About a month ago my husband and I stopped at the FKN bakery in San Juan Capistrano for a loaf of sourdough bread and saw a sign for the Mission Fine Art Gallery, affectionately known to its resident artists as the MFA gallery. Since we love to find new galleries and work by regional and local artists we decided to stop in. I was impressed right away with the professional and pleasing way the art was displayed and also the quality of work exhibited. I started chatting with the gallery attendant Antje Campbell, who also happened to be the gallery curator. One thing led to another and I was invited to apply.
After about 4 weeks I got the good news that I was invited to be the guest artist for June and July with the possibility of joining their roster of wonderful popular and award winning artists. 

Here is a shot of the gallery with my underwater painting Into the Blue on the gallery wall with Kathryn Stovall Dennis’ clay work in the foreground. Beside it is Breathe. On the easel is Lifeguard Station #8 that won Best of Show at the Ashton Art on 30th gallery’s  summer juried show in San Diego. And the painting below, Two Umbrellas/Escape, is featured in an outside window here at the Mission Fine Art Gallery.
If you are heading over to visit the San Juan Capistrano Mission hop across the road and see my paintings. I’d love that! And I think you will enjoy all the art in the gallery.

LAND AND SEA

I am mostly a studio artist but occasionally the outside beckons and off I go to find landscape that inspires me to respond with my paint sticks and brushes. It is a glorious thing to sit in nature and be inspired to put colors bright or soft and shapes abstracted or realistic onto paper, canvas or panel. Other times I am inspired by the watery blues, greens and golds of the ocean and its long sandy beaches.