The current exhibit at Pelican Art Gallery features Christopher Schink and Camille Przewodek and runs through August 7th.
Christopher received a BA Degree in Fine Art from Stanford University. He was selected as one of forty watercolorists to represent the U.S. in a joint show with Australia and China—Taiwan—1994. Christopher is a renowned watercolor teacher who has taught throughout the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe and Australia. He is the author of Mastering Color and Design in Watercolor and Color and Light for the Watercolor Painter.
Camille, a nationally recognized plein air painter, studied at the Cape Cod School of Art under master impressionist painter Hernry Henche. Camille is a co-founder of and lead instructor at l’Atelier aux Couleurs: Plein Air Painting. She has received many regional and national awards.
Masters of Today
Pelican Art Gallery has assembled an incredible collection of current day master painters to launch its “Masters of Today” Resident Artist Program. The depth and breadth of experience of these artists puts Pelican Art Gallery in line with the finest galleries in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Every other month over the next 16 months we will be featuring specific Resident Artists.
In addition to the featured artists, the Resident Artist Program includes:
Susan holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Sonoma State University. Susan’s awards include the Miriam Schorr Award for Works on Paper from the National Association of Women Artists, New York. She maintains a working studio in the
Petaluma countryside.
Carole is the co-founder of l’Atelier aux Couleurs: The Art Academy in Petaluma. Carole is a devoted painter of what some might consider ”the Color Visualist Movement” and others the ”New American Impressionist Movement” — more specifically, Carole paints in the ”Hawthorne-Hensche Tradition”. She recently received many awards.
Gerald graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in Architecture. His art has been featured in France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Australia. Gerald is a master collage artist who uses papers and fabrics found in his internationally travel.
Peggi graduated from Arizona State University and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. She has received many awards, including the Gold Prize at Laguna Beach Plein- Air Invitational, 2001 Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach.
Stanley, best known for his association with his music posters of the 1960s, is a master of portraiture painting. His famous posters have been in shows at The Smithsonian Institute, the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Boston Museum, the Art Museum of San Francisco, the Oakland Museum , the Tate in London and the Louvre Museum in Paris are a few of the premier museums to have featured Stanley’s artwork.
Chuck graduated from the Art Academy of San Francisco where he now serves as the Director of the School of Illustration. Chuck recently illustrated the book “No Easy Way” and has works in many collections.
Ray is one of California’s most respected plein air artists. He has recently won the Gold Medal for “Best Painting” at the California Art Club and the Artists’ Choice Award, the highest accolade from fellow artists, at three major Southwest art events. He attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
At 16, Sachal studied at the Moscow Sculpture Studio where he was paid for his work. He was called upon by Stalin to produce
posters leading into WWII. After serving in the Russian Army in WWII, Sachal studied fine art painting at the La Grande Chaumiere and the Julian in France. He immigrated to the United States in the 1950s. He was called the “Michaelangelo of Highway 101” when he worked painting billboards by hand in the 1960s. Sachal’s work can be found in private collections throughout Europe and the
United States.
Alfredo received his Fine Arts degree from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He served on the faculty of Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles, teaching courses in life drawing, painting and computer graphics. He currently teaches head & figure painting at the Atelier aux Couleurs: the Art Academy in Petaluma. Alfredo’s awards include the 2009
Best of Show at the Napa Valley Museum’s Plein AirBiennial Exhibition.
