HOLBEIN NORTH AMERICA

COMMUNITY ARTISTS

A Holbein North American Community Artist is someone who has a passion for creating original artwork using Holbein materials and have voluntarily submitted to be featured here on our webpage. Artists must be at least 18 years of age to submit artworks and residing in the United States or Canada.

buscema
corley
dufour
energy
federchuk
garcia
hunter
ives
klaput
montstream
Overton
perreault
sams
shain
venti
visnoski
wyman
zacks

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Interested in joining Holbein’s Artist Community?

Complete and submit the Artist form with full name as you would like it displayed, a short bio including why you like and use Holbein materials in your creative process, website and/or social media tags and 3-5 pieces of original artwork done with (or at least primarily) Holbein materials.

If chosen, you will be notified via email and featured here on the Holbein Community Artist Page for a non-specific amount of time decided on by HK Holbein Inc. The duration of time spent featured on our webpage will be determined by a number of factors including, but not limited to the volume of submissions or artwork content and type of medium.

**Note submissions are made voluntarily and artists/artwork chosen to be featured on the webpage is purely to the discretion of HK Holbein Inc.

MUST BE 18 OR OLDER AND LIVING IN NORTH AMERICA TO SUBMIT ARTWORK

Stephanie Buscema

New York – USA

Stephanie is a New York-based painter, illustrator, and designer working traditionally with paint and pencils on paper. Inspired by the design of the past, folklore, mythology, old picture books, and the natural and supernatural worlds, her work can be seen everywhere from commercial illustration to fashion.

Stephanie discovered a love of painting while studying illustration at the School of Visual Arts in NYC, which soon led to working in the illustration industry in the early 2000’s. Since then, she’s worked on a wide variety of projects, from picture and comic books, character design and licensing to accessory and textile design. Keeping true to her love of handmade, she continues to create art using traditional image-making methods. Her current focus has been the Silver Acorn Tarot, a hand-painted 78-card Tarot deck due for release late 2022.

When time allows, creating personal works, participating in gallery exhibitions, and designing new creations for her small business, Kitschy Witch Designs®, are at the top of her to-do list.

Tim Corley

Vermont – USA

Tim is President of Spare Time Entertainment, which currently owns and operates 18 Family Entertainment Centers in 10 states across the US. He is a resident of South Burlington and has lived in Chittenden County his whole life. In his “spare time,” he enjoys fishing, hunting, golf, walking with his wife, Shelly, and of course, drawing.

Zeppelin Dufour

NYC – USA

Zeppelin works across many mediums: painting, ceramics, illustration, animation, audio manipulation, and woodworking, but he spends a great deal of his life absorbed within the refuge of his sketchbook. He deconstructs imagined personas of fellow public transporters and those he shares close relationships with, caricaturing their physical attributes, harnessing their modes of expression, and stretching their likenesses to the point of unrecognizability. He has an obsession with the absurd and nonsensical, creating works as tender as they are aggressive.

Jack Energy

Boston, Massachusetts – USA

Jack is a Boston-based mixed-media artist who brings a refreshing, profound depth to his work, melding a luscious, organic sensibility with an urban edge.
“Everything on this planet is made up of vibrating energy. I attempt to capture this in my abstract, interpretive works. I am excited to study and incorporate fabrication techniques (3D printing, welding, laser cutting, screen printing, robotics) and cutting-edge audio science into larger installations and immersive works. Holbein Artist Materials, specifically their acrylics, factor heavily into almost all of my works.”
Jack is also a critically acclaimed songwriter/producer. He operates the indie label Shave Records, is the frontman for the band Echo Detective, and is co-founder of the wildly popular synthmuseum.com.

Kristen Federchuk

Alberta – Canada

Kristen is a self-taught artist who works primarily in acrylics. From as early as she can remember, she loved art and could always be found with a pencil or paintbrush in her hand. Over the years, she would practice drawing by copying the works of artists she admired. 

Kristen has always been passionate about the environment and the outdoors, and obtained her Bachelor of Science in Land Reclamation. After several years working in both the government and private sectors, she followed her heart and left the professional world to pursue art. It is truly what she was created to do, and she is now living a purposeful life as an artist.

For Kristen, painting is not just about art; it is also about spreading joy through her artwork.

Matthew Willie Garcia

Missouri – USA

Matthew is a printmaker whose work extends far beyond traditional print media, including screen printing, Mokuhanga, projection mapping, animation, and large-scale installation. Drawing on his love of science and science fiction, Garcia explores his queer existence and the universe’s unknowable qualities. Garcia uses his knowledge of printmaking to explore these themes through color abstraction, the graphic image, and nonrepresentational forms.

Garcia is a California-born printmaker who currently lives and works in Kansas City, MO, and Lawrence, KS. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking from the Kansas City Art Institute and his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Kansas. 

Garcia has shown his work regionally throughout the Midwest. Most notably, his work was included in the “Queer Abstraction” exhibition at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, the “Star Children” exhibition at the Bradbury Art Museum, and is currently on display at the Des Moines Art Center as part of the “Immersive” exhibition. His work has also been shown internationally as part of the “Sumi-Fusion” Mokuhanga exhibition in Nara, Japan, and is shortlisted for the 2022 On Paper exhibition in Barcelona, Spain. Garcia is currently the Studio Manager at the Lawrence Arts Center in Lawrence, KS.

Obadiah Hunter

California – USA

Obadiah has traveled extensively throughout the United States and the world in search of the most interesting places and people to paint. He recently wrote and published a book of his travels and paintings from the last 25 years on the road with little more than his clothes on his back and his easel and oil paints, of course, from Holbein.

Kate Ives

Vermont – USA

Kate Ives is a traditionally trained artist. Her artistic journey has been enriched by her experiences living in Thailand, Singapore, England, and the US, with each location leaving its mark on her work. Kate’s versatility shines through in her use of mediums such as watercolor, gouache, acrylics, oils, and digital painting. 

Driven by a desire to spread joy and positivity, she employs bright colors and whimsical subjects to make people smile and add a touch of lightheartedness to their day. Her work is exhibited in several locations in northern Vermont and homes of collectors across Europe and the United States. By choosing her medium based on her mood and the narrative that Kate wishes to explore, she ensures that each piece offers a unique and uplifting experience. Her art invites viewers to embrace the playful and cheerful aspects of life. 

Alden Klaput

Alden is an American artist with a knack for psychedelia and fantasy.

Katharine Monstream

Vermont – USA

Katharine grew up in the flatlands of Connecticut and couldn’t wait to move to Vermont to ski. She studied sociology at Green Mountain College and the University of Colorado Boulder.

Katharine has been coloring for a living since 1988. She started by making handmade watercolor greeting cards, and in just two years, she sold over 15,000 individually painted cards to shops in New England. The next year, Montstream Studio started printing her images, and she and her husband began selling the greeting cards nationwide.

In 1989, her painting career took off after her first solo show at her favorite bar in Burlington, the Daily Planet. The images were of buildings, large gardens, and the Burlington skyline. Since then, she’s had multiple exhibits in Vermont and focuses on her favorite subjects: the lake, mountains, snow, woods, swimming holes, and Burlington’s iconic Moran Plant. You can find the Montstream Studio & Gallery in Burlington, Vermont.

Kate Perreault

Rhode Island – USA

Kate is a Rhode Island local with a passion for vibrant color and detail.

From margins of notebooks to large-scale materials, she feels there is nothing greater than seeing shapes and color add life to blank spaces. The process became a simple mantra: “keep creating.”

Kate is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with roots deeply embedded in her B.S. in Art Therapy.  She challenges her sense of comfort, confidence, and process by leaning into new color combinations, canvas size, texture, and metallics. Every piece is a new practice of growth. 

The goal of her work is to make you feel. Her designs aim to catch your attention from afar and offer a deeper experience as you notice interactions between each detail, and embrace their influence as a whole.

Davaney Overton

Maryland – USA

Davaney is an interdisciplinary artist who primarily works in watercolor. Her body of work indulges in euphoric, nostalgic, and bittersweet feelings.

Davaney’s most recent series of artworks, titled “Let’s Play Pretend,” is a collection of watercolor paintings that depict nostalgic scenes. These paintings feature objects from the late 1990s and early 2000s and are rendered in highly saturated colors to evoke a childlike perspective.

Davaney is a Junior at the Maryland Institute College of Art and plans to finish her Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Arts in Teaching degrees.

Valorie Sams

Mississippi – USA

Valorie has loved art since she opened her first giant box of Crayons! While in high school, she entered the graphic arts field after being asked to illustrate a cartoon called “The Peepo People” for her high school newspaper. While helping put the paper together, she began what started a 30+ year streak as a professional, award-winning graphic designer. 

She has freelanced and worked across a range of industries, including newspapers, advertising agencies, and printing companies. During her time in college, she discovered her talent for illustration and color pencils. Since then, she has received numerous honors and awards for her color pencil work. Valorie is a member of the Color Pencil Society of America, where her work has been awarded Best of Show at Explore This! Exhibition in 2019. She was also featured in the 2017 Color Pencil Magazine. 

More recently, Valorie has branched out her art interests to include soft pastels and watercolor painting. She is now semi-retired and living in the south, where she draws her inspiration from antique and botanical subjects. 

Dorothy Shain

South Carolina – USA

Dorothy is the founder and creative director of Dorothy Shain Fine Art & Design. She is a contemporary artist creating work that evokes connection through original art, prints, textiles, wallpapers, and other products.

Art Venti

Florida – USA

Art Venti is a New York-born artist celebrated for his unusually imaginative large-scale color-pencil work (the majority of pencils are from Holbein!) on archival paper. He is a signature member of the Color Pencil Society of America (CPSA), having won several awards in their national and international juried shows. His work is displayed as the heading artwork on their CPSA homepage. His work often addresses environmental and socio-political issues, with the larger pieces taking three to five months to complete.

Primarily exhibiting in California, where he has been a resident for 35 years, and in Florida and London, UK, Venti sells internationally on the Saatchiart website. Recently, he lived and worked in London for a few years with his English wife before relocating back to the U.S., to Florida.

Art has had several reviews and articles published, for example, in the Huffington Post on his one-man show at the Hale Art Gallery in Santa Monica by art critic Juri Koll in 2014, and on the front page and in a feature in the CPSA magazine in 2016. In London, he was reviewed for his work at the Mall Gallery in Westminster, near Buckingham Palace. More recently, a review of Art’s one-man show at the Art Center Sarasota by the SRQ (local Sarasota newspaper) in the daily Art Review, in 2021. At the end of 2023, he received the first prize in the same establishment’s juried storytelling show.

Paula Visnoski

New England – USA

Paula is a New England-based artist who has been honing her watercolor skills since 1975. A college background in fine art, graphic design, and photography has helped develop her painting technique over the years. She uses her computer skills to work out her ideas.

Paula’s most common themes in her studio work include pop culture portraits, figurative subjects, animals (especially endangered ones), urban landscapes, still lifes, and floral subjects. Her style can be described as a mix of realism, impressionism, and surrealism.

Looking at Paula’s work, one might question the medium given her use of transparent watercolor layers, which give the painting a more oil- or acrylic-like feel. Extra-large paintings are done on stretched canvas with a watercolor primer. A few of Paula’s biggest watercolor influences are the Wyeth family of artists and Georgia O’Keeffe.

“I have been passionate about my work since I could hold a paintbrush in my hand. My lack of an art degree never hindered my hunger to learn as I struggled through different job situations in my life. I strive to show people how I perceive things on my journey in this lifetime, especially things that may be ignored or misunderstood.”

Danyelle Wyman

Burlington, Vermont – USA

Danyelle is a Burlington, Vermont-based artist originally from South Florida. She has been passionate about art since early childhood, beginning as soon as she could hold a crayon. Her work is deeply influenced by the world around her, with a primary focus on vibrantly colored landscapes that capture the beauty and emotion of natural environments. She primarily works with acrylic and watercolor, but enjoys experimenting with new mediums to expand her artistic expression. For Danyelle, making art is both a form of reflection and a means to inspire others.

Linda Zacks

New York, USA

Linda is a contemporary artist, award-winning art director, and graduate of Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. Her powerful visual storytelling style—part paint, part poetry—hopscotches across every medium, blurring the distinction between commercial projects and fine art along the way. Growing up outside of (and throughout) the U.S. shaped her mixed-media approach to creating dynamic works, and nothing in her practice—old wood, torn paper, rusty metal, ink, duct tape, Polaroids, digital conversations, video—goes unused. Recently, her work was shown at SCOPE Miami, and she also created large art commissions for One Vanderbilt in NYC. A lifelong love affair with words and letters makes its way into every painting and handmade book, some of which have been featured at New York’s MoMA Design Store and the International Center of Photography Museum Shop. Her art and brand commissions include projects for Broadway, Sony, Adobe, Viacom, Sneaker Pimps, Target, and the Sundance Film Festival, among others.