Minneapolis Painting Photographer — Trusted by Twin Cities Artists

As a Minneapolis painting photographer specializing in fine art documentation, I’ve spent 15 years earning the trust of plein air painters, atelier-trained figurative artists, portrait painters, wildlife painters, and abstract artists across the Twin Cities and beyond. This page showcases a few of the clients I’ve had the privilege of working with — from nationally recognized ARC Living Masters to artists preparing for their first juried exhibition.

Every artist on this page 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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Fine Art Portfolios — Minneapolis Painting Photographer

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

Andrew Sjodin

Andrew Sjodin works primarily in oils — quiet still lifes and figure studies that carry a deliberateness his four years of atelier training at The Atelier Studio Program in Minneapolis helped him earn. His approach draws on French Academic drawing principles while his color reads more impressionistic, a pairing that rewards slow looking. He's been a full-time instructor at The Atelier since 2018 and brings new work to the studio regularly.

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.

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.

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.

Patty Voje

Patty Voje is a Saint Paul alla prima painter whose subject matter starts on the farm — cows, pigs, sheep, the occasional chicken — and extends to small-town streets and storefronts. A hobby farm kid who grew up to be a city dweller spending weekends hunting disappearing rural scenes, her paintings are built from large brushes loaded with paint, working fast to catch the light and the animal's expression in as few strokes as possible. The Star Tribune named one of her paintings among its "10 must-see pieces" at the Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition.

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.

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.

Johanna Lerwick

Johanna Lerwick is a wildlife realism painter based in upstate New York whose oils focus on predators and large mammals — wolves, snow leopards, bighorn sheep, grizzlies, cougars — painted with meticulous attention to fur texture and the specific environments each animal inhabits. She travels to photograph her subjects in the wild, from Africa to the Amazon, and donates proceeds from select works to animal conservation programs. She is a Signature Member of Artists For Conservation and a member of the International Guild of Realism.

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.

Matthew Rucker

Matthew Rucker is a Minneapolis surrealist painter who is severely colorblind — and whose work is characterized by a chromatic intensity and intuition that his condition has, by his own account, shaped rather than limited. His ongoing Balance series pairs hyperrealist subjects with open minimalist space and softly graded tones, creating compositions built on stillness and silence. The smooth tonal gradients in his oils exposed a limitation in traditional scanning — banding, loss of tonal variation — which is what brought him to this studio and hasn't been a problem since.

Joe Paquet

Joe Paquet is a Saint Paul plein air painter, a foundational figure in Minneapolis classical realism teaching, and the first client this studio ever had — a relationship now in its fifteenth year, with more than 600 paintings photographed. His work has been featured in Washington Post Magazine, American Artist, and PleinAir Magazine, and he was the subject of the very first episode of Twin Cities Public Television's MN Original. He is a Signature Member of the Salmagundi Club and the California Art Club.

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A Few More Artists Whose Work I’ve Photographed

Jane Grant-Abban
Amy Ahrens
Doug Berg
Edward Bock
Carl Bretzke
Renee Boynton
Jon Burns
Carl Cedergren
Scott Christopher
Susan Steging Cook
Joshua Cunningham
Jack Dant

Pat Duncan
Abbey Fitzgerald
Nanci Fulmek
Pierangela Garau
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

Don’t let your best work disappear forever.

Once a painting is sold, it’s gone — unless you’ve had it professionally photographed. That painting you spent three weeks on, the one that sold at the opening before you even had a chance to properly document it — that’s a gap in your portfolio, your archive, and your print catalog that can never be filled.

Professional photography is the one investment that works across every use case: competition submissions, print sales, gallery applications, your website, your newsletter, social media, and the permanent record of your artistic output. You do it once, and the images serve you for years.

Whether you’re building toward a body of work, preparing for a major show, or simply making sure your best paintings are documented before they leave your studio — I’m here for that.

Contact me today to schedule your artwork photography session