Arte Motu Visionaries
Glenn Kimmel
"I grew up in Wisconsin where music and theater were strong influences. I learned skilled trades while doing work on custom homes and projects in the Midwest. My interests guided me to eventually co-produce theater productions and events. It was through travel that I pursued production arts. After intermittently attending separate campuses at the University of Wisconsin, I completed a B. A. in Theater Arts from the University of California- Santa Cruz. The balance of my time included contractual production and performance activity on films, events and private enterprises.
Much of my work is “environmental” in the manner of creating sets or production design concept applications for either live presentations or recorded time media. It is only recently that I have dug into my own writings and material to present as individual art. I trust to capture a timeless moment in these 35mm stills and digital photos. For sculptural pieces I’ve used collected leftovers and find the way to repurpose them in a signature fashion. My work requires the breakdown and creation of concepts to story. I use the written word, scripted or candid visuals, orchestra, performance, music, audio, craft, found object, interactive suggestions; in short anything to induce audiences to go beyond what they see. If an emotion or empathy that both eye and soul can absorb is advanced through a viewer’s participation, then humanity has shared life. If that art or impression can endure then life may be enhanced or marked by the encounter.
I will continue to pursue any tool, material or fancy to convey messages in metaphor, intent on expanding consciousness."
"I was born and grew up in Sicily, and immigrated to US in 1997 when 25 years old. I dedicated most of my Sicilian life to the study of nature, particularly marine life, rural environments, and volcanoes. My artistic works while living in Sicily--mostly amateur drawings, photographs, and collages--reflected my fascination with the natural environment, and my anger at non-sustainable human development. I picked up painting in 2004 studying abstract painting with Reed Cardwell at the University of California San Diego. In painting I like colors, textures, and forms. I really don't have much of a plan when I paint. It seems that for the most part my painting are best described as a story drawn from my experience as an immigrant or evoking Sicilian pasts. I am an engaged student of art more than an old hand artist. I am eager to keep on painting and discover new materials and techniques, but I also would like to put my art in good use for the community.
In 2007, after completing a master degree in human geography at San Diego State University, I returned to Pescadero where I had previously and happily lived--Pescadero is the only other place that I call home beyond Sicily. As a painter, I could see that the local art potential was lost. Besides the annual art show organized by the South Coast Artist Alliance, the landscape doesn't denote an active and skillful local art scene; the hundreds of tourists in visit every week acquire minimal knowledge of local artists. After getting to know better some of the local artists, I invited them to get together to talk, share ideas, and make art. This is how Arte Motu has began. My hope is that what I call the "Pescadero Artipelago"--all these islands where artists live and experience separate, individual communities (i.e. Pescadero, La Honda, Loma Mar, Swanton, etc.)--can come together as one place where art is visible and cheered as integral part of local life."
Meredith Reynolds
Meredith Reynolds was raised in a family where both her aunt and grandmother were practicing artists. Surrounded by the tools of painting, a childhood pastime grew into an essential part of her adult life.
Following graduation from UC Davis and Harvard, she continued to paint while serving in the Peace Corps and as a senate aide in Washington D.C. She has studied art at the Cincinnati Art Museum, the San Juan Liga de Arts, the Corcoran Gallery, the British Art Trust and in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
From her home on a Pescadero farm, she observes the flow of farm life and the dignity of those who make California agriculture possible. Workers involved in their tasks and the changing landscape are often subjects of her oils and pastels.
"I grew up on the east coast and migrated to the SF Bay area in my mid-twenties. Back then it seemed less challenging to be far from family and I had yet to discover the inviolability of my roots. I have been blessed ever since with adoptive family, a majority of whom are creatives. The evolution initiated after high school - from suburban to urban dweller - was, by then, complete and I was able to pursue artistic bliss in a highly energized environment. Fine arts (painting,) multi-image production and theater set design dovetailed nicely with the emerging practices of the digital age and by the mid-nineties my artwork became photo- and computer-based.
For the past few years I seem spellbound by the mysteries of symmetry and repetition, of mirroring and reflection. I am a little surprised by this sustained interest, but when I think about it, it makes a kind of sense. The components within these images survive many degrees of intervention and reconstitution, and tell their own essential stories of time and place even as they collaborate to establish new tempos, rhythms, patterns or entities. This phenomenon relieves an inner tension I have as an artist. As a painter of abstract images I often longed for a narrative gene; as a photographer abstraction is so compelling, I need to remind myself of the importance of context when framing a shot. The impossibly beautiful clarity of a photograph has superseded the painterliness of my earlier digital work; yet still allows for an emphasis on the visceral. For quite a while now I have been a rural dweller and so, nature’s bounty lives alongside man-made constructs to fuel my imaginings."
Shannon Webb
"I am a mother of two wonderfull children primarily. I DJ a radio show, and I sculpt, and create jewelry. I do my best to connect my kids with art. I am an artist, and bring that process into everything I do, school for me, for my kids, my creations, by Radio show, and how I interact with the world around me.
I have always had singing, and drama classes, since I was about 6 or so. It really opened up in Middle School. I found a love of drafting and metal tinkering in my metal shop class. I did a lot more performing arts, singing and drama in High school. I had always had my drawing and sketches, of course. In college, I revisited the visual artist in me, I took as many art classes as I could. I learned focused in on observation and the dance between observation and metaphor. It is a process of understanding that I resonated with.
I have worked in clay, plaster, wood, wire, cement, and recycled materials which range in every direction. I tend to work from an idea with a leaning toward a new material I would like to explore. I love the process of working a project. Each one presents new challenges. I enjoy the challenge of problem solving, and that there is no one right answer. This is seen when many artists are given the same parameters and each come in with totally unique responses. I am glad to be a part of Arte Motu, sharing ideas with local artists, and working together to create opportunities for us to grow, and show."
Tess Black - writer, graphic designer and multi-media artist with a special interest in photography, textiles and “altered” art constructions.
Delma Soult - oil painter, mosaicist, digital artist. Influenced greatly by her Spanish cultural background, Delma loves shapes and colors, and has had a long-term interest for surrealism and magic realism. Go to her personal website.
Nathalie Fabri - a color-lover, urban landscapes artist. go to her personal website
And... Tom Lichtenber, Doug DeCarlo, Randy Vail, Hilary Morgan
Supporting Friends
Meredith Reynolds, Rosanna Petralia, Dennis Olivieri
Contributing Friends
Artist Friends
Suzana Gulmert - go to her personal website
Suzana's has a multi-faceted creative spirit that includes fine arts, music and dance. She tries to recover and resurrect the power of the arts in our "ordinary" lives for healing, beauty and peace. Her art is surreal, colorful and delusional and the results are whimsical and narrative.
Suzana's has a multi-faceted creative spirit that includes fine arts, music and dance. She tries to recover and resurrect the power of the arts in our "ordinary" lives for healing, beauty and peace. Her art is surreal, colorful and delusional and the results are whimsical and narrative.
Tess Black - writer, graphic designer and multi-media artist with a special interest in photography, textiles and “altered” art constructions.
Delma Soult - oil painter, mosaicist, digital artist. Influenced greatly by her Spanish cultural background, Delma loves shapes and colors, and has had a long-term interest for surrealism and magic realism. Go to her personal website.
Nathalie Fabri - a color-lover, urban landscapes artist. go to her personal website
And... Tom Lichtenber, Doug DeCarlo, Randy Vail, Hilary Morgan
Supporting Friends
Meredith Reynolds, Rosanna Petralia, Dennis Olivieri
Contributing Friends
Thank you: Dennis Olivieri, Tom Dodd, Dave Webb, Valerie Markham, Andy Markham!
