Greg
Kondos
Born
in Massachusetts to Greek immigrant parents, Kondos moved
to California with his family at a young age. Gregory
Kondos is one of California's foremost landscape artists.
For over 40 years he has traveled the world painting a
multitude of landscape subjects, from Yosemite Valley
to the Sacramento River Delta, from Big Sur to the Southwest,
and from Aix-en-Provence in France to the islands of Greece.
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Deladier
Almeida
For Deladier
Almeida, “every scene and every moment
of visual reality is potentially fascinating. The landscape
of our daily experience will generously reveal its magic
and its secrets to anyone who will take the time to see.
“For
those of us who are compelled to depict that reality
with paints, nature is an endless source of inspiration
and pleasure. As a landscape painter, dedicate my efforts
to the creation of concise expressions of my visual awareness,
selecting, editing, and transforming nature to create
emotional and aesthetic response through the meaning,
the color and the rhythm of my interpretations.
“I paint landscapes because it gives me pleasure.
Much of my work as a painter consists of portraits painted
in the studio. When I get to go out and paint light,
water, air and earth, I am weightless. Landscape painting
is my diversion and my yoga—my opportunity to interpret
and idealize my world and give flight to my imagination.
My poetry.”
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Chella
“I see my self
as a recorder of the vanishing rural scenes . . . as a
historian actually. I search for scenes that are evidence
of urban growth destroying the gifts of nature and family
homesteads. With small ‘en plein aire’ oil
studies, I capture the light and shadows of the time,
along with the sounds, sights, smells, and atmosphere,
of the scene. I try to record these sensations with spontaneous
brush strokes, thickness of paint, and energies from within.” |
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Philippe
Gandiol
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Gandiol was born in Paris and moved to California after
college. He spent many years working for the music
industry and has been painting full-time since 2001.
He has pursued art most of his life and has been painting
with oils for 16 years. Gandiol, a self-taught artist,
took art classes in France and then at city colleges
in San Francisco and Sacramento. He also studied with
experienced California artists. For the last five years
his passion has been plein air painting. His daily
routine consists of painting outside alone or with
fellow artists and working in his studio located in
Davis. His works, painted in oil with thick, loose
strokes, reflect Gandiol’s way of seeing
and feeling the world.
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Marie-Thérèse
Brown |
Marie-Thérèse Brown was born and raised
in San Diego, California. She taught art for many
years first in Central America and most recently in Dixon,
California. While teaching she inspired her students
by producing and exhibiting her own art. She was
the art mentor in her district, and taught art around
the state at the California Arts Project’s summer
institutes for teachers. In 2003, Marie-Thérèse
retired from teaching to paint full time, and later that
year she had her first one-person show at the Artery
with 50 plein air paintings. |
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