Work will be coming down soon from the Easton Gallery, though a few pieces will remain on view.
I am part of an exciting new project with 5 other local women artists - Connie Connally, Holli Harmon, Libby Smith, Nicole Strasburg and Pamela Zwehl-Burke. The working title is "a river's journey". We are scheduled for an exhibition at the Wildling Museum in October 2017. We all work in gouache and have chosen this as a medium that links our work. We are looking at the Santa Ynez River watershed - from Jameson Lake to the ocean at Surf Beach. There is much to observe in between - the wilderness, Cachuma Lake, the farmland and vineyards, towns, ranches, recreational and agricultural use of the river as it makes its way through the Santa Ynez Valley - particularly in this time of extreme drought. We plan to work on site in as many places as we can, bring images into our studios and create our own interpretation of this incredible landscape. Stay tuned.
We started at Lake Cachuma, which was very depressing yet still beautiful. Just a channel of water that runs through layers of vegetative strata.
cachuma receding, 4"x3" gouache on paper
behind the dam, 3"x4" gouache on paper
after a week of burning along the river, the Rey fire moved into the back country. Libby and I went to East Camino Cielo to see what it looked like - a lot of low drifting smoke and amazing lines of red fire-retardent along the ridge lines.
drift smoke, rey fire, 4"x4" gouache on paper
