The Twisted Fish
Northern Michigan Art Gallery in Elk Rapids, Michigan
Twisted Fish Gallery features original paintings, sculpture, jewelry, glass, pottery, metal and wood pieces. You will find a vibrant showcase of exceptional artwork to light up your home, office or yard. We specialize in large paintings, sure to become the showpiece of any space. The artists we represent — from northern Michigan and beyond— are selected for the high quality of the work they create. We have studied their backgrounds and visited their studios, so that we can assure you of the excellence of their work. The artwork we offer runs the gamut of styles and mediums with a strong preference toward one-of-a-kind pieces never seen before.
Please browse the outstanding artists featured here and let us know what you think. Please stop by the gallery in person or our secure online store where you can shop for art anytime, from anywhere in the world.
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Sandra Ackerman
Growing up on a farm in a small community on the bank of the Mississippi River gave me a strong connection to the landscape. I began painting as a child alongside my father and later...
Ralph Annunziata
my name is ralph – ‘nunzi’ as many call me, but that is not WHO i am - i am an artist on a journey, but that is not WHO i am - i am older & some say wiser, but that is not ...
Douglas Barron
Douglas J Barron is a Northern Michigan artist known for his Realism oil painting. Born and raised in Michigan, Doug focuses on studio work. Nature's four seasons enhance his favorit...
Kim Bazemore
Here’s the equation that inspires my work: love of design + love of nature. Add them up and the sum of these two passions equals contemporary jewelry that incorporates leather, bea...
Lindy Bishop
My paintings are about celebrating the land and water, what it grows and how it feeds us. Sometimes that takes me into subjects of music, local brews, and normal people doing extraor...
Susan Bloye
"As I walk in this world and cycle through the seasons, I am brought to a sense of wholeness with all of life. As I breathe in awareness in the natural world, I find inspiration for ...
Shanny Brooke
"I paint from a place of fleeting moments or longer lasting experiences which are maybe from childhood. These experiences are often my reactions to current events, or current life si...
Cathy Brown
Cathy Brown's passion for glass began over 30 years ago as a stained glass artist. Over the years, the intrigue of manipulating molten glass in a flame inspired her to learn the art ...
Ginnie Cappaert
Ginnie Cappaert is a full time visual artist with a summer studio in Egg Harbor, Wisconsin and a winter studio in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Her surroundings of nature and her ...
Anni Crouter
Born in Chicago, but growing up in Flint, Mich., Anni Crouter started painting and drawing before she could read or write. Soon after relocating to Michigan in 1965, this natural abi...
Dick Davis
Dick has worked with leather for over 40 years and started incorporating wood and metal into his works over 15 years ago. He does not consider himself a traditional blacksmith, as he...
Joe DeLuca
Early in the 1950’s, Joseph was exposed to the history of art as well as contemporary views. His alma mater is Bowling Green State University in Ohio, where his development was ins...
Kimberly Erickson
Kimberly A. Erickson grew up in Chilton, WI and earned a double degree in Fine Art & Mass Communications from the University of Wisconsin La Crosse. Kimberly has had a diverse creati...
Lisa Farris
I have been working in clay since I was 17 years old, yet I didn’t really find my artistic voice until I became a mother. For years, I would make vessels that were entrenched in fu...
Lori Feldpausch
Living in the northern tip of Lake Huron on the Canadian border Lori’s summers were filled with nature and the quietness that the big body of water creates. With no phone or TV her...
Catherine Murphy / Haw Creek Forge
Equipped with hammers, torches, anvils and stakes, the artisans of Haw Creek Forge handcraft, one by one, each unique piece of our nature inspired “jewelry for the garden.” Worki...
Richard Forrest
The oil paintings of northern Michigan artist Richard Forrest have many facets: the variation of color in each rock, the texture of each leaf, the delicate feathers of birds, and the...
Penny Gabor
"There is an unexplainable draw for me towards the way nature lives within a forceful contrast of gentle, life-giving beauty and raw, wild strength. Whether it is the way that a tree...
Jerry Gates
Whether displaying beautiful, sublime landscapes and river bends, or colorful abstracts, Jerry Gates uses color, contrast and the richness of ever changing textures to capture a mult...
Joan Gerigk
I love puzzles, crossword puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, word puzzles. I love all of it and that is one of the reasons I think that I love painting. Painting is a puzzle whereby you must r...
Ron Gianola
Ron was born in Detroit and currently resides in Honor, Michigan. As a teenager, he played in R&B, Rock and Soul bands and attended Cass Technical H.S. as a Design & Drafting student...
Brian Goff
Brian Goff is a northern Michigan oil paint artist and lifelong Michigan native. Growing up on a small apple orchard ingrained in him the impacts of changing seasons, a garden’s b...
Maureen Gray
Maureen Gray studied and received her BFA at Northern Michigan University with focus on furniture design, construction and sculpture. Maureen specializes in stone sculpture and has...
Steve Griggs
Steve's love of art started early in life. While other children would lament field trips to the art museum, that was his favorite day of the school year! Steve's mother bought his fi...
Peter Griz
I have a fascination with the response wind can produce when interacting with one of earth’s elements like copper creating a mesmerizing piece of art which can bring about harmony ...
Mary Guntzviller
"I create because I must. To me, creating art is as essential as breathing. Creating art gives me joy, satisfaction, apprehension, and relief. Every time I create, I am complete. I ...
Marcia K. Hales
Marcia K. Hales never tires of exploring the “line” in her acrylic paintings. She likes the way it envelops space, creates texture, provides connections and sometimes gives direc...
Gail Hayton
Hayton's passion is to render sun-drenched landscapes that usually include architecture, and sometimes horses. Her love for these subjects comes from two sources. All her life, Ga...
Daniel Heron
Daniel credits his mother for fostering his early interest in art by providing him with painting and drawing lessons. Beyond this early training, he was self-taught until a Michigan ...
Robyn Kane
Robyn has been interested in jewelry since childhood, as her mother was a jewelry instructor. Robyn’s enduring fascination with wearable art stems from those early impressions. ...
Katarzyna Korytowska
Katarzyna Korytowska obtained dual degrees in Fine Arts & Architecture from the University Of Poznan & Poznan Academy Of Art in her native country of Poland. When in art school, Kata...
Tom Krueger
Tom has been an artist for 50 years, during which time he has gained national renown. He claims that in January of 2006 he entered the third trimester of life and uses all the days o...
Connie Kuhnle
Connie is a Michigan artist who studied art for a year at Michigan State University, then graduated from Kendall School of Art & Design with a major in illustration. She worked in t...
Debra LaRocque
Debra LaRocque is an award winning artist from Bay City, Michigan, where she lives with her husband. She has two grown sons. Working primarily in graphite, acrylic, and watercolor. S...
Thomas LeGault
Thomas LeGault first discovered his passion for painting at the age of thirteen. A native of Michigan, he received his formal training at the well known Center for Creative Studies i...
Matt Lewis
"My work evolves out of a necessity for the work to come into being. The work is a necessary activity for me in terms of a meditation, reflection & possibility of self actualization....
Alan Maciag
Alan Maciag paints with oils; his rural landscapes are a balance between form, distance, color and content. This balance creates a sense of calm and bucolic reverence for the rural h...
Antonio Macioce
Antonio Macioce grew up in Italy, where he used to draw whatever came into his head. After moving to the United States, he received his art training at Notre Dame as well as the Birm...
Michael Magnotta
My journey in the arts began some 35 years ago in photography. Architectural studies at the New School of Architecture, San Diego, broadened my artistic horizons. I learned how the...
Louise Malinowski
After a fulfilling career in the medical field, my path led me on a new adventure, an adventure that I am passionate about. This passion is designing and creating original jewelry pi...
Mara Manning
I collect too many rocks and am in awe of the complexities of nature and the majestic world we live in. My studio is on the shore of Lake Michigan, a good place for my body and soul ...
Mark Mehaffey
Internationally recognized artist Mark E Mehaffey is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society (Dolphin Fellow), the National Watercolor Society, Watercolor USA Honor Soc...
Doug Melvin
Having seen Doug’s sculptures throughout the region, we were immediately drawn in. Doug’s use of found object and steel transform ordinary scraps or “throw-aways” into life-l...
Delbert Michel
Delbert Michel describes his work as "lyrical and colorful abstractions." He tends to work in series and finds inspiration in a variety of places. Besides his abstract paintings, he ...
Karen VanDam Michmerhuizen
Born in the lush, gently rolling farmlands of Western Michigan, Karen VanDam Michmerhuizen was early on aware of the constant inter-play of light and shadow caused by the clouds whic...
Charles Murphy
From traditional watercolors depicting northern Michigan scenes, to large abstract oil paintings, Charlie Murphy’s range of medium and subject matter is boundless. His frequent inc...
Stan Myers
The creative inspiration behind my artwork is found in the delight of discovery. This was first instilled into me as an impressionable child while traveling with my parents on vacati...
Louise Pond
I am a painter who strives to tell a story, an interpretation in my own non spoken creative way. Working from life affords me that opportunity to catch a moment in time, capturing th...
Krista Reuter
Fascinated by the infinite potential of paper as a medium, artist Krista Reuter explores the material not only as a source for 2D drawing and embellishment but also as a source for c...
Dave Rife
Although mentored from Lyle Jamieson and other members of the Northwest Michigan Woodturners Club, of which he is a member, David Rife is a self-taught artist and craftsman. He fine ...
Ann Robinson
Ann Robinson fell in love with watercolor painting in 1979 when she returned to college to study art, design & illustration. She studied art history and took additional watercolor cl...
Ken Schug
Ken is a local artist, living on Duck Lake just south of Traverse City, MI. He is the sixth generation to live and work in Northwest Lower Michigan, an avid outdoorsman, who loves ex...
Robert Scudder
Robert is mostly a self-taught painter. He moved up north in the late nineteen sixties with the help an encouragement of two outstanding high school art teachers to pursue a painting...
Michelle Sider
I “paint” with glass, creating rich and reflective pieces. Vivid colors, strong design, a sense of movement and the use of various techniques characterize my work which both expr...
William Sievert
A bit more than 100 years ago, Kazimir Malevich and Wassily Kandinsky opened a new era in Western art. For more than 600 years the powerful influence of Renaissance representation, ...
Rufus Snoddy
Rufus Snoddy relocated to northern Michigan several years ago from Los Angeles, California. His family moved there from rural East Texas when he was an adolescent. Watching Los Angel...
Sam Soet
Sam sat in on his first college art class at Kendall College of Art and Design with his mother before he was born. On his father's side he is related to Vincent Van Gogh, so it could...
Lynn Stephenson
I am a nature artist because I have to draw what moves me. I feel if you are not passionate about your subject matter, and your chosen medium, it reflects in the quality of your work...
Marilyn Stover
Michigan artist Marilyn Stover is known for her ceramic baskets with an organic appearance. She has a particular interest in the Mayan, Aztec and Inca cultures. Marilyn was first int...
Chris Trombley
On Process: "I love depth of color and interest. My work is multi-layered, revealing gems below here and there. It’s an actual physical experience covering and uncovering, polishi...
James Troutman
James Troutman is a Michigan artist and member of the Grand Valley Artists Association. When Jim is creating a sculpture, he visualizes a particular form in a piece of stone and d...
Lynn Uhlmann
My paintings reflect the emotional connections I feel to nature. The sculptural shapes of both flowers and trees represented in this body of work possess rhythmic movement. I see the...
Margaret White
Margaret and her husband, also an artist, reside in Michigan. They are both retired art teachers. Margaret’s subject matter includes the human figure and face, flowers, birds, inse...
William White
Ranging from old world interiors, classical views of northern Michigan, to abstract works in vivid colors, William White’s oil paintings challenge a viewer to become a participant ...
Jim Wolnosky
Jim Wolnosky has been working with wood in various ways for over 40 years. He worked his way through Wayne State University and Michigan State University as a self taught carpenter, ...