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This artwork photography portfolio represents 18 years of work with plein air painters, Atelier-trained figurative artists, portrait painters, wildlife painters, and abstract artists across the Twin Cities and beyond. It showcases a small slice of the artists I’ve had the privilege of working with, from nationally recognized ARC Living Masters to artists preparing for their first juried exhibition.

Every artist featured in this artwork photography portfolio chose professional photography because they understand what’s at stake. Competition jurors, gallery directors, and collectors see your work in a photograph before they see it in person. Hiring me to photograph your paintings also comes with something extra: your work gets featured, linked, and promoted to an audience of 1,700 artists and collectors through my monthly newsletter. That’s the Free Prize Inside.

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An Artwork Photography Portfolio Built Over 18 Years

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Dyan Padgett

Dyan Padgett is a Minneapolis oil painter working primarily in botanicals and still lifes — peonies, roses, hollyhocks, garden subjects treated with the precision her six years of full-time training at The Atelier Studio Program built. Her approach blends academic draftsmanship with the color sensibility of the Boston School, which shows in how she handles light on organic forms. She received the People's Choice Award at the American Women Artists 2021 national juried show.

Paul Oxborough

Paul G. Oxborough is a Minnesota oil painter known for figures, portraits, and interior genre scenes captured with loose, impressionistic brushwork and a precise sensitivity to light. He has received the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in London four times, was selected for the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, and has had over a dozen solo exhibitions including recent solo shows at Cavalier Gallery in New York. His work is held in public collections at the Minnesota State Capitol and Balliol College, Oxford University.

Kelly Schamberger

Kelly Schamberger is a Duluth oil painter named 2026 Artist of the Year by the Depot Foundation and honored with the Official Seal of the City of Duluth — among the highest civic honors Mayor Roger Reinert's office can bestow. Her painting Once Upon a Childhood won at the Art Renewal Center's International Salon at Sotheby's New York, was designated "Heritage of Humanity" under the International Artemis Accords, and is now on the moon as part of the Lunar Codex time capsule delivered by the Odysseus lander in February 2024. She is the Commemorative Poster Artist for Grandma's Marathon's 50th anniversary and teaches painting as Adjunct Faculty at the College of Saint Scholastica in Duluth.

Mary Pettis

Mary Pettis holds the Art Renewal Center's ARC Living Master™ designation — awarded to painters who demonstrate the highest level of realist skill and sustained influence, and held by fewer than fifty painters in the world. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Royal Residence in Stockholm, and was commissioned for a print presented personally to the King and Queen of Sweden. She has mounted three solo exhibitions at Minnesota Orchestra Hall, each created in direct dialogue with specific works performed by the Orchestra in tandem. She is a Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society, Oil Painters of America, and the American Society of Marine Artists, where she serves on the board.

Hannah Heyer

Hannah Heyer is a self-taught plein air painter working in oils and watercolour from a sixth-generation family farm in rural southeastern Minnesota. Her work is a close study of place and season — landscapes built outdoors in two to three hours, then developed further into layered studio pieces. She shows at regional plein air events including Grand Marais, Red Wing, and the Driftless Area Art Festival, and is a member of the American Impressionist Society.

Adam Turner

Adam Turner spent over three decades as a commercial illustrator and designer before making the leap to full-time oil painting in 2023 — a considered risk that let him finally paint the stories he wanted to tell instead of the ones a client dictated. Working in a jewel-toned, mosaic-impressionist style across wildlife, landscape, and figurative subjects, he builds every canvas from dark to light, chasing a single charged moment caught mid-motion. He paints out of a studio in New Brighton under the name Adam Turner Visuals and shows across the Twin Cities art fair circuit. He's also a competitive, award-winning snow sculptor — same instinct for figures in motion, just a colder medium.

Artwork Photography of 21 Hats-Steve Levin

Steven J Levin

Steven J. Levin is a Stillwater, Minnesota classical realist oil painter and ARC Living Master™ whose work bridges the Boston School tradition with a vision shaped by Vermeer and Edward Hopper. He trained for five years at the Atelier LeSueur in Excelsior, stayed on as an instructor for seven more, and completed his formation with a copyist stay at London's National Gallery. His signature series — the "Books and Butterflies" paintings, the "Plumage" still lifes, the museum interiors — have made him one of the most recognizable figures in contemporary American realism, with solo shows at the John Pence Gallery of San Francisco stretching across three decades and representation by Grenning Gallery, Tree's Place Gallery, and Flanders Art Gallery.

Dan Olson painting photographed by Mitch Rossow - Seagull Lake

Dan Olson – Northland Images

Dan Olson is a Twin Cities elementary art teacher and plein air painter whose work is rooted in the northwoods landscapes of the Boundary Waters, Gunflint Trail, North Shore of Lake Superior, and Isle Royale. He works from field studies painted outdoors — often in remote wilderness — then develops larger studio pieces built to preserve the light and immediacy of the original moment. He shows at Sivertson Gallery in Grand Marais, is a member of the Outdoor Painters of Minnesota and the Grand Marais Art Colony, and has studied plein air painting under Joe Paquet, Dave Gilsvik, Brock Larson, and Catherine Hearding.

James Vose

James Vose practiced corporate law for years before committing to painting full-time after six years of study at The Atelier in Minneapolis. He works exclusively in still life — oils and graphite, traditional subjects governed by one unwavering constraint: no object that could only exist after the invention of plastic. His titles are as carefully constructed as his compositions: Red Plumbs Ripening, or Columbus and His Crew Begin to Worry That the Stories Were True. He has placed in the Artists Magazine Annual Competition and earned multiple finalist designations in International Art Renewal Center Salons.

Leanne Hanson

Leanne Hanson is a Twin Cities painter working in what she calls realistic impressionism — luminous landscapes and florals built in layered oil glazes, with high-contrast color and radiant light as her signatures. Raised in Duluth by a father who headed the University of Minnesota's art department, she brought a deep art education to a full-time painting practice. She's been juried into over 30 art fairs nationally — from Naples and San Antonio to Chicago and Evanston, with several Minneapolis-area fairs each year — and uses photography from this studio to produce the print inventory that anchors her fair sales.

Kevin Komadina

Kevin Komadina is a painter whose oils draw on three decades of work in ceramic sculpture, murals, and pottery. His subject matter runs toward nostalgia for mid-century American life — neon signs, road trips, city lights, evenings out — rendered with a pop-inflected energy and a feel for color and movement that comes through in the ceramics background. He sells through Saatchi Art's online gallery, where his work has found a consistent international audience.

Nanci Fulmek

Nanci Fulmek is a Minneapolis equestrian and fine art portrait painter who completed the full five-year program at The Atelier Studio Program of Fine Art. Born in Italy and raised in Minnesota, she drew horses obsessively as a kid and received her first paid commission at 16 — a racehorse sketch for a thoroughbred owner who spotted her work. Today she paints equine and human portraits in oil, teaches art business and marketing at The Atelier, and maintains an active client base of horse owners, breeders, and trainers across the country.

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More Artists in This Artwork Photography Portfolio

Amy Ahrens
Doug Berg
Carl Bretzke
Renee Boynton
Jon Burns
Carl Cedergren
Scott Christopher
Susan Steging Cook
Joshua Cunningham
Jack Dant
Sanja DeGarmo
Pat Duncan

Abbey Fitzgerald
Nanci Fulmek
Louise Gillis
Katharine Gotham
Leanne Hanson
Victoria Helen
Hannah C. Heyer
Jeffrey Hurinenko
Igor Dukic
Richard Kochenash
Kevin Komadina
Ava Lambert

Johanna Lerwick
Steve Levin
William McClaren
Tom McGregor
Mary McLean
Dan Olson
Paul Oxborough
Dyan Padgett
Joe Paquet
Beth Peck
Mary Pettis
Matthew Rucker

Kelly Schamberger
Andrew Sjodin
Cheryl LeClair-Sommer
Sharon Stadther
Jennifer Stano
Naomi Tiry Salgado
Adam Turner
Patty Voje
James Vose
John Wegner
Carol Weissenborn
Sue Wipf

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Whether you’re adding to your own artwork photography portfolio, preparing for a major show, or simply making sure your best paintings are documented before they leave your studio, I’m here for that.

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