Virginia Mack, Featured Artist, August 2024

Featured Lower Gallery
2:32 pm
by Gallery at Marina Square

ART LISTINGS: AUGUST 2024 3 FEATURED ARTISTS: Gay McNeal, Textiles; Virginia Mack, Watercolor; Ardella Swanberg, Small Works and books 3 Exhibits Beginning: AUGUST 1, 2024 Exhibits Ending: AUGUST 29, 2024 2nd Saturday RECEPTION ATRIUM PARTY Saturday, AUGUST 10th, 3-5 PM Location: GALLERY AT MARINA SQUARE, 601 EMBARCADERO, SUITE 10, MORRO BAY, CA 93442 Event Contact Number: 805-772-1068 Gallery Hours: 11am to 5pm, Daily Virginia is a native Californian. She grew up in the SF Bay Area. Virginia taught for many years in the Bay Area before moving to the Central Coast. She has been exploring and savoring the natural areas of the state throughout her life.Virginia has been living on the Central Coast for over 20 years. She was a part-time instructor at Cuesta College and Allan Hancock College in the Fine Arts departments: she taught studio arts, Art History and Art Appreciation. Virginia’s inspiration comes from nature. Her passion is enjoying natural areas wherever she is and responding to each area through her paintings and drawings. She has made hundreds of journeys on the bay in her kayak and developed many pieces inspired by those journeys. Virginia works primarily in watercolors and is a colorist at heart.  Virginia received […]

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Ardella Swanberg, Featured Craft Artist, August 2024

Featured Craft Artist
2:18 pm
by Gallery at Marina Square

ART LISTINGS: AUGUST 2024 3 FEATURED ARTISTS: Gay McNeal, Textiles; Virginia Mack, Watercolor; Ardella Swanberg, Small Works and books 3 Exhibits Beginning: AUGUST 1, 2024 Exhibits Ending: AUGUST 29, 2024 2nd Saturday RECEPTION ATRIUM PARTY Saturday, AUGUST 10th, 3-5 PM Location: GALLERY AT MARINA SQUARE, 601 EMBARCADERO, SUITE 10, MORRO BAY, CA 93442 Event Contact Number: 805-772-1068 Gallery Hours: 11am to 5pm, Daily Ardella was raised in Garden Grove, California, lived in many locations, and relocated to the Central Coast 25 years ago. Ardella’s painting inspirations have been the subjects found in the many places she has lived—from living on a cattle ranch north of Cayucos to the beautiful harbor of Morro Bay, California.  In addition, Ardella has given painting classes in many locations throughout the Central Coast for many years.  She has recently moved to Seattle, WA and continuing her painting and crafts.

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Patricia Newton, Featured Artist, July 2024

Featured Lower Gallery
7:12 am
by Gallery at Marina Square

ART LISTINGS: JULY 2024 3 FEATURED ARTISTS: Patricia Newton, Oil Painting; Gregory Siragusa, Photography; Carol Roullard, Jewelry 3 Exhibits Beginning: JULY 1, 2024 Exhibits Ending: JULY 29, 2024 2nd Saturday RECEPTION ATRIUM PARTY Saturday, JULY 13th, 3-5 PM Location: GALLERY AT MARINA SQUARE, 601 EMBARCADERO, SUITE 10, MORRO BAY, CA 93442 Event Contact Number: 805-772-1068 Gallery Hours: 11am to 5pm, Daily Lower Gallery Featured Artist: Patricia Newton, Oil PainterArtists’ Statement:“I knew early on, that art would somehow become an intrinsic part of my life! “Although a career path would lead me in a different direction, I worked hard, painted when time permitted and raised a family. I moved to the Central Coast of California, where I fell in love with rolling hills that reach to the sea and began to pursue lifelong dreams of becoming a professional artist. The local landscape has had a profound impact on the artwork I create in oil. “My style is representational, utilizing a glazing technique of many thin layers to create a translucent effect that provides depth and emanates light from my paintings. My current body of work has been inspired by the powerful movement of the sea and magnificent coastline. “During the last […]

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SACRED SPACES, a group Fine Art Painting Show, February 2024

Featured Lower Gallery
9:00 am
by Gallery at Marina Square

ART LISTINGS: FEBRUARY 2024 FEATURED ARTIST: “SACRED PLACES” All Media Group Painting Show; STEVIE CHUN, Small Works; CANDLE CRANSTON, Acrylic Painting Exhibit Dates: FEBRUARY 1, 2024 until FEBRUARY 28, 2024 2nd Saturday RECEPTION ATRIUM PARTY: Saturday, FEBRUARY 10th, 3-5 PM Location: GALLERY AT MARINA SQUARE, 601 EMBARCADERO, SUITE 10, MORRO BAY, CA 93442 Event Contact Number: 805-772-1068 Gallery Hours: 11am to 5pm, Daily & closed Tuesdays Lower Gallery Featured Artists: “SACRED PLACES” All Media Painting Group Painting Show featuring artists: Hema Sukumar, Joan L. Brown, Hope Myers, Sandra Sanders, Craig Harrill, Nancy Jensen, Patricia Newton, Virginia Mack Statement:“SACRED PLACES” group show will showcase all media paintings of special places we all may have visited: it could represent how the sunlight feels in a room or in a special place in our yard; it might be special feeling we get from our garden, the seaside, a mountain retreat, an ocean view…it could be any place that feels amazing and wonderful to us. This show explores all such places unique and special to the artists in an all media painting show, “Sacred Places”.

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Carole McDonald, Featured Craft Artist, December 2023

Featured Craft Artist
1:48 pm
by Gallery at Marina Square

ART LISTINGS:  DECEMBER 2023  FEATURED ARTISTS:  CAROLE McDONALD, Small Works; 3 Exhibits Beginning:  DECEMBER 1, 2023 3 Exhibits Ending: DECEMBER 30, 2023 2nd Saturday RECEPTION ATRIUM PARTY:  Saturday, DECEMBER 9th, 3-5 PM Location:  GALLERY AT MARINA SQUARE, 601 EMBARCADERO, SUITE 10, MORRO BAY, CA 93442 Event Contact Number:  805-772-1068 Gallery Hours:  11am to 5pm daily Craft Featured Artist:  CAROLE McDONALD, Small Works Artist Statement:   As a native Californian, Carole McDonald started her art career working as a former script supervisor in the film industry and as a Disney Imagineer, where art was everywhere and discussed on a daily basis. Her oil paintings reflect the vibrant colors tranquil feelings of the Central Coast where painting for Carole is just working in the most beautiful place on earth.

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“TEXTURE OF LIGHT” Group Painting All Media Show, December 2023

Featured Lower Gallery
1:39 pm
by Gallery at Marina Square

ART LISTINGS:  DECEMBER 2023  FEATURED ARTISTS: “TEXTURE OF LIGHT” Group Painting Show Exhibits Beginning:  DECEMBER 1, 2023 3 Exhibits Ending: DECEMBER 30, 2023 2nd Saturday RECEPTION ATRIUM PARTY:  Saturday, DECEMBER 9th, 3-5 PM Location:  GALLERY AT MARINA SQUARE, 601 EMBARCADERO, SUITE 10, MORRO BAY, CA 93442 Event Contact Number:  805-772-1068 Gallery Hours:  11am to 5pm daily Lower Gallery Featured Artists:  “TEXTURE OF LIGHT” Group Painting All Media Show with Joan Brown, Candle Cranston, Brian Johnson, Virginia Mack, Hope Myers, Patricia Newton, and Sandra Sanders. “THE TEXTURE OF LIGHT” showcases all media paintings  of winter light, and winter-mood scenes… countryscapes and seascapes, still-life settings in the Lower Gallery which highlight textures of light in oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, and gouache.  

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