Artists of Cambria

Ruthanne Anderson

After retiring from teaching classes in weaving, sketr, and English, we moved to Cambria, California, a small arts community on the central coast.  We also have a home in Durango, Colorado which we head to in the summers.  Both Cambria, by the sea, and Durango, in the mountains, are artist's paradises.  The colors, the scenes, the accepting attidues of both communities, tempt and encourage the artistic senses to be free to express their vision.

Carol Jean Attoe

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2 and 3 Dimensional Art: While ceramics has been my focus for thirty years, I have also expanded into combining it with other media including fiber, glass and found objects. I am instinctively drawn to ancient themes and the natural world as sources for my work.

Dianne "Lady Tie Di" Brooke

www.ladytiedi.com

A resident of Cambria since 1981, she has been creatively involved in the community in numerous ways from acting with Cambria Little Theatre to teaching kids how to tie dye in after school programs . She has exhibited at the Allied Arts Schoolhouse Gallery and Casa de Oro and has sold her tie dyed clothing, jewelry and assorted other projects in craft fairs around SLO county. She has written a weekly column in "The Cambrian" newspaper since 1999. 

Jackie Chen-Evans

Cambria Artist
Contact: Jackie Chen-Evans

Doreen Deppler

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Doreen experiments with found objects and antique treasures to form collages. Her watercolors, mainly landscape, floral and still life are from life or from her photographs. Visitors to her studio often remark on the variety of work including greeting cards printed on an old fash- ioned washing machine wringer.

Linda Dunn

www.lindadunnartist.com

In my paintings I hope my viewers will be taken away to a relaxed place as they reflect upon the fog laden coastal range or view something that they can identify with from their past experiences.
I usually paint with oil but often experiment with other mediums.

Patricia Griffin

www.PatriciaGriffinStudio.com

Visitors are welcome to my studio gallery, 2088 Main Street, where I create unique contemporary ceramics for use in the home. Most of my pieces begin on the wheel before they are altered by squaring the rim or adding a dart. I then paint on blocks of color and etch line drawings into the clay. New work and studio updates are featured at PatriciaGriffinStudio.com
Email: Patricia Griffin

Joyburton Heisig

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Newly moved to Cambria from Fresno, after a career in teaching young children through University adults, Joyburton Heisig delights in watercolor painting and creating collage.

Sandi Heller

There are times when I’m hiking that I am captivated by a scene and can’t wait to get home to recreate the feeling in pastel. I’m looking for value contrasts and interesting compositions. I enjoy pastel because of the intense, rich color created by the almost pure pigment. It captures the intensity of our blue skies and ocean, the vivid colors of the many wildflowers, the greens and golds of the hills.

Sue Johnson

www.SueJohnsonArtist.com

It is the light that inspires me to paint!
I love the way the sunset back lights a cypress tree along the coast. The way the sun bounces off of grapevines in a vineyard. I want viewers to feel this same mood or excitement I feel when I spot an old building, a beautiful landacape or foggy coastal morning.

Stephen Kellogg

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After 37 years as a community college biology instructor, I'm finally free to pursue a life-long desire to do art. Before retiring in 2000, I enrolled in art history and a variety of studio art classes, with a focus on ceramic sculpture. The scenic beauty of the Central Coast has prompted me to take up watercolor painting. The two media are often complementary; one medium inspires fresh ideas in the other. I'm never bored, even with my short attention span. -- Stephen Kellogg

Shirley Kirkes Mar

The suggestion of music unconsciously resonates from each painting. You can feel the dancers engage in a realistic participation of their human drama. The sustained, pervasive sense of time, the tilt of the head, the body extension, breathes life into its awareness of human talent.

Nancy McKarney

Nancy has been a resident of Cambria since 1994 and a photographer of her surroundings decades prior to that. Everything around her fascinates her and is suseptible to being caught by her camera. Some images are left untouched, others altered within PhotoShop for the desired "Cambria Impression". 
An assortment of her photos are available for sale online in archival quality prints and notecards.

Shannon E.A. McNamara
Plein aire artist

www.seamcnamara.com

Media:
Oil, watercolor,arrylic, pastels, mixed media and photography.
Member of Artists Groups & Exhibitions:
Allied Art Association
San Luis Obispo Art Center
The Wednesday Irregulars
Education:
Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, Florida
Arizona State University, Tempe Arizona Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, Ca.

Betty Mittleman

www.chgs.umn.edu

Betty has embarked to understand the Holocaust through her art and convey some understanding and emotion to the audience. The picture on the left is an image of mixed media size, 46" diameter of her current work as one of twelve in a series. You can also access the Website of Holocaust and Genocide Studies to access her work at; www.chgs.umn.edu and then type in Betty Mittleman in upper right corner in the Search Box.

Brian Morrow

www.AllAmericanImages.com

Brian Morrow is a published nature and wildlife photographer.

Suzette Morrow

www.Suzet.com

Suzette has been working in the field of visual art for 20 years. She holds a BFA from California State University of Bakersfield and teaching credentials. Suzette works in a variety of media.

Sam Peck

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My interest in photography came out of being a life-long “travel rat”. I worked for Thai Airways at Thai’s headquarters in Bangkok, and traveled throughout Asia, the subcontinent and Europe photographing the many exotic destinations the airline served. In 2002 I moved back to California’s central coast and resumed my passion for photographing remote and exotic places.

Erin Perry

www.alteredbythesea.com

I've spent my life doing many things; jazz musician, junior high teacher, homesteader, opera singer, but have found my true calling in the visual art world. I work in mixed media, collage, assemblage and altered books. I love incorporating found objects - the rustier the better into my art - so if you come across any, drop them off at the library for me!

Shirley Pittman

Cambria Artist

Lynn Rathbun

www.LynnRathbun.com

My interests are pretty diverse, and they all show up in my work. 
Whatever I’m excited about painting at the moment often determines the medium, and lately working in encaustic has been very liberating and great fun.
Painters who inspire me most are Da Vinci, Vermeer, Matisse, Bonnard, Klimt and Schiele. But the greatest joy and delight of all comes from the beauty and diversity of Nature, and my fellow artists.

Kathi Rippe

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Kathi is a member of the Central California Watercolor Society, the Allied Arts of Cambria, and she has been a member of the Wednesday Irregulars for several years. Kathi works with collage in her studio and plein-air with the Wednesday Irregulars. She also does mosaic.

Nevenka Schumaker

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Both her sculptures and paintings are contemporary in their sparseness, classic in their essentiality.
A graduate of the University of Belgrade in Serbia with a degree in Product Design, Nevenka worked for Ford Motor Company’s Design Center for 24 years.  She holds more than a dozen U.S. patents.  Nevenka was recognized by the International Design Magazine as one of the top 40 design innovators in the U.S. and Europe.

Jan Walker

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After leaving a career in the medical field I was able to explore the world of art. trying oils and acrylics and finally discovering my favorite medium, watercolor. I love the spontaneity of colors blending uniquely on the paper .The inability to completely control the paint is to me half the fun.

Clarence Weiss

www.clarenceweiss.com

Clarence began plein-aire painting on the quais of the Seine and in the streets of Paris. Clarence is now painting on the shores of the Pacific and in the quaint streets and beautiful surrounding areas of Cambria.

Bobbye West-Thompson

Bobbye is a fourth-generation Californian and loves having relocated to the central coast. The vibrancy of her pastels is also seen in her watercolor images. Although a relatively "new" painter, she has won awards in juried shows in Northern California and Oregon.

Jeanette Wolff

www.jeanettewolff.com

Jeanette is a well known multi-media artist of the California Central Coast. she has been a competitive artist for over 40 years, has judged art shows, owned an art gallery, taught many workshops, and demonstrated for various art organizations. She is a signature member of several national and regional art organizations.

Bob Young

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Exceptionally multi-talented painter, illustrator, journalist and author, Bob Young was a good friend to all who knew him in Allied Arts and beyond. We are saddened to report his passing on December 12, 2009. A memorial show of his work is planned for August of this year.