Upcoming Events

Schedule of Guest Artists

* Tuesday Evening, September 10th, 2024 at 7:30 pm – Carol Tarzier/ Oil

* Tuesday Evening, October 8th, 2024 at 7:30 pm – Rhu Bigay / Oil

* Tuesday Evening, November 12th, 2024 at 7:30 pm – Carolyn Lord / Oil

Tuesday Evening, April 9th, 2024 at 7:30 pm - Rick Haley - Photography

Tuesday Evening, September 10th, 2024 at 7:30 pm

Carol Tarzier - Oil

Carol Tarzier is a Bay Area painter and sculptor. Her sculptures are figurative and abstract works in bronze. Awards for sculpture include the John Cavanaugh Memorial award, awards from the National Sculpture Society including the Roger T. Williams Prize, Alex J. Ettl Grant, Gold Medal and Maurice B. Hexter Prize, and the Bosque Conservatory Art Council’s Silver Medal. Commissioned sculptures include a 7’ bronze memorial to C.L. Dellums, unveiled at the C.L. Dellums Amtrak station in Oakland in December of 1999, and a life-size memorial to George Hasslein, Dean of the College of Architecture, at CalPoly State University in San Luis Obispo. Over the last years, she revisited an early love, oil painting. Carol has received numerous awards at plein air events. Her paintings have been represented at the California Art Club’s Gold Medal over the last six years, the Greenhouse Gallery’s Salon International, the Haggin Museum in Stockton, and in the Oil Painters of America Western Regional Exhibitions. Her paintings create a structure of illuminated form on the canvas. She understands painting as a structure of light and color, beginning from the edges and moving through a created space.

See www.tarzier.com and facebook.com/caroltarzierfineart for her work.

Tuesday Evening, October 8th, 2024 at 7:30 pm

Rhu A. Bigay - Oil

A prominent American painter who creates patriotic heritage art which honors our servicemen and women. His oil paintings are highly detailed and historically accurate. Rhu is an Army veteran. He served as an ICU nurse at the World Famous Burn Unit, The Institute of Surgical Research, Brooke Army Medical Center, Ft. Sam Houston, Texas. Born in the Philippines of French Basque ancestry, coming to America was quite a culture-shock, but his love for this country is expressed through his patriotic art. Today, thousands of air show fans have collected his aviation art. Noteworthy accomplishments include his portrait of Pope John Paul II created in ink stipple commissioned by the Catholic Diocese of Monterey County, California. Also in ink stipple, his portrait of literary Pulitzer-prize author John Steinbeck, in collection of The Steinbeck Center, has been inducted into the National Portrait Gallery at The Smithsonian. His most memorable achievement is the painting of the World Trade Center Twin Towers in remembrance of September 11, 2001, which is in the collection of The White House. Rhu has been honored locally with the Arts Recognition Award by the Arts and Culture Commission of Contra Costa County, Resolution No. 2015/394. Rhu is currently working on a series of military railroad Americana.

Tuesday Evening, November 12th, 2024 at 7:30 pm

Carolyn Lord - Oil

California artist, Carolyn Lord is inspired to paint vernacular architecture, landscape, and gardens. Her artwork is represented by galleries in Santa Rosa, San Francisco, Carmel, Fallbrook, Mt Carmel, UT, and Crested Butte, CO. Magazine articles and podcasts highlight her working methods and career. Lord is a member of the California Art Club, California Watercolor Association, National Watercolor Society, American Women Artists.
2024 highlights include solo and group art exhibitions: Studio Gallery, San Francisco; Firehouse Art Center, Pleasanton; Piedmont Center for the Arts; Fallbrook Art Center; San Marino League.
For information about these and other upcoming shows, as well as watercolor workshops in Colorado, California, and Washington, visit her web-site www.carolynlord.com