JEANNETTE MACDOUGALL | SCTX Artist
Encaustic | Painting | Drawing | Instructor
Jeannette is a graduate of Parsons School of Art in NYC and is an instructor at Southwest School of Art in San Antonio, Texas, for 30 years. Most recently, she served as the Curator/Instructor at Intermezzo Gallery. She is accomplished in drawing and painting in various media, and her art work is widely collected. As a professional artist and art educator, she finds great inspiration and joy in sharing her methods and experiences with those ready to tap into their own dreams of self-expression through art exploration.
Encaustic | Painting | Drawing | Instructor
Jeannette is a graduate of Parsons School of Art in NYC and is an instructor at Southwest School of Art in San Antonio, Texas, for 30 years. Most recently, she served as the Curator/Instructor at Intermezzo Gallery. She is accomplished in drawing and painting in various media, and her art work is widely collected. As a professional artist and art educator, she finds great inspiration and joy in sharing her methods and experiences with those ready to tap into their own dreams of self-expression through art exploration.
CARA HINES | SCTX Artist
Encaustic | Mixed Media | Instructor
Cara Hines is a graduate of Texas Tech University with a degree in Interior Design and minors in Business and Architecture. She is an abstract artist who works primarily in mixed media and encaustics. She has wide ranging experience in various capacities of the design and art worlds including project management, sales and marketing, showroom and gallery management, and art instruction.
Encaustic | Mixed Media | Instructor
Cara Hines is a graduate of Texas Tech University with a degree in Interior Design and minors in Business and Architecture. She is an abstract artist who works primarily in mixed media and encaustics. She has wide ranging experience in various capacities of the design and art worlds including project management, sales and marketing, showroom and gallery management, and art instruction.
DEBORAH HOGAN SHAW
Fine Art Educator | Summer Art Camps
Deborah moved from Houston to the Hill Country in 1982 and to Comfort in 1987. She graduated from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. She was an art educator in public schools for 30 years, including 6 years with Comfort ISD. She has taught everything from drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture to ceramics. Deborah finds that being able to share the joy of creating with students is a great gift.
Fine Art Educator | Summer Art Camps
Deborah moved from Houston to the Hill Country in 1982 and to Comfort in 1987. She graduated from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. She was an art educator in public schools for 30 years, including 6 years with Comfort ISD. She has taught everything from drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture to ceramics. Deborah finds that being able to share the joy of creating with students is a great gift.
DENNIS REINKE
Fine Art Instructor | Watercolor | Plein Air
After a professional career as an architect and sculptor, Dennis Reinke’s focus is now “Painting the Scenes you Love” commissions. Dennis loves to capture the atmosphere and his initial emotional response in a painting, knowing that each painting has a life of its own. Every painting is an abstraction from reality. He enjoys painting in watercolor, oil painting and acrylics.
Dennis received his kickstart from artist, Clyde Aspevig. From there, he studied color theory and use of primary colors. Dennis was intrigued and informed by the luminosity of the work of Maxfield Parrish. He has participated in plein air painting competitions and art shows in many states for both sculpture and painting, and he has taught painting in Colorado, Oregon and Texas. He attended workshops and classes of sculptors Gerald Balciar, Hollis Williford and Fritz White, and painters Buffalo Kaplinski, Kim English and Irving Shapiro, along with an anatomy workshop with JonZahouk.
Dennis has lived and painted nature’s beauty for many years in the Mountains of Colorado and Wallowa Mountains of Oregon. Dennis lives and paints in his studio/home in Comfort, Texas.
Fine Art Instructor | Watercolor | Plein Air
After a professional career as an architect and sculptor, Dennis Reinke’s focus is now “Painting the Scenes you Love” commissions. Dennis loves to capture the atmosphere and his initial emotional response in a painting, knowing that each painting has a life of its own. Every painting is an abstraction from reality. He enjoys painting in watercolor, oil painting and acrylics.
Dennis received his kickstart from artist, Clyde Aspevig. From there, he studied color theory and use of primary colors. Dennis was intrigued and informed by the luminosity of the work of Maxfield Parrish. He has participated in plein air painting competitions and art shows in many states for both sculpture and painting, and he has taught painting in Colorado, Oregon and Texas. He attended workshops and classes of sculptors Gerald Balciar, Hollis Williford and Fritz White, and painters Buffalo Kaplinski, Kim English and Irving Shapiro, along with an anatomy workshop with JonZahouk.
Dennis has lived and painted nature’s beauty for many years in the Mountains of Colorado and Wallowa Mountains of Oregon. Dennis lives and paints in his studio/home in Comfort, Texas.
JUDITH YOUNGERS
Writing Instructor | Poetry
As a child, Judith Youngers longed to live in nature in a hollowed-out tree and woodland setting, just as Sam Gribley did in Jean Craighead George’s book My Side of the Mountain. To better attune with nature, she moved from cities in the upper Midwest to the small rural town of Comfort 24 years ago. Her writing is often fueled by daily walking and country jaunts. Each morning as she begins her year-round 7:00 walk, deer watch her glide through the meadow. Nightly, a four-legged masked robber visits her porch, seeking left-over kitty treats. She’s sure to write about this soon. She’s been published in a number of journals and anthologies and was a nominee for a 2020 Pushcart Prize in Poetry She’s at work now on a chapbook of poems with echoes of Comfort, tentatively titled, Anchoring, and hopes that committing to this work in print does not jinx her.
Writing Instructor | Poetry
As a child, Judith Youngers longed to live in nature in a hollowed-out tree and woodland setting, just as Sam Gribley did in Jean Craighead George’s book My Side of the Mountain. To better attune with nature, she moved from cities in the upper Midwest to the small rural town of Comfort 24 years ago. Her writing is often fueled by daily walking and country jaunts. Each morning as she begins her year-round 7:00 walk, deer watch her glide through the meadow. Nightly, a four-legged masked robber visits her porch, seeking left-over kitty treats. She’s sure to write about this soon. She’s been published in a number of journals and anthologies and was a nominee for a 2020 Pushcart Prize in Poetry She’s at work now on a chapbook of poems with echoes of Comfort, tentatively titled, Anchoring, and hopes that committing to this work in print does not jinx her.
DANA FALCONBERRY | SCTX Artist
Printmaking
Dana Falconberry is an artist and musician living in Lockhart, TX. After touring, recording, and leading a band for over a decade, she now finds herself focused on visual art. She makes linoleum block prints under the name Falconberry Prints. She fell in love with the art form after learning to carve and print linoleum blocks in order to make her own album covers.
Printmaking
Dana Falconberry is an artist and musician living in Lockhart, TX. After touring, recording, and leading a band for over a decade, she now finds herself focused on visual art. She makes linoleum block prints under the name Falconberry Prints. She fell in love with the art form after learning to carve and print linoleum blocks in order to make her own album covers.