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Susan Kerns
Susan grew up in southern California
with the lives of tens of thousands of people flowing in
constant motion around her. Graduating CSU@Fullerton
with an art degree, followed by a Secondary Teaching
Credential, she anchored herself first at Warren High
School in Downey where she taught drawing and painting,
ceramics, and crafts for fifteen years. In 1985 she
followed the population flow, and her husband, to the San
Diego area and moored at Poway High School for seventeen
years. Susan had th delightful experience of also
teaching photography there for several years along with
drawing and painting and Advanced Placement Studio Art, a
college level class that introduced her to a flotilla of
amazingly creative young people of good character, whose
ambition she still stands in awe of.
Susan’s own
artistic endeavors were of necessity carried out only in
her head, too much to do, too little time, until 2002 when
she retired. Now, in her own studio here at Lake
Almanor, she is free to reclaim her personal journey as an
artist.
"My roots are in
the New Realist movement of the 70's and 80's, but age and
awareness, and living in this mercurial mountain wonderland
urges me to explore a more mystical connection between
human beings and their environment. I sense
intuitively a rhythmic energy that permeates everything.
There is some undefinable thing that runs through us
and our physical world, uniting us with it, imparting a
sense of wholeness and belonging. It is this mystery
that I honor in my art.
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Asya Lesly
Asya Lesly grew
up in Amarillo, Texas. Her grandmothers taught her to sew
when she was three-years-old. She has been interested
in fiber arts ever since, dabbling in weaving, knitting,
crochet, cross stitch, latch hook, and more. Asya is
often asked ifhe loved dolls as a kid, but she was a tomboy
who preferred capturing insects.
After college,
Asya moved to the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia and worked
as an occupational therapist in a nursing home. She bought
a little farmhouse with a barn and tended mall herd
of goats. She met her husband who works for the National
Park Service in a dance class. They soon moved to northern
California.
Asya currently
lives in Mineral, California, a mountain village of 90
people. She is busy raising two sons and creain art. She
began making art dolls in 2002 and art quilts in 2007.
Please visit her at www.asyalesly.com .
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Barbara Ricau MacArthur
Barbara's appreciation of art and her
love of drawing began in early childhood. After studying
art in college and at the John McCrady Art School in New
Orleans, she worked with oils, then acrylics and water
color. After lengthy travel in Europe, Barbara became
a flight attendant which led to two exhibits in New York
City while she was based there. Barbara moved to the
Sacramento area after her marriage, and entered her work in
juried art shows. Much of her subject matter comes from the
places she traveled, as well as the people and landscapes
around her. Living in the beatiful Lake Almanor area
has opened a whole new world to paint. Besides
exhibiting her paintings in the Lake Almanor basin, Barbara
works on commission, as well, doing portraits of people,
pets, homes and landscapes.
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Walter Nicholson
Walter studied
woodworking in college where he learned to appreciate the
beauty of wood and its many possibilities for artistic
expression.
After collage
Walter entered the corporate world with Caterpillar Inc.
and spent 25 years marketing mining an construction
equipment. During this period Walter continued to
pursue his love for woodworking and woodturning.
He was in the
ranching business in Wyoming and used many of his wood
working skills on the ranch making wood items that could be
used there. This is where he learned that form and unction
can go together to create beautiful and useful creations.
In the fall of
1998 Walter left the corporate world to pursue a career in
wood-turning and woodcarving. He and his wife created
Pine Shadows Hancrafted Gifts for the purpose of marketing
their handcrafted wood creations.
One of the things
that Walter loves about woodturning is to take something in
the abstract and make it become part of reality that people
can feel, look at, use and enjoy on a daily basis.
The last few years
Walter has ben creating more and more art creations made
from woodturnings. Carving on the bowls has allowed a
new area of expression. During the summer of 2007
Walter will be taking intense wood carving instruction from
the Hone Wood Carving Studio located in Benjamin, Utah. In
the fall of 2007 he is traveling to Italy to study
Renaissance art of sculpture, painting and architecture.
His goal is to
create museum quality creations.
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