The monotype has been the main focus for Linda Tay'nahza' for twenty years. Her prints reflect the medium's unique capacity for high color saturation. Her imagery has been influenced by her life in the mountains, and the years she lived on the Navajo Reservation in Northeastern Arizona. It was there she was given the name tsii'lai doo diniltso dii da, roughly meaning light colored hair, which was later translated to the English Tay'nahza'.
The small mountain community of Truckee California, located in the Sierras, was home for Tay'nahza' for twenty years. There she raised her two children, taught, and established Tay'nahza' Printmaking and Gallery. Closing the printmaking studio in 1993, she returned to Arizona and lived in Scottsdale for 3-1/2 years. In the fall of 1998, Tay'nahza' relocated to Sundance, Utah for its beautiful blend of the west and the mountain communities she loves. While in Sundance, she has taught and continues to produce new work. She is presently undertaking a new project, “Common Ground, An Artists’ Survey Of The American West.”

Andy Skaff’s love of the West provides the inspiration for his light- filled, vibrant landscapes. By painting outdoors in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and throughout the West, he has developed a deep appreciation for the color and beauty of the western landscape. His paintings convey the clear sense of strong color and deep contrasts, which he sees in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and high deserts of New Mexico and Arizona.

Andy works in oils in the Plein Air tradition. He began college as an art major at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Although he enjoyed a successful law practice, Andy never lost interest in painting and collecting art. After 34 years, he decided to pursue his passion on a full-time basis. He has studied extensively with the renowned painter Kevin Macpherson. Andy is a member of the Oil Painters of America, the California Art Club, and the North Tahoe Arts Association. He is also a volunteer fireman at Lake Tahoe’s Meeks Bay Fire District.

Dianne Hub
Original acrylic / oil paintings - Plein Air

Plein air painter Diane Hub has been capturing the beauty of landscape for many decades. "My mother jokes that I was born with a crayon in my hand," Hub says. But although she has painted throughout her life, with many accolades, she came to the commercial world slowly and, it sometimes seems, reluctantly.
"When I think about selling commercially," she says, "I start to lose that spiritual connection to my art." Nevertheless, 16 years ago, Hub began selling her work commercially through Frames by Ryrie. It is still her only gallery outlet, and she is Ryrie's top-selling artist. This is certainly because the gallery gives her the freedom to create what she wants at the pace that suits her.
Although she is a representational artist, Diane Hub's work reflects the emotions she feels about a place as much as its physical beauty. "I have to feel an emotional connection to what I'm painting," she says. "In my paintings, I want to convey that emotion to the viewer." Though she relies on the framework of what she sees, Hub takes artistic liberty to heighten and extract those elements that are most interesting to her. "What I paint is not a detailed copy of what I see. I'll change the composition slightly or change the shape of particular elements, like a tree, to make them more appealing."

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Sara Rodgers
Original water color paintings - Wildlife

Many of artist Sarah Rogers' subjects - wolves, bears, crows, horses - are familiar to her rural Wyoming neighbors; but the vibrant colors spring entirely from her imagination. The result has been described as "tropical western wildlife".

Sarah's medium is watercolor, usually combined with graphite. She frequently applies several layers of heavy color to create the bright tones and often opaque quality of the paint. She prefers smooth surfaces and uses hot pressed paper or plate smooth illustration board.

Pam Krone
Original acrylic paintings / Giclée

A true Californian, she was born raised and educated in California. She attended the University of California at Davis majoring in art and specializing in graphics. With degree in hand she moved to Truckee, California in the early 70's and founded a commercial graphics/sign painting company called "Graffiti Graphics". After twenty years of success in the graphics area she found her interests changing toward fine art. In the late 80's and early 90's she was doing exclusively watercolors, acrylics, and hand painted sculptures. In recent years she enjoyed increased demand for her work and spent 5 to 6 days a week in her studio working exclusively on commissioned work and paintings going to the galleries that represented her. Her clients frequently waited several months for their commissioned paintings.
Her style could be best described as "my impression of realism" which has been heavily influenced by her background in graphics. She loved doing large works with lots of color and life. She started painting mostly in acrylic, as necesity dictates, because she was painting such large pieces. She found it a challenge to "coax" life from acrylics to achieve the glows that are achieveable with oils and the moods more easily attained with watercolors. Most recently, she had been painting old wooden boats, lakescapes and landscapes that present appealing images of the essence of Lake Tahoe.

Pam Krone lost her battle with lymphoma in 2003.

Dana Eiremo
Original sculpture - Wildlife

Dana Eiremo was born and raised in Reno, Nevada. She grew up always loving any kind of art. From her first pack of crayons to colorful felt-tipped pens, she always felt that creative expression with her hands would be a vital part of her life. While in grade school, she attempted paper mache sculptures on her own after school. After seeing her creations, Dana's mother enrolled her in a sculpture class taught for adults. Dana immediately knew that this was going to be her medium. She began creating all kinds of animals and was soon selling her pieces in local galleries in the Reno/Tahoe area. She studied art for three years at the University of Nevada, Reno, concentrating mostly on painting, but she always felt called to working with clay. Since 1985 she has shown her work in galleries from Monterey, Santa Cruz, to Davis, Sacramento and Oregon. Her work has been purchased by people from around the world.
Each piece that Dana creates is an original. Molds are never made. Each sculpture is a hand-built, hollow creation made with a high fire stoneware clay. After firing, the sculptures are then painted with many layers of acrylics. Although subjects may be repeated, no two pieces are ever exactly alike.