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Terri Metz, Red Hatter and
Ms. February

Ironstone Vineyard by Marin
Wadill, a friend and artist who
has relocated to another part of
California, but is still active
in her art. We have several
 pieces of hers in our private collection.

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Geneva Davis does wonderful flowers

Cora Bieler is a new member of the Sierra Professional Artists and paints lovely miniatures. Cora also owns Yosemite Tours, bringing in guest artists to lead Plein-Aire Workshops with Yosemite
as your subject. Check our event calendar for dates.

A few years ago we began displaying local artists on the Hotel Charlotte walls and have developed three distinctly different gallery spaces. The main salons are rotated on a monthly basis with an artist from Sierra Professional Artists Association. The Hallway Gallery is currently showing photos by Robb Hirsch, an award winning photographer and biologist who owns Mountain Sage (down the block from us) his wife Regina.

Our Dining room is populated by an ever changing collection of photographs by Terri Metz, who specializes in local scenes. She also has a good number of pieces hanging in the Hallway Gallery with Rob.

• Now showing, Main Salons: Mike Dwaileebe

• Hallway Photographers: Terri Metz & Rob Hirsch

• Dining Room Photographs: Terri Metz

• Recently shown: Richard Stomp, Barbara Paris, Janie McLuen, Kathy Tuchalski Geneva Stanfield Davis, Amy Ada Haratani, Liz Reinhart, Donna Dufresne, Jean Hammond and Ed Williams

Terri Metz has nearly dozens of photographs on display in the Charlotte hallway gallery and dining room. Terri is a local photographer whose works include spectacular photographs of Priest Grade, Hetch Hetchy and many areas of tuolumne county.

Metz, a Groveland resident since 1990 was born in Buffalo, NY and has photography in her blood—Her father was a photography teacher. In her early years she recalls attending classes with him at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Terri’s interest in Photography grew through the years to encompass the use of a Kodak Brownie, 35 MM cameras, video work and most recently digital cameras.

She enjoys remote areas of beauty such as the back country of California, Arizona and New Mexico. Terri looks for the bits of forgotten history and finds the beauty in the scenery around us that we sometimes miss or don’t have the time to see in our rush to be somewhere else. Terry rotates our galleries with seasonal photos, sharing Yosemite in the Winter, the Ahwahnee in the Fall, the waterfalls in the Spring and has started a new series of wildlife pictures.

Terri recently received several awards at the Tuolumne County Fair, including a first prize for her Carmel windows photograph. You can view more of Terri's work at her online gallery.

Kathy Tuchalski has begun a new series of "Cave Art" paintings which were inspired by petroglyphs and pictographs found in rocks and in caves in Europe as well as North America. Her challenge is to build up "rock" type backgrounds and then to "paint" the cave drawings on them.

Also in her exhibit are several abstract works. "The Open Door" suggests life's many doors which are opened and/or closed to us during our lifetime. The face in Life's Lines reflects the hardships, the ups and downs and even the resting places which we encounter over the years. Creation and Land Beyond the Sun represent a more heavenly place where we can be at peace.

Barbara Paris has lived in the Sierra Foothills since 1965 and specializes in watercolors. Though Barbara has dabbled in oils and acrylics, she finds the challenge of watercolors more enjoyable. Her works include florals, landscapes, seascapes and animals along with still life. Barbara has shown in many local venues and has won several awards for her work.

Richard Stomp ..."at the age of 58 and recovering from cancer surgery, a friend gave me a gift of paper, chalk, pastels, and a pen and ink set. My artwork emerged.  I have always felt that artwork should say something as well as be pleasing to the eye.  Simple poems that compliment the subject of the artwork have become my choice to achieve this goal. Poem and artwork...like music and lyrics... seems like the perfect partnership!" Richard Stomp

Amy Ada Haratani: While Amy has studied a number of mediums, she has always leaned towards oils and now studying with Heinie Hartwig, from whom she has found the motivation to to accomplish her dreams. Amy has won a number of local and regional honors and has a growing number of loyal clients. Her landscapes are both realistic yet exciting due to the colors she chooses to highlight natural objects. We hope you will find the time to visit Amy's show in November.

Liz Reinhard exhibited at the historic Hotel Charlotte several times over the last few years. Liz has been a giftware, needle arts and decorative designer commercially for the past twenty years, but, more recently has pursued her true passion: watercolor painting. A new resident to Groveland, she exhibits her watercolor paintings of domestic cats, still life, and portraits. A cat fancier since childhood, she recently began a series of themed paintings of her own cats and those of friends and family, evolving into the line of greeting cards Paws to Reflect. "I often change the backgrounds of the photos I work from to create a more exciting and colorful composition," says Liz. "Cats are such a delightful subject to paint; every pose has so much character and charm." Liz has been working on commissioned portraits of people and pets for the past ten years, though she does love to paint still life as well.

Cinco de Mayo, Ed Williams. We own the original of this festive painting

Ed Williams recently displayed is colorful works in our front salon in the Sierra Professional Artist monthly rotation. Ed is a local artist of Tuolumne County, working mostly in Oils and doing mainly central Sierra and paintings of local flavor.

Having in the past lived close to the Ocean, an interest in boats and boating leads to some maritime paintings. An interest in folk dancing also lends itself for the theme of some paintings.

Ed spent most of the latter working career doing mechanical aided submittal drawings for architectural design and application. Working mostly in the South Pacific, Hawaii, Marshal Islands, Guam and Midway Islands.

Some additional training under the extended adult education classes of both University of Hawaii and Columbia College of California. The artist Sato being the instructor for the off campus classes in Hawaii and Gareon Rios being the instructor for the off campus training for Columbia Colleges.

Geneva Davis  For more then 25 yrs. Geneva has been exploring painting using oils, acrylics and watercolors. Geneva, being raised in Texas, was especially attracted to California where she discovered it to be the perfect place for her love of nature. She finds inspiration in the beauty all around her and loves to share such beauty through her art. Although her inspiration is in major part derived from the natural beauty of flowers, gardens and birds. Geneva sometimes departs from her usual subjects and paints portraits of people and animals. Whatever she chooses as subject, painting remains exciting, challenging and fulfilling. She usually has several paintings going at once.

Geneva has done many commissioned works and has won numerous awards during her painting career. She is a member of several art associations and has participated in many art shows over the years. Additional background and images can be found on her website at www.genevadavis.com

Jean Hammond started her training as an artist the summer of 1943 while attending the California school of Find Arts in San Francisco. She always enjoyed drawing as a little girl and along with several girlfriends spent many hours in the classroom and at home enjoying the gifts of creating with a pencil and brush.

After graduation from Lowell High School in San Francisco, Jean majored in Arts at the University of California in San Francisco and Hayward. She received and Adult Education Credential from U.C. in Berkeley, and has been teaching art in the San Leandro, Fremont and Union City adult school for over 20 years. Jean's paintings have been on display in numerous galleries, shows and in private collections. www.YosemiteAreaArtist.com

Janie McLuen and her husband, Bob, retired and moved to Groveland. Three years later she attended an art class at the Community Center with Alene Knox as the teacher.  She loved it!  Janie had never felt like painting was anything she could do, but oil painting quickly became a really fun hobby and she got totally involved.  At the time she was attending Alene's class, Alene had a store in Groveland called "The Backstreet Gal".  Janie sold many paintings in her store.

Seven years ago Janie became a member of the Sierra Professional Artists, a juried group.  With this group she has done a yearly show at the Groveland Hotel where she had sold many paintings.

Janie's college background was a major in Interior Design and she has always loved working with color.  So painting became a natural step from there.  Painting is the one thing she loves to do in her retirement years.  We hope others will come and enjoy her work.

Donna DuFresne majored in fine art at Canada Community College, receiving an A. A. degree in 1977. Then began nine years of study with mentor, Richard Yip, who taught watercolor at University of the Pacific. She also studied with many fine contemporary artists, including Robert E. Wood, Jane Burnham and Jane Hofstetter.

When Donna moved to Pine Mountain Lake in 1993, she initiated the development of the Sierra Professional Artists, a Groveland based art group and has served on the board of the Central Sierra Arts Council.

Donna Du Fresne's watercolors are found in private collections around the world. Her work has been shown at Village Artistry, Carmel; The Jenkins Gallery, Pier 39; Peggy Eriksen Gallery, Half Moon Bay, and many other bay area galleries as well as Scottsdale, Arizona.

Bill Hammond graduated from SF State College and even though he majored in another art form, he began to believe that between drama and art there was a very wonderful kept secret. While he was practicing drama, he took up pottery and his love of art grew. Bill has had paintings hanging at the Post Gallery in Sonora, Scenario Creation Art Gallery in Angels Camp and at the Pine Mountain Lake Country Club. Bill has served on the board of the Mother Lode Art Association and is a past president of the Sierra Professional Artists.

Patricia Price was first exposed to the excitement of creating art in 1975 in an introductory painting class with LIb Zackheim. She was hooked and subsequently become the first president of the Danville Gallery, a cooperative gallery in Danville, California. Pat has exhibited in several galleries in California and Wyoming and has been awarded two first place awards in Watercolor.

Denice Bauman, a new artist to the Sierras, was originally a commercial and graphic artist from Los Angeles, California.  She spent many years as Art Director for several major magazines, and many more years as Art Director for a major sporting goods company. Since moving to the Sierras in the mid-2000's, she has been concentrating on capturing the magnificence and rapture of the local surroundings in her watercolor series Yosemite Skies.

The dramatically changing seasons of the unique area has inspired her second series in watercolor, an impressionistic view of Springtime in Yosemite. Denice continues to expand on her two Yosemite-inspired watercolor series while enjoying working in abstract-collage, acrylics and realistic Prismacolor illustration.  She likes to go from one medium to another, often mixing.  When she isn't painting, she and her writer-husband work on their series of children's books, which she is illustrating.

Hotel Charlotte
On the way to Yosemite National Park
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18736 Main Street (Highway 120) PO Box 787
 Groveland, California  95321
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