November, 2019
Holiday Gift Studio Tour - at Rowe Clayworks, 387 Quintana in Morro Bay, CA. Original silk paintings, silk scarves, and oil paintings. Perfect holiday gifts!
March, 2019
Silk Scarf Painting Class - offered at Left Coast Art Studio, Los Osos, CA. March 1 & 2, $60 all materials included. Visit leftcoastartstudio.com to register.
February, 2019
Silk Scarf Painting Class - offered at Left Coast Art Studio, Los Osos, CA. February 8 & 9; $60 all materials included. Visit leftcoastartstudio.com to register. SOLD OUT.
Pottery, Plants and Paintings - exhibition and sale of my silk landscape paintings at Rowe Clayworks, 387B Quintana in Morro Bay, 10am - 4pm.
January, 2019
Wild Silks - Three Perspectives -- opens January 4 at Art Central in San Luis Obispo, California, 6-8 pm during Art After Dark. This 3-person exhibition features me and my most talented and prolific silk painting students, Dana Kimberly Hixson and Martha Sparta. Two dimensional art plus silk clothing. Show hangs during the month of January; comes down 3pm on Tuesday, January 29.
Silk painting demo at Art Central, 1329 Monterey St. in SLO. Sunday, January 20, 1-3pm.
December, 2018
Silk painting class offered at Left Coast Art Studio, 1188 Los Osos Valley Road, Los Osos, CA on December 7 & 8. SOLD OUT.
October, 2018
I did a live Silk Painting Demo for the Morro Bay Art Association's monthly meeting.
Open Studios Art Tour takes place October 13/14 and 10/21, 10-5 each day. Please stop by! In Los Osos, CA.
May, 2018
I did a live demo and talk when I returned to Maturango Museum in Ridgecrest to take my show down. What a wonderful and professional venue!
March, 2018
What a wonderful event at Maturango Museum, Ridgecrest, CA. My solo show was beautiful and successful. THANK YOU.
October, 2017
Pleased to have been selected for a one-person exhibition of desert-themed silk landscape paintings at the Maturango Museum in Ridgecrest, California opening in March 2018.
April 2017
Just shipped a silk painting off to Maryland where it will be hanging in a juried international silk show held at Ocean City Art Center in Ocean City, Maryland from April 3- 30.
Also thrilled to announce that I had a silk painting juried into the 'Brushstrokes' juried exhibition, to be held at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art; opening Memorial Day weekend.
Offering silk painting drop-in sessions as well as monthly classes at Left Coast Art Studio in Los Osos, California.
January 2017
Offering monthly silk painting classes as well as private oil painting classes in Los Osos at Left Coast Art Studio, 1188 Los Osos Valley Road! Let me know if you're interested.
October 2016
Come see me during Open Studios Art Tour, SLO's county-wide self-guided artist studio tour and sale. Dana Kimberly Hixson and I will be showing fantastic new art pieces and great deals on many paintings, prints, and gift items - silk scarves, jewelry, cards, and art tiles. Two consecutive weekends -- October 8-9 and October 15-16, 2016, 10am to 5pm each day.
September 2016
I'm teaching silk painting classes at Left Coast Art Studio, 1188 Los Osos Valley Road, Los Osos. Visit my blog for all the details.
January 2016
Silk Painting Explorations and Experiments in Monotype/Collage -- several workshops coming up in January and February at Art Central in SLO!
October 2015
Wine-barrel stave painting & wine-sipping during harvest, a class at Wild Horse Winery, Templeton!
August 2015
One-person show at Body + Balance Center, San Luis Obispo.
April 2015
Next month, I will be having a show at Village Frame and Art in the village of Arroyo Grande, at the intersection of Grand Avenue and Branch Street.
January 2015
Took part in a group show at Gallery Los Olivos for recently accepted members.
July 2014
I am pleased to have been juried into Gallery Los Olivos in the Santa Ynez Valley! Stop by and see some of my work there.
Also, I am exhibiting 2 oil paintings at Cattleman Gallery in Ennis, Montana this July and August. I will be having an exhibition there next summer, 2015.
And finally, I have a number of paintings at Village Frame and Art in the village of Arroyo Grande, at the intersection of Grand Avenue and Branch Street.
August 2013
My solo show will be hanging at ALEGRIA WINE & WARE, 642 Chorro St., San Luis Obispo, through Labor Day weekend.
My "Collaborative Combative Drawing" piece will be hanging at Steynberg Gallery through the month of August, 2013.
I have a pastel painting, "Reach", hanging at the Art Center of Morro Bay for the duration of the Palette Talent juried exhibition.
And, finally, I'll be participating in the county-wide Open Studio Art Tour again this year, sharing studio space with a talented jeweler, Tom Struble; we'll be hosting visitors at his studio on 12th Street in Los Osos both weekends -- October 12-13 and October 19-20, 2013.
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PAST EVENTS:
Demo: I conducted a demonstration on Silk Painting for the July 2013 Morro Bay Art Association Members Meeting. Lots of fun! Everyone got to try their hand at silk painting.
Student Art: I volunteered as a Judge for the Estero Bluffs Womens Club student art scholarship competition and also for the Monday Club (SLO) student art scholarship competition.
Workshop: I led a Wild at Art workshop on Friday, August 24 & Saturday, August 25, 2012 in San Luis Obispo, California.
Article: My approach and work were featured in the September 2012 "SLO Journal Plus" magazine.