Colonnade Art Gallery

Laura Barnes

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:26:14 +0000

Intense color and natural subjects have always been key elements of my work. My style combines realistic depictions with abstract and decorative elements. I work in acrylic and have recently begun experimenting with combining the simplified designs of block printing with various surfaces and painted backgrounds.

My work has been included in shows at the Millard Sheets Gallery, Hillcrest Festival of Fine Arts, Associated Artists of the Inland Empire Annual Shows and Pomona Valley Art Association.

Fritz Suter

admin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:07:42 +0000

I’ve always been an artist. I began drawing using pencils, charcoal and pastels. As my interest grew I began experimenting with different techniques and color. My fascination with bold colors over the years has had a profound effect on my present style, which is mostly abstract and whimsical. My work is not only inspired by my imagination, but the world around me. My goal is to create paintings that are either insightful, humorous or both.

Milton Knight

admin — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:09:43 +0000

Born in 1962 in Mineola, N.Y. Started drawing, painting, creating my own attempts at comic books and animation at age two.
I’ve never formed a barrier between fine art and cartooning. My very young childhood was during the era of “pop art”, when fine artists were freely inspired by comics and other popular culture; I remember being captivated by these works during trips to museums and galleries in New York. Graduated from BOCES Cultural Arts Center (Syosset, N.Y.).

Linda Serrao

admin — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:42:38 +0000

Figurative bronze sculptures are my passion, and life size bronze portraits are my specialty. My realistic bronze sculptures capture a moment in time and reflect our relationships to other peoples, other creatures, and to the environment which we all share. Beauty comes in many forms in the world around us—in people of all sizes, sexes, colors, ages, and cultures, in animals both familiar and unusual, and in creatures both real and imagined. I use this rich variety to create unique, intimate, representational bronze portraits.

Bonnie Sue Callahan

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I’m known as BG Callahan, AKA Bonnie Sue Bergstrom GoodKnight Callahan. I’m not Irish, Brit, German but rather the anomalous Swedish, Lithuanian, Russian, with perhaps a smattering of French, Belgian, Latvian, or Tartar. This may account for my decidedly exotic and diverse taste in the arts, along with my confrontive sense of color.

If I have even a ghost of a wish in the time remaining to me on this planet, it is only that I desire to share moments of joy via my paintings, photographs, illustrations, crafts, and graphic designs.

Barbara Thorn-Otto

admin — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:23:07 +0000

My medium is watercolor. I started out ten years ago and love the transparency I get when I create a painting. Watercolor is not easy and I am constantly amazed at the things I learn when I run into problems. Solving them always brings something new and exciting to the image.

I believe art is a necessity and not a luxury. It fills our souls and brightens out spirits. It’ hard for me to imagine a rich and fulfilling life without the inspiration of artists and the art they create.

Gerald W. Capener

admin — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:08:48 +0000

Gerald became interested in sculpturing after reading Irving Stones’ The Agony and the Ecstasy. This story about Michelangelo inspired him to create works of art from clay.
He attended Monrovia’s Adult School for 10 years, developing his skills in sculpturing.

Modeling clay into vases is like a language. Vases “speak” through lines, shapes, colors, textures, and images instead of words. All of these are arranged into a composition that is both aesthetic and functional.

Karla Trujillo

admin — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:23:46 +0000

My search grows from a necessity – the exploration of uninhabitable angles and the wish to mold them on a plastic piece of work as a chat with the spectator.

I try to reach expressions, a bridge between the spectator and the work beyond objects, where perceptions and spiritual phases deepen into the work itself.

My ideas are based on human shape, its position as an axis of communication in a dimensional voice of a concert of shadow and light.

Debby Prohias

admin — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:01:53 +0000

Debby’s interest in photography has always been part of her life. It has only been in the last twenty years that this passion has become serious.

After many years of working as a secretary in educational institutions and raising a family, she decided to return to college. She started taking computer classes and in 1996 earned a printing technology Certificate of Achievement in Imaging and Composition at Pasadena City College.

Ron Pettie

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In my landscapes, I hope to capture that fleeting moment in time and space when a subject is at its best. Over time, people, animals, trees, and buildings will disappear, but a good painting can preserve that magical moment. In figurative painting, I try to tell a story that the viewers can shape on their own; it is my hope that you will find some enjoyment in my efforts to represent and re-create the world in paint.

Ron Pettie was born in Western Washington State, and his earliest years were spent among the natural wonders of the northwestern forests. These influences are often felt in his landscape paintings, even when he undertakes scenes from the southwestern deserts which form the backdrop to his home in Southern California, where he now lives with his, dog, and two independent cats.

Ron’s interest art began in childhood. His first efforts were in watercolor, but these early works were lost when all of his possessions were burnt by medical authorities as an overzealous precaution when he contracted polio at the age of twelve. As a teen and adult, Ron continued to experiment with other media, including acrylics and oils. Oil has now become his favored medium. The principal subjects of his painting are landscapes, Native Americans, and ranch scenes, all of which reflect his enduring interest in the people and conditions of the American West.

After a career as a school psychologist, Ron returned to his first love and began art classes with the distinguished plein air artist Margot Lennartz. Her influence can be seen in Ron’s attention to color and composition. In addition to participating in several exhibitions in the San Gabriel Valley, Ron has also studied at the Chouinard School of Art and Otis College of Art and Design, where his teachers were Richard Shelton, Diana Vitale, and Manuel Barillas, among others. His artwork can be seen in Southwest Art and Art of the West.