ART LISTINGS:  OCTOBER 2022  FEATURED ARTIST:  DONNA MATCHETTE Exhibit Beginning:  OCTOBER 1, 2022 Exhibits Ending: OCTOBER 30, 2022 2nd Saturday OPENING RECEPTION:  SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8TH, 5-7 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:  DONNA MATCHETTE, Jeweler Artist Statement:   In Donna’s own words… “What inspires my work?  I want my creation to invite a person to look further– to touch, feel the weight, the texture of surface detail, to see reflected light bounce off facets cut in glass or off hammered craters in metal. This is not a quick production line process. There are multiple steps involved.  This can often result in hours poured into the development of a piece.”  “It is thrilling to wake up every morning knowing I get to work at what I love to do.  I have dreams at night of new creations and formulations of enamels and how a piece might be engineered to fit better together.  I can’t take a walk down the beach or through the hardware store without seeing something that will catch my eye, and I’ll think: “that would make a great design for my next […]

ART LISTINGS:  SEPTEMBER 2022  FEATURED ARTIST:  Ardella Swanberg Exhibit Beginning:  SEPTEMBER 1, 2022 Exhibit Ending: SEPTEMBER 30, 2022 2nd Saturday OPENING RECEPTION:  SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10TH, 5-7 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 Ardella was raised in Garden Grove, California, lived in many locations, and relocated to the Central Coast 25 years ago. Ardella’s painting inspirations have been the subjects found in the many places she has lived—from living on a cattle ranch north of Cayucos to the beautiful harbor of Morro Bay, California.  

FEATURED ARTIST:  Thomas Brown Exhibits Beginning:  AUGUST 1, 2022 Exhibits Ending: AUGUST 30, 2022 2nd Saturday OPENING RECEPTION:  SATURDAY, AUGUST 13TH, 5-7 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 Artists’ Statement—  Thomas Mackenzie Brown received a BFA Degree in Art with specialization in technical ceramics from California State University at Long Beach. Thomas has studied crystalline glaze development and working with crystalline glazes has become his passion as well as being an Art Instructor in California during the past 20 years. His constant endeavor is in the subject of ceramics and he produces 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.