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Art exhibition jurors
Joan Blackmer  Elaine French retired from the field of educational research and evaluation several years ago and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Art History at San Jose State University. She served on the Board of the San Jose Museum of Art. In addition, she is an active environmentalist and is a trustee of the Nature Conservancy of Idaho and serves on the Advisory Board of Peninsula Open Space Trust. Peter Lipman is currently on the Board of Trustees and Chair of the Collection Committee at the San Jose Museum of Art, which focuses on collecting and displaying contemporary art and its sources in recent history. As an amateur in photography and ceramics and an appreciator of work by real artists, he’s collected works by local artists wherever he’s lived, including the East Coast, Colorado, Hawaii and Japan. back to top |
Invited Artists and Photographers Nature's Inspirations Juried Exhibition Sunday, October 15, 2006, 4 – 6:30pm Willow Heights Mansion, Morgan Hill From a pool of 23 talented local artists and photographers, our jurors selected 6 to participate in the exhibition on October 15. Their works will be on display and for sale at Nature's Inspirations in both the exhibition sale and the live auction. The Jane Gallagher Award winner: Floy Zittin Cupertino floy@floyzittin.com www.floyzittin.com  Floy Zittin has been interested in drawing and in nature studies since she was a child. She majored in biology in college but became interested in painting while spending a summer in Japan. She began her career as a biological illustrator working on a taxonomic project for her Master's thesis. She was offered other illustrating assignments at the marine laboratory and was soon working on college textbooks. From 1976 to 1988 she was on contract with the National Museum of Natural Sciences of Canada providing drawing for a field guide. Floy's husband is also a biologist and his career took them to British Columbia where they lived for ten years. Part of that time was spent in an isolated fishing village where Floy taught herself to paint by working on watercolor portraits of fish with the help and criticism of the fishery biologists. After returning to California in 1983 Floy has become active in the art community in the Bay Area. Her paintings have won numerous awards in local shows and have been accepted in regional competitions. She is currently pursuing her own studies in watercolor as well as teaching adult painting classes. Floy Zittin’s exhibition artwork back to top David Cardinal Portola Valley djc@cardinalphoto.com www.cardinalphoto.com  David Cardinal's nature and wildlife photographs help communicate the importance of our natural heritage and our responsibility to preserve it. With a specialization in North American landscapes, mammals and birds, he is the author of numerous articles on digital photography. His commercial work involves non-profit and socially responsible institutions, such as California State Parks Foundation, the City of Palo Alto, San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory, Point Reyes Bird Observatory, California Department of Fish and Game, and US Fish and Wildlife Service. Mr. Cardinal produces www.nikondigital.org, the leading information website for serious digital shooters and DigitalPro Shooter, a leading bi-monthly newsletter. He oversees the development, marketing and sales of DigitalPro (software for organizing and managing digital images). An experienced photo safari leader, he helps amateur and professional photographers capture the natural beauty of the Monterey and San Francisco Bay areas, Alaska, southern Africa and Southeast Asia. Born and raised in the Midwest and East, Mr. Cardinal, 46, has called California home for the last 25 years. He lives in Portola Valley with his wife and daughter. David Cardinal’s exhibition photographs back to top Mimi Kearns Saratoga pjk@svpal.org www.protime.net  Mimi Kearns is a California native growing up in San Francisco. She obtained her B.A. at UC Berkeley and studied textile arts at the Richmond Art Center and in Mexico with commercial success. She has studied oil painting at UC Santa Cruz, West Valley College and the Pacific Art League. She has been exhibiting her art for years in juried art shows and galleries mostly in California, but including Florida and New York. She is exhibiting this month at the SOLA show at Art 21 Gallery in Palo Alto and at the San Jose Museum of Art. Mimi Kearns’ exhibition artwork back to top Lin Ching Peng Palo Alto linching@yahoo.com www.linpeng-gallery.com  Born and educated in Taiwan, Lin Ching Peng earned a bachelor degree of Fine Arts from the Chinese Culture University . She had learned how to draw and paint since she was child. Lin lives in Palo Alto, California. Now she is an art instructor and professional artist. Lin’s paintings have been exhibited in South Bay Art Festival, Pacific Art League of Palo Alto , Silicon Valley Artist Open Studio, and AVArt Fest2002, andArt21 Gallery. She has created many works of art in watercolor and pastel, but her absolute favorite is painting in oil. Lin spends a lot of time studying light, value, color, perspective, and composition. She has excellent craftsmanship and artistic quality which make her paintings lyric and beautiful. Lin is a great admirer of nature so landscapes are her favorite subject to paint. The land, trees, hills, mountains, water, and sky express her feelings and emotions, so her paintings have life and movement as if they are real. The landscape paintings were painted in location such as open space preserves, parks, ocean view, vineyards and some suburban area. Lin’s landscape paintings present the California scene with color harmony, light, energy, composition, and sense of atmosphere. One of her landscape oil painting called “Hazy Morning” Won a special Achievement Award which is Award of Excellence - Top Five from AVArt fest2002 at Triton Museum of Art Santa Clara, California. She also loves to paint floral and still life. Lin only paints something that inspires her. In order to achieve the perfect mood, Lin spends hours to set up a still life arrangement. Her still life paintings represent good composition, quality of light, color vibration, and airy depth. She blends the oriental thought with the western skill and knowledge which presents a unique personal style. Lin has many years teaching experience. Before coming to US, she was an art teacher in Shing-Shing Tech. & Commercial Professional School. She has drawing class and oil painting class. The students’ ages are from 6 to adult. Lin is member of Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, Los Altos Art Club, and Los Gatos Art Association. Some of her other paintings are exhibited in Art21 Gallery in Palo Alto, and she is currently exhibiting her “Duet of Jewelry and Oil Paintings” at Gallery Saratoga in Saratoga. If you want to see more her paintings visit her web site: www.linpeng-gallery.com or studio visit by appointment. Lin Ching Peng’s exhibition artwork back to top Dan Quinn Portola Valley RiskFocus@sbcglobal.net www.pacamera.com/memberGalleries/quinn/index.html  I feel very fortunate to live surrounded by so much natural beauty. The vision, hard work, and persistence of local heroes made this possible; we owe them a lot. I hope my photography helps build appreciation of what we have, and inspires continued vigilance to pass it on. I selected the images in this portfolio with emphasis on agriculture and preserved open space. "Plowed Field, Fall Trees" and "A Rancher, His Truck, and the Land" were taken at the Arata Ranch on the San Mateo County coast, a working cattle ranch which was run at that time by two brothers in their 80s. John Arata appears in the latter image. (He has since passed away.) I took those photographs under commission from the Peninsula Open Space Trust, which bought an open-space easement from the Arata brothers. "Birch Road", also taken under commission to POST, is from the nearby Lower Purisima Creek property, since transferred from POST to MROSD. "Dawn Oak" and "Trillium Heart" are from near my home in Portola Valley Ranch. PVR has preserved open space as part of its pioneering planned unit development. "Alert Bobcat in the Wild" was captured on Stanford lands, at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) -- one top carnivore assessing another. I serve on the board of Hidden Villa, and am a guide in their Environmental Education Program. I am co-president of the Palo Alto Camera Club, which has provided me with inspiration, incentive, advice, and good company. My work has been exhibited locally and published and used by POST, Hidden Villa, CASBS, CGF, and the Sempervirens Fund. Dan Quinn’s exhibition photographs back to top Sheila Sondik Berkeley sondik@sbcglobal.net www.sheilasondik.com  My artwork is the fruit of many years of working in Asian and Western art media. In a world which often seems fractured and threatening, I present viewers of my paintings with images which evoke the interconnectedness of the natural world. I gather source material for my paintings by sketching and taking photographs in the San Francisco Bay Area (where I live), in the Sierra, and wherever I find myself intrigued by my surroundings. My finished paintings are done in the studio. Rather than aiming for slavish imitation of nature, I have developed techniques which allow me to express the reality I sense behind visual appearances. I begin my paintings by soaking masa, a lightly-sized Japanese paper, in water and crushing it into a ball. Diluted Japanese ink brushed over the paper collects in the resultant cracks in the sizing and creates complex textures. I repeat this process of crinkling and painting (first with layers of ink, then watercolor) many times before I mount the paper flat for finishing. In the early stages, I often feel as if the paintings paint themselves. I sometimes collage painted washi ("rice" papers) onto the paintings to add depth and texture. The network of dark lines from the sumi ink evokes, for me, the interconnectedness of all things in nature. These painting are my paean to places where I have caught a glimpse of the mystery of life. They can be enjoyed on many levels: as reflections of natural beauty; as abstract assemblages of light, color, and form; and as metaphors for our paths through life, through light and shadow. Sheila Sondik’s exhibition artwork back to top Page last updated October 5, 2006. |
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