Meet the Artists
Marian Davis
My art is a response to years of independent study in numerous mediums and a desire to create complex surfaces that incorporate multiple layers of color, contrast, shape, visual and physical texture. The process is an intuitive, dynamic adventure where I guide cold wax and oil paint through a continuous interplay using various techniques, mediums and even some tools I find in nature. Revealing parts of the underpainting in each piece leads to continuous new beginnings until the final composition begins to take shape.
I imagine my audience embracing a moment when they can embrace a feeling or create their own story in my work.
Kim DiDonato
Kim DiDonato is a visual artist newly arrived in Wash Park from Washington, DC. Her work features bold, landscape-inspired imagery and expressive figurative representations, in paintings, drawings and sculpture. Her work is an ongoing conversation with the external world about composition, texture and shape and she interprets these elements utilizing a variety of material approaches and techniques. After a career in international development in London and DC, she studied painting and sculpture in New York, Washington and Rome. In Denver her work can be seen at D’art Gallery in the Santa Fe Arts District, and in her studio in Wash Park.
Julie Duwel
I have always been drawn to creativity, but after years in graphic design and corporate life, I found my way back to hands-on art through painting. What began with custom cake decorating led me to discover my true passion for visual expression and storytelling. My work is inspired by memories, travel, and everyday moments, painted not as exact representations but as emotional responses to place. I prefer working from how a scene lives in my mind, allowing intuition and surprise to guide the process.
Light and color are central themes in my representational landscapes, built through layered oil paint and a warm underpainting that glows beneath cooler tones. Each painting captures a feeling rather than a moment, often combining experiences into a single image. Ultimately, I hope my work evokes a sense of joy, peace, and personal connection for those who view it.
Victoria Eubanks
Victoria Eubanks is a visual artist and educator. She brings enthusiasm, passion, design sensibility and years of fine-art-making to her studio and classrooms. Victoria mixes media—combining encaustic medium, printmaking, photography, cold wax and possibly pixels in a variety of ways. She believes that the what and how are nowhere near as important as the why.
Victoria's why is always about connections; head, heart, hand and viewer. Her art contains intended imperfections—lopsided rounds, rough sgrafitto lines, uneven repetition, organic shapes and the occasional recognizable object. She believes the inevitable human inconsistencies connect the artist and the viewer. This connection is the reason she creates.
Mary Holm
All my life I have been drawn to abstract work and the many different possibilities to express and see and feel through art. My painting is personal and the mark making, colors and shapes are at times freely expressive and at other times, more controlled and deliberate. Most of my work has many lives and iterations and those layers and stories are integral to the final product.
I have benefited greatly from many talented teachers and artist friends.
Ana Quintana
From my beginnings in Cuba to building a life and family in the U.S., art has always been a constant source of inspiration. After a successful career in the tech industry, I shifted my focus fully to creating art, embracing it as both passion and practice.
As an acrylic fluid artist, my work explores energy, movement, and spontaneity. I don’t use brushes—only my hands, intuition, and a willingness to embrace the unpredictable. Through pouring, tilting, and spinning, vibrant pigments and iridescent mica move freely across the canvas, creating dynamic patterns that balance intention with serendipity.
Nijole Rasmussen
Nijole Rasmussen is creating art for the last 20 years. The artist expresses herself with abstract style, and also impressionistic look of nature and flowers. She is currently represented by D’art Gallery in Denver.
Art is a harmony of nature, soul and spirit. It gives me power to express myself without much involvement of the rational mind. This harmony that my eyes can welcome and my soul can respond, is the result of my art. When I paint, it seems that my soul takes better shape, that longing for life and beauty and empowers creative process, which was already inside me. I paint with my soul and then discover that Life itself has already painted there a long time ago, that my soul and Life are one….
