Today!
Join us here at Ironstone Vineyards this Sunday for a wonderful art in action display by Spring Obsession Artist Susan Farley. Susan will be present to answer your questions and talk about her art.
Susan's Bio:
Friday, June 9, 2023
Sunday, June 4, 2023
Now featuring Lisa Michelle Stories "Calaveras County Crime Series"
Ironstone Heritage Museum is proud to feature local award-winning author Lisa Michelle's Calaveras County Crime Series.
Stay tuned for meet 'n Greet / Book Signing schedule.
Book #1: "Blue Mountain"
It’s been the year from hell for Jessica Williams. Her cheating husband not only bankrupted them—he’s been indicted. Now the rat bastard has disappeared. Thank God for Nana. Jess couldn’t survive without the old woman’s wisdom and brutal honesty. But when Nana is arrested and held responsible for the largest mass murder in Calaveras County history that honesty looks very doubtful.
As the oldest inmate at the county jail, Nana also holds the honor of being the only suspected serial killer ever housed there. When Nana is granted deathbed visitation, Jess wants the truth. All of it. At least she thinks she does. But after Nana confesses to bone-chilling secrets so horrifying, Jess begins to question everyone and everything, including her own sanity. Nana could be lying, Jess thinks, but why?
Armed with jagged pieces of the ugly truth, does Jess have the courage to forgive and hunt down a sadistic monster even if it’s someone she loves? Even if it kills her?
Book #2: "Calaveras"
Deep in the backwoods of Calaveras County accidents happen. For gritty rancher and soon-to-be grandmother Kate Dunnigan, these deaths are mostly good old cowboy justice—until the day that justice hits home. Kate’s idyllic façade is destroyed when Emma Lee, her pregnant daughter, is wanted for murder. On the run and fighting to survive, Emma Lee is haunted by filthy family secrets, but Kate will stop at nothing to save her from life in prison, even if it means using herself as bait.
Book #3: "Forest Creek"
Dying alone in the dark would be the easy way out of Forest Creek. But psychologist Maureen “Mo” Yamaguchi refuses to take her secrets to the grave. With a hunger to help her patients and make the world a better place, this may be the opportunity she needs. Simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time might payoff—if she doesn’t die first. With bare and bleeding feet, Mo forces herself through the cold dark, contemplating her next move. It will take much more than a fierce intellect to survive the night at Forest Creek.
Saturday, March 25, 2023
Meet 2023 Spring Obsession Artist Sally Anne Fischer
Sally Anne Fischer B. 1981
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| O-084 Its Cold in the Shade by Sally Anne Fischer -oil 20x30 $1500 |
Sally Anne Fischer is a plein air artist whose ties to the Sierra Nevada foothills spans six generations. From her great great aunt Lottie, who mothered lonely cowboys in Kennedy Meadows, to her Portuguese watercolorist grandmother, Sally Anne Fischer’s deep roots in the landscape she paints continues to inspire her art.
O-085 Kennedy Meadows by Sally Anne Fischer-oil 24x36 $1500
Sally Anne was the
president of her high school Art Club and went on to study watercolor with Dan
Peterson at Yosemite College, then oil painting at CSU Fresno. During her third
year, she changed majors completing a degree in equine science following her
love of horses and a dream of becoming a horse trainer. After university, she
worked for cutting horse trainers, taught equine sciences at Cal Poly San Luis
Obisbo then settled in a career as a livestock feed formulator. After having
her daughter, she turned to full-time painting, eventually opening a studio in
downtown Sonora, though she credits most of her artistic development to plein
air workshops, and individual instruction with painters Frank Serrano, Jim
McVicker, Kathleen Dunphy Suzie Baker, and Charles Waldman.
O-086 Sonora Sundown by Sally Anne Fischer-oil 20x27 $950
Her current work
reflects daily experiences. Still-lifes include objects of personal
significance or flowers she's grown in her garden, and landscapes with historic
meaning or childhood memories. As she resides in her hometown, with her husband
and her daughter, she has inspiration and local knowledge of the sprawling
terrain that makes up the Sierra Nevada mountains.
O-087 Mt. Morrison Easter Sierras by Sally Anne Fischer-oil 14x22 $975
Sally Anne values high
quality, handmade or antique frames, which she refurbishes in her downtown
studio. While she primarily works with oils en plein air, she also uses the sun
room of her 1940s home to paint every morning.
T-021 Still life with Flowers and Fruits by Sally Anne Fischer oil 10x13 $595
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| T-020 Daffodils and Dry Hydrangeas by Sally Anne Fischer oil 9x12 $595 |
Meet 2023 Spring Obsession Artist Suzann Young
Suzanna Young
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| O-069 Tanka & Newborn by Suzanna Young acrylic 21x21 $325 |
HAVING DRAWN WITH ANY MEDIUM AFFORDED TO A 10 YEAR OLD, THAT’S WHERE I BEGAN. DRAWING OUT OF MAGAZINES AND LATER, MY PHOTOGRAPHY. SELF TAUGHT.
IN HIGH SCHOOL, RECEIVED MAYOR’S AWARD, SEVERAL FIRSTS, SWEEPSTAKES AWARD AT COUNTY LEVEL COMPETITON IN KERN COUNTY, BEST OF SHOW….
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| O-070 Tanka Grand Tetons Wyoming by Suzanna Young acrylic 21x21 $325 |
OFFERED FULL RIDE SCHOLARSHIP FROM HALLMARK MY SENIOR YEAR...
RAISED MY FAMILY, RESUMING MY LOVE OF ART ONLY RECENTLY. ACRYLIC PAINTING & SILVERSMITH CREATIONS.
A THEME OF MOVEMENT WITH EACH STROKE OF MY BRUSH
Meet 2023 Spring Obsession Artist William (Bill) Wittmer
William (Bill) Wittmer
O-074 Three Persimmons-on-a Green Plate by William Wittmer pastel 16x20 $290
I studied
portrait painting with Beth Batchelor in Danville; landscape and still life
with Victoria Brooks in Sacramento. In the Motherlode, I have attended plein
aire workshops with Chuck Waldman and Kathleen Dunphy; landscape classes with
Heine Hardwig; and figurative and portrait painting with Peggi Kroll Roberts.
O-075 Poppies-on-Wittmer Ridge by William Wittmer pastel 16x20 $200.
My wife and I share a studio in our home in Angels Camp.
I now work
primarily in oil and pastel; but, have worked in watercolor, acrylic and gouache.
I use photos as reference for many of my paintings – easy to have beautiful
photos with the Central Sierra landscape. These days, I am interested in returning to plein
aire painting and look forward to spending more time outdoors.
Painting is a
love and passion for me. I hope you enjoy my work.
wcwittmer@caltel.com
Meet 2023 Spring Obsession Artist Connie Holt-Warner
Artist: Connie Holt-Warner
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| O-036 Gazing in a Coy Pond by Connie Warner oil 16x20 $2500 |
I am an emerging artist. This is the first show I have entered and I am so delighted to be accepted. I started painting in 2007, but set down painting for many years to focus on my family and career. I picked up my paintbrush back up later in life and enjoy it very much.
I was born and raised in Norwalk, Connecticut, but have lived in the West Coast most of my adult life. I currently live in Brentwood, California with my husband.
I love the oil on oil technique of painting. I am currently exploring watercolors. I get my inspiration from nature. I love seeing all of the shades of color and how the light and shadows hit a subject.
My other passion is Seascapes. I am mesmerized by the waves and seeing what veins each wave forms.
Painting puts my mind and spirit in a very peaceful and quiet place and I love getting lost there.
Meet 2023 Spring Obsession Artist Sharon Moore
Sharon Moore
T-018 Dancing Daffodils by Sharon Moore acryli 16x20 $600
About the ArtistSharon Moore, ASID, is an award-winning Interior Designer and Artist. As owner of a San Ramon Interior Design firm, her work has wone numerous national and local Design awards. Sharon is a graduate of The University of Florida College of Fine Arts and Architecture and a member of the Alamo/Danville Art Society. Sharon has studied under artists Lynne Sheppard, Bob Burridge, Alex Powers, Christopher Schink, Fran Larsen and Skip Lawrence.
T-019 Daffodil Maze by Sharon Moore acryli 10x30 $500 About the Art
Sharon works primarily with acrylic and mixed media. Her contemporary approach and evocative use of color has been widely accepted and honored at juried show in Danville, San Ramon, and Murphys, CA.
Meet 2023 Spring Obsession Artist Peggy Brennan-Wagner
PEGGY BRENNAN-WAGNER
As a Native Californian, Peggy has lived most of her life coastal adjacent while enjoying recreational time in and around all the mountains, lakes and rivers this beautiful state has to offer. Peggy developed a deep connection with nature early in life, surfing the southern California coast, an avid camper and backpacker, fishing and floating rivers. Today, Peggy finds herself in Gold Country in the shadows of the lower Sierra foothills. Her artist vision fully captured with the dip of her brush into lots and lots of water, and color too.
Peggy's art reflect her love of nature and water, focusing primarily on landscapes finding inspiration while traveling. With the nest empty, Peggy and her husband find themselves often on the go, both Son's living out of state there is always a new National Park, Coastal Preserve of breathtaking vista waiting to be captured in watercolor.
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| O-039 Tunnel Vision by Peggy Wagner wc 11x14 $100 |
Peggy began her artistic practice coloring in the bathroom wallpaper flowers with her box of crayons, evolving to watercolors on seashells and then to acrylic landscapes, having only minimal secondary school educational experience in Art it wasn't until well after her collegiate years she began to study fine art watercolor under accomplished instructor Wendy Soneson and truly found her pallet.
Statement from the Artist: No truer are the words of Renoir, and my hope is you fell this in my paintings. "I'm in love with the sun and with the reflections in the water and to paint them I would go around the world"
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