Layor Art proudly showcases the work of contemporary artists whose practices span a variety of mediums and voices. Below is a growing list of the artists we’ve exhibited and collaborated with in our Bend, Oregon space.

Featured Artists (A–Z)

Alexa Oxenrider
A Western artist whose paintings reflect a personal connection to horses, land, and wide open space. Alexa’s work combines fine draftsmanship with a dreamlike use of color, offering a quiet yet powerful view of the American West.

Alexx Elder
Based in Redmond, Oregon, Alexx is a printmaker, painter and illustrator whose work draws from the outdoors with a focus on botanical and natural motifs. Trained at the University of Washington and now working in Bend/Redmond, Alexx blends graphic design precision with expressive mark-making to capture the beauty of nature in fresh, wearable, and gallery pieces.

Allison Shadday
Based in Bend, Oregon, Allison is an encaustic painter who builds 30 to 50 layers of beeswax, damar resin and oil pigments, fusing each with a blowtorch to create luminous abstract surfaces. Inspired by places like the Hawaiian Islands, the San Juan Islands and the high desert, her work reflects movement, light and the textures of natural form.

Anton Yakushev
Award-winning figurative and surrealist sculptor based in Bend, Oregon. Anton is a metal sculptor and artist-blacksmith who hand-forges each piece in fire and steel, combining more than 50 individually forged details per work. His technique blends traditional joinery with contemporary design in sculptures that evoke movement, myth and material mastery.

Benjamin Moser
Baltimore-born and now based in Bend, Benjamin creates large format abstract paintings that merge landscape echoes with minimalist architecture. Drawing on his background in furniture design, his work navigates tension between chaos and structure through textured strokes, muted palettes and sweeping scale.

Carli Muller
Carli creates jewelry using natural stones and hand-crafted techniques. Based in Oregon, she brings texture, organic materials and bespoke detail into wearable pieces that feel both grounded and artful.

Carolyn Parker
Carolyn is a multidisciplinary artist and educator whose practice spans illustration, costume and puppet design, and performance. With a background in circus arts and movement instruction, her work carries a sense of play, imagination and theatrical storytelling.

Dan Custer
A Bend-based painter whose work frequently explores the interplay of river, rock, and reflection, Dan draws on decades of experience in advertising and illustration to bring fine art to life. His pieces blend crisp representation with luminous color, inviting the viewer into moments of light, water and landscape.

Dana Harmon
Based in Bend, Oregon, Dana is an impressionist mixed-media artist working in acrylics, bold color and thick texture. Her work transforms everyday landscapes and interiors into expressive compositions that invite the viewer into a space of mood, light and presence.

David Kinker
Based in Bend, Oregon, David is a landscape painter, muralist and instructor whose work spans realism, abstraction and large-scale public art. An experienced outdoorsman and former naval air-crewman, he draws on his time guiding river trips and his studies in visual communication to build imagery that reflects nature’s energy and layered light.

David Pritchard
Based in Bend, Oregon and formerly living in Austin, Texas, David works across a variety of mediums to blend Western influence with expressive abstraction. His paintings and mixed media pieces use bold color and rhythmic mark-making, inviting viewers into a layered space of texture, memory and movement.

Dave Fox
A Bend-based artist working in large-scale giclée prints pulled from iconic imagery and personal memory. His work heightens the familiar through bold contrast and a cinematic atmosphere.

Daniel Paul Smith
Landscape photographer based in Bend, Oregon and Mexico, capturing the textures of the high desert

Dr. Desiree Cox
Visionary artist based in New York, New York blending science and spirit through philosophical works

Elliot River
Artist based in Bend, Oregon creating dreamlike landscapes with delicate brushwork

Emily Livengood
Based in Bend, Oregon, Emily holds a background in ecological science and naturopathic medicine, which informs her approach to painting. She works in acrylic to “bring the outside in,” capturing wild places that invite pause, breath, and a sense of internal restoration. Her landscapes reflect a belief that connection to place can act as a form of quiet medicine.

Erik Hoogen
Based in Bend, Oregon, Erik creates large-scale paintings and murals that merge cultural references with expressive, street-art-inspired mark-making. His work draws from music, memory and lived experience, blending bold imagery with a raw, energetic surface.

Evan Namkung
Based in Bend, Oregon, Evan creates large-scale murals and expressive canvas works whose bold geometry and vivid palette merge urban edge with natural form. Fascinated by architecture and the geometry found in nature, his work explores the interplay between structure and movement to transform ordinary surfaces into emotionally charged environments.

Gerlinde Gelina
Originally from Cologne, Germany and now based in Bend, Oregon, Gerlinde is an abstract artist whose work grows organically from playful layering of media with acrylics, collage paper, epoxy resin and mixed textures. Each piece begins as a conversation between form, color and material, inviting viewers to project their own stories onto the surface.

Glo Bremer
Glo creates abstract geometric paintings and mixed media works inspired by geological formations such as boulders, pinnacles and rock faces. With a background in photography, she incorporates found textures and abstracted images into acrylic collages, responding to the sculptural forms of nature through color, shape and paint.

Greta Silva
Greta works in vibrant, abstract-impressionist style with a playful and expressive palette. Having taught art and created work in southern California, she brings a joyful energy and intuitive approach to color, texture and shape.

Hallie Grant
Ceramic artist based in Bend, Oregon

Heather Moyer
Heather works in expressive mixed media, blending bold mark-making with organic forms. Her pieces carry a sense of movement and emotional landscape, often hovering between abstraction and memory.

Henry Chaiken
Architect based in Bend, Oregon. Colored Pencil artist exploring form through layering colors

Holly Duncan
Glass and ceramic artist based in Bend, Oregon

Janet Frost
Based in Central Oregon, Janet paints in oil with a representational style that captures the region’s lakes, rivers, mountains and desert light. Her work reflects a deep engagement with atmospheric color and the shifting moods of the landscape.

Jesse Lockwood
Mixed media artist based in Bend, Oregon focused on mood, layering, and narrative

John Kelley
Mixed Media artist based in Bend, Oregon integrating textural and architectural elements

John Sherry
Based in Bend, Oregon, John is a pastel artist who draws inspiration from still life, animals, urban interiors and landscapes. Working primarily from his own photographs, he captures everyday objects and spaces with bold color, rich texture and a fresh perspective.

Kim Stover
Kim creates hand-crafted glass sculptures that capture light, movement and color in suspended, elegant form. Her work balances bold energy with refined structure, transforming translucent materials into objects of quiet presence.

Kenneth Marunowksi
A plein air painter working in oil, Ken captures the shifting light and rhythm of the Central Oregon landscape. His brushwork is direct and alive, preserving the immediacy and energy of painting on location.

Kurt Olson
Based in Bend, Oregon, Kurt builds art that merges painting and woodworking. He creates original works framed in his own extravagant hand-crafted frames. With over 20 years of experience in both mediums, he aims to influence how the art inhabits a space and evoke emotion rather than just thought.

Kristine Cooper
A Central Oregon artist working with richly layered mixed media that blends paint, paper, and found textures. Her work explores the connection between land and spirit, often carrying a quiet sense of reverence for natural forms.

Lacey Jade Champagne
Based in Bend, Oregon, Lacey is an abstract and mixed media painter whose work explores movement, layered texture and expansive fields of color. Her surfaces carry a sense of rhythm and energy, inviting viewers into a space where gesture and atmosphere meet.

M. Luke Allee
Based in Bend, Oregon, Luke paints atmospheric urban landscapes shaped by his time in Portland as a finish carpenter and observer of quiet early-morning streets. His work blends precise linework, layered texture and subtle narrative to capture cityscapes in moments of transition.

Mark Kachlein
A Central Oregon artist with over thirty years of creative practice, Mark specializes in sculpture in stone and steel, transforming raw materials into striking, evocative forms. Drawing inspiration from the rugged local landscape, the human figure and objects laden with symbolic meaning, his work enacts a dialogue between material, form and environment. 

Markie DeBraal
Markie creates ceramic sculptures that combine wheel-throwing and underglaze experimentation. Her pieces often reflect playful form and texture, treated with a bold, expressive aesthetic drawn from both studio craft and personal visual exploration.

Mathew Nicolau
Based in Central Oregon and originally working in street-pop aesthetics, Mathew brings color, bold layering and graphic energy into gallery-scale paintings and mixed-media works. His art merges urban attitude with painterly depth to create pieces that feel both expressive and refined. 

Miguel Edwards
Based in Bend after establishing his career in Seattle, Miguel is a sculptor and public artist known for large-scale works that fuse steel, glass and powder-coated finishes to evoke motion and architectural force. His projects include a kinetic sculpture in Seattle and a 20-foot lit cauldron created for the 50th Anniversary of the Special Olympics, reflecting his command of light, metal fabrication and public space.

Mikalah Ball
A lifelong Oregonian based in the Portland metro area, Mikalah works in stoneware and porcelain to create handcrafted functional pottery that blends organic form with modern simplicity. Her wheel-thrown and slab-built pieces celebrate texture, mindful process and everyday beauty.

Mollie Jurgenson
An abstract painter whose work draws from movement, emotion, and atmospheric color. Mollie builds her surfaces in shifting layers, inviting viewers into a moment of calm, gesture, and open interpretation.

Nicole Fontana
Acrylic and spray paint artist based in Bend, Oregon mixing surrealism and symbolism

Pamela Beaverson
Pamela draws on a lifelong love of nature and scientific illustration to create oil paintings and prints rooted in the open skies and subtle hues of the Great Basin region. With an early background in botanical and wildlife studies, she brings both precision and lyricism to landscapes that speak quietly of place, light and observation.

Pavel Yakushev
Pavel creates sculptural works in metal that emphasize balance, tension and the expressive potential of forged steel. His pieces reveal the physical process of making, where heat, force and precision shape raw material into refined form.

Rachel Binah
Starting with collage, Rachel gathers scraps of cultural waste such as plastics, roofing tiles, screening, Tyvek, fabric and paper. She stitches them together with rough hand-sewn lines of twine or ribbon. Her constructions extend beyond traditional borders and embrace irregularity and the beauty found in discarded materials.

Raina Verhey
Raina is a self-taught oil painter based in Central Oregon who draws from her journeys through high-desert and Southwestern landscapes. Her impasto brushwork and dramatic light interpret solitary scenes of rock and sky as “Landscapes of the Soul,” seeking to hold space for spirit and the elemental in our modern age. 

Richard Sweatt
A Bend-based painter working in oil and acrylic, Richard brings a disciplined eye to light, color, and composition. His paintings balance structure and atmosphere, reflecting a lifelong dedication to craft and visual clarity.

Ruth Carroll
Ruth is a Bend-based painter working in oil and cold wax, building layered surfaces that hold both texture and quiet light. Her work draws from the natural rhythm of Central Oregon landscapes, balancing abstraction with a grounded sense of place.

Sheila Dunn
Painter based in Bend, Oregon known for bold color, natural elements, and energy

Sondra Holtzman
Based in Bend, Oregon, Sondra holds a fine art education from the Rhode Island School of Design and the California College of the Arts. With a professional practice spanning over 30 years, she draws her inspiration from travel, sketchbooks and the natural world. Her work invites curiosity, exploration and a shared discovery of artistic voice.

Telma Setti
Born in Jacarezinho, Brazil and now based in Bend, Oregon, Telma transitioned from a career in civil engineering to full-time painting. She works primarily in oils, focusing on still life, animals and landscapes. A member and elected Vice President of the Plein Air Painters of Oregon, her practice emphasizes direct observation of nature, capturing light, color and atmosphere in outdoor and studio settings.

Travis Knight
Based in Bend, Oregon, Travis is a representational artist known for oil paintings and large-scale custom murals that bring wildlife and frontier subjects to life with dramatic light and texture. Raised in Bozeman, Montana, and trained in traditional atelier methods, his work fuses realism with a sense of movement and atmosphere.

Wendy Lou
Abstract painter based in Bend, Oregon blending whimsy with vibrant emotion

Zach Filkins
Based in Central Oregon, Zach creates mixed media works that merge graphic elements with painterly layers. His pieces often play between control and spontaneity, using texture and contrast to explore rhythm, pattern and mood.