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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.
Meli Calkins
With soft pastels, the luminosity and brilliance of this medium represents is what Meli Calkins see in the natural world. Her soft pastel paintings when viewed closely are impressionistic, but walking away from the painting, it becomes more realistic. Her work runs from landscapes and seascapes to still life and equine.
Ione Citrin
Ione Citrin is a multidisciplinary artist who works in all paint mediums, sculpture, collage, assemblage and mixed media. Her art has shown nationally since 1998 when, after years of world travel, a successful television, radio, theatre and film career in the performing arts, she decided to focus her richly diverse talents on the visual arts.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Madeleine Prochazka
My name is Madeleine Prochazka and I paint with oil on canvas. I love color, water, trees, flowers, pets, and I enjoy trying to capture their beauty on canvas. Originally born and raised in France, I bring a European flavor in my approach to subjects, combined with a love of sunshine and bright hues due to my longtime residency in the Golden State!
Toby Salkin
Toby paints bold, flamboyant landscapes and poignant, reflective portraits, as well as contemporary collage and assemblage works. She begin painting as soon as she was old enough to hold a brush and doesn't remember a time when she was not creating art.
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.
Boz Vakhshori
Boz Vakhshori was born in Oct 1952, in Iran. His artistic talents began very young when he started to draw with charcoal and chalk at the age of seven. Boz left Iran in March of 1978 and attended the San Diego State U. and also attended Cal State. In June, 2008, Boz was featured at the Iranian American Art Expo at City Art.
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.