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Sally Posner
Almanor
Brokeoff Meadows
Hamilton Branch
Sally Posner’s most recent show
included landscapes of California, (most of them Plumas
County locations) still lifes, flowers, and plein aire
sketches done on a recent trip to Hawaii. Sally and her
husband, Rob, are long time residents of the Almanor area,
and her work is inspired by the natural world around us.
Sally’s work also includes the figure, animals
and, because of her "day job" as a building
designer, architectural subject.
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Jacqueline Cordova
Winter Fox
Rainbow Beauty (Raku Pot)
Jacqueline Cordova has a love for
teaching Art, and for creating in a wide variety of styles
and media. Her work has moved from painting people in
oils, to painting landscapes in oils, to painting both
subjects in acrylic murals. Because of student
demand, she has studied water color over the last six
years, and has recently added to her talents the creation
of fine Raku pots.
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Susan Kerns
Indian Valley Cowboy
Susan just began a series of works
investigating the romance of Indian Valley’s
part-time cowboys. Susan says, "It is a mystery
to me why men with perfectly good jobs will donate weekends
in the fall to the husbandry of cattle, getting layered up
in protective gear, beyond a century in tradition, to risk
nasty kicks and dust-coated lungs. There is something
going on here beyond the good of our dinner tables or
delivering health care and ownership marks to unwilling
calves. It is something about being men. We
women love and honor that; it is part of the mystery.
As for the women who ride and rope and inoculate,
they’re just crazy."
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Betty Bishop
Olsen Barn in Spring (Photography)
According to Betty, photography is all
about looking for the light, waiting for it to come down or
go away, to cut through trees at just the right angle or
lay bare surfaces and shapes. Good photography is
less about the things we want to show others, and more
about the way light alters and reveals things to us. When
we and the light collide on the same trajectory in a
photograph, it’s magic."
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Jack Wilhite
Jack Wilhite moved to Chester in 1991
where the beauty of the Lake Almanor area inspired him to
recreate some of nature’s beautiful trout and their
habitat. He uses Tupelo wood and acrylic paints to
create the fish and rocks and natural woods to complete the
habitat. His work has been shown and sold in
galleries in San Francisco, Vail-Colorado, Alaska, Cambria,
Palm Springs and Chester. Of his on-going show in the
Back Room Gallery he says, "I am very grateful to show
my work along with the many fine artists who live in this
area."
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Sally Yost
Sally Yost is happiest painting
directly from nature. "I have dozens of sketchbooks at
the ready for my adventures into the world. I often use the
format of the Japanese accordion sketchbook with both sides
filled with images -- primarily in ink and colored pencil
(prismacolor.)" For the past few years Sally has been
experimenting with soft pastels and oil. Her approach is
"as fast as I can go," on the spot, in the field.
She usually works on a colored "ground," whether
on art board or fine art paper … the brighter the
color, the more interesting the result.
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Heather Greene
"The process of transforming
white canvas into an expression has struck me as
magical", says Heather Greene. Inspired by
nature, Heather’s youthful approach is vibrant and
upbeat. Color, tone and texture are the essence of
her paintings. She creates using several mediums.
Watercolor is her favorite because its transparency,
luminosity and flow, and its sometimes unexpected results.
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Semrau, Debbie Norton and Eric Weber.
