RUTH HALPERN

I’ve been drawing, painting, and inventing stories since I was a child. Watercolor combines everything I love: the atmospheric fluidity of clouds and water; improvisation in the moment; explosive beauty; and contemplative grace. It’s a challenging medium that never ceases to surprise me. The brush creates a record of my eyes tracing the subject, mostly botanicals and landscapes. I lose myself in looking, while recording what I see. I hope to give viewers that same meditative experience.

I often work with a limited palette of only six colors—a warm and a cool blue, red and yellow—and blend the colors directly on the paper. That’s what creates the vibrant “psychedelic” luminosity of the colors.

I paint from life, from photos, from my imagination. I also accept commissions to paint people, pets, and poetry.

I’m honored to be a member of the Ashland Art Works collective, a generous group of artists dedicated to exploring and expanding their creative voices in media of all kinds.

ISABELLE ROSIER ALZADO

Born and raised in Paris, France, I studied and worked for eight years, as an artist and actress, with the Centre de Recherche et de Réalisations Artistiques.

Later, when I moved to the United States, I continued to act (including opposite Christopher Plummer in Henry V) and to pursue my art – exhibiting in New York, Montana and Oregon.

I use watercolor, acrylic, oil and mixed media collage to express my emotional response to a wide range of subjects – imaginary portraits, figures, landscapes, abstracts and even large paintings for the set of Dori Appel’s play Tilt.

I am particularly fascinated by the expressiveness of the human body, communicating the broad spectrum of emotions and relationships.

Art shows have featured subjects such as my African ancestry – paintings and collages reflecting my Touareg roots and my Parisian upbringing. Beyond this my shows have explored many themes as can be seen on my website artrosier.com.

I am a certified Waldorf Educator, studied Art Therapy in New York City and Eugene, Oregon and graduated Phi Kappa Phi with a B.A. in Art from Southern Oregon University.

For the past twenty years, I have been teaching art and French, and offering workshops to the local community.