
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Migdra Sue Robinson – Oil

Saturday, November 7, 2009
Zach Smith - Underwater Photography

Zach Smith's love of the outdoors began during his childhood, growing up in San Luis Obispo, CA. He spent much of his time in the water, fishing and hiking. Zach received his first camera at a young age and began photographing places he visited, wildlife and landscapes.
As an adult, Zach took up other hobbies, scuba diving, spear fishing, and kayaking. It wasn't long before he yearned to take photos underwater. Zach began with underwater videography and gradually moved to underwater photography. Today, Zach works with digital photography. While underwater he usually shoots macro, in color and black & white. He still loves to photograph landscapes and wildlife.
Zach enjoys photographing the majority of his underwater photos in our local waters, although some are taken out of the area. Zach dives from his kayak into local offshore reefs, and shares our very unique, and almost untouched underwater environment with others.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Judith Devine - Mixed Media

His and Hers© Judith Devine
Judith Devine had been drawn to many different forms of art throughout her life. She began exploring with oils, watercolor, charcoal, pen and ink and pastel. Currently, Judy works with acrylic paint.
Although Judy feels she has gained valuable experience and knowledge from each medium, she finds mixed media paintings especially enjoyable to create.
Judy conveys that art challenges her, enriches her life and makes her happy and hopes that her creative endeavors bring enjoyment to others.
Judy’s artwork is lighthearted and fun.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Carol DiNolfo - Photography
Last Light© Carol DiNolfo
Carol DiNolfo is an award-winning photographer whose art has been on display in juried gallery exhibitions and published in books, magazines and calendars. Her fascination with photography began at a very young age when her grandfather built a pinhole camera. She quickly graduated to a Brownie Starmite, happily snapping pictures on every family vacation. A Canon 35mm single lens reflex, a gift from her father during her teenage years, allowed her to pursue her photographic passion in a more professional manner.
Today, Carol creates Digital Artography, an artistic fusion of creative vision and technical mastery. Nature is her color palette, the sweeping landscape her canvas. The results are beautiful, expressive prints -- prints that glow from within. This is where art meets photography.
www.flickr.com/photos/dinolfo/Saturday, October 24, 2009
Jade Herrera - Mixed Media

Patricia Kung - Chinese Brush and Silk Painting

Wednesday, October 21, 2009
James A.Crawford - Photography
Crawford's interest in art began in high school and further developed at Orange Coast College where he majored in Architecture and minored in History and Art.
In 1966 while in Viet Nam, he purchased his first 35mm camera and with limited time, he was able to begin his craft. Upon his return to the States, Crawford lived and worked in Laguna Beach, Ca. pursuing an Architectural career while continuing to photograph and interacting with area artists. In 1976, James moved to San Luis Obispo to further his education at Cal Poly where he majored in Architecture and minored in Photography. James continues to further his photographic education through yearly workshops with varied Master Photographers. James Crawford's work is a part of many private art collections.
www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/c/crawf/
Christine Cortese - Alla Prima Painter, Oil on Canvas

Kathy Howard - Soft Sculpture

Kathy was born and raised in Southern California where she attended the Pasadena City schools, graduating with an honor award in Home Economics for tailoring and sewing. She then attended Occidental College where she studied art and education. After graduating in 1957 she married her childhood sweetheart and raised her four children until in 1993 the family and family business moved to the Central Coast of California.
Her first experience at showing her wearable art was at the Bazaar Del Mundo Wearable Art Show in San Diego where she was honored to show several of her garments. In 2006, the dream of designing a garment for the Bernina Fashion Show in Houston, Texas, became a reality for her when she was selected to participate in the 2007 Diamond Odyssey and the 2008 Rendezvous fashion shows.
Kathy’s work has been published in several national fashion magazines, Belle Armoire, Art To Wear and Through The Needle.
Douglas Howard - Photography
In 1969, While traveling on business, he became aware that his eye was drawn especially to line and shadow rather than color. He soon acquired his first camera, a Canon F1, and began taking black and white photos of various scenes during his travels. This soon led to the building of a darkroom.
In 1993, he moved to the Central Coast, where he resides with his wife, Kathy. He soon founded and still heads what is now called the North County Image Makers photography club. Doug is a member of the San Luis Obispo Photo Society and f11.
Doug, an award winning photographer, continues to hold on to the values of traditional photography, utilizing the "darkroom" process with the digital tools of a computer to make archival prints, finishing with museum quality matting and framing.
Abe Perlstein - Photography, Two Dimentional and Three Dimentional
Abe Perlstein began shooting at age 3 when his father, Julian gave him his first camera, a waist-level-finder Kodak Brownie.
In 1977, Perlstein embarked upon what would become a 31-year career, by purchasing a vintage 1967 Nikkormat 35mm SLR FTN and one Nikkor 50mm lens. College courses helped shape his early work which included fine art landscape, portraiture, and rock band publicity. Subsequently, Perlstein lived and worked in Hollywood as a motion picture, television, and music industry stills photographer. Credits include over 120 feature films, as many television series and sitcoms, countless commercials, music videos, and music magazine assignments.
Published work has appeared in Time, Rolling Stone, Premiere, the Los Angeles Times, and hundreds of publications worldwide.
Cheryl Rodgers - Oil

Saturday, September 12, 2009
Jeanne Bauer - Oil Pastel, Acrylic & Oil

Gregory Siragusa - Digital Photography

Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Alice Cahill – Photography
Alice Cahill is an award winning nature photographer. Her inspiration is the Earth – she is fascinated by it, and she believes in nature as a healing force and a refuge from the chaos of daily life.
Alice's photographs have been published in many nature and photo magazines, including Outdoor California, Photographers Forum, Outdoor and Nature, and Oprah’s O Magazine.
Alice is a member of the North American Nature Photography Association and the National Association of Photoshop Professionals.
Anne Carpenter Fitzpatrick - Photography and Jewelry
Anne grew up in Southern California, and moved to the Central Coast in 1980. She now resides in Templeton, and is astounded by the visual beauty of the Central Coast. One of Anne’s most beloved inspirations was her grandfather, Gerald Carpenter – a true Renaissance man.
Anne graduated with an art degree from UC Riverside, and later received a Master’s Degree in Computer Science.
For Anne, creating art is her passion. She combines her digital camera and Photoshop skills, and with the click of the shutter, she captures that which may never be seen the same way again.
Ardella Swanberg – Oil, Acrylic and Watercolor
Ardella was raised in Garden Grove, California, lived in many locations, and relocated to the Central Coast 10 years ago. Ardella’s inspirations have been the subjects found in the many places she has lived – she now lives on a cattle ranch north of Cayucos.
Ardella received a BS in Art Education, from the University of Minnesota. She is the current president of the Central Coast Watercolor Society. In addition, she teaches art classes for the Cuesta College Emeritus program in Cambria, paints with the Wednesday Irregulars in Cambria, and does figure drawing every Friday in Morro Bay.
Carolyn Henderson - Pastel

Charles Pruitt – Photography
In 2008 Chuck began printing Giclee’s on canvas. After the ink sets, the canvas is stretched over a wooden frame and tacked in place. The process is completed by protecting the image with a UV protective finish.
Deb Festa – Watercolor and Acrylic
Painting exclusively in watercolor since 1991, she added acrylic in 2007, and has become well known throughout the central coast, with local and international art lovers collecting her work.
Deb’s purpose is to capture and share the serenity and joy of nature – a serene refuge from the modern world. Deb lives in Los Osos, California with her husband Ray. They have two grown children, Stephanie and Isaiah.
Deborah Hobbs – Photo Montage with Oil Pastel

Deborah Hobbs has a background in Psychology and Art. She worked as an art therapist with both adults and children in institutional settings during and after university. After the birth of her son, she shifted her focus to creating personal art.
She has been represented by Roy Sanders at the "Grand Oak Gallery" in Oakland and by Bob Braun at the “Artisans Gallery” in Hanford, California. She was an art teacher at Crestmont School a private art grammar school in Richmond Hills, CA. Deborah has participated in several out door art fairs both in the bay area and the central coast, and now feels privileged to be a part of the Gallery at Marina Square.
Deborah Kyle Hintergardt – Acrylic
A self-taught artist with a distinctive style, her artistic goal is to impart a sense of peace and satisfaction with the moment, as well as an expectation for the future.
Ms. Hintergardt is Co-President of the Atascadero Art Association and a member of the International Society of Acrylic Painters.
Dianne Hoffman – Watercolor

Diane was born in Iowa, to an artistic family. With no formal training, Dianne began painting in 1992 – first with acrylic on canvas, then on walls, where she specialized in large scale murals, faux finishes, and whimsical characters for children’s bedrooms.
A chance meeting with watercolor artist, Deb Festa sparked an immediate interest in watercolor. Dianne studied with Deb and instantly developed a love of the freedom and brilliancy of watercolor.
Dianne finds inspiration in everyday objects -- foods, her young daughters, and the beauty of California. Dianne lives on the Central Coast of California with her husband and their two daughters.
Galen Griswold – Oil and Acrylic
Galen studied with Ted Goerschner and Ted Christensen, and has also studied at Alameda College and San Francisco Art Institute.
His art has emerged through experimentation and a deep appreciation for the work of others.
Selling over a thousand art pieces, Galen’s collectors express appreciation for his use of color, vibrancy, and energy.
Gay McNeal -- Fabric Art
Gay received a BA in Art with an emphasis in Interior and Textile Design from C.S.U. Long Beach. She continues to take classes in order to explore and experiment with all aspects of the fiber arts.
Gay possesses an appreciation of the multifaceted role that fiber has played in the art and material cultures of many ethnic societies, and her creative high comes from the actual process of trying out the multitude of techniques, both old and new available to textile artists today.
George William Asdel – Ink, Pencil, Watermedia
George was raised in Monterey Park, California, obtained an art education at East Los Angeles College, and C.S.U. Los Angeles and Fullerton, and now resides in Atascadero.
George has taught art at the Hibbs’ Cove Art Centre in Newfoundland, Canada, and at the Charles Paddock Zoo. He has owned art galleries, and his scenes of fishing villages have sold to collectors from around the world.
George is a member of the Central Coast Printmakers and OPAG. He enters art shows, helps in the schools, illustrates books and greeting cards, and involved in many other projects.
Gregory Stephen McIntosh - Gouache & Pastel
Hope Myers – Watercolor & Jewelry
Hope Myers is an award-winning artist who paints watercolors and makes one-of-a-kind jewelry in her "An Artist's Garden" studio in Los Osos, California. She began to work with art forms as a child and continued her interests through a B.A. degree in Wisconsin with a minor in Art History.
In California, Hope has extended her fine arts studies through academic classes at Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo, and professional workshops with Robert Reynolds, Helmuth Wegner, Kolan Peterson, Tom Lynch, and others.
Her primary medium is transparent watercolor. Using vibrant colors in sometimes unusual combinations; in clean and at times simple settings, she emphasizes her love for the beauty
of living things and outdoor scenes that can brighten our lives.
Jack McNeal - Photography
Jack was a gold medalist at the Underwater Film Festival in Los Angeles in 1959 and 1960, and at the L.A. County Fair.
Today Jack straddles the line between the conventional and digital world. Prints are done with digital prints of scanned negatives and digital originals.
Karen Peterson – Photography
Gas Station in Bodie ©Karen PetersonKaren 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.
Lee Messenger – Ceramics

Linda Bench – Colored Pencil
California Poppies ©Linda BenchNancy Hill - Sculpture
Nona Jane Siragusa – Oil Painting and Mixed Media
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, 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.”
Patricia Newton – Oil
Autumn Mist ©Patricia NewtonPatricia enjoys portraits entrusted to her, and has found a deep love of the sea and the Central Coast. Her oil painting style is reflected by a glazing technique utilizing several thin layers of paint establishing a translucent effect within her artistic compositions. Patricia enjoys painting Seascapes and Morro Rock, a local landmark, located in Morro Bay, CA
Pat’s work is collected throughout the USA and Internationally. She is a current member of the Portrait Society of America and Associate Member of Oil Painters of America.
Randee J. Ward – Photography and Mixed Media
Richard G Kish - Pen and Ink
Be Mine ©Richard E KishFor the past 40 years, Richard has been a practicing designer and educator of Interior Design and facility planning. Now retired, Richard devotes his time to sculpture and painting.
We hope you enjoy the sensitivity of his work, and occasional touch of humor.
Rod Baker - Glass
Sandy Christey – Silk Painting & Jewelry
Sandy's subjects are most often flowers. In her profession as an RN Sandy primarily worked with women. In this capacity she has observed in her patients and her friends the miracle of women overcoming tremendous challenges to live fully. Flowers represent to the artist the beauty and uniqueness she has witnessed in her patients and friends as they "Dare to Bloom" each and every day.
Sandy has collectors around the country and is represented by Showcase Gallery in Costa Mesa, CA. and Gallery at Marina Square in Morro Bay, CA.
Susan Wood – Watercolor
Fence ©Susan WoodSusan settled in Morro Bay six years ago, 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. 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.
Valery E. Goodman-Plater – Oil
Happy Bunny ©Valery E GoodmanValery’s early training was with Marie Smith, and later with Marion Stevens, Aleta Westenberg-curtis, Libby Tolley, and Anita Hampton.
She is interested in portraiture in general, miniatures in particular.
She is a member of the Morro Bay Art Association and paints there with Eric Peterson.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Welcome to the Gallery at Marina Square Blog
In the beginning, well in the 1990’s anyway, a number of artists belonged to the San Luis Artists’ Gallery, a co-op located in the Creamery in San Luis Obispo, California. The artists were anxious to show their work, sell some art, and most importantly, have a place to display their art – a place where people could experience the heart, soul and passion that was poured into every work of art.
The foot traffic was light and not a lot of sales were made in those early days, but being a true co-op, the artists kept busy with committee and membership meetings. Every idea was put to vote and required a consensus of the co-op members to implement. This soon became a bit overwhelming and a small group of the artists decided to band together and go out on their own. They searched for months, for that perfect location, and several months later, finally found the current location at Marina Square.
This group, having experienced a true co-op, knew that they did not want to organize their new business as a co-op, so they identified an owner, Nona Jane Siragusa, and “hub” group, Hope Myers, Richard Kish, Karen Peterson, Pat Newton and Deb Festa, to bring the Gallery from dream to reality.
The group worked very hard to clean, paint, light and prepare the Gallery for its grand debut, and in July 2003, the Gallery at Marina Square opened. The original group worked very diligently to create new art, hang and display their artwork, market the gallery, and work the gallery. Their efforts paid off and soon most of the artists from the San Luis Artists’ Gallery joined them in their new endeavor.
The Gallery continues to grow and evolve, and there are now more than 30 award-winning professional artists represented. The Gallery represents painters in all media, sculptors in metal and ceramics, photographers, jewelers, glass blowers and fusers, woodcrafts, and fabric artists. In addition, the Gallery artists keep things fresh by updating their displays monthly. Also, new artists are welcome to be juried in to get on our waiting list, by contacting Jane Siragusa. The Gallery is open daily, from 10 AM, and a public reception is held the second Friday of every month and features the work of a member artist.
The Gallery at Marina Square is much more than just a gallery. It is a family of artists, who have a passion to express themselves artistically. We rely on one another for support and encouragement, and we love interacting with everyone who steps through our doors. We invite you to visit the Gallery during our regular business hours, or for an artists' reception. If for some reason you can’t visit us in person, we invite you to stay connected via our Gallery at Marina Square Blog – http://GalleryAtMarinaSquare.blogspot.com/
We hope to see you soon!













