Hope Myers is an award winning watercolorist, collage painter, jeweler and crafts person. She has been creating her artwork on the Central Coast for over 30 years. Hope has been a Charter Member in Gallery at Marina Square for over 22 years, and has been active in promoting her beautiful artwork and jewelry to locals and tourists coming to beautiful Morro Bay for all of those many years.
ART LISTINGS: JUNE 2025 Featured Artists: Exhibition Dates: June 1 – June 30, 2025 Opening Reception: Saturday, June 14th, 3:00 – 5:00 PM Location: Gallery at Marina Square 601 Embarcadero, Suite 10 Morro Bay, CA 93442 Gallery Hours: 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM Daily Contact: 805-772-1068 Craft Atelier Space Featured Artist: ANNE GRANNIS, Sculptures & Small Works Artist Statement: A transplant from New England to California; I grew up in an artistic family. This was a privilege I relished as art materials abounded and I was never allowed to be bored. The master sculptors Michelangelo, Rodin and Bernini are my heroes. Because of my fascination with other places, people and animals, it is no accident that Scuba diving is my second favorite thing to do. I draw inspiration from these surreal worlds where science fiction and mythology merge. It is no coincidence that I love to sculpt, as I find living things endlessly fascinating. I try to stretch my imagination and skills to create a beautiful sculpture integrating the human and animal forms that look as if they “could be” real by making it anatomically correct. I often use water based clay, as it is an amazingly pliable medium with […]
Craft Atelier Space: Jari de Ham – Sculptures & Small Works Exhibition Dates: May 1 – May 30, 2025Opening Reception: Saturday, May 10, 3-5 PMLocation: Gallery at Marina Square, 601 Embarcadero, Suite 10, Morro Bay, CA 93442Gallery Hours: 11 AM to 5 PM dailyContact: 805-772-1068 Jarien de Ham is a sculptor and painter who began Chinese brush painting in 2002 with a class offered at Cuesta College. Bird and Flower painting, one of the four genres of Chinese painting, initially drew her in. This was followed by Calligraphy and classes in China that covered Landscape and Figure painting. While the Central Coast is far from China, many elements revered in Chinese art can be found here — cypress trees with their irregular balance, foggy atmosphere, fish, and birds. These subjects appear throughout Jari’s paintings, sculptures, and various craft forms.
Craft Atelier Space: Alan Cohen, Assemblage Sculpture Exhibit Dates: April 1 – April 30, 2025Opening Reception: Saturday, April 12th, 3-5 PMLocation: Gallery at Marina Square, 601 Embarcadero, Suite 10, Morro Bay, CA 93442Gallery Hours: 11 AM – 5 PM daily Artist Statement:Alan B. Cohen, a Sonoma County-based architect and builder for over 40 years, is drawn to contrasts: new and old, created and found, weathered and highly finished. His sculptural art fabrications start with items he finds washed up on West Coast beaches. Alan transforms these materials in his Sea Ranch or Healdsburg shop, adding old fishing tackle, rusted wire, tools, brushes, and other recycled objects to create birds, underwater creatures, masks, and abstract pieces. His work is a blend of simplicity, elegance, whimsy, and fantasy.
Art Listings: March 2025 Featured Artist: Exhibit: 2nd Saturday Opening Reception: Location: Contact: Craft Atelier Space Featured Artist: Thomas Mackenzie Brown, Ceramics Artist Statement: Thomas has dedicated his ceramics career to studying crystalline glazes specifically. His medium of choice is usually porcelain, and he typically creates his forms on the potter’s wheel. All of Thomas’ glazes are mixed from scratch, perfected throughout the past four decades. Thomas Mackenzie Brown received both a BFA and MFA Degrees in Art with a specialization in technical ceramics in California. Beginning his crystalline glaze studies in 1983 with minimal available documentation, this technique quickly became his passion. A Career Art Instructor in California, his constant endeavor remains producing new, exciting colors and versions of crystalline glazed pieces that are well-made, beautiful to look at, and help add value to the understanding of form as it relates to crystalline and other glazes.
ART LISTINGS: FEBRUARY 2025 3 FEATURED ARTISTS: 📍Upper Gallery: LAURA MURPHY, Mixed Media 📍Lower Gallery: “THE COLOR OF LIGHT” Group Painting Show with artists Spanky Anderson, Joan Brown, Ron Dieb, Virginia Mack, Pat Newton, Atul Pande, Sandra Sanders, Jose Silva, and Hema Sukumar 📍Craft Atelier Space: GEORGE ASDEL, Small Works and Poetry 3 Exhibits Beginning: FEBRUARY 1, 2025 Exhibits Ending: FEBRUARY 27, 2025 2nd Saturday OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8th, 3-5 PM Location: GALLERY AT MARINA SQUARE, 601 EMBARCADERO, SUITE 10, MORRO BAY, CA 93442 Event Contact Number: 805-772-1068 Gallery Hours: 11am to 5pm daily Craft Featured Artist: GEORGE ASDEL, Small Works & Poetry Artist Statement: George Asdel lives in Atascadero and is an accomplished painter, poet, and craftsman. Over his long career as an artist, he has won awards for his acrylic paintings, pen and ink drawings, illustrated books, greeting cards, and poetry. He and his wife Kathie taught art in the Hibbs’ Cove Art Centre in Newfoundland, Canada and many other venues in California. They also opened an art gallery where he sold scenes of fishing village life to collectors from around the world, and the Provincial Government. George has a delightful sense of humor which comes through in his paintings, drawings and poetry, and brings laughter and joy to […]
