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Eddie Applegate
Eddie, a Stage and TV series actor; Realist to Impressionist painter who now works in all media. Raised in Philadelphia, joined the Fine Art world by using the cartoon drawings he created to promote his acting career in NY City. While working on TV series he painted to relax. Emotional response is what he tries to achieve in his corporate and private collection paintings.
Mary and Bill Barnhilll
William A. Barnhill A.k.a. “The Kiln Master”, Bill has explored many avenues for his artistic expression including drawing, painting and sculpture. His recent figurative series was inspired by the native peoples of the Southwest. He uses the slab 
method of construction and finishes his pieces in painstaking detail in colorful, low-fire glazes.
Mary C. Barnhill Fascinated with the world at large, Mary’s work is often influenced by other cultures. The traditional styles from the Mid-East, Africa, Asia and Mexico all have found their way into her art. She has shown her work at the Beatrice Wood Center in Ojai and she teaches sculpture and pottery making in their new state-of-the-art studio in Santa Susana.
Paul Batou
Paul Batou was born in northern Iraq in a tiny village near the border with Turkey. As a native Assyrian-Chaldean minority in Iraq, his village was burned in 1961 (ethnic cleansing against Christians). He lived as a refugee, but never forgot to draw or play his guitar. “This country is beautiful, so are its people. You can find beauty everywhere.”
Cynthia Dawn
Cynthia Dawn is a Southern California native. Her work has been exhibited at various venues in Southern California & Chicago, including one-woman shows in Thousand Oaks and Los Angeles. Cynthia is an award winner in various local and state competitions, and has been painting and drawing since the age of three. Mediums: acrylics, colored pencils, and graphics.
Dalah El-Jundi Faytrouni
Dalah El-Jundi Faytrouni was born and raised in Tripoli, Lebanon, which she describes as “a piece of heaven on earth and the pearl of the Middle East.” After moving to the USA, she continued learning to paint in oils and acrylic.
Suzanne Ferguson
Suzanne Ferguson is a landscape and plein air painter. She finds her greatest joy when painting outdoors, on location. There is a spontaneous and deliberate quality that appears in her work when she paints quickly to capture the light before it changes. Suzanne also loves painting in her studio, where she has the time to let her imagination roam.
Marian Fortunati
Marian Fortunati is a contemporary oil painter whose canvases reflect her world. Her impressionistic style strives to capture the essential features of a place or a person. She grew up in the San Fernando Valley and has had a successful career as a teacher, school principal and data manager. Marian was married in Venice, Italy and enjoys traveling to new places.
Steve Green
Steve Green was born and raised in Southern California. He has 35 years of varied industrial experience, which influences the realistic subjects he draws and paints in colored pencil, oil, acrylic, and watercolor. He also sculpts in wood, metal, plastic, and stone. Steve did undergrad and graduate work at Cal State Los Angeles, and teaches High School Industrial Arts in Los Angeles County.
Darlene Horsley
Darlene Horsley was born in Indiana where she grew up with a profound love for nature and animals. She credits her father’s knowledge of the seasons and patterns of wild things for her love of nature and living creatures, and that love is evidenced in her paintings. She invites you to view her art as well as read the poem that inspired a painting.
Linda Miller
Linda Miller, also known as “Lin”, is an oil painter with a focus on portraits. She prefers a sensitive approach, but offers up surprises periodically. She is a breast cancer survivor and former research scientist from JPL who is currently devoting full time to understanding art and the human form.
Margie Murray
Margie Murray is a painter living in Southern California. She works in oils, watercolor and mixed media. Margie works with a brush and/or palette knife to paint the human figure, floral, mountain and seascapes. She teaches senior art and teen art in Sherman Oaks, California. She is currently working on a series of still life paintings done in a classical approach for a show in 2008.
Rea Nagel
Rea Nagel (Best of Show winner in our 2005 Spring/Summer Exhibition, and First Place winner in the Scenic category in Spring 2006) is online with a varied portfolio including Landscapes, Water, and Growing Things.
Bobbie Rich
Bobbie Rich uses blind contour drawing (drawing without looking at her paper) to change glossy models into unpredictable characters. She fills in the negative space with ornate patterns and vivid colors. Bobbie Rich’s dreamlike images transport the viewer away from commercialism to a simpler world of whim and magic.
Terry Romero Paul
Terry Romero Paul grew up loving the sunlight and luminous colors that are unique to the Los Angeles landscape. She enjoys bringing that bright palette to her plein air landscapes and still life paintings.
Janet Snodgrass
Janet Snodgrass (Board member, Media Relations) devotes her time to creating original images in watercolor and mixed media as well as collage photo images (enhanced images combined with interesting elements on ceramic tiles or stretched canvas). Check out her Artist Gallery page for her original watercolors.
Barbara Tabachnick
Barbara Tabachnick is Professor Emerita of Psychology at CSUN and devotes her time to art and statistical consulting/writing. Her primary art subject matter is trees (especially dormant ones) and she works at various levels of abstraction in acrylics, watercolors, mixed media, and digital imaging.
Sharon Weaver
Shar has always been impressed by nature. “As a child, my memories of being ‘lost’ in the woods or playing by a stream are the impressions that sustain and inspire me now. When I paint, I am transformed into that little girl filled with wonder and respect for the natural world around me. Eventually my loves drew me to Los Angeles where I now live and paint full time.”
Rachel Weissberger
Rachel started painting in 1992 while her kids were attending art classes. This interest rapidly developed into a complete fascination with the art of drawing and painting. Her love for music has inspired her to paint musicians as well as singers and dancers. Most of the figures she paints are the creation of her imagination and the influence of her surroundings.