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Twelve well known top award winning local artists will be participating together in The North Auburn Artists Studios Tour on Mother’s Day weekend, Saturday, May 7 and Sunday, May 8, 2011 from 10 am to 5 p.m. The tour is free and all artists participating in our annual North Auburn Art Studios Tour are within a few miles of each other.
This year the North Auburn Art Studio Tour artists are offering each visitor the opportunity to collect the Artist Cards. By visiting the studios all guests (over the age of 18) may collect a card from each Artist. When guests have all the cards (one card from each Artist) at the last studio they visit, they may submit their name and contact information to go on a list for the free drawing and the opportunity to win a work of art of one of the artists. |
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Jennifer Johnson
is an Auburn, Ca. artist who creates exciting and distinctive sculptures created from found and discarded steel. The sculptures form a powerful and, at times, controversial, expression of personal experience and social stereotypes. Currently showing throughout California and in Washington, she is an award-winning international artist who focuses her work on the human form and horses. Her sculptures range in size from 15 inches to 15 feet. Jennifer Johnson's studio is open year-round by appointment, inviting the visitors to roam through the garden of sculptures and watch creativity in progress in the studio. Purchases can be made directly through the studio or at any one of her galleries. Jennifer invites corporate and private commissions and has a mailing list for show information. www.jjohnsonstudio.com |
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Cathy Cline
a well known jewelry artist and artist-in-residence at the Arts Building in Auburn, continues to explore the creative challenge of designing gold, silver and vitreous enamel one-of-a-kind jewelry. She is also currently using her watercolor and acrylic landscape painting background to create new “paintings” and functional works in vitreous enamel. “I am fascinated by the interplay of reflections, color, movement, texture and transparencies in nature. I enjoy interpreting nature’s beauty in my work.” Cathy has a Master’s Degree in Jewelry Design, studied jewelry in London, England and Guadalajara, Mexico. Also she completed The Revere Academy’s program and achieved Graduate Jeweler’s status. In the area of enameling, she has taken numerous seminars and workshops from nationally and internationally known enamellists. She has taught jewelry design for over 30 years in college and high school. Cathy will be sharing studio space with ceramic artist Anita Posey Lowe during the Mother’s Day Weekend Studio Tour. www.cathyclinedesigns.com |
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Reif Erickson
is a regional artist with works in public, corporate, and private collections throughout the Pacific Coast. REIF (pronounced ray-f) has been pursuing his art career for the last twenty-eight years and contributes much of his success to his continuing practice of painting "on location" in what he refers to as Fresh Air™ painting. Through careful observation and technical expertise, Reif achieves masterful landscapes of California, Hawaii, Alaska, and the Southwest. www.reifart.com |
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Jim Farley
is a wood artist who shapes local and exotic woods to form sculpted clock bases, boxes, candle-holders, fantasy-figure and dinosaur puzzles and words. Jim was raised in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains, and has studied the character, qualities and uses of various species of wood his entire life. Since leaving the practice of law nine years ago, Jim has focused on acquiring and working chunks of many local woods and several exotic woods. Jim prefers working with wood, rather than clients, because shaped wood is generally more attractive than clients, less likely to require as much attention, usually content to be exactly what it is and the process of learning and shaping wood is endlessly satisfying. Jim's shop-studio will also be open for viewing during the tour. www.Mermaidarts.com |
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Linda H. Farley
Painter, Fused Glass & Bead Designed Jewelry
Many painters have an idea of the painting they will create before they put brush to canvas. Most times, Linda does not. Linda enjoys painting in a style she describes as “Spirit Painting”. She started painting in her early 20’s and it has been evolving over the last 40 years. She taps into what Carl Jung would call the collective unconscious.
She has taken many classes in 40 years, but never received a formal art degree. She received her B.A. in Speech and Drama and her Masters in Counseling. She is a licensed Marriage, Family Therapist and is presently working in private practice two days a week. She uses Art Therapy to help clients increase their awareness of self.
Linda paints in many medias, including oil, acrylic and tempera. Then a friend introduced her to fused glass work and Linda became enamored with the flow of liquid glass. She cuts and designs the glass and then places it in the kiln to fuse. She turns this glass into unique pieces of jewelry. From the fused glass, she turned to bead work to increase the beauty of her fused glass pieces and now she mixes the two, or not, as she creates her designs.
Linda is an active member of the Placer County Community, lending her support to the Placer County Arts and Sierra College Patrons Club. www.Mermaidarts.com. |
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Sonja Hamilton
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San Francisco born artist, teacher, and calligrapher. Sonja is noted for her fluid, concise watercolors - whether landscapes, seascapes or flowers. She graduated from San Jose State University with a BA Degree and holds a Lifetime Special Teaching Credential in Art, has exhibited widely, and has paintings in private collections in the USA, Australia, Canada, Mexico, England, France, Japan and China. Sonja has taught in adult education since 1967, has conducted several workshops in Hawaii, California, Arizona, Nevada, and was an instructor on a tour of Italy and Greece, the Canadian Rockies, France and Belguim. In 2011, she will be teaching a watercolor workshop in Switzerland. Amongst her numerous awards are several Best of Show, First Awards, and the Grumbacher Gold Medallion. "Although I draw and paint in many media, I find watercolor the most exciting, spontaneous, and challenging. When I paint, my cares leave and I become totally immersed in what I am doing. Watercolor is exhilarating, yet most relaxing for me - a great joy. It's who I am." www.sonjahamilton.com |
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Anita Posey Lowe
is well known for her beautiful and reasonably priced ceramic bowls, cups, plates and individual casserole dishes that are microwave, dishwasher and oven safe. She notes that her glazes are lead-free and safe for food and drink. The colors she works with are earth tones; tan, blue and green when overlapped they create beautiful blends. All her pots are hand thrown, trimmed and signed. Aside from her functional pottery Anita’s sculptural art is a mixture of wheel thrown, hand built or a combination of both, she uses several methods of firing -- raku, reduction or pit-- to get results. She plays with the forms to perfect concepts that reflect her personality. She says, “each ceramic piece is one-of-a-kind”. A graduate of San Francisco State University with a BA in art, emphasis in ceramics, Ms Lowe has been developing her technique for more than 38 years. "No matter how much effort I put into a clay piece, the fire, glaze, wind, air and timing all play a role and control of the final outcome of the pottery is left to Karma," says Anita Posey Lowe. "That's the beauty of pottery and why I enjoy working with it." www.aposeylowepottery.com |
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Patty Pieropan Dong
enjoys working in a variety of media: oils, watercolors, and block printing. Her subjects include California landscapes, plein air work from Europe and the Caribbean as well as still life and portraiture. A graduate of Boston University with a BFA in painting, she also did post-graduate work at Boston State College and Suffolk University. In addition to teaching art and painting, Patty is a member of the Old Town Gallery of Art and active in the Placer Arts Council as an Art Walk committee member, Autumn Art Studios Tour steering committee member and Placer Artist's League board member.www.pepdart.com |
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Diane J Wood
works both in metal, glass casting, Pate de Verre ,and kiln form glass. Her work most often arrives in the form of faces, study of nature and spiral movement within the glass work. With her background in ceramics, she makes all her owns glass forms for her sculptural wall work. The glass work is an expression of movement, textures, and the use of transparency of the glass. Diane has studied under Dan Fenton for glass casting, and Pate de Verre glass work. She has a fine art jewelry glass line, and glass sculptural work that is shown in galleries in the United States, private residences and internationally. She teaches metal and glass art in Charter schools, as well as, being an instructor in fused glass at Sierra Community College, Rocklin, Ca.www.shenwood.com |
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is self taught and enjoys the charcoal medium and strives for a realistic look to his drawings. He works mainly from photographs of a variety of subjects. Even though he's a full-time Deputy Sheriff, he finds time to complete commissioned and new art pieces and murals for various businesses. The commissioned work is his greatest joy and he likes working with his clients to preserve a memory in time or create a new one by combining pictures to come up with a new idea.
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Dirk Dusharme
Award-winning designer and photographer Dirk Dusharme uses photography as a springboard into examining architecture and the intersection of people and their man-made landscape. Sometimes stark, often wildly bright, and always from his own peculiar perspective, Dusharme’s architectural pieces make you look at your built environment in ways you never imagined. Visit his website at .
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Auburn resident Don Crawford has spent the last 40 years in furniture and cabinet making. Heavily influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement, his cabinetry and furniture reflect the design elements of Greene & Greene, Frank Lloyd Wright, and other early 20th century designers. Recently Don has turned his attention to wood sculpture. These organically inspired abstract pieces are also influenced by the late 19th, early 20th century designer, Rennie Macintosh. Don hopes his sculptures give you as much pleasure to look at as he enjoyed making them.
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