Holiday Exhibition at Marcia Burtt Gallery

Celebrate the holidays with paintings and photographs by our gallery artists! Each artist falls in love with nature in a different way, helping us reimagine the landscape as we shift from one vision to another.

Pamela Zwehl-Burke's studies of shells, plants, and pods constitute a chronicle she creates from tokens found on her walks and hikes. With each venture out, she brings back part of the landscape. Her still-life tableaux hint at Dutch Vanitas paintings, but she replaces opulent wine goblets and cut flowers with nature's remnants. 

Adventure is part of the process in

Bill Dewey's aerial photography. In Clouds over Gaviota, he places it in the foreground. The wing of his Cessna frames a canopy of clouds falling over the Coastal Range onto the Gaviota foothills below. The evidence of his small plane in the vista reveals his vulnerability in the spectacle surrounding him, invoking the sublime.

Trekking to overlooks and rising tides, our artists who paint en plein air interpret unique moments of light and color on paper and canvas. Various media let them open a door for us into their experiences, enhancing our way of seeing and inspiring our own outdoor explorations.