Meet Artist Anne Graham, Spring Obsession Accepted artist

Sarah Anne Graham – Artist Bio

O-066  Wine Flower  18x22  Lino single $150

Sarah Anne Graham lives in California.  After a few years

traveling around the United States and abroad; from Virginia, 

Georgia, Oregon (a brief time in New Zealand), 

Pennsylvania 

and Idaho to her current residence in California, she is 

working on oil paintings of the landscape of the Sierra 

Nevada foothills, as well as continuing her printmaking work 

on wood and linoblock transfers on maps.

Graham’s paintings are mostly representational depictions of 

the natural world, with the occasional object inserted, used

to symbolize loss and arrested development. The surreal 

quality of these paintings illicit ambiguity and are meant to 

provoke further investigation.

Her prints are abstracted landscapes, and nature themed.  

The woodblock transfers onto maps remind the viewer of the 

role of conservation, management and the nomenclature of 

science to classify and collect info on the natural world.

Her works have been shown in one-person and group 

exhibitions in the US, as well as New Zealand. Graham 

studied at the Atlanta College of Art, and received her BFA 

from Oregon State University in 2003 in painting and 

printmaking.

O-064  Purple Flower  24x58  Lino single  $300

For more information, go to www.sarahannegraham.com

Meet Artist Mary Jean St. Claire, Ironstone Spring Obsession accepted artist

O-118 Red Roses oil  11x14  $395

MARY JEAN ST. CLAIRE

Angels Camp, CA. 95222

www.maryjeanstclaire.com

Mary Jean has been an aspiring artist since the age of crayons. After a heavy focus on art in high school and college, she continued her studies in the San Francisco Bay Area with artists such as Howard Brodie and Dr. Raymond Brose. A past member of the University Art Club, Committee for Art at Stanford and the San Francisco Ceramic Circle, she won multiple awards in the Bay Area juried shows. Her work can be found in many private collections throughout the world. During a very long haitus from painting, Mary Jean returned to school to study interior design after which time she opened an antique store and worked as an interior designer.

O-119 Pensive oil  12x16  $495

A move to Angels Camp in 2006 created the opportunity to revisit her love of oil painting. Here she paints and studies with some of the area's finest artists and continues to win awards in juried shows. Aside from occasional trips to favorite artists' workshops, she likes to paint locally and feels fortunate to live in an area with such an abundance of subjects from which to choose.

Mary Jean is a member of the California Art Club, the Mother Lode Art Association, The Calaveras Art Council and the Arts of Bear Valley.  Her work can be seen at Town Hall Arts in Copperopolis, CA and the Aloft Gallery in Sonora, CA as well as on her website at maryjeanstclaire.com. Art can also be purchased directly from ETSY.

O-120  Wilber  oil  12x12  $385

Meet Artist Popi Tyler, Spring Obsession accepted artist

T-023  They Like to Party ' til Day ... Light  wc  25x32  $980

Popi Tyler,

Artist

Santa Rosa, 

California

I was born here in this gorgeous land of Northern California, with childhood memories of riding my horse through Gravenstein Apple orchards and cattle ranches.  I learned to be alone and observe the beauty of nature and the way things grow.

O-136  Forty-one and Counting  wc  22x30 $1800

My formal education includes over 40 years of art classes and workshops. I have studied ceramics and painting in California, Mexico, and Hawai'i. My training at Linecona Academy of Art in Honolulu opend my eyes to the endless joys of watercolor.

O-136  Terpisichore, No. 1  wc  22x15  $1200

Recently, I have studied with Dale Laitinen, of Mountain Ranch, California, who continually teaches me to see new things in our landscape all around us.

To me, there in nothing better than a day painting with my husband and friends. I have such wonderful painting buddies -- each one is precious to me.

Good friends, beautiful views -- what 

O-137  Three Hearts Mooning Mine  wc  30x22  $1800

could be better!

www.popityler.com

Meet Artist Connie McLennan, Spring Obsession accepted Artist

Connie McLennan

T-001  Daffodil Cheer  oc 18x14  $400

Connie McLennan grew up in Yreka, CA, where she showed quarter horses and sometimes accompanied her father, a veterinarian, on his calls amid the natural beauty of Mt. Shasta and the surrounding countryside.

She graduated from CSU Sacramento with a journalism degree, then spent two years studying illustration at San Francisco's Academy of Art. She began as a freelancer, illustrating a variety of advertising, institutional and editorial projects, including thirteen children's books.

She attended annual painting workshops with Craig Nelson in the 90's. In 2010, she turned to painting full-time and was enormously influenced by a series of workshops with well-known impressionist Don Hatfield. 

Connie is a two-time contributor to the U.S. Air Force Art Collection. Her work has won a variety of awards, including Best of Show in University Art's 2012 Open Show and an Honorable Mention and Second Place in earlier Spring Obsession shows at Ironstone.  She works at home in Rocklin.