Artists' Blog
Fred Whitman: Open for Second Saturday Tour on April 8th
‘Heartfelt’ in Kansas Limestone 9″x7″x3″
Elizabeth White: Something New
Come see what’s new in my studio.
Lindsay Thomson: Looking for Jupiter on a Clear Summer Night
Milky Way artwork juried into local competition
Sherry Loehr: Compliments For You
I LOVE compliments….
Christopher Noxon: But what does it MEAN?
Sometimes I’ll start out with an idea – about the interconnectedness of nature, say, or the way landscapes are so often used as promotion in the exploitation or settling of wild lands. But then the tools take over, the paint starts moving and honestly I’m not thinking at all. Painting for me is a feeling, an experience, a devotional practice that exists way beyond words.
Mariana Peirano: Pleased to announce . . .
Please view the exhibition online: 2023 Spring Exhibition
Emily Brown: The Art of Pottery
Making pottery is a multi-step process that consists of throwing, trimming, bisque firing, glazing, and glaze firing.
Leslie Plimpton: NEW WORK FOR SECOND SATURDAY
I am excited to show my new work
Sylvia Raz: My Life Work
Every time I do something new I’m in love with it, it’s like my best work. And then a new piece comes and takes over.
Lindsay Thomson: Time Lapse
Boston Harbor Time Lapse & Images
Hallie Katz: New Studio Debut on Second Saturday!
New Studio Debut!
Patrish Kuebler: Inspiration for Insight
Inspiration for Insight exhibit
Marie McKenzie: Maritime Museum Exhibition
"Ojai-based artist Marie McKenzie places sustainability at the heart of her practice. Using salvaged wood and other earth-friendly materials, McKenzie creates abstract and figurative representations of marine flora and fauna with loving detail. This February, McKenzie...
Lucinda Yates: Rain Rain Go Away Bring The Colors For Me To Play
umbrellas coming out of the closet along with a rainbow of color.
Carlos Grasso: February 11 Free Mini OSA Tour – West End Ojai (Oak View Neighborhood)
February 11 Free Mini OSA Tour – West End Ojai (Oak View Neighborhood)
Amy Lynn Stevenson: Mystic Painting Workshop
Sign up for my “Mystic” Painting Workshop at Beatrice Woods.
Lisa Skyheart Marshall: a new year, a new painting
I am back at work in my studio
“INSIGHTS” Current Exhibition at Beatrice Wood
The group show “Insights” will be exhibited at the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts featuring members of Ojai Studio Artists. January 21 – March 11, 2023 The Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts is Open to the Public Fri, Sat, & Sun 11:00 am – 5:00 pm. 8585...
Cindy Pitou Burton: Remembering Barbara Walters
Looking back on my years of photographing in NYC I realized I have B&W portraits that lay out history and life in the 1980's and early 90's. Barbara Walters death triggered my memories of this photograph and sent me back to my files. A gold mine of history awaited...
Amy Lynn Stevenson: Happy Holidays Ojai
Ojai Valley News Holidays Coloring Page by Amy Lynn Stevenson
Lucinda Yates: 12 Minute Portraits at the Vine
I'm getting back into portraiture and I have a new twelve minute portrait series started of people around Ojai. This week I painted at the Vine downtown during the cocktail hour, and we had a great turnout. I'll also be painting individuals in other locations. You can...
Gayel Childress: Expressionist Figurative Painting “The Voyeur” at OVA Gallery, Ojai
I am currently exhibiting my Multi-Media Figurative paintings at the OVA Gallery. Ojai Valley Artists Gallery 238 E. Ojai Ave Phone 805 646-1109 11-5pm Weekdays 10-6pm Weekends
Amy Lynn Stevenson: Silver Place in Best of Ojai 2022
The Art of Amy Lynn Stevenson
www.amylynnstevenson.com
Feros Ferio Primary Wall by OSA Artists
NOTE: This exhibition closed January 2023. The "Primary Wall" installed at the new Feros Ferio Winery Tasting Room, 310 East Ojai Ave, showcases three dozen original framed works by Ojai Studio Artists, all based in a primary color scheme. Curated by artist Pamela...
Emily Brown: Holiday Pottery Sale!
Open for Holiday Shopping Sunday December 18th from 10-4!
Julie Grist: Women Life Freedom
"Women - Life - Freedom" - the slogan chanted in Iran in September 2022 over the killing of 22 year old Masha Amini by Iran's military police for improperly wearing her head covering - has not only charged the Iranian public to challenge their government but has...
Joe Sohm: Up Close and Personal
Joe Sohm joins host Ivor Davis for a discussion of his work as one of the nation’s preeminent political photographers at the Museum of Ventura County, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022. Sohm’s award-winning photographs have been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street...
Leslie Plimpton: Upcoming Show
I am a member of a wonderful art group that specializes in printmaking called the inkspots.
Christine Beirne: How to you paint plein air without an easel?
Forgot my easel, palette knives and palette but still managed to paint!
Special items at the Amend Art Compound
Preview of works at Amend Art Compound for OSA Tour 2022/East End Ojai
Lindsay Thomson: Good year for awards
It’s a good year for photography awards!
Brian Berman: New Beginnings – Leaving Ojai
I had a vision for a new body of artwork on paper, back in the spring.
Hallie Katz: Sneak Peek!
Here’s a sneak peek of my new collection
Elaine Unzicker: Tour – This Weekend!
Mentor & Student Exhibition and the Ojai Studio Tour
Patrish Kuebler: New Encaustic!
Beeswax Encaustic
Stephen Edwards: Wild Ride
It’s been a wild ride making new work for the tour! The studio is all set up and ready to go. I hope to see you on Saturday.
Ray Harding: Portrait of Fellow Ojai Studio Artist
I always wanted to do a portrait of someone in a straw hat with the sun shinning through onto their face.
Leslie Clark: Exploring California
Travel from the redwood groves to the sands of the Sahara without even getting on a plane.
Julie Grist: Three Studies of Young Women
I had three young women, all recent high school graduates, visit me one weekend just after the Supreme Court ruled on the Dobbs case - effectively reducing womens' rights in many states across the nation. All three were heading to different parts of our country to...
Martha Moran: Strawberry Fields Forever! (and Citrus too!)
I’ve always liked “altars” and many of my sculptures are altars to one thing or another.
Sherry Loehr: You just never know…
You just NEVER know…..
Lindsay Thomson: First Place at Ventura Fair
My photograph “Antique Car at Strasburg Railway Station” won first place
Ray Harding: Painting won Best in Show 2018 Santa Paula
Painting of Amgen Race
Lisa Skyheart Marshall: Morning Glories
I love to get out in the world and travel
Mary Neville: Filling the well called Inspiration
What is inspiration? Where is it? How is it harnessed from a swirl of subtle awareness, funneled into the narrow channel of conscious thought and pushed out as something tangible.
Mariana Peirano: Drawing during the Heat
New work on graphite on wood honoring indigenous women activists.
Julie Grist: Pedaling Provence
Provence on bicycle. What a way to start traveling again - and luckily scheduled during Ojai’s heat wave of September. No paints or easel, but a sketchbook was packed along with cycling gloves and sunglasses for a six day road tour on bike through one of France’s...
Fragility and Friction: Stephen Edwards
Macular Degeneration, Glicee print on Arches paper 30×40 inches
Carlos Grasso – COLORSPACE Show at the Studio Channel Islands Gallery (Camarillo) Sat. Oct 1 from 4 to 7 pm
COLORSPACE exhibit opens at Studio Channel Islands Oct. 1, 2022
Spirit of place: by Christopher Noxon
I paint landscapes mostly, pictures of mountains and valleys, rocks and trees and big drippy skies. I use a lot of color – I’m inspired by African textiles and Hockney landscapes and Huichol yarn paintings and Colorform toy sets. All of which is a big surprise to me – I never meant to be a colorful landscape painter.
Gayel Childress #2 of 12 in series -Newest Paintings of the Disappearing Butterflies
I’m trying to create a series of 12 paintings calling attention to the decline of the Butterfly..
New Techniques, New Work: Leslie Plimpton
I recently attended a workshop given by my wonderful OSA colleague, Linda Taylor, who is an amazing printmaker.
New Work for Studio Tour by Gayel Childress
More info
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This year’s Ojai Day Poster by Gayel Childress, Ojai Studio Artist Member
Original painting in the collection of Rene Briggs
Julie Grist: The Personalities of Old Phones
Where have all the landlines gone? Really, it's only been about fifteen years that cell phones have become ubiquitous - and how quickly we've lost all the character and personalities of the telephone. I started a painting series on old phones (oil on board or...
Kristen Clawson: Studio Visitors are Welcome
Most of my visitors come in on two legs and I’ll be darned if some have feathers!
Mariana Peirano: New online solo exhibit and Art Talk
Online solo exhibit and Art Talk
Ray Harding: 2022 Adah Callahan Memorial Award Professional Arts
Adah Callahan Memorial Award for this piece at the 2022 Ventura County Fair
Elaine Unzicker: Getting Plastered!
Have a headache? Well, you might after looking at these photos. What am I doing? I am poking a sharp instrument into the paper head. It’s true!
James Robie: GEO NATURE
I started collecting palm fronds and sycamore branches long before they found a place in my artwork.
Brian Berman: The End is Just the Beginning of Something Else
After 11 years living here is Ojai, Lisa and I will be leaving for our new life and work in Poland.
Lisa Skyheart Marshall: Feeling attachments to nature
feelings about certain flowers
Gayel Childress: Newest Paintings on Why are the Butterflies Disappearing??
Painting this series I might call attention to the Butterfly’s plight
Christine Beirne: Plein Air Painting is Not for the Fainthearted!
I recently went on a painting trip to the high Sierra’s. I planned to paint plein air as well as explore other techniques in my motorhome. Before I left, some well-meaning friends said things like: have fun! Enjoy! How I envy you!
Joce Aucoin: Learning Through Doing
Through the process of creativity, of doing, of playing, we can turn our disappointments, wounds and burdens into gold.
Martha Moran: In Memoriam at Ojai Valley Museum
In Memoriam pays tribute to women who died getting illegal abortions before Roe v Wade. I added tags with names of women who died, dating back to 1870.
Leslie Clark: Memories and a paintbrush
Memories have provoked new images from past inspirations.
Leslie Plimpton: Winner of the Judge’s Award
I am excited to report that my Dry Point Etching, “The Face of Fashion (Anna Winter) took the Judge’s Award at this year’s Ventura County Fair in the Professional Artist’s category.
Emily Brown: Glaze Techniques
The uniqueness of my pottery is due in part to my glaze techniques.
Leslie Clark: On the crest of a dune
Alal on the crest of a dune at Erg Chegaga, Morocco