Long Realty Golder Ranch has forged a partnership with the SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Guild to promote the talented artists of SaddleBrooke. The current display features the watercolor art of Karen Brungardt, Renee Pearson and Kay Sullivan
Renee Pearson
Renee Pearson has always loved to paint in watercolor. Her subject matter is close up florals, southwest style florals and still life paintings. She layers the watercolor to achieve the wonderful glow that we see in her paintings. Renee has her BFA form California State Hayward and has won many awards in California, New Mexico and Arizona.
Renee has her Signature Status from both the New Mexico Watercolor Society and the Southern Arizona Guild.
Kay Sullivan
After escaping the frenetic work world of Silicon Valley twenty-four years ago, Kay finally had time to learn about watercolor – a medium which she fell in love with forty years ago, long before becoming an artist. She took her first drawing class, sponsored by the SaddleBrooke Fine Art Guild, in 2001. Now, after many classes, she enjoys painting fearlessly. She loves to paint watercolor pet portraits, but likes to balance that with painting architecture, landscapes, florals and abstract experimental works using collage and acrylic mediums.
Kay has served on the board of the SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Guild, the Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild and is currently the President of the SaddleBrooke Nature Club.
Karen Brungardt
Karen received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974 from Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
Karen moved to Kansas City, Missouri in 1975 and applied to the University of Missouri in Kansas City in 1977 to attend the Masters of Art program. She was accepted and did one year toward her Master’s degree in art. She then decided to go to Medical School instead--that paid better than being a starving artist. Karen received her D.O. degree in 1985 from the Kansas City College of Osteopathic Medicine, interned at Lakeside Hospital, and then moved to Wyoming in 1986 where she was in Family Practice for 16 years.
In college, Karen’s art interests were in oil painting, etchings, and pencil drawings. While in Family Practice, she started taking watercolor classes and she fell in love with that medium.
After retirement, she and her husband, Larry, moved to Saddlebrooke, Arizona, in 2002. Since then, she has concentrated on painting in watercolors and teaching Beginning Watercolor to students. She is the past President of the Saddlebrooke Fine Arts Guild and is also involved with the Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild. She shows her work in the SAWG gallery on Broadway, in the Absolutely Art Gallery in Catalina, Arizona and also in Saddlebrooke.
Not only has she attained Signature Member status with SAWG, but she’s also earned the Saguaro Fellow level, the highest level of achievement available in the Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild (SAWG).
You can view the work of these fine artists at Long Realty Golder Ranch located in the Bashes Shopping Center. The opening hours are 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Monday through Friday.
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