Featured Artists: Ginger Anne Sandell & Tina Clothier
Featured Cover Artist: Ginger Anne Sandell A constant companion in Ginger Anne Sandell’s life is the creative force that drives her to the easel and compels her to lay paint on canvas. Her mother, an artist herself, encouraged her in…
Featured Artists: Jane Chao & Shay Niimi Wahi
Featured Cover Artist: Jane Chao Jane Chao was born in Harbin, Manchuria, China, in 1929. Her father was in the military—his job was to keep the railroad safe in northern Manchuria which was under Japanese occupation. He was working for the…
Featured Artists: Trish Helms Kimball & Susanna Anderson
Featured Cover Artist: Trish Helms Kimball Trish Helms Kimball grew up on Hawai‘i Island and has lived here for most of her adult life. Her family’s home was in Hilo, and they often spent weekends and summers at their beach…
Featured Artist: Alexander Rokoff
The paintings featured on this issue’s cover and table of contents were both created by the same artist, Alexander Rokoff. The cover’s Blind Shepherd is about ‘aumakua (personal gods). Alexander explains, “To me, it feels similar to the Native American…
Featured Photographers: Don Hurzeler & Kirk Shorte
Featured Cover Photographer: Don Hurzeler Don Hurzeler’s business cards say he’s an author, photographer, and old retired guy. We think the latter is far from true, Don seems busier than many people half his age. As a lifelong athlete, nothing…
Featured Artists: CJ Kale & Tina Clothier
Featured Cover Photographer: CJ Kale CJ Kale grew up on the Waianae Coast of O‘ahu and has lived on Hawai‘i Island more than 25 years. His early years were spent on the water, as a surfer and competitive swimmer. Those…
Featured Artists: Jeannie Garcia & Kathleen Carr
Featured Cover Artist: Jeannie Garcia Jeannie Garcia grew up in Pennsylvania and attended York Academy of Arts in York, Pennsylvania. After college, she moved to Southern California and trained at the Mission Renaissance Studios in the traditional methods used by…
Featured Artists: Barbara Hanson & Candace Lee
Featured Cover Artist: Barbara Hanson Barbara Hanson’s gallery in Hōlualoa Village is an experience that is best done in person, so people can see the process, touch the material, and see the different stages of her artwork coming together. Barbara…
Featured Artists: Cindy Coats & Anthony Dohanos
Featured Cover Artist: Cindy Coats You Are Here, the image on our cover, was created for the 2011 Ironman triathlon. Artist Cindy Coats says, “The shape of the island is so distinctive and recognizable, and because of that it’s like a…
Featured Artists: Stephen Davies and G. Brad Lewis
Featured Cover Photographer: Stephen Davies Stephen Davies grew up in central Florida. He attended the University of Virginia for a couple of years, before heading to Spain for a year, where he taught English at Berlitz School. While Stephen was…
Featured Artists: Suzanne Dix-Kaliko and Tim Wright
Featured Cover Artist: Suzanne Dix-Kaliko Suzanne Dix-Kaliko was 18 when her high school art teacher gifted her a set of oils and she began to paint. Raised in a small town in western New York, Suzanne was always an artist.…
Featured Artists: Angela Yarber & Shelly Batha
Featured Cover Artist: Angela Yarber Rev. Dr. Angela Yarber is the artist, author, professor, and executive director of the Tehom Center, a nonprofit organization which teaches about revolutionary women through art, writing, retreats, and courses. With a PhD in art…
Featured Artists: Brenda Meriwether & Deborah Beaver
Featured Cover Artist: Brenda Meriwether Decorative ceramic tile artist Brenda Meriwether was influenced by the 60s culture of the San Francisco Bay area. Brenda’s mother had artistic tendencies and her brother is an amateur cartoonist—art was encouraged in their home.…
Featured Artists: Linda Rowell Stevens & Barbara Hanson
Cover Artist: Linda Rowell Stevens Linda Rowell Stevens moved to Hawai‘i in 1978, at age 21. She began her art career as an artist doll maker, selling her dolls in galleries. Her dolls were award-winning—even shown in a Los Angeles…
Featured Artists: Suzy Papanikolas & GP Merfeld
Featured Cover Artist: Suzy Papanikolas Suzy Papanikolas’s paintings grab your attention immediately. While visually stunning with their vibrant colors and textures, they are most remarkable for their sense of drama and the window they open into the emotions of those…
Featured Artists: GP Merfeld, Richard Koob, & Arthur Johnsen
Featured Cover Photographer: GP Merfeld In the 11 years since being featured on Ke Ola Magazineʻs first cover, GP Merfeldʻs passion has continued with his Portraits of a Culture project, concentrating on the activities and events unique to our islands,…
Featured Artists: Francene Hart & Ethel Mann
Featured Cover Artist: Francene Hart Francene Hart knew as a child she would be an artist. She grew up in the middle of the US, spending 26 years in northern Wisconsin where she built a log home and discovered a…
Featured Artists: Diane Tunnell & David Gallegos
Cover Artist: Diane Tunnell Diane Tunnell was born in Billings, Montana. She grew up in Bartlesville, Oklahoma and Littleton, Colorado. Her dream at age five was to become an artist. She studied art at Colorado State University, received a BA…
Featured Artists: Richard Mortemore & Gail Griffin
Featured Cover Artist: Richard Mortemore Richard Mortemore, better known as “Dick”, was born and raised in Lambertville, Michigan where he remembers running around barefoot and exploring the farmlands and surrounding woods and streams. This is where his fondness and fascination…
Featured Artists: Rita French & Tommy Adkins
Featured Cover Photographer: Rita French Rita French was born and raised in Montana, but knew from about seven years old that Hawai‘i was her real home. It only took her 55 years to get here! 11 years ago she sold…
Featured Artists: Melissa Michelle Chimera & Georgia Michalicek
Featured Cover Artist: Melissa Michelle Chimera Melissa Michelle Chimera is a Honolulu native of Filipino and Lebanese ancestry, who moved to Honoka‘a almost a year ago with her husband and son. Melissa studied natural resources management at University of Hawai‘i…
Featured Artists: Joalene Young & Louie Perry III
Featured Cover Artist: Joalene Young Joalene Young grew up surrounded by beauty in the art colony at Laguna Beach, California, where she lived until the age of 44. In school, she majored in English and minored in art. She married…
Featured Artists: Kirk Shorte & Kristi Kranz
Featured Cover Artist: Kirk Shorte Kirk Shorte is an avid professional photographer who captures the unique beauty and life of Hawai‘i Island in his images. A resident of Kailua-Kona since 2004, Kirk grew up in Belmar, New Jersey where, at…
Featured Artists: Shay Niimi Wahl & Joalene Young
Featured Cover Artist: Shay Niimi Wahl After her first four years in Honolulu, Shay Niimi Wahl grew up in the once-thriving sugar plantation town of Pa‘auilo on Hawai‘i Island. Her rural upbringing made Shay aware of the beauty and diversity…
Featured Artists: Andrea Pro & Kirk Shorte
Featured Cover Artist: Andrea Pro Andrea Pro, creator of the woodcut print, Nectar, featured on our front cover, shares her inspiration of creating this art piece, “After a hike in Kīlauea Iki crater at Volcano I emerged into the rainforest…
Featured Artists: Alice Hughes & Fern Gavelek
Featured Cover Artist: Alice Hughes Alice first came to Hawai‘i in 1972 on an around-the-world trip. “It was a lot different in some ways, but is still the same in others. I was embraced by this island in many ways…
Featured Artists: Trina Jezik & Don Slocum
Featured Cover Artist: Trina Jezik Trina and her husband, Rhys, moved to Hawai‘i Island in 2015 from British Columbia, Canada. “From one beautiful place to another,” says Trina. She had been to Hawai‘i 13 years before and dreamed of a…
Featured Artists: Phyllis Cullen & the Konawaena High School Mural Program
Featured Cover Artist: Phyllis Cullen It’s the Beans! is the name of the fabric collage featured on the front cover of this issue. Designed and created by Phyllis Cullen, fabric artist and painter, this award-winning quilt was made for the…
Featured Artists: Peter Jefferson & Bill Doar
Featured Cover Artist: Peter Jefferson Our January-February cover artist, Peter Jefferson says, “Winter months on Hawai‘i Island are truly special. Year after year, it is amazing looking mauka and seeing the snow sitting atop Maunakea, then looking makai, watching the whales breaching…
Featured Artists: Roz Marshall, Colin Anderson, and Robert Andia
Featured Cover Artist: Roz Marshall Roz Marshall is a Welsh born Canadian artist who has lived mauka (uphill) from Kealakekua Bay for nearly twenty years in a house she designed and built with her husband, Bob Florent. Roz grew up…
