GARDEN TOUR 2020 ARTISTS
Andrea Wagman-Christian
Garden #4: Little Pond-La Mesa
"Tree and Window Bling" contain Semi Precious Stones, Murano Glass, Pearls, Finest Quality Cut Crystals, plus Imported Beads and Mirrors. These exquisite creations respect nature by honoring the elements of sun and wind in our homes and gardens. "Sun and Wind Catchers" give immediate joy to those who set their eyes on the intense and colorful rainbows. Reflections are displayed on your walls and catch you in the eye. Light and Color Bounce Everywhere! When hit by the sun or light, "Tree and Window Jewelry” gives back day and night. Each is One-of-a-Kind and Hand-Made with the finest selection of materials from around the globe. "Tree and Window Bling" creates an environment that reinforces qualities of balance, joy and peace.
Website: etsy.com/shop/NatureBlingStudio
Contact: andrea4area@gmail.com
Margaret Gallagher
Garden #4: Little Pond-La Mesa
Margaret Gallagher’s detailed ink-and-watercolor illustrations highlight the intimate beauty of Southern California's native ecosystems. Long, quiet walks in LA's often-overlooked wild spaces provide inspiration for her drawings, which depict the hidden worlds of plants, animals, fungi, and invertebrates that quietly teem in the spaces around us.
Website: margaret-gallagher.com
Instagram: @margaretgallagherart
Palomar Handweavers and Spinners Guild
Garden #6: Harrod’s Hideaway
For over 60 years, the Palomar Handweavers’ Guild has been supporting handweavers and handspinners in northern San Diego County. In partnership with the Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum, guild members helped construct the 4000-square-foot Weavers' Barn on the Museum grounds and have assembled a collection of hundreds of looms, spinning wheels, and fiber-related artifacts which we actively work on and maintain.
Website: palomarweavers.org
Kathleen Cook
Garden #8: Wild & Wonderful
Kathleen Cook began weaving in 1998. Her botanical weavings incorporate California native plants, celebrating the natural beauty which surrounds us and expressing the interconnection we share with each other and with our environment. Her work is shown in Ramona and beyond. She has recently been awarded the Volcan Mountain Foundation’s Rubenson Artist-in-Residence Endowment for 2020.
Website: kccweaves.blogspot.com
Christine Waters
Garden #10: Restoring Nature
An enduring love of nature and art drives Chris’s pursuit of on-location (plein air) painting in watercolor. Carrying a bag of art supplies and paper brings the artist to a place where inspiration from exciting views can be captured in the moment. Fine art techniques acquired in earlier college years, more recent workshop studies and continued ed courses, provide tools used to translate the “in the moment” mood observed at locations ranging from urban to undisturbed nature. Christine paints in an impressionistic, expressive style with rich, flowing color. She credits this to the influence of the french impressionists (among many others). Her passion for nature also includes serving as an outreach docent at the San Diego Natural History Museum, educating local children through hands-on learning experiences.
Contact: h2ocoolchris.cw@gmail.com
Marissa Quinn
Garden #11: Water Conservation Garden
San Diego based artist Marissa Quinn creates intensely detailed and intricate pen and ink drawings, based on personal visions and dream states. Her work narrates the cyclical stories of extinction and growth in nature, with an emphasis on native California flora and fauna. Quinn’s dramatic compositions seem to be caught in space and time, in states of either transformation or adaptation to current biospheric changes in our Earth.
She obtained both her Bachelor's Degree in Fine Art (BFA) and her Master's Degree in Fine Art (MFA) from Azusa Pacific University in Los Angeles, California and is an Adjunct Professor of Art at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, California. Her work is currently in the Oceanside Museum of Art and in the private collection at the Lancaster Museum of Art.
Website: marissaquinn-art.com
Instagram: @marissaquinn
Amanda Kachadoorian
Garden #11: Water Conservation Garden
Amanda Rose Kachadoorian is an emerging Californian artist who was born and raised in San Diego, California. She is a graduate from the University of California, Berkeley with a BA in Art Practice. Her art practice has been focused on painting and drawing while experimenting with mix media, sculpture, and installation. Her body of work aims to express the notions of identity, psychology, ephemerality, and nature. Every concept has an underlying relationship with one another which she intends to create a dialogue around. She derives these ideas from the human anatomy, diverse plant life, and her multi-cultural background.
Website: amandakachadoorian.com
Instagram: @art_from_rose
Sneha Kochuparambil
Garden #7: Brookside Native Garden
I strive to create art that is unique, to expand imagination. Working in abstract and nonrepresentational art means I have to elicit interest without context, using the pure elements of color, line, shape, form, space, texture and value to portray a dynamic piece to build a connection with the viewer. Through my work I hope to connect people to their instincts; not to form a connection they recognize but something that needs to been thoughtfully sorted. I have fond memories of creating when I was a child and started a formal education in community college where I had some memorable professors whose lessons still inspire my style today. I graduated San Jose State University with a BA in Art studying any art form I could, including weaving, glass blowing, ceramics, paper making and lithography. I use ink and acrylic in a watercolor style on circular supports which clarify and bring harmony to my work. Titles only exist as a means of identification and/or personal memento.
Website: snehacraig.com
Instagram: @sneahacraig
Carol Gross
Garden #9: Quiet Earth Sanctuary
There is something magical in taking a lump of “mud” and turning it into a functional and beautiful object. Mostly thrown on the potter’s wheel, then altered and carved to create pattern that gives a sense of movement, my work reflects my two passions in life: gardening and creating with clay.
Coko Brown
Garden #10: Restoring Nature
Coko Brown is a fourth generation native San Diegan. As a child she was fortunate to visit the Julian area regularly with her family. Her love of the area took her out of the city to live and pursue her art aspirations in nature. Eclectic in both her media as well as subject matter, Coko paints in oil, acrylic, watercolor and pastel. She paints on wood panels, canvas, paper, and guitars – as a musician she enjoys blending the two creative forms. Her subject matter includes landscape, portrait and still life, painted in a variety of genres that include realism, impressionism, expressionism as well as abstraction. Additionally, Coko is a Certified Master Gardener. She participates in many activities with the San Diego Master Gardeners Association as well as being a member of the California Native Plant Society, the Pacific Horticultural Society and the National Wildlife Federation.
Website: cokobrown.com
Molly Paulick
Garden #11: Water Conservation Garden
Molly is an artist based in San Diego, California. Her bold and whimsical paintings explore the beauty and importance of the plants we often overlook within our urban environments. She is currently studying and painting California native plants in and around Balboa Park. Molly received her BA in Art om Azusa Pacific University and is the recipient of the Business of Art Scholarship through the Studio Door Gallery in San Diego. She volunteers with habitat restoration in San Diego's urban canyons, and is developing a California native plant garden with her neighbors.
Website: mollypaulick.com
Instagram: @mollypaulickart
Charles Turkle
Garden #7: Brookside Native Garden
Inspired by nature and architecture, Charles designs custom pieces to suit the individual. A color wheel provided inspiration for an artist looking to screen light coming from the road and the Rainbow Mountains of China created some drama for a geologist’s front entry. A snail shell creates an abstract spiral of color.
Contact: cturkle@gmail.com
Additional artists…
Yvonne La Chusa-Trottier
Website: kumeyaay.info/whoswho/bios/yvonne_trottier.html
Barona Cultural Center
Website: baronamuseum.com
Instagram: @baronamuseum