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enchanting and exotic, foreboding yet welcoming,
strange yet familiar and beautiful,” says the artist. “The
light inside these woods often shifts and therefore,
basically transitory, yet is perpetual and reassuring.
The light’s myriad of shapes, tones and colors is
inspiring, lending a feeling of joy to a soul.”
David Kizziar turned to an architectural scene
of a once familiar structure in the art world with his
drawing FESTIVAL. Kizziar shares, “This piece was
inspired as a historical tribute to the Festival of Arts/
Pageant of the Masters live art show entrance which
greeted visitors into Laguna Beach until 2014 when itwas replaced.” The work, as the artist says, was created
with six colored pencils on toned paper and took more
than 300 hours to complete.
The work Sunny Afternoon Retreat, by Linda
Garcia-Dahle, is a scene that brings the outdoors
to an inside space. “During the height of summer
last year, when the temperature was over 100 and
everyone was attempting to stay safe indoors from
the coronavirus, I was struck by how calm, peaceful
and cool my living room looked with the curtains
billowing in the breeze, my cat sleeping quietly
in the window and the light and shadow patterns3
Cher Pruys, Reflections,
acrylic, 6 x 91 /2”
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Linda J Schroeter, A Tail
of Two Fish, oil on ACM
panel, 25 x 35 ”
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Linda Garcia-Dahle,
Sunny Afternoon Retreat,
oil on canvas, 1 8 x 2 4”
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Emily Main, Upwards, oil
on board, 24 x 20 ”3 45 6