Like the paintings on the flood wall and wish you could have some on the wall of your living room? Not for me. Most of it would haunt my dre...

Those words are inscribed in the granite lintel over the entrance to the Saint Louis Art Museum. The same could be said for Artica, which is...

Most of the work was done when I swung by the Paint Louis wall Monday afternoon. A few finishing touches were being applied while visitors l...

More cruising the work on display at Artica.  The figures above have words torn into the green fabric but even up close I couldn...

Captions i n French two days in a row, huh? Must be getting snobby. I'll have to speak in more guttural tones soon. The reasons wi...

Okay, mix and match. The woman in the center was doing some kind of free form posing or dancing or whatever you want to call it on a ta...

Sheldon Johnson 's studio was across the hall from Marlene Lewis'. Like me, he has a day job but a separate passion. Some of hi...

Marlene Lewis is a painter whose work ranges from barely figurative to abstract. She uses loose, vibrant color with a palette that rem...

Down the hall from   Henryk Ptasiewicz's studio at Koken Art Factory I met another painter, Eric Ridge . His style is both more a...

Finally getting around to editing pictures from the annual St. Louis artists studio open house weekend. It took place over a month ag...

Another young painter on the tour, Andrew Brandmeyer . I don't see many abstract artists around here these days. The trend seems to...

I was visiting the studio of painter John Joseph Hunn and had taken some pix of him with a very large painting. His loft had plenty of ...

. While I was walking around the back streets of the Tour de Grove I ran into a family who had a racing party going on the sidewalk. F...

. I walked into Barry Liebman 's studio on Sunday, saw some of these paintings and thought, "wow, I bet this guy likes Cy Twombly ...

. It's Open Studios Weekend once again, when St. Louis artists open their workspaces or gather in exhibition centers to show what they a...

. Words sound so much more elegant to Americans when they are expressed in French. Just to say "painting outdoors" seems so bland....

. Looking north on 6th Street from just south of the downtown core. My style of HDR photos has vaguely reminded of the work of some painter ...

When I was looking for Gary Passanise's combination home and studio, people up the hill around the spaces of Craig Downs , Sarah Paulsen...

. Stan Chisholm's St. Louis studio is tiny, maybe 4 by 12 feet. Makes it a little tough to get enough space to set up a portrait but, h...

Sarah Paulsen's studio is in same group of old commercial buildings as Craig Woods'. Some of the spaces are dug into the hillside l...