Monday, June 5, 2023

Oh Boy, it’s the 33rd Annual Spring Art Show

The 33rd annual Spring Art Show at the San Geronimo Valley Community Center has come and gone.

This year we had nearly 90 artists from the San Geronimo Valley area for the May showing (You can take a quick video peak in the previous posting thanks to Michel Kotski).

Here are  few highlights:

“Beachcomber Weekend"

Martha Cederstrom

This is a personal favorite by Beth Marx, “Yakkers"

Beth Marx


This lovely acrylic piece by Anne Pennypacker is hardly any larger than posted here.”Gardner’s Trusty Tools"

Here’s Sonny Smith’s ceramic “End Times Dogs"




Judy North’s “There Was a Young Man”, Fluid acrylic and collage


Justin Thomas’ piece titled “Ripple"


Liz Lauter with her ceramic “The First Time Adam Had to Wait His Turn"





Geoff Bernstein’s Acrylic painting “Five Villages of Cinque Terre, Italy”

Sam Harris’ Acrylic and mixed media,  “Bee’s Purple”

Colorful Andy Giddings with equally colorful watercolor, “Shadow of the Shark”

 Bill Stoesser's fine wood sculpture “Volucris"




Priscilla Patey’s oil, “Out to Pasture"

Madeleine Pearce’s wood sculpture “Jumbo one"


Judith Selby Lang’s  “Peanut Gnomes"




Richard lang’s Collage and watercolor, “Bodhi Tree”

Dan Breaux’s Table, steel, stone and glass


Danielle Fogel’s amazing mixed media "Nesting"




John Beck’s first appearance in the Spring Art Show with his oil, “Cataract Falls”

Cornelia Nevit’s remarkable ceramic portrait of President Zelenskyy


Marty Meade’s watercolor “Guard Dog of My Holy Spirit”

Gisela Alvarado’s lovely photo, “Moment of Love"

Barbara Libby Steinmann with her “Pink Peonies"

Elaine Nehm’s “Study of Dreams of Quan Yi”, pigment powder on paper

Abby Cunnigham’s photography

Bud Meade’s “Vessel, Awaiting the Sacred”
Louis Nuyen’s oil painting, “Nautilus Dusk”
Judy Arndt’s “Valley Morning”

Tim Arnoux’s amazing woodworking on “Lingerie Cabinet"



Laura Marinelli’s dark and mysterious ceramic work,“Fear Comes to Tea"



Maria Gomez and her mixed media “I Am"

Janice Baldwin with “Growing Tulips”

Mallory Geitheim’s photo”Hangin’"


Gaetano De Felice’s fine “Going Home”

Carole Williams with “Harris Beach 2021”

Michel Kotski’s “Bouquet Macro"

Sandy White’s “Sierra Redwoods"

Reid Marple’s oil "Mt. Tam from the Petaluma Gap"

Richard D. James and his photo, “Greece"

Carole Alter “Fragments Reconfigured in Light"

Karlon Kepcke with “Dream Time”

Marie Eisen with her ceramic “Ms. Calico Cat"

Sherry Petrini with her oil painting titled “Interior”

Parra O’Siochain’s “Jazz in Sea 3.23"

Lars Johnson’s Oil painting “Synapse” 

Janet Hughes’ fabric art

Tim Cain’s “Wooden Path"

Soda-fired Stoneware by Kathryn Rile

Meztli Sanchez with her jewelry

Aside from traditional materials, Meztli works with animal bone


 Amin Al-Jamal’s remarkable Polymer Sculpture


Paul Valente’s “Woodacre Buckeye Burl"



Kristin Jakob’s “California Poppy"

Karen Koenig’s watercolor “Canyon De Chelly, Navajo Nation”

Laura Kradjan-Cronin’s triptych: “Astoria ’73"




My photo doesn’t do justice to Anne Faught’s “Heavenly Bodies”.
It employs cyanotype treated paper with white pencil

Another really fine piece by Tom Tabakin, titled “Tuxedo Junction”. The medium is cold wax.

And another beauty by Justine ’Tot’ Tatarsky. “Golden Summer”, glazes on ceramic tile.

Molly’s in the show, too, with her latest portrait, “The Man WHo Loves His Cat"


Special thanks to JeanA Warner who did the floral arrangements

And Donn DeAngelo who did the photos of the artists.                                                                            (Seen here with his piece,”Sunset at Chimney Rock”)

This post is a partial glimpse of this year's Spring Art Show. My apologies to all the artists who I don’t have photos of.