CINDY KOPENHAFER

Pleasant Hope, MO rhframe@yahoo.com www.cindykopenhafer.com

Cindy Kopenhafer was born and raised on a ranch in Montana and both her mother and grandmother were artists. This instilled in her an appreciation for art at an early age. Growing up on a ranch near the Teton and Missouri rivers gave her the love of nature. Kopenhafer works in several mediums and her art focuses on trees and figures.

Her piece Looking Up was juried into the American Women Artists’ 2020 Spring Online Show. She is a member with distinction in the group, and she belongs to several other professional organizations such as the Pastel Society of America, Portrait Society of America,

Watercolor Honor Society, Springfield Plein Air and Springfield Life Drawing Group.

In September/October

2020 will be her solo show Trees, Rocks and Streams at the Margaret Hartwell Art Museum in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. At the same museum, her work will appear in the Watercolor Honor Show from December 5 to January 24. Kopenhafer is represented by Waverly House Gifts and Gallery in Springfield, Missouri. out on location, capturing the subtle nuances of color, light and atmosphere that can only be achieved by painting from nature.”

Groesser is currently working on a series of plein air landscapes titled Yes, This is Nebraska. COVID-19 put a temporary hold on the project due to several locations and state parks being closed, but her plan is to finish the project by late summer or early fall 2021. She is scheduled to participate in the Door County Plein Air Festival in July; the Oil Painters of America’s