Margaret Lucas-Hill - silk painting

Margaret Lucas-Hill was educated in graphic design at the London College of Printing, London, England. She worked in advertising and, after her children were born, taught art in secondary school. She moved to northern California in 1993 where she has continued to pursue her career as an artist.
Although Maggie has long painted in oils, in her classrooms she taught silk screen printing to her young students. Continuing with this medium in her own work she found herself embellishing the prints. She abandoned the silk screen to paint directly on the silk fabric using a combination of the batik method and freehand painting.

She exhibits at the Lafayette Gallery in Lafayette and at Allison McCrady Gallery in Orinda, CA

www.lucashillarts.ws

Registration open till Sept. 4

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Bill Klaproth - NATURE AND WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY

Bill has travelled to six continents to experience the natural wonders of our planet earth. Click here to see more images from his fabulous trips, and visit his studio in Lafayette on Oct 17-18 for lots more.

Latest ceramics projects from Kris

Kris Vagner here: My background is in photography but lately I've been excited about making hand-built ceramic cups and plates formed on molds that I take from everyday objects with interesting textures, like bubble wrap, waffle irons, and throwaway plastic food containers. Here are a couple samples. Top: a sushi container, a plaster mold, and a yet-to-be-glazed plate made from the mold. Bottom: waffle cups, made from slabs of clay rolled into a rubber mold of a waffle iron. (The 3 on the left are wood-fired. The one on the right is raku'd.)

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