Carol Roullard, Featured Craft Artist, July 2024

Featured Craft Artist
6:50 am
by Gallery at Marina Square

ART LISTINGS: JULY 2024 3 FEATURED ARTISTS: Patricia Newton, Oil Painting; Gregory Siragusa, Photography; Carol Roullard, Jewelry 3 Exhibits Beginning: JULY 1, 2024 Exhibits Ending: JULY 29, 2024 2nd Saturday RECEPTION ATRIUM PARTY Saturday, JULY 13th, 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: Carol Roullard, JewelerArtist Statement:“I love color and the unpredictability some art media impart. Recently, I expanded into fluid acrylics, using bold paint and multiple techniques. This art medium perfectly suits my desire for color and unique structures. In many ways, the results resemble the surprise micro-crystals have to offer. “I now spread my time between fluid acrylics and scoping. I love the uncertainty, the magic and creativity that goes into both mediums. When I grow crystals and put the slide under the microscope lens, the anticipation grows. It’s hard to explain. I don’t know what I’m going to see. Those moments after adjusting the focus and lighting, when I suddenly see a magical world come into view are breath-taking. They are fantastical! The same with fluid acrylics. The art piece can transform as it progresses and […]

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Hema Sukumar, Featured Artist, May 2024

Featured Lower Gallery
2:24 pm
by Gallery at Marina Square

ART LISTINGS: MAY 2024 3 FEATURED ARTISTS: HEMA SUKUMAR, Acrylic Paintings Exhibits Beginning: MAY 1, 2024 Exhibits Ending: MAY 29, 2024 2nd Saturday RECEPTION ATRIUM PARTY Saturday, MAY 11th, 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 & closed Tuesdays The world is full of vibrant colors and bright hues. As a person and as an artist, I am drawn to color. California’s colorful landscapes from the water’s edge to mountaintops are a constant source of my artistic inspirations.As a resident artist of California, I gravitate towards painting nearby coastal scenes and landscapes from National Parks. While most of my paintings are studio based, I also paint plein air whenever possible. I am also an avid traveller and photographer and spend significant amount of time photographing the beautiful landscapes during my travel. My photos often serve as scenic reminders of the places I visit and later become subjects for my studio paintings. When I am not traveling, you will frequently find me painting the colorful flowers and critters from my garden. Painting has always been a form of escape for me. It gives […]

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SACRED SPACES, a group Fine Art Painting Show, February 2024

Featured Lower Gallery
9:00 am
by Gallery at Marina Square

ART LISTINGS: FEBRUARY 2024 FEATURED ARTIST: “SACRED PLACES” All Media Group Painting Show; STEVIE CHUN, Small Works; CANDLE CRANSTON, Acrylic Painting Exhibit Dates: FEBRUARY 1, 2024 until FEBRUARY 28, 2024 2nd Saturday RECEPTION ATRIUM PARTY: Saturday, FEBRUARY 10th, 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 & closed Tuesdays Lower Gallery Featured Artists: “SACRED PLACES” All Media Painting Group Painting Show featuring artists: Hema Sukumar, Joan L. Brown, Hope Myers, Sandra Sanders, Craig Harrill, Nancy Jensen, Patricia Newton, Virginia Mack Statement:“SACRED PLACES” group show will showcase all media paintings of special places we all may have visited: it could represent how the sunlight feels in a room or in a special place in our yard; it might be special feeling we get from our garden, the seaside, a mountain retreat, an ocean view…it could be any place that feels amazing and wonderful to us. This show explores all such places unique and special to the artists in an all media painting show, “Sacred Places”.

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Carole McDonald, Featured Craft Artist, December 2023

Featured Craft Artist
1:48 pm
by Gallery at Marina Square

ART LISTINGS:  DECEMBER 2023  FEATURED ARTISTS:  CAROLE McDONALD, Small Works; 3 Exhibits Beginning:  DECEMBER 1, 2023 3 Exhibits Ending: DECEMBER 30, 2023 2nd Saturday RECEPTION ATRIUM PARTY:  Saturday, DECEMBER 9th, 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:  CAROLE McDONALD, Small Works Artist Statement:   As a native Californian, Carole McDonald started her art career working as a former script supervisor in the film industry and as a Disney Imagineer, where art was everywhere and discussed on a daily basis. Her oil paintings reflect the vibrant colors tranquil feelings of the Central Coast where painting for Carole is just working in the most beautiful place on earth.

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“TEXTURE OF LIGHT” Group Painting All Media Show, December 2023

Featured Lower Gallery
1:39 pm
by Gallery at Marina Square

ART LISTINGS:  DECEMBER 2023  FEATURED ARTISTS: “TEXTURE OF LIGHT” Group Painting Show Exhibits Beginning:  DECEMBER 1, 2023 3 Exhibits Ending: DECEMBER 30, 2023 2nd Saturday RECEPTION ATRIUM PARTY:  Saturday, DECEMBER 9th, 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 Lower Gallery Featured Artists:  “TEXTURE OF LIGHT” Group Painting All Media Show with Joan Brown, Candle Cranston, Brian Johnson, Virginia Mack, Hope Myers, Patricia Newton, and Sandra Sanders. “THE TEXTURE OF LIGHT” showcases all media paintings  of winter light, and winter-mood scenes… countryscapes and seascapes, still-life settings in the Lower Gallery which highlight textures of light in oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, and gouache.  

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Spanky Anderson, Featured Artist, November 2023

Featured Lower Gallery
3:03 pm
by Gallery at Marina Square

FEATURED ARTIST:  PAUL “SPANKY” ANDERSON, Acrylic Painting Exhibits Beginning:  NOVEMBER 1, 2023 Exhibits Ending: NOVEMBER 30, 2023 2nd Saturday RECEPTION ATRIUM PARTY:  Saturday, NOVEMBER 11TH, 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 Spanky grew up in Georgia and learned to draw and paint at an early age. He later traveled the south and exhibited his artwork of the southern landscape. He graduated from the University of West Georgia with a BA in Art, where he was awarded two Permanent Collection awards from Peter Augustini, a world renowned sculptor from New York, and internationally known painter Donald Cooper. Upon graduation, Spanky began his career as a graphic designer and colorist with a major carpet and textile manufacturer. In the mid-seventies Spanky accepted a designer colorist position in Southern California where he continued to paint and pursue his love of the local land and seascape.  Most recently Spanky has moved to the Morro Bay area where he says “My peripheral vision of the central coast virtually dictates the color palette and brushstrokes onto my canvas.” 

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