Fall happenings & beyond .....

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It's October, the start to the last quarter of the year, the beginning of the end of 2022. It's a month that heralds the start of holiday fever and a ramping up to the new year looming. New work is emerging from the studio and finding new homes as well as annual exhibits. Here are just a few to check in with this coming season.

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CREATIVE WOMEN III - GALLERY MAR CARMEL
OCT 21 through NOV 11, 2022

New Work by Twelve Regional Female Artists
Opening Reception Friday, October 21st, from 5 to 8pm.

Four new paintings will be showing alongside the works of 11 other artists in
this juried group exhibition celebrating women of the central coast.

More information can be found on their WEBSITE

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VALLEY GOLD , 36x60” Oil on birch panel

SUNDANCE Home Catalog and SUNDANCE online have a new collection of paintings on offer. Thank you Sundance for the amazing environments that showcase my work.
See the collection HERE

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LA PALOMA Restaurant in Santa Barbara has been open now for a couple years, making it through the toughest stretch of Covid quarrantine. This beautiful space has showcased seven of my paintings from the day it opened. I am honored to part of the gorgeous surroundings. Go have a drink, share a meal and visit the now permanent collection of work in this one of kind Santa Barbara establishment. Check out the MENU and make a plan to stop in.

Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art

Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art is celebrating 10 years with the exhibit 5x5 showcasing work from artists around the country. The small 5x5” format and online auction began on December 3rd and runs through Friday, December 18th. Bidding closes sharply at 5p.m. Now is your chance to bid and take home one of these exceptional pieces.

My own contribution, Morning idyll, is a black bear from Alaska’s Katmai National National Park contemplating a morning bathe.

Don’t wait! Start your bidding now!

Morning Idyll 5x5” gouache on Sommerset Paper

Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art

5x5 museum installation

La Paloma Cafe, Santa Barbara, California

Despite the current state of the State of California and the rolling shut downs, a new restaurant has been born, La Paloma Cafe. Words from their own website:

"We welcome you back in time, back in Santa Barbara history, back to La Paloma! After 37 years "the dove" will once again take wing on the iconic corner of Anacapa and Ortega. And like an old friend, the celebrated neon sign will once again state the original letters: La Paloma Cafe. Early in Santa Barbara's history, Ortega Street was "restaurant row" and a hub of activity. Opened in 1938, La Paloma Cafe was the premier Mexican restaurant on the strip and was frequented by stage and screen stars. During Old Spanish Days, vaqueros and cattlemen tied their horses in front of the corner bar building to wet their whistles. The old main house and patio buzzed with energy day and night where locals enjoyed the Luera family's hospitality delivered"

The new owners at Acme Hospitality have given the space a fresh clean face lift and added a second deck for outdoor dining (complete with heat lamps). The interior is spare and beautiful and many of my landscape paintings adorn the walls.

More on the restaurant HERE and to order take out check the MENU.

January Tide 40x40” oil on birch panel

Bare Limbs Painting at Sundance

Signs of winter are showing today, the trees are dropping the last of their leaves as the wind blows through the emptying branches and big clouds from the passing storm linger in the blue sky.

Bare Limbs Painting 29.5 x 19.5” oil on birch panel at Sundance

Bare Limbs painting now at Sundance

SPRING SHOWS

Lotus 30x30”

“Lotus” will be included in the opening tomorrow night at Sullivan Goss “Masterworks” a group of gallery represented artists through June 23rd, 2019

AND

Winter Light 10x10”

Winter Light will be included in the exhibit opening next week at the Bakersfield Museum of Art. “The Sublime” is part of the 2019 Visual Arts Festival running through August 2019.