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Art Wall Jun 2006Milly St. CharlesArtist’s statement: "In 1982, at the age of 63, I took my first art class, a course in Beginning Printmaking, at Santa Monica College. In 1984 I was introduced to the collograph, a form of printmaking that uses a collage of textured materials to create an image. I thououghly enjoyed the process of creating the collograph which involved finding the materials to achieve the desired patterns in the print. The making of the collograph became a discovery proces, an adventure for me. |
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Art Wall Jun 2007Bettye Barclay Mandalas: Second GenerationArtist’s statement: "These paintings speak to me of the wholeness of life. They serve as a visual expression of the cycles and changes that are part of life. Starting with the circle form, aware of the role of mandalas as a meditative assist, I worked with the circle-within-a-square format drawing on two sacred symbols as the beginning, then worked with color and shape within this selfimposed limit. I have long been interested in exploring the meanings of life beyond words. |
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Art Wall Jun 2008Loraine VeeckLoraine Veeck is a native Californian, currently living in the Los Angeles area. She studied art first at Pierce College in Los Angeles, and then at California State University in Northridge. Her mentor was Alice Beamish, who studied extensively with Hans Hoffman at Berkeley. She learned from Alice the importance of spatial concepts, movement, color, and allowing the intuitive flow of creativity. |
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Art Wall Mar 2004Gus HarperGus Harper was raised in Santa Monica and received a bachelor’s degree in pre-law and studio art from UC Santa Barbara in 1995. He has been a fulltime artist with a studio in New York City for the past five years, and also maintains a studio in Santa Monica. His images veer toward organic subjects like bell peppers. He has shown extensively in the Venice and Los Angeles areas. Artist’s statement: |
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Art Wall Mar 2005Sam ClaybergerSam Clayberger has been painting for over 65 years. He taught drawing, design, and painting at Otis Parsons for 27 years and is now teaching drawing and painting at Chouinard School of Arts in Pasadena. This suite of small gouache paintings represents a two-year break from his larger-scale acrylic paintings. Although "guoache" means "opaque watercolor," these paintings also include vinyl colors, permanent colored inks, and a bit of egg tempera. |
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Art Wall Mar 2006Shaee KhatapoushBorn and raised in Iran, Shaee has lived in California since 1960 and attends our church. She holds an AA degree in apparel design, a BA in psychology, and an MA in social work from UCLA. She has worked seriously as an artist since 1990, using textiles to design threedimensional installations. She has exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Sales and Rental Gallery and at the Pacific Design Center. |
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Art Wall Mar 2008Howard MarshallFor over 20 years, Howard has produced unique works of art while also performing as a spiritual baritone singer. Howard’s work as a dollmaker, maskmaker, and painter utilizes vibrant color to explore themes from African- American and Native American cultures. Howard now concentrates most of his time, when he is not creating new art or preparing for exhibitions, in transferring his love of art to future artists. |
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Art Wall Mar 2011March artists: Sam Arno and Jan GovaertsSam Arno is a former art director and creative director in Los Angeles ad agencies and is now a painter in The Loft Studios in downtown San Pedro. As a graphic designer he has received awards for packaging, outdoor billboards, and magazine advertising. |
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Art Wall May 2004Sally JacobsSally Jacobs is a botanical artist with an academic and teaching background in biology and botany. She studied botanical art at Otis College of Art and Design and the New York Botanical Art certification program and has taught botanical illustration at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles and at the Los Angeles Arboretum in Arcadia, CA. |
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Art Wall May 2005Tim ForcumBorn and raised in the Los Angeles area, Tim Forcum received his MFA in painting at CSU Fullerton and now teaches at CSU Northridge. Since leaving school, Forcum has been focusing on paintings and drawings that explore his keen interest in abstraction. He has shown in several galleries in the L.A. area as well as in San Francisco and Barcelona, Spain. Forcum creates subtle abstractions that relate to the scale, the space, and his personal relationship to the hills, mountains, and deserts that make up our Los Angeles landscape. |
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Art Wall May 2006Ann Marie FerreiraAnn Marie, who as a child survived the attack on Pearl Harbor, studied art at Cal State in both Sacramento and Long Beach. She taught art for many years at Santa Monica High School, while pursuing her own work. She has exhibited widely and can be found in both corporate and private collections. Artist’s statement: |
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Art Wall May 2008Darlene MelleinDarlene Mellein is an intuitive artist, painting in various media, often including elements of collage. She approaches a blank canvas with an abandon and boldness that convey humor, freedom, and imagination. Her graduate work in literature at UCLA focused on Women’s, African American, and Chicano literature — the literarily disenfranchised. Today, she traces the roots of her paintings to that earlier work, her inspiration coming from the underlying stories of various cultures, their triumphs as well as alienation, along with their colors and symbols. |