occasions! by design

Marcia Sednek's Pedestal Vase and Flowers

 Sculpted wire mesh, found objects, and antique tins make up Marcia Sednek’s flower arrangements and whimsical dresses. Sednek entices the viewer with creative and amazing points of view.

The colors of Chrysen Spreng’s hand wheeled pottery resembles Sedona’s rusty red rocks and golden sand. Her pieces are not only  unique and vividly colored, but also functional and durable pieces that make excellent accents and serving pieces to enhance your table for any occasion. 

Ray Maseman St. Uriel

Antique glass beads, typewriter keys, barbed wire, bicycle chain, old keys and washers and nuts comprise Kim Mason’s eclectic jewelry collection. Based out of New Mexico Mason recycles antique and mixed metal objects and assembles them into gorgeous, creative and lively pieces of jewelry such as pins, earrings and rings. Our new collection is very creative and sure to please all styles!

Come and enjoy our new collection! Open seven days a week at our new location on Main Street in Scottsdale’s Art District.

Occasions! by design

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Jeannie Sellmer "Short Story 1" Oil on Board

Based out of New Mexico, Jeannie Sellmer is an abstract and landscape painter. Her medium is oil on board. When creating her paintings her guiding elements are color, value, shape and texture which evoke both a sense of energy and contemplation. Her paintings invite the viewer to engage in the visual field with a sense of meandering exploration and open interpretation.

The evolution for her paintings is derived from six ideas; color combinations, geometric forms, nature, music, memories and sensations. She brings all of these elements into her paintings through a layering technique. Each layer changes the painting but leave traces of what was originally there.

Her overall approach is to be spontaneous, working the surface while creating an interplay of sublet transitions of color and texture resulting in a complex and nuanced surface of color harmony and balance.

Addie Draper - "Bosque Fall Tree"

A new artist to occasions! Addie Draper who also lives in New Mexico on forty acres of land. Her focus is landscape and after many years of working with pastels she is exploring oils. She is intrigued by the possiblities for texture and expressive movements with oil.

Her inspiration is based from potent moments in her life usually occuring in solitude. She is also inspired by magnificent views of broad landscapes as well as beautiful close ups of a tiny section of the world. The textural qualities of oil paints lead to the beautiful richness of expression that she uses to help translate the experience of a place.

In her work she tries to creat poetry versus a direct representation, suggesting rather than stating. Overall she wants the viewer to take away their own interpretations to create their own narrative.

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Randy Cooper is a well known for his exquisite mesh sculptures. Each sculpture is unique and skillfully crafted by hand, without molds, from wire mesh to form beautiful fish, abstract forms, and human figures. The sculptures are beautiful in themselves, but Randy considers the shadows that are cast to be the real artwork as they captivate the eye and tease the mind with their subtle details.

Born at 238 feet below sea level in Mecca, California, Randy Cooper had only one direction in which he could go — up! And he certainly has done that. After earning a Master’s degree in education from the University of Idaho, Randy served as a special education teacher. He has also worked as a hod carrier and a lumberjack in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. He worked for Westinghouse for 7 years, first as an operator, and then as a developer and teacher of the Total Quality Management program.

As an artist, he credits his attention to detail to this experience. Randy’s mother is a master carver of birds and gunstocks. His sister is an accomplished painter, sculptor, and author. The sensitivity of Randy’s huge hands seems to be in his genes! Randy’s first art education consisted of two 6-week courses studying with sculptor Wren Prather-Stroud. He also studied at the Scottsdale Artists’ School with Tuck Langland for a week. Randy is basically self-taught and has developed all of his shadow sculpture techniques on his own.

Randy works as a full-time sculptor and lives in New Mexico with his wife, Susan, a writer and an artist who works primarily in pastels, oils, and acrylics. After working successfully in clays, artificial stone, and bronzes, Randy began crafting intriguing and magical sculptures in wire mesh. These are forms created in wire screen that cast lovely shadows on the wall. When lit with a light source, the shadows sometimes have more details than the sculpture itself. Randy’s ability to see the subtleties in the human form makes his work stand out.

These shadow sculptures have been sweeping the United States and the world for the past few years. Randy Cooper is a force among America’s contemporary artists. His Shadow Sculptures already highlight many private collections throughout the world.

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