Grace Diehl

No Surfing, Painting, Oil on Canvas

2024

I was sitting across from this women who was on her cell phone shielded by the shade of the lifeguard house at Crystal Cove. I thought it would might make a good painting. :: Painti...

This was a plein air painting that I painted on the outlook overlooking the ocean at south Laguna. Several days of returning to this spot, I created this piece. The sounds of the wav...

Sharon Paster is a distinguished San Francisco Bay-area artist Sharon Paster creates her paintings using oil sticks and brushes, a technique that allows her to both draw and paint at...

Depicts Carole Garland reveling in a hot summer day at the Venice Beach. Colorful beach umbrellas shield the timid from the burning sun while sunbathers bask in the searing heat. Yellow and blue ribbons floating on the wind celebrate Venice’s chaos and its whimsy. To focus the figure of a preteen who stands sentinel, Garland fades out the foreground sunbather on right and obfuscates the crouching man on left. The artist leads us to the groups of mysterious standing and sitting figures in the shadows and beyond. Garland’s collection of figurative work speaks to a contemporary sensibility in her approach to painting, while expressing a curiosity about the human form and an irrepressible concern for the human spirit. Carole Garland graduated from Knox College, Galesburg, Ill., studied at the Chicago Art Institute and the University of the Americas in Mexico City. She has worked privately with artists Keith Finch and Ron Pekar, taken numerous workshops and was mentored by David Gallup...