Chicagoan Brenda Barnum's distinctive still life paintings are inspired directly from her garden, but then imaginatively created with a sense of life-like animation. She works with thickly built up oil paint on canvas and paper.

Portlander Bartholomew's works have been exhibited by Butters Gallery for over 10 years. Her paintings address the delicate balance of all things great and small. The strong presence of her appreciation for Asian philosophy is always evident in the work

Pittsburgh artist Patricia Bellan-Gillen makes paintings that have been described as mixtures of T.S.Eliot poetry and slang. The surfaces and intricacies truly embrace the very nature of abstract painting in a most engaging fashion.

Sante Fe resident Berning employs a range of techniques and materials. His abstract paintings and prints use color and form to communicate on a subconsious and emotional level.

Highly regarded as both a long-time established New York painter as well as faculty member the The Cooper Union, Brown works in oil on canvas and tempera paints on paper. He deals with themes of science and universality.

One of our younger artists, Brown's oil paintings and watercolor works have been exhibited in New York and San Francisco. Nature-based images interact with cultural images to form a mysterious narrative.

While acting as creative director for Butters Gallery, Jeffrey has also pursued his own work since attending Pacific Northwest College of Art. His paintings, drawings and collages have found their way into many notable collections.

Charles Cohan is a nationally recognized leader in the print making field. His spare compositions with mysterious elements expose his deft hand at mark making within the printed context. His introductory show with us is "Persistence: print."

Carolyn Cole's work hovers between consciousness and intuition, combining emotional content, observation, technical skill, exploration, humor, and reinvention.

A former Oregonian who is currently residing in Knoxville, TN, Allen Cox explores personal imagery in his constantly-evolving brand of abstraction. Highly developed color fields set the stages for his abstract elements.

From Mendocino County near the California coast Holly Cratty explores, through her painting, the halting of a moment and the spiritual revelation one finds in that meditative moment.

New Yorker Annette Davidek's paintings layer silhouettes of organic life forms onto panels with thin layers of oil pigment. The veilings of color produce a dramatic field of depth, while the floating compositions keep the pieces light.

Widely collected, this nationally recognized artist works with organic abstraction. While visually gritty, these works are contained within a dramatically uniform, pristine surface treatment thereby unifying the accumulation of marks.

Margaret Evangeline from New York makes paintings on ground aluminum panels, creating effects of vast dimension that maintain a meditative and spiritual demeanor.

Living and working in East Hampton, NY, our star painter David Geiser makes work that is physically assertive and highly emotive. His work has cultivated a huge following in the Pacific Northwest with many collections having multiple examples of his work.

Humberto Gonzalez lives and paints in the Willamette Valley. He travels throughout the Pacific Northwest and finds favorite viewpoints to paint on site using watercolor and most recently acrylic paint.

Ms. Goode’s works explore the body and figuration using obliquely abstract forms. Her bold strokes and scratchings on the canvas enact a layering of moments, locating the still static figure held arrested, and displayed for the viewer.

A young Portlander, Haggett produces very sophisticated pattern paintings with an acrylic/stencil process. These works exhibit a sense of constant moving chaos within the confines of the traditional western painting grid.

Susan S. Hall's soft, enigmatically symbolic portraits are particularly unique. The subjects' features are universal and, that they are deeply rooted in her scumbled, fresco-like surfaces, gives them timeless nonspecific space in which to live.

Pamela Harris draws with pastels on paper to make powerful, yet warm compositions that examine systems and patterns and their cycles of replication that exist in every thing.

Howard Hersh is a third generation artist who has exhibited his work widely around the country. With twenty-five solo shows and over one hundred group exhibits, Hersh's work is also in prominent public spaces in the United States, Japan, China, Indonesia,

Analogies and metaphors are the subject of Hyder's work. The figures, objects, and landscapes are symbols of a world that he would like to see remain intact. Hyder's hybrid approach to painting often mystifies viewers.

Katz' tradional brand of figural abstration refers to the beginnings of modern painting. He works in an isolated, skylit garden-like studio where he begins with life drawings which then depart to emotive, color charged, objective abstractions.

Nationally exhibited and recongnized, Kessler's approach to abstraction has become more sophisticated and rich with each new body of work. We are pleased to have added this notable artist to the Butters stable.

A professor in the art department at Portland State University, LePore creates paintings that, while expressing abstract ideas, are comprised of combinations of precise realistic renderings.

Southern Oregon resident Richard Martinez explores atmosphere, shape and gesture all working in union in his immediately eye-catching works. Not shy, these works identify a loose freedom of paint carefully contained in playful while elegant shapes.

Moody's tradional works in the collage media are exhibited and collected nationally. His talent at collecting bits of information representing a huge cross section of human culture brings a great richness to his work.

A recent addition to Butters Gallery, this accomplished Santa Fe artist's abstract paintings reference landscape on a symbolic level. We exhibit both his richly textured oil paintings and dense watercolor paper pieces.

Pacific Northwest landscapes inspired from direct observation but painted with a loose, abstract quality. Perry's work, imbued with romantic light qualities, appeals to both the private and corporate collector.

New York artist Anne Raymond creates atmospheric colorfield paintings and prints rich with vaguely caligraphic marks. While hinting at landscape, the works, with their sensual build up of texture, remain loosly abstract--allowing the viewer plenty of fle

Schwartz-Feit finds inspiration in the Columbia River Gorge where she resides. Combining wax with paint, she creates velvety-rich surfaces with extraordinarily complex color arrangements to reflect her sacred notations of her environment.

Stephanie Serpick does what appear as minimal paintings on panel that, upon deeper inspection, reveal elaborately rendered symbolic imagery.

From the esoteric realms of philosophical thought comes the visualizations of Shafer. Referencing ancient manuscripts, he paints iconographic botanical and figurative images. Often his works will be in book formats.

New Yorker Melinda Stickney-Gibson has a truly dedicated following. She is known nation-wide for her unique and challenging brand of abstract painting. While obliquly narrative, her work is brutally honest and speaks to the soul.

Debra Van Tuinen uses the encaustic medium to explore a variety of abstracted landscape forms inpired by western North America. These richly colored works achieve luminosity through their varying surface textures and elegant abstract forms.

Stephanie Weber's personal brand of abstract painting has garnered her national recognition. Her paintings have been described as being objects with surface that evoke contemplation.