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In the No. 10 Best Art Town in America, you'll find creative, diverse and talented artists. Take at look at what they have to say about themselves ...
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Bruce Ertle |
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 David Hockney once observed that it is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, not what he says about his work. However, I feel I owe the viewer a few words about how I work, and why I paint what I paint.
As with many other artists, my inspiration comes from the ordinary things which make up a large part of the fabric of our lives, such as eating breakfast or riding on a crowded bus, I prefer them as subjects because our busy lives often blind us to them, and also because they are so open to personal interpretation. |
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Bruce Sillars |
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 Bruce Sillars is a prolific designer considered by other glass blowers to be a true master of glass technique. Sillars grew up in the Los Angeles suburbs. In high school he worked in ceramics, later becoming a technician in the ceramic studio at Moorpark College. He holds a BA degree in Art with an emphasis in ceramics, glass, and sculpture from California State University, Chico. In 1973.
His career in glass began when he was hired as Orient & Flume's first employee. Bruce created iridescent vases and paperweights that incorporated both geometric and naturalistic floral motifs. As time passed by, the designs became more and more complex and sophisticated, and by the early 80's his work began to move away from iridescent glass. Replacing the iridescent glass with clear crystal, Bruce began an all consuming and life-long exploration of heavy clear glass vessels utilizing three-dimensional motifs and employing both "torch worked" and "lamp worked" design elements. |
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Byron Wolfe |
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 Byron Wolfe is currently teaching Communication Design at California State University Chico. These images were created in celebration of the University's arboretum by placing the found objects onto a large flatbed scanner. The result was a new perspective of nature not commonly seen.
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Carol Preble-Miles |
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Greece: The Caryatids of the Erechtheum, Temple of Athena and Poseidon, Athens Like many artists, I work in a number of mediums and have shown my watercolors, drawings, prints and collages in Chico for 20 years both in one-person and group shows.
While all mediums have their seductive qualities, it is the illusiveness, accidental happenings, and challenges of watercolor that keep me coming back to it again and again. It is a well that never goes dry.
I enjoy painting in watercolors outdoors. It is my greatest and happiest challenge to be interpreting the scene so that you can begin to get a sense of the uniqueness of the place, it’s color, and it’s texture through my eyes. I work spontaneously, reacting emotionally and intuitively to the scene. My outdoor work is airy and light.
My watercolors in the studio are a different breed. There I channel my imagination and found objects to find the limits of watercolor, often building layers of watercolor to achieve a velvety patina. Color and contrast and mood are what I strive to evoke in the studio.
My collages are mostly non-objective abstracts. They are small and difficult for me. They stretch my compositional abilities, and in turn make my representational paintings stronger.
My work is available in Chico at the Sally Dimas Gallery on East Avenue and at Art on Broadway in the All Fired Up Studio, and during Chico Open Studio Tour at Cantello Studio on Northgraves Avenue.
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