Pastelbord
Featured artists: Ampersand Artist Partners
As the year wraps up, we wanted to highlight a few of the artists that graciously partnered with us over the year and shared their love of Ampersand with the world. We sent each of the December artists an Ampersand panel and one of our new 5x7 or Walnut Floaterframes. The task was to paint their artwork of choice and then frame it in the Floaterframe.
Featured artist: Lisa Skelly
After a house fire, Lisa Skelly relocated to Newport Beach, CA and resumed her longtime love affair with the ocean. Pastel plein air seascapes are her favorite subject and continue to be what she paints most often.
Featured artist: Timothy Joe
A self-taught, representational artist from the rural southern town of Greensboro, Alabama, Timothy Joe, creates art based on southern rural culture, family, and heritage themes.
Featured artist: Shawn Dell Joyce
Shawn Dell Joyce is a Florida-based plein air painter known for glowing sunsets, bold colors, dramatic scenery, and Florida wildlife.
Archiva-Seal™: Only by Ampersand
Ampersand's exclusive Archiva-Seal™ ensures paintings won’t yellow over time due to support-induced discoloration. Learn why this critical process makes Ampersand panels the most-trusted surface among artists.
Featured artist: Scott Gellatly
Ampersand Artist Ambassador Scott Gellatly is a landscape painter at heart, but his work has become more abstracted, with greater emphasis on pure color and gestural mark-making to evoke nature. As a plein air painter, Scott uses Ampersand Gessobord, Aquabord, and Pastelbord for his work.
Featured artist: Garron J Barrett
Garron J Barrett did what some can only dream of. He quit his full-time job to become an artist. The Atlanta-based Pastelbord artist went from public accounting to applied arts.
Featured artist: Jennifer Redstreake Geary
Ampersand Artist Ambassador, Jennifer Redstreake Geary, both a full-time mom and full-time graphic designer is also a prolific artist who is highly sought after for her work in watercolor and pastel.
Featured artist: Shana Rowe Jackson
Shana Rowe Jackson was very young when she knew she wanted to be an artist. She started teaching herself how to paint at the age of eight and by ten, she was calling herself an artist. Shana has always enjoyed experimenting with many different styles and media and is continually looking for new ways to grow and learn.
Featured artist: Ranjini Venkatachari
Washington-based colored pencil artist, Ranjini Venkatachari, shares her work and her process of working on Pastelbord. She explains why Pastelbord's surface has worked so easily for her style and experimentation.
