their riders, as well as cattle, which were shown at the Ft. Worth Stockyards Gallery, Thistle HUI, and other Ft. Worth galleries. Her work was also displayed in numerous art shows in Texas cities, including Houston, Odessa, and in Phoenix, Arizona. Ms. Field was selected to create a rendering of General Thompson for the Carswell Air Force Base's, Thompson Hospital. This rendering of General Thompson still hangs in the hospital today.
   Her unique portrayal of horses, wildlife, scenery, and people has won numerous awards in art shows across the country. Her pastel and watercolors of bears and other wildlife were displayed at the Black Hawk Gallery in Anchorage, Alaska. She created a poster for the Furonder, a famous annual sled race that draws thousands of people from around the world.
   Ms. Field currently resides in Tyler, Texas, where she continues to create a wide variety of art originals of horses, wildlife and portraits. She was recently commissioned to create a rendering of the Tyler Science Center building with a dinosaur in the background. The painting hangs on the wall of the museum, and is used in various Tyler Science Center publications.
She was especially honored to have her works on the front cover of the magazines, "The Quarter Horse Record"," Paint Horse Journal," and "ORR The Quarter Horse Record."
 Have your prize animal depicted in life-like and impressive pastels and/or oils. The appealing expression in the eyes and features reveal the very spirit and personality of your favorite animal. Suzanne also does GREAT children's portraits in pastels.

To review other artists' work and biographies, please click on the hyperlink:

George Kovach
Manuel Garza
Joyce Combs
Mario Moriani
W.R. Thrasher
A.D. Greer
Heinz Stoecker
Claudio Simonetti
Tibor Tasnadi

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