“MORRO MORNINGS” is a Watercolor Show featuring paintings of landscapes and seascapes that fill the LOWER Gallery Show walls with wonderful scenes painted of our beautiful Central coastal areas. This show features waterscapes and landscapes, birds and animals, and treasures that one may find in the beach tide pools and sand dunes.
ART LISTINGS: NOVEMBER 2022 FEATURED ARTIST: SPANKY ANDERSON Exhibit Beginning: NOVEMBER 1, 2022 Exhibit Ending: NOVEMBER 29, 2022 2nd Saturday OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12TH, 3-5 PM* 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.”
FEATURED ARTISTS: Patricia Newton 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 Upper Gallery Featured Artist: PATRICIA NEWTON Artists’ Statement— In Patricia’s own words: “I knew early on, that art would somehow become an intrinsic part of my life! “Although a career path would lead me in a different direction, I worked hard, painted when time permitted and raised a family. I moved to the Central Coast of California, where I fell in love with rolling hills that reach to the sea and began to pursue lifelong dreams of becoming a professional artist. The local landscape has had a profound impact on the artwork I create in oil. “My style is representational, utilizing a glazing technique of many thin layers to create a translucent effect that provides depth and emanates light from my paintings. My current body of work has been inspired by the powerful movement of the sea and magnificent coastline. “During the last thirty-five years. I’ve become an award winning artist, a member of The Portrait Society of […]
FEATURED ARTIST: STEVIE CHUN Exhibits Beginning: JUNE 1, 2022 Exhibits Ending: JUNE 30, 2022 2nd Saturday OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, JUNE 11TH, 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 Stevie Chun was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley. She now resides with her husband in a small town between Santa Clarita and Palmdale, California. Stevie is a self-taught artist and while exploring different mediums, she found her love for watercolor. Her work has been displayed in group shows around Southern California.“My work depicts autobiographical experiences. Through my art I am able to share both the ecstasies of my life and the struggles of trying to understand the world around me. I found a deep love for watercolor and use it in many of my pieces. Watercolor flows freely and is unpredictable just like the hidden child within.”
FEATURED ARTISTS: JI LI Exhibit Beginning: JUNE 1, 2022 Exhibit Ending: JUNE 30, 2022 2nd Saturday OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, JUNE 11TH, 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 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. 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 Morro Bay Art in the Park Juried Shows. Her paintings have been displayed and sold in Morro Bay […]
In Sandra’s own words: “I was born and raised in California and grew up on a small farm in the San Joaquin Valley. Vacations and weekend getaways were frequently spent on the beautiful, mystical, central and south coast of California. No place like it. I have always been interested in sketching and painting but never got serious until I retired. I can paint for hours and not even know what time it is.The stress of life just seems to go away while I’m painting a beautiful seascape or a snowy mountain scene. I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed painting them.”
