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 Participating Artists North Coast Open Studios Art Night: Friday, June 2nd, 6 - 9 pm Ranjith Jim Box (photography): June Featured Artist Kurt Hellmich (woodworking): June Featured Artist Arlene Broyles (monoprints) Patricia Sundgren Smith (linocuts and drawings) Laura Rose (ceramics) Patty Demant (fiber art) Annie Reid (gouache; pigment pastel; digital and traditional painting) Barbara Wright (mosaics): Barbara will also be present Sun. June 11, 10 am - 1:30 pm Demonstrations at Trinidad Art Gallery: Saturday, June 3rd 10:00 am - 1:30 pm: Laura Rose (ceramics) 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm: Patty Demant (fiber art) Sunday, June 4th 10:00 am - 1:30 pm: Amanita Mollier (silkpainting) 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm: Annie Reid (gouache; pigment pastel; digital and traditional painting)* Saturday, June 10th 10:00 am - 1:30 pm: Colleen Clifford (stained glass)* 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm: Laura Rose (ceramics) Sunday, June 11th 10:00 am - 1:30 pm: Arlene Broyles (monoprints) 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm: Patricia Sundgren Smith (linocuts and drawings) |      |
Other gallery members participating at their studios:
(check NCOS guidebook or website for addresses)
Amy Ellis Taylor (stained glass): open both weekends
*Annie Reid (painting and prints): open weekend 2
*Colleen Clifford (stained glass): open weekend 1
Kathy O'Leary (oil painting): open both weekends
Lida Penkova (linocuts): open both weekends (Sun only of weekend 1)
Tom Kingshill (woodturning): open weekend 1
Amy Ellis Taylor (stained glass): open both weekends
*Annie Reid (painting and prints): open weekend 2
*Colleen Clifford (stained glass): open weekend 1
Kathy O'Leary (oil painting): open both weekends
Lida Penkova (linocuts): open both weekends (Sun only of weekend 1)
Tom Kingshill (woodturning): open weekend 1
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Kurt Hellmich & Ranjith Jim Box
Featured Artists for June 2017
Opening Reception:
Friday, June 2nd
6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
This also North Coast Open Studios Art Night with more members present with their work!
Opening Reception:
Friday, June 2nd
6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
This also North Coast Open Studios Art Night with more members present with their work!
Ranjith Jim Box: "The source of my work is Nature Photography. I am inspired by working with Parallel Universe. The fact that I can pursue this in my photography is both compelling and engaging. I am invited to explore and return again and again. It is deep in its personal and social implications. It explores the intersection of personal, interpersonal, cultural, and spiritual issues with emphasis on the “edge”. The edge where energy, time, beings, cultures, and environmental processes come together, interact, and result in transformation. Not only am I changed in this work but, increasing evidence is that others are sharing in this process. To that end I am blessed."
Colleen Clifford and Oceana Madrone
| Featured Artists for May 2017 Opening Reception: Friday, May 5th 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. Music by The Secret Club Opening Music by JD Jeffries |  |
Colleen Clifford: "Glass is a fragile yet sensuous material, and I enjoy making art that can play off these elements. Designing a piece takes the creativity, concentration, and dedication that any art medium demands, and I am both challenged and inspired during this process. When the piece moves to the construction phase, I love to feel the creative force of art bonding with the traditional, mechanical craft of stained glass production. I strive to balance a piece with pleasing composition, color, and texture."
Oceana Madrone: "Fabric and beads are a passion of mine. They offer so many choices in color, patterns, textures, and sparkle. The possibilities are endless. Quilts, dolls, and ceremonial jewelry are bouncing around in my head, clamoring to be made. With time and patience they are created reflecting my desire to create order out of chaos, and bringing beauty into people's hearts."
Patricia Sundgren Smith and Tom Kingshill
Featured Artists for April 2017
Patricia Sundgren Smith: "I wanted to do something life-affirming and uplifting in the new year, so I've been focusing on birds and birds' nest imagery. I've been using two of my favorite techniques -- linocut printmaking and drawing with Prismacolor, graphite, and ink. I hope that viewers will enjoy the images as much as I did in making them."
Tom Kingshill is an artist inspired by the great lumber of his surrounding landscape. Tom takes foraged sections of local trees and using a wood lathe, creates decorative vessels for the home. Tom challenges himself in the wood shop, and his speciality are his natural edge bowls. He is an artist constantly driven to improve on his craftsmanship in an attempt to reveal a combination of handmade and natural beauty.
Kathy O'Leary and Patty Demant
Featured Artists for March 2017
Kathy O'Leary: "My new work shows a selection of en plein air (on location) and studio pieces painted from my photographs. While I continue to paint our local scenery I am expanding my focus to include the oak woodland areas of our local hills and ranch lands as well as other areas of Northern California. During this coming year I will be traveling extensively to paint and photograph this wonderful iconic tree of our state."
Patty Demant: "The process of Eco Printing on natural fabrics such as silk, wool, and cashmere, is a multi-step, two to three day event. Leaves such as eucalyptus, alder, maple, oak, and black walnut, are placed on the fabric in a random or symmetrical pattern. Then the fabric is wrapped around a copper pipe, and bound with string. The next step requires a pot full of elements (i.e. iron) that serve as mordants. These bundles are simmered for two hours, removed, cooled, and opened the next day to reveal earthy tones of beautiful leaf designs."
Patty was introduced to the method of Eco Printing by fiber artist India Flint. She fell in love with the process and will never look at another leaf again without wondering how it will print.
Patty was introduced to the method of Eco Printing by fiber artist India Flint. She fell in love with the process and will never look at another leaf again without wondering how it will print.
Diane Sonderegger and Donvieve
Featured Artists for February 2017
In the words of Diane Sonderegger: "Most people know me for my humorous animal figures and there are plenty of those in the gallery. But I wanted to show that I have done other more serious and complex pieces and some of those are featured this month. I hope you all enjoy looking at my work as much as I enjoy making it. Every day in the studio is a privilege and a pleasure."
About the art of Donvieve:
"Multi-dimensional artist/educator' creates masks that reach across our personal barriers and speak to the landscape of our beings. Each piece tenderly touches areas of inner strength, introspection, and that secret place of dreams that lies within each of us.
"Multi-dimensional artist/educator' creates masks that reach across our personal barriers and speak to the landscape of our beings. Each piece tenderly touches areas of inner strength, introspection, and that secret place of dreams that lies within each of us.
Susan Mayclin Stephenson
Featured Artist for January 2017
As January’s Featured Artist, Trinidad Art Gallery is highlighting works by Trinidad artist and author Susan Mayclin Stephenson. The gallery is the only local source for Susan’s books on Montessori education. After many years of teaching parents how to share their daily lives, interests, and hobbies with their children in the most positive ways, Susan has written her fourth book, one she had been promising for many years. No Checkmate, Montessori Chess Lessons for Age 3-90 is welcomed not only by those who want to teach chess to children but also by many adults who have always wanted to learn chess themselves.
Susan’s first book, The Joyful Child: Montessori, Global Wisdom for Birth to Three, has been translated into Portuguese, Japanese, and Vietnamese, and more translations are in progress. It has been used as the text for an online parenting course in Japan and has reached parents in hundreds of villages in Vietnam where families who live in poverty are learning, even with no material support, to support the best development of their children. The Arabic translation, still in progress, is already helping children in orphanages in Morocco.
Susan’s first book, The Joyful Child: Montessori, Global Wisdom for Birth to Three, has been translated into Portuguese, Japanese, and Vietnamese, and more translations are in progress. It has been used as the text for an online parenting course in Japan and has reached parents in hundreds of villages in Vietnam where families who live in poverty are learning, even with no material support, to support the best development of their children. The Arabic translation, still in progress, is already helping children in orphanages in Morocco.
Susan has combined over fifty years of oil painting with her forty-five years of teaching and international work in education. When abroad, she creates sketches and photos of scenes she will later share through paintings created in her Trinidad studio. Although mostly known for her commissioned oil paintings of children, Susan has created beautiful art inspired by such places as Nepal, Jordan, Mongolia, India, Russia, Peru, and Morocco.
Oil paintings and prints by Susan Mayclin Stephenson hang in homes all over the world, from Bhutan to Australia, from Holland to Japan. She has exhibited at the Morris Graves Museum, has been awarded Best of Show for the Redwood Art Association and has had two solo shows at the Westhaven Center for the Arts.
Oil paintings and prints by Susan Mayclin Stephenson hang in homes all over the world, from Bhutan to Australia, from Holland to Japan. She has exhibited at the Morris Graves Museum, has been awarded Best of Show for the Redwood Art Association and has had two solo shows at the Westhaven Center for the Arts.
Although most of Susan’s art is sold out of the area, she is always struck by the beauty of our own part of the world when returning home from her travels, so she enjoys creating beautiful paintings of local scenes. During the month of January, Susan's books, her Humboldt County paintings and those from other countries, along with reproductions and note cards with some of these paintings are available at the cooperative Trinidad Art Gallery.
"Holidays in Trinidad"
Sunday, December 11th
Trinidad Art Gallery is open 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. to share in the holiday festivities in our quaint seaside village.
'Tis the season to shop locally and support your community artists! Come visit our cooperatively-run gallery to see the variety, skill and beauty crafted by all our members.
Trinidad Art Gallery is open 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. to share in the holiday festivities in our quaint seaside village.
'Tis the season to shop locally and support your community artists! Come visit our cooperatively-run gallery to see the variety, skill and beauty crafted by all our members.
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Trinidad Art Gallery 4th Anniversary Celebration
Featured Artists for November 2016 : Drew Forsell and Annie Reid
Saturday, November 26th
2 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Music by: Fred Neighbors and Bruce Johnson, 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Opening Music by JD Jeffries and Howard Emerson
Thanks to Friends of the Dunes for pouring wine for this event! Come support our local art and their coastal education and conservation programs.
For the month of November, Trinidad Art Gallery is highlighting works by jeweler Drew Forsell and painter Annie Reid in a show called "Sea Inspired Glow" for the month of November. Their works will be featured all month long, with a public event planned on the celebration of the gallery's Fourth Anniversary on Saturday, November 26.
Drew Forsell describes himself as an accidental jeweler. When he moved to Seattle in 1990 his only friend in that city worked in a bead store. When the manager encouraged him to take a part-time job, he learned how to make all kinds of jewelry. At the time, Forsell was working in photography, especially making macro-photographs of the blooms in his garden. As a Washington State Master Gardener he had something blooming every day of the year, and he was delighting in documenting his flowers through semi-abstract images.
Then he joined an art gallery that had a greater need for jewelry than for photographs, so he began to work in fine beads, silver and gold. He now makes a wide array of jewelry, using aura quartz infused with gold vapor, pearls, garnets, peridot, amethyst, citrine, labradorite, moonstone, aquamarine, and other precious and semi-precious gems. The Trinidad Art Gallery has also benefitted from his experience in gardening and landscape design, as he has added immeasurably to the gallery's beautiful exterior.
Drew Forsell describes himself as an accidental jeweler. When he moved to Seattle in 1990 his only friend in that city worked in a bead store. When the manager encouraged him to take a part-time job, he learned how to make all kinds of jewelry. At the time, Forsell was working in photography, especially making macro-photographs of the blooms in his garden. As a Washington State Master Gardener he had something blooming every day of the year, and he was delighting in documenting his flowers through semi-abstract images.
Then he joined an art gallery that had a greater need for jewelry than for photographs, so he began to work in fine beads, silver and gold. He now makes a wide array of jewelry, using aura quartz infused with gold vapor, pearls, garnets, peridot, amethyst, citrine, labradorite, moonstone, aquamarine, and other precious and semi-precious gems. The Trinidad Art Gallery has also benefitted from his experience in gardening and landscape design, as he has added immeasurably to the gallery's beautiful exterior.
Annie Reid is a painter who works in oils and digital media. Her work is almost always centered on nature, reflecting the magical aspects of plants and animals as she perceives them in her artist’s view of the natural world. A Northern California native, Annie’s work is inspired by the beauty of our northern coastal environment, its flora and fauna.
She does work in traditional oil on canvas, but increasingly she is developing techniques of combining her painting skills with digital art and digital printing. Her digital work is still oil on canvas, but it is created with a state-of-the-art program where colors and other effects can be done with a computer screen. Her work often gives the impression of meditation set to canvas.
Reid’s previous Northern California exhibits have included 'California Species: Biological Art and Illustration', Oakland Museum of Natural History; 'Yosemite Renaissance National Exhibit', Yosemite National Park; and was awarded 'Best of Show' at the Morris Graves Museum of Art, Redwood Art Association exhibit.
She does work in traditional oil on canvas, but increasingly she is developing techniques of combining her painting skills with digital art and digital printing. Her digital work is still oil on canvas, but it is created with a state-of-the-art program where colors and other effects can be done with a computer screen. Her work often gives the impression of meditation set to canvas.
Reid’s previous Northern California exhibits have included 'California Species: Biological Art and Illustration', Oakland Museum of Natural History; 'Yosemite Renaissance National Exhibit', Yosemite National Park; and was awarded 'Best of Show' at the Morris Graves Museum of Art, Redwood Art Association exhibit.
Howdy Emerson and J.D. Jeffries
Featured Artists for October 2016
Reception during Trinidad Art Night
Friday, October 7th
6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Music by: Howdy Emerson and J.D. Jeffries
Friday, October 7th
6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Music by: Howdy Emerson and J.D. Jeffries
The Trinidad Art Gallery features two of its artist/musicians at the final Trinidad Art Night of the summer season. The public is invited to come and enjoy music, food, and a gallery full of art from some of Humboldt County's fine artists, craftspeople and musicians. The entire town of Trinidad will also be open to the public with a great variety of family-friendly activities, music and art displays at every venue.
Howdy Emerson wears two hats at the Trinidad Art Gallery, musician and painter. He creates landscape paintings in oil and fine-line brush paintings in ink, working on location or in his studio. He also plays a beautiful Celtic harp and has CD's available. He is a Certified Music Practitioner and has worked as a hospital staff therapeutic musician.
Emerson calls the sea his inspiration, "Finding her mystical essence is my goal. I explore the sacred narrow line where the land and sea interact. I wish to honor the subtle and nuanced – the misty grey day of muted colors. In our busy lives my endeavor is to create works that allow the viewer to stop a moment and find a breath of calm." Emerson's person connection to the sea, his art and his music is clearly reflected in all his work. There is no doubt that he is "seeking and finding a sense of being stopped by the mystery and discovering in that stillness its underlying spiritual truth.
Emerson calls the sea his inspiration, "Finding her mystical essence is my goal. I explore the sacred narrow line where the land and sea interact. I wish to honor the subtle and nuanced – the misty grey day of muted colors. In our busy lives my endeavor is to create works that allow the viewer to stop a moment and find a breath of calm." Emerson's person connection to the sea, his art and his music is clearly reflected in all his work. There is no doubt that he is "seeking and finding a sense of being stopped by the mystery and discovering in that stillness its underlying spiritual truth.
Musician J.D. Jeffries has been heard in a wide variety of musical formats throughout Humboldt County for many years. His styles have included rock, folk, blues, country, bluegrass, Motown, and a program of John Denver’s hits. Some of the many well-known musicians he has played with include Boz Skaggs, Jerry Garcia, Elvin Bishop, bluesman Roy Rogers, Al Rossert of the Moody Blues, Youngbloods, Buddy Reed, Stoneground, and the legendary Rose Maddox.
J.D. Jeffries started his solo career in 2006, and has released several CDs, including “Mixed Classics” and “Through the Years.” Anyone who loves classic folk and country music enjoys J.D.'s performances, where he is always happy to respond to a favored request.
