Don R. Walker

HAC Member Since: 1993
(707) 825-8010

My abstract watercolor and acrylic paintings express and celebrate the dynamics of life forces.  Creation, growth, expansion, decay and transition occur at various levels and scales.  Interaction of these forces create clashes, mixes and entanglements everchanging in the flow of time.  Finding strokes, marks and colors, that in particular combinations, express life's wonderful variety and fluidity in unique and engaging images is my goal.

Tina Rousselot

HAC Member Since: 1997
(707) 822-6619

I am a landscape painter in the minimalist tradition.My primary focus is with nature's color, my response and maturation of that color.  How I best convey the emotional impression of a particular hue is through the awareness and susceptibility of light.  My work is contemplative and a tool for meditation.  I don't give all the answers.  I want the viewer to enter the work and stay a while and have their own journey.  All my work is oil paint on canvas and the sizes range from as small as 20" x 20" to multiple panels extending up to eight feetPlease visit my web site at tinarousselot.com where I have posted my most recent work.

Reuben T. Mayes

HAC Member Since: 2014
707-633-5048
http://www.artinmyworkboots.com

In the style of Abstract Expressionism 

the spontaneity of the artist's approach to his work draws from 

and releases the creativity of his unconscious mind!

“Hello All My Friends: My name is Reuben Mayes. I am 32 years old and I live in McKinleyville. I am an artist and my style is named Abstract Expressionism. I feel excited and happy and proud and silly and crazy when I am painting.”

 -Reuben T. Mayes, Artist

Reuben uses acrylic on canvas because it dries faster than oils and acrylic is easy for him to apply with his high-energy brush strokes on any size canvas, representative of Abstract Expressionism, a painting style in which an artist applies paint rapidly and with force onto a small to huge canvas in an effort to show feelings and emotions, painting gestural, non-geometrically, sometimes applying paint with large brushes, sometimes dripping or even throwing it onto canvas. Abstract Expressionism is characterized by a strong dependence on what appears to be accident and chance but which may be highly planned. Sometimes an Abstract Expressionist is concerned with adopting a peaceful and mystical approach to a purely abstract image. Usually there is no effort to represent subject matter. All of Reuben’s work is abstract and expressive with the spontaneity of Reuben’s approach to his work drawing from and releasing the creativity of his unconscious mind. The expressive method of his painting is considered as important as the painting itself. Reuben insists on painting in his work boots so he named his website "art in my work boots". World-famous Abstract Expressionist Artist Jackson Pollack also insisted on wearing heavy leather boots when he painted commenting it made him feel grounded and connected to the earth.

Member Redwood Art Association, Humboldt Arts Council, Ink People, Westhaven Center for the Arts with shows at Arts Alive! Arts! Arcata and at many venues from Eureka to Trinidad.

Acrylic Paintings on Canvas, Greeting Cards, Tshirts, Prints, Ceramics and Magnets.

Phone (707)633-5048 or (707)677-9310 

www.artinmyworkboots.com 

Facebook: Reuben T. Mayes, abstract expressionist

Georgia Long

HAC Member Since: 2010
707.443.2604
http://www.georgialongoils.com

Currently exhibiting at Piante Gallery, Eureka CAthrough July 28, 2012Born and raised in California. I currently reside in northwest California. I am self-taught; fashion illustration in the early years and presently; oil painting. My subject matter ranges from figurative, scapes, portraiture to abstracts.Composition, shape, texture and color are important components in my work. I paint impasto, using painting knives almost exclusively. Impasto style suggests instead of describes, allowing room for interpretation; thus a more inclusive experience for the viewer.CollectionsCristina Bauss / David BerginPiercy, CAEric Furman / Aline FabenFortuna, CAJennifer GloverEureka, CAHolly GlavichEureka, CABeth 'fama' LauerMad River, CADr. Thomas MaysEureka, CAPam and Manuel ParsonsGarberville, CADiane WestonSan Francisco, CAKit SumersFlagstaff, AZKevin and Sara WalkerEureka, CACarla YvonneRedway, CAWayne and Toni FarrarEureka, CAFor additional work and current | future exhibitions, visit:georgialongoils.com georgialongoils.blogspot.com 

Susanna Snodgrass Gallisdorfer

HAC Member Since: 2007
707-825-8751
http://susannasnodgrass.artspan.com/home

About the Artist: 

In 2002 after ending a 21 year career as lead designer for the San Francisco Bay Area sticker company, Mrs. Grossman’s Paper Company, Susanna Snodgrass uncovered a new voice as a painter.  Predominantly self-taught, with no formal training as a designer or as a painter, her work, acrylic paint on paper and her recent work on Tyvek, is a result of an intuitive way of painting that at times is also a meditation practice.

The artist finds from her home on the Humboldt North Coast of California, an endless transmission of natural beauty, quietude, and teachings that shapes and sustains her work.

Artist Statement:

My work is a practice that leads into the inner experience. It is a movement searching out balance and stillness, a harmony of co existing energies.

I bring to this practice a curiosity about the existence of the Natural world and a deepening self inquiry; a life experience.

Visually I am influenced by the colors and light of the living environment, by the simplicity and directness of Asian brush painting, and by imagery of poetry.

My teachers are everywhere.

To see more work click here: Artspan

and here:http: Meridian Fine Art

Jane Fusek

artist unique

HAC Member Since: n/a
(707) 839-3088
http://www.janefusek.com

Media:
ceramic sculpture, painting, drawing, collage.

My art is not preconceived; rather its genesis is spontaneity.  Often, this impromptu approach results in biomorphic/metamorphic icons or forms. 

Some of my thoughts on art in general:

Art is like watering a seedling. Every creation can bring to life a heretofore untold tale/barely audible new song/barely realized feeling. In other words, art can bring to light a hint of the moment and it’s truth and potential.

Art is an amalgam of inner and outer realities. At its best, art results in a statement that is seamless in its incorporation of supposed dualities. 

Please check out my website at www.janefusek.com 

R.W. EVANS

(707) 442-1208