Exhibition Dates:

Gallery Opening –  January 21st, 2025

Opening Night Reception – February 22nd, 2025

Featured Artists:

Casey Brennen-Hebb – Boulder, CO

Casey is a landscape and abstract artist based in Colorado. As a life-long creative, she finds painting to be a potent vehicle to express her awe and passion for the natural world.

Casey works in multiple styles and mediums and believes that the contrast in her styles of work enliven the process of creating and keep her inspiration feeling fresh.

Cindi Yaklich –  Boulder, CO

In 2018, Cindi shifted her professional focus to her passion for oil painting.

Her commitment and professionalism are underpinned by 40 years in graphic design.

Cindi is an explorer, revealing the beauty in quiet, everyday objects that often escape notice. In her art, each object becomes a portal to our intricate reality, where light and texture interweave. These ordinary pieces, tucked away in life’s corners, hold hidden histories. Whether whole or fragmented, these histories contribute to our shared understanding of reality. It is through the act of retelling that we enrich and solidify this understanding, making the world feel more natural and whole.

Cindi honors the realist tradition; oils are used on fine Belgian linen to bring untold stories to light. The goal is to highlight how even fragmented histories play a role in our broader comprehension of the world. By recontextualizing the ordinary, she hopes to reveal the beauty and interconnectedness in what is often overlooked.

Heidi Love Larraz – Boulder, CO

Heidi Love Larraz is an American realist artist with a slight hint of surrealism. Her work is most often inspired by the natural world for it is there, in the outdoors, where she has found the majestic subjects that captivate her most. We see in her work the sublime power and beauty of nature, often used as metaphor. Graduating from Prescott College in 1991, she began almost immediately working as an intern for the renowned Sculptor and Master Potter, Heath Krieger. She was the only intern in Krieger’s studio for three years, which required dedication and hard work. Krieger’s approach to his art and teaching is rooted in Japanese tradition. Focusing on constant repetition, detachment from ego, and the continual awareness of shape. Beyond these technical trainings, it was a time to learn how to discover deeper parts of the self, identify how to grow as a whole person, and eventually convey that through one’s art. Heidi’s artistic trajectory shifted into painting a decade later. She began exploring with drawing, watercolor, and oil. She began studying and learning from Cuban artist Julio Larraz. The composition of his subject matter, the intuitive nature of his color palette, the constant discipline it takes to be able to convey one’s intentions and visual contribution to the world are some of the attributes learned from Julio. Watching Julio paint while discussing his perspectives and concepts have been invaluable for growth and understanding. Working out of her studio in Denver, Colorado, Heidi continues to develop her style as an artist while pursuing the “streams of consciousness” that find their way into her mind and onto the canvas. 

Richelle Cripe – Longmont, CO 

Originally from West Virginia, Richelle has lived in the mountains her whole life- they’re in her blood. She spends a lot of time outdoors when she’s not working, and most of her creative inspiration comes from the landscape; both natural and built environments. For as long as she can remember, she has enjoyed making things and working with her hands, but didn’t consider herself an artist until she created her first authentic body of work in college.

She paints in series and approaches each collection a little differently. She is heavily influenced by whatever she is learning at the moment and, true to her analytical side, she loves creating rules for each series. Whether painting landscapes, abstracts, or something else entirely, her approach to color is what ties everything together.