Sara is mesmerized by visual delights; the color of light going through a prism or the way colors run together when one puts them on the paper; a beautiful brocade pattern; a marvelous dream. She paints in an attempt to take visual notes of what she finds intriguing.

Rob Cox paints the urban landscape as well as figures and everyday objects. He talks about painting being about paint. "It's about the application of colors and pigment to the surface. I want the viewer to see the process of painting. The scrumbled brush strokes and lumps of paint are as integral to the work as the illusion of a roadway in the distance." Rob

Greg Nelson Art depicts ethereal California landscapes and intimate figures through multi-media paintings with a romantic vision of nature and a classical treatment of form. View my website at http://www.gregnelsonart.com

My work consists almost entirely of an on-going, "serial portrait" of my wife Colette Crutcher.  I began this project over 25 years ago when Colette was pregnant with our first child, and I wanted to record the physical and emotional changes she was undergoing.  Gradually I realized that this single focus on another person as subject had potential beyond the immediate circumstances of Colette's pregnancy.  I became intrigued with, or perhaps obsessed by, the possibility of depicting Colette as a whole person, through a multiplicity of images made over time; time being the dimension that is absent from a single portrait image.  Rather than dealing primarily with the biographical facts of her life, I want instead to convey her subjective experience, through the medium of her body, the outward expression of her inner self.  However, a portrait is, by definition, one person interpreting another person, scrutinizing from the outside an ever receding mystery, one which even in an entirely open hearted person like Colette, plays  a teasing game of hide and seek.   So the results of my efforts are always uncertain and provisional, full of gaps which I fill in with my own materials, making my portrait a kind of self-portrait.  In the end, what I have created is a kind of hybrid entity combining elements of both me and Colette.  My hope is that the viewer, who doesn't know either of us, comes away from my work with a sense of a powerful human presence, which is as good a way as any of describing my subjective experience of Colette in my life.

Kim Smith has shown at George Lawson Gallery and Inclusions Gallery in SF.  She is the recepient of several Jurors Awards for ArtSpan auctions and shows.  She was once first sold at the Visual Aid auction and also sold within the top 10.  She published a book (real printing, not on-line) of her work in 2008.  The book, Where Quirky Meets Menacing: an autobiography in collage, won several nationwide awards.  She sells her work through galleries, open studios and her business, Smith & Co. (www.VintageSmith.com)

My collages are meant to be intimate and should evoke a peaceful, quiet and simultaneously compelling response from viewers. Many of the collages are of a serious nature, specifically my recent series "Series For a Better World."  But, one can often find a humorous or unexpected element within the frame as well. I use art to voice opinions and ideas that I often don't have the courage to say aloud.  It is also a form of relaxation and I often spend days exploring galleries and museums. Artwork can have an overwhelming impact on me and strike me with a breath-stopping raw energy that makes me want to produce my own work. Having the time and space to feed this desire is enriching. I was born in Seattle, Washington in 1961 and spent 10 years of my childhood in Germany. I now call San Francisco home. I have degrees in Design, Economics, and an MBA.

I use vintage and antique materials in my collages, rather than modern copies.  I believe using the vintage materials maintains the integrity of the work.  To the greatest degree possible, I treat them in an archival manner.  My work is professionally framed with acid free matting and ready to hang. I usually use museum glass.

Contemporary realistic figurative, portrait, landscape and still life drawing and painting