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Artist: Marjorie Zlotowitz

There’s plenty of evidence that since the rise of humankind, we’ve been making art. For lack of a cave wall, my first masterpiece, a maroon Crayola giraffe, was executed on the upholstery of a new piece of furniture. My mother assured me that was when I began suffering for my art.

Ever since we humans figured out how to string stones and bones, we’ve adorned ourselves with things we find aesthetically pleasing. I got in on that action after a half-century of drawing and painting. Now, I view jewelry-making as 3-dimensional painting. I love the colors, shapes, and textures of natural stones, various metals, and vintage beads. The breathtaking beauty of the Central Coast provides endless inspiration. If you share my obsession with shiny, sparkly, and natural things, please have a look. If you make a purchase, you’ll be supporting Alzheimer’s and cancer research. Wear my jewelry in good health!

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Artist: Susan Wood

Susan grew up in Italy and New York City, with artist parents, and graduated from the Boston University School of Fine Arts with classical training in drawing, painting, and sculpture.

Susan settled in Morro Bay in 2003, and although she majored in sculpture, she found new delight in watercolors, inspired by the beauty of the Central Coast. Susan’s watercolors are of local scenes and are done outside, on location (plein air). Her aim is to capture the energy and essence of the setting, rather than be exactingly realistic.

In 2007 she won an award at the Aquarius juried watercolor show at the SLO Art Center.

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Artist: Dottie Phelps Visker

Embrace life and enjoy the ride! You decide your life story! Happiness is your choice-so take it. Smile and people will smile back at you. 😍

Born in 1963, south Jersey. I was always busy creating as far back as I remember.
I am a self taught painter and but watched my Mom paint sometimes. I had several art classes in high school (that I loved) and oil painting class in college. I have done some smaller classes off and on for watercolor painting and jewelry making. However it wasn’t until 2005 when I had breast cancer that I wanted to express myself and leave my mark on the world. I did drawings, watercolors, acrylics painting, card making and jewelry making. I started selling my jewelry in local boutiques and spas in 2006 in the Bay Area, Je T’aime Paris. In 2009 I was in full swing doing acrylic painting, especially abstract. 2014 knocked down with diagnosis of cancer left breast, but after a month, and returned from christmas holiday, the confirmed cancer mass was gone! It was my Christmas Miracle, documented in my chart at UC Davis Cancer Center.

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#dottievisker

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Alice Cahill is an award winning photographer who manipulates her images with a high definition process. The outcome is nothing less than stunning! Alice's photos have been featured in various, well known publications. #bigsur #travelcalifornia #art #alicecahill pn

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Gallery Artist: Donna Matchette

DID YOU EVER GET TO LIVE YOUR DREAM? MOST PEOPLE DO NOT – BUT I FINALLY AM

Donna Matchette grew up on the California Coast. “I’ve been artistic all my life. I can’t remember a time when I didn’t have a pencil and paper in my hand. I gave up a love of art for a more practical pursuit (professional nursing), which wasn’t a bad thing, but I really missed the art I put aside.”

Donna now reflects, “[Since I retired], I now have the opportunity to pursue what I love full time. I have a small studio at my home in Morro Bay, California. I’m happiest with a hammer in my hand and when I can play around with fire. The results are always a surprise!”

“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 piece.”

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Artist: Nancy Trujillo

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Artist: Ardella Swanberg

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Artist: Mary Summers

Mary Summers, PhD, RN, has a love of nature and has always enjoyed spending time outdoors. She has shared the wonder of nature’s offerings with her husband, outdoor photographer Kerry Drager, for more than a quarter of a century. Kerry has taught her the importance of capturing scenes in “beautiful light”: early morning and late in the day. He has also taught her the elements of a good design as he shared his views through his camera lens.

A retired professor of nursing, she now resides full time on the Central California Coast — until recently in Cambria and now in Morro Bay. Her philosophy is to “follow the brush” to capture the rich colors and textures of the landscapes around her in oils.

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#marysummers

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Thomas Mackenzie Brown makes pottery with a crystalline glaze that is functional as well as beautiful. Thomas tells us that he constantly endeavors to produce 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.
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Gallery Artist: 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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Artist: Hema Sukumar

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 me a sense of joy, peace, hope and a welcome break from the daily commotion of our busy lives. Through these impressionistic paintings, I hope to capture the spirit and beauty of the scene with vivid colors and textures.

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#hemaskumar

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Artist: Nona Jane Siragusa

Saint Agatha
Plein-air artist, Nona Jane Siragusa’s landscape and seascape paintings in oil capture the clear and intense light of the Central Coast. Among California’s Impressionist-inspired painters, Nona Jane is trained to paint “en plein-air” or out-of-doors.

Nona Jane also paints various types of Angels using different kinds of paper, cloth, paint, inks, and varnish—a collage and photomontage of other mediums.

When asked why she paints angels, Jane has said, “I believe that Angels move among us and encourage us along in life by their will and intellect. I can feel them invisibly directing my actions.”

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Photographer: Gregory Siragusa

Gregory Siragusa is a digital photographer whose photographs capture a variety of subject matter representing nature, performance and architecture.

Greg presents his photographs to the viewer and marvels how the context of each image is interpreted.

Having relocated to the Central Coast approximately 15 years ago, Greg is traveling constantly, perpetually refining his focus on nature, architecture, music and mood.

Greg’s photos focus on subjects that are subtle or commonplace to grand in nature.

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#gregorysiragusa

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Photographer: Bill Sima

Bill Sima is a local orthopedic surgeon who has been practicing in Templeton for twenty years. Growing up in Hawaii inspired his passion for photography. He primarily captures pictures of the coastline. Each picture is digitally enhanced to reflect the beauty of the central coast. Bill travels frequently to places like Costa Rica and Belize for missionary work. Besides doing photography he enjoys kite boarding, flying, tennis and bike riding. He also volunteers his time to his local church and to the San Luis Obispo Sheriff’s Department Flying Samaritans for humanitarian medical aide in the aero squadron.

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#billsima

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Linda Bench uses Prisma© colored pencils to create beautiful works of art. She lays down color in several layers until she is satisfied with the final outcome. Come in to Gallery at Marina Square to see more of Linda's landscape drawings.
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Gallery Artist: Ji Li

I began painting in pastel, watercolor and Acrylic six years ago. In the past year I painted several big pieces in acrylic and fluid acrylic. I like intended color and the freedom feeling I get from acrylic mediums. I have painted birds, flowers, seascapes, landscapes and pet portraits. They have been both realistic and abstract.

Ji Li was born in China and grew up in Beijing. She lived in London UK for 12 years, where she taught Mandarin at Kings College and the UK Foreign Office. She and her husband, the writer Scott Bradfield. moved to California Central Coast in 2016.

Ji was influenced by several of her family members
who were professional artists. She liked drawing and painting from time to time when she lived in London, but went on to develop her painting skills after she moved to California.
Ji is impressed and inspired by Central Coast scenery. She paints landscapes, seascapes, birds, flowers and pet portraits. Her work ranges from the realistic to
the abstract in her preferred mediums of watercolor, pastel and acrylic. Ji was awarded Honorable Mention by Central Coast Pastel Society Juried Show, and accepted by Central Coast Watercolor Society and Moro Bay Art in the Park
Juried Shows. Her paintings have been displayed and sold in Moro Bay Art Association Gallery, Moro Bay Gallery at Marina Square, Pismo Seaside Gallery, and San Luis Obispo Art Central exhibitions. Through her paintings, Ji hopes to express herself to the world.

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Photographer: Cathy Russ

Cathy Russ is a streetscape/landscape photographer living in Morro Bay, California. Cathy’s pursuit of streetscape/landscape images have taken her around the world for well over 30 years. The visual artistry of her photographs is born of a keen eye for the unusual and a life-long passion for the outdoors. This passion shines throughout Cathy’s work and has attracted a wide audience.

Cathy’s style is unmistakable. Her talent for rare captures of amazing images fills her portfolio with a sense of passion, inspiration and the extraordinary. Her success derives from the patient pursuit of unique moments, the magic, and energy of the streets and outdoors.

Cathy’s photographs have been published in a large variety of media ranging from calendars, books, canvas, metal and print.

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Artist: Linda Richardson

Linda 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.

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Artist: 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.

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#judyrath

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Photographer : Karen Peterson

Karen’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 Zeiss 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.

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#karenpeterson

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