Calavira Studio
Santa Ynez, California
Wedding Hill, Chamberlin Ranch
24 x 36
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INFORMATION about the ARTIST
August 21 from 10 am to 4 pm .
The Arts Are Alive in Los Olivos!
With across the board collaboration, the 24th Annual Quick Draw has expanded into an all-day festival, and the whole town is opening up with art, music, demonstrations, food, and special activities!
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Gwen Cates, a painterly realist colorist, does plein air oil paintings
on California Central Coast ranches and vineyards. Her paintings are a
celebration of the beauty of the areas where she lives and works. She
has completed series of paintings at Hollister Ranch, Sedgwick Ranch,
and Santa Cruz Island. She also paints at her second home on a mountaintop
near Charlottesville, Virginia.
Welcome
to my online gallery. My goal in painting is to astonish myself and to
share this sense of wonder with others. I want the viewer to feel
involved in the act of painting, to be aware of the brush strokes and
the sensuousness of the medium as much as the subject matter of a piece.
Oil on canvas is my medium of choice. I enjoy painting wet on wet,
sliding one color over the other to achieve richness and vibrancy.
I like to take risks and make new discoveries as I paint. The color
that I respond to when I paint is not necessarily the color that I see
as a casual observer of a scene. Colors emerge that excite me. Shapes
become simplified, more abstract.
The act of painting transforms the way I see the world.
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