Impact

Specialties

Step inside Impact Gallery and you’ll find amazing artwork and meaningful gifts in a calm and peaceful setting. Owned by husband and wife entrepreneurs Lynn Prouty and Wayne Pruse. Local artist Wayne Pruse has original acrylic paintings on gallery wrapped canvas for sale. His subjects span Nature, Fantasy and Beauty. Wayne loves to paint wolves, they mate for life and are a strong symbol of family. He also has several paintings of horses and buffalo. Not limited to the northern plains, Wayne’s animal work includes polar bears, tigers and fish. His fantasy artwork is on Epilogue, a juried international website for science fiction and fantasy artists at there best. They selected 44 of his fantasy paintings to be in his own gallery on the site. Wayne also paints the subject of beauty. Much of his beauty artwork is portrait work of beautiful people of all kinds. Impact Gallery sells Giclee’ prints of Wayne’s artwork. Currently there are 180 prints available that range from $ 45.- $ 95. Wayn

History

Established in 1994.

Impact Gallery was started by entrepreneurs Lynn Prouty and Wayne Pruse on the corner of 4^th and Broadway in Downtown Bismarck. In the beginning we were Impact «Gallery and Gifts». Wayne Pruse used to paint in the window on Broadway Avenue. That was definitely unusual and ahead of it’s time. He was limited to paint on a 30″ X 40″ piece of illustration board. Starting small, Impact eventually grew to take over the former Hoskins– Meyer Flower Shop space. Wayne’s work became much larger without the restriction of the window. In 2001 Impact ran a worldwide catalog business with the artist and writer SARK. Three catalogs were produced. Lynn worked in Interior Design with Feng Shui. Her largest project was an 8,000 square foot space for The St. Alexius Center for Integrated Medicine at Gateway Mall in Bismarck, ND. Prouty teaches calligraphy lessons and conducts workshops. She also is a writer, watercolor and oil painter who runs the business of Impact. Wayne is happiest when he is painting