Growing up in Pebble Beach, left a lasting impression on Laura Smith Blair. She always felt a connection to drawing and painting as a young girl. She spent two summers at The Rhode Island School of Design and studied art at the University of Callifornia at San Diego. Once graduating from college, she returned to Carmel and worked with the local artist and muralist, Dong Sun Kim. Smith Blair painted many murals alongside Kim. Laura now lives in Marin County California with her family. Having lived most of her life now in these two beautiful areas has inspired Laura to focus her subject matter on nature's beauty. Her road scenes and landscapes are calming and serene.

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Jines converts mud and other gooey substances into things funny. He considers laughter a bonus or, as they say in his native Louisiana Creole, "lagniappe." The little added element of humor makes his ceramic cartoon creations "Four-Dimensional." The philosophy is simple; "Goofy is Good, and Weird is Worth it!" Jines pleads Contemporary Insanity and if you don't laugh at his stuff, he'll have an art attack and destroy it.

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Suzannes work is cinematic; she engages the viewer to participate in the story. As the work emerges, it reveals only enough of an image to draw the viewer into the work, creating surprise as paint wraps around the canvas profile. Missing details, lost & found edges, allows the viewer to fill in their own ending.

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Sunee has been a freelance calligrapher and was coordinator of an art center and a Junior High teacher for 15 years. She has been a S.W.A. Judge and an Elderhostel workshop instructor. "After winning a scholarship to the Academy of Art in San Francisco, I was thrilled to study a variety of art media which I often put to practice, though I prefer the challenge of watercolor."  Sunee states.

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Dick Crispo has exhibited internationally, earning 36 awards, 78 one-person shows, and is rzepresented in over 30 public collections. Color and texture, with a strong background in drawing and composition, are hallmarks of Dick’s work; but most of all, his creativity and love of place come through, along with his sense of the ironic, and these elements are what makes the viewer think — not run.

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Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Olia started drawing as soon as she could hold a pencil. She began formal art classes at the age of seven and completed her studies at the St. Petersburg Art University in St. Petersburg, Russia. The richness of local history and beauty of its natural surroundings are what fascinate Olia about Monterey County. She hosts adult and child Art classes with an emphasis on self expression through art.

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Watercolorist Lana Lee Blades is a Native Californian, born in Inglewood “with a paintbrush in my hand”. Lana expresses herself through bright colors, capturing emotion by painting the expressiveness of her subject. The variety of her interests allow her to easily paint about virtually anything. Ms. Blades has studied with Beverly Duncan, Jean Sadler, Brenda Swenson, Steve Walters, and Karen Blackwood.

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