Geri Keary

Geri Keary has won numerous Statewide and National awards and honors. These include National Signature Status in The American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Association, California Watercolor Association, National Acrylic Painters Association, International Society of Marine Painters, Society of Western Artists, National Society of Painters in Acrylic and Cassein, and more.

You can find collections of her paintings in Triton Museum of Art, Alameda County, San Mateo County, City of Clayton, and a multitude of commercial displays.

Articles and reviews have been in Artist's Magazine, American Artist, International Artist Magazine, as an article in Killeen & Killeen's The North Light Book of Acrylic Painting Techniques, and Pollard & Little's Creative Computer Tools for Artists. Geri is also included in Who's Who in the World in 2006, and Who's Who in Art in 2006 while jurying art shows including Triton Museum, San Francisco's Academy of Art, and Fresno's Public Television.

Willow Ribaric

From the hills and hollows of rural Tennessee, Willow Ribaric is now 7 years a transplanted Southerner in the Bay Area. Oils were her first art medium in which she finished a resounding piece of Big Bird and Snuffleluffagus. Immediately after a carpet and furniture related accident, Willow left oils and moved on to many other forms. She learned embroidery, quilting and sewing, but photography caught her heart. By the time she was 9 she was skilled on her father's old German manual camera and pictures were constant.

Willow has also studied throwing clay and metal sculpting. These pieces have been in both Shakey Hand Gallery and the mARTinez GALLERY. She simultaneously manufactures her own line of personal bath and body products, Nymphly Delights, and creates her own haven out her back door.

The artist may be reached at sales@nymphlydelights.com

Kerre Reese

Kerre Reese has worked 25 years successfully in several mediums. A Riverside native, she has been in the Bay Area 16 years; 10 in Martinez.

Kerre is currently painting an acrylic 27 x 8 foot Trompe L’oeil Tuscan countryside mural. Kerre also invented the signature glass bead and mirror, sun and wind catcher, she calls SunChimes, which are found as far as the Riverside Art Museum store. Meanwhile, she crochets ready-to-wear apparel and concocts personal bath products.

Kerre has studied several seasons with Bay Area Watercolorist Casey Rasmussen-White. Kerre’s hauntingly inviting watercolors have been on display at Pleasant Hill Borders Books and Music, Shakey Hand Gallery in Martinez, and at the Riverside Art Museum’s 2nd & 3rd annual Off The Wall exhibit. You may sample more of her work HERE.

Kerre is Vice President of the Martinez Arts Association and a member of Riverside Art Museum.

The artist may be reached at Kerre_reese_arts@yahoo.com

Dorrie Bosley Langley is a Martinez artist whose murals are seen on Escobar, Susana, and "F" Streets, as well as Rankin Park and soon, in the Martinez City Library Garden. Dorrie's framed art is bountifully displayed in the mARTinez GALLERY at 630 Court Street, and Martinez's City Hall as part of Martinez Arts Association's Rotating Exhibit.

Dorrie's art continues in S.W.A.N. Day at the Martinez Opera, Festa Italia Chalk Art Festival, the John Muir House Earth AND Ranch Days, the Bedford Gallery's Local Voices, and the Contra Costa Wind Symphony's production of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.

For 12 years she is the Exhibition Curator for the Arts and Culture Commission of Contra Costa County (AC5) in the County Administration Building at 651 Pine Street in Martinez.

Dorrie's latest artistic development is her successful use of acrylic on cloth, especially for decorative drapery depicting natural scenes. More of her sumptuous work is found HERE.

The artist may be reached at DBLArts@aol.com.

Cathy Riggs

I started painting with watercolors in 1997 as my children were older, and I had the time. Many classes later, I still get a thrill when those colors mingle with each other in the water on the paper. Later on, I got some acrylic paints, then some papers and some glue. And, I’ll play with them all for many years, still figuring out which style and combinations are my favorite. I don’t plan on settling down any time soon.

The artist may be reached at tenorclef@sbcglobal.net


Her Fabulous Web Site is accessed HERE