How to Get In an Art Gallery: What Worked for Me. Approaching Art Galleries for Representation
Advice, tips and guidance on how to approach an art gallery for representation by professional artist Dena Tollefson.
Whether you are just graduating art school and need help getting your art career started, or you have been an artist for a while and need help breaking into the gallery scene or adding additional galleries to your portfolio, this helpful and encouraging video is for you.
This video is appropriate for visual artists, glass, ceramic, potters, sculptors, oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, jewelry, and all artists who would like tips for how to get a gallery owner's attention and develop a relationship with the gallery leading to representation at a fine art gallery. Topics include pricing artwork, how do I know if I am ready for a gallery, how many artworks are needed for gallery representation, how to approach an art gallery, how to find an art gallery which is a fit, how to break into the local art scene, and more.
Tollefson is a full time artist and has been represented by art galleries since 2000. Her originals are available exclusively through the fine art galleries who represent her across the United States. Canvas and paper prints are available through her website denatollefson.com as well as iCanvas.com who licenses her work worldwide and through merchants such as Kirkland’s, Target, Bed Bath and Beyond, and Nordstrom.
Tollefson uses both palette knives and spoons to paint 3D, touchable, textured works of art on canvas. Be sure to subscribe to my channel for more painting tips. Learn more at her website
Tollefson is a Christian and her artwork is positive message, uplifting and healing. Collectors use her paintings for meditation, calming, and healing thought.
My work known as Daubism is created using a palette knife where each stroke of color is isolated from the others. Most paintings will have hundreds of different colors, these colors are all individually hand-mixed from a limited set of colors creating unique colors which
Dena Tollefson is an American artist whose bold contemporary paintings focus on joyful use of color, texture and movement, creating a low relief effect in paint- a hybrid between low relief sculpture, mosaic, and traditional painting.
She is known for floral painting, especially how to paint sunflowers.
Dena Tollefson (nee Dena Schaefer), born 1965, is a full-time, professional artist. Tollefson graduated from Iowa State University in 1988 and lived in Dallas Texas before returning to Iowa in 1991 where she developed her unique, highly textured painting style. She lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with her husband and family.
Tollefson is represented in fine art galleries nationally in New Mexico, California, Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois.
Her Daubism body of work is a unique process she developed, where daubs of individually mixed paint are applied with a palette knife. The largest daubs are applied with a serving spoon, allowing ridges of paint which catch the light and appear to dance and scintillate as the viewer moves past the painting.
Tollefson’s work focuses on botanicals, ponds, skies, and her Corn Series of work, biographies where people are depicted as ears of corn. Her work is highly tactile.
Museum, Corporate & Selected Private Collections: Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA. Farm Credit Services Omaha, NE Terso Solutions Corporation Madison, WI Iowa Department of Human Services, Cedar Rapids, IA Genesis Hospital, Davenport, IA Monsanto Corporation St Louis, MO Ronald McDonald Facility/Unity Point Health Cedar Rapids, IA Ruberry, Stalmack and Garvey Law Firm Chicago, IL Marion Arts Council Marion, IA Mercy Hospital Cedar Rapids, IA PCI Cardiologists Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa St Luke’s Hospice Cedar Rapids, IA StarcomMediaVest CEO, Chicago, IL St Luke’s hospital, Cedar Rapids, IA. United Fire and Casualty Owner, Cedar Rapids, IA Mableton Bank, Mabelton, GA Lil’ Drug Stores CEO, Scottsdale, AZ
Two of Dena Tollefson's paintings are in the permanent collection of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. Her original paintings hang publicly and in private collections throughout the world. Prints and other licensed products are available worldwide
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How to Paint Oranges 8 Different Ways Part 2 LIVE: Discover Your Personal Art Style Painting Demo
Part 2 of 2 Thinking about trying to paint in a different style? Not sure what you favorite art style is and want to explore more? Come join professional artist Dena Tollefson in her art studio! Dena shows you how to explore your personal style and try out different art movements and art techniques This creative exercise can be done in oil paint, acrylic, gouache, watercolor, pastels, colored pencil and more. We will discuss how to discover your own personal art style by examining art movements of the past and present- trying them on for size. This video we will paint an orange in 8 different art styles.
Topics include art movements of realism, pointillism, cubism, fauvism, naturalism, minimalism, action painting, abstract expressionism and how you can paint in these styles to grow your creativity and develop your personal art style. Artists discussed- Rothko, Van Gogh, Serat, Gauguin, Matisse, Jackson Pollock, Grant Wood. This fun, relaxing video is a great way to unwind and increase your creativity. Tollefson is known for deep, vibrant colors in her signature painting technique.
Find Dena Tollefson's favorite art supplies at
As an Amazon Influencer, Tollefson receives compensation at no additional cost to you.
Be sure to subscribe to her channel for more painting tips.
Learn more at her website
Tollefson is a Christian and her artwork is positive message, uplifting and healing. Collectors use her paintings for meditation, calming, and healing thought.
Artist’s Statement: I am a Colorist and am known for contemporary realism focusing on botanicals and landscapes, especially ponds, flowers and skies. My sky paintings are my idea of how God created Earth with one breath. Every morning and every evening He creates a new sky for us.
I employ vigorous brushwork and texture through the palette knife in my work so that people may experience along with me the feel of the painting. I find mosaics fascinating how the individual pieces all contribute to the whole- I want my paintings to have a similar idea where overlapping petals of paint all stand on their own and then contribute to the total.
My work known as Daubism is created using a palette knife where each stroke of color is isolated from the others. Most paintings will have hundreds of different colors, these colors are all individually hand-mixed from a limited set of colors creating unique colors which relate to one another. I am striving for a sensual, tactile surface in paint.
I am always excited when someone connects with my artwork- I am delighted to share a vision of color and beauty with my collectors- Dena Tollefson
Dena Tollefson is an American artist whose bold contemporary paintings focus on joyful use of color, texture and movement, creating a low relief effect in paint- a hybrid between low relief sculpture, mosaic, and traditional painting.
She is known for floral painting, especially how to paint sunflowers.
Dena Tollefson (nee Dena Schaefer), born 1965, is a full-time, professional artist. Tollefson graduated from Iowa State University in 1988 and lived in Dallas Texas before returning to Iowa in 1991 where she developed her unique, highly textured painting style. She lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with her husband and family.
Tollefson is represented in galleries nationally in New Mexico, California, Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois.
Her Daubism body of work is a unique process she developed, where daubs of individually mixed paint are applied with a palette knife. The largest daubs are applied with a serving spoon, allowing ridges of paint which catch the light and appear to dance and scintillate as the viewer moves past the painting. Tollefson’s work focuses on botanicals, ponds, skies, and her Corn Series of work, biographies where people are depicted as ears of corn. Her work is highly tactile.
Museum, Corporate & Selected Private Collections
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA.
Farm Credit Services Omaha, NE
Terso Solutions Corporation Madison, WI
Iowa Department of Human Services, Cedar Rapids, IA
Genesis Hospital, Davenport, IA
Monsanto Corporation St Louis, MO
Ronald McDonald Facility/Unity Point Health Cedar Rapids, IA
Ruberry, Stalmack and Garvey Law Firm Chicago, IL
Marion Arts Council Marion, IA
Mercy Hospital Cedar Rapids, IA
PCI Cardiologists Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa
St Luke’s Hospice Cedar Rapids, IA
StarcomMediaVest CEO, Chicago, IL
St Luke’s hospital, Cedar Rapids, IA.
United Fire and Casualty Owner, Cedar Rapids, IA
Mableton Bank, Mabelton, GA
Lil’ Drug Stores CEO, Scottsdale, AZ
Two of Dena Tollefson's paintings are in the permanent collection of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. Her work hangs publicly and in private collections throughout the world.
How to Paint Oranges 8 Different Ways Part 1 LIVE: Discover Your Personal Art Style Painting Demo
Part 1 of 2 Thinking about trying to paint in a different style? Not sure what you favorite art style is and want to explore more? Come join professional artist Dena Tollefson in her art studio! Dena shows you how to explore your personal style and try out different art movements and art techniques This creative exercise can be done in oil paint, acrylic, gouache, watercolor, pastels, colored pencil and more. We will discuss how to discover your own personal art style by examining art movements of the past and present- trying them on for size. This video we will paint an orange in 8 different art styles.
Topics include art movements of realism, pointillism, cubism, fauvism, naturalism, minimalism, action painting, abstract expressionism and how you can paint in these styles to grow your creativity and develop your personal art style. Artists discussed- Rothko, Van Gogh, Serat, Gauguin, Matisse, Jackson Pollock, Grant Wood. This fun, relaxing video is a great way to unwind and increase your creativity. Tollefson is known for deep, vibrant colors in her signature painting technique.
Find Dena Tollefson's favorite art supplies at
As an Amazon Influencer, Tollefson receives compensation at no additional cost to you.
My technique can be done in either oil paint and acrylic paint.
Tollefson uses both palette knives and spoons to paint 3D, touchable, textured works of art on canvas.
Be sure to subscribe to her channel for more painting tips.
Learn more at her website
Tollefson is a Christian and her artwork is positive message, uplifting and healing. Collectors use her paintings for meditation, calming, and healing thought.
Artist’s Statement: I am a Colorist and am known for contemporary realism focusing on botanicals and landscapes, especially ponds, flowers and skies. My sky paintings are my idea of how God created Earth with one breath. Every morning and every evening He creates a new sky for us.
I employ vigorous brushwork and texture through the palette knife in my work so that people may experience along with me the feel of the painting. I find mosaics fascinating how the individual pieces all contribute to the whole- I want my paintings to have a similar idea where overlapping petals of paint all stand on their own and then contribute to the total.
I am always excited when someone connects with my artwork- I am delighted to share a vision of color and beauty with my collectors- Dena Tollefson
Dena Tollefson is an American artist whose bold contemporary paintings focus on joyful use of color, texture and movement, creating a low relief effect in paint- a hybrid between low relief sculpture, mosaic, and traditional painting.
She is known for floral painting, especially how to paint sunflowers.
Dena Tollefson (nee Dena Schaefer), born 1965, is a full-time, professional artist. Tollefson graduated from Iowa State University in 1988 and lived in Dallas Texas before returning to Iowa in 1991 where she developed her unique, highly textured painting style. She lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with her husband and family.
Tollefson is represented in galleries nationally in New Mexico, California, Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois.
Her Daubism body of work is a unique process she developed, where daubs of individually mixed paint are applied with a palette knife. The largest daubs are applied with a serving spoon, allowing ridges of paint which catch the light and appear to dance and scintillate as the viewer moves past the painting. Tollefson’s work focuses on botanicals, ponds, skies, and her Corn Series of work, biographies where people are depicted as ears of corn. Her work is highly tactile.
Museum, Corporate & Selected Private Collections
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA.
Farm Credit Services Omaha, NE
Terso Solutions Corporation Madison, WI
Iowa Department of Human Services, Cedar Rapids, IA
Genesis Hospital, Davenport, IA
Monsanto Corporation St Louis, MO
Ronald McDonald Facility/Unity Point Health Cedar Rapids, IA
Ruberry, Stalmack and Garvey Law Firm Chicago, IL
Marion Arts Council Marion, IA
Mercy Hospital Cedar Rapids, IA
PCI Cardiologists Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa
St Luke’s Hospice Cedar Rapids, IA
StarcomMediaVest CEO, Chicago, IL
St Luke’s hospital, Cedar Rapids, IA.
United Fire and Casualty Owner, Cedar Rapids, IA
Mableton Bank, Mabelton, GA
Lil’ Drug Stores CEO, Scottsdale, AZ
Two of Dena Tollefson's paintings are in the permanent collection of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. Her work hangs publicly and in private collections throughout the world.
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Dena Tollefson ASMR Painter Channel Introduction
Dena Tollefson is a full-time, professional artist. Her originals are represented by fine art galleries in the US and she licenses her work worldwide for prints and merchandise. Watch this trailer video for Dena Tollefson's channel. Be sure to subscribe so you will be first to see her relaxing and de-stress painting demonstrations
Whether you are a beginning artist, a seasoned artist, or a non-artist who likes to watch painting step by step, her time lapse and ASMR painting sessions will help you de-stress.
See what art supplies I use- Dena Tollefson's favorite art supplies at
As an Amazon Influencer, I receive compensation at no additional cost to you.
Artist’s Statement: I am a Colorist and am known for contemporary realism focusing on botanicals and landscapes, especially ponds, flowers and skies. My sky paintings are my idea of how God created Earth with one breath. Every morning and every evening He creates a new sky for us.
I employ vigorous brushwork and texture through the palette knife in my work so that people may experience along with me the feel of the painting. I find mosaics fascinating how the individual pieces all contribute to the whole- I want my paintings to have a similar idea where overlapping petals of paint all stand on their own and then contribute to the total.
My work known as Daubism is created using a palette knife where each stroke of color is isolated from the others. Most paintings will have hundreds of different colors, these colors are all individually hand-mixed from a limited set of colors creating unique colors which relate to one another. I am striving for a sensual, tactile surface in paint.
I am always excited when someone connects with my artwork- I am delighted to share a vision of color and beauty with my collectors- Dena Tollefson
Dena Tollefson is an American artist whose bold contemporary paintings focus on joyful use of color, texture and movement, creating a low relief effect in paint- a hybrid between low relief sculpture, mosaic, and traditional painting.
She is known for floral painting, especially how to paint sunflowers.
Dena Tollefson (nee Dena Schaefer), born 1965, is a full-time, professional artist. Tollefson graduated from Iowa State University in 1988 and lived in Dallas Texas before returning to Iowa in 1991 where she developed her unique, highly textured painting style. She lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with her husband and family.
Tollefson is represented in galleries nationally in New Mexico, California, Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois.
Her Daubism body of work is a unique process she developed, where daubs of individually mixed paint are applied with a palette knife. The largest daubs are applied with a serving spoon, allowing ridges of paint which catch the light and appear to dance and scintillate as the viewer moves past the painting. Her work is highly tactile.
Museum, Corporate & Selected Private Collections
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA.
Farm Credit Services Omaha, NE
Terso Solutions Corporation Madison, WI
Iowa Department of Human Services, Cedar Rapids, IA
Genesis Hospital, Davenport, IA
Monsanto Corporation St Louis, MO
Ronald McDonald Facility/Unity Point Health Cedar Rapids, IA
Ruberry, Stalmack and Garvey Law Firm Chicago, IL
Marion Arts Council Marion, IA
Mercy Hospital Cedar Rapids, IA
PCI Cardiologists Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa
St Luke’s Hospice Cedar Rapids, IA
StarcomMediaVest CEO, Chicago, IL
St Luke’s hospital, Cedar Rapids, IA.
United Fire and Casualty Owner, Cedar Rapids, IA
Mableton Bank, Mabelton, GA
Lil’ Drug Stores CEO, Scottsdale, AZ
Two of Dena Tollefson's paintings are in the permanent collection of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. Her work hangs publicly and in private collections throughout the world. She has exhibited in juried shows in Texas, New York, California and Georgia and has won awards at the national and local level, as addition to participating in 40 gallery group shows.
Signature: Dena Tollefson's work is signed either D Tollefson or DENA, titles on reverse.
How to Get Into an Art Gallery Part 2: Top 6 Questions Answered How to Get Gallery Representation
How to Get in an Art Gallery Part 2. Whether you are self taught, just graduating art school and need help getting your art career started, or you have been an artist for a while and need help breaking into the gallery scene or adding additional galleries to your portfolio, this helpful and encouraging video is for you.
Advice, tips and guidance on how to approach an art gallery for representation by professional artist Dena Tollefson. This video answers the top 6 questions for how to select an art gallery which can help your art career grow and flourish.
Whether you are just graduating art school and need help getting your art career started, or you have been an artist for a while and need help breaking into the gallery scene or adding additional galleries to your portfolio, this helpful and encouraging video is for you.
This video is appropriate for visual artists, glass, ceramic, potters, sculptors, oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, jewelry, and all artists who would like tips for how to get a gallery owner's attention and develop a relationship with the gallery leading to representation at a fine art gallery.
Topics include self taught artists, how to pick the right gallery, advice for those trying to break into the scene, and answering the questions of which sizes and mediums sell best.
Tollefson is a full time artist and has been represented by art galleries since 2000. Her originals are available exclusively through the fine art galleries who represent her across the United States. Canvas and paper prints are available through her website denatollefson.com as well as iCanvas.com who licenses her work worldwide and through merchants such as Kirkland’s, Target, Bed Bath and Beyond, and Nordstrom.
Tollefson uses both palette knives and spoons to paint 3D, touchable, textured works of art on canvas. Be sure to subscribe to my channel for more painting tips. Learn more at her website
Tollefson is a Christian and her artwork is positive message, uplifting and healing. Collectors use her paintings for meditation, calming, and healing thought.
My work known as Daubism is created using a palette knife where each stroke of color is isolated from the others. Most paintings will have hundreds of different colors, these colors are all individually hand-mixed from a limited set of colors creating unique colors which
Dena Tollefson is an American artist whose bold contemporary paintings focus on joyful use of color, texture and movement, creating a low relief effect in paint- a hybrid between low relief sculpture, mosaic, and traditional painting.
She is known for floral painting, especially how to paint sunflowers.
Dena Tollefson (nee Dena Schaefer), born 1965, is a full-time, professional artist. Tollefson graduated from Iowa State University in 1988 and lived in Dallas Texas before returning to Iowa in 1991 where she developed her unique, highly textured painting style. She lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with her husband and family.
Tollefson is represented in fine art galleries nationally in New Mexico, California, Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois.
Her Daubism body of work is a unique process she developed, where daubs of individually mixed paint are applied with a palette knife. The largest daubs are applied with a serving spoon, allowing ridges of paint which catch the light and appear to dance and scintillate as the viewer moves past the painting.
Tollefson’s work focuses on botanicals, ponds, skies, and her Corn Series of work, biographies where people are depicted as ears of corn. Her work is highly tactile.
Museum, Corporate & Selected Private Collections: Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA. Farm Credit Services Omaha, NE Terso Solutions Corporation Madison, WI Iowa Department of Human Services, Cedar Rapids, IA Genesis Hospital, Davenport, IA Monsanto Corporation St Louis, MO Ronald McDonald Facility/Unity Point Health Cedar Rapids, IA Ruberry, Stalmack and Garvey Law Firm Chicago, IL Marion Arts Council Marion, IA Mercy Hospital Cedar Rapids, IA PCI Cardiologists Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa St Luke’s Hospice Cedar Rapids, IA StarcomMediaVest CEO, Chicago, IL St Luke’s hospital, Cedar Rapids, IA. United Fire and Casualty Owner, Cedar Rapids, IA Mableton Bank, Mabelton, GA Lil’ Drug Stores CEO, Scottsdale, AZ
Two of Dena Tollefson's paintings are in the permanent collection of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. Her original paintings hang publicly and in private collections throughout the world. Prints and other licensed products are available worldwide
Instagram Growth How to Grow on Instagram for Artists LIVE: Using Instagram to Boost Your Art Career
Wondering how to break into the art scene through Instagram? Do you have an Instagram channel and not sure why it is not growing as fast as you would like? Have you considered trying Instagram but not sure how to start? This helpful and encouraging video is for you.
Advice, tips and guidance on how to set up an Instagram account and grow your Instagram channel from an artist's point of view to catch the attention of art galleries, art supply companies and potential collectors.
This video is appropriate for visual artists, glass, ceramic, potters, sculptors, oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, jewelry, and all artists who would like tips for how to improve your Instagram account and gain more likes, comments and followers
Topics include how to set up an account, how to hold Insta giveaways which meet the legal standards and Instagram rules, how often to post, how to maximize the potential of Instagram videos, how to write calls to action, and examples of good channels to look at for examples.
Tollefson is a full time artist and has been represented by art galleries since 2000. Her originals are available exclusively through the fine art galleries who represent her across the United States. Canvas and paper prints are available through her website denatollefson.com as well as iCanvas.com who licenses her work worldwide and through merchants such as Kirkland’s, Target, Bed Bath and Beyond, and Nordstrom.
Find Dena Tollefson's favorite art supplies at
As an Amazon Influencer, Tollefson receives compensation at no additional cost to you.
Be sure to subscribe to her channel for more painting tips.
Learn more at her website
Tollefson is a Christian and her artwork is positive message, uplifting and healing. Collectors use her paintings for meditation, calming, and healing thought.
I employ vigorous brushwork and texture through the palette knife in my work so that people may experience along with me the feel of the painting. I find mosaics fascinating how the individual pieces all contribute to the whole- I want my paintings to have a similar idea where overlapping petals of paint all stand on their own and then contribute to the total.
My work known as Daubism is created using a palette knife where each stroke of color is isolated from the others. Most paintings will have hundreds of different colors, these colors are all individually hand-mixed from a limited set of colors creating unique colors which relate to one another. I am striving for a sensual, tactile surface in paint.
I am always excited when someone connects with my artwork- I am delighted to share a vision of color and beauty with my collectors- Dena Tollefson
Dena Tollefson is an American artist whose bold contemporary paintings focus on joyful use of color, texture and movement, creating a low relief effect in paint- a hybrid between low relief sculpture, mosaic, and traditional painting.
She is known for floral painting, especially how to paint sunflowers.
Dena Tollefson (nee Dena Schaefer), born 1965, is a full-time, professional artist. Tollefson graduated from Iowa State University in 1988 and lived in Dallas Texas before returning to Iowa in 1991 where she developed her unique, highly textured painting style. She lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with her husband and family.
Tollefson is represented in galleries nationally in New Mexico, California, Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois.
Her Daubism body of work is a unique process she developed, where daubs of individually mixed paint are applied with a palette knife. The largest daubs are applied with a serving spoon, allowing ridges of paint which catch the light and appear to dance and scintillate as the viewer moves past the painting. Tollefson’s work focuses on botanicals, ponds, skies, and her Corn Series of work, biographies where people are depicted as ears of corn. Her work is highly tactile.
Museum, Corporate & Selected Private Collections
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA.
Farm Credit Services Omaha, NE
Terso Solutions Corporation Madison, WI
Iowa Department of Human Services, Cedar Rapids, IA
Genesis Hospital, Davenport, IA
Monsanto Corporation St Louis, MO
Ronald McDonald Facility/Unity Point Health Cedar Rapids, IA
Ruberry, Stalmack and Garvey Law Firm Chicago, IL
Marion Arts Council Marion, IA
Mercy Hospital Cedar Rapids, IA
PCI Cardiologists Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa
St Luke’s Hospice Cedar Rapids, IA
StarcomMediaVest CEO, Chicago, IL
St Luke’s hospital, Cedar Rapids, IA.
United Fire and Casualty Owner, Cedar Rapids, IA
Mableton Bank, Mabelton, GA
Lil’ Drug Stores CEO, Scottsdale, AZ
Two of Dena Tollefson's paintings are in the permanent collection of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. Her work hangs publicly and in private collections throughout the world.
Art Haul! Unboxing Art Supplies with Dena Tollefson
Thank you to my friends at Arteza for the art haul! They sent me these art supplies and I am so excited to try them out and tell you about them.
You can shop here directly to Arteza’s site with this link to fine the these 12 Premium Acrylic Colors and 14 mini canvases with tiny easels as well as all the Arteza products
Here is a link for the cute little canvases with easels
Here is the link for the Arteza 12 acrylic paint colors
As an Arteza Affiliate, I receive compensation at no additional cost to you.
You can shop Dena Tollefson's favorite art supplies at
to find my favorite brushes, easels, wet and dry palettes, oil paint, acrylic paint, palette knives, art instruction books and art inspiration books.
You will find these Arteza paints as well as Golden, Cobra, Winsor & Newton, H2 Oil, Fredrix, and others.
As an Amazon Influencer, I receive compensation at no additional cost to you.
Tollefson uses both palette knives and spoons to paint 3D, touchable, textured works of art on canvas. Be sure to subscribe to my channel for more painting tips. Learn more at her website
Tollefson is a Christian and her artwork is positive message, uplifting and healing. Collectors use her paintings for meditation, calming, and healing thought.
My work known as Daubism is created using a palette knife where each stroke of color is isolated from the others. Most paintings will have hundreds of different colors, these colors are all individually hand-mixed from a limited set of colors creating unique colors which
Dena Tollefson is an American artist whose bold contemporary paintings focus on joyful use of color, texture and movement, creating a low relief effect in paint- a hybrid between low relief sculpture, mosaic, and traditional painting.
She is known for floral painting, especially how to paint sunflowers.
Dena Tollefson (nee Dena Schaefer), born 1965, is a full-time, professional artist. Tollefson graduated from Iowa State University in 1988 and lived in Dallas Texas before returning to Iowa in 1991 where she developed her unique, highly textured painting style. She lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with her husband and family.
Tollefson is represented in fine art galleries nationally in New Mexico, California, Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois.
Her Daubism body of work is a unique process she developed, where daubs of individually mixed paint are applied with a palette knife. The largest daubs are applied with a serving spoon, allowing ridges of paint which catch the light and appear to dance and scintillate as the viewer moves past the painting.
Tollefson’s work focuses on botanicals, ponds, skies, and her Corn Series of work, biographies where people are depicted as ears of corn. Her work is highly tactile.
Museum, Corporate & Selected Private Collections: Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA. Farm Credit Services Omaha, NE Terso Solutions Corporation Madison, WI Iowa Department of Human Services, Cedar Rapids, IA Genesis Hospital, Davenport, IA Monsanto Corporation St Louis, MO Ronald McDonald Facility/Unity Point Health Cedar Rapids, IA Ruberry, Stalmack and Garvey Law Firm Chicago, IL Marion Arts Council Marion, IA Mercy Hospital Cedar Rapids, IA PCI Cardiologists Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa St Luke’s Hospice Cedar Rapids, IA StarcomMediaVest CEO, Chicago, IL St Luke’s hospital, Cedar Rapids, IA. United Fire and Casualty Owner, Cedar Rapids, IA Mableton Bank, Mabelton, GA Lil’ Drug Stores CEO, Scottsdale, AZ
Two of Dena Tollefson's paintings are in the permanent collection of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. Her original paintings hang publicly and in private collections throughout the world. Prints and other licensed products are available worldwide
Ultramarine Lilies Part 1 LIVE Oil Colors Painting Demonstration with Dena Tollefson
Come join professional artist Dena Tollefson in her art studio! This fun, relaxing video is a great way to unwind and increase your creativity. Tollefson is known for deep, vibrant colors in her signature painting technique.
Today we are painting a pond in bright, vibrant hues following the Japanese aesthetic of Wabi-Sabi principles and diminution in compositions. The painting will be made in an inverted C shaped composition and be painted as colorful water lilies in a tranquil pond. Using natural hog hair bristle brushes, golden taklon synthetic brushes, and water mixable oil colors, Dena leads you through discussions of color mixing, color wheel, gray scale, how to use palette knives, while oil painting, as well as an update on Featherston Turkey and the neighborhood river otter. Dena demonstrates how to paint a landscape with water and foliage and ways to control the paint and control the painting composition.
Find Dena Tollefson's favorite art supplies at
As an Amazon Influencer, Tollefson receives compensation at no additional cost to you.
My technique can be done in either oil paint and acrylic paint.
Tollefson uses both palette knives and spoons to paint 3D, touchable, textured works of art on canvas.
Be sure to subscribe to her channel for more painting tips.
Learn more at her website
Tollefson is a Christian and her artwork is positive message, uplifting and healing. Collectors use her paintings for meditation, calming, and healing thought.
Artist’s Statement: I am a Colorist and am known for contemporary realism focusing on botanicals and landscapes, especially ponds, flowers and skies. My sky paintings are my idea of how God created Earth with one breath. Every morning and every evening He creates a new sky for us.
I employ vigorous brushwork and texture through the palette knife in my work so that people may experience along with me the feel of the painting. I find mosaics fascinating how the individual pieces all contribute to the whole- I want my paintings to have a similar idea where overlapping petals of paint all stand on their own and then contribute to the total.
My work known as Daubism is created using a palette knife where each stroke of color is isolated from the others. Most paintings will have hundreds of different colors, these colors are all individually hand-mixed from a limited set of colors creating unique colors which relate to one another. I am striving for a sensual, tactile surface in paint.
I am always excited when someone connects with my artwork- I am delighted to share a vision of color and beauty with my collectors- Dena Tollefson
Dena Tollefson is an American artist whose bold contemporary paintings focus on joyful use of color, texture and movement, creating a low relief effect in paint- a hybrid between low relief sculpture, mosaic, and traditional painting.
She is known for floral painting, especially how to paint sunflowers.
Dena Tollefson (nee Dena Schaefer), born 1965, is a full-time, professional artist. Tollefson graduated from Iowa State University in 1988 and lived in Dallas Texas before returning to Iowa in 1991 where she developed her unique, highly textured painting style. She lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with her husband and family.
Tollefson is represented in galleries nationally in New Mexico, California, Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois.
Her Daubism body of work is a unique process she developed, where daubs of individually mixed paint are applied with a palette knife. The largest daubs are applied with a serving spoon, allowing ridges of paint which catch the light and appear to dance and scintillate as the viewer moves past the painting. Tollefson’s work focuses on botanicals, ponds, skies, and her Corn Series of work, biographies where people are depicted as ears of corn. Her work is highly tactile.
Museum, Corporate & Selected Private Collections
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA.
Farm Credit Services Omaha, NE
Terso Solutions Corporation Madison, WI
Iowa Department of Human Services, Cedar Rapids, IA
Genesis Hospital, Davenport, IA
Monsanto Corporation St Louis, MO
Ronald McDonald Facility/Unity Point Health Cedar Rapids, IA
Ruberry, Stalmack and Garvey Law Firm Chicago, IL
Marion Arts Council Marion, IA
Mercy Hospital Cedar Rapids, IA
PCI Cardiologists Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa
St Luke’s Hospice Cedar Rapids, IA
StarcomMediaVest CEO, Chicago, IL
St Luke’s hospital, Cedar Rapids, IA.
United Fire and Casualty Owner, Cedar Rapids, IA
Mableton Bank, Mabelton, GA
Lil’ Drug Stores CEO, Scottsdale, AZ
Two of Dena Tollefson's paintings are in the permanent collection of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. Her work hangs publicly and in private collections throughout the world.
LIVE 6 Ideas for Creating More Dramatic Landscapes: Painting Composition & How to Start a Painting
Ever wonder how to start a successful painting? Come join professional artist Dena Tollefson in her art studio! Watch this painting tutorial for a fun demonstration of how to design dramatic landscapes in acrylic. I will cover topics including composition basics and create 6 different compositions which you to use in your work, and how to take those designs and expand them into full paintings. Paint along with me or watch and make your own painting thumbnails for painting composition ideas next time you get out your acrylic art supplies to start a new painting.
This fun, relaxing video is a great way to unwind and increase your creativity. Tollefson is known for deep, vibrant colors in her signature painting technique.
Find Dena Tollefson's favorite art supplies at
As an Amazon Influencer, Tollefson receives compensation at no additional cost to you.
My technique can be done in either oil paint and acrylic paint.
Tollefson uses both palette knives and spoons to paint 3D, touchable, textured works of art on canvas.
Be sure to subscribe to her channel for more painting tips.
Learn more at her website
Tollefson is a Christian and her artwork is positive message, uplifting and healing. Collectors use her paintings for meditation, calming, and healing thought.
Artist’s Statement: I am a Colorist and am known for contemporary realism focusing on botanicals and landscapes, especially ponds, flowers and skies. My sky paintings are my idea of how God created Earth with one breath. Every morning and every evening He creates a new sky for us.
I employ vigorous brushwork and texture through the palette knife in my work so that people may experience along with me the feel of the painting. I find mosaics fascinating how the individual pieces all contribute to the whole- I want my paintings to have a similar idea where overlapping petals of paint all stand on their own and then contribute to the total.
My work known as Daubism is created using a palette knife where each stroke of color is isolated from the others. Most paintings will have hundreds of different colors, these colors are all individually hand-mixed from a limited set of colors creating unique colors which relate to one another. I am striving for a sensual, tactile surface in paint.
I am always excited when someone connects with my artwork- I am delighted to share a vision of color and beauty with my collectors- Dena Tollefson
Dena Tollefson is an American artist whose bold contemporary paintings focus on joyful use of color, texture and movement, creating a low relief effect in paint- a hybrid between low relief sculpture, mosaic, and traditional painting.
She is known for floral painting, especially how to paint sunflowers.
Dena Tollefson (nee Dena Schaefer), born 1965, is a full-time, professional artist. Tollefson graduated from Iowa State University in 1988 and lived in Dallas Texas before returning to Iowa in 1991 where she developed her unique, highly textured painting style. She lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with her husband and family.
Tollefson is represented in galleries nationally in New Mexico, California, Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois.
Her Daubism body of work is a unique process she developed, where daubs of individually mixed paint are applied with a palette knife. The largest daubs are applied with a serving spoon, allowing ridges of paint which catch the light and appear to dance and scintillate as the viewer moves past the painting. Tollefson’s work focuses on botanicals, ponds, skies, and her Corn Series of work, biographies where people are depicted as ears of corn. Her work is highly tactile.
Museum, Corporate & Selected Private Collections
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA.
Farm Credit Services Omaha, NE
Terso Solutions Corporation Madison, WI
Iowa Department of Human Services, Cedar Rapids, IA
Genesis Hospital, Davenport, IA
Monsanto Corporation St Louis, MO
Ronald McDonald Facility/Unity Point Health Cedar Rapids, IA
Ruberry, Stalmack and Garvey Law Firm Chicago, IL
Marion Arts Council Marion, IA
Mercy Hospital Cedar Rapids, IA
PCI Cardiologists Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa
St Luke’s Hospice Cedar Rapids, IA
StarcomMediaVest CEO, Chicago, IL
St Luke’s hospital, Cedar Rapids, IA.
United Fire and Casualty Owner, Cedar Rapids, IA
Mableton Bank, Mabelton, GA
Lil’ Drug Stores CEO, Scottsdale, AZ
Two of Dena Tollefson's paintings are in the permanent collection of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. Her work hangs publicly and in private collections throughout the world.
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775 rooms. These include 19 State rooms, 52 Royal and guest bedrooms, 188 staff bedrooms, 92 offices and 78 bathrooms, covers over 77,000 square metres
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Price of this house $980 million
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Owner of the house is Ukrainian businesswoman and philanthropist Elena Franchuk, a friend of Sir Elton John.
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house Details: 123 rooms and covers over 56,000 square feet
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Buckingham Palace
The House Built in $1,560,000,000 In The House
775 rooms. These include 19 State rooms, 52 Royal and guest bedrooms, 188 staff bedrooms, 92 offices and 78 bathrooms, covers over 77,000 square metres
2. Antilia – Mumbai, India
the price is
$1 billion
27 floors, 40,000 sq ft tower
The Owner of the house is Mukesh Ambani, an Indian business tycoon and multi-billionaire
Upper Phillimore Gardens – Kensington, South-west London
Price of this house $980 million
In house Five-storey detached Victorian house
Owner of the house is Ukrainian businesswoman and philanthropist Elena Franchuk, a friend of Sir Elton John.
The Pinnacle – Montana, US
Price :$944 million
house Details: 123 rooms and covers over 56,000 square feet
Owner of the house Edra and Time Blixseth
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Price:$913 million
House Details: 60,000 sq-ft
Owner of the house is Fertilizer king
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Buckingham Palace
The House Built in $1,560,000,000 In The House
775 rooms. These include 19 State rooms, 52 Royal and guest bedrooms, 188 staff bedrooms, 92 offices and 78 bathrooms, covers over 77,000 square metres
2. Antilia – Mumbai, India
the price is
$1 billion
27 floors, 40,000 sq ft tower
The Owner of the house is Mukesh Ambani, an Indian business tycoon and multi-billionaire
Upper Phillimore Gardens – Kensington, South-west London
Price of this house $980 million
In house Five-storey detached Victorian house
Owner of the house is Ukrainian businesswoman and philanthropist Elena Franchuk, a friend of Sir Elton John.
The Pinnacle – Montana, US
Price :$944 million
house Details: 123 rooms and covers over 56,000 square feet
Owner of the house Edra and Time Blixseth
5. Maison de L’Amitie – Palm Beach, Florida
Price:$913 million
House Details: 60,000 sq-ft
Owner of the house is Fertilizer king
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“Bartholomew’s Sky” Part 1 of 2 LIVE Acrylic Landscape Painting Demonstration Impasto Art Technique
Come join professional artist Dena Tollefson in her art studio! This fun, relaxing video is a great way to unwind and increase your creativity. Dena Tollefson paints “Bartholomew’s Sky” in acrylic using her signature Daubism impasto technique. Her unique impasto technique is done using paint, palette knives, and spoons to create a three dimensional, touchable texture on top of the canvas. This painting is created using heavy bodied Golden acrylic paint and palette knives. Watch as Dena demonstrates how to paint in her impasto technique. This is part 1 of 2 parts. Be sure to watch part 2 to see the full texture effect in paint.
“Bartholomew’s Sky” is part of Tollefson's Sky Series of landscape paintings depicting Creation. Every day God gives us a new sunrise and a new sunset.
Tollefson is known for deep, vibrant colors in her signature painting technique.
Find Dena Tollefson's favorite art supplies at
As an Amazon Influencer, Tollefson receives compensation at no additional cost to you.
My technique can be done in either oil paint and acrylic paint.
Tollefson uses both palette knives and spoons to paint 3D, touchable, textured works of art on canvas.
Be sure to subscribe to her channel for more painting tips.
Learn more at her website
Tollefson is a Christian and her artwork is positive message, uplifting and healing. Collectors use her paintings for meditation, calming, and healing thought.
Artist’s Statement: I am a Colorist and am known for contemporary realism focusing on botanicals and landscapes, especially ponds, flowers and skies. My sky paintings are my idea of how God created Earth with one breath. Every morning and every evening He creates a new sky for us.
I employ vigorous brushwork and texture through the palette knife in my work so that people may experience along with me the feel of the painting. I find mosaics fascinating how the individual pieces all contribute to the whole- I want my paintings to have a similar idea where overlapping petals of paint all stand on their own and then contribute to the total.
My work known as Daubism is created using a palette knife where each stroke of color is isolated from the others. Most paintings will have hundreds of different colors, these colors are all individually hand-mixed from a limited set of colors creating unique colors which relate to one another. I am striving for a sensual, tactile surface in paint.
I am always excited when someone connects with my artwork- I am delighted to share a vision of color and beauty with my collectors- Dena Tollefson
Dena Tollefson is an American artist whose bold contemporary paintings focus on joyful use of color, texture and movement, creating a low relief effect in paint- a hybrid between low relief sculpture, mosaic, and traditional painting.
She is known for floral painting, especially how to paint sunflowers.
Dena Tollefson (nee Dena Schaefer), born 1965, is a full-time, professional artist. Tollefson graduated from Iowa State University in 1988 and lived in Dallas Texas before returning to Iowa in 1991 where she developed her unique, highly textured painting style. She lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with her husband and family.
Tollefson is represented in galleries nationally in New Mexico, California, Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois.
Her Daubism body of work is a unique process she developed, where daubs of individually mixed paint are applied with a palette knife. The largest daubs are applied with a serving spoon, allowing ridges of paint which catch the light and appear to dance and scintillate as the viewer moves past the painting. Tollefson’s work focuses on botanicals, ponds, skies, and her Corn Series of work, biographies where people are depicted as ears of corn. Her work is highly tactile.
Museum, Corporate & Selected Private Collections
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA.
Farm Credit Services Omaha, NE
Terso Solutions Corporation Madison, WI
Iowa Department of Human Services, Cedar Rapids, IA
Genesis Hospital, Davenport, IA
Monsanto Corporation St Louis, MO
Ronald McDonald Facility/Unity Point Health Cedar Rapids, IA
Ruberry, Stalmack and Garvey Law Firm Chicago, IL
Marion Arts Council Marion, IA
Mercy Hospital Cedar Rapids, IA
PCI Cardiologists Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa
St Luke’s Hospice Cedar Rapids, IA
StarcomMediaVest CEO, Chicago, IL
St Luke’s hospital, Cedar Rapids, IA.
United Fire and Casualty Owner, Cedar Rapids, IA
Mableton Bank, Mabelton, GA
Lil’ Drug Stores CEO, Scottsdale, AZ
Two of Dena Tollefson's paintings are in the permanent collection of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. Her work hangs publicly and in private collections throughout the world.
Beginner Oil Painting Art Supplies LIVE: What Art Supplies You Need to Begin Painting in Oil Colors
Thinking about trying oil painting? Not sure what art supplies you will need? Come join professional artist Dena Tollefson in her art studio! Dena shows you examples of the different products available for oil painting and what art supplies you will need to get started painting in oil.
Topics include paint: water mincible/water mixable vs traditional, and what 5 colors you must have to paint, brushes: bristle vs synthetic, rounds, flats, liners, and filberts. Palette knives. Canvas: cotton canvas vs linen canvas, gesso, panels, rolls, and prestretched canvas. Retouch varnish, final coat varnish, linseed oil, walnut oil, and oil mediums for glazing. How to mix colors and how to hang wire for framing are discussed. This fun, relaxing video is a great way to unwind and increase your creativity. Tollefson is known for deep, vibrant colors in her signature painting technique.
Find Dena Tollefson's favorite art supplies at
As an Amazon Influencer, Tollefson receives compensation at no additional cost to you.
Here is the link to the Painting Stoof mentioned in the video, she did a great tutorial on how to stretch a canvas
My technique can be done in either oil paint and acrylic paint.
Tollefson uses both palette knives and spoons to paint 3D, touchable, textured works of art on canvas.
Be sure to subscribe to her channel for more painting tips.
Learn more at her website
Tollefson is a Christian and her artwork is positive message, uplifting and healing. Collectors use her paintings for meditation, calming, and healing thought.
Artist’s Statement: I am a Colorist and am known for contemporary realism focusing on botanicals and landscapes, especially ponds, flowers and skies. My sky paintings are my idea of how God created Earth with one breath. Every morning and every evening He creates a new sky for us.
My work known as Daubism is created using a palette knife where each stroke of color is isolated from the others. Most paintings will have hundreds of different colors, these colors are all individually hand-mixed from a limited set of colors creating unique colors which relate to one another. I am striving for a sensual, tactile surface in paint.
I am always excited when someone connects with my artwork- I am delighted to share a vision of color and beauty with my collectors- Dena Tollefson
Dena Tollefson is an American artist whose bold contemporary paintings focus on joyful use of color, texture and movement, creating a low relief effect in paint- a hybrid between low relief sculpture, mosaic, and traditional painting.
She is known for floral painting, especially how to paint sunflowers.
Dena Tollefson (nee Dena Schaefer), born 1965, is a full-time, professional artist. Tollefson graduated from Iowa State University in 1988 and lived in Dallas Texas before returning to Iowa in 1991 where she developed her unique, highly textured painting style. She lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with her husband and family.
Tollefson is represented in galleries nationally in New Mexico, California, Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois.
Her Daubism body of work is a unique process she developed, where daubs of individually mixed paint are applied with a palette knife. The largest daubs are applied with a serving spoon, allowing ridges of paint which catch the light and appear to dance and scintillate as the viewer moves past the painting. Tollefson’s work focuses on botanicals, ponds, skies, and her Corn Series of work, biographies where people are depicted as ears of corn. Her work is highly tactile.
Museum, Corporate & Selected Private Collections
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA.
Farm Credit Services Omaha, NE
Terso Solutions Corporation Madison, WI
Iowa Department of Human Services, Cedar Rapids, IA
Genesis Hospital, Davenport, IA
Monsanto Corporation St Louis, MO
Ronald McDonald Facility/Unity Point Health Cedar Rapids, IA
Ruberry, Stalmack and Garvey Law Firm Chicago, IL
Marion Arts Council Marion, IA
Mercy Hospital Cedar Rapids, IA
PCI Cardiologists Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa
St Luke’s Hospice Cedar Rapids, IA
StarcomMediaVest CEO, Chicago, IL
St Luke’s hospital, Cedar Rapids, IA.
United Fire and Casualty Owner, Cedar Rapids, IA
Mableton Bank, Mabelton, GA
Lil’ Drug Stores CEO, Scottsdale, AZ
Two of Dena Tollefson's paintings are in the permanent collection of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. Her work hangs publicly and in private collections throughout the world.
Your Art Career: How to Create Marketing Materials & Business Cards w/ Pro Artist Dena Tollefson
Come join professional artist Dena Tollefson in her art studio to learn all about creating marketing materials for your art business. Marketing materials such as postcards, business cards, show exhibit cards, card holders, card organizers, and customized art address return labels. Learn why these materials can help you grow your art business. Learn how to create business cards for the country you live in and learn what to include on the card and what to leave off. Today we will be creating our own individual, one of a kind business and gratitude cards. Wondering how to make a business card? Did you know that standard sizes for a business card varies by country, and what your country's preferred size is? This video also covers how to design a business card on your computer, how to find an on-line source to make high quality business cards and other marketing materials such as return address labels, art exhibit announcements, marketing post cards, and thank you notes for collectors. Dena takes you through the steps of creating one-of-a-kind, hand made thank you cards and business cards in watercolor that you can make yourself in minutes. Dena gives tips on what to include when using a printing company to make your cards, and the reason why you want to order or design two-sided marketing materials to maximize your branding for artists.
This fun, relaxing video is a great way to unwind and increase your creativity. Tollefson is known for deep, vibrant colors in her signature painting technique.
Find Dena Tollefson's favorite art supplies at
As an Amazon Influencer, Tollefson receives compensation at no additional cost to you.
Be sure to subscribe to her channel for more painting tips.
Learn more at her website
Tollefson is a Christian and her artwork is positive message, uplifting and healing. Collectors use her paintings for meditation, calming, and healing thought.
I employ vigorous brushwork and texture through the palette knife in my work so that people may experience along with me the feel of the painting. I find mosaics fascinating how the individual pieces all contribute to the whole- I want my paintings to have a similar idea where overlapping petals of paint all stand on their own and then contribute to the total.
My work known as Daubism is created using a palette knife where each stroke of color is isolated from the others. Most paintings will have hundreds of different colors, these colors are all individually hand-mixed from a limited set of colors creating unique colors which relate to one another. I am striving for a sensual, tactile surface in paint.
I am always excited when someone connects with my artwork- I am delighted to share a vision of color and beauty with my collectors- Dena Tollefson
Dena Tollefson is an American artist whose bold contemporary paintings focus on joyful use of color, texture and movement, creating a low relief effect in paint- a hybrid between low relief sculpture, mosaic, and traditional painting.
Dena Tollefson (nee Dena Schaefer), born 1965, is a full-time, professional artist. Tollefson graduated from Iowa State University in 1988 and lived in Dallas Texas before returning to Iowa in 1991 where she developed her unique, highly textured painting style. She lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with her husband and family.
Tollefson is represented in galleries nationally in New Mexico, California, Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois.
Her Daubism body of work is a unique process she developed, where daubs of individually mixed paint are applied with a palette knife. The largest daubs are applied with a serving spoon, allowing ridges of paint which catch the light and appear to dance and scintillate as the viewer moves past the painting. Tollefson’s work focuses on botanicals, ponds, skies, and her Corn Series of work, biographies where people are depicted as ears of corn. Her work is highly tactile.
Museum, Corporate & Selected Private Collections
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA.
Farm Credit Services Omaha, NE
Terso Solutions Corporation Madison, WI
Iowa Department of Human Services, Cedar Rapids, IA
Genesis Hospital, Davenport, IA
Monsanto Corporation St Louis, MO
Ronald McDonald Facility/Unity Point Health Cedar Rapids, IA
Ruberry, Stalmack and Garvey Law Firm Chicago, IL
Marion Arts Council Marion, IA
Mercy Hospital Cedar Rapids, IA
PCI Cardiologists Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa
St Luke’s Hospice Cedar Rapids, IA
StarcomMediaVest CEO, Chicago, IL
St Luke’s hospital, Cedar Rapids, IA.
United Fire and Casualty Owner, Cedar Rapids, IA
Mableton Bank, Mabelton, GA
Lil’ Drug Stores CEO, Scottsdale, AZ
Two of Dena Tollefson's paintings are in the permanent collection of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. Her work hangs publicly and in private collections throughout the world.