"Birds and Blooms" is the theme at Gallery 10 in March

The artists at Gallery 10 invite you to a celebration of spring with a display of paintings by member and consignment artists during the month of March.  Many of our artists create works that show a love of birds and flowers.

You will see paintings in various mediums, including oil paintings by Sue Smith and Marilyn Eger, watercolors by Stella Stevens, Joanne Dedge and Julie Trail, collage by Catherine Woodruff, etchings by Susan Hayne, porcelain jewelry by Katherine Finn, pottery with a floral motif by Margaret Kunzler, and much more!

The selection of beautiful items is delightful!  Be sure to come by for a visit, find a gift for a friend, and enjoy the variety of art.

The show will be on display all month, with a reception on Saturday, March 4, 2-5 P.M. at Gallery 10, 15 Eureka St., Sutter Creek.  The gallery is open Thursday-Monday, 11-4.

"Egret" by Julie Trail

"Poppies" by Susan Hayne

"Quail" by Joanne Dedge

"Roses" by Sue Smith

"Spring Blooms' by Joanne Dedge

Art by Susan Hayne

Crocker Art Auction - Submissions due March 16

If you’ve ever wanted one of your paintings hanging in the Crocker, here’s your chance.  There are two auctions coming up this Spring, at least one of which is juried. 

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We are pleased to announce the Crocker Art Museum’s 39th annual Art Auction Season. The Crocker’s Big Names, Small Art (BNSA) and Art Auction are the region’s preeminent art events, attracting sell-out audiences of art collectors and aficionados. The incredible draw and success of these events can be attributed to the outstanding, high-quality art provided by select, talented regionally and nationally recognized artists. We hope you will consider supporting the Crocker by submitting art to one or both of these events. The Art Auction will be held Saturday, June 3. The event features over 120 artworks in both silent and live auctions and is the not-to-be-missed evening for those in the Sacramento region who care about the visual arts. One of the hallmarks of Art Auction is that it strives to present a wide range of outstanding quality artwork. Please submit an image of one of your works. Due to space considerations, submissions may not exceed 40” in width. If this piece is selected, it will be entered in either the silent or live auction. Minimum bids will be based on the fair market value you set. As a participating artist, your work will be prominently featured in the Art Auction catalog and on the Museum’s website. All Art Auction items will also be included in a special exhibition at the Crocker on view from May 18 through June 3, 2016. You will be invited to Big Names, Small Art on May 18, the official launch of Art Auction season (includes complimentary admission and two drink tickets). The Crocker endeavors to support artists and, as always, provides the option for you to receive 50% of the proceeds from the sale of your work. If you would like to donate 100% of the sale proceeds to the Museum you will receive recognition in the collector’s Art Auction catalog and a complimentary Museum membership (Family level includes two adults and all children under 18), plus your additional support strengthens the Crocker’s ability to promote an awareness of and enthusiasm for human experience through art. Big Names, Small Art (BNSA) will be held Thursday evening, May 18. This event features a silent auction of small-scale art (all pieces are 12”x12” or less). All bids begin at $25 regardless of the work’s market value. This low entry bid creates an environment of fast-paced, friendly competition. One hundred percent (100%) of the proceeds from sales of BNSA art benefits the Crocker Art Museum’s education programs and exhibitions. Participating BNSA artists are invited to attend BNSA as guests of the Museum with complimentary entrance and drink tickets for two. We hope you will join us to enjoy this festive party and meet the patrons purchasing your work. The Crocker Art Museum’s Art Auction Season is a highly anticipated Sacramento tradition. Both BNSA and Art Auction enjoy broad exposure and provide excellent opportunities to attract collectors. The success of the auctions depends on the generosity of artists, like you, whose support allows the Crocker Art Museum to continue to connect people in unexpected ways with art, ideas, each other and the world around them. To complete an entry for the Art Auction, please read the submission guidelines. Then, to access the online submission form click here. Please note the submission deadline is Thursday, March 16.  To participate in Big Names, Small Art, click here to complete the donation form by Monday, May 1. Art drop off for Art Auction and BNSA will be held May 5 and 6. Thank you for your consideration of this invitation. Your support of these important events helps the Crocker bring thoughtful exhibitions and education programs to Sacramento. If you have any questions, please contact Kathleen Babin, Art Auction Artist Coordinator, at (916) 808-1194 or artauction@crockerartmuseum.org. Sincerely, Lial A. Jones Mort and Marcy Friedman Director Scott A. Shields Associate Director & Chief Curator

Ruth Andre is February's Featured Artist at Gallery 10

Ruth became inspired by the Western lifestyle growing up in a beautiful valley in Southern California. She studied art and design at California State University, Long Beach, and printmaking at Otis Art Institute of Parson’s School of Design in Los Angeles. Ruth became an independent artist’s representative, representing painters and photographers in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York.

In 1992, Ruth took her first painting workshop with Maurice Larioux, an artist in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and she became enamored with painting.

“Painting has been a lifelong dream of mine. It is glorious to enter my studio each day, take a brush in hand, and create!" Ruth said. "My desire is for the viewer to feel as if he was just a step away and could reach out and be part of the world I paint.”

She has participated in numerous western art shows across the country, including the Yellowstone Art Museum annual art auction, the Cowboy Classics in Phoenix, the American Quarter Horse Museum show in Amarillo, Texas, the Cattlemen’s Western Art Show in Paso Robles, California, and the Dog and Pony Show in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has also proudly shown her work for nine years with the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas.

Ruth will be the featured artist for February at Gallery 10, 15 Eureka St. in Sutter Creek. A reception in her honor will be held on Saturday, February 4, 2-5 P.M. at the gallery during the Amador Arts Art Trek. Ruth's show will hang all month at the gallery.  Gallery hours for February are Thursday-Monday, 11-4.

Glass Artist Helen Wilkinson is Sutter Creek Gallery's February Artist of the Month

Her medium is glass and Helen Wilkinson turns this colorful and adaptable substance into art. Wilkinson, who has worked with glass for 37 years, will be the featured artist in February at Sutter Creek Gallery.

The artist began with stained glass, getting “my inspiration from Nature and envisioning what people might like.” Today she teaches the craft in addition to designing sun catchers and window panels. One of her specialties is designing cars and trucks as either wall art or sun catchers made in the likeness of various vehicles. These and other stained glass pieces can be custom designed to fit specific windows in a home or office.

Many of Wilkinson’s functional pieces are fashioned from fused glass, a technique that involves heating thin layers of glass until they fuse together. Additional heating can result in slumping which changes the shape of the glass into bowls, plates and other forms. She also offers an extensive line of jewelry, including fused glass pendants, earrings and pins. Bracelets, wine stoppers and pens are decorated with her own lamp-work beads, made from glass rods heated with a torch.

Come meet this versatile artist at the reception opening her show on Saturday, February 4, from 2 to 5 p.m., as part of the region’s Art Trek. Besides the items mentioned above, Wilkinson has many more unique creations on display. Sutter Creek Gallery is a cooperative of local artists located in the heart of Sutter Creek at 35 MainStreet. During the winter, the gallery will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, except Tuesday. For additional information, call 209-267- 0228, email suttercreekgallery@gmail.com, or visit www.suttercreekgallery.com

Fused glass bowl

Lazy Susan

Glass jewelry

Stained glass car

Sutter Creek Gallery presents Fiddletown artist Wendy Rogers in January

Fiddletown artist Wendy Rogers will be featured in January at Sutter Creek Gallery. Rogers will be displaying her landscape work in watercolor and acrylic. Many of the newest pieces are acrylic.

“It has been fun using what I have learned through the years painting almost exclusively in watercolors to explore a ‘new’ medium," Rogers says. "I love the textures and colors. The hardest part has been getting used to new brushes!"

Rogers is now working from a studio space under the Sutter Creek Gallery. "It is a nice-sized space, next to Sutter Creek. When the windows are open, you can hear the creek, the birds and wildlife that call it home. It a peace-filled place to paint." Creekside Studio is also used for art classes and workshops. More information is available at Sutter Creek Gallery.

The artist is exploring new ways to express her love for the beauty of Nature. "I want to share art that is soul-filling.  I want people to feel the goodness and light of it—to feel the joy I felt while creating it!"  What is next for her in 2017? "Larger landscapes. I have wanted to paint some very large pieces, and some large abstract watercolors. 2017 is going to be FUN!"

More of Rogers' work can be viewed on her webpage www.fiddlesongstudio.com.

Come and meet the artist at the reception on January 7 from 2 p.m. until 5 p.m. Wine and delicious refreshments will be served. Sutter Creek Gallery is a cooperative of local artists located in the heart of Sutter Creek at 35 Main Street. With the change in the season, the gallery will have new hours and be open daily, except Tuesday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.  For additional information, call 209-267-0228, email suttercreekgallery@gmail.com, or visit www.suttercreekgallery.com.

"Jackson Ridge I"

"Jackson Ridge II"

"Lake Tahoe Sunset"

"Silent Moment"

Sutter Creek Gallery Themed Show for December

The weather is changing and winter is almost upon us.  To celebrate this season of holidays and cold weather, Sutter Creek Gallery offers a themed show for December. You can almost hear the sleigh bells ringing.  A reception will be held on Saturday, December 3, from 3 to 5 p.m., in conjunction with the region’s First Saturday Art Trek.

Artwork in a variety of media will be on display featuring seasonal images. Christmas trees, snowy vistas, poinsettias, and other winter scenes will be shown. Many of the artists have added holiday cards and affordable art ideal for gifts. On display are painted wine glasses, functional and decorative pottery, mini-collages, animal sculptures, stained glass and gourds, scarves and shawls, jewelry, and small works of art for that hard-to-shop-for person.

Sutter Creek Gallery is a cooperative of local artists located in the heart of Sutter Creek at 35 Main Street. With the change in the season, the gallery will have new hours and be open daily, except Tuesday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.  For additional information, call 209-267-0228, email suttercreekgallery@gmail.com, or visit www.suttercreekgallery.com.

"First Snow" - Cynthia Dunn-Selph

"Half Dome from Tunnel View" - George Lambert

"Candles & Holly" - Helen Wilkinson

Art by Melissa Doyle

"O Christmas Tree"

Gallery 10 features William Porteous and Anne Marie Fielding in December

Gallery 10 is delighted to be showcasing longtime gallery members, Bill Porteous and Anne Marie Fielding as Featured Artists for December.  The gallery will host a reception for this wonderful couple at the gallery, 15 Eureka St., Sutter Creek, on Saturday, December 3, 2-5 P.M. The show will hang all month.  You are encouraged to visit the gallery Thursday-Monday, 11-5, to see the artwork.

Bill Porteous is known best for his bronze sculptures.  He began learning how to cast bronze  figures when he was asked by the 11th Airborne, 511 Parachute Infantry division to make a monument to honor the service given by so many young men during WW II.  Bill had no experience casting bronze, so he spent three years learning the process at a foundry in Napa, CA, commuting from Amador County almost daily.  Bill had an image in his mind of a young soldier, his arm raised in victory, from a photo taken for Yank Magazine.  This young man was immortalized in bronze by Bill, after his years of training, and set on a monument that stands at Fort Benning, GA, the “Home of the Infantry.”

Bill continued to cast figures of soldiers in bronze for many years, many of his pieces now in a collection at a museum in Fort Campbell, KY.  Others may be seen at Gallery 10, and at Bill and Anne Marie’s home in rural Jackson.  His collection is impressive!

Bill is also a fine oil painter, having studied with Howard Rees when he first moved to Amador County.  His oil paintings are often outsized images, featuring Native Americans in beautiful landscape settings. Bill admits he paints “for his own amazement,” enjoying the process of creation, the feel of pushing the oil paint around on a canvas.  Gallery 10 will feature at least one of these outsized, magnificent oil paintings during December.

Anne Marie Fielding, Bill’s wife, is also skilled at bronze casting.  Several of her bronze animals are shown at Gallery 10.  She enjoys painting also, and has a large collection of oils, watercolors and pastels.  One of her lovely pastels, of sheep in a meadow among autumn foliage, won Best of Show at the Amador County Fair Art Show a few years ago.  Anne Marie, originally from Switzerland, was living in Australia with her first husband, managing a business as a massage therapist, when she first began to paint.  But it was when she came to Amador County, to visit her sister, who was living in Jackson, that she met Bill and learned how to cast bronze figures.  

Today both Bill and Anne Marie continue to paint.  Anne Marie is exploring abstract design for this new show at Gallery 10.  

Please come meet this fascinating couple at the gallery, Dec. 5, 2-5 P.M. and enjoy the variety of artwork they have created during their years together!

"The Forces of Nature" - Bill Porteous

"Monument Valley" - Bill Porteous 

"Soldier" - Bill Porteous

"Down a Country Road" - Anne Marie Fielding

"Autumn Colors" - Anne Marie Fielding