By the age of 4, Aleks was drawing and by age 13 passed the rigorous tests that allowed him to enter an art school in his home town of Kostroma, about 200 miles northeast of Moscow.  Aleks attended an art college in his twenties for the Masters Degree equivalency.  With his life’s passion, he moved his family to the United States in 1993 and being an avid student of U.S. History, he achieved his citizenship in 1998.
     Kargopoltsev produces realistic and impressionist paintings of landscapes, seascapes, still life, and portraits.  Aleks paints Plein Air in the field and holds that mental image until he recaptures it back in the studio.  Kargopoltsev believes that painting outdoors results in a combination of color and emotion.  What you observe, know, feel, smell, taste, and touch is part of the whole painting.
     Since settling in Arlington, Washington, Aleks has taught at the Andersen Center in Edmonds, Mukilteo, Tri-Dee in Mt. Vernon, The Gene Nastri Community School of the Arts, and Alek’s Studio and Art Gallery in La Conner.
     Paintings by Aleksandr Kargopoltsev can be found in galleries up and down the Washington and Oregon coast, in addition to private collections around the world.

Born in Portland Oregon
From 1998 to present, I have been making art, primarily painting. In 2002, after 30 years of bachelorhood, I married lovely Laura.
1966: Introduction to Graphic Design, Harvard University
1967: Introduction to Perspective, Boston Museum of Fine Arts
1971: Sold silkscreen art to a gallery in Washington D.C.
2003: Began selling paintings to Janus Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin
2003: Studied painting with Deanne Lemley

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Robert Niles Kelley grew up in a Seattle art family. His father Niles is a life member of the Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters.  His mother Joyce graduated from the University of Washington and the Cornish School of Art  going on to teach art at Epiphany school in Seattle.  From a young age Robert was exposed to art. He tells of block print making when he was a child at Fey Chong's studio in Seattle.  He attended workshops at Cornish, the Fry, the U of W, and at private studios. Robert's interest in art continued at the U of W where he studied both art and science.  During post graduate studies, he spent a year in an anatomy lab drawing and developing insight into the human form.

Kerr earned a BA degree from Hofstra University, attended the Art Students League, Frank Reilly School of Art, and the School of Visual Art in Provincetown, NYC, where he spent several summers portrait sketching. He taught advertising art at Pel’s school of Art and Advertising Design at State University of New York in Utica. He has devoted extensive technical study in photogrammetry, fiber optics, and computer networking. He is a technical artist and engineering graphics specialist at U.S. Naval Civil Engineering Lab at Port Hueneme, California. He has studied with Rex Brandt and Robert E. Wood.

I was a Minnesota farm boy who came to Poulsbo, Washington in my early twenties and soon became enamored with the sea. Wrangling a ride on an old, wooden sailboat, I spent a summer cruising the waters in the Inside Passage and became convinced that the sailing life was for me. Upon arrriving back home, I soon found myself in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, processing the giant king crab and was introduced to the world of commercial fishing.
 
That was thirty years ago and in that time I have combined my love of art, sailing and fishing into a lifestyle that continues to this day. Over the years I have sailed not only the waters of the Pacific Northwest, but have built a small gaff-rigged yawl and cruised the Caribbean, spent time sailing in Tonga in the South Pacific, and many ports in between, including transiting the Panama Canal.
 
I obtained a USCG Master's Licence and used it in the Alaska fishing industry, working on fishing boats ranging from 42 to 350 feet. Today, I still go north, up to six months a year, now working on the super trawlers, the large boats that fish pollock in the Bering Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk in Russia.
 
My intimate knowledge of both the sea and the boats that ply them enable me to paint them with an accuracy and precision that is difficult to obtain without having been there and experienced the play of light on the water, the storms, the rigging of the boats, and all the details that make up a successful marine painting.

An accomplished watercolorist, he is a graduate of the Los Angeles School of Design and has won a number of awards in local art exhibitions. He is a Life Member of the Puget Sound Group.

Born Scott David Landry, October 28, 1956, in Bristol, Connecticut. Although Seattle artist Scott Landry only recently transitioned from working with oils to pastels, this tranquil and lovely pastel on paper is very indicative of his representational style. Landry works almost exclusively on location as a plein air painter, documenting the beauty of the Northwest. Landry studied at Gage Academy of Fine Art and University of Washington. He is a member of the Puget Sound Group of Painters, Artist Trust, Northwest Pastel Society and Plein Air Painters of Washington. Landry’s recent shows include the Washington State Convention & Trade Center and the Plein Air Washington Exhibit where he was given the People’s Choice Award. Scott has also received an award of merit from the Clymer Museum in Ellensburg, Washington.

Before starting a new career as the Cultural Programs Coordinator for the City of Enumclaw, Gary LaTurner taught art in public schools in Washington State for 33 years.

Painting has been part of Gary’s life since early childhood. He grew up in Spokane, where he won a Spokane Daily Chronicle drawing prize at the age of five.  He graduated from Eastern Washington University with an MA in education and a major in art. 

Gary lives in Bonney Lake with his wife Gretchen.  He is represented by the Two Vaults Gallery in Tacoma and is located on their website: www.twovaults.com.  Gary works in watercolor and oils and does figure work as well as landscapes.  He frequently exhibits at the Arts Alive Gallery in Enumclaw. His artwork is held in many private collections in the United States, Europe, and Asia. 

As a sculptor, painter and craftsman his work is exhibited in Washington, Oregon, California, New York, Connecticut, and Colorado. Phillip taught briefly at the University of Washington where he earned a MFA in Sculpture. He served two terms on King County Arts Commission and is a Past President of the Northwest Institute of Sculpture, Northwest Sculptors Association, and Vice-president Washington Chapter Artists Equity. Phillip is a recipient of the 1997 Governor’s Award in the Arts, Washington State. His work is represented in many private and public collections along the west coast. A book of his sculpture and drawings will be available in January of 2009.

Dave earned a Bachelor of Arts at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon and studied Art Advertising Design at the University of Washington and the Los Angeles Art Center. He’s been an Art Director and Illustrator with advertising agencies and studios in Seattle and Los Angeles since 1957. For many years, Dave has a provided artistic and graphic support to the Boeing Commercial Airplane Group.

Joe grew up in the Pacific Northwest and, as an engineering graduate of the University of Washington, has worked as a computer network design engineer in the Seattle area for many years.  Following retirement, Joe has been pursuing a career in fine art.  He continues to develop his skills, techniques and style in all mediums and has received many awards for his work. 

 Joe is a signature member of the NW Watercolor Society. He also is a member of the Cottage Lake Artist Guild, the Portrait Society of America, the Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters, and is the past president of the Eastside Association of Fine Arts.  Joe teaches workshops with Dan Riley on Portrait and Figure drawing and painting and Composition and Style. In addition, he has provided many demos at various art associations and art stores.

Mike is a member of the Northwest Watercolor Society and Puget Sound Group. He is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Architecture, and has entered prize-winning paintings in a number of exhibitions including the Frye Museum, Seattle Art Museum ’s Northwest Annual.  His work is included in both private and corporate collections.

David McGranaghan, born in 1957, was influenced by Impressionism while in high school in Avon, New York.  He attended SUNY College at Buffalo, earning Bachelors Fine Art in 1979 followed by a Masters in 1989, at the University of Washington. Davis has lived in Seattle since1981 actively painting. His self-portrait done on a round canvas with a fish-eye perspective, won first prize at the Frye Art Museum?s annual Puget Sound Area Exhibition in 1984. While his small but abundant oil studies of the human figure are notable, landscapes dominate his work, often with a sense of irony in his more prosaic views: usual sights not usually painted.  Such urban scenes are like a counterpoint to his obvious love for natural vistas

Four years ago, I left my career in business after 30 years with some frustration.  It was no longer rewarding for a lot of reasons, and I really wanted something creative to do.  I wandered into a bookstore one evening and happened upon an meeting of poets who were reading their works and I was fascinated.  So I stayed and listened until they were done.  These were regular people who wrote some quite beautiful words.  OK some of them were somewhat on the funky side but so what.  I realized that I needed to do something like that, but I was no creative writer so what should it be?  Since I had been dabbling with this art thing I decided to try it.  Since I had no idea how to start, I pulled out an old book on drawing that I had kept around since the 70’s and began to draw virtually every day.  After thrashing around for some time on my own, I began formal study with Danila Rumold, an abstract painter in Seattle , who helped me to master the basics of making art and introduced me to charcoal, ink, water color and oil painting.  Danila is a young woman of great depth, and we endlessly philosophized about art as well as working at it.  It was a fortunate beginning because I have always felt that art is more than just technique and with Danila I found that to be true.  I found myself drawn to all kinds of subjects but my emerging interest was in landscapes.  In 2005, I began study with Ned Mueller, a internationally renowned painter, in order to develop my skills in landscape painting.  Ned was instrumental in teaching me the fundamentals of composing and painting a landscape along with encouraging the flexibility to allow the subject matter to inspire the painting without being literal in the rendering.  Ned really helped me with the real thing—painting from life and I made a great friend in the process.  I am still amazed at how difficult it is to execute outdoors with limited time and he makes look easy.  Later I did more studying with Alex Kargopoltsev, a Russian impressionistic painter.  Alex took things a step further by encouraging experimentation with brushwork and color—again from life.  More recently, I have studied with Lianna Bennett.   Lianna has helped greatly with design and composition—perhaps the bedrock of good painting.  I still work with Ned and Lianna on and off, but most of my work is in the studio where I feel like I can try anything.

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Alden Metcalf, a native of Washington State, lives in Bellevue.  Alden is a life member and Past President of the PSGNWP. He graduated with a BPA from the Art Center School of Design in Los Angeles. For over thirteen year he was a Designer/Illustrator for The Boeing Company working on the Boeing Magazine with the Public Relations Department in Seattle. Alden has also worked as Illustrator for Harry Bonath & Associates and as an  Instructor at the Seattle Central Community College Advertising Art Dept for 20 years. His work has been exhibited at the Grand Central Gallery in New York City, the Frye Art Museum in Seattle and other Galleries and shows in the western states.  Alden studied with Russian Impressionist, Sergei Bongart, Del Gish, and Kang Cho.  Alden currently works in oils and watercolor. He spends winters in Tucson, Arizona painting plein aire in the Sonoran desert.

Clarence Miller  was educated at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Institute of Design. He has exhibited at the Frye Northwest Annual, the Bellevue Arts & Crafts Fair, and the Burien Arts and Crafts Fair. He has participated in workshops with Karen Kuzak, Judy Betts, Rex Brandt, Robert E. Wood and his paintings are exhibited in many private collections.

After Princeton, when I discovered that a career in architecture was not for me, I entered the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating three and a half years later with a degree in Fine Arts. And then I did not paint again for 25 years pursuing instead a livelihood in advertising and marketing.

While living in Los Angeles in the 70's I took up watercolors, a medium I had never studied. I was lucky enouugh to have two large one-man shows that helped jump start my reputation.

Retiring in1999 my wife and I moved to the Oregon coast where I was influenced by such nationally known watercolorists as Katherine Davis and Jan Kunz. We traveled extensively and I have painted landscapes, marine scenes and architecture in Europe, Africa and Asia.

We moved to Gig Harbor, Washington in 2004 and I began to paint more Northwest landscapes and rekindled my love of boats and water. I am a Director of the Peninsula Art League, a member of the Northwest Watercolor Society and have been juried into the two oldest professional painting groups in the United States -- The Pugrt Sound Group of Northwest Painters and the American Artists Professional League (aka The Salamagundi Club).

James was born to a US Navy family.  So, he grew up in Hawaii, Sicily, Pennsylvania, Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, and California.  With his wife, Sue Symons, he created and ran Moore & Symons, Inc., a marketing research and planning firm in Atlanta, Georgia.  After selling the business, James and Sue lived in northwest Montana near Glacier Park for nine years, where he started painting professionally. Now, James and Sue live on Whidbey Island, an hour and a half northwest of Seattle, Washington.

A member of Oil Painters of America, Plein Air Washington, and the Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters, Moore is represented by Insights Gallery (Anacortes, WA), Crow Valley Gallery (Orcas Island, WA), Gallery San Juan (Friday Harbor, WA), Timber Stand Gallery (Sandpoint, ID), and Glacier Gallery (Kalispell, MT).  He is a founder of the Plein Air Painters’ U.S. Open and the San Juan Preservation Trust Plein Air Shows.  James instructs at his Studio and is on the visiting faculty of the Pacific Northwest Art School (Whidbey Island, WA).

Born in Wisconsin and raised in Montana, Ned Mueller has been drawing and painting all of his life. He graduated from the prestigious Art Center School of Design, where he also taught drawing while still a student. His love of life is reflected in his superb paintings of a wide range of subjects. Working as an illustrator for 25 years, he built a solid foundation of professionalism. He ’s been a successful full time artist since 1984 and enhanced his knowledge and skills taking workshops with master artists Harley Brown, Richard Schmidt, Bettina Steinke, Del Gish and Sergei Bongart. He ’s written several articles for Artists Magazine, been called to jury shows, is a popular and enthusiastic workshop teacher around the country and abroad. A member of the Oil Painters of America, the Northwest Watercolor Society, the Northwest Rendezvous Group, the Knickerbocker Society and a Master Pastelist in the Northwest Pastel Society, his work hangs in some of the finest shows and galleries in the country, he ’s won numerous awards; most recently a Gold medal in the Knickerbocker Show.

I grew up in Seattle Washington where I developed my love for nature and the mountains. .  After graduating from the University of Washington, I spent the next 33 years satisfying my creative needs as a carpenter and builder in the Puget Sound area. I specialized in unique one of a kind residential remodels and custom new homes. In retirement I discovered painting as a way to satisfy my desire to be creative and stay connected to nature and the mountains.  I enjoy painting things the way I fantasize them to be.  I am self taught and love the experience of seeing a painting develop, as I develop my technique.  I am working mainly with acrylics on canvas.

Gary Nelson  three-time president of the Puget Sound Group was born Tacoma and now lives in Renton. He is a Burnley School Faculty Professor and Professor at the Highline Community College. He is also a  freelance designer/ illustrator and studied with Jerry Stitt, Pory Acker, James Peck, and J.C. Cauthorn.

Alan Newberg is a full time artist working in Kitsap County, Washington. He has exhibited widely throughout the United States in museums, art centers, and galleries.  His work has won awards and honors in numerous juried professional competitions, including several first place and best of shows.  Major examples of his work can be found in a number of public, corporate and private art collections throughout the country.

Alan maintains a studio in Bremerton.  He is a founding member of the Collective Visions Gallery in downtown Bremerton.  He is a member of the Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters, and teaches drawing at Olympic College in Bremerton.  Before moving to Bremerton in 1989, Alan was a professor of art and for seven years was chair of the Art Department at Montana State University-Billings.  He holds a B.A. from the University of Sioux Falls in Sioux Falls, SD, an M.A. from the University of Wyoming in Laramie, WY, and an M.F.A. from the University of Oregon in Eugene, OR. 

Although drawing had been an interest since his youth in Chicago, science motivated his choices in school, extending to a Master’s Degree in biochemistry at UCLA in 1969 which has served him through career employments in teaching and in research.

While pursuing graduate studies he began enrollment in art studio classes, a decision pivotal in setting a new direction for his life. During subsequent years in Los Angeles he attended adult education and community college art classes, enrolled for a time at the Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County (subsequently Otis-Parsons) and attended private sessions taught by instructors from Art Center School in Pasadena.

His artworks have been widely exhibited in the United States, and are included locally in the collections of Bon Macy’s and Swedish Hospital.

Dave Nichols, retired from the superior court bench in 2005, lives in Northwest Washington on the shores of Lake Whatcom. His interest in art began while still in college, and now in retirement he devotes full time to his passion.

Dave works in both watercolor and oil and emulates the Brandywine artists of the Delaware/Pennsylvania area. He considers Phillip Jamison of West Chester, PA, Mike Wise of Richland, WA, Brent Jensen of Atlanta, GA, Josh Elliott of Helena, MT, and Jeff Horn of Costa Mesa, CA as his primary mentors and influences. He has exhibited and sold his art throughout the Northwest. He welcomes visitors to his studio.

The art shown in this site is for sale. Contact the artist for prices. His art may also be viewed at the Blue Horse Gallery in Bellingham

Ross was trained by his father, commercial artist Gordon Nicoll, to get his drawing right. His engineering apprenticeship included technical illustration which further enhanced his drawing skills. Migrating to Seattle in 1957, Ross started a 33 year career with Boeing, which included family moves to Europe, Florida and California, retired from Boeing 16 years ago, and made art his second career. Ross and his wife Rita (also an artist) settled in Kirkland, where he soon became part of the art scene, launching the Parklane Gallery in 1991 and painting several murals around town. His affection for Kirkland is revealed in Kaleidoscope (1995) and the several smaller paintings of some of Kirkland’s best loved old features.

Allan was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1930. Allan has studied art at Leon Derbyshire’s School of Fine Art, Cornish School of Art, the Burnley School of Professional Art, and the Frye Art Museum. He has been fortunate to study with Olive Malstrom Carl, James Peck and Gerald Grace. He is a past president (1976), and life member of the Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters, and member of the Peninsula Art Association. Allan has exhibited in many prestigious shows, including the Seattle Art Museum, Frye Art Museum and Traveling show, Northwest Watercolor Society, Shelton Best of Shows, West Coast Paper Art Exhibition and selected for the 2009 Foss Maritime Calendar. His paintings are in many private and corporate collections.