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Carole is a native Californian who loves to create felted bags and “ibags” to display and sell at the gallery. She is also a self taught oil painter, and she moved to the Central Coast in 2009 to pursue acrylics and water mixable oils.

“As a former Disney Imagineer, working at the happiest place on earth where art was everywhere and discussed every day, my imagination soared. More vibrant colors came to mind along with a general tranquil feeling… Little did I know I would retire to the happiest city in America. Small World.”

Gallery at Marina Square

Gallery at Marina Square

Gallery at Marina Square is an esteemed Fine Art and Crafts Gallery, run by a community of professional artists who are winners of awards, grants, fellowships and juried shows living and working on the Central Coast and dedicated to enriching the world with their artwork.

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Instagram post 17892157093937245 “Vernal Falls” by Judy Rath

I have always drawn and painted. One of my first memories is my father, an architect and artist showing me shading as I was drawing my dreams. My father was also an Army officer and we lived overseas after World War II. The Philippines, Japan and Germany shaped me as a child and even the different posts in the US changed and broadened my world view. After college I married and my children and family took precedence, but I still drew and painted. As my children grew I went to work outside of the home and after a few years started my own bookkeeping business. That kept me busy, but, in the small spaces, I always drew and painted.

Upon retiring, I expanded my painting, used many sources on the internet for inspiration and discovered fluid painting. That gave me freedom from the control I had always brought to my art and allowed me to use color in extraordinary ways. From there it was a short step to resin and the exciting methods and beauty that I find in that medium. I love the organic patterns that I create and always find the magic, clarity depth and emotion expressed with each painting.

Every day I walk into my studio and speak to you with color and form. It’s been a journey of love and it’s ongoing. ~Judy

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Instagram post 17866269368352213 Artwork by Atul Pande

Atul Pande is a self-taught painter working in water-based media, mainly acrylic. His style is based on the non-objective modern expressionist movement that matured in post-WWII New York. He has been influenced in recent years by the work of two North Carolina based contemporary artists, Bob Rankinand Joe DiGiulio, with both of whom he had the privilege to learn the power of line and form in abstract art.

The experience of growing up in colorful India and being educated as a neuroscientist inspires him to meld colors and shapes on the canvas to create organic forms that spontaneously engage viewers. He works in an intuitive manner employing line, form and color, but without a goal in mind. The finished painting evolves from the layers of paint he adds to each piece. Some works may have as many as half a dozen layers that add to the perception of depth.

Though the combination of lines and shapes may be perceived in his art by the viewer as a certain object, this is not by design. It is an indication that the viewer has engaged on multiple levels beyond just the immediate visual interest of the piece.

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Instagram post 17895717604889846 “Tall Trees” by Jeff Odell

Jeff Odell has pursued the “truth of color” for more than 30 years on the Central California Coast, painting rural/urban landscapes, seascapes, portraits and figures, interior studies, and “anything that will sit long enough to serve as a subject.” He has created public artwork within the City of Morro Bay, including two “Art Cans” (large concrete trash cans turned into murals); one is located at the top of the Centennial Stairway, next to Dorn’s Breakers Café, the other is at 845 Embarcadero. He has a large mural on the north wall of the Backstage Salon, located at 960 Main Street, and he has also worked with school children to create a large painting on canvas, which hangs in the multi-purpose room at Del Mar Elementary School in north Morro Bay.

A major influence for Jeff was his experience in the painting studio of nationally recognized painter and Professor Emeritus Wilbur Niewald, who taught that the only way to get at the visual truth of color is to work directly from nature.

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Instagram post 17941188748451557 Gallery Artist:  Suzanne Leon

Suzanne paints still life, nature and Landscapes. She uses acrylic paints to create amazing, beautiful paintings of our wonderful Central Coast and the fantastic life within it!
Instagram post 18140460235095357 Dottie Phelps Visker considers herself to be self taught as an artist. Inspired by her Mom who was an artist, Dottie attended art classes in high school and college. Dottie makes jewelry and paints with acrylic, and watercolor. Her color palette is bright, making her paintings are bold and beautiful.
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Instagram post 18198279379062940 Nancy Jensen is working today! Come see her perfect watercolors, just waiting to come home with you! -Gs
Instagram post 18139728922146047 “On the Rocks, Monterey” by Patricia Newton

As a child gazing into the dreamy landscapes painted by a favorite aunt, I decided early on that I wanted to explore painting in oils! Although raising a family and a career slowed this goal down a bit, I continued to pursue lifelong dreams and began to paint. I have been painting with oils for over thirty years now.

A career brought me to what became my second love… the Central Coast of California! I planted roots, worked hard, painted when time permitted and raised a family. I have been a resident of the Central Coast for over 25 years and paint whenever there is a spare moment!

I love to paint with lots of fine layers (glazing) to give each piece that translucent effect. There are endless skies, sea and hillsides to fill the heart of an artist.

My hopes and dreams are that each work of art I produce goes to a happy and loving home, because it feels a tiny bit of my soul goes with it. ~~Patricia

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Instagram post 18071589562257088 Artwork by Hope Myers

Hope Myers is an award-winning artist who paints watercolors and makes one-of-a-kind jewelry in her “An Artist’s Garden” studio in Los Osos, California. She began to work with art forms as a child and continued her interests through a B.A. degree in Wisconsin with a minor in Art History.
In California, Hope has extended her fine arts studies through academic classes at Cal Poly, and through professional workshops with Robert Reynolds, Helmuth Wegner, Kolan Peterson, Tom Lynch, and others.

Her primary medium is transparent watercolor. Using vibrant colors in sometimes unusual combinations; in clean and at times simple settings, she emphasizes her love for the beauty
of living things and outdoor scenes that can brighten our lives.

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Instagram post 17883346454085743 Glasswork by Diane Miller

If you attend local craft events you have watched Glass Artist Diane Miller improve over the last 25 years. Her medium is pyrex glass. She starts with rods and tubing and works over a small bench torch. She melds, fuses, cajoles and defines her original pieces. The rods and tubing become earrings, scent bottles, ornaments, salt and pepper shakers. Diane is also a watercolor painter. Cartooning is her muse. She is sure to keep a watercolor journal of her travels and life’s notable events. Diane is a native of the Central Coast and lives in Morro Bay with her husband, Ed, who is also a glass blower.

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Instagram post 17915598646601085 Gallery Artist:  Lisa Kanofsky

Lisa Kanofsky is a California native. She has an A.A. degree in fashion design from Brooks college in Long Beach, California This is where she discovered her affinity for textiles, textile design, silk ainting and fashion accessories. She also holds a B.A degree in liberal arts from Antioch University in Santa Barbara, California.

Having lived in Europe and Africa broadened her aesthetic scope and palette. Always influenced by her surroundings, she draws inspiration from the beauty of nature and urban landscapes.

In 2011, Lisa created an online shop featuring her tiny art pieces and her “tiny tableau pendants.” This collection now includes rings and earrings. These are created from portions of original mixed media paintings and are secured under a glass cabochon. Each piece is an original work signed by the artist.
Instagram post 18068156416267820 Sheril Viau utilizes translucent watercolors to paint her subjects. From florals to coastal scenes, these works of art glow. Come into Gallery at Marina Square to find more of this talented artist's work.
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Instagram post 17931630466489412 DJ Sorensen shows his wonderful paintings at our gallery. The details are phenomenal. This is “Banana Split”.
Instagram post 17860402430391702 “Glacier” by Gay McNeal

Gay’s love of textiles and the fiber arts started when her mother taught her to sew when she was ten years old.

Gay received a BA in Art with an emphasis in Interior and Textile Design from C.S.U. Long Beach. She continues to take classes in order to explore and experiment with all aspects of the fiber arts.

Gay possesses an appreciation of the multifaceted role that fiber has played in the art and material cultures of many ethnic societies, and her creative high comes from the actual process of trying out the multitude of techniques, both old and new available to textile artists today.

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Instagram post 17875411259210548 Artwork by Virginia Mack

Virginia Mack is a native Californian. She has been exploring and savoring the wild lands of the state throughout her life. She has been living on the Central Coast for 10 years. She is a part-time instructor at both Allan Hancock College and Cuesta College in the fine arts departments.

Virginia, along with her late husband John, also an artist, has spent endless hours exploring the back roads of San Luis Obispo County seeking those bits of landscape that are visually stimulating. Virginia works primarily in watercolors and mixed media and is a colorist at heart. She builds most of her pieces in a wet-on-wet process (wet watercolor paints on wet watercolor paper) resolving the pieces as the paper slowly dries. She creates the forms with rich colors that she plays off against contrasting colors thereby subduing them while preserving their presence in layers of color. She often mixes the watercolor process with work using colored pencils, pastel, charcoal, and pencil.

Virginia received her education in fine arts at the University of California, Berkeley. She has taken additional classes at The California College of Arts and Crafts and in independent workshops.

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Instagram post 17884994021060669 Jewelry by Lisa Kanofsky

Lisa Kanofsky is a California native. She has an A.A. degree in fashion design from Brooks college in Long Beach, California This is where she discovered her affinity for textiles, textile design, silk ainting and fashion accessories. She also holds a B.A degree in liberal arts from Antioch University in Santa Barbara, California.

Having lived in Europe and Africa broadened her aesthetic scope and palette. Always influenced by her surroundings, she draws inspiration from the beauty of nature and urban landscapes.

In 2011, Lisa created an online shop featuring her tiny art pieces and her “tiny tableau pendants.” This collection now includes rings and earrings. These are created from portions of original mixed media paintings and are secured under a glass cabochon. Each piece is an original work signed by the artist.

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Instagram post 17957210887396328 Jari de Ham is working today! Come be amazed by her Chinese Brush Paintings! We’re here till 5! -Gs
Instagram post 17902794310727956 Gallery Artist:  Brian Johnson

Brian Johnson received a Bachelor’s degree in Studio Art from California State University Chico in 2015. ​

Brian Johnson is a passionate artist, known for abstracting reality.  His work all originated from snapping photos of  reality.  Unlike most abstract artists, he doesn’t start from a blank slate.  Brian’s work has a distinct and unusual process, but he does not intend for the process of his work to be its narrative.  Instead, Brian is goal oriented while working on art, which is unusual given that he is more often a process-first-centered-thinker.  Brian is open to experimenting in order to reach surprising and interesting enigmatic artistic ends.  Brian’s abstract work pursues the 400+ year old philosophical art term: the sublime.
Instagram post 17914041535609212 Nancy Trujillo is a jewelry artist exhibiting at Gallery at Marina Square.  Her beaded work includes stones in unique combinations. 

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Instagram post 18161367601100383 Artwork by Iorio Alexandra

Alexandra S. Iorio is “Zamba Arts.” Zamba Arts provides handmade religious icons for homes and hearts around the globe. The goal is to enhance a spiritual experience, to help in creating a connection for miraculous intervention, or simply complement that place for quiet prayer in the home. Alexandra creates the images on stone, in of itself representing the spiritual and earthly creation. “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”

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Instagram post 17885634758055549 Glasswork by Linda Hill

Linda Hill lives in Los Osos and creates glass and jewelry pieces using Dichroic Glass. She loves patterns, shapes and creating art that truly plays with light!

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