Ken & Tina Riesterer
OUR STORY
Ken and Tina Riesterer, Both from the Chicago area, met while studying painting at the American Academy of Art. They fell in love, married, and traveled west seeking beauty and inspiration. Finding just that in Manitou Springs, they lived, painted and raised two wonderful children. Somewhere in between that, they branched out into ceramics, and started collaborating in clay. Exhibiting locally and nationally, they both continue to work and grow in paint and clay.
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After Art College in Chicago, Ken and I took our Van and drove across America. We found beautiful Manitou Springs and knew- here was a town to make a life- and we did! Forty years later, raising a family, making 10,000 pots, bowls, vases, and cups, sculptures and painting. We continue on gladly.
So fortunate, Ken throws and constructs clay forms and I draw and paint figures by the thousands.
Our paintings, each our own, are done in the open air, on the wild Rocky Mountain hillsides.
People love our work, we love doing it. We’d like to show you our most recent efforts.
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Ken Riesterer studied drawing and painting at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. They fell in love with each other and with the creative process. In 1984 they married and moved to Colorado; they had found beauty in the landscape and inspiration in the art community. In 1992 their creative work expanded to ceramics. For over thirty years they have been collaborating in life and art, raising two children, painting individually and working on clay together. Their paintings and ceramics are exhibited in Palm Springs, Key West, Salida, locally at the Art Bank in Colorado Springs and the Green Horse Gallery in Manitou Springs.
Tina Riesterer studied drawing and painting at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. Artist husband Ken, and Tina fell in Love with Manitou Springs in 1984 on their honeymoon, they found beauty in the town, surrounding hillsides, and inspiration in the art community. Raising two children and living and working as artists since then, it is still inspiring after all these years. With a group of artists they co-own and operate the Green Horse Gallery on Manitou Avenue. You can find their work there, and also in Colorado Springs, Salida, Kansas City, and Port Angeles WA.
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Green Horse Gallery.
For the past fifteen years Ken and Tina have been partners with a small group of artists in an Art Gallery business in Manitou Springs. Five years ago the gallery moved to a bigger space and prime location and continues to sells local art as the Green Horse Gallery. Ken and Tina’s clay studio is behind the gallery, and you can find them most days in the studio working with clay or on the streets or in the hills drawing and painting.
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