Tony Guido & Patrick Kochanasz

Join us for First Friday ArtWalk on October 7 as we feature local potter, Tony Guido and soft pastel artist, Patrick Kochanasz. Meet the featured artists, watch them create, and choose from their newest works.

About Tony Guido:

When Tony moved to Colorado in 2002, he felt at home with Colorado’s majestic outdoor playground. In his studio, Tony has been inspired to create functional ceramics, accenting Colorado’s motif of aspens, pinecones and mountain views. His love for clay has grown over the years and Tony enjoys the freedom clay gives to be functional, as well as sculptural, and finds the possibilities for creativity to be limitless. The newest collection by Tony has exponentially more carving and detailed attention to the motif’s he has become known for.

Patrick Kochanasz Artist Statement:

The mountains are full of unexpected delights. Slivers of light across wide stone faces. Deep moss clinging to the edges of cold, winding waters. Wildflowers, both delicate and resilient, thriving above lonely treelines. Songbirds echoing among towering pines and fragrant junipers.

It’s hard to encapsulate just how inspiring these terrains are. I’ve delighted in exploring these mountains for much of the last decade. My paintings are the result of some attempt to capture my relentless, wandering observations; they are the embodiment of a constant interest and profound fascination in the impressions nature leaves me with- ornaments of that remarkable topography both vast and diminutive.

​These paintings are deeply inspired by the mountain West, though often not tethered to an exact set of coordinates or geologic formation. They serve as vibrant, sometimes whimsical, approximations of the mountains- their resonant space and capricious nature.

ArtWalk 2022 Season Lineup

• November – Pottery Palooza
• December – Pie Mixer