Guest
Artists
October
Tahoe City
Allen Schmidt
Landscape Oil on Belgian Linen Panel
October 1 - 31
I have been inspired to paint the American Western Landscape where I have lived and worked for over forty years.
I paint as nature presents herself being inspired by form, value or color while adhering to the time-honored principles of craftsmanship…drawing, design, value and color, a clear understanding of natural light.
If successful, the finished work portrays the “essence” of my subject done with harmony and spontaneity.
Kings Beach
Harvey Bertrand
Woodworking
October 1 - 31
My wife and I moved from Rochester, Minnesota to Reno July of 2022, While living in Rochester, I showed and sold several items at a major arts store and on social media.
I “search far and wide” for my woods: I owe my technical skills to working in my dad’s auto repair shop, spending incalculable hours in my woodworking shop, searching countless sources of information and experiencing an endless number of failures.
Kings Beach
Joan Blumenfeld
Painting
October 1 - 31
I turned to painting after a successful career as an architect, around the same time that I moved to the Reno/Tahoe area.
As a kid I was always drawing, painting, making models, little dioramas. I spent many of my teenage week-ends in museums and galleries; I couldn’t get enough of the strange and alien/wonderful worlds they opened up to me. I still get the same thrill from work that makes me think or that surprises me.
When I could take the time to breathe after years of working and raising a family, I returned to painting. Ironically, my work is now reversed; it now starts with seeing actual physical objects and spaces and ends up with the creation of drawings and paintings. In a way, I see this work as De-Constructing. But in distilling the three dimensional down into two, I still use the same tools, of light, color, materiality, and composition.
