My personal challenge is to create the most striking photography on a personal level, then share that vision. My photography realistically represents the subject and composition. I also develop an artistic, creative from an original digital image that has an imaginative interpretation. 

I photograph travel, coastal scenery, landscapes, nature, cityscapes. 

I prefer vibrant color, like bold graphics and use the best light possible for impact.

I offer my artwork in a variety of media types. Metal print, acrylic, wood, canvas and framed art. I also have image merchandise & notecards on my website. Online ordering with direct fulfillment offered.

It’s been a joy to be part of the Half Moon Bay community, participating in various organizations, work & volunteer activity over the years, fortunate to be a local Coast-side resident for the last 39 years. The natural surroundings and local community enrich me. 

Barbara Masek Photography has also been a commercial photography service business since 2010. I work with clients in head & portrait, event, and promotional assignments. https://www.barbaramasekphotography.com 

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I look for the sacredness of life and the beauty that lives within the world. Through my empathic connection and awareness, my photography seeks to capture the wonder and mystery of life. Each moment is unique and special. Embodying more than just the physical; it’s a window into the spirit world. 

This vision brings forth a love for all living creatures. Leaving one with a sense of harmony, oneness, inner calm, and peace. 

Knowing within my heart that this captured beauty can stir the soul instills a belief that the web of life can be preserved and wild animals and places can be protected for posterity.

It all began because my dad was a deer hunter, and as his son, I was expected to follow in his footsteps. I killed many birds, ground squirrels, and rabbits as a young boy. Then, in my teens, with my first big rifle, I took up deer hunting. That was short-lived. After watching the light of life go out of a black-tailed buck’s eyes, I choose to preserve the lives of animals. This was a seminal moment in becoming the nature photographer I am today.

My father’s Ramrod Ranch, now mine, in the upper reaches of the Arroyo Seco Valley, Greenfield, California, has become my beloved and sacred place, where I learned to love wildlife, especially birds. I became fascinated with their beautiful sounds, varied and gorgeous coloring, and exciting bird behaviors. 

I have cultivated a passionate desire to create nature images that are alive and beautiful. Honing my photographic talents and developing my artistic style allows me to capture the majesty and sacredness of life. I have also learned to love wildlife and the natural world by photographing birds and other animals in such proximity.

Casey is a lifelong, Half Moon Bay local. She created Layers Of Intention during the beginning of her Master’s degree program in Mind-Body Medicine nearly three years ago as a grounding tool, through the creation of jewelry and her Reiki practice. Now as she enters her Ph.D. program in Mind-Body Medicine at Saybrook University, she still finds comfort in creating pieces of jewelry that are layered with intention through the metaphysical properties of crystals.

I’m a Hawaiian artist with a passion to create Encaustic Hot Wax paintings and Resin Art & Functional works. Taking part in Juried Exhibitions keeps me on my toes and inspires me to stretch the boundaries of my imagination working with a multitude of media. Over the past 40 years I’ve created custom works to those all around the United States and continue to experiment in the hopes to keep those creative juices flowing. If you have a theme I have a vision and will turn it into a reality for your home, office or gift for loved ones and friends. I love the Ocean and Floral themes and you will find that in many of my works, along with Butterflies and Birds. I ship within the USA only. Mahalo ~

David Ebner has designed and created memorable art for Television and Cinema since he was 18 years of age. Listed by Wired Magazine as one of Hollywood’s most creative individuals, Ebner has contributed to over 70 teature films and has worked with notable auteurs such as Steven Spielberg, Guillermo Del Toro, Martin Scorsese, Tim Burton, Stephen Sommers Francis Ford Coppola, Taylor Hacktord, David Fincher, John Woo, Frank Darabont, among others

While only 22 years of age, Dateline NBC and Entertainment Tonight, the two leading cable programs were branded with title graphics created by Ebner and his team. On top of that, Ebner oversaw the graphics for HBO, Nat Geo Channel, ESPN,

skybox, among others, winning bUA and Fromaxx awards.

Ebner joined Guillermo Del loro for Hellboy, then as a producer and production partner for Pan’s Labyrinth, in which his team created the visual eftects. winnina over 1OU film testival awards and won the best in show at SiaGraoh’s Electronic |heater.

representing the very best in Visual Effects work that year

As the Creative Director and Senior VFX Supervisor of Catetx, his team created the films for Universal Studio’s “Wizarding) World of Harry Potter.” It is still considered the most successtul theme park addition, with an immediate boost of 1 million

annual attendees to the park

Due to Loners talents in art direction, toner was invited to direct a stage show, “Long one Dinosaurs which has been visited

Ebner’s watercolor, pencil and acrylic paintings reflect the emotion, passion, and teelings which percolate in his creative mind, drawing upon nature and imaginative inspirations as well as fascination by the works of Winslow Homer, Franz Marc, Claude Lorrain, Georgia O’Keete, and master watercolor artist John Ebner

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Eleven years ago we moved to Half Moon Bay. I love this beautiful place where green fields end at the bluffs above the Pacific Ocean.  We made our home in an old train station.  One day Coastside Land Trust brought a herd of goats and sheep to graze the coastal meadows. I owe those animals a debt of gratitude; their connection to the land, sea, and air shifted something in me.  After years of putting my creativity last, I moved it to the front of my to-do list.  I draw, paint and weave – finding inspiration from and incorporating elements of the natural world into the things I make. Often working in collaboration with my husband Steve we find delight in the creatures and elements in our garden and beyond.

I started learning painting since middle school, The first painting I had ever painted was at the age of 16.

I enjoy painting realism, impressionism, landscapes, flowers and animals. all my paintings are high quality and 100% handmade oil paintings on canvas.

Greta has lived an adventure filled life as a model, professional merchandiser, florist, realtor, and painter

After Graduating NYU, Greta got her Masters degree at Fordham Business School. From there she moved into the exciting career of modeling, traveling far and wide for shoots in and out of the country. After her modeling career winded down, she still invlolved herself in extensive travel by becoming a professional merchandiser for a variety of clothing companies including Berkley Shirts and Bugle Boy Jeans. After settling down from her travels, Greta’s creative roots could not be stymied and she opened a flower and home goods shop. Eventually, pining for the ambiance of the west coast, Greta made the move to Half Moon Bay California where she is a licensed realtor.

Throughout this whole time, Greta has never stopped painting. She has exhibited in various shows domestically (including New York, San Francisco, and Florida) as well as internationally (including Tokyo and Monte Carlo). Just as her life has gone through many different stages, her painting style has evolved and changed over the years with each new phase of her life.

Greta is also an avid tennis player, happily married, and has 2 sons, one living in Washington DC and the other in Tokyo, Japan.

I studied studio art and art education at Hampshire College and, since graduating in 2015 I’ve spent my time teaching children and creating art in various forms. I became interested in stained glass after finding my father’s old glass and tools in the garage  during the pandemic. When I was younger, I had watched him cut  glass,  and he had shown me how to hold it without cutting myself. I thought it would be fun to try it out and taught myself how to make small sun catchers to hang in windows.  As my nostalgic experiment grew into a passion, I began creating full stained glass windows and working at Aanraku Glass Studios in San Mateo. In 2021 I was the recipient of Made on the Coast’s Emerging Artist Grant which further pushed me towards continuing my art career.

Nature has been a continuous theme in my everyday life and continues to come forth in my artwork. I have spent my whole life exploring the coastal beaches and forests along the peninsula and the inspiration I find here is present in many of my pieces. Often on my hikes and bike rides I will stop and take pictures of the plants, animals and landscape to incorporate into my artwork later. As I gain more knowledge and skills as a stained glass artist, I hope to incorporate my other artistic skills such as drawing and painting into my glass work.

Website: Hannahandersonart.com

Owner and Artist Fierce Siren Studios

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An avid beachcomber and history geek, I am an artist who incorporates beach finds into my work and writes about them.  Always drawing as a child, I won a competition to create my high school’s logo. I studied art and architectural history at the University of London as a teen, then graduated with Honors from San Jose State University with a Bachelor of Science in Interior Design. Life kept me away from creating for decades, until the sea rekindled my spark. I founded Fierce Siren Studios in 2021 and think of myself as an artist whose inspiration is the waste of the past.

Shows and Exhibits 

City of Sunnyvale public art display April–May 2024

Women’s View 2024 Group Exhibit for Women’s History Month, Caldwell Gallery, Redwood City 

Coastal Arts League, “Anything Goes” juried show May/June 2024, “A Moment in Time’ juried show March/April 2024, “Textures and Contrasts” juried show Summer 2023 

Ocean Blue Vault – Summer 2024, Spring 2024, Winter 2024, Spring/Summer/Fall 2023 

Art Guild of Pacifica – “Myth and Magic” May – June 2024, “The Four Seasons” Feb-March 2024, “Light and Shadow” January-February 2024

San Mateo County Office of Arts and Culture – Redwood City public art display July-August 2023 

Mohr Gallery, Menlo Park March-April 2023 

Los Altos Library public art display April-May 2023

2023 Festivals and Speaking Engagements 

Winter Art Faire 2023, Art Guild of Pacifica 

Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival – Main Festival (juried) 2024, 2023, Local’s block (juried) 2022 

Santa Cruz Sea Glass and Ocean Arts Festival – Vendor (juried) and Presenter 2023, Vendor (juried) 2022 

Santa Barbara Sea Glass and Ocean Arts Festival – Vendor (juried) and Presenter 204, 2023

Sunnyvale Art and Wine Festival – Vendor (juried) 2023 

Half Moon Bay History Association, Speaker “The History of Miramar” August 2023 

Published Articles and Art 

“You Say Potato” Article, Half Moon Bay History Assoc. website, April 2024

“The Amesport Pier: Lifeline to the World” Article, Half Moon Bay History Assoc. website, February 2024 

“Three Masts and a Ghost” Short story, Beachcombing Magazine, volume 38 September-October 2023

“Spirit of the Sea” Painting, Beachcombing Magazine, volume 38 September – October 2023

“Small Town, Big History” Article, Half Moon Bay History Association website, August 2023 

“Half Moon Bay History Reveled Through Glass” Article, Half Moon Bay History Assoc. website, Dec 2021 

“Basic Guild to Bottle Identification” -Article, Half Moon Bay History Association website, Dec 2021 

Affiliations 

Coastal Arts League 

Colony of Coastside Artists (CoCA) 

South Coast Artists Alliance 

Art Guild of Pacifica 

Silicon Valley Open Studios

                                               Artist’s Statement

During my early childhood in santa Anita, Jalisco, Mexico, I learnt a lot about art through the intricate needlework the women in my family created. My father was a migrant worker in the US, and during his long absences I had the opportunity to help the women, which was culturally not acceptable for a boy. I also always loved art in school. My own emigration to the USA at age eleven lead to the loss of my family, culture and language. I focused on art a s a way of communicating my thoughts and feelings without words.

         I discovered metal work one day at Cabrillo College in Aptos, when I visited the Jewelry Department where Lynda Watson and Marcia Lewis taught. I felt my calling and fell in love with metal work. Both Lynda and Marcia were excellent teachers and recommended San Diego State University for my career in metal work. Arlene Fisch and Helen Shirk, my outstanding teachers at San Diego State University later helped me to express my ideas through precise techniques in metal and enamel. I received my BA degree in Metal Arts from San Diego State University. 

         In metal work I found my way of bringing elements together: I can combine the softness and liveliness of natural images, textures and feelings with hard, laborious, precise craftsmanship through hammer and heat. 

          During my travels to Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Mexico I have found many inspirations and ideas for my work. In Barcelona Gaudi’s architectural sites had a profound impression on me. In this beautiful city I also had the opportunity to interview Ramon Puigi from Massana Institute for the Wita Gardner Gallery. Through art I feel a connection that knows no frontiers or language gaps. Art is my access to the World Soul.

Jose Constantino Santana

Larry Salveson is a Software Developer in the San Mateo, CA area. He has enjoyed a lifelong passion for photography, which has evolved to include creating digital paintings. Larry’s images span a broad range of interests including people, abstracts, nature, and landscapes. 

Custom sizes are available for most images. Contact me directly for signed prints that I make myself. Other prints can be ordered from my website. 

Larry Salveson 

Larry@LarrySalveson.com 

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Coastside resident since 1979 graduated from San Mateo High School 1963, San Jose State University 1968 w/ degree in art concentration in ceramics. Currently maintains an active studio at 514 Kelly Ave., “The Old Barn.”

Awards in Ceramics from ceramics art pioneers Peter Voulkos, Paul Soldner, and David Kuraoka.

Awards in painting Grumbacher Art Award,
“Best in Show, 1st annual Coastsidal Arts League” and Zoe Tierney Memorial Award.

I currently live on the beautiful coast, but I grew up in Pennsylvania where my love of art began as a child.  I am a creative person who is  inspired by nature and the world around me.  A lot of things I see in nature show themselves as something else in my mind’s eye. A rock looks like a face, a piece of wood with a hole is an owl’s eye, a spikey tree nut on the ground is a hedgehog.  I like to collect these items and use them in my nature inspired collages.  I have been collecting bits and pieces from nature since I can remember.  I incorporate these pieces of nature into mixed media collages that represent landscape scenery, people, animals or just about anything that is relevant in my life.  My most recent work is a collage of an angel that represents a teenage girl who was taken from the Earth too soon.  The flowers from her funeral are in her wings and dress, there is sheet music and cats and crystals, and nature, and so many things that she loved incorporated into the piece.

I love to teach art classes for my two kids and their friends and classmates.  This enables me to share my love of creativity and hopefully inspire others to create along with me.  I’m always being introduced to various forms of art and I love to experiment and see what transpires.

Recently, I have been included in the following themed juried exhibits:

San Francisco Women Artists Gallery- 647 Irving Street, San Francisco, CA 94122

Mistlin Gallery, Central Ca Art Association- 1015 J Street Modesto CA 95354

SIY Gallery- 1026 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94103

Marie Susa Photography

For the past 40 years my passion has been nature, wildlife, and long

exposure photography. I see this amazing world through edges of my

viewfinder. Looking through my lens is my calm, passion, awareness, and

joy. Photography enables me to stop, listen, and capture a unique moment

in time. Natural light and its luminescence on the landscape is constantly

changing, second by second. Natural light allows me to create a mood in

the between the boundaries of my viewfinder. My images capture the

elusive qualities of light and time in nature. Using long exposure allows me

to capture motion and the effect light has on motion in a way the eye cannot

see.

My creative vision is to share nature as it truly exists. I do not digitally

manipulate the image to something that is not an accurate representation of

the original image. All my wildlife images are taken in the wild and not in

captivity.

It is my pleasure to share these unique moments with you.

I have lived in Half Moon Bay, California for the past 32 years where I am

surrounded by the boundless beauty of the coast and rural farmland.

Art is an expression of soul.  It is a blend of real and fantasy, the subject matter depicts places, people, objects and events from life.

Marilyn’s early art: sketches, paintings, and prints and her more recent art expression through fabric and glass are glimpses of life events and are driven by a need to express self.  Current glass , as seen in The Vault is a dynamic medium of light interacting with the art object.  It serves to enhance and move focus bringing a life to the art itself.

Marilyn has worked for the art department of Mira Costa Junior College and the Art and Lectures Department at University of California, Santa Cruz on work study grants.  She has been a member of art communities in Venice Beach CA, Santa Cruz CA , the Inland Valley, Riverside area, and in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Marilyn is a member of the Sanchez art community, Cradle of the Sun stain glass studio, and a community arts program at the Pacifica Senior Center.  She is a resident of Pacifica CA. and works as an Occupational Therapist at an acute hospital setting.

Awards:

Window Scape artist, Riverside CA

Artist Recognition, Sanchez Arts, Member Show

Shows:

Mountain Ranch Resource Center, CA

Cabrillo College, Santa Cruz, CA

Mira Costa Junior College, Oceanside, CA

Art Displays:

Ocean Yoga, Pacifica CA.

Melissa Brookmire – Intimate Landscapes 

Born and raised in Rochester, New York, my father got me interested in photography in my  late teens. Since then, I have explored different cameras, lenses, and genres, with my  favorites being nature and wildlife. My innate curiosity and different perspective have recently led me in the direction of photographing more intimate landscapes which lend  themselves to be more abstract. Most of my focus is on organic elements such as water,  rock, sand, plants and trees, with water being my go-to subject with its many variations, at  least for now. In photographing water, I like to explore with slow and fast shutter speeds,  intentional camera movement (ICM) and reflections. I am also intrigued by the beautifully  sculptured and colorful sandstone along the Northern California coastline and look for  interesting perspectives that most don’t see. Living in the Half Moon Bay area for six years,  and now just over the hill in Redwood City, I have so many amazing and beautiful  opportunities to experiment with my newfound love of abstract photography. I hope you will  enjoy seeing a different perspective and let your mind wander and have fun. 

Melissa Brookmire Photography 

Email: melissabrookmirephotography@gmail.com 

Website: https://melissabrookmirephotography.smugmug.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melissabrookmirephotography/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlbrookmire/

Michael Endicott is a Bay Area Fine Art photographer. His artistic perspective is an outgrowth of his experience at the intersection of the political and biological sciences and photographed at boundaries of the urban and natural world. His cellular tapestries have built in intersections and spaces meant to encourage active meditations on our place in community. His process is sculptural in nature, bending wavelengths of light and molding multiple photos, pulling him away from realism into the realm of expressionist and abstract painting. He collaborates regularly with painters and mixed media artists – paintography, photosculpture and fusion. Recently, he has been exhibited in the DeYoung Museum, (San Francisco, Ca 2020, 2023), Triton Museum of Art (Santa Clara, CA 2024), Gallery House (Menlo Park, Ca)  and UCSF Medical Center, Mt. Zion (San Francisco, Ca).

Robyn Drake grew up on an Iowa farm amid cattle, horses, and expansive landscapes. Robyn moved to Chicago after attending Drake University.  In 2013, she moved to California, and currently resides in Half Moon Bay.

Using oils, oil pastels, charcoal, and more recently, acrylics, she explores the interplay of awe and endurance, vulnerability and resilience, through representational subjects.

Robyn’s work has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions primarily in Chicago and California. Her evolving horse series marked a significant return to her roots on the ranch in Iowa. Robyn’s drawings and paintings are in private collections in the USA, Europe, and Asia, and have won awards in juried competitions.

Drake was awarded scholarships and earned degrees in studio art and art history at Drake University, with further development through post-graduate classes at the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. 

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

Inspired by the interplay of vulnerability, strength, and power, my art employs representational imagery to navigate themes of agency through contemporary expressionism.  I engage with and question the complexities of our current existential predicament while acknowledging and elevating primal facets of ourselves in a social landscape which grows increasingly illusionistic.

Through the equine and animal subjects, I delve into resilience and fragility, using an anthropomorphic perspective as a chronicle of unfiltered emotional landscapes in my life. The horses never wear any tack or offer narrative cues to assign historical era, or culture which would distract from the purity of the emotional statement.  In contrast, my human figures are often dreamy and introspective, others are blatantly symbolic in dreamlike environments, both less outwardly emotive than the animals, and contain visual clues to culture, era, and social strata.

The seascapes switch the narrative to engage the viewer with uncontrollable external powers.  With the drama of the waves, both beautiful and dangerous, there is a reminder of powerlessness and resilience in the face of larger forces, which also serve as metaphors of sociopolitical forces overwhelming personal agency through social constructs.

My selection of charcoal, acrylics, and oils pays tribute to the craft legacy of traditional painting and dedication to hone my skill as a painter.  The choice of media becomes a crucial element of my practice.

Currently I’m preparing for upcoming group and solo exhibitions and new gallery representation.  I’m investigating the use of AI as a tool for creating complex compositions as an addition to working from life and manipulated photographs.  A personal symbolic language is emerging as my subjects grow.  I will always return to commissioned horse paintings and portraits as a grounding device for my work.

Through many decades I have longed to find my own personal style. I discovered the freeing and challenging medium of Alcohol Inks several years ago. Alcohol Inks are a vibrant, fluid medium that I yearn to contain to create my inner vision.

Placing the ink on the porcelain tile always leads to new discoveries of what is possible. Oscillating between letting the ink and coastal humidity control the outcome of its path, or controlling the placement of each fine detail.California’s stunning flora and fauna are my inspiration and place of solitude. They flow into life through the interaction of coastal landscapes, churning seas, unique plants and animals, and sweet ocean air.