Carmel Academy of the Arts Information on Class Instructors

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Magdalena Segovia
Magdalena Hoyos-Segovia was born in Veracruz, Mexico. She studied drawing from a young age, and later completed collage programs focusing on Graphic Design, Fashion, Black and White Photography, along with other art forms. Primarily, Magdalena is a painter, working with egg tempera and oil paints. She uses the human figure to portray emotions, gestures, and feelings, keeping the faces anonymous and the colors bright to better convey the beauty and energy of her message. Magdalena draws inspiration from the iconic figures and ‘Madonna’s’ of the great masters, but tries to keep the elements modern. She has shown work in Mexico and Brazil, as well as many other locations. Recently, she has opened the Magdalena Gallery of Art and founded the Carmel Academy of the Arts, both located in the Arts and Design District of Carmel, Indiana. Magdalena’s work can be HERE.

Mary Johnston
Mary Johnston grew up in Duluth, Minnesota and is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, Duluth. She has spent many years working in the graphic arts field and is by large a self-taught artist. Lake Superior is her muse, as it is a beautiful palate of water, sky, and forest. Though Mary has lived in a number of places in the United States, the scenes from the Great Lakes region continue to be the main focus or her creativity and the inspiration of her artwork. She has studied under the master watercolor painter, Cheng Khee Chee, and nature photographers, Nadine and Craig Blacklock, through the University of Minnesota continuing education workshops. Her mentor for oils is the internationally acclaimed artist, Magdalena Hoyos-Segovia. Presently, Mary resides in Carmel, Indiana and works from a home studio. The backdrop is a pond frequented by a wide variety of wild waterfowl surrounded by the large sky vista of the prairie. Her family’s cabin on Eagle Lake near Iron River, Wisconsin provides her with another view of the northern landscape. Mary’s website can be visited at www.maryjohnstonpaintings.com.

John Reynolds
John Reynolds was born in Boonville, Indiana in 1944. He graduated from Ball State University in 1973 with a Masters of Architecture. It was his lifelong dream to be an artist, and has been his third career for the past twelve years, after architecture and jewelry design/manufacturing/retail. John enjoys portrait painting, which he teaches at the Indianapolis Art Center. He paints self portraits, portraits for the joy of painting, and portraits by commission. He also enjoys painting farm animals, which many times, becomes an animal portrait. He enjoys being close to nature and sees God’s creative hand in everything he views and experiences. John also paints plein aire landscapes. These paintings are often finished in the studio and sometimes done completely from sketches, reference photos, and small color studies done in the field. He also does still life subjects as they are very convenient to paint and control in the studio in all weather conditions. John’s studio is in the historic Stutz Building in downtown Indianapolis.

Mr. C. C. Chen
Mr. Chen was born in Taiwan in 1947. He studied Chinese calligraphy and painting at a very early age from many famous artists. At the age 17, he was already awarded the1st place at county level competition.  In 1966 he entered into Chinese Culture University and followed Prof. Chao-Shen Chiang, a master of Chinese art and deputy director of National Palace Museum in Taipei for advanced study.  He studied Chinese calligraphy and painting with Master Chiang for 13 years. Mr. Chen taught at Chinese Culture University as an associate professor before he moved to the United States in 1979. He was once invited by Indianapolis Museum of Art to demonstrate the Chinese landscape painting in Pulliam Great Hall. It was an impressive and successful demonstration. He earned very high praises. Mr. Chen is a current instructor of Chinese calligraphy and painting class for Chinese School at Carmel High School every Sunday.