Layor Art features contemporary and regional artists working across a range of mediums and perspectives.
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.
Amy Harney
Amy Harney creates atmospheric landscape photography rooted in light, movement, and the natural rhythms of the coast. Her work captures quiet, immersive moments in nature, inviting stillness and bringing depth and calm into the home.
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.
Ashley Paggi, working under the name Ash Cascade, is a Bend, Oregon-based artist, painter, and surface pattern designer whose work draws inspiration from the landscapes and textures of the Pacific Northwest. Blending fine art, illustration, and textile design, her paintings and patterns explore color, movement, and the layered beauty of the natural world.
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.
Breezy Winters
Based in Bend, Oregon, Breezy Winters creates atmospheric, expressive work that balances movement with restraint. Inspired by nature and emotion, her layered compositions invite a quiet, immersive experience.
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.
Craig Zuger is an Oregon oil painter known for his evocative landscapes inspired by the American West. Drawing from firsthand experiences in wilderness areas throughout the region, his work captures the atmosphere, beauty, and spirit of the land with remarkable depth and realism. Based in the Willamette Valley, Craig continues to create paintings that reflect a lifelong connection to nature and a deep respect for the Western landscape.
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.
Daniel Paul Smith
Landscape photographer based in Bend, Oregon and Mexico, capturing the textures of the high desert
Don Bauhofer
Don Bauhofer is an acrylic landscape painter whose work reflects a deep sensitivity to light, space, and atmosphere. His paintings invite viewers into expansive environments shaped by both observation and feeling.
Douglas Robertson
Douglas Robertson creates layered stencil-based paintings that explore symbolism, identity, and personal narrative. His work balances structure and spontaneity, offering imagery that is both direct and introspective.
Dr. Desiree Cox
Visionary artist based in New York, New York blending science and spirit through philosophical works
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.
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.
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.
Heather Szundy
Heather Szundy is a ceramic artist whose work explores form, texture, and function through a thoughtful and material-driven approach.
Henry Chaikin
Architect based in Bend, Oregon. Colored Pencil artist exploring form through layering colors
Holly Duncan
Holly Duncan is a glass artist whose work explores light, color, and transparency through kiln-formed and sculptural techniques. Her pieces shift with their surroundings, capturing and refracting light in ways that feel both delicate and dimensional. Rooted in material precision, her practice highlights the quiet strength and luminosity of glass.
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
Jesse Lockwood is a contemporary artist whose work explores mood, movement, and layered surface. Through expressive mark-making and nuanced color, he creates pieces that balance structure with spontaneity, inviting viewers into a space of depth and atmosphere.
Jeff & Heather Thompson
Jeff and Heather Thompson are a Bend, Oregon–based husband-and-wife glassblowing team whose sculptural works are inspired by the beauty and movement of the natural world. Combining traditional glassblowing techniques with a contemporary artistic vision, they create vibrant glass sculptures that celebrate light, color, and craftsmanship.
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.
Kimberley Yaegar
Kimberley Yaeger is a Bend-based mixed media artist whose work combines painting, collage, and layered materials to create richly textured, expressive compositions.
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 ener
gy 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.
Krystal Allen
Krystal Allen is a Central Oregon artist who paints atmospheric landscapes in oil that emphasize light, shadow, and the emotional character of place. Her work captures fleeting moments in the natural world with clarity and expressive depth.
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.
L.B. Brush
Lynn Brush paints atmospheric landscapes in oil that capture the subtle beauty and stillness of the natural world. Her work reflects a quiet attentiveness to light, mood, and the enduring character of place.
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.
Matthew Nicolau
Based in Central Oregon and originally working in street-pop aesthetics, Matthew 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.
Mary Medrano
Mary Medrano is a Bend-based painter whose background in photography and visual design informs her strong sense of composition and storytelling. Her work ranges from expressive animal portraiture to figurative and nature-inspired themes, blending careful observation with intuitive color and mark-making. Through her studio practice in Central Oregon, she continues to create work rooted in connection and emotional presence.
Michelle Beaudreau
Michelle Beaudreau is a Bend-based artist and educator whose work explores slow stitch and handcrafted jewelry. Rooted in process and material sensitivity, her practice emphasizes patience, repetition, and the quiet beauty of handwork.
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.
Mosley Wotta
Mosley Wotta is a Bend-based multidisciplinary artist known for bold color, layered abstraction, and an energetic studio practice. His work explores identity and connection while bridging personal expression with community engagement.
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.
Pamela Claflin
Pamela Claflin is a Pacific Northwest painter whose work is inspired by the landscapes of Oregon and the surrounding region. Through oil painting, she captures the quiet beauty of natural spaces with a focus on light, atmosphere, and preservation.
Pavel Yakushev
Pavel Yakushev is a contemporary metal artist and blacksmith whose work combines traditional forging techniques with imaginative storytelling and public art. Originally from Russia and now based in Galicia, Spain, he creates sculptural works that reflect a deep connection to craftsmanship, place, and community.
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.
Sally MacAllister
Based in Bend, Oregon, Sally MacAllister creates abstract impressionist paintings inspired by the light, movement, and atmosphere of the Pacific Northwest high desert. Working primarily in acrylic and oil, her layered compositions explore color, texture, and the emotional connection between landscape and memory. Drawing from the rivers, forests, and mountain terrain of Central Oregon, her work captures both the energy and quiet beauty of the natural world.
Shelly Kayser
Shelly Kayser is a mosaic artist whose work transforms individual fragments into cohesive, expressive compositions. Through careful placement of ceramic, stone, and mixed materials, she builds textured surfaces that balance precision with organic flow. Her pieces celebrate pattern, color, and the quiet strength found in assembling parts into a unified whole.
Shirley C Checkos is an award-winning oil painter based in Bend, Oregon whose work explores wildlife, landscape, and the quiet beauty of the natural world. Painting professionally since 1971, Shirley creates richly detailed works that balance realism with warmth and emotional presence, capturing intimate moments in nature through thoughtful composition and light.
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.
Stefan Savides
Stefan Savides is a bronze sculptor whose work is inspired by a lifelong fascination with birds and the natural world. Based in Oregon, Savides is widely recognized for his avian sculptures, which reflect decades of observation, study, and craftsmanship. Drawing upon an extensive background in wildlife anatomy and form, he creates sculptures that balance accuracy with elegant simplicity. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and can be found in public installations, private collections, and galleries dedicated to fine art and wildlife sculpture.
Steve Mathews
Steve Mathews is a Pacific Northwest artist who works on wood using colored pencil, creating detailed, layered compositions that explore landscape through texture and precision.
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.
Tyler Saunders
Tyler Saunders is an Oregon-based wildlife painter whose work reflects a lifelong connection to the landscapes and animals of the American West. Working primarily in oil, Saunders creates richly detailed paintings that balance realism with atmosphere, drawing from years of observation, field photography, and time spent outdoors.
Zack Fagin
Zack Fagin is a Bend-based artist whose work explores movement, form, and atmosphere through a dynamic and process-driven approach.
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.