"Bayou Serenity"

Artist: Catherine P. Foret, DVM

• 30 x 39.5 inches
• Original Acylic on Canvas

Dr. Catherine Foret, a native of Shreveport is not only a talented artist, she is also an accomplished veterinarian with UVH (University Veterinary Hospital).

She found her love for veterinary medicine when she delivered her first cow. "As a young child, I spent many weekends at our family cattle farm in East Texas, Paine Farms, where most of my childhood memories were made, including the ones that formed my excitement about animals and the circle of life."

Still Life Raspberries

Artist Unknown

• Framed
• 51 x 44 inches

"Idylle"

Artist: Nissan Engel (1931-2016)

• 31 x 39.5 inches
• Signed and Numbered 96/150
• Certificate of Authenticity included

Nissan Engel was born in Haifa, Israel and was dedicated to painting from his youth. His formal training as an artist began in his native land at the Bezalel School of Art in Jerusalem. He later received a diploma from Centre Dramatique de l'Est in Strasbourg, France for theatre set and costume design.

He is an artist's artist, having progressed through all the classical phases of apprenticeship before arriving at his own unique style of collage. Nissan moved to New York in 1965 and stayed there for ten years before settling in Paris, France in 1975. He discovered his affinity for collage after working on a series of stained-glass windows in New York and Maryland, a job that inspired him to create intense blocks of color with painted collage elements.

Musical themes are often his subject, giving his work its remarkable sense of harmony and rhythm. Nissan refers to his own work as "Abstract Lyricism." Translating the feelings and emotions of music and color into the visual arts; he holds together his compositions by their likeness to tonal and harmonic qualities of music. A similar feel pervades his engravings, which usually stem from his collages. He began exploring this print medium in the early 1980's in Paris, and quickly became as masterful at engraving his visual music on metal plates as at piecing it together in collage.

"Monarch and Daisies"

Photographer: Bob Horne

• Framed and Signed
• 16 x 20 inches

"I am a retired teacher, a member of most local (Shreveport) art organizations and a supporter of the arts and other artists. I have won many awards, enjoy the art community and exhibiting my work. I also enjoy sharing with others my photography and impressions of my surroundings. All work is now digital and allows for sometimes altering with Photoshop and Painter. I am not a purist about photography and many of my favorites have been manipulated to present my own personal taste. I feel that the camera is just one tool in the creation of a picture.

I treat photography as an art form and not a casual taking of pictures. Most of what I know is by experience, either by trying or observing what others have done. I most enjoy capturing emotions with my photography. Subjects are varied, eclectic.

Belief: It is not the camera one uses, but the person behind the camera that has the greatest effect on a photograph."

"Gently Down the Stream"

Artist: Judy Horne

• Original Framed Watercolor
• 20 x 16 inches

"Working in a variety of media as I explore various techniques of expression, I find that the tools I pick up on any given day reflect my mood and spirit at the time. As a visual artist, I am primarily a watercolorist and also enjoy working in pastel as well as painting on glassware. Within the realm of watercolor my work also varies one piece may be very realistic and exquisitely rendered; then I may cut loose with bold swatches of color in a more abstract, almost Fauvist, composition. I frequently employ the pouring of luminous washes in my work. I find that varying my technique, materials, and medium, depending on mood and subject matter, keeps my work fresh and exciting to me. When I begin to draw and paint a few years ago, my subject matter was usually a still life or a floral. More recently I have searched out more unusual subjects and landscapes, often choosing a unique vantage point for my composition. Light and shadow patterns frequently catch my eye and are incorporated into my work. All of my paintings have a fresh, clean look and reflect my own happiness with where I am in my life. I am pleased when my work brings pleasure to others, but I truly enjoy the process itself.

After a long, varied and satisfying career in education, I retired content with what I had accomplished and eager to explore other facets of life that I had put on hold for so many years. Freed from the constraints of daily work responsibilities, and joined in pursuits of an artistic nature by my supportive photographer husband, we are able to travel some and life is great.

As I have discovered in all the other phases of my life, the more one learns, the more there is to learn, and that is what I am about: reading, listening, observing, going to workshops and demonstrations, experimenting, stretching, failing, reevaluating, and sometimes, to my delight, succeeding. Although I have no formal art education, I have enjoyed studying with many nationally known artists in watercolor and pastel."

"Flower Power"

• 16 x 20 inches
• Acrylic on Canvas

"Autumn Scene with Barn"

Artist: James D. Cawthon

• 14 x 18 inches
• Oil painting on Canvas board

1915-2011

James Dance Cawthon was a resident of Shreveport, Louisiana and an accomplished artist. He was a past president of the Shreveport Art Club and charter member and a past president of the Men's Art Guild. He was also a member of the North Louisiana Historical Society, which published some of his articles.

He earned a degree in Commerce from Louisiana Tech University and began his career teaching at Spring Hill High School and later was a bookkeeper with Frost Lumber Industries. He moved to Shreveport in 1939, and soon began his 36-year career in the accounting department of the United Gas Company and the Pennzoil Company, retiring in 1975 as Manager of the Plant Accounting Department of Pennzoil Producing Company. He then served as a Business Administrator for First Presbyterian Church in Shreveport, for 10 years.

* A special thank you to Ms. Juanita Cawthon for sharing Mr. Cawthon's art with us and for her continued support of Holy Angels Residential Facility.

"Rhododendrons by the Lake"

Artist: James D. Cawthon

• 16 x 20 inches
• Oil Painting on Canvas Board

1915-2011

James Dance Cawthon was a resident of Shreveport, Louisiana and an accomplished artist. He was a past president of the Shreveport Art Club and charter member and a past president of the Men's Art Guild. He was also a member of the North Louisiana Historical Society, which published some of his articles.

He earned a degree in Commerce from Louisiana Tech University and began his career teaching at Spring Hill High School and later was a bookkeeper with Frost Lumber Industries. He moved to Shreveport in 1939, and soon began his 36-year career in the accounting department of the United Gas Company and the Pennzoil Company, retiring in 1975 as Manager of the Plant Accounting Department of Pennzoil Producing Company. He then served as a Business Administrator for First Presbyterian Church in Shreveport, for 10 years.

* A special thank you to Ms. Juanita Cawthon for sharing Mr. Cawthon's art with us and for her continued support of Holy Angels Residential Facility.

"Corn Festival"

Artist: Patrick Sart

• 20 x24 inches
• Framed

Patrick Sart is well known in international art circles. A native of sunny California, Patrick graduated from UCLA in 1974 where he was featured in several gallery group shows. In 1976 he was presented in his first group show at the California Newport Museum of Art.

Bertha Cooper Harris Collection

• Original La Folk Art on Metal Tray
• Signed Autobiography
• "Saturday Morning" print #235/250 signed on the back

Bertha Cooper Harris is a senior citizen and Louisiana folk artist who did not seriously undertake art until after age 65. The public reception of her art has been both gratifying and inspirational. Bertha has a great deal to offer to the community, not only through her art but also through her touching story.

"Abstract Floral"

Artist: Laura Watts

• 18 x 24 inches
• Acrylic on Canvas

Laura Watts is a local artist who began seriously pursuing her love of painting in 2011. Prior to that time, she had a successful retail establishment in Shreveport for 16 years. Though she has only been painting for a relatively short time, Laura has already produced hundreds of individual works and has sold many of her paintings locally and nationally.

Cajun Crab en Blanc

Artist: Hicks Sellers IV

• 18 x 24 inches
• Scultptured Caulk Painting

Hicks Sellers IV is an artist who works in Jackson Square in New Orleans.

Family Tree of Life

Artist: Bob Massey

• Reclaimed Wood & Metal Art
• 24 x 23 inches

Bob is a United States Vietnam Veteran and currently serves as Plant Operations Director at Holy Angels. One of Bob's many hobbies, besides entertaining his grandchildren or hunting, is wood work.

Bob Massey has over 40 years' experience in commercial construction from building roads, bridges, aircraft hangers, water pump stations, bank buildings, animal shelters, a fish hatchery and buildings for the Corp of Engineers on many military posts to commercial remodels and rehab projects. He has contracted with private corporations, cities, parishes, counties and states and has been responsible for overseeing construction crews in four states at one time.

Still Life

Artist: Patrick Sart

• 18 x 24 inches
• Framed

Patrick Sart is well known in the International art circles as a native from sunny California he graduated from UCLA in 1974. Patrick was featured in several Gallery group shows. In 1976 he was presented in his first group shows at the California Newport Museum of Art.

Gumbo Tree

Artist: Kris Krison

• 16" by 20"
• Acrylic on Canvas

Original Painting by Randy Hedgcock

Artist: Randy Hedgcock

• 24 x 29 inches
• Original Painting on Paper
• Framed

Randy Hedgcock has been painting for more than 25 years and especially loves color. She uses both acrylic and oils and sometimes watercolor. She has many collectors in Shreveport who enjoy her work.

"I feel privileged to be able to do what I love and enjoy doing. I am happy to share my paintings with those who appreciate them," says Randy.

Original Painting by Randy Hedgcock

Artist: Randy Hedgcock

• 12.5 x 16 inches
• Original Painting
• Framed

Randy Hedgcock has been painting for more than 25 years and especially loves color. She uses both acrylic and oils and sometimes watercolor. She has many collectors in Shreveport who enjoy her work.

"I feel privileged to be able to do what I love and enjoy doing. I am happy to share my paintings with those who appreciate them," says Randy.

Original Painting by Randy Hedgcock

Artist: Randy Hedgcock

• 23.5 x 19.5 inches
• Original Painting
• Framed

Randy Hedgcock has been painting for more than 25 years and especially loves color. She uses both acrylic and oils and sometimes watercolor. She has many collectors in Shreveport who enjoy her work.

"I feel privileged to be able to do what I love and enjoy doing. I am happy to share my paintings with those who appreciate them," says Randy.

"Zebra"

Artist: Kimberly Gamble

• 16 x 16 inches
• Natural Wood
• Woodburned

Kimberly Gable is a self-taught artist who works directly with natural wood pieces found from fallen or cut trees, damaged limbs, fence posts or anything else wooden that has become someone else's trash. She takes these found pieces and turns them into beautiful pieces of art, showcasing the beauty of the wood once again as it should be shown.

"Chickens at the Barn"

Artist: Gloria Hebert

• 24 x 20 inches
• Acrylic Painting on Canvas

Gloria Hebert is a widowed mom with eight children, nineteen grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.

She began taking art classes at a community center almost forty years ago, but she is pretty much self-taught except for three semesters in a senior citizen class at McNeese State University.

Her many other hobbies include: oil and acrylic painting, growing and painting gourds, cypress knees, and crocheting. Mostly, she enjoys oil painting, especially pictures of old camp houses, barns, and other country scenes.

"Horses at the Barn"

Artist: Gloria Hebert

• 22 x 20 inches
• Acrylic on Canvas

Gloria Hebert is a widowed mom with eight children, nineteen grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.

She began taking art classes at a community center almost forty years ago, but she is pretty much self-taught except for three semesters in a senior citizen class at McNeese State University.

Her many other hobbies include: oil and acrylic painting, growing and painting gourds, cypress knees, and crocheting. Mostly, she enjoys oil painting, especially pictures of old camp houses, barns, and other country scenes.

"The Farm"

Artist: Dickie Martin

• 17 x 14 inches
• Oil on Canvas
• Framed

Dickie Martin is a believer in "if you really want to do something, just go for it." He grew up with a desire to draw and paint, but didn't realize his true talent and ability until age 64. When he told his family he was going to be an artist, they said "go for it" and that's just what he did.

He joined with a supportive friend, Charlotte Clifton, who is also a great artist, and together they have created some beautiful works.

"Art work is the one thing that relaxes me. It puts me in the place I am painting at the time. I don't know why or how it works, I just take it as comes. Most of the work I do is either somewhere I've been, or something I have done in my lifetime, or something I would like to do," says Dickie.

His paintings range from landscapes to trains to oilfield scenes... even birds. His greatest satisfaction is seeing other people enjoy his work.

"Bounty of the Garden"

Artist: Lorrie Drennan

• 16 x 20 inches
• Oil on Canvas

A note from Lorrie: "I was two years old when I first felt the stirrings of art in my soul. From that moment on it has always been a part of my life. I am always influenced by the places I have lived and traveled. Like my life, my work is filled with light, happiness and movement."

Laurie works from her home in Brandon, Mississippi, where she continues to enjoy God's gift of art as she produces original oil paintings and custom projects by commission.

Handmade Pottery Rosary

Artist: Paula Frierson - Paula's Pottery

Note: This item is located in the North Lobby featuring AngelWorks!

Paula, a Centenary graduate with a degree in art, has served as a volunteer in AngelWorks crafts for five years. She enjoys taking pottery classes and creating beautiful oyster art. Her energy and creativity inspires our residents and day program participants to make these beautiful crosses, which have become one of the most popular items in the David Toms Foundation AngelWorks Gift Shop.

We are so grateful Paula chooses to donate her time and talent to the participants in our AngelWorks Day Program.

Test Patterns

Artist: Judy Horne

• 31 x 39 inches
• Framed Watercolor

Judy works in a variety of media as she explores various techniques of expression. She finds that the tools she picks up on any given day reflect her mood and spirit at the time.

As a visual artist, she is primarily a watercolorist and also enjoys working in pastel as well as painting on glassware. Within the realm of watercolor, her work also varies - one piece may be very realistic and exquisitely rendered; then she may cut loose with bold swatches of color in a more abstract, almost Fauvist, composition.

Judy frequently employs the pouring of luminous washes in her work. She finds that varying her technique, materials, and medium - depending on mood and subject matter - keeps her work fresh and exciting.

To learn more about Judy please visit her website:

http://www.judyhorne.net/index.html

"Last Note of the Evening"

Artist: Timothy Higgins of Swampy Sloth Studios

• 36 x 28 inches
• Digital Art on Canvas

Timothy Higgins, a talented artist from Louisiana, fell in love at an early age with "visual storytelling" through comic books and role-playing games, from which he claims to have "never fully recovered".

In his time, Timothy has been a hobby/comic-book store owner, commercial sign painter, as well as a fast food manager. Somehow during this period of his life he managed to get some schooling in both Visual Communications and the Fine Arts.

"Under the Sea"

Artist: Lisa Thomson

• 12 x 15 inches
• Framed
• Original artwork
• Spirograph art with marker, watercolor, pastel and chrome pen

"Poppy Field"

Artist: Lisa J. Thomson

• 15 x 12 inches
• Framed Original Artwork
• Spirograph Art created with marker, pastel, watercolor and chromepen

"Norton Path"

Artist: Julie Miller

• 12 x 10 inches
• Framed Oil Painting
• Pathway with Red Tree

"Cherry Blossoms"

Artist: Judy Austin

• 12 x 12 inches
• Contemporary Forest Scene
• Acrylic on Canvas

"Spring Friends"

Artist: Trudy Daniels

• 16 x 20 inches
• Purple Irises
• Watercolor
• Framed

"We Belong Together"

Artist: Kathy Hassell

• 8 x 10 inches
• Acrylic Painting on Stretched Canvas
• A Pair of Pears

"Tug on the Red"

Artist: Kristine Keating

• 11 x 12 inches
• Tugboat on the Red
• Framed Oil Painting

One Month of Painting Lessons

Join Shreveport Artist Robin Clawson for 4 painting lessons!

• Includes all materials

Robin Johnson Clawson earned her BFA degree, magna cum laude, from the Louisiana State University School of Environmental Design in 1972. She is originally from Baton Rouge. She has lived in Shreveport, Louisiana, since 1977, following a two-and-a-half year stay in Washington, D.C., where she was secretary for correspondence to the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. She was the first Director of the Shreveport Regional Arts Council before retiring for a time to stay at home with her son, Johnson.

Robin was the co-owner of Erie Street Company-a painted clothing and textile manufacturer-for eight years before beginning to do portraiture full time in 1994. She teaches private, beginner painting classes in Shreveport and is available to conduct weekend workshops. She also tutors serious art students and assists them with portfolios preparatory to college application.

Her portraits depict subjects of all ages and are done in oil pastel and pencil on paper. Each piece emphasizes a natural pose, usually in a botanical setting, and is an integrated design in the manner of a genre painting.

"Tulips on Fire!"

Artist: Simone Hennessee

• 12 x 12 inches
• Orange Tulips
• Oil Painting on Canvas

"Summer Porch"

Artist: Sherri Skrivanos

• 16 x 16 inches
• Framed Watercolor
• Summer Porch Scene

"Breaux Bridge Pasture"

Artist: Mike Torma

Valued at $3,000

• 38 x 26 inches
• Oil on Canvas
• Gallery Wrapped

"The son of an Air Force officer I moved around quite a bit. While still in high school, I won an emerging artists award in Savannah, Georgia.

My Bachelor of Arts degree was earned at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri. While there, I exhibited at the William Rockhill Nelson Museum. Throughout my undergraduate years, I created portraits and sold other artworks to earn money for medical school.

I studied art briefly at the Ecole nationale superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France.

I was graduated from the University of Alabama School of Medicine in 1968. Internship and residency in general surgery in San Antonio followed, thence a research fellowship in gastrointestinal surgery in Salt Lake City.

Thereafter, a 25-year combined medical and military career in the US Air Force ensured. I rose to the rank of Brigadier General, last serving as Commander Surgeon for Strategic Air Command. My highest decoration was the AF Distinguished Service Award.

Through it all, I continued to paint and to exhibit. There were showings at the Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, Virginia, and at the Coleman Gallery, York, Alabama. I won the All-Air Force Art Competition in the late eighties. I took leave for studies with Martha Mayer Ehrlebacher, Anthony Ryder, and other artistic mentors.

Leaving the service in 1992, I became chairman of surgical services at Presbyterian in Dallas. My family and I moved to Shreveport in 1996 at the behest of the Biomedical Research Foundation. When that grant work ended, the Tormas had already decided to call Shreveport home. Working in the Willis-Knighton Health System in wound care and hyperbaric medicine, I wound up my medical career in 2012.

Now I devote myself full time to the pursuit of Mike Torma artworks. Juried works have qualified me for the "Roster" [signature] appellation through Shreveport Regional Arts Council, and the highest exhibition tier with Bossier Art Council."

"Desert Beauty"

Artist: Diane Goodwill

• 15 x 12 inches
• Cactus Flower
• Framed Oil Painting

"Eden"

Artist: Theresa Meldrum

• 8 x 10 inches
• Framed Acrylic

"LSU Links"

Artist: Kristine Keating

• 17 x 15 inches
• LSU Golf Course in Baton Rouge
• Oil Painting
• Framed

"Salt Marsh"

Artist: Kristine Keating

• 27 x 21 inches
• Oil Painting of a Salt Marsh
• Framed

"Fireworks"

Artist: Thersea Meldrum

• 11 x 14 inches
• Acrylic
• Flowers bursting like fireworks scene
• Framed

Pencil Sketch

Artist: Melinda Mogg Sprayberry

• 5 x 7 inches
• Framed
• Reproduction of Original Pencil Sketch

Blue Heron

Artist: Katie Lewis

• 8" x 8"
• Acrylic on Canvas

"Proud Peacock"

Artist: Alex Einerson

• Approx: 20 x 24 inches
• Framed

"My Magnolia"

Artist: Lindsey Tison

• 12 x 12 inches
• Acrylic on Canvas
• Set of Two

"Best of Taste"

Artist: Susan Brady

• 24 x 20 inches
• Acrylic on Canvas

Note: This item is located in the North Lobby featuring AngelWorks!

Susan has been teaching art to all ages for more than 25 years. She is currently the head of the art department at Loyola and teaches the visual art classes. She works in various mediums but mostly enjoys encaustic painting, watercolor, and acrylics. She loves using layers of bright colors and shapes.

Susan collaborated with AngelWorks Day Program participants during a summer camp in the month of July. Each summer she works with the participants to create artwork for TASTE. We are so grateful to Susan for spending time with the participants in the AngelWorks Day Program!

Trolley on Bourbon Street

Artist: Devonne Isgett

• 26" x 30"
• Framed Watercolor
• This watercolor won first place in the Houston Art League watercolor exhibition.

Devonne's home town is New Orleans, Louisiana. She lived most of her childhood in the NOLA area and also in Vidalia, Louisiana. Always loving to draw and create, she started painting in oils and acrylics in high school in Mandeville, Louisiana. After attending Louisiana Tech, studying under Albino Hinojosa, Ed Pinkston, and Don Walton, she finished with a Fine Arts Degree. After college she moved to Houston, Texas. There, she started painting watercolor, after meeting Joy Rumscheidt, a master of watercolor here and abroad. Devonne has worked with all forms of mediums, but definitely prefers watercolor due to the known reputation of being quite demanding. Water is an active and complex partner in the process. You must learn how to anticipate the behavior of the water , rather than to control and dominate it.

Nature-Inspired Fern Platter

Artist: Holli Hennessy

• Approx 14 inches wide

Note: This item is located in the North Lobby featuring AngelWorks

As a retired school teacher, Holli cannot think of a more worthwhile thing to do with her time than spending it working with our participants in AngelWorks ceramics. She is an extremely experienced artist, having served as an art teacher at St. Mark's Cathedral School from 1998 to 2014.

Holli is married and has three children and one grand child.

We are so grateful to Holli for spending time with the participants in the AngelWorks Day Program!

Wood Sculpture of a Bethlehem Scene

Artist: Dr. David G. Pou

• H8" x W17" x D6.5"
• Hand Carved Nativity
• Certificate of Authenticity

"Pieta" Wood Sculpture

Artist: Dr. David G. Pou

• H 15 5/8" x W 14.5" X D 5"
• Hand carved
• Includes Certificate of Authenticity

"Goldfish"

Artist: Paula Hickman

• 16 x 20 inches
• Canvas

Paula Hickman is a woman of many talents including business management, law, writing, painting, and grand-parenting. She retired from her position as the Executive Director of The Community Foundation of North Louisiana in 2018, after accomplishing a myriad of highly successful community initiatives that had great impact on our region.

Before leading The Community Foundation, Paula practiced law in the area of trusts and estate planning. She served as chairman of the Louisiana State Bar Association's section on trusts, estates, probate and immovable property law.

Paula was recognized in 2008 by Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organizations as a "Louisiana Heroine" and in 2009 as Outstanding Fundraising Executive by Association of Fundraising Professionals. Most recently she was awarded the Clyde E. Fant Memorial Award for Outstanding Community Service.

Remember-Old Restaurants No Longer Here

Artist: Kris Krison

• 16" x 20"
• Acrylic on Canvas