Sibyl Johnson grew up in the Bay Area and spent summers exploring the mountains and beaches around Monterey Bay as well as the Sierras. She holds a BA in Education and Fine Art as well as a Master’s degree in Education. A thirty-year teaching career was interrupted only once for the opportunity to teach art … Read more
Archives: Artists
For five decades Craig Lauterbach has been capturing the unique qualities of wood in three dimensions, despite having no formal art education or training in composition, design, or in wood temperament. Lauterbach developed a “signature” sculptural style, assembling tiny pieces of a wide variety of woods, with painstaking skill and patience. His earliest wood creations … Read more
Benjamin Anderson is an oil painter, printmaker, sculptor, author, and arts educator who makes the Monterey Peninsula his home. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting and has been honored with numerous solo exhibitions, juried competition awards, and artist residencies. Anderson’s primary subject is the dynamic scenery of the California landscape. He … Read more
Ann grew up in a household where things were made — pottery, clocks, drawings, things you could use and hang on a wall. Making things came naturally and is a practice she has pursued since childhood. At Oberlin College she earned a BA in drawing and painting. After college, she moved to New York City … Read more
Robin Sawyer is an adventurous painter, choosing to explore many modes of expression in both her abstract and figurative work. Her abstracted figures and landscapes seem to present themselves with an inherent mystery that begs the viewer to look further. In all her work, she is primarily interested in gestural expressiveness and dynamic color juxtapositions. … Read more
Cindy’s work is known for its impressionistic or painterly style, favoring serene, pictorial landscapes. “I prefer to suggest rather than render, simplifying large shapes of color and value, leaving the details to the viewer. I feel this allows them to explore my paintings the same way I so eagerly explore my surroundings. My goal is to … Read more
All-member show through April 6, 2021. (Featured image is “Field,” a collage by late artist member, Alex Gonzales.)
Jerry Van Megert began painting when he was just six years old. He studied art in college and after renowned Salem, Oregon artist, Carl Hall, challenged him to paint 100 artworks in order to consider himself a true professional, he moved to California and settled on the Monterey Peninsula. “Everywhere I look here, I see … Read more
Robert Reynolds Hewitt American 1923-2010 Robert Hewitt was an avid Contra Dancer. He used his love and experience of the dance as subject matter to capture the essence of motion in his dynamic paintings. “A native of Denver, he returned there after his World War II Navy service to complete his undergraduate and Masters of … Read more