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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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We're a Fine Art and Crafts Gallery in Morro Bay California.
We're open daily upstairs on the Embarcadero at Marina.
Next Reception: Dec 13th 5-8pm

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For the month of December we have an exhibit titled “Timeless Ocean” featuring George Asdel, Alice Cahill, Carlo Christian, Jari de Ham, Sarah DeLong, Terry Garvin, Debbie Gedayloo, Claudia Haidet, Kimberly Hempel, Virginia Mack, Jack McNeal, Patricia Newton, Atul Pande, Karen Peterson, Tyler Priest, Gregory Siragusa, Jane Siragusa, Ardella Swanberg, Lee Ann Vermeulen and Gretchen Weidner. Artwork in all media and photography that depicts the beauty of our seacoast—the amazing land & water-scapes that shape our beautiful Central Coast—and all the life in and out of the sea that surrounds our coastal waters is spotlighted. The wonderful art attached to this post is by Ardella Swanberg.⠀—tg
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This month at the gallery there is a group show featuring twenty artists. The theme is “Timeless Ocean” and includes art work of various media. This photograph, “Racing with Dolphins”, is by one of the featured photographers, Alice Cahill.⠀—tg
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Susan Wood is working in our gallery today! Susan is a watercolorist and her aim is to capture the energy and essence of the setting, rather than be exactingly realistic. -Gs .
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“Morro Bay Landscape” by Jeri de Ham. Jari is one of the featured artists this month at the gallery in a group show titled “Timeless Ocean”. There are 19 other artists in this exhibit celebrating the coastal area with various media.⠀—tg⠀
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This month at the gallery there is a group show featuring twenty artists. The theme is “Timeless Ocean” and includes art work of various media. This photograph, “Onward”, is by one of the featured photographers, Gregory Siragusa.⠀—tg
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#morrobay #morrobayca #morrobayrock #morrorock #ocean #oceanscape #oceanscapes #oceanart #oceanpainting #oceanpaintings #oceanphotography #oceandecor #coastal #coastalart #coastalpainting #coastalphotography #coastaldecor #californiaart #californiaartist #californiacoast #californiaartist #slocounty #gallery #fineart #fineartphotography #fineartpainting

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NEW EXHIBIT! For the month of December we have a new exhibit titled “Timeless Ocean” featuring George Asdel, Alice Cahill, Carlo Christian, Jari de Ham, Sarah DeLong, Terry Garvin, Debbie Gedayloo, Claudia Haidet, Kimberly Hempel, Virginia Mack, Jack McNeal, Patricia Newton, Atul Pande, Karen Peterson, Tyler Priest, Gregory Siragusa, Jane Siragusa, Ardella Swanberg, Lee Ann Vermeulen and Gretchen Weidner. Artwork in all media and photography that depicts the beauty of our seacoast—the amazing land & water-scapes that shape our beautiful Central Coast—and all the life in and out of the sea that surrounds our coastal waters is spotlighted. The wonderful art attached to this post is by George Asdel.⠀—tg
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#morrobay #morrobayca #morrobayrock #morrorock #ocean #oceanscape #oceanscapes #oceanart #oceanpainting #oceanpaintings #oceanphotography #oceandecor #coastal #coastalart #coastalpainting #coastalphotography #coastaldecor #californiaart #californiaartist #californiacoast #californiaartist #slocounty #gallery #fineart #fineartphotography #fineartpainting

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Linda Richardson has lived in Morro Bay and worked as a professional land surveyor on the Central Coast since the mid 1980’s and loves the profession. Surveying will always be her first love. However, Linda felt she needed a hobby so she taught herself stained glass from a book. After taking her first class years later she found out just how much she didn’t know.

Linda says she tends to jump into things with both feet so her first large project was a 2.5′ x 3.5′ dragon with two babies hatching from eggs beneath her. It’s still her favorite. A friend offered to buy it but she didn’t want to sell it so she made one for her to her size specifications. Since then Linda has filled all her windows (and most of her friends’) with colorful stained glass art.~as

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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.”~as

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Tyler Priest is an incredible illustrator, using pen, ink, graphite and so much more he creates drawings that have depth and detail that draw you in to discover so much more!~as

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Karen Peterson’s interest in photography began when she received her first camera on her 9th birthday. After earning a B.S. in Recreation Administration her interest in photography was rekindled by her father’s gift of his old Ziess Contaflex 35mm SLR.

Karen began creating images using the Polaroid Image & Emulsion Transfer processes in the early 1990’s. She has also explored other photographic techniques including hand coloring traditional darkroom b&w and infrared prints, Polaroid SX-70 Manipulations and digital “hand coloring”. Karen’s images have won numerous awards including the Central Coast Photographic Society’s juried fine art photography shows, the Mid-State Fair, San Mateo County Fair, KINSA, New Times & Palo Alto Weekly Photo Contests.~as

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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. ~as

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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.~as

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Pat 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.”~as

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Jane Wells Nelson lives in Templeton and creates unique porcelain pottery. Jane’s work is both traditional and experimental. Her pieces are precise, textural and unique. Every sculpture is hand made, fired and finished and can make a fine addition to any home or art studio!~as

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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.~as

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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.~as

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Jack McNeal: “I have always been a wanderer. As a child I would explore the hills around our home in Highland Park, CA. Later after we moved to Long Beach, I would explore the salt flats and dunes of dredging spoil near the San Gabriel River and Alamitos Bay. A few years later I had a small boat and spent days on Alamitos Bay. Around this time, I began to photograph during my explorations. Not many years after that I started to dive. This led to a series of home made underwater camera cases and participation in underwater photo exhibitions.

My explorations continue to the present with a clear bias toward the sea. I attempt to capture my love of water while hiking, cycling and paddling canoes and kayaks.” ~as

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Gay McNeal’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.~as

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LAST DAY! The Gallery at Marina Square is featuring several photographersin the upper gallery this month. Each of the artists are showing work related to the theme “Starry, Starry Night”. The photographs in this group represents various types of photography. Photographers participating are: Alice Cahill, Karen Peterson, Sharon West, Greg Siragusa, and Carlo Christian. This particular image was created by Karen Peterson. —tg
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LAST DAY! The featured artist for November in the lower gallery is Spanky Anderson. According to Spanky, “My peripheral vision of the central coast virtually dictates the color palette and brushstrokes onto my canvass”. Be sure to stop by the gallery and enjoy his vision and use of colors. —tg
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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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