Your Artists in San Antonio

​I have been a working artist for over 25 years and an art educator for over 20 years. One of six artists featured at the McNay Museum of Art for their 60th anniversary. 3 pieces in Arizona State collection and published in books "Chicano Art for Our Millennium" and "Triumph of Our Communities". 40 years of Latin American Art. Published in "Criticizing Art: volume #3" by Terry Barrett and McGraw Hill". 3 pieces in The UTSA collection 

Henry Cardenas, an award-winning artist, is a native of and resides in San Antonio and earned his MBA in Business Administration from St. Mary’s University.  He has painted vivid landscapes and abstracts and created unusual sculptures most of his life.  He creates intriguing sculptures of metal, wood, and glass or stone combinations.  His art inspirations started as a young child drawing, painting, and making toys. Cardenas maintains a continuing exhibition of his exciting paintings and unique sculptures.  With numerous juried competitions, Cardenas has exhibited his paintings and sculptures with winning entries in many venues.

Emily Magone, an artist originally from the beautiful and isolated Kootenai Valley in NW Montana, has recently returned from the UK to create from her new studio in San Antonio, Texas.  She travels the world, seeking epic and everyday natural beauty.  Self-taught and with her Irish grandmother’s early influence, Emily seeks to communicate the solace, calm and intensity felt when listening to the sounds the earth makes – without the interruption of man-made noise.   

Monic Reyes is a self-taught freelance artist born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. Monic holds an intensive background in fashion. Monic co-designs alongside her mother for their fashion design company Malen Reyes Couture. Monic from a young age holds a true passion for creating and sharing her self-expression. Monic believes her talent and eye for creativity is owed to her mother who has always encouraged and inspired to create without limits and boundaries. 

  The painter Aceldama, retired mediaevalist and former iconographer, uses the media and techniques common in writing icons for his panels devoted to the exploration of color relationships and mathematical proportions. Sometimes the subject is also mathematical; sometimes the subject is a development of more traditional genres, such as landscapes and stilllifes. One wonders, what would art look like if painters had been limited to the media and techniques of iconographers, but had studied in the studios of Cezanne,Braque, Feninger and the Futurists? Aceldama experiments with this idea.  

As a two-dimensional artist, I love to express myself and experiment with various types of mediums.  After retiring from the corporate world, which adheres to a uniform environment, I decided to not limit myself to only one discipline but to learn all aspects of art-making and experimentation with all sorts of mediums and techniques. 

  Born in Mexico and moved to San Antonio in 2006. A professional painter for 20 years, I studied graphic design in college on an art scholarship, and later taught art history, drawing and design at an art college in Mexico. I have participated in 40 collective art exhibitions, roughly 25 solo art exhibitions, 4 biennials and created 3 murals, as well as doing happenings in various cities throughout Mexico and the USA. Ten years ago I moved towards contemporary art, and today concentrate on Figurative-Abstract paintings.  

Art has always been a passion of mine. Ever since I could remember I always had a sketch book to work in. Most recently I have become fascinated with colors and how they are used to create an image. In pursuit of understanding of color I have taken to live painting. I still work from photographs when in the studio, but I love to take my paints outside and paint ala pleinair or from live models. Painting this way makes every painting and adventure. 

Leyhbert is a Colombian-American postmodernist experimentation artist who has worked extensively as a graphic and audiovisual designer, and film actor/director in Colombia and Texas. He holds two university degrees in Industrial Relations and Film & Television Production.  Several of his works have been exhibited internationally and by private organizations, and his original painting “Freedom” garnered Leyhbert a prestigious award in Colombia, and one film project was featured at a national film festival in Havana, Cuba.  

Inspired by the ever-present darkness of our daily lives and the soul-crushing magnitude of the heavens above, she draws elements of the natural world and the animals that inhabit it. She is passionate about the environment and all its many creatures, expressing those passions through oil, charcoal and colored pencils. Currently residing in San Antonio, her nomadic life has brought her to such divergent locales as the metropolis of Miami to the hamlet of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Artist and musician native to San Antonio, Texas. My artwork primarily focuses on surrealist placement found images and mixed media creating pieces exploring a range of themes surrounding human consciousness, experience, and spirituality. I am a self-taught artist and musician and employed as custom picture framer and found early inspiration in the works of Ernst, Mucha, Van Gogh, Munch & Basquiat .

Originally from Newburgh, NY, I moved to San Antonio in 1997. After working 12 years as an ER Nurse, art became a way of escaping reality and releasing the frustration that came with working in such a stressful environment. Primarily self-taught, my paintings are largely acrylics and oils. You can see my Puerto Rican heritage in my art and my favorite paintings to do are pet portraits.

Born and raised in San Antonio, TX, knowartist came to be after a tattoo apprenticeship. He began experimenting with acrylic paint, back in 2010.  Mostly painting what he calls "lowbrow folk art", his style evolved into a tighter, richer, more colorful form of illustrative painting. He prefers to create imagery in which the ideas are fresh to the audience and visually stimulating. While his concepts are usually off-kilter, he leaves his work open to various interpretations by the viewer, allowing them to metaphorically paint their own picture. 

I am a born and raised San Antonio Native.  I have always painted butterflies and flowers and am an avid butterfly collector.  I am self-taught and use watercolors and acrylic or mixed media.  I love to grow flowers in our yard so I always have plenty of material handy for paintings.  Other types so paintings I enjoy producing are pen and ink animals, abstracts and some landscapes.  Painting has always been my passion and I have an easel next to my desk in my office so I always have painting to work on.  This best my way to relax and stay centered.

Dr. James W. Brown began painting during his last year of dental school, and painted while serving as a dental officer in the U. S. Navy. His works have been displayed in various art exhibitions: The Pastel Society of America, San Antonio Art League; in art galleries; and print mediums: The Artist Magazine and The San Antonio Express-News. A variety of his paintings are held in private collections throughout the United States.    

Amy Hillenbrand began her career in the creative world as an Interior Designer. While living in the midwest she owned her own successful commercial interior design and architectural firm for fifteen years. As her life unfolded, she was called to her next creative endeavor of oil painting. She uses her experience with color and creativity and pours it into this new passion. Amy is known for her restful, heartwarming style contemporary realist style. Harmonious color palettes, appealing composition and positive energy are all fused together to create joy-filled, yet peaceful, works of art. Amy’s work is in many private collections throughout the US and Canada. Her work has been displayed in public spaces, galleries and art festivals.

Richard Rice, born in West Virginia and raised in Würzburg, Germany is a self taught artist living and working in San Antonio, Texas. He believes the passion for the colors, texture, and smell of paint was instilled at an early age where his mother would buy him various paint-by-number paintings. Richard believes that art is an expression that comes from deep within to be shared with others. He wants his art to connect with you not just visually, but spiritually as well. For something within the painting to draw you in and speak to you, to inspire thought and self-reflection. Richard works without any preconceived ideas as to what the finished work is going to look like. He likes the idea of each painting being a journey, ending at a beautiful destination. His paintings are made with lots of vibrant color and textures for depth and life of the piece.  

I have lived in San Antonio for about 20 years now and am married with no kids. I' m currently a student at the Academy of Art University based in San Francisco, CA. I love drawing and creating and I believe freelance work is my calling in life. My drawings currently occupy two different galleries, one here in San Antonio, and the other near Sacramento, CA. My success relies heavily on the support I get from others and I am ever so grateful!  

I'm a Texas artist and love painting the San Antonio Riverwalk. Primarily I work in watercolors and pen and ink; other medias include polymer clay, acrylics, and jewelry. I began drawing in pencil and charcoal around 5 years, progressed into pen and ink, and then proceeded to technical and architectural works. Scientific illustrations soon expanded into fashion and other commercial work. When I found watercolors, I fell in love. I still take commissions for technical work but spend the majority of my time painting.  

Aaron Bialaszewski grew up on a small farm in Newark, NY and attended Potsdam University where he studied Art History, Painting, Photography, Drawing, Sculpture and Graphic Arts. He graduated in 2000 with a degree in Studio Art and shortly after graduation, Bialaszewski moved to San Antonio. The look of his art is distinct; he brings an intense focus to each design; subject and composition, with flowing lines of polished steel create movement and mimic the precision that of a painter’s brushes, as well as beautifully controlled, timeless heat-treated, layered dyed surfaces that seem to explode in vibrant color.  Beautifully controlled timeless heat-treated colors. Layered dyed surfaces of iridescent color.

I am a wife, a mother, a grandmother, and a Registered Nurse by trade. I was born and raised in the west side of San Antonio and I attended Lanier High School.  I’ve always considered myself a writer, and had even hoped to become a published author; but something always held me back. This year I discovered that my true passion, the one thing I know I cannot live without, is painting. My journey has just begun.

God has given me the means and opportunity to express the essence of the beauty of His creations that He has set before us and introduce the world to various forms of art through my eyes, which entitles them to experience life through a different perspective. Originally from New Orleans, I was influenced by Chartres Street in the French Quarter. I watched in amazement while the street artists practice their artistic skills. In high school I took Art History as an elective for four years to expose me to various mediums and types of art. Through that exposure I was drawn to abstract art particularly, dealing mostly in acrylic and watercolor mediums.

San Antonio artist Ruth Burink creates graceful, imaginative, and intriguing sculpture. She takes her inspiration from the natural world, resulting in forms which reveal the essence of, rather than the literal interpretation of the images which inspire her. Burink is recognized as a sensitive and accomplished sculptor dedicated to grace and beauty of form, and to meticulous attention to detail. Ruth Burink earned her degree in English Literature from UTSA and continues to educate herself in the arts and in life. Her sculpture is collected internationally, both privately and publicly. Burink resides and works in beautiful downtown San Antonio, the ideal venue for her creativity with access to both art and inspiration.

Lolli Hollsten is a mother, a nurse, an avid pet-lover, and a self-taught artist. Her passion for creativity began as a young girl growing up in Hawaii and continued to develop throughout her time serving as an Army nurse and raising her family. Originally working primarily in oils, Lolli has expanded her artistic abilities to include acrylics and other mediums. She can be found most days in her studio surrounded by her dogs as she continues to create.